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Man drowns trying to remove the Tricolour.

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  • #32
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,062 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Reoil wrote: »
    Oh it is. If he was fit enough to try to swim that distance in cold water with confidence, then I wouldn't classify him as a "pensioner" in the "old man" stereotype sense of the word.

    FYP


  • #33
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Jesus lads.

    It was 2 fcuking flags.

    Flags.

    Putting your life in danger to remove themselves, and replace them with another flag......

    Family now devastated, needless loss of a life.

    I'm also speechless tbh.
    *flegs


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nLtVleoMc


    Vice News have a good one on these lads, can't get over how the bitter hatred up there still prevails in this day and age....


  • #35
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    jimgoose wrote: »
    A horrible stupid accident, the misfortunate man. Would this be worthy of such criticism if he fell over the cat and broke his neck?

    No, that would be unlucky.

    This, however, was due to his own stupidity and pettiness.


  • #36
    0O0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭0O0


    You're trivialising the "fleg" issues in the North - as mentioned by the SF mla it will be seen as intimidating and people who don't associate themselves with Ireland could think that their identity is being quashed.

    The man obviously felt that strongly about it that at not far off 70 he did that?! Another life lost to the consequences of the Troubles....Think the politicians should show some leadership & maybe create a separate Northern Irish flag, which is inclusive of everyone.


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  • #37
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    endacl wrote: »
    Keep putting up flags in inaccessible spots. The dingbats will gradually kill themselves off. Reunification will become moot moate.

    :)


  • #38
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    0O0 wrote: »
    You're trivialising the "fleg" issues in the North - as mentioned by the SF mla it will be seen as intimidating and people who don't associate themselves with Ireland could think that their identity is being quashed..

    I feel the same when walking past a hotel with union flegs flying here in Dublin..

    Not really, I think thats an unwarrented excuse, I think this story shows nothing more than an attempt to wind a community up followed by the usual aggrevated response.

    Its time that the loyalist communiddy got their **** together and stop playing the tradition card.


  • #39
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    0O0 wrote: »
    ...Think the politicians should show some leadership & maybe create a separate Northern Irish flag, which is inclusive of everyone.

    Maybe they could get Phil Coulter to design it?


  • #40
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,971 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    I feel the same when walking past a hotel with union flegs flying here in Dublin..

    Not really, I think thats an unwarrented excuse, I think this story shows nothing more than an attempt to wind a community up followed by the usual aggrevated response.

    Its time that the loyalist communiddy got their **** together and stop playing the tradition card.

    Or... even better, join the rest of the world in 2014.


  • #41
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Maybe they could get Phil Coulter to design it?

    Screen well and truly coffee-spluttered, thank you!


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  • #42
    kfallon
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    How long before Willie Frazer blames the IRA for this? :rolleyes:


  • #43
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    0O0 wrote: »
    Think the politicians should show some leadership & maybe create a separate Northern Irish flag, which is inclusive of everyone.

    A plain white one? No sectarian connotations?

    Oh. 'No surrender'. That won't work.

    How about a rainbow one, inclusive of everybody? Oh. That one' s taken?

    I'm all out of ideas....


  • #44
    snaphook
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭snaphook


    Never go swimming when full of food. Or incandescent rage.


  • #45
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    bear1 wrote: »
    Sexual?
    The sort of tension where the wrong side feels slightly more tense than the other.
    El Weirdo wrote: »
    No, that would be unlucky.

    This, however, was due to his own stupidity and pettiness.
    Yeah. That's people for you.


  • #46
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,971 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    endacl wrote: »
    A plain white one? No sectarian connotations?

    Oh. 'No surrender'. That won't work.

    How about a rainbow one, inclusive of everybody? Oh. That one' s taken?

    I'm all out of ideas....

    Possibly a nutty idea but..... how about..... they....... stop banging on about flags, flegs etc and focus on what really matters in life?
    I'm perfectly happy walking around Galway or any other city without seeing the Tricolour everywhere.
    I don't need reminding of where I am.
    I'm curious how many lives have been lost due to the flag problem?


  • #47
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    never said I wanted it, and i'm actually not too pushed either way, but i know a lot of people here do. This incident really highlights the fractured nature of the north.

    edit. as another poster said, I wouldn't be surprised if this was used for political point scoring at some point.

    I am afraid it the posts and replys on this thread really highlight the fractured nature of society in general when some are making jokes and taking delight about another person from the other side dying.


  • #48
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    endacl wrote: »
    And natural selection makes the world a slightly smarter place...

    :rolleyes:

    I... but... Natural selection doesn't work on 68 year olds...


  • #49
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    bear1 wrote: »
    Sexual?

    Stupid sexy tricolours


  • #50
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,675 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    caustic 1 wrote: »
    I am afraid it the posts and replys on this thread really highlight the fractured nature of society in general when some are making jokes and taking delight about another person from the other side dying.

    What 'other side' were all human,

    This guy was just trying to swap out someones religious and sectarian tension with his own, it killed him.

    More fool him.


  • #51
    0O0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭0O0


    caustic 1 wrote: »
    I am afraid it the posts and replys on this thread really highlight the fractured nature of society in general when some are making jokes and taking delight about another person from the other side dying.

    Agree with this completely.

    Most won't have realised the destruction in the North because of feckin flegs - as they represent identity, which again is in conflict in a lot of areas, like the area where this man died.
    Yet the bad taste jokes bout "them-uns & us-uns" show how hypocritical the joke is.


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  • #52
    solomafioso
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    Bambi wrote: »
    Stupid sexy tricolours

    Feels like I'm representing nothing at all...
    nothing at all...
    nothing at all....


  • #53
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    0O0 wrote: »

    The man obviously felt that strongly about it that at not far off 70 he did that?! Another life lost to the consequences of the Troubles....Think the politicians should show some leadership & maybe create a separate Northern Irish flag, which is inclusive of everyone.

    They'd need to create a fleg that somehow represented both traditions equally but also suggested that they could live together without conflict..hmmmm




    :pac:


  • #54
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    caustic 1 wrote: »
    I am afraid it the posts and replys on this thread really highlight the fractured nature of society in general when some are making jokes and taking delight about another person from the other side dying.

    I dunno..... I'm not on a side. I think they're all bonkers.


  • #55
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I... but... Natural selection doesn't work on 68 year olds...
    I know. I sacrificed accuracy for smart-alecry.

    :)


  • #56
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,062 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Bambi wrote: »
    They'd need to create a fleg that somehow represented both traditions equally but also suggested that they could live together without conflict..hmmmm




    :pac:

    You referring to this?


  • #57
    0O0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭0O0


    Bambi wrote: »
    They'd need to create a fleg that somehow represented both traditions equally but also suggested that they could live together without conflict..hmmmm




    :pac:

    If you haven't been living under a brick, you might've noticed that the tricolour, even with the best intentions, is a representation of Irishness. The Union Jack, with it's Scottish and all input, is British.

    What the North needs is a flag that represents Northern Irish - as something like 70% of folk up there, pick that nationality if given the option on forms etc.


  • #58
    dharma200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭dharma200


    imagine growing up there and this is the sh i t you ahve to deal with every day. Half the kids up there dont have a chance to not be indocrinated into this shyte.... I mean, what kind of example is that. Wouldnt wish death on anyone. Flags should be banned. Every ideological death is pointless. Ideology is for idiots. Hence the idiotic way to die. rip anyway.


  • #59
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭Wossack


    yea lads, more flags is what they need


  • #60
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Why do the prods hate the Ivory Coast?


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  • #61
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Red Pepper wrote: »
    Why do the prods hate the Ivory Coast?

    Same reason they hate India. And to a lesser extent, Offaly.


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