How many of us think that unification is no longer a priority and don't really want unification ?

Distraction and off topic.

Staying on topic, why do you think you have a right to dictate what people can protest about in a UI when you don’t have that right in the North if it is peaceful and within the law.

The legacy of no go areas and self governance on a basically street by street basis still exists today as is clearly to be seen.

I don't know where we go from here but it's certainly not towards a UI in any semblance of the near future.

The horrific scenes tonight will certainly cool down all talk of a border poll and a united Ireland. Northern Ireland needs to get its own house in order quickly, the failures of SF and the DUP have never been clearer.

The episode in Belfast has shown up what lax border control in this country/ EU can do, and how we are been used as a back door for asylum seekers making their way from France to the UK.

"He is thought to have travelled from Sudan to Paris, and then from Paris to Dublin, before taking a bus to Belfast in February 2023, when he immediately claimed asylum."

It's quite clear that elected reps were stoking this reaction and bloggers were allowed free reign to incite - they have questions to answer here.
The usual suspects will be all over this trying desperately to make it an issue for all communities when in this instance it is clearly an issue on a number of occasions now - Ballymena, Portadown etc for one community.
Shameless opportunism.

Call it out for what it is - racism - and call it out if any community engages in it.

And maybe take stock by having a read of this:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opinion/barbaric-knife-crime-didnt-arrive-in-belfast-with-a-refugee...-its-been-here-for-decades/a/156470501.html

Not according to the polls, which is seeing an increase in NI residents across the board wanting back into the EU. Besides, it's probably more practical to transition to a UI over time which will make your 'pipe dream' a realistic goal with a tangible deadline.

Any fair analysis of NI would show in terms of diverting youth away from violent sometimes recreational rioting, what community and it's leaders is way ahead.

From Feile to reducing their own reactionary bonfire culture to nothing was hard work but it has been done. It simply hasn't been done by Unionism and it's showing here as it will again during marching season when feral youths will be excused by their leaders.

Not one Unionist leader called out what happened here without a 'but' attached.

I wouldn't laugh, but I understand what you mean. You can't glorify the "community policing" of the 1970s and 1980s when far worse happened and then criticise today, not when the same people are still around. Those who spread fear and terrorised innocent families in the 1970s and 1980s are still being protected today by the same people.

That's complete nonsense.

Yes, GAA clubs asking people to go out on the streets is directly contrary to the instructions of the legitimate police authority to stay off the streets. It is wrong. Policing is for the police, not for GAA stewards. Next you will be telling me they should be wearing white shirts for identification, like those who "policed" the Storey funeral.

Secondly, it is not that SF are messaging that they want a future that embraces diversity. Through their constant celebration and eulogising of those who killed in the name of sectarianism, they are fostering division and reinforcing the separation of communities.

Fine, just attack me, don't discuss the content of my post.

"Community policing", whether that is people organising riots, or people out confining people to their homes, is wrong, very wrong. You have claimed that GAA clubs are getting their senior members "to get on the streets to discourage members from getting sucked in at interface areas", is a problem, because what happens next week, if they suggest the opposite?

Policing is for the police, not for self-appointed local GAA clubs.  

Saying it all comes down to some inherited culture of “community policing” is just a cop out to skip over the very real, current forces shaping these situations today. Unsurprising that you'd want to deflect away from active Loyalist Paramilitaries to whatabout the Provos though.

You're massively overblowing the differences between what happened in Belfast vs this side of the border. Are we going to pretend that an IPAS centre wasn't burned down in Drogheda? That there wasn't a healthy dose of attempted arson at the Dublin riots?

Were the 2024 riots in Britain that involved arson attacks on mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers down to the Provo "community policing" culture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_riots?utm_source=copilot.com

The cover image on the Wikipedia page for it looks exactly like the images from recent days in Belfast.

There probably wasn't a huge Provo influence on the riots that kicked off in Chemnitz in Germany either.

Very similar background, very similar outcome. Maybe you're trying to inflate how significant the differences were because you have an agenda though. Burning houses, burning IPAS centres, burning mosques, burning hotels.....To talk in old debate terms, you're perfectly exemplifying Motivated Reasoning combined with a bit of Special Pleading.

The spread of far right rhetoric, anti-immigrant sentiment and an increasing sense of deprivation across working class areas are clearly and obviously much more relevant, as demonstrated by the examples provided in different places without the Provos. These are active, right now social pressures not just cultural echoes you can use to shake your big, 'everything is the Provos' stick at.

The DUP who seem to be anti immigrant despite thd Davy they themselves were immigrants to Ireland .
The DUP and their brethren should return to the mainland of England if they live if so much .
The majority of people in Tyrone & Armagh are as Irish as anyone from Cork or Dublin and deserve to be part of a United Ireland not trapped in a failed old British colony . Pearse & Connolly etc would be ashamed to think 105 years are getting 26 counties out from British rule we still haven’t got the other 6 .