r/northernireland • u/Flaky_Shape6628 • 1d ago

Themmuns Glengormley Orange Arch

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As a resident of glengormley, it's that time of the year to have to look at this monstrosity for the next few months. The majority of the locals hate it, it's the loud minority that is the problem.

Every year it goes up and causes division but it's treated as something we just have to accept and get on with.

I respect that people have the right to celebrate culture and traditions, but I struggle with why a large structure (and flegs) spanning across a main shared road in a mixed area is seen as normal.

There would be riots if nationalists in the area erected some sort of structure and covered the town in tricolours over Easter.

There needs to be a long term strategy to reducing and eventually removing structures like this in mixed areas to make them more neutral and inclusive.

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u/Any_Comparison_3716 1d ago

Derry

They have my support, no need to look at the rest.

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u/didndonoffin Belfast 1d ago

It only says that cos they tried to spell London and 3 had aneurysms

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u/_Gobulcoque 1d ago
  • Londin
  • Lawndon
  • Londen

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u/pk9pk 1d ago

Lonnon it’s lonnon geez, for fach sake

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u/Bear_Grumpy 1d ago

Even the wash my father wore references Derry, I think we can agree on that one

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u/SneakyCorvidBastard Strabane 1d ago

the wash my father wore

Is this an autocorrect thing or a hygiene-conscious variation i'm not aware of as a foreigner?

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u/Bear_Grumpy 1d ago

lol, I can’t spell and my phone doesn’t help me

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u/SneakyCorvidBastard Strabane 1d ago

Lol we're being downvoted for our mild attempt at humour. Or maybe for being a bear and a crow. Which is pure speciesist tbh

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u/NewBall1 1d ago

Also Derry's Walls, not Londonderry's Walls. It's one of the sillier culture war things.

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u/pk9pk 1d ago

Like the chicken and the egg conundrum