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Woman shot & killed in Derry being treated as a terrorist incident MOD WARNING IN OP

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    #122
    J Cheever Loophole
    Registered Users Posts: 967 ✭✭✭J Cheever Loophole


    Deleted User wrote: »
    NI is worse than the South, how's that?

    I'm at a loss to understand what you are talking about!


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    #123
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    kellygop wrote: »
    Not being smart or whatever, but I have tickets for the LOI game in Derry tonight, would it be safe to go?
    Once you get past Finglas on the way up you will be fine


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    #124
    citytillidie
    Registered Users Posts: 22,039 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    kellygop wrote: »
    Disgraceful that Theresa Gay has chosen to condemn the murder and in the same sentence incorrectly referencing the city where it took place. If you look at Lyra's work, you will see that she always referred to the city as Derry, so fakeunionistionlycareaboutnibecausetheduparekeepingmeinpower May should be respectful or take a leaf out of Boyzone's book...

    "You say it best..."

    Give fecking over somethings are just more important than if you called the place Derry/Londonderry

    ******



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    #125
    jmayo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,146 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    McCrack wrote: »
    "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace"

    Even if we had the much desired by one side, United Ireland, there is the other side who despise such an outcome.
    To me looking in from the South there are some on either side that are best described as "Two cheeks of the same arse".

    The very worrying thing is the amount of young ones that actually have no experience of The Troubles and thus have no concept of what a return to the violence would be like.

    BTW this is very reason history should always be mandatory subject up to a point in secondary school.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    NI is worse than the South, how's that?

    Maybe the complete tribalism.


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    #126
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    If paramilitaries were involved then they must have expected the victim to have been involved in the sale or distribution of drugs.

    She was a journalist, actually. I suppose journalism and anyone who might speak against them is a much greater threat than any drug.


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    #127
    Tell me how
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    Lady Spangles wrote: »
    She was a journalist, actually. I suppose journalism and anyone who might speak against them is a much greater threat than any drug.

    She wasn't targeted. She was a bystander. There to observe and report.

    Reading some of her pieces this morning enforces how tragic it was that someone who was so acutely aware of the damage the violence in the north had done (before and after the GFA) should die in this way.


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    #128
    Sheeps
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    kellygop wrote: »
    Disgraceful that Theresa Gay has chosen to condemn the murder and in the same sentence incorrectly referencing the city where it took place. If you look at Lyra's work, you will see that she always referred to the city as Derry, so fakeunionistionlycareaboutnibecausetheduparekeepingmeinpower May should be respectful or take a leaf out of Boyzone's book...

    "You say it best..."

    She called it Legenderry actually, because she was tired of the same old shite you are droning on about.


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    #129
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,521 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    kellygop wrote: »
    Disgraceful that Theresa Gay has chosen to condemn the murder and in the same sentence incorrectly referencing the city where it took place. If you look at Lyra's work, you will see that she always referred to the city as Derry, so fakeunionistionlycareaboutnibecausetheduparekeepingmeinpower May should be respectful or take a leaf out of Boyzone's book...

    "You say it best..."

    Honestly, the changing of Theresa's surname to something which you obviously think is derisory says everything about you.

    Particularly on a thread about a young lady who happened to be gay being tragically killed.


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    #130
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Sad stuff to wake up to. I hope at least anyone else planning violence in the coming months now will see the awful consequences there are and desist. And that those letting the north slide backwards wake up and get their act together


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    #131
    Berserker
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    Nehemiah Rich Sewer wrote: »
    Haven't a clue what community she is from or that of the scumbag who killed her - just shocked and saddened and disgusted, and very worried now about a return to the dark days. :-/

    The scumbag who killed her was a republican.
    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    This comment is absolutely outrageous. If you've spent any time in Derry, you would know that they're no better or worse than those in Belfast, Dublin, London, or any other city on these islands.

    I base my comments on the feedback and opinions of people from both sides of the community in Northern Ireland; people I trust and respect. I know they are right, as do you.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    NI is worse than the South, how's that?

    Everywhere is worse than the south. The south is the gold standard for everything from economic prosperity to moral guidance. They invented LGBT acceptance; fyi! As I said before, I'd chose Belfast over Dublin as a place to raise my children.


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    #132
    Pissartist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 473 ✭✭Pissartist


    Awful news this, I really hope the perpetrators are caught and severely punished.There is no cause anymore, these killers are not like our heroes of 16 who had no choice, they are just scum who cannot be allowed ruin how far we've come as a nation.Rip


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    #133
    Lisha
    Registered Users Posts: 8,693 ✭✭✭Lisha


    http://www.thepensivequill.com/2014/08/letter-to-my-14-year-old-self.html?m=0

    I’m not sure If the link works. It’s a letter Lyra wrote to 14year old self .
    Gorgeous piece of writing.

    May she Rest In Peace and I truly hope the troubles don’t erupt again. It’s just so sad and pointless. A devastating loss of life, no good comes of it. It’s so scary to think the nightmare past could return.


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    #134
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Berserker wrote: »
    The scumbag who killed her was a republican.



    I base my comments on the feedback and opinions of people from both sides of the community in Northern Ireland; people I trust and respect. I know they are right, as do you.



    Everywhere is worse than the south. The south is the gold standard for everything from economic prosperity to moral guidance. They invented LGBT acceptance; fyi! As I said before, I'd chose Belfast over Dublin as a place to raise my children.
    Is this really the place for schoolyard "my place is better than yours naana n'naana" bollox? :rolleyes:


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    #135
    lawred2
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    The leader of Saoradh was in the Dail? Find that hard to believe. Do you have a link?

    ?


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    #136
    tayto lover
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    citytillidie wrote: »
    Give fecking over somethings are just more important than if you called the place Derry/Londonderry

    Particularly when Lyra often referred to it as “Legenderry”.



    Edit.
    Sorry, didn’t see your post Sheep’s.


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    #137
    BailMeOut
    Registered Users Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    Are these riots in Derry a normal and regular occurrence?
    Who are rioting?
    What are they rioting about?

    Excuse my ignorance but I thought we were done with all this stupidity.


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    #138
    Sardonicat
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    BailMeOut wrote: »
    Are these riots in Derry a normal and regular occurrence?
    Who are rioting?
    What are they rioting about?

    Excuse my ignorance but I thought we were done with all this stupidity.
    The PSNI were carrying out raids in the area which set off the rioters.


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    #139
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    Are these riots in Derry a normal and regular occurrence?
    Who are rioting?
    What are they rioting about?

    Excuse my ignorance but I thought we were done with all this stupidity.

    Semi-regular i guess,
    Young "republicans"

    There was a PSNI search carried out on a Saoradh members house ahead of their annual easter parade (it's a hate parade, the type that would be manned by armed masked men) Saoradh did not think these raids were warranted as they would not have guns for the police to find... in order to express their distaste at this - they brought out their guns.

    And they decided to shoot indiscriminately up a road towards some police vehicles, where they shot and murdered an innocent journalist.


    There is no place for these horrible backward bastards in society, and if they think this is how they will achieve a united ireland they have another fucking thing coming. and this is coming from someone with strong nationalistic tendencies.


    RIP Lyra McKee :(


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    #140
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,142 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Putting a face to the name. Witty woman.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ymU-5Y3rkY


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    #141
    Anteayer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 886 ✭✭✭Anteayer


    For all their lofty words both the two largest political parties in NI cannot get their act together and get that damn assembly running and the DUP and Tories have been seriously discussing carving up the Good Friday Agreement and wallowing in deeply toxic identity politics, jingoism and hatred.

    Having Stormont in suspension since the dawn of Brexit is absolutely irresponsible, dangerous and craven politics. They should be hanging their heads in shame today and reflecting on their own political shortsightedness.

    This is a stark reminder of how NI is not a normal place and what a political vacuum can reawaken.

    Read some of Lyra McKee's work. She was a very intelligent person, a deep thinker and a real journalist.

    It's such a waste of life.

    RIP Lyra and my sincere condolences to her family, friends and all those who loved and knew her.


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    #142
    Hoboo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,527 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »
    Semi-regular i guess,
    Young "republicans"

    There was a PSNI search carried out on a Saoradh members house ahead of their annual easter parade (it's a hate parade, the type that would be manned by armed masked men) Saoradh did not think these raids were warranted as they would not have guns for the police to find... in order to express their distaste at this - they brought out their guns.

    And they decided to shoot indiscriminately up a road towards some police vehicles, where they shot and murdered an innocent journalist.


    There is no place for these horrible backward bastards in society, and if they think this is how they will achieve a united ireland they have another fucking thing coming. and this is coming from someone with strong nationalistic tendencies.


    RIP Lyra McKee :(

    Hate parade? Nothing but love at any Easter parade I've been at. Maybe you should come and see.


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    #143
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    lawred2 wrote: »
    pathetic weasel words

    Copied and pasted from forty years ago.


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    #144
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭boardise


    'Saoradh ' ? ... Is this the Gaelic for 'Sarah' ?


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    #145
    Berserker
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    BailMeOut wrote: »
    Are these riots in Derry a normal and regular occurrence?
    Who are rioting?
    What are they rioting about?

    Excuse my ignorance but I thought we were done with all this stupidity.

    No, the police are raiding the homes of these people, who are up to no good and these lads do not believe that they should be subject to the law of the land, just like the rest of the "good republicans" out there. Problems ensue in the locality as a result of the raids.
    Hoboo wrote: »
    Hate parade? Nothing but love at any Easter parade I've been at. Maybe you should come and see.

    Yeah, nothing but love at republican parades and celebrations in that part of NI.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2018/0816/985542-ulster-bonfire/


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    #146
    zapitastas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭zapitastas


    boardise wrote: »
    'Saoradh ' ? ... Is this the Gaelic for 'Sarah' ?

    No that would be Sorcha


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    #147
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Anteayer wrote: »
    For all their lofty words both the two largest political parties in NI cannot get their act together and get that damn assembly running

    This is one of the biggest issues as displayed above - 'both sides are as bad as each other'. They're not.

    We should be condemning those who never wanted the GFA, are trying to undermine it, and are trying to keep the north in Seventeenth Century.

    Who might that be? The DUP. Let's call a spade a spade here.


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    #148
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    The PSNI were carrying out raids in the area which set off the rioters.

    These people either believe in the peace agreement that the vast majority of us voted for and the law of the land or they don't. If they do, they've no business rioting. If they don't, they've no place on this island.


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    #149
    Frank Castle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 134 ✭✭Frank Castle


    Berserker wrote: »
    Yeah, nothing but love at republican parades and celebration in that part of NI.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2018/0816/985542-ulster-bonfire/

    In fairness, they did state easter parade, and that has nothing to do with the easter parade.

    But both sides still do this horrible ****, too much finger pointing and not enough owning up to our own bad contributions.


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    #150
    Frank Castle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 134 ✭✭Frank Castle


    BarryD2 wrote: »
    These people either believe in the peace agreement that the vast majority of us voted for and the law of the land or they don't. If they do, they've no business rioting. If they don't, they've no place on this island.

    The rioters were nothing more than a bunch of kids. Kids will be kids, and worse when egged on in a certain direction. Its the people directing these children that are the problem


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    #151
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    This is one of the biggest issues as displayed above - 'both sides are as bad as each other'. They're not.

    Remind me again - but who walked away from the NI Assembly? I've no love at all for the DUP but one is as bad as the other. At least that's the way most citizens of this Republic would view it, as far as I hear & see.


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