Riots continue for a second night in East Belfast - Photographer shot in leg
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Clearly its marching season in Northern Ireland again. On Monday night a riot broke out and a Catholic and Protestant community clashed. Its not a massive scale riot through the city, only the east area. Still significant.
[quote=BBC]Violence has flared for a second night at a sectarian interface near a Catholic enclave in east Belfast.
Three shots have been fired in the lower Newtownards Road-Short Strand area late on Tuesday but the gunman's target is not known.
A press photographer was shot in the leg during the incident.
A barrage of petrol bombs, missiles and fireworks have been thrown at police lines. Two water canon vehicles have arrived but have not been used yet.
The PSNI said between 400 to 500 people were involved in the disorder.
The trouble has been reported as the most serious in the area for a [b]decade[/b].[/quote]
I really hope the majority of the country is tired of this shit, its normal for trouble around marching season leading up to the 12th of July but it seems to be worst this year.
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13869210]Source[/url]
Rioting on Monday night
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeV_q5FTr0M&feature=youtu.be[/media]
Riots during 12th of July 2010
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIO2tXHbWjc[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_WG4Vbh9EY&feature=related[/media]
[quote=Mark Simpson, BBC Ireland Correspondent]The riot in east Belfast was another reminder that Northern Ireland has a peace process [b]but it does not have peace.[/b][/quote]
This shit again? It's been going for like five centuries.
Ulstteerrrrrr
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;30619465]This shit again? It's been going for like five centuries.[/QUOTE]
[quote=Mark Simpson]The riot in east Belfast was another reminder that Northern Ireland has a peace process but it does not have peace.[/quote]
Sums it up perfectly.
Give us back the rest of our country etc. :downs:
I was not aware of this, it's all for such a silly reason too, the source of the problem is long forgotten but the violence lasts.
aka irelands chavs use this as an excuse to wreck shit and beat up people
Please forgive me for my arrogance, but what's marching season?
[QUOTE=Dierag;30619657]aka irelands chavs use this as an excuse to wreck shit and beat up people[/QUOTE]
Or otherwise?
Such as:
[quote]aka english/brittish chavs use this as an excuse to wreck shit and beat up people[/quote]
Btw I am not Irish, so don't think I am strongly supporting Catholics side. I am neutral and I am not catholic. I just live here.
[QUOTE=Dierag;30619657]aka irelands chavs use this as an excuse to wreck shit and beat up people[/QUOTE]
We call them "knackers"
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[QUOTE=Dierag;30619657]aka irelands chavs use this as an excuse to wreck shit and beat up people[/QUOTE]That's the thing, a fewer older people who lived during the troubles starts something up, that spurs the youth who were born after the IRA ceasefire to start trouble for kicks.
[QUOTE=SnakeHead;30619679]Please forgive me for my arrogance, but what's marching season?[/QUOTE]
The Twelfth (also called Orangemen's Day or, in Belfast, Orangefest) is an annual Protestant celebration on 12 July, originating in Ireland, especially within Ulster. It celebrates the Glorious Revolution (1688) and victory of Protestant king William of Orange over Catholic king James II at the Battle of the Boyne (1690). It is occasionally known as the Glorious Twelfth, but that term is more commonly used to refer to 12 August. Members of the Orange Institution stage parades throughout Northern Ireland and to a lesser extent in some other parts of the world.
tl:dr a bunch of protestants march around the country making a real racket over stuff that happened 100s of years ago. The way I see it its kind of like a fuck you to the Catholic Irish. I consider myself not Catholic or British, but Northern Irish and can't stand the noise.
[QUOTE=Chickens!;30619727]We call them "knackers"
[img]http://i.imgur.com/KtnQT.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Yeah because I live in Ireland, doesn't mean I am Irish.
The protestants in Ireland are people I would consider Irish, many of them have been living there for the same length of time that the English have in America. (If not longer)
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;30620065]The protestants in Ireland are people I would consider Irish, many of them have been living there for the same length of time that the English have in America. (If not longer)[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Sobotnik;30620065]The protestants in Ireland are people I would consider Irish, many of them have been living there for the same length of time that the English have in America. (If not longer)[/QUOTE]
If you told protestant people they were Irish they would be insulted, and some of them would take action over it so you'd have to start running. Like all this stuff, its stupid. Go to any other country and say you are from Northern Ireland "oh you're from ireland? you're irish? kewl my grandparents were from ireland!" or whatever. People who are born here and protestant will go out of their way to argue they are British and not Irish.
I personally don't care, people out of the country love the Irish!
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