Northern Ireland 2125?

"Such people saying there would be violence at the border again if there were customs posts there are implying they would support violence again on the border, rather than having customs checks there as opposed to being between mainland Britain and N.I."

Your inferrance that people who warn of violence therefore support violence is incorrect.

Did the head of the PSNI supports violence if there was a hard border as he also warned of violence should there have been a hard border?

Notice how only politicians from the RoI got accused of threatening violence. The only people who accused LV of threatening violence were unionist . Not one london or Brussels politician inferred he was threatening violence. Just another lame excuse to come out with seige mentality shite

Both men openly support/supported the IRA.

They didn’t hide behind a victims group.

Recent as in nearly 20 years ago? Some orange lodges take part in the Dublin st patricks parade in the last few years. There is orange lodges in the ROI and marchs too.

Nobody should have died in the conflict/war that could have been prevented.

I’m talking about the eejits who can’t keep such celebrations of heritage in perspective, ie, who are explicitly hostile to the other side. The Orange Order is a shadow of what it used to be partly because it failed to adapt its message to modern times which is a shame when community participation is in general decline. Most young people with any education or ambition don’t buy into that paranoid, sectarian tribalism any more and are embarrassed by it.

Some people in NI need to take a hard look at the South and the British ‘mainland’ to see how completely out of step they are with contemporary secular life.

The Folk Park is a lovely place to visit. It’s right beside some of my relatives. Let’s be positive about the past.

When I’m Shah of Ireland those massive bonfires will be gone.

To young people I would say, it was an ugly tribal war (as they always are) with good and bad on both sides. A lot of otherwise decent people were sucked in by the myths they were told. If you want to study the history, fine, but be sceptical about what you read and hear, especially from those closest to you. And watch out for resentment. There’s probably enough of that in your life already without the imagined collective past dumping more on your plate.

I should probably add that weed is legal in Canada.

An obvious one that applies to both sides: at most one properly built bonfire per community per city with no flags or names of people on it. Why does anybody have to be told not to put the name of somebody who drowned or a police officer who was attacked up there? This can reach comical levels, eg, when they roped Africa into all this some years ago by burning a Côte D’Ivoire flag but putting a migrant boat on top should not even be thought of. Some fool is quite likely to go the extra yard there and follow through in the real world.