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As seen thru Irish eyes
Garvaghy Road Coalition ^ | Unknown | Unknown

Posted on 02/11/2005 5:26:06 PM PST by FederalistVet

It is difficult for those fortunate enough to live in more sophisticated communities to understand and appreciate the deep sense of fear, outrage and humiliation that marks these annual incursions into the little streets of this little town..." Irish News -- July 5th 1986 editorial

The Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition is an umbrella group set up by the residents of the Catholic/Nationalist Garvaghy Road area of the town of Portadown. The area has now achieved worldwide notoriety for its annual round of loyalist and Orange Order parades and counter-demonstrations, and for the violence which accompanies them. For many years, the community has been under constant siege by the Orange Order and its supporters. The residents continue to stand strong and struggle for their right to equality, freedom from sectarian discrimination and harassment.

(Excerpt) Read more at garvaghyroad.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: northernireland; northireland
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I guess some here on FR just won't get it until they've lived on the Irish side of the fence.
1 posted on 02/11/2005 5:26:06 PM PST by FederalistVet
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To: FederalistVet

Some of us "get it".


2 posted on 02/11/2005 5:38:04 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (When you're a target of Islam, every week is Islam Awareness Week.)
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To: FederalistVet
I guess some here on FR just won't get it until they've lived on the Irish side of the fence.

This is not a rude or provocative response. What is it that people are to "get."

3 posted on 02/11/2005 5:39:21 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: Bahbah

That people living in fear of a government have no incentive to support that government.


4 posted on 02/11/2005 5:43:09 PM PST by FederalistVet (Hitler was a liberal!)
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To: FederalistVet

I took a look at the site. You are right, I cannot understand. My grandmother and grandfather both came to this country from Ireland, both were RC as am I and as are my children. I have no idea, other than hearing periodically of the hideous violence that occurs during these incursions, what it is like.


5 posted on 02/11/2005 5:49:13 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: FederalistVet

To what are you equating the situation in Northern Ireland?


6 posted on 02/11/2005 5:50:37 PM PST by BurrOh (Kerry, honored member of War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City)
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To: FederalistVet

Any word on the lads that made off with the $50 million (worth) from the bank job?


7 posted on 02/11/2005 5:51:12 PM PST by investigateworld (Babies= A sure sign He hasn't given up on mankind!)
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To: BurrOh

I don't think it needs equating to anything else. How many centuries must go by before people realize Britain is indeed a Protestant tyranny.


8 posted on 02/11/2005 5:59:15 PM PST by FederalistVet (Hitler was a liberal!)
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To: investigateworld

So far the local police are still fishing.


9 posted on 02/11/2005 5:59:50 PM PST by FederalistVet (Hitler was a liberal!)
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To: Bahbah

Well I grew up in a predominantly Dutch protestant community here in the US and the local public high school Protestant boys would come down to our Catholic parochial school and throw stones at us. We were a first thru sixth grade school. Sometimes they would deliver beatings to.

In my neighborhood we had to protect the girls and smaller children from the groups of Protestant bullies that would wander about up to no good.

Multiply that by about 100,000 and you'll probably understand what the Irish have gone thru.


10 posted on 02/11/2005 6:05:04 PM PST by FederalistVet (Hitler was a liberal!)
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To: FederalistVet
Protestant boys would come down to our Catholic parochial school and throw stones at us.

Well, in my community there were people who believed that we were stockpiling weapons in our basements for I don't know what. All I wanted my Dad to agree to was to allow me to keep a pony in the basement.

12 posted on 02/11/2005 6:13:41 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: UnashamedAmerican

The UK is a terrorist sponsoring country. The Unionist terrorist organizations are supported by the military and the police force as well as all of the main protestant parties (yes including David Trimble's party).

Since the Unionist paramilitary groups have been legal for years, they have been able to raise funds, participate in government, and purchase weapons legally even from dealers here ibn the United States.

As for killing innocent people, you'll notice Sinn Fein acknowledges mistakes have been made in the past and apologizes for the loss of innocent lives. You'll see no such apology from the Protestant side, and you'll see that the British government is active in the cover up.


13 posted on 02/11/2005 6:16:06 PM PST by FederalistVet (Hitler was a liberal!)
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To: FederalistVet

I thought your post about getting it had to do with another situation in the world. I have been aware of Marching season, etc., for as long as I can remember.

I would disagree with you about Britain being a Protestant tyranny in this day and age. I would argue in your favor for past times and actions. The Unionists carry on the tradition.


14 posted on 02/11/2005 6:17:11 PM PST by BurrOh (Kerry, honored member of War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City)
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To: FederalistVet

I LIVE on the Irish side of the fence, and I DEFINITELY get it.


15 posted on 02/11/2005 6:17:58 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: FederalistVet
How many centuries must go by before people realize Britain is indeed a Protestant tyranny.

Oh give it up already.
Yeah, big tyrannical Britain that gave millions of Irish people work - and kept families going in the Free State with money that was being sent home by McAlpines men - during the 50's and 60's.

16 posted on 02/11/2005 6:20:16 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: FederalistVet

With all due respect, I don't know that Free Republic is the place to fight the war for a Free Ireland. And frankly, given some of the predations of the Provos and the IRA, I've got a lot less sympathy for the Catholic cause than I used to.


17 posted on 02/11/2005 6:20:27 PM PST by IronJack
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To: FederalistVet; Irish_Thatcherite; Colosis; MadIvan
As for killing innocent people, you'll notice Sinn Fein acknowledges mistakes have been made in the past and apologizes for the loss of innocent lives.

Big swinging! What is an insincere apology from a bunch of terrorists to the people of Omagh? Or Gerry McCabes wife?

18 posted on 02/11/2005 6:22:17 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: FederalistVet
Well I grew up in a predominantly Dutch protestant community here in the US and the local public high school Protestant boys would come down to our Catholic parochial school and throw stones at us.

Just as I thought, another plastic paddy.

19 posted on 02/11/2005 6:24:31 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: investigateworld

What I hear from my brother-in-law who lives in Armagh, is that the guys stole Nothern Irish pounds. They are only used in Northern Ireland.

Well guess what? The bills are no longer acccepted or will no longer be accepted. So, the guys who stole all that money, stole worthless money!


20 posted on 02/11/2005 6:28:13 PM PST by It's me
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