SYND 12 4 73 BRITISH TROOPS COME UNDER FIRE IN BELFAST

(12 Apr 1973) British troops come under fire from IRA in Falls Road area of Belfast
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[@MrB1923]

'Belfast hasn't seen violence like this ........for several weeks'. FFS!!!

[@jacintadixon7302]

Haha noway i nearly choked on me tea reading dat lol fuckin gas but the blow was low ye have to admit

[@jasoncarswell7458]

In Northern Ireland there's literally a thing called the "marching season", which is the 5 warmest months of the year when everybody (both sides) engage in multiple provocative political marches in heavily mixed cities. Both sides refuse to stop doing it, so the government has to carefully schedule and allocate security for these marches so they don't coincide with provocative holidays or periods of unusual unrest. It's really absolutely staggering. Somebody from Antrim once told me that the Northern Irish national sport was street fighting.

[@stephensmith4480]

@@jasoncarswell7458As far as I know, the republicans only really have two parades a year, one is in August to commemorate the 1981 hunger strike and one for the Easter Rising. The loyalists march at various times of the year, but especially in July when they wind up the Catholics, especially in places like north Belfast on the boundary with Ardoyne. Everyone just gets pissed, then the fireworks begin. The run up to it can be pretty lively too.

[@jasoncarswell7458]

@@stephensmith4480 fair enough, sir. thanks for the info.

[@stephensmith4480]

@@jasoncarswell7458 No problem my friend. It is a bit mad in the marching season like!!

[@bascet1]

Imagine having your tea and an RPG gets fired through your living room window?? It was a civil war in everything but name. Dark,dark times..

[@belfastsoul8863]

Imagine having foreign soldiers driving heavily armoured vehicles around small streets at speed with children playing.

[@turnip5359]

@@belfastsoul8863 fuck off mate, innocent people died regardless of which side they were on

[@belfastsoul8863]

@@turnip5359 That's awful nice of you Joe .

[@cplcabs]

Belfast Soul not really foreign were they. They were there to stop IRA scum killing innocent people and give the people of N. Ireland a chance at living in peace.

[@belfastsoul8863]

@@cplcabs Of course they were foreign they were british in Ireland. And the people were'nt living in peace the people were being murdered by squatters and foreign soldiers, there will only be peace in Ireland when all remanents of everything british is removed, and thanks to all you british unionists voting for brexit that time won't be too long! TAL.

[@louishowlieson9771]

Why is it I am an 18 year old english lad that has finished secondary school and through the education i’ve had over the past 14 years, the biggest gap in my knowledge of history is on our own soil and in ireland? I can tell you all about european and asian history, but nothing on our own. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me tbh

[@glee4740]

Specially when half of what you have been taught is a lie :)

[@OffGridInvestor]

Don't worry. Hollywood has made Americans your age shit bricks and cry every day about the holocaust and NONE KNOW A THING about there EVEN BEING a conflict in nth Ireland. Hell I saw an American in his 30s reference something from IRA times and say "I had no idea the UK was so voilent!".

[@seanmacuaiteir437]

Because you'd be told some fairly awful truths

[@pdiddy96]

There’s a lot of investigations into what happened during the troubles, I highly doubt the British government would want it all becoming more publicised than it needed to be. It was a dirty war, not for kiddies to learn about

[@aroo9967]

Oh I wonder why, you should ask questions.

[@tonyoreilly100]

i think who every fired the RPG got put on desk duties the next day.

[@snipper1ie]

He should have had a good kick up the arse

[@thegod3157]

@J Bab Yes , because according to Unionists it is completely impossible for British army to kill civilians.

[@jasoncarswell7458]

An unfortunate fact is that the IRA's aim was pretty awful. They had RPG-7s, M-60s and Barret .50BMG sniper rifles but they hit rarely with small arms despite their constant efforts. Their best efforts were achieved with bombs, and the larger the better. That's unfortunately a characteristic of 3rd world insurgencies. There were a few real hardcore hitters with some cleverness in the IRA/PIRA but the rest were enthusiastic novices who fucked up as often or more than they succeeded.

[@noco7243]

@J Bab Just like jihadists.

[@ffspablo8739]

@@snipper1ie he probably did get a kick up the arse lol.

[@mac1975]

Two tours. Saved a shit load of money and went to Spain for a holiday.

[@HudsonAO8TQ1]

What an awful time. I pray to God we never go back to that. Actually sighed with relief when the narrator said nobody had been hurt.

[@EnglishSaxons]

Was always like this but lbh political shenanigans 🙄

[@godstyle8799]

we are going to go back to that one day, too many world leaders greedy for money and power, mental unstable world leaders with atom bombs and death by 1 button

[@ProfileP246]

Well Republican violence is still there

[@sardinianleftist]

didn't it say one dead?

[@ntfdbrs2562]

@@sardinianleftist can’t be hurt if he’s dead

[@888ssss]

i remember reading a report about this in the 1980s. the ira got hold of an m60 machine gun. and blasted away, but the recoil made the operator shoot up into the ceiling of the house he was in.

[@CavingIn2022]

The only SAS operator to be killed in NI was killed with an M60 iirc

[@username-yc3bd]

⁠@@CavingIn2022 there were a few other SAS casualties i think, one died in the kesh ambush and another in the shootout with francis hughes the day before he was captured also there are claims that some plainclothes SAS men were killed but it’s not clear

[@stephencockett9959]

That brings it all back. The sound made by rounds being fired in a built up area bounces around the walls making it very difficult to work out the direction of fire. Keeps you on your toes though.

[@stephencockett9959]

Don't think that this will not happen on the UK mainland - because it is headed that way fast.

[@stephencockett9959]

@Tony D - thats not what I remember. She was very Patriotic, re-vamped the economy upwards and faced up against the communist enemy - both those in the soviet bloc - and those controlling our trades unions. Still - we are all Palestinians now eh Tone?

[@stephencockett9959]

@Tony D - not me hiding your response. Must be big brother.

[@bmwseries3]

Women love equal rights dont they? Or is it only when it suits them? Haha

[@CL-vz6ch]

Airsoft too realistic.

[@Alkymick1]

British Intelligence has admitted to subjecting both the Catholic & Protestant factions to Psychological Warfare from the outset of the Troubles in 1969. The Psychological Warfare Department was based in Lisburn. See the trial of Colin Wallace for reference...

[@alanoliver5378]

I'm English I was born in England, I served in Ireland in the 80s and always wondered why, some election they had meant the counties in the North wanted to stay British, could be wrong but that's it in a nut shell, imagine if on the bregsit vote, the North East of England voted to stay and the rest of the country voted to leave, so we became two different countries, with borders at teesside and Northumberland, it's rediculous, give Ireland to the Irish.

[@petertripp3153]

you should find out why ulster came into being in the first, place. Eire does not want ulster back and prods in the north do no want to become part of southern ireland. work itout

[@relentless1989]

@@petertripp3153 you do know your wee Irish army of about 900 lol marched to Ulster to help there fellow Irish men, but ordered back as they got to the boarder... so because your a little pussy... you dont speak for the whole south... i give it 10 years use will have a Muslim president... just what your great granda fought the brits for.

[@TrueFilter]

It's actually even more ridiculous. They never even had a vote and just split based on some civil servants and politicians map on a line.

[@aodhanmorris3410]

@@petertripp3153 If from the North and I'm Irish, so is almost half of people here.

[@Paddy234]

@@petertripp3153 Stop talking nonsense

[@SimDeck]

I served in Northern Ireland for 3 years in a residential battalion based in Omagh. I patrolled just about everywhere in the province. The worst place was Strabane. However the country is a beautiful place full of great people. I'm glad this sort of violence is starting to become the past. They deserve peace.

[@Hobbyblasphemist]

Strabanistan!

[@tristin1916]

Up Strabane 🇮🇪

[@liamg1706]

Couldn't of been anywhere worse than south armagh for a brit?

[@ANGLERSPARADISE91]

Thankyou for your service brother

[@ThePrimebeef]

as long as there is no united Ireland, there can be no peace.

[@DRLongSchlong671]

They can't just call it an rpg it has to be a 'Russian made rpg'

[@Irishman0855]

😂😂😂

[@GusArchievs]

Cold War propaganda in full swing.

[@mr.billthrower7392]

There's always some lady screaming

[@ryanmullett8832]

she got an rpg fired at her house so yeah lol

[@ethanmcfarland8240]

You would too if a motherfucking RPG was shot at you

[@___blaggard999___8]

Incel shitebag

[@alexcrist3177]

Pussys

[@chubeye1187]

So brexit

[@callmedave1280]

Don't walk around other people's countries like you own the place 🤷‍♂️

[@deeoneill9806]

David Trujillo 💯

[@stephenm8898]

Erm we do own it tho😂

[@deeoneill9806]

Stephen McGuire ur a good Irish man !🇮🇪

[@nelotharen8599]

I asked further up on the comments today. A big long question to everyone in Ireland. Either stick with good Friday or make a new deal. I really can't be bothered having this again with the IRA. I can't be bothered with "the border situation" holding Britain to randsome over an argument between Saxon/pictish protestans and celtic romans when I am none of them.

[@Murphy252000]

Exactly

[@michaelmcmullan2300]

Of course the local IRA supporter's are going to say the men didn't fire guns .it was always part of their victomhood mentality .not to take responsibility for anything

[@120mmsmoothbore2]

I didn't hear any gunshots in the opening shots, I didn't see any weapons near the supposed gunmen, I didn't see a grenade being thrown or exploding, I didn't see a grenade being thrown, skipping down the street and then failing to explode nor did I see an RPG being shot and hitting a house. I did, however, hear a large explosion then see a British armoured car speeding away from it and the house looking like it was hit from the inside out. Wonder if those Brits three a few grenades into the house hoping to "kill a few Taigs"

[@IKS-Exploration]

It’s crazy what happened over there

[@darbyogill8383]

Were are you from

[@subscriberswithnoVideos-yx3jf]

From the RPG attack you can clearly see the callous disregard the IRA had for their own people, but yet they claimed to be their defenders !!!!

[@thomas5975]

Mr Mark same with the UVF and UDA

[@subscriberswithnoVideos-yx3jf]

When ??????

[@subscriberswithnoVideos-yx3jf]

thisisntmyname 00 after the death of twins babies by the IRA it was Gerry Adams who said “ such are the tragedies of guerrilla warfare !!!!!!

[@thisisntmyname0017]

@@subscriberswithnoVideos-yx3jf I wonder if he had the same opinion wen the UDA where giving him free inbuilt air conditioning

[@omen828]

Yawn... The French Resistance activities meant there were innocent French people killed but no reasonable person suggests that resistance was wrong.

[@ralphraffles1394]

To think that just 25 years prior to this, the German army dealt with non uniformed combatants, by selecting random civilians by the score for execution.

[@greg_4201]

**** needs citation ****

[@johnnyfortube]

Wasnt that done in Ballymurphy Aug 1971 and Bloody Sunday Jan 1972

[@Dave-hu5hr]

@@johnnyfortube 🤡

[@johnnyfortube]

@@Dave-hu5hr Happy faces all round in our house on Aug 27th 1979

[@mashupbeatz5042]

The Brits did the exact same thing

[@jamesoneill5968]

A sniper who stays hidden from view. Those fiendish republicans will stop at nothing. Is there nothing sacred.

[@Nonviableaccount]

I bet he didn’t even announce himself over loudspeaker prior to taking each shot. The absolute audacity of some folks...

[@Dessienewshoes]

Snipers are usually i think

[@williambeck1574]

Wasting your time pal,some pricks just dont get sarcasm

[@coreytheluckykid3005]

Of course we didn't stop at nothing.

[@daveclose4935]

question did bobby sands ever win that food hamper?

[@Aaronn14]

question, does lee rigby want his head back?

[@daveclose4935]

@@Aaronn14 i dont know go ask him but it might fall on deaf ears

[@09weenic]

Well he did win the Slimmer of The Year title 1981 😂

[@ruairijoseph]

All fun and games until the Provisionals called round to see their mate Gaddafi

[@Horizon344]

The man shot dead in the alley was called O'Rawe - a PIRA terrorist. That was his mates firing RPG's & rifles & throwing grenades down the streets of their own community (many of whom were scared of them) with civilians all over the place just to try to take out a British soldier as pay-back. Some "defenders of the people" these characters were.

[@mmmm66]

Why were there british soldiers there in the first place? It's IRELAND

[@Horizon344]

@@mmmm66 If the Army wasn't there the Irish population would have been kicked out of Ulster by the Ulster Scots. That's what it was doing there in the 1st place.

[@mmmm66]

@@Horizon344 if the army wasn’t there the outer scots would have been kicked out by the totality of the Irish. They were only out there to keep ship building Belfast a happy part of the British empire.

[@Horizon344]

@@mmmm66 It was the Paddies that were running in the communal violence engulfing Ulster in '69, not the Ulster Scots.

[@liamg1706]

@@Horizon344 at least the overwhelming majority of the time republicans targeted combatants in the conflict unlike loyalists and British forces, who killed a majority of civilians. They were the real terrorists . And bare in mind the Irish were the ones with the legitimate argument and purpose. The unionists and British were trying to keep their stolen and apartheid 6 counties under discriminatory and sectarian British rule while murdering innocent people and calling the people that opposed them "terrorists".

[@andynixon2820]

This wasn't that long ago . I know there's still issues there but glad there's so much more peace for everyone . It just got out of hand from every direction .

[@SnowyNI]

Not for long though... The EU wants it to start again it seems. We may just have to oblige them. ;)

[@theblackknight8055]

Fuck the EU they only wanted Britian because we have power, they wanted to build a EU army but without us they're fucked

[@mkl6212]

yeh its all peace now unless you are english going to NI or an NI going to england

[@xeniousthe2nd432]

Nah, it got out of hand from the get go on one side and then the other side retaliated accordingly.

[@DeezN1892]

@@SnowyNI For how long are brexiteers going to blame the EU for their own shit Irish border that they agreed to?

[@williamjosephroche2764]

What does any government expect when you send troops into suburban streets blood and carnage from northern Ireland to Afghanistan

[@martinmanifold2241]

So you would just let catholics and protestants just slug it out till last man standing

[@RobertK1993]

@@martinmanifold2241 Yeah Irish Roman Catholics where winning Ulster Loyalists where being overwhelmed by the Provisional IRA and INLA.

[@RobertK1993]

@@martinmanifold2241 Good Friday Agreement was a British Ulster Unionists appeasement of IRA terrorism.

[@britard8499]

@@RobertK1993 that’s not true lmao. Catholics were being burnt from their homes in the late 60s. They definitely were not winning

[@iatsd]

@William joseph Roche Do you work hard at being a complete fvcking idiot or does it come naturally for you? You'd prefer the army to stay out of it and just let each side get on with slaughtering each other gleefully? You cretin.

[@simonyip5978]

Humber 'Pigs' and 'Ferret' armoured vehicles driving around narrow streets full of tiny terraced slum houses, is how I always think of Northern Ireland. The area is apparently around Raglan Place, I doubt that any of those houses still exist.

[@ardakolimsky7107]

@Nick Milligan Redevelopment

[@mac1975]

Don’t forget the endless fucking rain

[@infinitecanadian]

Pigs? This isn't a farm.

[@NitroNuggetTV]

@@infinitecanadian Humber Pig, its one of the of armoured vehicles used in the conflict. Strange name, I know lol

[@infinitecanadian]

@@NitroNuggetTV My grandpa had a Dinky Toy of one. I imagined it fighting in Northern Ireland.

[@phillipasalisbury7570]

I'm of Irish descent on my dad's side ( Dublin) may all of Ireland find the peace they long fore

[@luca6232]

Jay M please say you’re joking 🤦🏾‍♂️ walk down the shore road or walk in the short strand on the wrong side of the river and you’ll understand.

[@BreakerBreakerYeo]

@@luca6232 You can walk anywhere aslong as your not singing the sash or wearing a Celtic top

[@xrstufty8651]

@@BreakerBreakerYeo not really

[@adammacdomhnail2014]

@Jay M The north of Ireland safest place in the world? I would not dare walk down the Shankill Road or east Belfast Jesus christ! with my accent ill take no chances.

[@darnellbiggumsthe9th658]

@Jay M what shite are you talking “the north is one of the safest places in the world” every other week there’s either a shooting, a stabbing or a sectarian hate crime fs wise up

[@rustshoo5068]

If the army had not arrived on the streets in 1969, there would have been another Yugoslavia, another Bosnia of the 1990s, in “the Province”. All the nastiness of the pre-First World War period that resulted in Protestant Ulster’s threatening of rebellion, of an armed uprising, in response to British PM Asquith’s plans for home rule for Ireland, in 1912, as well as the mythic fantasies of a green-only Ireland on the other side, both sides full of humbug, all that nastiness had been simmering and simmering, and exploded nevertheless in 1971/72. The paramilitaries wanted a shoot-out big-time, one against the other. But the army kept the violence down to levels more associated with Prohibition-era Chicago with say six Al Capones, a terrible time, with the army not exactly friendly themselves, but what would have happened had the army not come in?

[@TheZombieman87]

Without the Army, there would have been a nasty civil war. Catholics and Protestants hate each other with force.

[@Sam74213]

Belfast it was like Baghdad.

[@tejashdasgupta1840]

I can assure you, Baghdad was much worse but we shouldn't compare suffering.

[@Buildbeautiful]

More people murdered in baghdad in one day than the 30 years of conflict in the six counties

[@haideraliibnakhlaq8823]

@@Buildbeautiful no coincidence that the same tyrant was responsible for the destruction of Baghdad

[@jimmyoconnell6167]

Bring back bad memories as serving soldier in the mid 70s and 80s

[@1347steve]

Cry me a river. I grew up on the falls road in the 70’s and saw what “serving soilders” were capable of

[@cg2617]

@@1347steve they wouldn't have came if it wasn't for for ira murdering scum

[@1347steve]

@@cg2617 you have a fine knowledge of history anyway you clown

[@cg2617]

@@1347steve I would ask you to enlighten me with your knowledge on it all but I already knew its deluded and bitter. Your problem is with the government, not the British soilders who were doing the job and definitely not with the British people of Northern Ireland. A lot of people from.both sides hated it all and wanted to live in peace together. Unfortunately the Irish people of northern ireland didn't want anything British in 'their' land even innocent British civilians.

[@1347steve]

@@cg2617 I watched my mother be raped by three British soldiers in my living room when I was 7 , my father killed himself shortly after so no my anger is and will always be with the soilders

[@JohnDoe-zd9xq]

Exactly what the state of Israel is doing to the poor Palestinians

[@RabbiHerschel]

And it's down along the Falls Road, that's where I long to be...

[@heinzthorvald4675]

Lying in the dark with a Provo company...

[@darrenlowe3445]

Juan Sebastian Cuesta Almario My old man man’s a Provo, with a beret and a gun. I haven’t seen him lately, he’s always in the run...

[@daddyshark5871]

A comrade on me left and another on me right

[@CorneliusSchwarzenstein]

... and a clip of ammunition for my little armalite.

[@james9311]

Cringe

[@joedaman8436]

One thing I will say, the British army did some terrible things, but could you imagine what it would have been like between the Catholics and Prodestants if the army wasn't there??

[@mrfrisky2997]

@shutup No the south would have persecuted and killed the people of the North or anyone who didnt follow their bigot religion. That's why Cromwell had to invade in the first place as the Protestants I'm the north were being excicuted by the Catholic South because of their religion. The IRA are basically ISIS- invading a foreign country and killing people who didnt follow their religion- thank God for the British Army. Love from Londonderry.

[@britopia1341]

Joe Reynolds It’d have been absolute mayhem. An all out civil war. The Ulster Volunteers were armed to the teeth and not long after so were the Irish Volunteers.

[@unam9931]

@@mrfrisky2997 foreign? I am not irish at all but how can you call it like that when the island wasnt british and anglo saxons are far away from being native there?😂

[@mrfrisky2997]

@@unam9931 it wasn't even Ireland kid - it was made up of dozens of tribes - non of which were from the Island of Ireland originally- the Scottish settlers came to the North and were persecuted because of their religion- nothing changes then

[@botodin6979]

@@mrfrisky2997 The invading imperialist force is being attacked by the people it oppresses. I see no reason why the Irish are at fault. Don't want to be killed by the native population? Don't invade.

[@Bruh-bp6nn]

So, I know stories like this are hard to believe on YT so take this story as you will. My dad is friends with a soldier who was stationed in NI and basically his job was to make sure that people going through the checkpoint didn’t have any guns, bombs, etc. But over time a routine gets boring and if you find nothing you start thinking that you can let your guard down because there just hasn’t been any threats. So one time when he was letting someone through he checked the car that was passing through the checkpoint but I guess he was a bit lazy and cut corners to make his job easier and so let the car through. That car had a bomb in it I think or something like that, he has beaten himself up about it ever since. So when I finally met him and shook his hand I didn’t even dare ask about it.

[@conor3361]

I know he was only following orders but fuck him and every other British soldier occupying our land!

[@spacemanclips]

@@conor3361 Unfortunately for you the majority of the inhabitants of Northern Ireland wish to be British. Your stance is similar to the British saying that the U.S.A. is 'their' land.

[@theblackknight8055]

Fuck the IRA

[@abadlynamedturtle8882]

@@spacemanclips "Majority" *90% want to leave

[@conor3361]

@@spacemanclips we'll see when we finally have a United ireland referendum, hopefully we're not as spineless as the Scottish

[@DARKNIGHTMM]

0:53 When I try to cook beans on toast. 😆

[@chloexoxo3007]

your sick in the head what the fuck is wrong with you! you obviously have not lived in Ireland you sick fuck

[@tours7325]

Chloe xoxo Someone can’t take a joke

[@AveTrainOnDaTrack]

COMMUNIST KERMIT war is funy

[@tours7325]

La Grande Armée ok

[@ES_Spotter]

@@chloexoxo3007 Lmao triggered

[@Mantin0375]

IRA got their asses whooped in this one. UVF and British Army squeezed them to the negotiating table.

[@captainphilips5469]

I love how the KZbin subtitles call the screaming and crying after the grenade music and applause.

[@ragingpagan8847]

Live in Belfast grew up during the 80s Belfast is a lot safer now now it’s England is a dangerous place times are funny that way

[@0penminds]

How is England dangerous?

[@edgery]

Absolute lie

[@metallitech]

I love those wee armored vehicles.

[@simonyip5978]

metallitech I think that they are two man Ferret scout cars. The bigger 6 x 6 vehicles are APC troop carriers nicknamed 'pigs'.

[@truebluebears76]

metallitech a wonder if there's any left would love one to scoot about in

[@simonyip5978]

@@truebluebears76 the British army used thousands of them so they are not that hard to buy from specialist dealers.

[@PieAndChips]

@@simonyip5978 the 6x6 is a Saracen, the pig was a 4x4 armoured van

[@stephensmith4480]

@@truebluebears76 You can buy a ferret in tip top condition for about twenty grand and they are road legal. There are company`s online that sell ex mil vehicles.

[@doomermurks6959]

Was searching for Zombie by the Cranberries. Brought me to this footage…

[@Sturmavk]

Starmer is doing his best to bring back these days. He may unite Protestants and Catholics in a cause of his own making. Choosing illegal immigrants over his own citizens.

[@levalpat]

use Brexit to finally give northern Ireland back to the irish

[@paulnelson6277]

Why should we, when the majority of Northern Irish want to remain in the UK? Who is using the family brain cell today?

[@nlomas]

I think you need to read a little more history about how the troubles started

[@levalpat]

@@nlomas actually I think you need to read a little history of Ireland for several hundred years;

[@keithkeegan9776]

It belongs to eire

[@nlomas]

@@levalpat I have done, lots of Irish were slaughtered by Cromwell, lots of Irish left for America, there was a potatoe issue and then it split after World War 1 to northern and republic. However it still doesnt change the fact that the majority of people that make up NI want to remain British. If you think its a simple switch then you are a bit of a moron. I don't think the Republic wants the ballache and the cost of policing the north and any subsequent trouble that would develope after it was unified anyway

[@peterdixon7734]

The entire world is heading for something like this right now.

[@dominic3980]

Where and Why?

[@dominic3980]

@Viper This is only because of the virus, the vaccines are already getting ready, soon it passes. We have to take advantage of this moment to have more empathy and awareness, if we are experiencing difficulties, imagine people in Africa, India and etc.

[@peterdixon7734]

@@dominic3980 Everywhere and because.

[@dominic3980]

@Viper Well, I don't believe in a possible war, but anything can happen, especially this year.

[@asifso5954]

Ye agree CCP VIRUS CHINA is the most dangerous country that has ever existed and will have to be confronted in the near future , people can stick their head in the sand if they want but its certainly closer than people think.

[@steviecfc2]

Thank god there’s peace there now all we need now is a United ireland 🇮🇪

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Best wishes from England, peace to all.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Joe Kelly To you the same, thank you.

[@europabelongstoeuropeanson9173]

Best wishes from Britain

[@milotgashi1454]

🇮🇪❤☘

[@user-xb3st6uy3e]

English men....go from England....good bles united Ireland.....best regards from Serbia.

[@britard8499]

God bless Kosovo

[@user-xb3st6uy3e]

@@britard8499 Kosovo is SERBIA.....

[@britard8499]

@@user-xb3st6uy3e Kosovo is independent, God bless the KLA

[@mrfrisky2997]

Whats it got to do with English men? These were British soldiers protecting British people - the soldiers were from all over the UK - including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

[@unam9931]

@@user-xb3st6uy3e haha Vlok stop fooling irish people You are the nr.1 destroyers of catholic churches in Croatia and you even killed a lot of catholic albanians in kosovo, montengro and northern albania So pls stop your lies

[@adammacdomhnail2014]

Ahhhh, just typical day in the north of Ireland back in the day, literally...... a typical day

[@alastairward2774]

It's sad to read about the ideas people had back then that it would burn out or be resolved in a few months.

[@therabman_5606]

Can we PLEASE move on ffs...

[@MRTJQUINN]

Where would you like to move on too. Obviously none of this effected you.

[@joshuablundell1790]

@@MRTJQUINN exactly, surely there will come a time when there will be a generation in Northern Ireland that never grew up in the Troubles. I was born just before the good Friday agreement and grew up in upper ardoyne. I've never known the troubles and couldn't care less about it (I understand how ignorant this sounds). It didn't affect me but I still can't get away from it. Northern Ireland just can't let go of its past and never will until there isn't a soul left living from the troubles. And even then the hatred has been passed down to kids. I for one was brought up to hate 'taigs' because they 'murdered' my granda. I wasn't allowed to play with certain kids or go to certain places for my mum's fear of what might happen to me. When there was riots at ardoyne, I was put in the upstairs wardrobe and my dad would stand at our front door with a baseball bat. But nonetheless my fiancée is a Catholic. Northern Ireland needs to move on and each 'side' needs to move on. Ffs we look like a joke to the rest of the world, wherever I go and people hear my accent, all we're known for is the troubles - what a horrible claim to fame.

[@MRTJQUINN]

@@joshuablundell1790 I think your worrying to much about what other people think of you "us" in the north. Most don't give a fiddler's about this place. When you say move on and forget about what happened here it's not just the so called troubles that spring to mind it's what happened to our people for centuries, would say the the same "move on" to people in other countries where there was carnage

[@joshuablundell1790]

@@MRTJQUINN I couldn't care less about what other people think or me or my wee country. I'm proud to be Northern Irish and wouldn't change it for the world. And yes no one in their right mind can deny the fact that Britain was a horrendous colonial power and committed atrocities, everywhere. And what's worse is that they have never issued any form of official apology. The Irish people on this island suffered like second rate citizens in their own country. But the past is the past and again I know how ignorant that sounds, but it is. Ireland doesn't want us and the English would sell us in a heart beat if they could. Unionist are living in a dream land thinking that the rest of the UK cares about us, there's no such thing as the UK, it's just England and even then, it's only London that matters. And as for the republicans, they too are equally living in a dream land thinking that a united Ireland will happen, most Irish are sick to death of us here and don't want anything to do with us. Fair enough I'd potentially support a united Ireland to stay within the EU but if I'm honest, I want Northern Ireland to be Northern Ireland. I want it to be its own country, a hovis 50/50 best of both worlds. Break free from the UK but not unite with Ireland. But still stay strong with both. Be our own wee country and get rid of unionism and republicanism. We need to fuck off this power sharing government because that only makes people choose sides and vote one party in to keep the other party out. But this is just a fantasty as well and will never happen. We're gonna run this country into the ground or another civil war because the dinosaurs from the troubles want it all to come back again.

[@MRTJQUINN]

@@joshuablundell1790 That's where we differ Joshus, when you call this place "our/my wee country" your getting up the noses of 50% of that hovis, who dont see this place of anything resembling a country, all very nice saying let the past be in the past, but you know as well as I do that the Orange order a group from the past is the reason the DUP and any other unionist party is not allowed to come to any agreement with their catholic neighbors. I think their is a possibility of moving on, if the orange order were not the real power brokers.

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

02:04 I thought of that family in the house in front of they had chance énorme. When woman cried I thought there were several killed...

[@blackhorse8427]

In the name of the Father!

[@SotiriosBouzaras]

Looks like places where "The General" was filmed.

[@philupton1816]

I lived in Belfast from 1988-1990. Saw two bombs. Constant shootings. The height of the troubles. Was so dangerous.

[@pleidiolwyfimwlad2104]

I wouldnt say the heights of the troubles tbh

[@johnnyfortube]

Your hole, the height of the troubles was 1972 to 1976

[@polskagurom12345]

72-76.

[@PaulabJohnson]

Muppets can't even hit an armoured car

@shutup Fun fact: Your terrorists were crushed utterly and surrendered. They realised none of their objectives and were defeated in the most sound way possible: People no longer supported them.

[@BlueStarJT]

The thing is , those women screaming when the rpg was fired probly knew the person or people who fired it , might well have been one of there sons or husbands.

[@joedaman8436]

My mom was in NI for 2 years, she was a telephonist (communications). She never speaks about it and I suffered a terrible childhood with her anger issues and abuse, she was really horrible to live with, if it was today she would go to prison for her actions.

[@MrWise1888]

Joe Reynolds shame to hear about your childhood. Your childhood is symbolic to the way England has treated Irish nationalist Catholics for centuries.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Meanwhile you're worried about your unhappy British childhood while Irish kids were being bombed and killed with blood on the pavement daily.

[@pdiddy96]

random

[@greg_4201]

@@MrWise1888 shut up, you uneducated ego ridden cretin... give us some genuine documented examples of what you're claiming and you'll soon realise those (usually exaggerated incidents) make up 1 in 50 of the violent incidents as the other 49 went the other way and were usually carried out first... if you're obsessed with ethnic cleansing that's ok, just admit it... and look up some basic history whil you're at it; you might discover that Ireland has raided and invaded and pillaged England a hell of a lot more than the other way round, and when the Brits did it (twice only) once was actually the Normans, our mutual conquerors, and the second time was literally during the Civil War, when Catholic Irish were quite happy to wage religious war on the rest of the Isles... stop taking Hollywood for history and try to grow the fuck up. at any rate the fact remains the IRA killed more of their own... and while there is an argument to made for independence once a country is developed enough, who can make the call when it needs to happen? vast majority of Irish, Fenian or otherwise, were still against separation long into the troubles after the first world war... and when you got all bloodthirsty again in the 60s that was in Northern Ireland... where most wanted to stay British and British security forces had an obvious duty to prevent your wanted bloodbath. like I said if you're such a big fan of ethnic cleansing, fine.... just don't project so much nonsense onto those who were charged with stopping it.

[@MrWise1888]

@@greg_4201 well thanks for outing yourself as a bigot.

[@YoChris2213]

Every body talks about Ukraine but they don't talk about this and Syria or yemen

[@CrankTheHank-_-]

I mean what do you expect when you occupy another land thats not yours...

[@tomservo5007]

so they fired an RPG out of a window ? I'd image the pressure from the back blast would injure all in that room

[@hopsta5628]

No one said it was fired out a window.

[@TomGodson95]

@@hopsta5628 did you watch the video? thats exactly what he said

[@Brandywellbhoy]

@@TomGodson95 Watch it again. He said an RPG was fired at an armoured car, missed and exploded in the front room of an occupied house.

[@WolfeTone17-98]

When the Greeks were fighting the Brit's in Crete to get them out they used the same phrases "The Troubles" and called them "Terrorists" when in fact they were the occupiers and the terrorists.

[@conorfields281]

So true The awake and aware, and the dumb people who believe the news

[@thelstan5065]

The British helped form modern Greece

[@britard8499]

Crete? The Greeks never fought the British in Crete lmao. The British fought alongside the Greeks in Crete against the Germans.

[@kengrimes1012]

It was Cyprus not Crete

[@kengrimes1012]

Don't you mean Cyprus, and if you look into it they were fighting the British for "enosis" union with Greece, if the British had pulled out there would have been civil war with the Turkish Cypriots. Which would have spoilt quite a few people's day. And as for using various phrases like troubles ,terrorists if it bothers you ,come up with some new ones only make sure they are politically correct.

[@europabelongstoeuropeanson9173]

Respect never surrender from a American with British roots

[@europabelongstoeuropeanson9173]

@Liam C your country has no culture it's about money not the people America is famous for fat dumb inbred Americas and school shootings you anti English British your not European keep your nose out

[@tristin1916]

@@europabelongstoeuropeanson9173 no one gives a shit you stupid yank fuck

[@yer-c9q]

@@europabelongstoeuropeanson9173 I had a feckin stroke readin that

[@milotgashi1454]

🇮🇪☘❤

[@livid3287]

@rat irish ⊆ celts, not all celts are irish

[@michaelheavens1433]

D Company 1 Glosters.

[@christinemolloy2723]

I noticed the rivet head lol

[@superkamiguru2466]

I have a feeling children of men was inspired by this footage.

[@grahamwatts8836]

Shows the terrorists ie PIRA meant business, sniper fire then fired an RPG at the armoured vehicles, then threw a grenade plus the Loyalist paramilitaries committed terrible acts too, my heart goes out to the folks in Ireland.

[@Herewegoagain-tw8mb]

The biggest terrorists are the British army. What are they doing on foreign land ?

[@dimaleoniv7987]

RPG in Belfast. Who shipped it there? China or even the Soviet Union itself?

[@bennythargrave]

Probably made in Russia and sent to IRA from Lybia courtesy of Gaddafi

[@schematic2545]

They were homemade , had lads building them

[@dimaleoniv7987]

@@schematic2545 by that time, the RPG-7 had been put into service by the Soviet Union only eight years ago. It's not some Faustpatrone from WWII. Where did your lads get those secret blueprints?

[@dickvonlongshaft853]

I believe the IRA got weapons as far as Libya from Gaddafi himself my best guess is they got them from him but I won't have but it passed the Soviets to do such a thing

[@alanadocherty3490]

My husband was in Belfast in the 80s with the paras he said it was mayhem all the time

[@irishboer7124]

It was with the tans about.Glad he fucked off home.

[@jameshartley6161]

Colleen Kelly By god the double standards. Sounds awfully familiar to the IRA blowing up innocent civilians for... being British!!

[@rorymcdonald9852]

Im an Ulsterman served with the PARA REGT 2 tours late 80s early 90s both sides tried to kill me off duty it came with the job. When ever any of the players heard my accent they went nuts !!! Ha Ha oh how they hated the N.Ireland accent coming from a PARA !!!!

[@undeadmens]

@@jameshartley6161 Yeah and the English commited genocide against the Irish with the famine.

[@sarahkanto1883]

@@undeadmens A mostly peaceful genocide.

[@andrewbainbridge7908]

Fight for freedom then give it to the eu lol

[@ciaranmaguidhir7858]

Blah b hate to admit it but the brits right... if Pearce and Connolly were alive today they would be disgraced that so called “nationalist” sold their country to Europe. Our own politician Michael Martin said we should think about European sovereignty and not Irish sovereignty which is an absolute disgrace. The Easter rising leaders didn’t die for Europe they died for Ireland. Sorry but I disagree with it, Ireland is small but mighty that’s why our leaders took the risk so that a tri colour can fly above Ireland’s children and a small nation can prove to the world that a small nation can be free and independent. Read the proclamation and think about what is in those words and then come back and say ur pro E.U.. the proclamation specifically says it. Sorry man can’t agree I want to see Ireland as a leader of its own destiny, not a follower of the unelected E.U. government.

[@BroadHobbyProjects]

The EU is worse than what you think the British government did. At least when the Army went in it literally was to stop one faction from killing another. The EU wants to physically and ligeally take over your country, if you try leave the so called Economic trading union they blackmail you by economical ruin? Two world wars and The Napoleonic wars were fought to stop the French and Germans taking over Europe, now they do it politically like snakes.

@@BroadHobbyProjects What hilarious nonsense.

[@BroadHobbyProjects]

@ Indulge me.

[@BroadHobbyProjects]

@ These are selective opinions of their own theoretical research. Pointing out what a Dutch international financial institution thinks is not relevant to domestic or a conclomerate situation. The EU was originally just an economic trade bloc, with slightly closer political ties. Now its a bloated burrecratic mess that is literally forcing people of every other nation how to live. The Irish voted NO to closer ties with the EU under the renamed Lisbon treaty, yet the Irish Government got told to redo the vote. Same happened in France and one other nation I cannot remember currently. Italy was it? The EU is a non democratic, socialist driven block, who are more bothered about forcing non Europeans to settle in Europe causing mass strain on our collective infrastructures than bigger problems like be it Russians stepping back into the Eastern bloc, China buying or occupying numerous locations globally which will have adverse affects on us all. The European utopia will not work, especially with current domestic issues in Western nations which is creating an identity crisis. Again, the EU either supports or doesn't want to stop. Likely the former.

[@bookeblade]

Who’s here after children of men.

[@MrTaylor498]

If that’s what these poor people had to go through to get equality,what would it take for a unified Ireland?

[@markyinbelfastxx9088]

That's ur ira guys ,rpgs fired in their streets ,grenades rolling down streets ,animals

[@greglyons2526]

But dropping far bigger bombs from 22000 feet on third world countries makes you a saint?

[@markyinbelfastxx9088]

@@greglyons2526 no mate ,and?

Ah that takes me back a bit.....Bastard IRA....

[@High_rise12]

Max Tickner did you know the British planned this?www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/british-intelligence-tried-to-get-uvf-to-shoot-up-a-school-documentary-claims-1.3800302

[@saudakar9004]

Nice example showing the IRA's care for their fellow irishmen. Throwing grenades with lot's of civilians nearby, probably to blame the brits for it afterwards.

[@Monkeypole]

And the British Army hiding behind children were so heroic

[@saudakar9004]

@@Monkeypole That‘s all you got? You make up a fake statement without any proof, against a video showing it. Supporting the IRA is pretty much like supporting the Taliban or ISIS

[@Monkeypole]

@@saudakar9004 The IRA is not comparable to either - ISIS have waged a war of terror against anyone that does not fit their religious agenda or ideology - the IRA fought to win back their independence from an invading force which literally killed their language, forced their people from their homes and committed acts of genocide. How is what I said a fake statement? I don't need to watch a video, I'm from Northern Ireland ya tit, I've seen enough of it and that's only during the 3 decades I've lived here, it was far worse before that.

[@saudakar9004]

@@Monkeypole Lmfao you perfectly described the IRA in the first statement, yeah stfu noone cares about your lies. People like you should be locked away for supporting terrorism, ticking timebomb. IRA is 1:1 ISIS, you still have no proof but only made up lies

[@Monkeypole]

@@saudakar9004 The IRA don't care about religion ya tit, not in the way ISIS etc do, it's nothing to do with Gid or religious indoctrination it's about taking back land from an occupying force. And I don't support terrorism, I don't even support the IRA ya fanny, I grew up and witnessed the Omagh bomb that killed 22 people, and grew up with British soldiers on the street, I want my country to be as far away from that these days as possible. Pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about wee lad.

[@homeboy2166]

This was such a nasty war. I’m glad we have gotten past this.

[@MacProIE]

Well

[@christinemolloy2723]

Not past it yet mate unfortunately

[@ahmeddjama7576]

Coming to England soon

[@darnellbiggumsthe9th658]

@@christinemolloy2723 you’re rights, the war never ended fs

[@johnnyfortube]

@@ahmeddjama7576 Why

[@andyreid4484]

mental times

[@johndalton6236]

Civil war me bollocks fucking English

[@yer-c9q]

@@johndalton6236 I agree. If it's on a different island, it isn't theirs

[@user-hm6nd8rk2d]

no matter what war you can always here the screams of women

[@BrutusBritish]

Colonist tasting their own medicines in their own back yard LOL

[@ii8215]

Zero British soldiers killed. Irish family home destroyed. 1 dead and 1 injured IRA men. LOL

[@TheFreshSpam]

How we tasting our own medicines when 1/3rd of your own backyard is occupied by us. To think ireland once was the size of the UK population wise and in power but we won. Now looks who's salty.

[@edgery]

@@ii8215 hahaha

[@christineayres5339]

Glad they sorted this shit out in the end ,not a nice way to live at all,also the EU nearly sent us back to these days with their idea to put a hard border between The Republic and Northern Ireland

[@relentless1989]

haha EU, yea because the selfish english wankers voted us out... so its really englands fault... as always.

[@burtleboeuf1429]

Imagine if this was a street in Newcastle or manchester.

[@1000RedDog0001]

Excuse me? Do you not remember the Manchester Arena bombing? You know, the one with dead innocent children being blown to bits...that was just a mere couple of years ago. We replace one form of trouble with another but people are oblivous to what stares at them in the face.

[@daviddempsey2546]

@@1000RedDog0001 are you serious. I'm not saying the Manchester bombings weren't bad but it was literally one day. you can't compare it to the troubles when there was men,women and children getting killed everyday for years on end. People are still getting shot in Belfast today over the stuff that happend that many years ago

[@hithere152]

@UCUaZmgf_pD0WzlvRUzI0w4A 30 years > 1 day.

[@peterfox5897]

@@1000RedDog0001 the Manchester bombing was completely different to what you see here. This was part of a sustained guerrilla campaign that stretched decades. The local population in these areas supported the IRA billeted their men and hid arms for them. The Manchester bombing was done by a lunatic who decided to blow himself up at a kids concert so he could have 70 virgins in paradise. I don't see how the two are similar to be honest.

[@rickyredbeard8274]

Shouldn't be there in the first place.

[@christinemolloy2723]

They never did get the hang of the RPG 7, I don’t think any exploded ever

[@testchannelpleaseignore2452]

Down along the falls road its where I long to be

[@tommyryan9880]

British soldiers keeping peace while they occupy another country am I missing something here ?

[@danielhalliday9237]

Northern Ireland is British whether people like it or not it was there land

[@coreytheluckykid3005]

​@@danielhalliday9237 NO IT IS NOT! YEAH I MEAN THEY POLITICALLY OWN IT BUT THEY OCCUPY IT NOT OWN IT GET IT RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@patriotunion7211]

Of course locals said they did not fire on the army, local IRA that is.( Indescriminate Rabble Army)!

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

What does that make brits who targeted civilians

[@TheNjackets]

What Regiment was that?

[@williambeck1574]

Who gives a fuck?,brits out

[@deestroyer1885]

"Our Tommy never done nahim he was a harmless fella"

[@billelliot51]

Just like the IRA

[@williambeck1574]

@@billelliot51 aren't you a geordie ballet dancer ?😁

[@paraguard60]

I bet the hand grenade they threw that didn´t explode still had the pin in it....................

[@michaelmcl4979]

Or maybe it didn't exist and was cheap propaganda

[@paraguard60]

@@michaelmcl4979 Well I was in Ballymurphy in 1978-79 in a pub on the Springfield road a handgrenade was thrown through the window, the pin was still in. (Just saying)

[@assaultclassdroideka9922]

Old news used to show everything under the sun

[@The_Scarlet_Pimpernel]

Gain victim status, commit heinous crimes with impunity.. nothing is new under the sun..

[@sambell2152]

Out of all conflicts I can think of, the troubles is possibly the one that is most upsetting to learn about. The inhabitants of the British Isles are one nation and people, our power and reach was so vast we once dominated the globe together. Unfortunately, callous politicians in Westminster were a gift to the opportunist traitor rebel groups to convince a substantial number of people in Ireland to betray their own country to form a breakaway state. Even to this day, anti British propaganda and scapegoating continues to be drummed into young Irish heads, both north and south of the border. I can only hope that in time, the divisions of the last 100 years may heal and give way to a better future. I truly believe that the British people will find the forgiveness in their hearts to move past the betrayals of the early 20th century and when the time is right, welcome Ireland home with open arms so our great nation may be whole once again.

[@maxjones626]

Are you off your trolley?? There is very little conceivable way that I can see the republic of ireland reuniting with the UK for a multitude of reasons, mainly that the irish people don’t feel any belonging to the british identity, and that they have forged their own culture and identity over years of independence. Out of the almost 1000 years since 1066, only 10% was spent with the british isles operating as one sovereign state between 1801 and 1922.

[@sambell2152]

@@maxjones626 I would like to focus less on history and look forward. The ultimate destiny and form of the British Isles is to be united under one flag and identity. A new system of government would also be a required to ensure all the home nations are treated as equals, mistreatment from British politicians played a big part in giving birth to the rebel traitors, so I certainly wouldn't like to see a return to those days. I yearn for a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that provides power and prosperity to all citizens, right from Cork to Edinburgh to Skegness

[@coreytheluckykid3005]

​@@sambell2152 Let Ireland be Ireland and we will let UK be UK it's easy.

[@chloemcbride4245]

I can’t wait to escape Belfast even though we have made peace there’s still people who want war I can’t even say my friends name because it’s Irish in public

[@patrickconnolly2745]

Yt?

[@itzskizzyk5472]

@@patrickconnolly2745 no in ireland, he/she has an irish name like niamh or caoimh for example and it is mostly Catholics that has a strong irish name and well we all know how bad Catholics had it for centuries in ireland. atholics and protestants were not allowed to mix or at least you were beating and shunned by your peers, so they built walls to keep catholics out and those walls are still there.

[@sarahkanto1883]

@@itzskizzyk5472 Divide and conquer

[@hokage64th]

I have very little knowledge of the conflict. Who supplied these terrorists? How and where did they get an RPG-7 in EUROPE of all places at the time?

[@seanmacuaiteir437]

The terrorists were supplied by the British state. American supporters and Colonel Gaddaffi supplied the freedom fighters.

[@hokage64th]

@@seanmacuaiteir437 Id like a non-biased intelligent answer please. Youre obviously an Irish person, I get it. But a legitimate government is not a terror group.

[@seanmacuaiteir437]

@@hokage64th they acted like a terror group, they murdered like a terror group. They were about as legitimate as the man on the moon with the methods they used. Answer is still the same. Gadaffi and American sympathisers armed our brave volunteers.

[@hokage64th]

@@seanmacuaiteir437 So you call a legitimate state's army a terror group when the IRA bombs their own citizens, murders others because they are of a different denomination and accept illegal arms and funding from dictators, mobsters, crime syndicates and mafias? I dont think the UK government is the bad guy, sir

[@seanmacuaiteir437]

@@hokage64th let's see... Firstly the Brits started the murdering for their religion with the centuries of Catholic repression. In 1969 a dozen people were killed by the state for being Catholic, including a nine year old shot in his bed. Illegal arms from dictators? Take what you can get when the enemy fires .50cal machine guns into blocks of flats full of civilians. The Brits bombed people. Look up Dublin-Monaghan bombings. They armed and trained the UVF and UDA protestant paramilitaries. These killed over a thousand innocent people..the IRA killed 600 civilians. The Brits killed about 150 civilians themselves. Of the 150 odd killers, five have served time and have been allowed to return to their regiments afterwards. Terrorists.

[@alastairwest5200]

Where were RAF Reg blue berets..?

[@alastairwest5200]

@Big Vern noname Tough assignment...

[@johnperardua4596]

@@alastairwest5200 Patrolling North Belfast, RAF Ballykelly, RAF Bishops court, RAF Aldergrove and surrounding TAOR and HMS sea eagle Londonderry among others. The only other British corps to serve the whole way through were the Royal Signals, EOD, RAMC and the Army Air Corps as far as I'm aware.

[@alastairwest5200]

@@johnperardua4596 Yes - RAF Reg were there since the 50's...

[@williambeck1574]

@@johnperardua4596 where the fuck is londonderry?,

[@anthonysmith-xw5tt]

No they were screaming crap hats

[@essexboy]

Chicken sandwich Bobby?

[@aidandevlin64]

Bobby will keep one for when you go to HELL. Bobby was brave none of you was brave.

[@clintwestwood792]

Coffin for mount batten?

[@garethwonham5622]

Go on the Glosters!!!

[@stephensmith4480]

I spotted the cap badge on the back too.👍😁

[@stephencockett9959]

Glorious Gloucesters! I remember all that very well! (Not a Gloucester though).

[@stephensmith4480]

@@stephencockett9959 Nice one mate.👍😊

[@seanmooney9027]

Hope they never made it out! 🇮🇪

[@matc21]

@@seanmooney9027 rat

[@vonliz8223]

And they say they civilised the world...

[@killercd7682]

They did

[@vonliz8223]

@@killercd7682 Wrecked anywhere they went

[@vonliz8223]

@@killercd7682 Here's more civilisation in action: www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2021/0511/1220821-ballymurphy-inquests/

[@danielofinan5071]

Yeah this wasn't a war. Sure we hell looked and felt like one for those who served in northern Ireland

[@nativeoutlaw3181]

Peace to the fallen!✊

[@davidmcloughlin688]

So sad 😞 glad that things are ok now all the best people 👍👍👍

[@pipedgolf4634]

hahahahahaha its still going on to this day you know?

[@keironwilliams3026]

@@pipedgolf4634 I’m welsh but I got a really good friend from Belfast and he said the exact same🤦🏻‍♂️

[@chris.b9329]

@@pipedgolf4634 not this bad tho in fact no way near as bad as this

[@pipedgolf4634]

@@chris.b9329 I mean setting armoured police cars on fire untill they all get out then beating the shite out of them would be a standard weekend, so yeah it might not be as bad but it’s still fucked

[@chris.b9329]

@@pipedgolf4634 yea but back then it was bombs going off kids getting killed shootings all the time now people go NI on holiday and to site see 😂 there’s only riots there now no war. I’ve been to NI at least 14 times and all over Belfast and never had any issues or seen anything bad

[@KoKissaki]

And than people vote „leave“ because fuck status quo right? Who needs peace and security when I can have brexit.

[@minillaman6717]

They forgot to leave in the part were they started firing on non protesting civilians

[@danieldanne7556]

Didnt hear one single shot when the armoured veichles were taking up position. Didnt see or hear a grenade that was "thrown towards the people gathering" and I most certainly did NOT see an rpg fired, instead I heard an explosion by a house and an armoured veichle speeding away from it.

[@NoHeartAnthony]

lol. bush did 9/11 too.

[@stalker5299]

you realize how fast rpg's actually are right? and do you also realize the camera man can't be all over the street with a 360 degree view all the time too right? please tell me you're not that dense

[@kappatalis5]

Old comment I know, but those vehicles don't carry anything more than an machine gun

[@marburyeducation]

Paddy fires and RPG and nearly kills his own.....now that's hardly a surprise is it?

[@120mmsmoothbore2]

I didn't hear any gunshots in the opening shots, I didn't see any weapons near the supposed gunmen, I didn't see a grenade being thrown or exploding, I didn't see a grenade being thrown, skipping down the street and then failing to explode nor did I see an RPG being shot and hitting a house. I did, however, hear a large explosion then see a British armoured car speeding away from it and the house looking like it was hit from the inside out. Wonder if those Brits three a few grenades into the house hoping to "kill a few Taigs"