@columeastwood Are you for real? Mickey D went into meltdown on the (wrong) basis that he had been described as President of the Republic of Ireland! Did you tell him to wise up? No you didn't! Maybe we should all start talking about Eire or the Free State, seeing as how it doesn't matter!
@SMacB@WatchPopulistIr@NewtonEmerson Would the sectarian statelet you refer to be Eire, where the minority population has been almost eradicated through violence, intimidation and ostracisation?
@adamcsmyth Adam, compare the BBC bulletin tonight with UTV. You led with negativity about bonfires and then tried to make out that Belfast was a flop, even though it had been split up into local parades. UTV totally different and positive focus. Why does the BBC hate our culture?
@NickKen99156276@mmmikemoran@BBCNewsNI They built a bonfire on waste ground in the middle of their own area. It is barely even visible from the New Lodge. People just going out of their way to be offended as usual.
@sinnfeinireland@DeclanKearneySF Putting tyres on a bonfire might be environmentally unsound, but it doesn't make you a sectarian bigot or extremist, as they have been labelled by @DeclanKearneySF This sort of nasty name calling is a clear example of the @sinnfeinireland mask slipping.
@Sage_Opinion Would be interesting to know the rationale for Hargey's involvement. Her Department owns the grassed area up behind the bonfire, but not the area that the fire is built on.
@EarlofLeuven@AllisonMorris1 All culture costs. The Notting Hill Carnival costs nearly £200k to clean up and £6million to police. Far more crime there than on the 11th Night.