This afternoon.
Government buildings, Dublin 2
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar meets the Grand Secretary of the Orange Lodge, Reverend Mervyn Gibson. Rev Gibson led a delegation of Orange Lodge members from the southern border counties to discuss “matters of interest to their members including education, infrastructure and culture”.
Name that painting, anyone?
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My guess is it is a Barrie Cooke.
Sean McSweeney?
Out out out.
Nice to see the head buck cat noticing there are at least one million souls on this island who don’t buy into the pan-nationalist guff he’s used to flirt with the Shinners
‘Guff’ is a nice northern Irish Protestant word from my experience. They like to be straight to the point, which translates as pig ignorant to the rest of us.
I understand why it has to happen.. but, is there any other occasion in which a sectarian organisation who hate catholics (and lots more besides), are welcomed as a good thing..
I don’t know but at some point we need to be the grownups in the room and play nice with our cousins. Sectarianism isn’t limited to the OO either so it might be best not to examine the underside of that rock too closely.
The problem with unionists of the dup persuasion is that the only thing they care about is that norn iron should not become part of a united Ireland and they will sacrifice anything and everything to that end. There is nothing they could be offered by the southern government that would change that so fupp them.
That’s the attitude! Why would we all want to get along?
It takes two to tango, can you please give some examples of where the dup has reached out to northern nationalists or the southern government with a genuine offer that would resolve the border issue.
does willie frazer’s Love Ulster parade count?
Your description of the Republic’s sovereign administration as ‘the southern government’ reveals as much as your distaste for Protestants.
So no examples then…
No, RP Is entirely correct. The DUP shriek like banshees when there’s even an outside chance of brexit treating them as ‘different’ from the mainland, even though they are entirely happy to be different when it suits them (gay marriage, abortion etc).
These lads would happily shoot themselves in the groin to prove a point
@yep: there’s the little matter of a peace process, the Good Friday Agreement and Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness – two figures from the extreme ends of Ulster politics – casting differences aside to oversee devolved government. None of this would have been possible without the buy-in of less moderate Unionists/Loyalists that would vote DUP. On a more local level, I attended a talk this week on the Orange Order and was made very welcome indeed by people who are apparently devoid of both good will and the ability to make friendly overtures to ‘us ‘uns’ .
@yep: didn’t fully address you there. The DUP doesn’t work well with its back to the wall. It doesn’t just have to reach out to the Republic but to all the EU. A population that’s prickly on its best day will default to volkisch paranoia on its worst. The emergence of a a more SF-friendly Irish government isn’t helping either but we are immeasurably better off than two decades ago in terms of outreach.
It’s “Spots on the Wall” by Hugh Flungdung
Hey Leo, ask him why the Orange Orders take a cut of the gas and electricity meters; and why the Orange Orders keep the meters padlocked so that not even the official gas nor electrical maintenance guys can get access to them…. G’wan, for the laugh, ask him!
Pair of Freemasons.
Kevin Sharkey
They should be given the isle of man and made fupp away off with themselves to it. And then make it only accessible from the UK.
@scottser: should we kettle these upatriotic Irishmen into Peel and Douglas? Maybe stenciling a red hand on the door of each house would help too.
I love the way you can take an idea and run with it neilo. We shouldnt forget to build them a pallet factory too.
@scottser: heh!
And the Buckfast formula.
John Shinnors?
Well done Broadsheet; for a site which espouses understanding and equality for all – you’ve messed up on this one.
BTW, name the painting yourselves insofar as what suits your agenda – which is far from satirical, or clever.
What do you imagine is the problem here? The post isn’t insulting to anyone in any way.
Is it Bridget Flannery?
Is it “The Plantation” by Oran Jorder?
Jaffa Cakes in da house!!!
@Broadsheet : the fact that Broadsheet permits childish name calling on this thread proves the point of my deleted post from 27 November.
It’s called Grand Master’s Body Guard by Liam Malone.
So, did anyone discover who the painting is by or must we storm Government buildings to find out?