Northern Ireland clashes leave 56 police, 2 civilians injured

The 12th of July was last month. Hopefully this doesn't mark the begginning on the troubles again...

Honestly, this is one issue that probably won't die until the North is united, and even then it's possible the north may try to break away again when the Protestants start their own rebellion.

Northern Ireland, The Falkland Islands and Palestine are three of the areas in the world where it is almost impossible for peace as both sides in all these cases want total victory rather than an agreement.

56 injured, including police......could have been an Irish wedding or wake.

or any normal Saturday night.

Let me guess. The new: Realist of the Really Real IRA were part of this riot.

I'm sure there were Prod and Catholic para-militaries involved.

No, this was all the work of the loyalist Protestants.
They should not have done this...all it did was make them look exactly the same as the Catholics they complain about who attack their annual Orange marches.

What/who got the Protestants all fired up?

Look no further than City Hall ...where the Union flag was recently taken down.
Now where I come from that would basically be a declaration of war.



9 January 2013

Union flag flies over Belfast City Hall to mark Duchess of Cambridge's birthday but more violent protests are expected when it is taken down tonight

Loyalists pelted police with bottles and stones in a new outbreak of trouble in east Belfast last night over the decision to only raise the flag on 18 designated days a year.

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Declare war...you get a war.
Simple.
No Harvard degree needed for this one either.

Well, thats because the catholics get offended by the Jack. Fly the Red Hand and watch all hall break loose.

They don't mind taking Britain's loan money though to prop up their 'bankrupt' republic.



UK cuts interest rate on Republic of Ireland loan






One among many reasons we admire the Queen is that, in return for all those palaces and footmen and Scottish holidays, she must smile through endless encounters that would send the rest of us either to sleep or the madhouse.

She entertains at Buckingham Palace African dictators, clowns like ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy, or Chinese and Russian leaders who never get the blood off their hands, however often they use the royal hand-basins. For ten years, she had to meet Tony Blair once a week, and even be civil to his wife.

But I doubt whether any of these ordeals inspired as much royal repugnance as shaking hands yesterday with Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and former career killer of British soldiers, Ulster policemen and anybody else who obstructed his all-Irish dream.

You'll see many photographs of world leaders shaking hands with unsavory characters. Still stomach rolling, but it seems to be how the game is played.

Each side should just let the other side march...and ignore them...or protest peacefully.

Seeing as how Northern Ireland is British and part of the UK, the Union flag should be flying over Belfast city hall 24/7/365.

Ha! That'll never happen, you don't understand the hate for oneanother in Ulster, it surpasses your hate for the japanese. by a wide margin.

I try to 'forgive but not forget' with Japan, but ... I just get 'comfortable' with them ...then summer arrives and so do Japanese whaling ships!

The Catholics/Republicans could always just slip over the border and live in Dublin ruled Ireland, where they'd obviously be much happier.