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Unionists object to 'Republican Rudolph' !!!!

  • 11-12-2010 2:41pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭


    Oh deary me, looks like the unionists are frothing at the mouth that Rudolph might be a Republican !!!!

    " SANTA'S helpers and a reindeer sparked anger among protestants in Tyrone by wearing nationalist colours, it has been claimed.
    DUP assembly member Ian McCrea said he had been contacted by a number of concerned families who attended the Christmas lights switch-on in Cookstown last month.


    "Having seen the pictures, I can clearly see why many people from the unionist community would be offended," said Mr McCrea. To me, these scarves clearly look like tri-colours - the flag of the Irish republic - which as we all know too well, is a very divisive symbol here in Northern Ireland."

    http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Republican-Rudolph-sparks-festive-anger.6657651.jp




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    It looks like the italian flag to me, Red, White and Dark Green. Fairly standard Christmas colours, I think Mr McCrea needs to get out a bit more.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    LOL
    Someone calling themselves "PatsytheNazi" posting about something offensive! :pac:
    Its a strange world we live in. :D

    Back on topic: its a ruddy scarf - jeaus, its not the end of the world.
    They really need to get over themselves!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭ronano


    people need to grow up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭wellboy76


    SITUATION!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    wellboy76 wrote: »
    SITUATION!

    SAHYOUEESHUN*
    :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,217 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Its red and green, i think someone maybe colour blind


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,808 CMod ✭✭✭✭Shield


    You have no idea how right you are when you apply that sentence to a disturbing amount of "adults" in Northern Ireland.
    ronano wrote: »
    people need to grow up


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    "They're inciting our anger by wearing colours symobolising peace between us!"
    :confused::confused::confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Colour blind unionists.

    sectarian conspiracy fail tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭markok84


    Someone should complain about his snowman it's clearly wearing a bowler hat. :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Numpties. Anything to whine about. They have absolutely no problem with the thousands of Union Flags scattered across the north, which nationalist may find offensive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Numpties. Anything to whine about. They have absolutely no problem with the thousands of Union Flags scattered across the north, which nationalist may find offensive.

    It's just willie McCraes son, showing hes a chip off the old bigot block.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    Oh deary me, looks like the unionists are frothing at the mouth that Rudolph might be a Republican !!!!

    " SANTA'S helpers and a reindeer sparked anger among protestants in Tyrone by wearing nationalist colours, it has been claimed.
    DUP assembly member Ian McCrea said he had been contacted by a number of concerned families who attended the Christmas lights switch-on in Cookstown last month.


    "Having seen the pictures, I can clearly see why many people from the unionist community would be offended," said Mr McCrea. To me, these scarves clearly look like tri-colours - the flag of the Irish republic - which as we all know too well, is a very divisive symbol here in Northern Ireland."

    http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Republican-Rudolph-sparks-festive-anger.6657651.jp




    Maybe McCrea should name the concerned families who were worried about a chap wearing an Italian colourled scarf. Then we can point and laugh at them...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    stepbar wrote: »
    Maybe McCrea should name the concerned families who were worried about a chap wearing an Italian colourled scarf. Then we can point and laugh at them...

    ..and while hes at it, he can explain why he and al murray are never in the same room at the same time...
    http://ianmccrea.com/sec07/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=6


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    Looks like a "hands on" politician!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    The scarf is green, white and red :confused:. They're traditional Christmas colours. Think he should get tested for colour blindness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Toboldlygo


    Has anyone noticed how much Nigel Dodds looks like Homer Simpson?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    I'm looking forward to see KeithAFC's and Junder's response to this.....:D


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,808 CMod ✭✭✭✭Shield


    Just reading down through it again. This guy said that the event "has been ruined" for the poor young Protestant children... because of a scarf.

    This guy claims the tricolour is "divisive", but in actual fact, it's his comments that are divisive. Talk about stirring things up. In my personal non-PSNI opinion, this man is sick for making an issue out of a non-issue at a time when children should be brimming with excitement.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Japer


    I wonder what the reaction would be if a red white and blue scarf had been worn ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Rudolph the Green-nosed reindeer,
    Had a very Fenian nose,
    And if you ever saw it,
    You would even say it glows.

    All of the other reindeer,
    Used to laugh and call him names;
    They never let poor Rudolph,
    Play in any Gaelic games.

    Then one foggy Christmas Eve,

    Gerry came to say,
    Rudolph with your nose so bright,
    Won't you come on a knee-capping tonight.

    Then how the reindeer feared him,

    Especially one called Pais-ley,
    Rudolph the Green-Nosed Reindeer,
    Could finally play with his Hur-r-ley.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭The Waltzing Consumer


    Japer wrote: »
    I wonder what the reaction would be if a red white and blue scarf had been worn ?

    I am sure the Italians would be offended, but the French would be over the moon.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Japer


    to avoid any confusion the organisers should have put him in a celtic top as well as the scarf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    listermint wrote: »
    Its red and green, i think someone maybe colour blind

    Sure thats nothing, I seen a load of marching orange men in green jackets and even aCeltic Santa


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    Aside from the fact that this is the most ridculas news story I've read in a while...

    That politicial jumps the gun a little with this considering it was supposed to be republicans singling out unionists :
    "Christmas celebrations such as this should never become a cold house for protestants. "


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Japer


    In N. Ireland the green white and orange flag is usually associated with republicans / nationalists. eg at the funeral of the PIRA person who died blowing up the chip shop on the Shankhill road, it was the green white + orange flag which was on the coffin. Colour combinations can unfortunately mean a lot in N. Ireland, on both sides.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭sidneykidney


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Rudolph the Green-nosed reindeer,
    Had a very Fenian nose,
    And if you ever saw it,
    You would even say it glows.

    All of the other reindeer,
    Used to laugh and call him names;
    They never let poor Rudolph,
    Play in any Gaelic games.

    Then one foggy Christmas Eve,

    Gerry came to say,
    Rudolph with your nose so bright,
    Won't you come on a knee-capping tonight.

    Then how the reindeer feared him,

    Especially the one named Pa-is-ley,
    Rudolph the Green-Nosed Reindeer,
    Could finally play Hur-r-ley.

    Brilliant pete, had to log on to thank this :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Oh deary me, looks like the unionists are frothing at the mouth that Rudolph might be a Republican !!!!

    " SANTA'S helpers and a reindeer sparked anger among protestants in Tyrone by wearing nationalist colours, it has been claimed.
    DUP assembly member Ian McCrea said he had been contacted by a number of concerned families who attended the Christmas lights switch-on in Cookstown last month.


    "Having seen the pictures, I can clearly see why many people from the unionist community would be offended," said Mr McCrea. To me, these scarves clearly look like tri-colours - the flag of the Irish republic - which as we all know too well, is a very divisive symbol here in Northern Ireland."

    http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Republican-Rudolph-sparks-festive-anger.6657651.jp




    I went to college with that Ian McCrea idiot, back in 1993-96, his Da is the infamous Willy McCrea, who, when he lost his own seat in the South Derry/Mid Ulster (where he was born and bred in Magherafelt) constituency to Martin McGuinness,he then went on to stand for election in the staunchly unionist area of South Antrim. (where the unionist majority voted him in)

    back in the 1994 usa world cup, when Ireland got knocked out by the netherlands, the idiot (Ian) actually wore a Dutch jersey into class the next morning.

    nice to see he's as bigoted as ever. The prick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Japer wrote: »
    In N. Ireland the green white and orange flag is usually associated with republicans / nationalists. eg at the funeral of the PIRA person who died blowing up the chip shop on the Shankhill road, it was the green white + orange flag which was on the coffin. Colour combinations can unfortunately mean a lot in N. Ireland, on both sides.

    Well yeah, but this flag was a different colour...

    EDIT: It wasn't even a flag!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭fionnsda


    Well yeah, but this flag was a different colour...

    EDIT: It wasn't even a flag!

    Its close enough for that lot :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    fionnsda wrote: »
    Its close enough for that lot :rolleyes:

    Italians, Fenians...they're all papists at the end of the day...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Bit of a non story really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Bit of a non story really.

    Well it would have been, if some silly little bigots hadnt got their colourblind knickers in a twist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Biggins wrote: »
    LOL
    Someone calling themselves "PatsytheNazi" posting about something offensive! :pac:
    Its a strange world we live in. :D


    Ulster Says NEIN!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Have a read at what the bigoted little shiite has to say about a possible visit to the 6 counties from the pope.

    http://ianmccrea.com/sec07/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=372&Itemid=1


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Rudolph the Green-nosed reindeer,
    Had a very Fenian nose,
    And if you ever saw it,
    You would even say it glows.

    All of the other reindeer,
    Used to laugh and call him names;
    They never let poor Rudolph,
    Play in any Gaelic games.

    Then one foggy Christmas Eve,

    Gerry came to say,
    Rudolph with your nose so bright,
    Won't you come on a knee-capping tonight.

    Then how the reindeer feared him,

    Especially the one named Pais-ley,
    Rudolph the Green-Nosed Reindeer,
    Could finally play with his Hur-r-ley.

    hehe. Who says the Irish are no longer a nation of poets! Dáibhí Ó Bruadair himself would be proud of you, OutlawPete.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    Gucky wrote: »
    Have a read at what the bigoted little shiite has to say about a possible visit to the 6 counties from the pope.

    http://ianmccrea.com/sec07/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=372&Itemid=1

    Haha brilliant. I love the fact that the abuse scandal is his second most important reason for opposing the visit, right behind the pope being the anti-christ.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    and yet orange marches are allowed to go ahead every year..

    the nationalists try to put and italian flag on a reindeer and it causes objections within the unionist community...

    jesus talk about a fair society


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Christ unionists really are a spiteful bunch arent they?

    Always deeply offended by the slightest hint of the republic of ireland or irish culture. It would really help things in NI if they'd grow up a little.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Gucky wrote: »
    Have a read at what the bigoted little shiite has to say about a possible visit to the 6 counties from the pope.

    http://ianmccrea.com/sec07/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=372&Itemid=1
    The pope is a big C word. I don't want him to come to Northern Ireland either. Involved in disgraceful cover ups.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    There is only one word for all this.... Clown....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    The pope is a big C word. I don't want him to come to Northern Ireland either. Involved in disgraceful cover ups.

    A big Catholic? Because that is the main reason unionists dont want him to come. The child abuse scandals have nothing to do with it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Fenian bastards trying to kill christmas!


    What a retard.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Prods offended shocker


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    biko wrote: »
    Prods offended shocker

    "hard line loyalist" would be more accurate. The DUP brand of thinking, and specifically the McCreas, are not representative of protestantism generally.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Were some posts deleted from this thread?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Numpties. Anything to whine about. They have absolutely no problem with the thousands of Union Flags scattered across the north, which nationalist may find offensive.

    So, typical "look at them over there" response and why NI is a cluster f*ck and always will be.

    If people spent as much time looking at themselves as "them over there", problem solved.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Toboldlygo


    The Nordies have a bit more to think and worry about tonight. 'Maslow's hierarchy of needs' come to mind!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Rudolph the Green-nosed reindeer,
    Had a very Fenian nose,
    And if you ever saw it,
    You would even say it glows.

    All of the other reindeer,
    Used to laugh and call him names;
    They never let poor Rudolph,
    Play in any Gaelic games.

    Then one foggy Christmas Eve,

    Gerry came to say,
    Rudolph with your nose so bright,
    Won't you come on a knee-capping tonight.

    Then how the reindeer feared him,

    Especially one called Pais-ley,
    Rudolph the Green-Nosed Reindeer,
    Could finally play with his Hur-r-ley.

    Great stuff.
    Should be awarded post of the month! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    While we squabble over Santa who's saving Ulster from sodomy?


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