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    Union flags and Irish flags are flown side by side at anti immigrant protest in Belfast city centre


    Union flags and Irish flags are flown side by side at anti immigrant protest in Belfast city centre

    https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/national/union-flags-and-irish-flags-are-flown-side-by-side-at-anti-immigrant-protest-in-belfast-city-centre-4728240

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    1. BigJockK on

      Something I never thought I would see in my life, Unionists and Republicans in Belfast of all places on the same side of a protest.

    2. WhatTheMack on

      While it is a sight to behold that these goblins have managed to overcome hating each other in order to hate someone else for 5 minutes, it detracts from the fact that the majority of people haven’t paid a blind bit of attention as to whether someone has identified as Irish or British for the past 25 years

    3. denyer-no1-fan on

      They must be people from the Dublin riots last year. It’s the only group that hate migrants and want to wave the Irish flag.

    4. ConsistentOcelot2851 on

      The United Kingdom and Ireland stand in solidarity against globalism. Brings a tear to my eye. WE will WIN.

    5. Hurri-Kane93 on

      Loyalist: Never thought I’d die standing side by side with a Nationalist

      Nationalist: What about side by side with a friend?

      Loyalist: Aye, I can do that

    6. ash_ninetyone on

      Of all the things to break down barriers and united unionists and republicans, it’s hating other people instead of each other 😅

    7. sennalvera on

      >”Such a marriage of temporary convenience has many long term dangers and is unsustainable and will eventually turn inwards on itself because other than this one cause- which is exercising working class communities across the UK and Republic of Ireland so is more rooted in that rather than any convergence of a Irishness and Britishness.”

      Peak Newsletter. Barely-veiled horror at the idea unionists and nationalists might make common cause about anything.

    8. PrometheusIsFree on

      I guess your enemy’s enemy is your friend. In these folk’s minds at least.

    10. g0ldingboy on

      No matter what your background, it’s only human to be welcoming and understanding. Just following comments by a cretin and a criminal make no sense and go across any good persons values

    11. DannyDuberstein92 on

      Those aren’t local Northern Irish nationalists. Those are far right conspiracy theory gimps from the Republic who gave travelled up. Imagine people who call themselves Irish patriots cosying up to ‘no surrender’ Unionists. Absolutely brain dead morons.

    12. anchorage_unpainted on

      I saw one or two Irish flags raised alongside a pro-Palestine march in Leeds. I couldn’t work out the connection but didn’t think much of it beyond, “oh that’s nice”.

    13. Unhappy-Jaguar5495 on

      Finally being *united* instead of letting politicians and media divide you all !!

    14. amadan_an_iarthair on

      The guys with the trídhathach aren’t from Belfast, apparently. They’re part of the anti-immigration, pro-Tommy Robinson melters from North Dublin. 

    17. YooGeOh on

      This is what I’ve been saying for ages

      Except it was with Israel. The far right decided to stop their Nazi salutes and antisemitic conspiracy nonsense to instead fly Israel flags, just because they hate Muslims more than they hate Jewish people

      Union flag and Irish flag side by side comes as no surprise.