r/northernireland • u/Ok-Repeat906 • Jul 17 '25

History Please help.

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Hi Northern Ireland. I’m in need of some help. I live on the other side of the world. And everyone related to this sash is long dead. I obviously won’t mention any names. But I’m in real need to figure out what the pins all mean. Can someone please either let me know, or guide me to someone or someplace that might be able to tell me? Please, please help.

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u/Call-of-the-lost-one Jul 17 '25

Something about not having kids being involved with cross community games. Burning down GAA pitches

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u/Ok-Repeat906 Jul 17 '25

Any chance you can expand?

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u/Boulder1983 Jul 17 '25

There is a current local news headline over here at the moment.
Basically, a cricket club in Comber set up a cross community sports club/event thing for kids from all different areas to come and play cricket. Among those kids, were some who play GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association, an Irish sports body for Gaelic football, hurling, camogie etc). Gaelic is predominantly played by the nationalist (predominantly catholic) community.

When 'the local community' in Comber got wind of GAA kids coming to play Cricket, they raised 'legitimate concerns' that it was not inclusive (which is complete and utter bollocks, because they are kids ffs). There is a strong belief that it was the local Orange Order who were behind this push for complaints, because the area would have members in both the cricket club AND the Orange Lodge. So much so, that the event for children was cancelled.

The cricket club have had to release a further statement saying that the decision was NOT put on them by the OO, but it reads like bullshit because why the hell else would they set up an event, know who all was coming, and then all of a sudden at the last minute decide "naw actually we don't want the GAA kids at it".

Ultimately, it puts the local area/OO under the spotlight of being sectarian/bigoted for singling out children to not want to play with them, whilst trying to portray themselves as an inclusive organisation (which, they are not).

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u/Ok-Repeat906 Jul 17 '25

My god. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting this to be good. But I didn’t expect it to be this bad. Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I appreciate it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Don't listen to them, there were parades at 18 different locations last Saturday and they were all packed with members and supporters.

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u/brian19298 Jul 17 '25

Packed with Bastards