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BRITISH POLICE SAY that they were investigating reports a group of Chelsea supporters chanted racist songs at a London train station after returning from Paris earlier this week.
Investigations were already under way after footage emerged showing Chelsea fans preventing a black man from boarding a Paris metro train on Tuesday and chanting:
We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it!
A member of the public has now alleged that Chelsea fans made racist chants at St Pancras station on Wednesday, after returning from watching their side’s 1-1 draw with Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
“The racist chanting was reported by a member of the public who was disgusted by the behaviour of the men who had travelled on the 6.40pm service from Paris Gard du Nord,” said Superintendent Gill Murray from British Transport Police in a statement.
The men shouted as they walked through the station having alighted from the train a short time earlier.If you travelled on the train from Paris or were at the station and have information which can assist our investigation, I would urge you to get in touch as a matter of urgency.
Banned
Chelsea have banned five people from the club’s Stamford Bridge ground after an investigation into the incident, which drew widespread condemnation.
Speaking after Chelsea’s 1-1 draw with Burnley in the Premier League yesterday, a spokesman said the club were helping police with their investigation.
“Obviously we’re aware that the British Transport Police have another investigation ongoing,” he said. “We’re in touch with them and will assist with that in any way we can.”
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New sign in Belfast Airport. Please put your watch back to the 16th Century
Grunt, grunt, taigs out, grunt grunt said one candidate and ugh, ugh, fenians out, ugh, ugh, said the other.
@David Byrne: which one is bitter or which one is twisted.
@David Byrne: Edwin Poots says NO the loudest therefore he is our leader.
Edwin Poots, the man who thinks the earth is 6000 years old.
@Justin Gillespie: Honest question. Do you think it’s possible that, prior to the IRA standing down, that there were people who were members of Sinn Fein but were not members of the IRA ?
@Tommy Roche:
Yes but I don’t think Gerry wasn’t one of yhem
@Justin Gillespie: I’m fairly confident that nobody in NI believes Gerry Adams when he says he wasn’t in the IRA.
@Justin Gillespie: hard people believe the British Army aren’t into murdering Civilians.
@Tommy Roche: I lived in NI during the 1980′s and early 1990′s, believe me when I say that Gerry was in the IRA. Is there an application form with his name on it? Probably not. Did he ever shoot anyone? Probably not, but nothing happened in Belfast during that time without his say so.
@Christybhoy67: That is not hard to believe at all Christy. Its been the story of armies from the beginning of time as are the denials and cover ups that go with such atrocities.
@Tommy Roche: for god sake dont ask him a question like that, you’ll only force him to think.
@Angela McCarthy: No thinking at all needed to answer that one Angela, easy peasy.
@Justin Gillespie: we’re still waiting for enda to end the scandal of people on trollies lol
@Justin Gillespie: sorry but WTF has your comment got to do with Poots becoming the new leader of the DUP? Just because some people chose to believe things or not is quite different from a leader of a supposedly democratic organisation and leader of a devolved government, dismissing evolution, holding anti gay views, questioning the Big Bang and disrespecting women’s rights to control their own bodies.
@Justin Gillespie: i was born and reared in the north of ireland and never knew who was in the ira but i was often stopped searched by my own neighbors who were in the uda/udr etc,your on the journal every day singing the praises of loyalists in your comments and you don’t really know what your talking about i don’t know wtf is between your ears if you can’t see what was happening in northern ireland for the last hundred years;
@frank_1916: Never praised loyalists Frank, what I have no time for is fundamentalist extremists on either side. Both are a cancer to the ordinary people of NI.
For your info I lived in Belfast during the 80′s and early 90′s and have many friends as well as in laws living there.
@Justin Gillespie: Which has sweet FA to do with Edwin Poots being the new leader of the DUP.
@Seán Ó Briain: Staying on topic wouldn’t be a defining characteristic of journal.ie tbh Seán.
@Justin Gillespie: was he??
@Tommy Roche: yes
@Justin Gillespie: ask the brits
@frank griffin: You’ll have to put a bit more flesh on those posts there Frank, way too enigmatic for this hour of a Fri night.
@John Hetherton: The DUP picked Poots knowing well what he believes in which is their right. You might not agree with his views, I might not either, but he is well within his rights to hold them.
How he fares with the electorate will be interesting to see.
@frank_1916: Mmm. The fact that you mis-spell neighbour like a Yank gives you away as a Yank or an illiterate
@Justin Gillespie: He is well within his rights to hold his views for sure, but it is frightening to think that someone with those views could receive that much support from the unionist community. I and many others have no problem whatsoever with unionism but I have a huge issue with the DUP and their archaic beliefs. Both the DUP and Sinn Fein are in some respects two sides of the same coin when it comes to extremism but I think that Sinn Fein’s progressive beliefs on social issues such as gay rights and abortion could ultimately tip the scale in a border poll.
@David Kelly: lolz, why would someone vote in favour of joining a country that has worse health care, mental health care, housing etc than where they already are?
Pooty mcPootface
@John kane: the T is silent
I hope they both lose
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are really positive forces in negativity.
@Twitruser2021: Right enough, they should follow the example of journal.ie comments section which is a constant flow of positivity.
@Twitruser2021: No No No I said NO. Ah Please change the record, okay Never Never Never and NO
Dinosaur wars
@theseadoc: Poots doesn’t believe in the dinosaurs.
@Alan Dunne: So, the dinosaurs will have the element of surprise. ;)
Another nail in the coffin for hardline unionism up there.
We should name a street in Dublin or a train station (like all the other freedom fighters) after him when reunification happens for his services to Irish sovereignty.
I presume they will all vote NOOOO !
Dinosaurs voting for the guy who thinks dinosaurs were never real…you couldn’t make it up!
@Rochelle: I had a conversation with an evangelical Christian before. He tried to convince me that all of the fossils are there because of the great flood from Noah’s ark… Not gona lie, found it hard to keep a straight face!
@Eoin: I was told that God planted the fossiles to keep us all thinking and confused. They are a gas bunch
@Eoin: because you’re so much better than him….
@Valthebear: Better at living in reality anyway!
Havent you noticed the trouble in the North calm down since Arlene went quiet? No need for this group at all, things are better off with out them…
Or maybe the riots are being reported on any more???
They just voted to go back to 1982. Well done. (maybe that is actually the future for them)
So he took advantage of science to remove his cancer but denies scientific facts regarding the theory of evolution.
@Joey: When leveling insults, it’s best not to conflate “facts” and “theory”.
You’ll thank us later.
@LaoisWeather: A ‘theory’ in science means something entirely different than its general usage.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: A theory can often be a stepping stone away from “knowledge” but can also be at times a million miles away, again you’ll thank us later.
For the party that thought Arlene Foster was too soft and cuddly, this is the leader they deserve
@Seàn Mc: ‘Ol Snarly !
Great result. He’s so far out of touch all hell do is send young unionists to alliance or uup. Dup are dinosaurs and we know what happened to them.
We gonna party like its 1699 just went to number 1 in the DUP charts after this result….
I’d imagine Poots is not the only DUP member into Reformation
@brefanlfc: As the Reformation has been a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church since the 16th century, I imagine most DUP members would be into it.
@Earth Traveller: i imagine that was his joke
A rare contest in that no one wins
The political wing of the old testament, there is no hope and any forward thinking in the North now.
That name sounds straight out of a Charles Dickens novel.
@Liz O’Neill: Or Harry Potter book
Comments here are sad…. Who can come up with the best way to $[ag off Unionists!!! Great way to make a new Ireland a place of welcome for them!!! These people aren’t going anywhere so, much as we may dislike their politics we have to deal with them no matter what shape a future 6 Counties will be. They’re isolated now and were shafted by Borris so we need to be open to them, not antagonistic and find where we can work with them.
@Jerriko17: indeed. When you read the vast majority of comments you realise how little intent people here have in reaching out to unionists to create the United Ireland so many say they aspire to..
@Valthebear: doesnt really make a difference to me if he unionist or not, its his views that are horrible and outdated:
That if someone has slept with someone from Africa, the shouldnt give blood “I think that people who engage in high-risk sexual behaviour in general should be excluded from giving blood. And so someone who has sex with somebody in Africa or sex with prostitutes, I am very reluctant about those people being able to give blood.”
Several attempts to prevent equality for LGBTQ community
Equating homosexuality with peadophilia
Saying that the rate of corona was 6 times as prevalent in the Republican community
Creationistism
Stand up guy isnt it?
@Colm O’ Shea: *isn’t he?
@Colm O’ Shea: cool story. You’re a top progressive right on guy. Poots isn’t. Nothing whatsoever to do with the point.
@Jerriko17: what’s sad is you can’t recognise they just elected a man that in 2021 thinks evolution is not real, the Big Bang didn’t happen, the earth is circa 4000 years old, LGBT people are immoral and should undergo conversion therapy. Need any more reasons to dislike and abhor the selection as leader of a political party?
@Jerriko17: People like Poots pay no heed to what we say. Moderate unionists share our views about these dinosaurs. It is better than we are authentic, not kowtow to these extremists.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype: wow. What a revelation.
@Valthebear: Totally agree. I was born in Northern Ireland. Live in Dublin. Love both NI and the South for different reasons. Consider NI my home, home and feel really uncomfortable with the way people in the South either denegrate or lay claim to Northern Ireland in such an ignorant way with no attempt to understand different, complex experiences. It feels like reverse colonialism. The new Zimbabwe?
@Patrick McConville: hope not Patrick. I’m from Dublin originally but live in Co Antrim now – a nice coastal town which is moderate unionist but first and foremost is just a great place to live. Anyway, there is an Airbnb with spectacular views on a cliff nearby – up on a cliff where there’s also a public pathway. It had been booked by a group of people from Dublin last weekend and my wife and I passed on Saturday afternoon. They were sat outside the building and well on, and talking loudly about illegal occupations etc.
And I just thought: why on earth would you want to go somewhere and then start spouting off? The locals here are mostly lovely folk and it’s a nice community-felt bad that they had to hear the hogwash they did. Most people just want to live lives and there’s no ill will
@Patrick McConville: Well said Patrick. The most honest comment on this thread. People down here queuing up here for quick likes to validate their virtue signalling, but contributing nothing as to how we can live on a shared island.
@sean finn: unbelievable and very embarrassing to say the least.!
@Valthebear: it has everything to do with the point, don’t care a single bit that he’s a unionist but care very much someone with such antiquated social views is been promoted to a prominent position.
If he was a republican with the same views, I would have the same opinion.
The DUP is in CONCLAVE to elect a new leader.
@Ursus Garth Major: look there is white smoke from the shankill pallet tower
The DUP doubling down on hard line unionist rhetoric, over past progress, present day circumstances and fiscal realities.
Though as an observer of history in the making, it will be interesting to see if the DUP support base, are equally willing to crash their businesses, incomes and childrens future into the ground, in a gamble that the current and future UK government’s, will be both willing and capable of artificially supporting it’s economy, as Northern Ireland spirals down the plughole into the depths of sectarianism once again.
It is frankly soul destroying, to see the peace and prosperity that was gained against the odds on both sides of the border for an entire generation, so easily and pointlessly let slip away..
Back 600 years…..
That Poots him in the lead so
Work it lads, work it. Who’s the most rad!?!
Popcorn time
Is he a pellet or palette burner !!
@Karl Phillips: he’s had a spell doing both.
Implosion immanent
Ear we go…
The improbably-named Mr Poots will be a convincing negotiator and will make friends and influence people, no doubt!
King of the fossils
@S J king: Jurassic Park…his favourite film.
Just hope hes not as pro British and anti Irish as the last bigot who held the office. O wait it’s the DUP there all bigots.
The DUP is in CONCLAVE to elect a new leader
Good. The world, Northern Ireland need to see the real DUP, not the one who pretends to do the right thing but then trys to destroy everything from the inside out. The more they return to Conservative unionism and fundamentalist Christians the better.
This is what FF has as a leader, groveler to a person who hates everything South of the Border
Congratulations Mr. Poots.
It’s great to see a liberal, inclusive, scientifically-minded leader of a progressive, forward-thinking party.
Unfortunately, neither Poots, not the DUP fit any of these descriptions.
Nice to see the DUP moving forward!!!
My God what a joyless miserable group the. DUP are .
God help Northern Ireland. Back to the dark ages.
Hoots mon, there’s a Poots loose about this hoose !
Is he transgender?
Never going to be good who won.
Congratulations
If he doesn’t believe in evolution does he also not believe in devolution…?
He looks like a awkward flute.
His pal Noddy will be delighted
I know it’s niave but I’m truly shocked and concerned.
The man who runs the political wing of the Old Testament. Great.
One dud to another
Edwin..Edwin on the wall
Who is the thickest of them all?
A Taig says yes an Ulster’s says no.
Dinasours me Arse and away we
@Donal O’Carroll: go?
With ears like that he could be royalty
Why.
Who’s he?
Looks like the DUP pooted.
Ed(WINNIE) da (POO)ts
Why congratulate this Bigot?
Did he recognise Martin or South of the border yet?
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