http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4750576.stm

How Sad!

Just goes to show how screwed up northern ireland is, i think people in the republic need to keep an eye on how much power gsien fain get in irish politics.

I wonder why they felt the need to head down to Ireland to do their little march? Sounds like two guilty parties here to me. One baiting the hook, the other taking the bait.

Okay, I'm confusing. Are Ireland and Northren Ireland don't like each other? Am I right?

Northern Ireland is run by Britain, the population is split between Potestants who wish to remain British and Catholics who wan't Northern Ireland to be a part of the Republic of Ireland (unification).

Serves them right! Year after year they provoke Catholics in Belfast by marching through Catholics quarters. They want to remember their victory at the Boine centuries ago... When things finally quit down the Orangists come and expect to walk through their residential area's and for what reason? Why there and not in their (much much bigger) part of Belfast.

Now they go down to Dublin and expect the same degree of freedom to march their march in Catholic area. I don't think so and so did many others. I reckon that if they want to make a point, just send a delegation and not an entire squadron of protestors. Sure, they have a right to protest, but with decades of unrest this wasn't the most prudent thing to do!

Actually the march was organised by a group called Love Ulster and was supposed to highlight the the victims of IRA violence, which they feel is being ignored and forgotten in the current political climate. That being said their march contained various Union flags and a loyalist marching band, but the response was not spontanious violence, it was organised by sein fein by bringing in busses republicans from the north to counter the Loyalist march.

Some good pics here
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74507

I think it will take some time before loyalists can march in Dublin even if Sinn Fein is involved in the organisation. The is still of lot of bad blood... on both sides. The opening has been created and now time needs to heal the wounds.

Originally Posted by KC72

Actually the march was organised by a group called Love Ulster and was supposed to highlight the the victims of IRA violence, which they feel is being ignored and forgotten in the current political climate. That being said their march contained various Union flags and a loyalist marching band, but the response was not spontanious violence, it was organised by sein fein by bringing in busses republicans from the north to counter the Loyalist march.

Some good pics here
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74507

The thing is, a lot more people in Ireland lost loved ones to the Brits and Loyalist paramilitaries/terrorist groups than they did to the IRA.

The group knew what they were doing when they went down to Ireland to hold their little march, they wanted a reaction and they got it. There aren't any clean hands on this one, but then again, rarely with N. Ireland violence there ever is, despite how the media likes to portray it.