@@at: I don’t think you’re ready for a United Ireland if your first response to simple question is leave the island and kiss rings. I hope someone helps you gather up your toys.

@Clifford Brennan: oh Clifford I am more that ready for it. You obviously don’t know who posted the question, do you ? This chap is going around on this site spreading hatred and bile on all things Irish

Re read my post again like a good lad especially the part where it says that unionists traditions should be respected provided they respect other traditions

If they are not prepared to respect other traditions in equal measure then there is only but one alternative

Now, I bet you feel a fool now. In future read and digest before you comment

@@at: never gonna happen lad. The north is too filled with hate and ignorance.

@@at: Here’s the thing, I haven’t seen any hatred or bile. I’ve seen you scattering your lego when your ( hopefully) naive magnanimity is questioned. You either don’t realise what uniting the country will involve, or you don’t care as long as it gets united. Both positions are dangerous.

@Rebecca De Stanleigh: don’t worry it will happen. Hate can only take you so far

@Clifford Brennan: Clifford, just because YOU have not seen it, don’t not mean it is not posted here. The whole world does not hinge on what you see and don’t see. You only have to look through yesterday’s article on the UK GA to find plenty of hatred from this chap

It is you that is coming across very childish but adopting the approach ‘I did not see it therefore it could not have happened’

Grow up …

@@at: best comment ive read for sometime. Not a fan of the orange lads but for a united ireland to work we need to be inclusive to all whom we share the island with. Reassure them their traditions are safe and their culture will be respected. New anthem, flag, holidays etc. You catch more bees with honey..

@@at: Is this hatred/ bile you reference their not wanting a united Ireland? You’ll find many in life who don’t share your opinions. It’s best if you don’t open discussions with ‘get off my island and kiss rings’. Ironically, its one of your own comments that has been removed by mods. Why was that?

@Clifford Brennan: Once again you have let yourself down Clifford. You are now speculating on what the poster said even though a few min ago you have clearly stated that you did not see any of this.

Let me enlighten you because it is obvious that you don’t have a clue what the aforementioned poster said or did not say. The poster constant narrative on here is to run down and insult the nationalist community in the North at every single opportunity he gets. I called him out as a hate filled loyalist on here and this is why my comment was deleted. The posters cover has been blown and once that happens his posts loses their impact and even people like you will not be fooled by them anymore

So this is why he reported me and got comment removed

Before you speculate, educate yourself

@Clifford Brennan: open your eyes Clifford. There is a lot more activity from our Northern friends on this website lately with all this anti Irish comments. All this ‘return to violence’ nonsense if there is a UI

the reason I am pretty certain of this is that, I have deliberately left an unused website in my twitter profile and any time I pull up one of these chaps on their nonsense talk I automatically get a visit or 2 on my website from a certain part of Northern Ireland

Knowledge is power Clifford, educate before you speculate

@@at: Oh I’ve read a lot of what this poster has said previously. Like I said their crime is not being in favour of a united ireland. You translate that into they hate nationalists so therefore must be hate filled loyalists who enjoys bonfires etc, and are therefore welcome to leave/ kiss rings etc. This is why I said you mightn’t be ready for a united ireland, much less what getting united will entail. Folk being against a united ireland is a position you’ll run into a lot in the days ahead. Flying off the handle and running with your least best version of what loyalism means to you, kind of undermines your magnanimous declared vision of mutual respect. For what its worth I agree with most of what your first comment outlines. Your reaction to a basic question is the issue. It betrays you.

@Clifford Brennan: no Clifford, you cannot back track now

You clearly have not read most of what he said. Clearly not. You only have to go back to yesterday. He was pulled up by a good few other posters here on his comments

Stop back tracking

@Chin Feeyin: we’ve been respecting unionist traditions since partition. Why would anything change?

@@at: Jaysis, agreeing that mutual respect is paramount is backtracking now? Here’s what I’ve read from you: “Everyones traditions are to be respected”. Someone else: “would nationalists respect “the prods”. You: ” shut it, you bonfire loving loyalist, leave now, kiss rings” ( comment subsequently deleted) I know you’re avoiding this gaping hole in your warm inclusivity but still. You must see how it undercuts everything you’ve said. Seriously!

@Clifford Brennan: Awwww,! Come on lads,!

@@at: It doesn matter what the man said or didn’t say. We are all wise enough to know when Loyalist trolls appear on here, as we also do when supporters of particular free-state parties appear trying to wind others up.

perhaps its ordinary reasonable guys like Clifford who might not be able to spot them when they first appear. Perhaps Clifford is right though and maybe you should instead be killing them with kindness.

that aside – fair play to the Journal for publishing the above article – it was one of the best on here in quiet a while!

@Clifford Brennan: nope, nope. You stated earlier that hos only crime is not wanting an united Ireland. If you had studied the posters comments the last few days you would clearly see it runs far deeper than that with his hatred and bile towards the nationalist community

You said you have read his comments and judging what you have said, you clearly have not read his comments at all and you have been caught bluffing

That is where you big large back track came from

Now, I will not waste anymore time on someone like you who cannot admit they got it wrong when they tried to call me out on something

Come back to us when you are less gullible and have grown up a bit

@Clifford Brennan: I have explained to you about the comment been deleted

And please point out to me where I used the derogatory word ‘prod’

If you cannot point it out, I expect a full apology

@@at: Right, I’ve read through a few of the articles you mentioned. The extent of this bile/ hatred you mentioned is them saying they dont want a united Ireland, boris won’t allow a border poll, & welcoming the sdlp gaining a seat. At worst, they replied “curry my yoghurt” to a “tiocfaigh ar la” comment. Your accusations are suspect, and thats being generous. Your own part involves calling anyone you disagree with a loyalist/unionist/ the ring kissing thing. Again, your use of these folks as a term of slander undercuts your earlier open armed welcome to all. With regard to “the prod” part of my comment, can i delicately suggest you read the comment again? You’ve mobilised your outrage on the back of your own poor comprehension. Lastly, was the mod right to delete your comment?

@Rebecca De Stanleigh: A sweeping statement that radiates your own ignorance and thinly veiled hatred in itself. It would be like me saying: Irish citizens who have Norman surnames are all just craven West-Brits with wildly misplaced delusions of grandeur.

@Chief Buck Cat: Ouch

@Chin Feeyin:

Well the Nationalists n the North wouldn’t be running the country.

@@at: you can only give yourself one thumb up.

@Dom Layzell: —–And do you think that we can neutralise the poison?

@Dom Layzell: guess who picks up the tab!!

@Stuart Wootten #FBPE: We will have to pay a little more in taxes to carry out the heavy work for our brothers and sisters?

@Dom Layzell: It’s not a case of the the UK gov or anyone else wanting to keep it. Northern Ireland is part of the UK. If and until a majority of the population decide to leave the UK and want to join Ireland in some form of a united country, then Northern Ireland will remain part of the UK, whether the UK gov want it or not.

At the minute, the only people pushing for a border poll are Sinn Féin. Based on their percentage of Thursday’s vote, they represents less than 23% of the population of Northern Ireland. A border poll is a long way off, a united Irish state farther away again.

Sinn Féin’s campaign efforts include flooding social media, the Journal included. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the nonsense that masquerades as comments on here.

@Feardorcha Ó Maolomhnaigh: like your own comments

@Pat Ryan: Thanks Pat. I think your comment is an excellent example of what I was referring to. You have no considered opinion of your own, so you substitute glib nonsense for discussion. Well done.

@Feardorcha Ó Maolomhnaigh: Thanks Feardorcha, But as an Irishman I aspire, dream & hope for a 32 County Ireland, where we are thought to speak Irish in School, sing Amhran Na bhFiann, & look up to Dev in school history etc! Aspirations surely dont have costs? Its not a big ask.

@Stuart Wootten #FBPE: “guess who picks up the tab!!” Stuart Wooton picks up the tab. Thank you for raising the issue and volunteering. You are a gentleman.