Royal Irish Homecoming Belfast

Thhe Homecoming parade for the Royal Irish Regiment in Belfast

[@trainsandbusesirelandandbeyond]

I'm from the Catholic side of Northern Ireland but I absolutely love these men. They've came from North and South of the border, Protestant and Catholic and nor do they care about every soldier's religious faith. This is how you welcome home your countrys fighting men, a great big cheer from the crowd.

[@Craigloves1987]

Well said

[@baddow1654]

you are just not catholic.

[@richardpotts7902]

I served in the Royal Irish Regiment we had guys from the short strand. shankill Ballybeen. lower ormeau tigers bay. shantallow Dublin. limerick . Basically all over this country serving together . Best guys you'll ever meet and I'm still in contact with most of these lads F.A.B

[@maggisteele4342]

❤well said ❤❤❤

[@sidpheasant7585]

Many cities in the UK saw kind-of similar scenes for homecomings from Iraq and Afghanistan (with thousands turning out to line the streets). But this for me is unprecedented even by those standards. It's a fine body of troops, and boy are they appreciated! No wonder some can't help breaking into a smile. I remember something similar with the deafening cheers in the City of London that greeted the (First) Gulf War Victory Parade - soldiers could not help themselves but beam in delight at the reception! The politics behind these wars may be opaque and crooked and complex, but what these troops do is not ... it boils down to doing the best they can (to stay alive and make a difference) in unfomfortable or at times near-impossible circumstances. People have a sense of that, I'm happy to say, so here we are.

[@wayneabel5421]

Pride of britian 🇬🇧 keep soldiering lads 🇬🇧 no surrender

[@phillipasalisbury7570]

Welcome home Irish soldiers love from Australia

[@bigmartin]

@Poseidons Trident Irish ☘️

[@wendyedwards7472]

100% British Soldiers! Full respect 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@d.g.m.2899]

Welcome home God bless and thank you from the U.S.A.

[@Mr93616]

Brave Irish men woman fought together in so many conflicts from both sides. We had many in the Royal Ulster Rifles . Dunkirk, D day, Kora, to name but a few Truly some of the best people in the world.

[@lorraineharper4470]

So proud of are irish lads simply the best

[@ianhutchison5600]

God and Ulster,The Brave.Hutchie

[@alanwilson4860]

I remember it well. Bless them all.

[@joelmontgomery1129]

The People of Ulster thank you

[@KR-us9pj]

Top class.

[@jacobkeppler1984]

Welcome back home guys

[@alexbrown-ks1hq]

god bless you all

[@strolchrebel4916]

Wow

[@nokaoitarot]

Having strong Irish roots in my ancestry, to include Viking, this Yank shouts: LONG LIVE IRELAND 🇮🇪

[@brandonmckay1912]

🇬🇧

[@michaelmcist]

This is probably the only regiment of the British army that can march through Belfast with thousands cheering waving the Union flag, and march through Dublin and New York on St Patricks day with thousands waving the Irish Tricolour. The pipes and drums of this regiment are one of the best in the world. They would be the best Ambassadors for the British army anywhere in the world.

[@joebyrne3159]

@@Maxwell3773., not in New York City on St Patrick's Day, no Union Jack's on that day!

[@joebyrne3159]

@Mark Gable, get a history lesson,, the Union Jack has the! Cross of St. Patrick in it! Furthermore in 1900 the Queen Victoria was in Dublin, the people mostly Dubs where waving Union Jack's, hence the nickname for a Dublin person "Jack Queen"! Ireland was British before 1921, the British arriving in Ireland in 1300,s hope you learnt something!

[@joebyrne3159]

@Mark Gable, OK, sorry Mark!

[@williammorrow8751]

@@joebyrne3159 Union flag , not Jack !!

[@joebyrne3159]

@@williammorrow8751, it can be called either!

[@romeo9017]

Cooks to the rear...

[@ianmackinnon1971]

I have watched a lot of these homecoming parades right across UK and the northern Irish public are the best by far. Most of the UK towns should be ashamed of themselves especially towns in my country of birth Scotland

[@simonjohnston8138]

Served as a royal irish guy in iraq i was marching in this parade,i can honestly say my best mate in the army was a scots man whos no longer with us,you should go to edinburagh

[@dennisbrill5336]

Where's the beer. Long live lreland. 👍💞🍺

[@oldseadog3386]

Remember the Somme

[@user-lj2ko4ci6r]

Irish???????/