Bullets sent to five politicians in Stormont as Union flag protests continue

sending bullets in the post is a favourite pastime of orange bigots not even footballers or coaches are safe from these lowlifes.

canadianirish@ Not in Quebec, anyway ?

No mention of this on BBC NI links just: The Public Prosecution Service is seeking a retrial in the case of three Ballymena men whose convictions were recently quashed for the 2006 murder of teenager Michael McIlveen. 3 unionists being released for killing a catholic child.

Sounds to me like they were just trying to do a bit of decommissioning!

There's an interesting quantitative correlation between qualitative religious affiliation and national identity in the most recent tranch of Northern Ireland Statistical Research Agency (NISRA) Household Survey, 2011 returns. If 48% of NI populace profess Protestantism and 40% identify themselves as British only, could that not mean that 8% of [Roman] Catholics consider themselves other than generically Irish (ie ROI/NI)? If 45% are [Roman?] Catholic and 46% are Irish/Northern Irish only, are 1% of generic Irish (ie ROI/NI) something other than than orthodox Christian? More importantly, if British identity and Protestantism are in rapid decline in NI in this the 9th year countdown towards the centenary of partition in our decade of centenaries, what rate will they be at in 2022? Would it not be better to sue for amalgamation?

Granted, I may be an outsider looking in but would it not make sense to fly both the tricolour AND the Union jack?

How stupid these people are & cowardly

you just dont get it do you,how the hell do you ever justify your occupation of ireland and believe you have a god given right to something that was never and never will be yours by any right.Now when there is a peace deal on the table which most sane people in northern ireland wish to adere to,but you want it back to the days of blood and gore.i sincerly hope that there are enough people of common sense and goodwill to make the peace work for the benefit of all people and the bloody past stays past.

The last three poters are ridiculously ignorant. The bullets wer sent by orange bigots just call a spade a spade fools.

There are some thing in this World that are not Open for a Democracy. They are the Heritages Of Our Fathers who also laid their lives Down upon many Field sOf the last 2 World Wars. They did not Die under a Tricolour. @AloisMartin... These guys are not the IRA... and there is nothing worst than someone who is a Nationalist who takes The Crowns Money and then Kills Women and Children practicing Genocide. Bien sùr, You are not Of Ireland and You do not Know are Childrens Children. @FastEddy... Yes, Gun control would be exceptable if You can stop the so called American Irish supplying Arms and Money to Noraid and the IRA. The People in the North, maybe still in the Majority Protestant do not Have Guns ... but if they ever did get armaments.. they would assuredly Make DrogHeda(A.D. 1690) look like a Campfire.

These Guy`s Are As Bad As Those " Real I.R.A. " Ruffians :)

Perhaps Ireland should have a ban on guns? How is that working out?