Royal Irish Homecoming Ballymena 2011

[@lorraineharper4470]

My brother was in the Royal Irish so proud of him

[@cypher3874]

Fantastic regiment, full of bravery and a colourful history. It's a pity about the derogatory comments and remarks on here spoiling what is a great video.

[@mikeman584]

Nice, well turned out and a brilliant reception from the good folks of Ballymena. Respect to all.

[@cypher3874]

Hereos, the lot of them. My father was attached to the Royal Irish Rangers and said they were the best regiment he ever served with.

[@camrenwick]

Respect for all soldiers. They are willing to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Everyone just wants peace and freedom. Who are you going to call on when that is threatened?

[@fivebravo3276]

The boys look great! Safe and sound, God bless.

[@irishpartrioto]

in about 7 months ill be going for training in the royal Irish xxxx IM looking forward to it

[@vitosanto3874]

Good Luck,Stay safe .Come Home.

[@beano3868]

Well done the whole of the country was tapping our feet.the most loyal of the loyal

[@overopensights]

There is no difference whatever between Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish or English or British Gurkha regiments, . They are paid the same, train the same and fight the same. Except the Irish lads sing much better or perhaps on a parr with the Welsh: Bless em all!

[@ZeeGreatOne]

Nice one lads hope you enjoyed your time in Shropshire.

[@panzermatt]

be great to see them marching in dublin on st patricks day!

[@desertcelt1]

Would be Great to see the Lads in Dublin,( all sides loves the brigade when in Ballymena) My father God rest him was from Ballymena, and I know the boys would be so welcome here in the capital where I work, as long as all sides of bigotry stay at home. If Dublin was Good Enough for her Majesty to visit the 1916 Muriel's, the lest the true Irish will do, is welcome her beloved Irish Regiment

[@panzermatt]

i agree 100% it would be great to see these boys in dublin!

[@cypher3874]

@@Eire-hj1ct haha someone is looking for attention again!

[@DAB2640]

My maternal grandfather, Jack Young, was born in Ballymena on April 24, 1894

[@parkermiller9298]

Make em proud boys the Irish regiment is the best

[@michaellynch2149]

Do you know what. They are nearly as good as the London Irish rifles. And that is very high praise indeed.

[@user-nq6lw6qm4l]

Bunch of balloon heads arguing on here. They are called Royal Irish because the lads are Irish. Just as lads from Scotland are Scottish, Wales are Welsh and England are English. They are all British subjects hence the Royal title for each particular Regiment. All of us should be proud to be Irish. AND proud to be British...unless your a chuckie that is!

[@sashagill7491]

Fuck off there is nothing Irish about them . All Ulster Scots trying to call Ireland theirs

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

sasha gill shut it you Provo piece of crap

[@biffocraig1]

you know your history - you are obviously a scholar

[@biffocraig1]

and you know where the irish nation came from lol - you are embarrassing lol

[@joprocter4573]

Best of the best

[@franzelaiszidor4633]

Ayiti bezwen anpilla me konsa pou we si sekirite a ta konpe pou peyi ka reprann ni

[@dougie-ru4yp]

Respect 🇬🇧

[@robnewman6101]

Bravo.

[@TinyArts]

They have only been to the pub and now they are on there way home :p

[@margaretbrrtt4924]

They are all fine men.

[@fingertalkin]

Ah you made my day lol

[@WCOG053]

They aren't marching with rifles because it's a bureaucratic pain in the ass to issue weapons to the entire battalion just to march down the road. Note that the color guard (In Number 1 Dress) carry L85s with bayonets fixed (thereby exercising the traditional "freedom of the town"). If you look at any of the other homecoming parade videos (42 Command, 2 Parachute Regiment, 4 Rifles) you'll see that none of those units are fully armed either. There are Englishmen and Scots in the Royal Irish too

[@Pm-xv2ln]

ok genial on devrais voire ca en france aussi

[@niall2910]

@teachill ; I think you'll find it's called A FLAG !

[@blacky1987]

Flegg!

[@Harmony088]

Houhou. Splendid. Respect

[@SirbgWanker]

What is meant by' freedom of the town' ?

[@axmeddaahirjeexow1239]

I think I will have

[@andrewcalder6335]

troops of Ulster

[@kirkman667]

Faugh a Ballagh.

[@norubusan7]

Up the Irish yehaa

[@joelmontgomery1129]

Every 1 a Hero

[@JoshRatts]

Northern Ireland is still a part of the isle of Ireland... It is the northern part of Ireland in fact (Mind blown, I know), and so while Northern Ireland may remain a part of the United Kingdom, it doesn't make its inhabitants any less Irish than those Irishmen and women residing in the South. Renaming the regiment would require more effort than it would be worth, and "the Royal Northern Irish Regiment" is a bit of a mouthful and doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

[@FannyShmellar]

No, it won’t be renamed because a huge proportion of the Irish regiments come from the Republic of Ireland. 40% in fact

[@operationcreation5583]

Saying Royal northen Irish regiments excludes People from the republic which make up a lot Of their numbers, so Irish makes more sense

[@AmethystDew]

@@FannyShmellar and?????????????

[@WCOG053]

Historically, armed forces were not welcome in towns; 18th century England and Ireland had no police and military units were used to suppress rioting, usually by killing unruly locals. Soldiers were also generally very uncouth, low characters. For a regiment, Freedom of a town or city granted them the right to parade through town with drums, colors, bayonets fixed etc. generally making a nuisance of themselves as a sign of trust and appreciation from the town. This also aided with recruitment.

[@TOKYOJOE3943]

I am an American that has Scot, English and Irish. What is the complaint here? I do not get this rivalry.

[@jimcrawford5039]

Don’t ask, it’s too deep! Some people don’t like our boys being in the British Army. At least they are learning respect and how to live, not layabouts that don’t want to work & live on welfare. Best wishes to you and your brave boys.

[@rockape560]

great vid thanks for shareing

[@MrEwan376]

Might be good if we saw britsh and Irish troops togethee in

[@noodlyappendage6729]

These troops are British and Irish.

[@Oldsoho]

Left out thebit where Adams and cronies set off a load of black balloons to show their support for Al Qaeda

[@wor53lg50]

The south will be riddled with them types in ten years all protesting, demanding their own rules and own way of life, wait thats happening now..🤔... If only we was all united....

[@JoshRatts]

When talking about the prospect of a united Ireland it's completely fine to consider the Northern Irish, Irish, but when discussing this particular subject, it isn't?

[@0Dunedain0]

...kids...

[@tomvarley1355]

Firstly your missing the point. There is no "South". The "South" you speak of is called IRELAND. To quote your queens in Dublin, "Ireland and Northern Ireland". Thats the view of every country on the planet. Please apply your Queen's logic. Therefore the term Irish for any official purpose is reserved for Ireland. We're dealing with military here, so mouthfuls are better than political insulting and incorrect titles.

[@briangoulden6687]

The island of Ireland is geographically part of The British Isles. The title of the Regiment signifies that it adhers to The Crown - even those Irish lads from the 26 counties in the Regiment take the same Oath to The Crown. It doesn't cause any problems.

[@simonecoria6785]

Come on you irish people march and fight to get your island back .I t dont belong to the english its irish soil get your island back .this is what england also done to the malvinas island.and one day argentina will fight again and get their island.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@shirleywhelan4683]

Wanker! Falklands will always be british ,jumped up Argentinian banana republic

[@youtubeaccount5738]

Rule Britannia! May Ireland be part of the glorious UK!

[@jamesthejoker7415]

For God, Ireland, and for the King ☘️🇬🇧

[@Aseandonjuan]

soon will have another Royal MUslim Syrian Regiment..cheers...Britania

[@operationcreation5583]

Well, there are Nepalese Gurkhas so why not Arabs too

[@nycnyc9921]

They going to let the Arabs join? 🤔

[@mrbubetube]

arab irishmen have already joined. so have african irishmen.

[@hurchgoer]

.

[@user-ib9vn3ju9g]

Hi

[@JamesHillick]

Oh big American lol. Don't nuke us now lol

[@fingertalkin]

Lmao BMW ??

[@jaankull9455]

7

[@darkness6986]

And a good job they done --- border lord

[@marksweetman5554]

the i.r.a all most had it till thay gave up . join the army its a good job to be in .

[@joelmontgomery1129]

Everyone a hero

[@JamesHillick]

But still we can join the british military and learn more stuff lol

[@phantomsuccour]

Also, Ireland wanted independence, they were conquered hundreds of years ago. If you support this kind of violence to undo hundreds of years of expansion we'd have bloodshed all over Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australasia. Do you really think the current political boundaries of countries today are the same they had in the 1600's? Do you think that people that want to reverse that should use terrorism to further their point or use democracy?

[@jimcrawford5039]

Get a life!

[@Zooboo1]

On the other side of the pond here....the fighting 69th in NYC...if you were an Irishman you had to join..had many gt gt uncles gt uncles and uncles that were members. In fact I am named after the greatest patriot of Ireland Robert Emmet

[@nopasaranexetercityfc4666]

No you aint you're called Zooboo Blotsky ! Zoo for short.

[@Zooboo1]

@@nopasaranexetercityfc4666 haha

[@SirbgWanker]

The UK indeed has a long history with much conflict in the mix. Why is it that Ireland and Scotland never can get their infrastructure together and accomplish as much as the English? Too much fighting amongst themselves? with massive immigration and immigrant birthrates the demographics and political tilt will change the English forever.

[@jebuschrist3958]

Scotland is doing just fine thanks. We don't have conflict on the scale of Ireland. One of the main reasons of Scotlands low population is centuries of migrations due to better jobs elsewhere. Also much of Scotland is mountainous and hilly and developing on it ain't easy. Parts of Edinburgh are built on hills and the castle on a volcano. Also the English did there best for centuries to keep us in the dirt. Don't blame Scotland, blame the English.

[@gingerbaker4390]

@@jebuschrist3958 It was the Scots who attacked the English. The English were not and have never been fighters. All they were interested in was the harvest, and farmers getting their produce to market to trade and earn a living. When the first invaders, Vikings, Romans, Norman's etc they didn't fight them, they traded with them instead, after all invaders had to eat. In the end everyone settled down and lived together. They became British and overtime the Christian church set up the first parliament where all the British tribes could peacefully resolve issues and pledge allegiance to one monarch. The other little tribal kingdoms of the British Isles over time became Dukedoms. The now British took this concept around the globe and brought tradditional warring communities together through maritime trade.

[@joebyrne3159]

@@gingerbaker4390, aye I suppose they played cricket and had sandwiches to eat! Ye didn't rob, rape and take over half the world either, British Empire, keep taking those pills your on!

[@irishpartrioto]

ima prody and i support the ira aswell but having said that im going into the british army no matter what the ira do northern ireland wont break off from britian and norn ireland and southern ireland wont unite again

[@noodlyappendage6729]

You support the IRA?

[@operationcreation5583]

You support the ira, yet you enlist in their main opponent and stop their goal?

[@phantomsuccour]

If you think violence is the way, you aren't different from Al Qaeda.

[@condaly]

The English coming home.

[@tomvarley1355]

Why is the regiment still called the Royal Irish. Ireland is recognised internationally as meaning the 26 counties when used in an officials sense. To quote Queen Elizabeth in Dublin "Ireland and Northern Ireland". So time to follow her theory and rename this the Royal Northern Irish Regiment

[@WCOG053]

"Irish" the nationality (or, indeed, "Irish" from the island of Ireland) rather than "Irish" to indicate the state of origin. Look, I don't have a dog in your fun semantics fight but this is obvious to everyone and YOU are being intentionally obtuse.

[@thomasdeevy6541]

WCOG053 m

[@gordonsmith8899]

Both the US and Canada are "American." Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are both "Irish."

[@mrbubetube]

@@gordonsmith8899 I don't see how you can call them irish when they've surrendered and submitted not only to British rule, but to international rule like the IMF. In order to receive IMF bailout money, Ireland had to agree to allow immigration from arab and african nations.

[@gordonsmith8899]

@@mrbubetube Both the Republic of Ireland and the Province of Northern Ireland are Irish in the (geographical) sense. Both states are located on the island of Ireland.

[@mrbubetube]

@@gordonsmith8899 ya but the Brits and the IMF owns their fucking ASS!

[@user-dd8nh9mh6b]

clowns