Northern Ireland Marches, should they ban them?

[Bobbisox]

Watching MW this morning and was /am interested in peoples take on this, would banning such marches create even more violence?
Is it not time to forget something that took place over 300 years ago? and try to move forward.

[DrFilth]

never heard of any trouble in manchester


don't think many people known they have a march

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdR8ipX2Ugg

[jackthehat]

It is rather helpful, in a debate, for all parties to have an understanding of that about which they are posting.....

[sammmo]

trigger Northern ireland is part of the UK isn't it.. uk taxes paying for the policing etc. so maybe uk tax payers have the right to comment.

[Barmaid]

It's actually a fair point. It's not really for the English to tell the Irish what to do. Let's face it, if we had kept our noses out of Ireland in the first place (which was largely RC until the english settlors moved in in the 16th C) there wouldn't be quite so much trouble imho.

[Bobbisox]

jth with respect, so you think everyone who comes in here should research their chosen topic?
I would much rather ask for other opinions personally

[jackthehat]

Ah....so you can see my posts.........I was starting to wonder...

No, I just said it's helpful to have a clue what you are talking about....otherwise it simply becomes a question and answer session where the questioner throws out a list of ill-conceived, patronising or ridiculous questions and everyone else then has to correct these notions before being able to provide a sensible and educational answer.

That's *not* a debate...

[DrFilth]

this is true but funny

when rangers were playing at the council stadium some european game i went out the back of my house
next door took one look at me and said you better keep away from the ground


pointed to my t shirt


had a pogues celtic shirt on :)


it is not something you think about in this country

[sammmo]

is'nt it funny how one minute some people are Irish or scotish or english then the next there from the UK.. I'm English and proud to be..And i have the same right to comment on things in Northern ireland as the welsh or scotish tax payers have.. trouble with barmaid and trigger is they don't know who butters there bread..

[Bobbisox]

and I am being patronizing jth?

"Ah....so you can see my posts.........I was starting to wonder"

sorry but I shall continue in my own style to ask a question, should you want to contribute to it,. that's fine

[Ankou]

these are the powers that be:

http://www.paradescom...ntly-asked-questions/

and these be the powers:

http://www.paradescom...re/press-releases/96/

[Bobbisox]

sammo, exactly, NI is part of Britain

[Gromit]

Simply banning something will not make the problem go away. As an outsider, the marches seem incredibly silly, but then most traditions are. The rioting is more likely to be the result of the warm weather - I blame global warming.

[Bobbisox]

thanks for adding some humour here Gromit ;-)

[jackthehat]

You can be sure that I shall take up the permission you have granted me to post on your threads.....and I hope that we shall both find the exercise to be mutually rewarding.

[Ankou]

gromit, if you are referring to the annual gloucs cheese rolling and wake fesitval i take offence at that.

the agcrawf really has meaning, and defines us culturally.

[Bobbisox]

mmmm, nice words jth

[sammmo]

grommit, I blame the thick perants of these kids for letting them do it..I noticed that one of the kids throwing bricks was wearing a black balaclava, I expect he borrowed it off his thick dad..