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9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Queen\'s University st... · 0 replies · +1 points

I prefer to use the word, "gives oxygen to "socialist republicans".

The socialist word is an important distinction as many of us will accept a united Ireland, but hell will have to freeze over before I would accept living in a socialist state.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Queen\'s University st... · 0 replies · +18 points

GAA tops are crimes against fashion as are soccer tops.

Let the people wear what they want, but a fat bloke in tight lycra is never going to look pleasant.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Queen\'s University st... · 0 replies · +36 points

Offensive they are not, nor is the Easter Lilly. Remembering dead people who sacrificed their lives for just cause is a sign of remembrance and respect. Shared future means what is says, not banning culture North Korea style.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Queen\'s University st... · 1 reply · +45 points

By banning the poppy you will have turned Queens university into a Republican enclave at a stroke. As a catholic I find it insulting that the sacrifices of the thousands of Irish men who died in particular in WW1 who genuinely believed that support for the crown would result in full independence for the country only for a misguided attempt by other republicans to burn down the GPO in Dublin in true Irish glorious failure style which sowed the seeds for the partitioning of our country.

Any symbols that allow us to remember our dead and the folly of warfare should be allowed to be sold on campus, from poppies through to Easter Lillies.

It is times like these the leadership of Sinn Rein needs to speak out and do the right think. It is unfair for the part many Irishmen paid in WW1 to be airbrushed from history.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Meter installer \'paid... · 1 reply · 0 points

It is not difficult to understand at all. It is a public body masquerading as a pseudo private company

Until full blown privatisation occurs and the directors are answerable with their jobs to proper shareholders, efficiencies will never happen.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - More Polish homes targ... · 0 replies · +7 points

if the police decide to take a zero tolerance approach they will need at least 5,000 officers from the UK and to construct temporary prison camps that can house at lease 10,000 people and a fast track court system to boot.

Unfortunately we live in the wild west. Anything goes.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - More Polish homes targ... · 1 reply · +7 points

Love the banded clichés

The unfortunate thing here is they do have the support of their communities given no one ever sees anything and no one is ever arrested.

Build a police force with graduates and this is what you get, middle class policing. They arrest middle class people for minor stuff and leave the scum of the earth to do what they like.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Adams mural photograph... · 1 reply · +7 points

Don't forget William killed a lot of people with his armies funded by the Vatican., the Catholic Church

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Gerry Adams arrest: Po... · 1 reply · -7 points

I think it is fair to say that power sharing has run its course.

I cannot see how it can continue in a "functional" form, given that it has been pretty dysfunctional so far.

The only outcome I can see it ROI rejoining the Commonwealth and a united Ireland ensuing.

9 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Gerry Adams arrest: Po... · 0 replies · +7 points

The people demanding his release seem to have lost all sense of perspective and are following him like they are in a religious cult and he is a supreme leader not capable of committing a crime, with blind loyalty no different to what Mao or Charles Manson received from their supporters.

The facts are all people in our society can commit crime and none are above justice no matter what their past achievements are or who they are.

The eyes of the law should be allowed to look at Gerry's past alleged crimes, Rather that implode the peace process, would it not be more mature of Sinn Fein to request a UN appointed body to undertake an independent review, appointed from a country such as the Netherlands who traditionally are fair handed.

All sides are likely to support that, including the PSNI as they need bad PR like the hole in back of Jean mcConville's head. The implosion of the peace process because of the actions of one man, is too high a price to pay, but justice must be carried out if there is evidence that supports his (or anyone's) potentiall involvement in these crimes.

The question I have is what Would Michael Collins have done, I would suggest he would have pulled any one of his party in front of the courts if they were linked with the execution of a civilian.

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