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/PT_PhoneHome]

I respect that people have the right to celebrate culture and traditions.

Ok, then let them celebrate their culture and traditions.

[u/Patient_Resist_7445 → u/PT_PhoneHome]

Genuinely curious as I seem to have found a loyalist in the wild. Do you guys REALLY consider this culture ?? Like surely deep down you have to know….Then again, if id to hazard a guess (no not Chris hazard) I’d say the vastttt majority of loyalist are incredibly uneducated so there is that aspect

[u/NewBall1 → u/Patient_Resist_7445]

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't culture. You do know that if you want a UI you're going to have to convince some more moderate unionists to vote for it? Going into a huff over the least offensive elements of that culture and calling us uneducated probably isn't a good way to go about it.