If you support the Good Friday Agreement, as you lead me to think you might, then you accept that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and that therefore by implication its flag is the Union Flag, until the majority decide otherwise.
I don’t know anyone who supports every aspect of the Good Friday Agreement, it’s a start, we don’t want people to stop marching, but the economy suffers here every-time with hotel bookings cancelled etc; towns closed down, I had to take a detour to get home the other day, poor me as you say.
I agree with almost all of that. Up to your last line! And that, too, in a way: I totally accept the legitimacy of the sentiment behind what you say. We both know what the ins and outs of that are, and if the majority in NI agreed with you (yes, yes, I know the arguments about how NI was formed and it being essentially a gerrymandered constituency etc etc, but we are where we are, and if the majority in NI agreed with you) I’d be very happy – or at least I would be once the terms of the transfer had been amicably sorted, which as you know would not be easy. Nothing is easy in Northern Ireland. Meanwhile it behoves everyone – especially those who love their neighbours as themselves – to try to calm things rather than talk them up. I’ve no doubt you agree. And the GF agreement, and supporting its terms (even those which allow the Union flag to fly) is the best hope.
Perhaps another referendum is due. The Good Friday Agreement provides that Northern Ireland shall remain part of the UK til the peoples of Northern ireland and the Irish Republic determine otherwise. The only way to discover what they want is a referendum. I suspect at the time a lot of people voted in favour of the agreement to bring an end to the terrorism. May be now there has been comparative peace for 15 years it could be a suitable time to ask this question again.
Maybe. Is this page available to you where you are?
We get along fine, (mostly) but the marching season knocks everything back, it’s been like this since I can remember, 323 years since the Battle of the Boyne, they need to get over it.
Agreed, why don’t they ?why don’t they fly both flags there to represent ireland and the uk we fly the flag of england
and the union flag.
They were founded on the presumption of white supremacy. Their hatred of blacks is their “cornerstone” belief. The hatred of Jews stems from the belief that the Jews killed Christ. The hatred of Catholics comes from the presumption that Catholics give their loyalty to a foreign power (the Pope); NOT the United States.
Yep, quite right. But you’re trying to use common sense, aren’t you? In England both the St George’s flag and the Union Flag are our flags. To Unionists the Irish tricolour is the flag of a foreign country, and they don’t want the flag of a foreign country given equality with their own flag. Yeah, yeah, I know. But nothing is easy in Northern Ireland.why don’t they fly both flags there to represent ireland and the uk we fly the flag of england
and the union flag.
There is nothing in (name removed by moderator)'s post that is ‘silly’. Being of Irish stock myself, I stand with my ancestors in opposing Empiric oppression. The Irish are looked upon in Britian as southerners are looked upon in the US: dumb, illiterate, backwards, at best objects of parody, at worst dangerous.
I’m not in a position to judge how Southerners may be regarded in the United States, although I think I know something of how the “Empiric oppression” of the United States affected the indigenous population of North America. But I know that what you say about how the Irish are regarded in Britain is nonsense. Even as a sweeping generalisation it is … well, silly.
Then we’re on the same page.
They were Lowland Scots, the Highland Scots had moved into the Pict areas (what’s now Scotland) in the 600’s AD. :shamrock2::irish1: