Police to re-examine evidence in sectarian murder of Rory McIlroy's great uncle

This might sound trite but I have been wondering If Rory was named after Rory Gallagher?

You only have to widen it out a little to see there is a link to deprivation and unemployment - case in point is another riot flashpoint - the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan which is a very poor area and a dissident Repubican anti peace process hotspot (Catholic cop Stephen aroll was shot dead nearby a few years back just after the dissident shot the two soldiers (and the pizza delivery men including a polish guy) in Antrim who were going to Afghanistan the next day) - constant riots, hoaxes and attacks on police and the trains / train tracks that run next to the estate

Think your history is a bit wonky Buffalo - Irish President Mary McAleece visited East Belfast today and standing alongside her were prominent Loyalists and Republicans - the problems in the short strand are localised and long running (up to two hundred years ago - long before the creation of Northern Ireland so out goes your `reason`) and you don`t layout why they are envious of the Catholic population? The two housing estates in the short strand area are two of the most deprived areas in NI if you care to look up the stats.

Loyalists will always be angry and envious of the Catholic population. Because unionists by sharing power negate the very reason the insisted on the state being created in the first place. Rory McIlroy knows which side his bread is buttered on. He has to live among these animals. Eddie Ervine's (ex-F1 driver) family was threatened by loyalists because he considered himself Irish , not British. Eddie by the way was a prot from the six counties.

What a bunch of Irish morons in Belfast.

sorry mamaginnty but you are wrong - I wasn`t posting my opinion I was posting facts. Rory and his dad held up Northern Ireland flags and a quick Google of `Rory McIlroy Graeme McDowell Northern Ireland flag` and hit images shows both players standing together with the NI flag held up. And the Belfast Telegraph article published on the 25th if you google `attack on girl blamed for trouble belfast telegraph` you will see it is not my opinion but a Tele report - this is a poor area on both sides with high unemployment and social disadvantage so your explanation is just plain wrong - it`s an interface area that has had tit-for-tat low key criminality against each other for hundreds of years.

sorry mamaginnty but you are wrong - I wasn`t posting my opinion I was posting facts. Rory and his dad held up Northern Ireland flags and a quick Google of `Rory McIlroy Graeme McDowell Northern Ireland flag` and hit images shows both players standing together with the NI flag held up. And the Belfast Telegraph article published on the 25th if you google `attack on girl blamed for trouble belfast telegraph` you will see it is not my opinion but a Tele report - this is a poor area on both sides with high unemployment and social disadvantage so your explanation is just plain wrong - it`s an interface area that has had tit-for-tat low key criminality against each other for hundreds of years.

sorry mamaginnty but you are wrong - I wasn`t posting my opinion I was posting facts. Rory and his dad held up Northern Ireland flags and a quick Google of `Rory McIlroy Graeme McDowell Northern Ireland flag` and hit images shows both players standing together with the NI flag held up. And the Belfast Telegraph article published on the 25th if you google `attack on girl blamed for trouble belfast telegraph` you will see it is not my opinion but a Tele report - this is a poor area on both sides with high unemployment and social disadvantage so your explanation is just plain wrong - it`s an interface area that has had tit-for-tat low key criminality against each other for hundreds of years.

The IRFU (Irish Rugby Football Union) continues to field an “all-Ireland” team as it has done since the Union was formed in 1879. Many of its great players are from the “six counties” – that is, Northern Ireland. However, the IRFU Council recognizes the original provinces - Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught, with Ulster being the nine counties – not just the six forming Northern Ireland. Whether this is because they are mired in the past or were far-sighted visionaries I don’t know – but it has produced great teams, exciting games and a string of victories by keeping politics out of sport and vice versa. I feel sure Rory McIlroy will follow their example.

whether he likes it or not he'll undoubtably take the proddy & UK side of things - there being gold and safety for he and family for doing so. Sad but let's get real.

Aughavey, you like " to return to that " with your comments, and lies about the riots last week, loyalists 20s and 30s have been building up to this for months. Loyalists do not want the peace process because they can see that nationalist are finally able to get work.. (catholics need not apply) does not apply now, nationalists can get a decent education now, nationalist can choose who gets into government now, nationalists are able to get on in life now. Not downtrodden as before. All this along with the peace process does not go down well with loyalists. As you can see ...I did not mention any killings that the UDF were involved in. Rory did nothing to the irish flag, he was to overcome at winning. He does not get involved with any ( side ) in the north of Ireland because since an early age his life has been golf balls and determination to be the best.

God bless the new generation of young people in their 20's & 30's who seem to see beyond the horrors created by previous generations in many nations, not just Ireland.

The other question is , whats the point since justice has been overrided by the peace process and all such crimes are subject to the eraly release scheme of the Good Friday Agreement that now sees terrorists in government jobs and such like?

I`m sure he didn`t `dis` your flag golffan but his flag of choice is the Northern Ireland flag not the British Union jack or Republic of Ireland tricolour. The rioting in East Belfast is unfortuantely a common occurance at this interface area with this particular riot on Manday apparently being kicked of by an attack on a protestant girl and Loyalist houses by Nationalists on the saturday (reported in the Belfast Tele the other day) and sectarian killings nothing new either with the IRA being implicated last week by a report into the Kingsmills massacre where 10 protestant textile workers had their van stopped on their way to work, the 1 Catholic told to run away and the 10 protetants shot dead. Nobody wants to return to that.

Thanks for clearing that up golffan. I thought he threw it. I feel silly now for jumping to conclusions. It just goes to show how a situation could be completely misread.