How can we integrate Unionism into a possible United Ireland?

In fairness the Irish sun ran this story during the week, but it should be down to the papers - especially when you see how many posters on here are living in some fantasy about roi

https://www.thesun.ie/news/8712350/bandon-valley-massacre-100-years-ago/

That was the event the president was talking about in the quote. Long since acknowledged.

You must be trolling now. There are Catholic families getting shot at, terrorised, and burnt out of their homes all the time in ni, and it's been happening for decades. Sort your own shop out first before looking for an apology for something a century ago, which according to another poster has already been apologised for.

Wrong on all points And also the op question is about what could be done to ease the integration of unionists in a UI Maybe you’d prefer we answer a different question as that one clearly upsets you

Tbh I am not completely sure what you are saying.

I think you are suggesting it should be investigated if the fall in numbers was primarily due to service families returning home to England. I can’t disagree with that. It would be worth clarifying.

my guess is it was a few things eg intimidation and fear, better quality of life in the UK and the cold house created by the catholic country for a catholic people. But I am open to learning more about the impact of service families leaving

I think if you pick a decade of your choosing over the 100 years I will find atrocities, intimidation and discrimination carried out against the Protestant minority. Of course non of this happened 🙄

this is why we need this dealt with as there is this continual denial - typified on here

Funny that you never mention the massacre of many catholics, getting burnt out of their houses, put in concentration camps and being arrested/harassed on a daily basis by the RUC/UDR and the British Army. Only a fraction of these, if that happened to protestants in the South.Hell, even in the last few weeks numerous Nationalist candidates have been threatened by UDA/UVF Scum for having the "audacity" to campaign in loyalist areas egged on by those in the DUP/TUV. Some Unioinist need a major reset in their thinking and maybe should be taking classes in Democracy.

A complete reset. Because the future is fairly mapped out now.

certainly not with the support of the british security forces, no.

No need to elect their political wings when you had the UUP and DUP and plenty of support for paramilitaries in the security forces. Peter Robinson even described unionist killers as 'counter-terrorists' despite their murder, almost exclusively, of innocent Catholics.

the DUP, the most popular party amongst your group has strong links with Ulster Resistance which ran guns that murdered Catholics. They also share a stage regularly with Seamie Bryson and LCC which regularly talk recently about killing catholics, they've openly targeted Simon Coveney and Leo. The only terrorists I see at the moment is in your group and some of which should be jailed for inciting hatred. But of course, it's all SF's fault, jesus wept.

Give us some evidence of the wild accusations you are posting. eg could we have a link to Jamie Bryson “regularly talk recently about killing catholics”? Or are you just making stuff up.

jamie Bryson and Moore Holmes and a few other young unionists are upsetting the republican applecart. Their method of articulating issues has nationalists in panic. A whole series of republican and nationalist politicians are refusing to debate with them and actually refusing to go on programs they are on - citing the fact they don’t have a political mandate.

Well here is the problem well demonstrated by Blaaz

none of us know exactly what happened in that tragic case. I personally don’t believe the state forces are involved in a cover up on it. But you guys have thrown all the **** at the state forces for 50 years and hope some sticks. And some did stick. And tiny bits were true. But the vast majority was made up nonsense.

it seems likely there were drugs tied up in that case and it seems like there were individuals who were from a unionist area involved (even that is not definite) but there is zero evidence that there was any sectarian motive or that the PSNI are covering anything up.

Unless of course you have evidence to the contrary?

people need to stop using that family’s tragedy for political points scoring.

I am also unaware of Bryson smearing family’s hunt for justice? You’ll give us evidence of that as well of course.

No stone should be left unturned in getting to the truth for that devastated mother. But let’s not encourage fairytales

It’s really difficult to take you seriously francie.

your two substantive points:

“Irish state, from the highest office down, has long since acknowledged what happened”. What utter nonsense. Can you provide a few links to them accepting unequivocally that there was systematic discrimination against the minority in the south?

“Look how he has been shown that efforts to revive the native language were not designed to discriminate against Protestants, they actually discriminated against anyone who couldn't speak the language, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, atheists etc etc” This one actually had me laugh out loud. Have you know idea that you are describing discrimination (which you denied a few posts ago) but you are saying it’s ok because they discriminated against the Jews as well as every other group who were different 😂😂😂 Try telling the Palestinians that it’s ok cause the Israelies are also discriminating against any prods living in Palestine