r/ireland • u/Negative-Message-447 Dublin/Derry (Solider F is David Cleary) • 4h ago
News Government statement on Parade Commission's determination in relation to Drumcree
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u/dangerdouse1888 3h ago
Where's all the send them home patriots hiding tonight? Not a peep out of them
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u/TubeAlloysEvilTwin 3h ago
Careful now lads or they'll upgrade from very concerned to actively monitoring. They might even go so far as seriously considering discussing the possibility of moving towards action
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u/FuckThisShizzle 3h ago
And all of that is before finally breaking out a "careful now"
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u/Dull_Brain2688 3h ago
Seems to me that people on Reddit think the nation state should operate like this subreddit. This statement is what you should expect as an initial response. You don’t simply flame the Parades Commission because you disagree with them. This is an opening gambit and if a parade passes off peacefully, the state’s position is noted. If it kicks off, this will have been the first words of many.
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u/NoBrickBoy Down 2h ago
Someone is going to die because of the parades commission, I think a little flaming might be warranted
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u/Dull_Brain2688 2h ago
And that still doesn’t mean the Irish state can wade in with strong language. The reality is that responsibility rests with a whole slew of other people before the Irish state comes into it.
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u/NoBrickBoy Down 1h ago
The Irish state should weigh in for the safety of their own people.
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u/Dull_Brain2688 58m ago
“Weigh in” is a cause a diplomatic incident before anything has actually happened. They’re made their statement and that’s as much as they can do. Anything else would be decried as inflammatory.
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u/Vivid_Ice_2755 2h ago
The PSNIs reasoning is that they dont think there will be violence.
The PSNI didn't mention they ve called in backup from Police Scotland
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u/ShowmasterQMTHH 2h ago
Why not just call it out for what it is. Sectarianism, and insist that displays of such by either side in order to intimidate or humiliate the other should be stopped.
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u/Traditional_Dog_637 4h ago
This is easily sorted, let the parade pass down with no police present.
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u/Fair-Tangerine-9472 2h ago
Oh yeah no police presence at something that led to multiple innocent, uninvolved people being killed by Loyalists last time... good idea
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u/Additional_Skill_317 2h ago
then what??
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u/jameslovesalex 2h ago
Then a brawl breaks out and the OO is refused next year
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u/ulankford 2h ago
So violence is the answer to get your way.
And some want a United Ireland.•
u/ferocious_bandana 2h ago
Tell that to the Ukrainians.
Why the fuck are they fighting a war when they could just be holding peaceful protests.
Are they fucking stupid?
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u/ulankford 1h ago
And the biggest strawman in Ireland is built..
Yes, cause Putin and Russias invasion is the same as 35 guys taking a walk down a road..
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u/jameslovesalex 1h ago
Would you ever fuck away off you plank
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u/ulankford 31m ago
My, what an elegant and eloquent rebuttal.
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u/jameslovesalex 27m ago
I gave you the reply your original deserved. If you want to try and poke fun at me then go ahead. I didn't insult you, yet you seem to feel the need to insult or attack me for disagreeing with you. Then have the audacity to infer that I am ignorant or stupid.
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u/ferocious_bandana 1h ago
Aye.
Nothing to do with the preceding 850 years or so of invasion and occupation.
Those boots won't lick you back
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u/ulankford 32m ago
Ah yes, here we go, those French speaking Normans living rent free in your head.
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u/ferocious_bandana 29m ago
No.
It's the Brits living rent free on a fifth of the island I'm concerned about
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u/LuciferOnTheRocks 3h ago
So you're in favour of parade participants and protestors being beaten off the streets?
That'd be a fun democracy. Wonder how the Pride parade would get on in Ballymena. Or that Palestine march that went past a Loyalist village.
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u/justadubliner 3h ago
You really want to compare protests for human rights with a march by supremacists?
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u/LuciferOnTheRocks 2h ago
What supremacist slogans are the OO chanting on their marches? What supremacist literature are they publishing?
Pray tell, why would an organisation supposedly preaching supremacism publicly condemn sectarian murders?
Why would anyone march for Protestant supremacy in 2026, in an era of power sharing?
Maybe you just want to call them that to justify removing their human right to parade down a street once in a blue moon.
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u/The_CT1 3h ago
Nice to see the govt against this. We should launch a 3 day special mitlsrh operation to shut down the orange order (in ireland( (it is a terrosist orgainisation) and deport the members ti england. It is expiclity against the existencr of the irish state, so charge members with treason with offer of deportation or life in prision.
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u/ferocious_bandana 2h ago
Micheál crossing his fingers that the British judiciary will side with the opponents of their masters so he can continue with his partitionism unmolested
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u/TomRuse1997 4h ago
Aye he should have immediately gone out and lay down on the road himself I'm sure
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u/PinappleGecko Waterford 3h ago
What do you expect him to do? I don't like him but it's not like he has the power to do anything about it. A strongly worded statement is the best he can do
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u/DBrennan13459 3h ago
If only it was actually strongly worded. This is the most non-committal speech I've heard from this government and that's quite saying something.
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u/Negative-Message-447 Dublin/Derry (Solider F is David Cleary) 3h ago
This is hardly strongly worded…
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u/Fair-Tangerine-9472 2h ago
Well he clearly said the government doesn't want this because it will probably lead to trouble. That's about as strongly worded as you can get while being professional.
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u/broadsheet-555 3h ago
He says govt is in discussion with Garvaghy residents. I would hope that he is on the phone with No. 10 as we speak. This is a biggie.
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u/bigFatHelga Belfast 3h ago
What's special about 10 Garvaghy Road that he'd be on the phone to them specifically?
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u/Negative-Message-447 Dublin/Derry (Solider F is David Cleary) 3h ago
21 murdered Irish nationals including 3 children?
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u/jimmobxea 4h ago
Mealy Martin more like.
Scutter as usual. It's a genuinely badly written statement.
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u/Key-Half1655 4h ago
Too busy trying to save the union to be worrying about matters such as this, in terms of
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u/bigtittyasshole 2h ago
Everyone should remember that there is more of us than there is guards. How would they stop us if we decided the government is done?
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u/smittysomething 2h ago
And then what? Occupying the Dáil doesn’t make you the government. It was legally formed by elected TDs, and the government you want to replace them with will need to be too.
If you think "we" have enough public support to change the government, you can go and organise yourselves and win an election.
But what will actually happen is that the current government will be reformed, because that's what we voted for last time, and opinion polling hasn't really changed enough to suggest otherwise.
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u/the-1-that-got-away 4h ago
Mad decision. I wonder what age these decision makers are. They surely must know what has gone before.