MI5 secretly spied on Irish construction workers in Britain in 1970s

submit to mind control in return for protected class status? Is that in the brochure about joining?

Go Curtis!!! Those foreign peaceniks at Trafalgar (remembered as a square) and Waterloo (remembered as a rail station) really resent their portrayal as imperial stooges…no doubt you will find the real truth on youtube??

@ToryTory "Shut up Curtis you bigoted racist." Yeah right - the whole ethos of your little terror state revolves around self congratulatory triumphalism celebrating your violence against predominantly non-combatants of other races/ethnicities. Your greatest hero, Churchill, was a vile racist/supremacist.

IrelandNorth – Not sure what your complaint is re the pilgrims. Passengers travelling from and to most international airports will be ‘involuntarily photographed’ many times as they arrive or depart…same as mall shoppers and bank customers…and nearly all passports issued to the ICAO Standard (International Civil Aviation Organization) have an MRZ – Machine Readable Zone – which allows scanners to identify the holder, his nationality etc. Neither roman collars nor burkas afford any special exemptions to these minimal security standards these days.

Who cares IrelandNorth - a singular incident, that's all.

IrelandNorth – Not sure what your complaint is re the pilgrims. Passengers travelling from and to most international airports will be ‘involuntarily photographed’ many times as they arrive or depart…same as mall shoppers and bank customers…and nearly all passports issued to the ICAO Standard (International Civil Aviation Organization – a U.N. agency) have an MRZ – Machine Readable Zone – which allows scanners to identify the holder, his nationality etc. Neither roman collars nor burkas afford any special exemptions to these minimal security standards these days.

In April 2009, approximately 32 Irish nationals returning to Ireland from pilgrimage to Holy Land, were involuntarily photographed, (having their Irish/EU passports bar code infra-red scanned into a British immigration database). This despite merely transiting through a UK airport on a British carrier. No satisfactory explantion from British Embassy in Dublin despite commitment to get back! A group of mainly senior citizens (including 2 RC priests)? Terrorist material?

Shut up Curtis you bigoted racist.

"The English are the most tolerant people on earth!" Even countenancing those ungrateful Paddies who had the temerity to decline their kind offer of enforced political union. A dubious onour not offered to just any old one - ya know! You've gotta be pretty special for old Anglo-Saxonia to covet the green and verdant plains of your old country. Besides, people are trying to move on by denying the past, emracing revisionist h[y]stery[ia], and it's middle classes actually having quasi-erotic fantasies of what it might have been like had we not left almost completely. Everyone should embrace vegetarianism.

ancavker expresses pro-british sentiment exculpating the english from their innate and degenerate racism but this is still not good enough for the brit troll.

Urgh, spare me your anecdotal drivel.

Tory Tory: Yes from family members living there, and from seeing it myself as I have been to England many, many times over the years including during the time of the bombing campaign.

How many Times do wee have to go though this ? Nigel Dodds calls them " Terrorists " But with the English ( And the Double Cream smearing Provisional Government at Dublin ) ready to send in the ever loving United States Marine Corp. And Barack Obama`s Lethal Weapons of Mutual Assured Destruction, in order to substantiate both Good Friday, and the filial, New Church, Recreant Pacifist, LGBT, Exploitationist Immigrant Economy; Isn`t it nice to know the I.R.A. is only One Pint of Double Stout, round the corner !

Any evidence for that avcavker? The only backlash against the Irish in major cities - and Birmingham springs to mind - was on the back of IRA bombing campaigns, vividly illustrated in the anti-Irish demonstrations in the wake of the Birmingham Pub Bombings - quite understandable, if ill-directed, if you ask me.

The English people are very tolerant, the government as history has shown is another story. That siad the disastrous provo bombing campaign made lief very difficult for the Irish in England in those days. In fact they suffered more than the Irish in the 26 counties did.