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THE ARDOYNE AREA of North Belfast saw yet more Twelfth of July violence last night, as petrol bombs, stones, fireworks and debris hurled at members of the PSNI.
Police fired plastic bullets and water canons to force nationalists away from the area, after youths lashed out at police for sealing off some streets to allow loyalist parades through the mainly nationalist area.
All photographs by Paul Faith of the Press Association.
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Every one of those pictures is revolting in one way or another.
How?? Some up North would argue the same about St Patricks Day? Or a GAA match. I find it laughable how fellow ppl in the Republic who know feck all about the Order seem to have such major opinions.
Indoctrination on both sides. Feel sorry for the normal people of Northern Ireland who have to put up with nationalist/loyalists nutters.
Would the Klan be allowed march in Harlem.
It is time for the Orange Order to be banned, the irony of the EU refusing to fund them, because they are so bigoted, and fall foul of laws that are designed by Europe to stop funding going to Fascists and extremists, leading to the Irish Govt. having to step in to fund them.
The creator of apartheid South Africa was a great admirer of the Orange Order and how they kept the native Irish papes in place. Says all you need to know about these hoods.
Got any links or facts to back up the “apartheid” comment?
Jesus, who puts kids in brown uniforms and marches them up and down streets?? Serious Fascist undertones there. Should not be part of any modern society.
Will you ban the IRA and Sinn Fein??, We live in a democratic society, but to right them off as fascists,Is crazy. What do you actually know about them ??
Eh, the IRA are banned.
The IRA are banned and Sinn Fein are a political party. What exactly is the purpose of the Orange Order other than being a bigoted bunch of gobshites living off the victory of a Dutch King over 300 years ago?
Yes Barry, ban all neo-fascist hate groups. Nobody here has defended the IRA. They are just as loopy as the Orange Order.
You asked what anybody knows about the Orange Order.
I know that Catholics, and those whose close relatives are Catholic, are banned from becoming members, and also that non-creedal and non-trinitarian denominations (such as Mormons, Unitarians and some branches of Quakers) are also ineligible for membership.
I know that the basis of the modern Orange Order is the promotion and propagation of “biblical Protestantism” and the principles of the Reformation.
I know that the Order was the force behind the UUP no-confidence votes in reformist Prime Ministers O’Neill (1969), Chichester-Clark (1969–71) and Faulkner (1972–74).
As well as much more besides.
What do you know about them exactly? Please inform the rest of us.
It is good to see some form of normalisation of the 12th it might one day be as benign as St.Patricks’ day in the future but why when referred to on the media are they called “demonstrations”. Also the participants all look so grim and grey it really does not look like fun.
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