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Reply | R.I.P. Joyce Sims
at 14:03 16 Oct 2022
Sad. That whole album was a corker from start to finish. |
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Reply | Congratulations to the Irish Woman's football team
at 16:52 13 Oct 2022
The FAI (swift and excellent response) UEFA, sky television (dropped sponsorship) and the now the Scottish police aren’t so quick to brush this off. I appreciate that a lot of the women were born pre GFA and didn’t for the most part mean to offend but it shows a real lack of understanding about how this is perceived by many here and in many ways the lack of understanding human to human is the sad thing. It has got a lot of coverage with even the most liberal commentators appalled so the idea this hasn’t done damage isn’t true and it will be wheeled out by the DUP (correct, they are duplicitous fire stokers) at the next election (which could be very soon) to demonstrate how a UI would be a cold house for Protestant/unionist community . Ireland has come a long way since the days of a quasi theocracy and should be proud of the huge progress on equality and inclusion (much better than here) but that display turned back the clock
The troubles was a dirty war with dastardly acts by both sides and the sooner everyone admits their hands are dirty then we can start to build a future. I don’t think whataboutery helps either otherwise we’d be sending each other links from now to doomsday to ‘prove’ another perspective.
I don’t suppose we’ll convince each other so we will have to agree to disagree about the impact of this. Best of luck to the women in the finals but I wish we were just talking about their achievement |
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Reply | Congratulations to the Irish Woman's football team
at 19:59 12 Oct 2022
Yes, sectarian chanting. As the manager of the team herself points out quite rightly, meant or not this was hurtful. Chanting I.R.A. Or up the ra comes with a cache of information given the newer incarnation of the I.R.A. and the hurt they caused to both sides of the community here (I was born and lived in Belfast for 50 years so have lived through the very worst of the troubles) It is equally unacceptable to chant about the U.V.F. as the new incarnation of that group are far from the regiment who fought in the First World War and again have terrorised both communities. I hope nobody including yourself sees the chanting last night on what should have been an amazing night for the Irish womens team part of what should be (whatever the will of the people is here in time) a shared future for absolutely everyone on this island no matter their history or background |
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Reply | Congratulations to the Irish Woman's football team
at 13:58 12 Oct 2022
Congratulations. Pity the whole thing is being marred by horrific sectarian chanting by the team afterwards. Hope they and anyone else involved in this sort of rubbish are slapped with long bans. |
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Reply | Interesting that Celina . .
at 10:50 25 Sep 2022
I was at the game yesterday. Played well in a very deep role often collecting the ball off the centre halves. All the usual lovely touches on display. Great to see him, even if I had to listen to my son go on that we really needed to get the cheque book out last summer for him! |
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Reply | Jay Donnelly ,Glentoran striker
at 21:16 28 Aug 2022
Please no. I think a quick Google will illustrate why he might not fit in with our American owners vision for the club |
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