Our common foes, are nazis, big buisness, fat cat politicians and bosses. Rich bastards who would seek to take us to war, to distract from the fact that they don't want to pay proper wages for an honest day's work. George Bains earns over £200000 a year, a fireman earns less than £17000, you decide who is more worthy of a pay rise, lazy fat cat politicians and buisness executives or ordinary decent workers who risk their life, limb and sanity without prejudice or discrimination to save the lives of others.

No Surrender to the IRA!

This is terrible news, the fenian IRA supporters from Short Strand and in fact from the whole of Ulster have been stirring-up trouble for years. Look at the IRA bombings and the fact that the IRA killed more of their own Catholics than anyone else. What about 300 RUC officers killed in the troubles, nearly all by the IRA. How can protestants forgive these IRA supporting catholics from Short Strand??? If this was a protestant enclave in the middle of a Catholic area this would not be happening, they would be attacking the area and driving people out of their homes, just as has happened before.

The IRA must be chuckling with glee to see this example of how low the unionists have gone. Why don't the IRA do something for US? They promised to decomission their weapons and nothing came of this except a few rusty rifles.

The IRA is a Marxist organisation that needs to be nipped in the bud once and for all. We need the co-operation of all sections of society in Ulster to achieve that. However, before we can start reconciliation we must obliterate the fenian scum IRA from the face of the earth with the co-operation of the catholics.

If we can't do that then nothing of worth will ever come of it. There's no use having a peace that won't last.

It's time to wipe the IRA out, THEN we can start building bridges.

You're like a stuck record, barking the same tune over and over. Your queen-loving loyalist comments sound like the whine of a lost dog. You're just like the rest of them, still fighting, causing trouble, fueling sectarianism, equating any catholic with the IRA and endlessly going on about marxism as if every fish n chip shop and supermarket held ranks of Irish Che Guevaras. Reconcilliation? not bloody likely when the PSNI have got attitudes like this.

PSNI - what a depressing little rant you posted. Despite the fact that the article reported on a gesture originating from within your own community (assuming that you actually are a NI prod and not just a random stirrer of sectarian hatred), you have seen fit to reduce this gesture to nothing.

"No Surrender to the IRA!" you begin, so in case anybody thought that securing peace was about open dialogue, you kick off with a battle cry - nice start.

"This is terrible news, the fenian IRA supporters from Short Strand and in fact from the whole of Ulster have been stirring-up trouble for years." Someone makes a gesture towards reconciliation, and you qualify it as terrible news? How can you even pretend that you are interested in building bridges, all you want are more sectarian enclaves where you and your like-minded bigots can maintain their rule of fear and paranoia. Have you ever been to the Short Strand? Have you ever met any of the people from there? On what basis can you characterise the entire community of the Short Strand as IRA supporters? I can safely assume that from within your community there will be supporters of the crypto-fascist Jonny Adair, but that wouldn't lead me to characterise a whole community as supporting him. Open your mind and move forward - yes, there has been a lot of injury & hurt on BOTH sides, but if we focus on the past then we will never lift our eyes to the future. Look around you, wake up to the reality that catholics and prods live together in NI and get on with making it a decent life. It's your responsibility. Peace.

The IRA are a terrorist organisation and as such should not be given the time of day. Once you start using violence to try and secure political objectives then you lose any credibility you might have had were you a peacefull antagonist.

mmm. (terrorists) (violence).mmmmmmmmmmm...

why not have this discussion on ireland indymedia?