Decision by BBC NI to axe live Twelfth parade coverage a ‘snub’ to community: Grand Orange Lodge

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  1. Having not heard or watched the video in question

    I’d imagine it’s not a big stretch to equate what they did with a hate crime given they likely mentioned religion or derisory connotation in their “song”

    So unlikely an organisation that celebrates hate speech should get air time

    Interesting how often this happens that the videos isn’t leaked

  2. What other group that has such a culture of hate gets butt hurt when the t.v cameras are off??

    EdL?

    KKK?

    They are a hate organisation that should be banned. Is it a religious thing? No it’s fucking not. I don’t see any of my protestant, catholic, Muslim, Jewish or Hindu friends acting like these knuckle dragging slobs.
    It’s a group of people who are together in their hate against another religion.
    Thankfully the younger generation are turning their backs on this kind of attitude.

  3. Has that vile, sectarian fuelled shite been broadcast on BBC in previous years? In all my years of watching tv, I’ve never stumbled across it or seen it listed in the RTÉ Guide, but I will admit it’s been a while since I’ve bought or even seen an RTÉ Guide.

  4. The only people who’d watch it are all the loyalists too old/infirm to take part. I mean who is that much of a fan of the Orange Order that they’d skip going out and waving their little union flags but still watch it live?

    The good news is that the way demographics are going in the North the old and infirm outnumber the able bodied in that ‘community’.

    Tick tock mofos

  5. Decision by BBC NI to axe live Twelfth jingoistic and sectarian display of intense hatred and bigotry ~~parade coverage~~ a ~~‘snub’ to community~~ good decision: ~~Grand Orange Lodge~~ Every sane person.

    However, to placate the “Grand” Orange Lodge, highlights of the rioting will be show on News at Ten.

  6. Mate of mine had them practicing in a field behind her house every year when she was small. Her da said to ‘ignore the soft swine’ and she spent her childhood (until she was big enough to see over the fence) thinking it was some sort of Peppa Pig type event.

  7. The only person I know who would have been devastated by this news is my late grandmother, a staunch nationalist from south Armagh (or ‘bandit country’, as Maggie called it) and who was born in 1911. She’d come down from the North to Dublin to stay with us for all of July, and she was the nicest, politest, gentlest woman.

    Except for the 12th: that day she’d park herself in an armchair on front of the television, demand we switch over to BBC NI, and would watch the whole thing, mumbling occasionally with a wrinkled lip “look at those fuckers marching”. Every year.

  8. NI Protestant here – Great news. Fuck the OO. their mindset belongs back with King William in the 1600s. No need for it in todays world. The twelfth is an embarsssment, I don’t want to be associated with any of the class acts in attendance

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