Giant Bonfires up North 🔥 …. What’s the deal ?

Thank you so much I never knew the EU was such a democracy. I never remember being asked should we unconditionally take unlimited unvetted people into Europe with no resources to meet them. I never consented to removing diesel cars off roads and replacing them with vehicles with no proven track record that are impractical. I do not consent to enriching flour with enhanced protein and folic acid by law. just things to start with………….

Gibberish.

As I said if you are having trouble with English, you are free to address me in Irish.

U hate that the brit b1tch got the kick up the hole by the Provos-

U hate that so much that U have to invent a new enemy- Lol-

Text speak? Hollywood 910 girl? Or has someone loaded AI onto a spectrum 48k from 1982?

Its only the English language-

U or I are not English- so why head scratch-

Its a foreign language-

Let the English worry about it-

Thank you, I ws just going to post this "Article 8 states that the Irish language is the first official language and that the English language is recognised as a second official language"

Also as Gaeilge we use full stops, not hyphens.

Nothing you have written in the last 25 messages even remotely equates to English.

It is inarticulate gibberish.

Refer away- does Art 8 reach me in county Tyrone-

I have just read through a small selection of this 20 pages of hate (not by everyone of course, there are some very sensible contributors).  

This is the greatest evidence that this island will never be united under the one jurisdiction.  We, the Ulster Scots/Ulster British people are dispised by Republicans and misunderstood by many well meaning neutrals. This thread alone, evidences that there is no possibility of us living under Irish control.   

It is absolute fairyland and fantasy to think that this island will be united. 

Throughout the 12th festivities, I couldn’t help but think again how naive people are who believe somehow this place will unite. Too many people in Ireland, hate us and hate everything about our culture and identity.  

Threads like this, while at one level disappointing in their hate, reassure and remind me that OWC is assured to continue, whether tweaks are required at the edges or not, and whether I have to move a little bit north or not.  

At your most optimistic, you might increase the size of your country a little and decrease ours, but any idea of there not being a Northern Ireland really is pie in the sky

downcow… how oddly appropriate a moniker…

When you try to use the environmental argument against this activity, I can assure you you are attacking some of the people with the lowest carbon footprint on the island, about their carbon footprint 🤔.  

I will get AI to do the calculations shortly, but I am confident that this event will have a lower carbon footprint for each person attending, than the middle classes heading off to Dubai for their holidays, or enjoying their avocado in fancy restaurants 

I'm not sure a polluter pointing over there saying 'we're not as bad as themuns in Dubai' is the winning argument you think it is.

And living in denial about what it is that is controversial and lashing out is not going to help either.
The contentious hate filled bonfires (Not all of them) are very much not being organised by 'working class kids' they are being organised by known loyalist agitators.

The confidential study was carried out by academics from the Ulster University and involved others from the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Belfast City Council.

One of the findings was that no one was questioned by police over the reported theft of pallets controversially stored by a council for loyalist bonfire builders, which police confirmed to the Irish News.

It also suggests that paramilitaries control bonfires "for legitimacy" and to "control community activities".

Researchers reportedly spent months interviewing officials from the emergency services, councils and other public bodies, who told them they were reluctant to intervene at the annual events because of fears over staff safety and concerns about sparking "widespread public disorder".

'Holding communities to ransom'

One said: "If we get things wrong, we are legitimising things.

"People are extorting, holding communities to ransom."

Some officials reported receiving direct and indirect threats from people associated with bonfires, and being told not to come near sites or remove materials.

NI newspaper review: Bonfire report leaked

'Working class kids' indeed!

I am absolutely uninterested in a bonfire in the bogside. It would be completely hypocritical of me if I raised concerns about those young people’s safety when I don’t all year about the many other issues they face.
So its none of my business, it’s up to that community to decide if they want the fire or not