Mate, I tried not to use an AI grammar or spell checker😉 As Sun Tzu said, "He who occupies the field first and awaits the enemy is at ease; he who comes later to the scene and rushes into the fight is weary." You can quote Sun Tzu all you like, but dressing a one-sided rant up with a famous quote doesn’t automatically make it more believable. What you have managed to do here is  write an essay about Drumcree without once seriously acknowledging why the Garvaghy Road became an issue in the first place. People who lived on the Garvaghy Road remember what happened, but you and others have completely dismissed them, please save us the inevitable, yes but " but Sinn Féin" ...................... They remember being hemmed into their own community while a march they didn’t want was forced through. They remember the violence surrounding Drumcree, the riots, intimidation, and years of tension. That history doesn’t disappear because you’ve decided 2026 should be remembered as the year the Orange Order became the victim. You also might want to spare us the lecture about unionism’s newfound devotion to the “rule of law”. Plenty of us are old enough to remember when decisions unionism and loyalism didn’t like were met with protests, roadblocks and absolute mayhem in the streets. We remember Drumcree in the 90s. We remember the violence when Orange marches were restricted. We remember what happened when loyalism decided the law was unacceptable. So this sudden conversion to absolute rule of law shite to every legal decision is a bit hard to swallow, especially as its newly found and given that we haven't seen it before, makes it a bit harder to believeAs for your claim that unionism has shown nothing but “restraint, responsibility and reasonableness”, are you for real? have you actually been online this past week? Some of the language directed at Garvaghy residents, nationalists and the First Minister has been poisonous. People have been called mobs, Nazis, supremacists and worse. There have been calls for loyalists to mobilise in Portadown. Yet somehow none of that makes it into your view on whats occured . Funny that. And this idea that thousands of nationalists turned up because Sinn Féin ordered them to is probably the biggest misunderstanding in your whole post.Maybe, just maybe, people are just feckin fed up, exhausted with the tirade of online gaslighting from people like your good self, trying to sanitise this whole thing and doing nothing but putting yourself at the forefront for clicks and applause from your merry men of online bigots. Fed up being told that equality means accepting something simply because the Orange Order calls it tradition. Fed up being lectured about respect by people who seem to think respect only travels in one direction. Fed up hearing that saying “no” to a parade through your own community amounts to hatred of Protestants.I'm a nationalist. I don't hate Protestants. I don't hate unionists. I don't hate the Orange tradition.But neither do I believe an Orange sash gives somebody a greater right to a road than the people who actually live on it.That's the bit you still don't seem to understand.And if your argument for the Union is now basically “look what these pesky nationalists will do to you in a united Ireland”, perhaps you should ask yourself why equality feels so threatening. Nobody is asking unionists to disappear. Nobody is asking Protestants to abandon their identity. Nobody is stopping the Orange Order existing. A community said they didn't want this parade coming through their area. Twenty-eight years later, you're still struggling with the fact that they are entitled to have a voice.Maybe the mask that slipped wasn't nationalism's at all, it was people like you and your community who were seriously unprepared for what equality actually looked like.  Another very valid point here Moore, what were unionist politicians doing for the last 30 years? Your grievance really should be with them, they were aware that they would have to finally share this place, thats not because of demographics, thats because nationalism would inevitably be able to challenge decisions and finally be able to stand up and say, NO, so what preparation did they make in your community?, preparing for an inevitable change, they have done absolutely nothing, not sure if that's arrogance or simply just plain bad leadership, but your argument should be with them because they have ultimately failed you.

Jamie Bryson’s security plea for Drumcree isn't new; it's a rerun. In 2024, he beat a red-light ticket by claiming he was under active threat and being chased. He’s used the "imminent danger" card for years—next, he’ll claim he needs protection from his own shadow!

He also said: "He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight." A blind man on a galloping horse would have seen the seismic own goal in trying to force sectarian marches through Catholic areas in 2026 was a lose-lose scenario.

Oh, the irony is even richer now. You run an account called @VintageUVF, explicitly dedicated to archiving and displaying the Ulster Volunteer Force, yet you’ve appointed yourself the moral guardian of how other people mention Northern Ireland’s dead. I mentioned the Quinn children, Rosemary Nelson and Frankie O’Reilly because we were discussing Drumcree and the violence surrounding that period. That’s historical context, not point-scoring. You, meanwhile, devote an entire account to imagery and history associated with an organisation responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people during the Troubles. So perhaps @VintageUVF isn’t quite the account from which to deliver sanctimonious posts about exploiting NI’s dead. Remembering victims in their historical context isn’t disrespectful. Pretending that history can be discussed while inconvenient victims are edited out of it is.

up the rebels

People in the North are our neighbours, and fellow citizens - not an “obsession”. An inclusive Ireland embraces everyone on this island, nationalist, unionist or neither. Mary Kenny’s little-Irelander sneering mistakes a shrunken sense of nationhood for sophistication. 🙄

RT @Short_Strand: 'It is paramount that the residents be robustly protected from any form of forced processions that disregard their consen…

The UUP leader has also found the AI poster toolbox.

The UUP, DUP & TUV are abusing their NI Executive positions & Stormont for pure theatre to punch down on others. Which is bringing zero actual results or improvements to NI. Nothing will come from these theatrics. They are just vain & pathetic attempts to win some votes. 1/2

NOLBERTO SOLANO on his first proper drinking session with Newcastle teammates Steve Howey and Duncan Ferguson: “They called themselves ‘The Heavyweights’. They said, ‘Hey, little Peruvian, want to come for a pint?’ Of course, why not? I’m sociable. “In Peru, the tradition is that you get a bottle of beer and share it with everyone in little glasses. Here, we went to the Pitcher and Piano. We were only there for about 45 minutes and it was bang, bang, bang with the pints. “We went to the next bar, then the next. At one point they bought some whisky and I was saying, ‘No, no, no, no, no mixing. Only beer.’ “I was mullered. We came out of the bar, I didn’t know where I was, it was dark and my watch said four o’clock. I rang my wife to apologise and said, ‘I’m so sorry, I didn’t realise it was so late.’ “She said, ‘What are you talking about?’ “I thought it was four in the morning. It was four in the afternoon.” Quite the introduction to English football.

Fintan O’Toole’s journey from radical to ivory-tower moraliser is complete. Reducing rights versus supremacy to “competitive victimhood” blurs the distinction his analysis should explain. No wonder he’s a Bono fan - lofty sermons, far from the ground. Bono without the music.

Nationalists, Protestants, MPs, musicians, directors, actors, artists, writers… the list of people backing the Garvaghy Road residents just keeps growing. At what point does the OO, Bryson, Lockhart etc look around the room and think, shit we really got this wrong?🤔

RT @MarkHennessy: Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, Leo Varadkar says irishtimes.com/politics/2026…

Solidarity always with the Garvaghy Road residents and community. Solidarity against bigotry and sectarianism. Solidarity for peace and social justice 🤝👏👏👏🕊️

Did you bring up the abuse Emma Sheerin received in the past week included AI videos comparing her to a certain man from Austria?

But calling an elected MLA @SheerinOfficial a banshee in the Assembly isn't misogy according to Carla, despite a Banshee being a commonly used derogatory term that is specifically female

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Couldn’t agree more Jon. Do you remember you described Sinn Féin as a cancer on society?

Come on, you don’t actually believe he is being threatened? Convenient when he has slept walk unionists into an absolute clusterfuck. Carla & Jamie are trying to spin the narrative now. People see it. You can’t call people nazi’s, a rabble & cry when you get heat over it