Ulster stands at the cross roads: O'Neill broadcast

[@FearAnUlaidh]

I have been searching for a year now for this full broadcast, great work on getting your hands on it! Such a significant part of our history.

[@johnburns7142]

We went down the wrong road. A long dark one.

[@loneprimate]

I used to wonder who Paul Eddington was channeling whenever he played Jim Hacker giving a speech on Yes, Minister. I think now I know. :D

[@blueknight07]

If only O'Neil was given a chance. He was way ahead of his time.

[@loneprimate]

He showed up 50 years too late.

[@RobertK1993]

Only decent Northern Irish Prime Minister.

[@ItsZombiefied]

A man who cared for his people over political power. He worked for compromise and equality, and in hindsight, where politics has turned to history, almost everything he did benefited the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland. However, the hardliners in his party who, while this is negative I also believe to be the truth, hellbent on their beliefs and unwilling to compromise in the benefit of the people under their rule, ended up undoing almost everything he did. I believe Chichester-Clark and the pendulum swinging back to the hardliners was a major cause of trouble escalating. They did not care for everybody like a true leader should, and poured fuel on flames. Chichester-Clark in my opinion was a yes-man. He did as he was told without considering the people, and that had consequences that made the situation in NI worse.

[@aor3220]

Right Ideas but wrong man saying it. His tone is so condescending. Quintessential Big House unionist (talking down to the 'Peasants' of Ulster)

[@highvolumepls]

RUC super Nixon paved the way for Paisley, long long ago

[@marks_sparks1]

06:03 is the freedom to pursue the unchristian path of communal strife & sectarian bitterness really more important to you than all the benefits of the British welfare state? Every Shankill Road resident: YES!

[@StrongandStable17]

It's a bit more complicated than that but sure.

[@bigmacattack7747]

@@StrongandStable17 you're right ofc, they wanted to keep their benefits too

[@StrongandStable17]

@@bigmacattack7747 Indeed.

[@StrongandStable17]

@marksandsparks1 oops sorry I just realised you were rightfully criticising Loyalists for their conduct at the time, carry on.

[@scottmccarter861]

Paisley was right what a fool

[@pendorran]

Paisley was a bigot and fanatic with blood on his hands.

[@FearAnUlaidh]

30 years of murder and a GFA that ceded much more to Nationalists than what was proposed in '69. Sounds like O'Neill had a point, Paisley was a wrecker who helped 'People's Democracy' & the IRA start a civil war by attacking NI's stability from both sides.

[@wardenstone6021]

The guy literally funded the bomb that blew him out of office that essentially kickstarted the Troubles.

[@RobertK1993]

Paisley was sectarian bigot and hypocrite eventually took on O'Neill policies wanjer Ian Paisley king Ulster Scots Presbyterians 🤣

[@georanger6180]

Paisley done nothing good for the north