The IRA gun Attack on the Whiterock Orange Parade 1970

[@colinsmith1288]

I am English but l feel a great affinity with the protestant northern Irish. Sorry about these appalling ira attacks from the past.

[@douglastaggart9360]

So you should they're British just like you and me who are English .

[@colingillespie1560]

thanks for this , dont let us forget the men women and children who have died by the hands of the ira FGAU

[@jackpirie7382]

Funnily enough she never talked about Bombay St and Hooker St in August 1969 the night the fuse was lit for 30 plus years of violence on ALL sides Republicans Loyalists and The Police UDR and the British Army. Re Whiterock and the bombs etc read this ---26 June: two IRA volunteers, Joseph Coyle and Thomas McCool, were killed in a premature explosion of an incendiary device at the McCool home at Dunree Gardens, Creggan, Derry. McCool's two young daughters, Carol Ann (4) and Bernadette (9), were also killed in the explosion. A third IRA volunteer, Thomas Carlin, died of his injuries on 8 July.[7] 27 June: rioting erupted in working class parts of Belfast following Orange Order marches past Catholic areas. IRA volunteers used firearms to defend the Short Strand and Ardoyne from attack by Ulster loyalist gunmen and rioters. Two loyalists and one republican died in the cross-shooting (see Battle of St Matthew's)------- Absolutely nonsense nothing she said made real sense must be in the top 10 of shite of one sided absolute rubbish and i have read both sides but this one was unbelievably total rubbish.

[@ononewheellad]

You do a lot of whataboutery there fella. This was about the Whiterock parade attack by terrorists.

[@jackpirie7382]

@@ononewheellad The violence and deaths were not on the Whiterock they happened after the parade ie the Crumlin Rd /Ardoyne and the other one was on the Newtownards Rd/ St Matthews Church/Short Strand

[@ononewheellad]

@@jackpirie7382 Maybe Jack there’s a serious need for all to move on. Here we are ranting on about an incident over 50 years ago. This place is full of the whataboutery, and both sides could justifiably do it for another 50 years. Would do your head in this living in the past.

[@jackpirie7382]

@@ononewheellad I posted because the video was total nonsense I will always post when people are posting total nonsense. Sorry for telling the truth. Also i am NOT on any side.

[@Drifty40]

The video is not total nonsense, just the other side of the story, that conflicts with your opinion. Similarly the protestant homes burned out in Duncairn Gdns and Thistle Court, Belfast wasnt mentioned, nor the protestant families ethnically cleansed from the border counties in the 80s. Your whataboutery doesn't make the information on this video incorrect, it just conflicts with your nationalism/republicanism,.......therefore you couldn't let the opportunity pass, to use either, denial, deceit or deflection in order to dilute or sully the content of the vid. However...... we've become accustomed to that over the years from people of your ilk. The information provided in the vid, is freely available online.

[@hollyylloh515]

God bless you 🙏🇬🇧 Thank you for your honesty, respect. Please keep remembering 🙏🇬🇧 In God we trust 🙏🇬🇧

[@patrickferran1678]

She talks some shite. No surrender. Willie boy Frazer was the man. Lest we forget 🤑👍

[@Fran-ct4kb]

It’s a good job these Orangemen only march in there own areas now!

[@emersonschosenfew]

Thank you for that timely reminder of the outworkings of the sectarian bigotry and hatred of the Militant Irish Nationalist murder machine. My grandfather was in that parade that day. The IRA and their fellow travellers were upping the ante. Pity we couldn't finish it then good and proper. Would have saved many lives in the years to come. 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@davidmillan1157]

WE WILL NEVER FORGET GSTQ WATP

[@edhoey4263]

The gunmen who murdered these men will one day stand before God, no lawyer no advocate and no Gerry Adams to defend them. Unless they have repented and sough forgiveness they will spend eternity in hell. That is God's justice. The Bible says; Thou shalt not kill and that God hates the hands that shed innocent blood. May He comfort their wives, children and families.

[@user-zb8qb9vn7v]

My husband Davy was in RAMC in early 1980s and went on exercise with the UDR/RUC doing med cover , We were not married at the time and Davy got me a nurses uniform and had me working in medical centre doing first aid on the Greenfinches that were there . At the Naafi at night we used to hear all of the disgusting and inhumane things that the IRA/INLA were doing to the innocent public . A UDR man and his wife offered us a farm to work on if we wanted but we were not ready to take up the offer , These people we met were the salt of the Earth

[@Shorty0202]

Strange you don’t mention the UVF/UDA and even some members of the UDR for that matter, amongst IRA/INLA. Completely one sided perhaps?

[@user-zb8qb9vn7v]

@@Shorty0202 I visited Warrington in march 1993 a week before the vile cowardly terrorist bombings in Warrington centre Bombs were spaced apart tacitly so as women and children would get killed and injured The thing I remembered about that Saturdy was the marriage of a couple who came out the chapel and a crowd of happy people threw confetti over them, Are you a normal person who also likes to see normal human activities ? Or just a strange person with flawed political reasoning

[@geordiewishart1683]

Or maybe the poster was relating her own actual experience?

[@wayneabel5421]

To think those cowards are actually revered in 1area of the eu!

[@paulwalker8526]

Lest we forget 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Shorty0202]

Another Scottish rangers supporter commenting on Irish affairs, when it has absolutely nothing to do with them. Nothing new

[@Richard-od3gc]

Cos I have never heard a Scottish celtic fan comment on Irish affairs either?

[@Shorty0202]

@@Richard-od3gc what’s the point in her posting this one sided propaganda in 2022. It does nothing but stir the pot in a city that’s on the opposite side of the Irish Sea to her.

[@Richard-od3gc]

@@Shorty0202 it's what Rangers and celtic fans do. To be fair most ulster protestants can trace there families back to Scotland. Presbyterians are the biggest protestant denotion in Northern Ireland plus the Orange order is alot bigger in Scotland than it is in England or elsewhere in the world apart from Northern Ireland i believe its even bigger in Scotland than the republic of Ireland itself. The same goes for republican marchjng bands. I don't think its that strange I mean think about it people of Jewish decent Israelies and Palestinian Arabs comment on the situation going on in Israel. Irish Americans supported the ira for the most part OK granted there is peace currently over there and this may open up old wombs and I agree there's no need for hatred on both sides but I don't think it's wrong of her to have a valid opinion on the situation in Northern Ireland as there has always been imagination between Ireland and Scotland. Scottish society is still divided on secterian religious lines Educationally so both Irish Catholics Scottish Catholics as well as Scottish protestants,Scottish society has an awful lot in common with Northern Ireland. So no i disaree it's not uncalled for . I do agree perhaps her view is a little biased and there is peace currently in Northern Ireland and this doesn't help the situation. However just because you don't likevwhat she believes or has to say doesn't mean she has no right to speak on affairs that effect her in some way they do thjnk about it in a different country.

[@bernard48]

@@Shorty0202 She's giving her view on an atrocity, just as Irish Catholics have done for years.

[@bernardmcmahon5377]

True, one sided

[@roberthalbert748]

Thanks for this. Very poignant

[@williamkelly9859]

What a complete load bollocks.

[@carolporter8668]

I had never known about this although had heard of some of the murdered men.

[@Fran-ct4kb]

Is the narrator a Scottish person!? She should stick too Scottish history not Irish!

[@user-ix1ki1po5r]

tell that to celtic fans born in scotland we are sick of all the ira shite we hear at tyncastle glad celtic and rangers are down to 650 tickets

[@Fran-ct4kb]

@@user-ix1ki1po5r you tell them, it’s your country!

[@JP-fl4wx]

Absent friends lest we forget rip

[@WASP75]

Back in the 90s rioting me and couple of others put a few ira loving scum in hospital and loved every bit of it. My brother till this day has 1 of their teeth on a chain K.A.T. FOR GOD AND ULSTER. NO SURRENDER

[@franzherflek4116]

Utter bollocks

[@dessy76]

I put a couple of ruc scum six feet under, back in the day and got away with it.

[@michaelshanley1463]

Very one sided commentary. Atrocities were committed by and victims came from republican and unionist backgrounds.

[@jackpirie7382]

Not only one sided it was total nonsense the 3 guys who died were involved in trying to attack the Ardoyne the other 2 were trying to attack St Matthews church and the Short Strand. the first 3 who died happened almost on the Crumlin road 2.5 miles from the Whiterock and the other fatalities were on Newtownards Rd close to the Short Strand 3 miles from the Whiterock. I agree 100% about both sides atrocities Michael

[@Drifty40]

Only a lot more from the Republican movement......... La Mon House bombing Enniskillen bombing Omagh bombing Shankill bombing Claudy bombing Warrington bombing Birmingham bombings Manchester bombing Donegal Street bombing Bloody Friday 1972 bombings Darkley killings Kingsmill massacre Teebane Crossroads ambush Colomba McVeigh Patsy Gillespie Jean McConville To name only a few. The list continues today, even after the GFA .... Lyra McKee Ronan Kerr David Black Adrian Ismay Omagh bomb victims No better than ISIS, although "they" are condemned the world over.

[@garrychalmers67]

Your not getting far. Do you honestly think you would get away with this? 🙈

[@scary19682]

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them 😪 # 55 🇬🇧

[@bohsgerry]

jaffa rant

[@thomaskennedy1968]

LWF. GBNF.