Ballymena Riots **Mod Warning in OP**

Grayson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123557158#Comment_123557158

Besides a community centre that they torched?

I'm not sure what exactly you're getting at. Can you be a bit more explicit.

Madeleine Birchfield

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123557001#Comment_123557001

Anyways it's ironic that the Ulster unionists are rioting over immigration because they were the first migrants to be brought over into Ireland by the British against the wishes of the native Irish population, and in enough numbers to overwhelm the Irish population in many parts of Ulster to the point where Ulster stayed a part of the UK while the rest of Ireland gained independence in the 1920s.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123557285#Comment_123557285

You only see this sort of thing in the absolute worst sh*tholes.

gilly1910

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123554573#Comment_123554573

Exactly, very interesting to note the silence from Michael-Henry-McIvor and NIMAN when their republican brethren in Derry have been rioting these last few nights, very quick to go to town on the Loyalists, but nothing to say about their own dregs of society. I honestly hope to god I don't live to see the day when we are united with that sectarian dump

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cj maxx

Nothing different than what happens around the Inglorious 12th July every year . Stay well out of it riots will happen from now until the black marches on 12th August . Its their ' culture ' .

Has Down Cow offered an opinion ?

New Scottman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123539562#Comment_123539562

and Carrickfergus too

Loyalists never change. When they were getting shot by the IRA during the Troubles, many of us were indifferent at best.

Choochtown

You don't get to condemn bigotry with 1 sentence and then generalize all Northerners or all Loyalists as hateful scum in the next sentence without looking like a complete hypocrite. There's even a statement on this thread that claims that it's actually in their DNA !!

For the benefit of those with little experience of NI (a lot of posters here I suspect) most people who identify as Unionist / Loyalist are ordinary decent people and do not deserve to be automatically associated with those racist scumbags that are rioting.

michael-henry-mcivor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123557324#Comment_123557324

They are not Republicans rioting in derry- the dissidents are not allowed a bonfire in Derry this year and their children are cross-

No difference between dissidents and loyalists- both have no mandate from the people so they are taking it out on the other side- / with the police in the middle-

We have already removed the acts that Britain held us in-

But the majority of people in the 32 will vote for a united Ireland-

We neither fear U or the loyalists / dissidents-

NIMAN

I condemn the rioting in Derry. All rioting is a waste of time.

But the rioting in Derry and Ballymena are for very different reasons.

creeper1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123557234#Comment_123557234

I think my question was clearly asked.

By not being multicultural, what exactly are they missing out on?