33 Comments

• redhand32 | Feb 11, 2013, 10:41 AM EST

  Dear Nick, I know you don't have much time for Irish Republicans. But, if you're ever States side "Come on Down." Sincerely, The Tea Party U.S. Republican Party

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 08:26 PM EDT

  To be fair, his idol Winston Churchill was an established racial supremacist - I can provide multiple quotes if anyone needs them.

• anglo-norman | Oct 03, 2012, 05:54 PM EDT

  Griffin is a buffoon & a coward

• anglo-norman | Oct 03, 2012, 05:49 PM EDT

  Griffin is a buffoon

• IrelandNorth | Oct 03, 2012, 08:59 AM EDT

  Try seeing Herr Griffin's tirade in positive light. At least he didn't call anyone a Taig, (from Gaelic Irish male first name Tadgh (pronounced as tig as in tiger!) The 'a' is an Ulster-Scot accent - as in tay'gh! Just as loyalist bandsman urination once again was an improvement on petrol bombing a RC church. And as for the fine stout fellow drummers banging on his big base drum, he's of a generation who were told as impressionable loyalists lads that everytime they beat the lambeg drum they're beating a Catholic. So go out ther and put their backs into it. Beat that drum 'til yer wrists bleed! Imagine what they were doing pre all pervasive media.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 02, 2012, 10:53 PM EDT

  Very true, donegalcali. Of course, the irony is lost on these british patriotards.

• lcobryan | Oct 02, 2012, 07:45 PM EDT

  Yes, he certainly does look like a drunk at a wedding. Would love to have Kathy Griffin have a little chat with/monologue about him:)

• conorsmom | Oct 02, 2012, 05:17 PM EDT

  Mr. Griffin, I have two words for you----- GROW UP! Really, You need to go out and see if you can find thicker skin.

• alongester | Oct 02, 2012, 08:37 AM EDT

  Whats in a Name :) :)The surname "Griffin" has two primary Gaelic sources in Ireland, which pertain to the towns of Ballygriffey in Co. Clare, and Ballygriffin in Co. Kerry. The spelling "Ó Gríobhtha" is associated with the Co. Clare family, whose surname was also anglicised as "O'Griffey" or "Griffey". "Ó Gríofa" translates to English as "descendant of the Griffin-like". The "Mac Grífín" spelling belongs to the Kerry family. In Ireland, the name can also be associated with the Welsh surname "Griffith", but to a much lesser degree.[5] The surname Griffin is of patronymic origin. This Idiot does not know his Roots !! :) :)

• donegalcali | Oct 02, 2012, 01:07 AM EDT

  A man who gives out about immigrants colonizing his country celebrating people who...colonized a country. You couldnt make it up.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 01, 2012, 09:23 PM EDT

  He looks like an angry drunk at a wedding.

• aloistmartin | Oct 01, 2012, 07:31 PM EDT

  After all he had to say about them in his Manifesto; I. still can`t see Hitler turning Nazi Germany over to the Hohenzollern's ? If Griffin would take the same approach to the Monarchy as Hitler or Nietzsche, I. say too Brittany Spears with them all ! What makes Nick Griffin think England's Chalk Hills and Green Valley`s are any Whiter than those of Ireland !

• cillowen | Oct 01, 2012, 07:12 PM EDT

  why upset us with that porky pig - skum also rises like his most prideful excellent order of British Empire land who've a history of trading in humans - slaves from africa, convict laborers across the breath of lands they've screwed up royally.

• seanomelb | Oct 01, 2012, 07:06 PM EDT

  Jess may not care about religion(and rightly so)but she does care about the partition of Ireland and then, pigeon holes the people of west Belfast as religious bigots. One wonders what her stance on these matters really are.

• Smyrnian | Oct 01, 2012, 04:50 PM EDT

  Mainland Britain??? What a throwback, Neanderthal jerk!

• Nelsonbarry | Oct 01, 2012, 04:36 PM EDT

  wouldn't expect an A- hole to do any different

• Seanmor | Oct 01, 2012, 03:29 PM EDT

  When Griffin speaks disparagingly of the Fenisns he probpbly doesn't know that the Fenians were largerly a U.S. organization, many of whose members were veterans of the American Civil War- and had strong Protestant support. Their president was Congressman Wm. Roberts, a Protestant form Cork, and his minister for war was Tom Sweeney, also a Cork Protestant. In one of the their incursions into Canada, the Fenians had several Protestants in their ranks, includinmg an Episcopalian priest, Rev. Davis Lumsden.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 01, 2012, 03:22 PM EDT

  Do any of the loyalists understand the derviation of the word fenian? It's really dumb to use as an insult. At least Nick Griffin is honest about what being british really means.

• citizen69 | Oct 01, 2012, 03:17 PM EDT

  I hope the fascist idiot clears off back to England and takes his Republican stalkers with him!

• Happyhippo | Oct 01, 2012, 02:25 PM EDT

  Some still don't get it,this man is mentally unstable,this kind of rhetoric is meant to stir up ethnic hatred and bigotry this is what they do and thrive on, they have a ready audience in places like Belfast,where racial tensions are just below the surface,it don't do the economy of NI any good when people south of the border being enticed northwards by NI Tourism see the head loon of the BNP strolling around Belfast.

• Towngate | Oct 01, 2012, 02:21 PM EDT

  .... playing the Lambeg like a Bodhran ... might be a good start to reconciliation. ~ That's if anybody's interested in that idea!

• borefield | Oct 01, 2012, 02:04 PM EDT

  A Fascist! What do you expect. They know no boundaries , only requirement they need, a Big Loud Mouth . He delivered. I rest my case

• Proud Canadian2 | Oct 01, 2012, 12:09 PM EDT

  Will this supidity ever end. If the people would only listen to people like JessNleacai and Seanmor two different people but in my opinion are on the right track. This idiot is only out to cause trouble and should be banned from coming to Ireland period. He looks like a nazi. My father was born and raised in the south of Ireland as a Protestant and he had many child hood friends who were Catholic and he said that they got along brilliantly. To this day my relatives welcome Catholics as well as other denomanations into there homes. I wish that people would understand that we are all worshipping the same God whether you are Catholic, Protestant, hindu etc. God wants us all to get along together on this earth and if you are a real christian or other wise you should see that. I am sure that God is up there shaking his head at what is going on. Get over your differences and love God and each other.

• jerrydonovan | Oct 01, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT

  It looks like instead of beating on the lambeg drum, they instead, beat on his face.

• JessNiLeacai | Oct 01, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT

  My comment as to "this island" is because I live in Northern Ireland, which is apart of the UK though I spent most of my life in the Republican. To assume and again I will relate back to my reference to divide and conquer- calling me a Partitionist because I actually have no rose coloured glasses on or care for a United Ireland, Republicanism nor Loyalist idealism as I live in a society that chooses to highlight these things and make bigotry out of it. Perhaps if you, Seanmor lived happily among people in a Loyalist neighbourhood who did not cause you any harm for being Southern Irish, you would understand why I do not insult or inflict a term that they would not agree with, by calling the entire island Ireland. I allow people to do as they wish as long as they do not insult, impose or imply things that are wrongful. It does not matter than I was once a Protestant, the Loyalist paramilitaries and ignorant people will see me as an Irish or Fenian person and that was what my previous comment was about. Yet the Westies or West Belfast people choose to see Irish Protestants as not Irish. It's hatred on both sides and it disgusts me.

• micky74007 | Oct 01, 2012, 10:46 AM EDT

  nothing better than a limey nazi in the morning.

• bobby | Oct 01, 2012, 10:41 AM EDT

  Nick Griffin and the Orange Order, perfect match.....Both Ignorant Bigots.

• Seanmor | Oct 01, 2012, 10:38 AM EDT

  JessNi makes some very good points and I agree with most of his comment. Having been raised a Catholic in the SW corner of Ireland, I attended Protestant church services in the U.S. naval base in the early '60s and practised ecumenism before Vatical 11 approved of it. In recent years I often addend Methodist services with my wife, who is a member of that church. My close association with Protestants, whom I greatly respect, does not in any way diminish my Irishness - which applies to the whole Irish nation and all its parts. By the way, I never refer to the Irish nation as "the island". Only Partitionist make such a reference.

• JessNiLeacai | Oct 01, 2012, 10:12 AM EDT

  This has nothing to do with being Catholic and to associate religion with actual Irishness is not only ignorant but insulting to the non Catholic people of this island. I was brought up a Protestant like many other Irish people were. It does not make me any less Irish than my Catholic counterparts. I am not a fan of any political or religious association that says that they speak for me or anyone else. I have no time for Pope, the Catholic nor Protestant churches because of their actions so do not assume that my detest or anyone else's comes from hatred, it comes from actual and factual debauchery and their abuse of power. When people finally realise that we are all the same despite our religion or political affiliation, then maybe we can leave all these Evangelical wankers in the past. Until then such rants by all sides will continue and this island will remain 50 years or more behind because of the control and mindset of such idiots!

• hermitTalker | Oct 01, 2012, 10:02 AM EDT

  I watched the parade and heard the reports and saw the comments on Saturday and Sunday. The parade was for the 100th anniversary of Ireland's Protestants in 1812, mostly from today's Six Counties, but from all over, rejecting Home Rule, to go under the Dublin Government which would have a new structure. They committed to doing all in their power, aka using guns, to defend that, thus introducing the old violence that was rejected. IrelandNorth notes that below. MORE importantly their hatred and tribalism is directed NOT at Fenian B******* but at CATHOLICS who are citizens and who rejected violence but have to stand outside 25 times a year, one of their lay leaders said. The symbol for me was a very fat young adult male drummer who was so vigourous beating the drum he helped the music drown out the hymns they were ordered to sing ( in July they played anti-Catholic stuff). The UK would love to dump them at this point as an embarrassment to the Queen, Christianity and a huge drain on their treasure. Not to mention that the IRA came out of the woodwork because the British troops who came as peace-makers were sucked in to be part of the totally corrupt fascist-nazi-tactic Government that saw a cry for simple human rights was a defiant rejection of their sectarian system of total control. Those on this site who like to take shots at the pope and the R C Church should try to go there and see what it is like on The Far-Out Side. Bigotry playing at being patriotic with fat drummers!

• SAirish | Oct 01, 2012, 09:41 AM EDT

  I read that Griffin was not invited by anyone to attend the march. He came in his private capacity. The Orange Order have apparently distanced themselves from him.

• DrTrelawney | Oct 01, 2012, 09:39 AM EDT

  That's a lot of mad conspiracy theories you've got going on there, IrelandNorth. Nick Griffin is a certified nut. No conspiracy is required. The fact that various DUP politicians have attacked him for being too anti-Catholic should tell you all you need to know.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 01, 2012, 09:10 AM EDT

  Was Mr Griffin (heir apparent of England's wartime fascist leader Sir Oswald Molesley), at Stormont Castle at his own behest. Or was he an invitee of Ulster unionism steering committee. Or was he sent by MI6 to draw a credible correlation between Orange Orderism and National [af]Frontery. Is this a new variant of the Carsonian extra constitutional imperative to forcefully resist the spread of Irish democracy with threats of paramilitarism.