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• Sports summer camp cancelled after Orange Order raise concerns over GAA children

A Co Down Orange lodge that raised “significant concerns” about the involvement of children in a summer sports camp hosts a loyalist band that recently took part in a parade to commemorate a suspected UVF killer.

Goldsprings of Comber LOL says residents in the north Down town raised “significant concerns regarding the proposed or perceived move of the GAA into the local community”.

The lodge issued a statement after it emerged children from East Belfast GAA were due to take part in a Sports Summer Camp at the grounds of North Down Cricket Club on Friday.

The intervention from the Orange lodge has resulted in the cross-community sporting event being cancelled by the organisers.

It has now emerged that Goldsprings of Comber LOL has close links to Goldsprings True Defenders Flute Band.

In a recent social media post the band, which describes itself as ‘Blood and Thunder’, referred to taking part in an upcoming parade “along with our Lodge Goldsprings of Comber L.O.L 1037″.

A social media page linked to the band also states that it holds practice in “Comber Orange Hall” every week.

Earlier this month the loyalist band took part in a parade to remember UVF commander Trevor King on the Shankill Road in west Belfast.

King died three weeks after an INLA gun attack on a group of loyalists on the Shankill Road in June 1994.

Two other loyalists, David Hamilton, and suspected informer Colin Craig, also died from their injuries.

A former loyalist prisoner, King had been active in the UVF for more than 20 years when he was killed.

Described as a ‘lieutenant colonel’, the senior loyalist was charged in 1984 with the separate murders of Catholic men Gerard McClenahan and Anthony Molloy as part of the supergrass trials before being acquitted.

by Jeffreys_therapist

16 comments

  2. Raised significant concerns is doublespeak for whispering in the ear of the local dealer/paramilitary and asking him to make them ban those particular kids from fun

  4. I expect them to be raided by the police imminently for showing support for a proscribed terrorist group

  5. “Rules for thee and not for me” has been the OO motto for as long as it’s been about.

  6. >It has now emerged that Goldsprings of Comber LOL has close links to Goldsprings True Defenders Flute Band

    In much the same way that I have close links to the fella sitting on my sofa browsing Reddit

  7. Just remember people, your grandkids and great grandkids will laugh at this. It’ll all be over someday.
    We may not be alive to see it. But it is ending and will end.

    Enjoy the rest of your day.

  9. Woah woah woah stall the digger.

    An Orange Lodge with links to the UVF?!

  10. This reads like some kind of weird “gotcha”, when we all already new the order were a bunch of sectarian hypocrites. 

  11. The Orange Order and Pengley are still stuck in the depths of hatred and ignorance. Hopefully their membership base is going to die out as the years pass.

  12. The OO is a religious organisation. I’m not a member, so I can only guess it must be ok in their religion to be more concerned about the rules of football for children than it is about associating with sectarian murder gangs. Each to their own, I sadly suppose.

  13. Fucking evil bastards, not a bit surprised. Pissing in the wind thinking these people will change. Its just so depressing 

  15. Significant concerns about children.. let that sink in

  16. The organizers of this event should be ashamed, Why cancel and ruin it for all the children just for the sake of the orange order kicking up. Not even gonna go off one one about the orange order im sick of it now, sooner we ban the cunts the better.

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