DUP Councillor Margaret Tinsley
This morning.
Via Belfast Newsletter:
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council DUP Councillor Margaret Tinsley told the chamber she is fed up getting phone calls from concerned constituents about staff at the South Lake Leisure Centre wearing GAA tops instead of their council-branded uniform
“I have raised this on numerous occasions and I don’t know what it is going to take to get it sorted out,” said the DUP councillor.
“I was at the South Lake Leisure Centre on Saturday and to be fair I only saw one member of staff with a GAA top on but I am sick of my phone ringing being told that staff at this facility are wearing GAA tops.”
Meanwhile…
This is Margaret Tinsley celebrating in front of a burning Ireland flag, on her way to tell the media how outraged she is by citizens wearing GAA sports tops in a sport and leisure centre. #HypocrisyMeltdown https://t.co/j2MQUPt1IY pic.twitter.com/Fo1KlhHGa3
— Politics Watch (@PoliticsWatch14) April 29, 2022
Oh.
Top pic: Aaron McCraken
DUP are hate-filled sectarian gobpoos shocker.
In fairness, it is a very controversial issue up north. I remember some years ago my nephew from the south going into a leisure centre in Belfast, and being asked to turn his t-shirt inside out. He was only a child but those were the rules.
Despite what else I may think about Ms Tinsley, in this case she is correct- it is a public funded leisure centre after all. It would never happen in a private, because they are not in the business of causing offence.
Although one thing I have noticed is up north, they do love their uniforms, even in offices. It is considered to be much more professional than in the south. It also saves the change of outfit every day of course.
its only “controversial” because unionists want to stamp out anything that reflects any native culture. Like.. it’s just a GAA top. No one cares if people walk around with any sports tops in the south, but because GAA sports are native to Ireland, unionists act like its hugely offensive to them. But think what exactly could it be that’s offensive about a sports top? It’s simply because it’s Irish. So them getting angry at something like that, is where the “controversy” comes from. No one else cares. Nationalists don’t go around complaining to councillors about people wearing soccer tops. Unionists are just hateful monsters who want to stamp out anything Irish, and wish to be British even tho Britain itself doesn’t care a drop for them.
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No- the same offence would be taken in the opposite direction if a rangers top was worn in the likes of the Andersontown leisure centre.
Such rules apply equally to both sides and have been in place at least since the Good Friday Agreement was signed.
They are supposed to be wearing uniforms- they can wave their flags and make their political statements on their own time.
That is the agreed system and for the most part, it works well.
No- the same offence would be taken in the opposite direction if a rangers top was worn in the likes of the Andersontown leisure centre.
Proof? If it happened, fine. If it didn’t you are just blowing bubbles out of your bum.
Proof of what? You think that loyalists would be allowed to strut around Andersontown leisure centre wearing rangers tops when they are supposed to be wearing uniforms?
Some people would fight with own shadow.
Haven’t you heard, we are all natives now
I could understand it if it was ManU tops she was grizzling about.
Not long now. They’ll all be gone. Forever. Won’t be missed.
GAA jerseys ?
Careful now she’s one of yours?
I have no truck with all that tribalism, one of my great granny’s was even a papist
Gwan outta dat you hate Catholic Ireland
Sure that’s why you went off to filthy, secular France
It was so you could fornicate in peace
Home rule is Rome rule, that’s your slogan
well you’re right about the fornication
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Of course I am you devil
Not directly relevant to this, but my Little one used be a cheerleader for her school. The football team were known for their garb, and called ‘blackshirts’. While really a little put off at hearing the chants supporting them, I was also amused that my local GAA team, who sport the all-white outfits of the county, also sport black togs when playing away as their alternate.
I guess not everything is black and white. Or is it?….
Colours are very important in the north. Loyalist areas painted red white and blue Nationalist areas green white and gold . In the wrong place they can be seen as offensive. ie red white and blue tops in Whiterock leisure center or GAA shirts in Abbey Leisure center. They can be dangerous things to be wearing around the twelfth in the wrong area. That’s the hatred that needs to be addressed before we talk in the south about a referendum on uniting this country. Some in the south don’t get that.
I actually don’t think is ‘hatred’ as you describe it, not nowadays- just bad manners- most people just groan at it. And its not just the North, the very same sort of tribalism happens in parts of Scotland, albeit it without the recent violent history.
Sick up a National Party or even in some places a Sinn Féin logo in the south and you are going to get a similar reaction- politics has no place in any workplace.
Some in the south don’t get that.
Just like you so.