burning the tricolour 12th July , disturbing.

kerry cow

I read this morning and viewed photos of these bon fires in the north .fair enough let them celebrate there orange day .But really it makes my blood boil to see them burn our national flag on top of these bon fires .how disrespectful in this day and age .I am no way political but believe in every one to their own but really ? How can the law on both side of the border allow this continue . The papers report huge stacks of tyres , pallets and tricolour been burned and even causing a hazard to houses , environment and play ground had to be move for fear of been burned .can we not legislate against this type of OTT behaviour .planning etc .

How would any UK citizen feel if we decided that each year we will have a monster Bon fire in the phoenix park
Thousands gather and we celebrate our freedom , wrap the pallets in a giant union jack and burn their flag to dust .

vicwatson

That's a good idea:D

vicwatson

In all seriousness it is pathetic carry on

Collie D

Keeps all the drunken bigots in one place I suppose.

mad muffin

What's funny is, they are burning part of their heritage in the flag.

jaykay74

kerry cow wrote:

How can the law on both side of the border allow this continue .

Why would the law on our side of the border have an interest in a crime elsewhere?

suicide_circus

http://m.rte.ie/news/2016/0712/801806-northern-ireland-orange-parades/

Buuuurrrrrr

It's just a flag

vicwatson

jaykay74 wrote: »

Why would the law on our side of the border have an interest in a crime elsewhere?

EU ??

vicwatson

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It's just a fleg

FYP:P

Jawgap

Just to clarify are you from Ireland, India, Cote d'Ivoire or Italy - all those flags get burned by the illiterate muppets up there.......the Palestinian flag has even been known to be incinerated by them

OldMrBrennan83

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vicwatson

What's that coming over the hill ?? Yes it's the annual nationalist heading south to get out of town, ye are all very welcome, bring your euros

murpho999

They should be ignored and not given any coverage which I think is what they thrive on.

steddyeddy

Well it's xenophobic attitudes like this that fuelled some of the Brexit campaign. They'll be feeling the conseqeunces soon enough.

Permabear

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iDave

But but but it's their culture!

Clonmel1000

And to think some people believe a united Ireland is workable.

nullzero

Can you imagine these people ever being part of a United Ireland?
I hope the status quo remains and we never find ourselves having to waste money on placating those idiots. In a United Ireland we would end up spending a disproportionate amount of time trying to keep those gobsh1tes happy, eventually to the detriment of our prosperity which they would revel in.

Duckworth_Luas

suicide_circus wrote: »

http://m.rte.ie/news/2016/0712/801806-northern-ireland-orange-parades/

Buuuurrrrrr

Well they shouldn't have built their houses so close to the bonfire!

LDN_Irish

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I had to Google to see what you meant here. Just to clarify, are you referencing something that happened 70 years ago?

NIMAN

Look its never going to stop, so we may as well let them burn away.

The fact that would bother me is that the fire service had to be called to 123 incidents last night, during which time a real emergency could have been happening, and someone could have lost their life whilst the services were dealing with unnecessary issues.

Plus a few people had their homes burn to the ground as well. I'm sure that'll not bother the majority though. Just collateral damage.

The really annoying thing though is the fact that the BBC and UTV actually give it airtime like its some sort of cultural thing. Its not, and shame on them for havign reporters at the sites of these bigoted parties.

I thought EU regulations made the fabric more difficult to burn flags.

Permabear

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seamus

NIMAN wrote: »

Look its never going to stop, so we may as well let them burn away.

The fact that would bother me is that the fire service had to be called to 123 incidents last night, during which time a real emergency could have been happening, and someone could have lost their life whilst the services were dealing with unnecessary issues.

Plus a few people had their homes burn to the ground as well. I'm sure that'll not bother the majority though. Just collateral damage.

The really annoying thing though is the fact that the BBC and UTV actually give it airtime like its some sort of cultural thing. Its not, and shame on them for havign reporters at the sites of these bigoted parties.

We've managed to really get a grip on this in recent times. When I were a lad, there were Halloween bonfires on every green space in the country. Now there are practically none and outside of really poor areas the bonfires that do exist are orderly fires curated by local adults.

What did we do? Was it just a matter of local council finally having the balls to go in and break these up?

I imagine up North the local politicians want to turn a blind eye to this and let it happen.

Dr Strange

steddyeddy wrote: »

Well it's xenophobic attitudes like this that fuelled some of the Brexit campaign. They'll be feeling the conseqeunces soon enough.

Some photos show they included the EU in the burning as well now. I think i saw a sign saying EU Exit on the bonfire. Or does that mean they are again the Brexit?

PokeHerKing

Collie D wrote:

Keeps all the drunken bigots in one place I suppose.

Aye but what's the use in that if we don't nuke the Fu*kers!

kerry cow

kerry cow wrote: »

I read this morning and viewed photos of these bon fires in the north .fair enough let them celebrate there orange day .But really it makes my blood boil to see them burn our national flag on top of these bon fires .how disrespectful in this day and age .I am no way political but believe in every one to their own but really ? How can the law on both side of the border allow this continue . The papers report huge stacks of tyres , pallets and tricolour been burned and even causing a hazard to houses , environment and play ground had to be move for fear of been burned .can we not legislate against this type of OTT behaviour .planning etc .

How would any UK citizen feel if we decided that each year we will have a monster Bon fire in the phoenix park
Thousands gather and we celebrate our freedom , wrap the pallets in a giant union jack and burn their flag to dust .

Hang on a second actually, they bought the flag to burn. Its their flag. Its not our flag. Those idiots are burning their own money.

RobertKK

I love how they burned some of their own homes down to show it is not personal against us.

https://twitter.com/aimwoundedknee/status/752657941010972672

andekwarhola

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I know at a handful of NI supporters that wouldn't be caught dead at that brain dead hatred. It has some general factual basis but don't tar everybody. Or at least if you do, don't whinge if we all get painted as god-fearing 'Ra lovers.

On a general note though, watching those inveterate cretins (lumpen generations subsidized and succored by the British taxpayer) on the Shankill road last night and the 21 million needed to police the Twaddell debacle: who in their right mind would want to absorb that mess into our state/economy as is stands?

endacl

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It's just a flag

*ahem*

'Fleg'

RobertKK

andekwarhola wrote: »

I know at a handful of NI supporters that wouldn't be caught dead at that brain dead hatred. It has some general factual basis but don't tar everybody. Or at least if you do, don't whinge if we all get painted as god-fearing 'Ra lovers.

On a general note though, watching those inveterate cretins (lumpen generations subsidized and succored by the British taxpayer) on the Shankill road last night and the 21 million needed to police the Twaddell debacle: who in their right mind would want to absorb that mess into our state/economy as is stands?

Yeah, most of the Wnglish would dump NI if they could. I am happy for them to fund the 1921 mistake they made.

Dr Strange

RobertKK wrote: »

I love how they burned some of their own homes down to show it is not personal against us.

https://twitter.com/aimwoundedknee/status/752657941010972672

Hm, I wonder if this would have happened if they had adhered to EU Health & Safety regulations when considering where and how to built the bonfire.

FortySeven

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I thought EU regulations made the fabric more difficult to burn flags.

That's why they have to stack a few hundred pallets underneath them. Buggers to get going. I think you can get easylight ones on aliexpress now though.

corner of hells

Don't worry about it too much OP.

They tend to burn everything and then the PSNI give them all a good wash with the watercannon.

Cleans and sobers them all up .

The Backwards Man

Do not overestimate the intelligence of the average bonfire builder. They have enough CHEP pallets to feed the whole of the Ormeau Road for a month and they burn them too.

getzls

mad muffin wrote: »

What's funny is, they are burning part of their heritage in the flag.

Not they're not.
They see no connection at all in the Irish flag.
Just because people in the south say the orange part represents them doesn't make it so.

kfallon

These are the kind of thick fúckwits you are dealing with....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pcUIGwU6f4

getzls

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So when it comes to the Interment bonfires and they are burning Union flags that means it is the Irish football fans doing it?

endagibson

kerry cow wrote: »

How can the law on both side of the border allow this continue .

Is it illegal?

Chuchote

It's a festival of race hatred. It also should be factored into the UK's emissions. The North really should replace this ceremony with something that actually celebrates its society — maybe a giant music and dance and theatre event.

endacl

endacl wrote: »

*ahem*

'Fleg'

wtf is a fleg?! Some kind of boards in-joke?

The Backwards Man

Patww79 wrote: »

There's all your NI football fans everyone has been licking the holes off for the last month now. To a man, woman, and child they'll all have been there with the blood in their mouths as it caught fire.

Your pathological hatred of all things north of the Boyne is clouding your judgement somewhat, genuine football fans in NI don't really go in for destroying their own communities, these yobs would be from the arse as your average Dublin anti queen no to foreign games Celtic FC supporter, just on the other cheek.

screamer

If rather they burn the flag than burn our reserves. 5 billion a year to keep that place from going under glad it's not falling under the republics remit. They can have at it all the way out of Europe shackled to the rest of the UK.

The Backwards Man

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wtf is a fleg?! Some kind of boards in-joke?

They think they're funny mocking our accent.

It wasn't funny the first time, it's definitely not funny the turty turd time

Mint Sauce

I'm just wondering what alot of them have against The Ivory Coast.

fryup

flag burning is done on both sides up north

Chuchote

fryup wrote: »

flag burning is done on both sides up north

…Proving against all medical claims that lunacy is in fact infectious.

not yet

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Spot on, a Leopard never changes its spots, Windsor park 93 anyone and the wonderfully pleasant William Bingham.

Why the fcuk can't the PSNI ban these animalistic bonfires.

me_irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKCeESg9Ev8

smash

We should burn some oranges!