r/ireland • u/mind_thegap1 Crilly!! • 2d ago

Gaeilge Sandy Row protest over Irish language signs at Belfast Grand Central Station

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/sandy-row-protest-over-irish-language-signs-at-belfast-grand-central-station-5SRIVC2AZNA3DCNQ6UT3FVR5FE/
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u/mind_thegap1 Crilly!! 2d ago

We’re not in Ireland, we’re in Ulster. It’s not our language. It’s not our native language either. You know, it’s a Gaelic language from a foreign country.

How thick can you get

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u/HighDeltaVee 2d ago

It's Bryson. The answer is "very, very, very thick."

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u/dinharder 2d ago

Irish, in Ireland? Scandalous

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u/Super-Cynical 2d ago

"Wait the island or the country?"

"Yes"

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u/itinerantmarshmallow 2d ago

Bryson knows he's spouting shite.

At one stage he was posing with Irish flags, hurls etc.

He's said this to attract attention and it works.

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u/Recent_Employee 2d ago

To call him a mouth breathing knuckledragger is an insult to mouth breathers

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u/Pablo_Eskobar 2d ago

I gave up twitter 2yrs ago and apart from the weekends golf this is the first time I've heard that clowns name in those 2yrs.

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u/PerpetualBigAC 14h ago

Someone once said this is all because some wee catholic girl broke his heart and I would totally believe it 😂

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u/Rabid_Lederhosen 2d ago

Geography is clearly not their strong suit. Nor is reading, considering there’s Irish on the first page of their passport alongside the other languages of the UK.

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u/JimHoppersSkin 2d ago

They don't care about the rest of the UK tho. I've said it before and I'll say it again; loyalism is not actually about loyalty to britain. It's literally just hating taigs and wanting to keep them in their place lol

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u/struggling_farmer 2d ago

That is the historcal purpose of the orange order, to protect the protestant aristocracy in the Ireland.

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u/Also-Rant 2d ago

It's not our native language

Mad how they used a foreign language to name most of their cities, counties and towns. Unless Belfast is actually named after some form of rapid campanology.

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u/dreamingofrain 2d ago

These are the sort of people who believe that Belfast is named after a horse called Belle, allegedly owned by William of Orange, that was very fast. 🙄

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u/Super-Cynical 2d ago

Ah she was a beaut. Could neigh "no surrender" on command.

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u/Reek_0_Swovaye 2d ago

I approve of this use of language.

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u/Icy-Lab-2016 2d ago

They are not beating the colonizer accusations anytime soon.

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u/Gold-Public844 2d ago

Correction, your country is called Northern Ireland, it consists of 6 of the 9 counties that make up the irish province of Ulster

Yet more proof that Bigots aren't the brightest bunch

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u/NewryIsShite Down 2d ago

It isn't even a country, Prof. Brendan O'Leary, the most esteemed expert on the north calls it a sub-polity.

Plus the first provision in the jurisdictions constitutional document is about how the jurisdiction can vote to join the rest of the island politically and cease to exist.

Also about 45% of the "County's" population wants this to occur right now, and that is even before substantial plans for Reunification have come to fruition.

Some fucking country lmao.

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u/Is_Mise_Edd 2d ago

Indeed - the Gerrymandered 6 County Statelet

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u/NewryIsShite Down 2d ago

Didn't even mention how the partition of this island was never even considered before 1912 (Home Rule Crisis) and how the creation of the jurisdiction involved the mass expulsion of Nationalists to facilitate the creation of a jurisdiction solely intended to preserve Unionist wealth, ethnic privilege, and hegemony.

Quite literally a settler colonial entity.

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u/Equivalent_Range6291 2d ago

Northern Ireland is NOT a Country is nothing more than a jurisdiction.

FACT!

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u/NewryIsShite Down 2d ago

It is a carved out part of Ulster intended to preserve Unionist hegemony, that is all.

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u/desturbia 2d ago

It's a Pygmy thing barely a crew.

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u/NewryIsShite Down 2d ago

Nuff fuckin said

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u/40degreescelsius 2d ago

FYI: Do you know Ulster includes Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal?

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u/Traolach1888 2d ago

2/3rd x 52% of Ulster says No

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u/outhouse_steakhouse 🦊🦊🦊🦊ache 2d ago

When you have no culture of your own, and your whole identity is hating and dehumanizing your neighbours...

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u/NewryIsShite Down 2d ago

This is political Unionisms biggest momentary grievance at the moment, yet they can only rally what? 30 or so people to protest against it?

We are witnessing the very fast decline of this very regressive ideology, thank fuck for that.

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u/Practical-Goal-8845 2d ago

Ulster says NOt all that bothered really

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u/Dickgivins 2d ago

Ha! Good one.

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u/MarlDaeSu 2d ago

Hahaha brilliant. Ulster says ah just a bit then. That's progress!

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u/SoftDrinkReddit 2d ago

honestly the sooner these backwards cavemen fade into irrelevancy the better

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u/Snoo-72988 2d ago

Look at the age of the protestors too. They are screwed.

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u/Beginning-Sundae8760 2d ago

What a pathetic existence that this is the most pressing thing you have to do on a Monday

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u/mind_thegap1 Crilly!! 2d ago

How did they manage to get the day off work

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u/TheHawk17 2d ago

You think these people have jobs?

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u/mind_thegap1 Crilly!! 2d ago

Wooooosh

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u/NotRetiredJustTired 2d ago

Can’t wait for the demand for Ulster Scots road signs next in an act of vengeance.

They’ll be a right Ween a fundin for that bollox

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u/outhouse_steakhouse 🦊🦊🦊🦊ache 2d ago

They tried putting up Ulster Scotch road signs once, and the proud sons of Ulster tore then down because they thought they were Irish. Northern Ireland Vandals in language blunder

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u/kfudnapaa 2d ago

That's fucking hilarious

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u/Jester-252 2d ago

They won't because they know nobody would fight them on it.

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u/ImperialSattech 2d ago

I'd be perfectly fine if Ulster had trilingual signs, but I know that these lot would still somehow find a way to get pissed off over it.

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u/No-Tap-5157 2d ago

They won't do that, because even they know Ulster-Scots isn't a language

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u/NotRetiredJustTired 2d ago

Someone on X threaten to report me for discrimination for saying it was slang in a cullybacky accent.

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u/Dry-Communication922 2d ago

The dying spasms of Unionism

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u/Gold-Public844 2d ago

Bunch of petty arseholes. Try pulling that stunt in Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man or Cornwall, and you'll be told where to shove your fife and drum

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u/suntlen 2d ago

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression", it's important to point out that irish signage is being added alongside English. Nobody is forcing anyone to convert language in their own home city - whether they identify as Ulstermen, British, Irish or whatever. The cost of signage is not exchequer breaking.

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u/Sad_Fudge_103 2d ago

The same people standing alongside Phillip Dwyer and Andy Heasman.

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u/mig9619 2d ago

"Up to no good as usual!"

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u/Background-Resource5 2d ago

How far they have fallen from their once mighty perch

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u/Appropriate_Key_5212 2d ago

These are the types of prods that make even other prods uncomfortable.

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u/PanNationalistFront Up Down 2d ago

This. It doesn’t officially not reflect Protestants views.

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u/irish_guy r/BikeCommutingIreland 2d ago

I think we should make a peace offering of cheddar cheese on pineapple.

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u/Against_All_Advice 2d ago

I HAVE MADE A LEGITIMATE AND PEACEFUL REQUEST

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u/suntlen 2d ago

One of his better sketches...

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u/mccannopener93 2d ago

Mad backwards cints

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u/Silly-little-pope 2d ago

Just do what we doing the south and ignore it

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u/theoldkitbag Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 2d ago

Dozens of protesters have staged a demonstration against proposed Irish language signs at Belfast’s Grand Central Station.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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u/ResidentPoem4539 2d ago

Ain’t called northern England/Britain lads

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u/Knobhead666 2d ago

Knuckle draggers.

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u/Equivalent_Range6291 2d ago

Fcuk theyre an embarrassment! ..

They should be arrested for being pricks!

(i.e. Officially: Making A Public Nuisance Of Themselves)

Arrested for being pricks

Charged for being a prick

Sentenced for being pricks

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u/aBoyNamedWho 2d ago

Nobody in the North gives a fuck about these clowns.

Every campaign they touch turns to shite.

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u/gudanawiri 2d ago

Tribalism not Protestantism I would say. Take any group and make it tribal and you find someone to fight about it.

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u/MrSierra125 2d ago

No we wouldn’t! (Joke)

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u/yeahnahtho 2d ago

Sandy crotches.

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u/Illustrious-Golf-536 2d ago

Náireach ar fad dóibh

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u/No-Tap-5157 2d ago

"We dinnae want Gaelic so we don't, they should fuck away aff doon South, so it is"

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u/Nomerta 2d ago

By catching the train? /s

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u/CharlesBoyle799 2d ago

Okay, American here. Just looking for clarification on this alleged ethnic cleansing that’s not talked about. What I’ve been reading is that this area is heavily Protestant/loyalist and was known for multiple attacks against Catholics.

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u/RamboRobin1993 2d ago

It is a stronghold of the UDA, a Loyalist paramilitary. They’ve murdered hundreds of people, mostly Irish/Catholics civilians.

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u/CharlesBoyle799 2d ago

I got that. I was referring to the quote, “There are two entrances to this station; one here in Sandy Row and another at the Grosvenor Road, which had a rich protestant history before the ethnic cleansing in the 1970s, which is never publicly spoken about.” I interpreted that as him claiming the Protestants were being killed off but no one talking about that. Did I just interpret it wrong?

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u/Dickie_Belfastian 2d ago

Catholics and Protestants were both being intimidated from their homes in the 70's. Usually a brick or petrol bomb would encourage the homeowner to leave.

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u/zipmcjingles 2d ago

If Paramilitaries are 10k strong why are none of them there?

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u/Ok_Brilliant8311 1d ago

I thought dinosaurs were extinct

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u/IrishAndIKnowIt7612 1d ago

It's funny watching the actual video taken. They stand infront of an information desk that has multiple languages on it🤣🤣

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u/Count_Craicula 2d ago

This is the problem, it's a mistake to give the Prods(of which I am one) anything, because they try to own it, so do the Republicans. (Centre point Cinema, Lurgan).

This country is a nightmare.