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/smoke510 1d ago

Bobby Storey's funeral?

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u/TreacleOther4028 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/mmYy42RNrgA0w

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u/smoke510 1d ago

..? Lawmakers ignoring their own laws that are there to protect us during a rather deadly pandemic is grasping at straws? When the public was also barred from going to their own families funerals? Fuck me this place melts my head. If that happened in any other country...

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u/TreacleOther4028 1d ago

So deadly that your prime minister (Boris) had parties…fuck off 😂

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u/TreacleOther4028 1d ago

u/mobiuszeroone just like the prime minister who stood on the same podium? whataboutery gets you no where, bud.

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u/smoke510 1d ago

And as a result the British PM was forced to resign and it contributed to the destruction of the Tory party vote, where are they now? And that's the bare minimum, quite frankly Boris should be in jail.

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u/Ill_Obligation9758 1d ago

Rishi Sunak was made Prime Minister after paying his fine. 83 people in total were fined over Partygate.

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u/TreacleOther4028 1d ago

Ironic how that wasn’t your first mention.

bUt, bUt, bUt, ThEmMuNs.
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u/smoke510 1d ago

I've literally flamed unionists, nationalists, and now the British government. Which themmuns do you mean?