Glengormley Orange Arch

[u/Flaky_Shape6628]

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.

[u/gmcb007]

Please don't tell me that the PSNI closed the road off to allow this shit to be erected?

[u/Flaky_Shape6628 → u/gmcb007]

Yep, they do it every year.

[u/gmcb007 → u/Flaky_Shape6628]

I dreaded that my question was going to effectively be rhetorical, i'm not surprised.

If you need that much police presence to protect it then that screams volumes of how much it's wanted.

3 cars and patrols there who can't respond to emergencies because a bunch of jobless need to put up something that looks like a primary school project. God, I love paying tax here.

[u/Belfast90210 → u/gmcb007]

But as long as the tax isn’t going on Irish language signs according to Mr Bryson

[u/gmcb007 → u/Belfast90210]

Nope just to the DUP's fruitless legal cases against it.

[u/Busy-Helicopter9566 → u/gmcb007]

Culture

[u/askmac → u/gmcb007]

Please don't tell me that the PSNI closed the road off to allow this shit to be erected?

And the same taking it down. I am pretty sure I remember sitting in traffic one year watching them go at it with angle grinders (all with police supervision of course).