Belfast Prosperous Ten Years On Since Peace Agreement

[BikergearUK]

fresh face hooker-(name sais it all) go away! and tell your people to spell colour right! TWAT

[lukesdaddy100]

freshface, the americans made the change, sure you did, it was after all america that supplied the ira with the guns and money to go out and destroy the country in the first place, stay in your police state america, you are not welcome here

[freshfacehooker]

belfast still has alot of changing to do. im american. my dad grew up in n,belfast. i am now living here and would like to see all the bonfires to end and the loyalist areas to not have those fucking stupid painting of armed men with guns, with slogans saying,no surrender and bullshit like that you ppl need to GET OVER IT! AMERICA MADE YOU ALL CHANGE HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­A!

[herpfreakuk]

yes your right about the murals but its also prods rights to enjoy a bonfire, only it should NOT be a sectarian symbol

[Xboxdude343]

well your right about the loyalist scum after all they started it by burning bombay st and how did america change think you go i wrong way around ireland made you change

[freshfacehooker]

huh??

[phantomsuccour]

@freshfacehooker actually america provided the bombs that killed many people in NI

[eyleseo]

It's disgusting to see some of the pro-terrorist comments left on this video in the last 4 or 5 messeges, this is precisley what Northern Ireland has moved on from and the people who leave these are a small minority,small enough to equal they're small minds..Belfast is as normal a city as any other in Europe now and visitors should not be disuaded from visiting this lovely area of the United Kingdom.

[tsu921]

normal a city as any other in europe. does that include the 40ft walls to seperate people?

[herpfreakuk]

someday those walls wont be hear

[eyleseo]

I dont agree with the walls but unfortunately they are there because they still need to be,they aren't in a tourist area tho obviously and apart from those I think Belfast has come a long way,You only have to look at the flights available to it from places in Europe to see that,compare it with 20 years ago and the differences is plain to see,I would love to see the day the walls are removed would you not ?

[conr16]

@eyleseo Do you love to propogate a myth? Belfast isnt a normal city, "as normal as any other in Europe". Where else in Europe do the police allow criminals to run around freely in selective areas of the city due to them informing on paramilitaries? No where. Maybe in Bosnia or Serbia or Kosovo but no where else. The majority of Belfast is split into sectarian divides, including schools. The majority of kids grow up in 1 denominational schools and dont see the "other side" untill after leaving.

[eyleseo]

@conr16 Only people like us can change that tho, yes we can complain about it, but unless parents stop allowing their kids to go out and not know what they are at (rioting) and take control of them, send them to integrated schools and make them see that religion should not matter, then things will move at a very slow pace in some respects here. Ok maybe I was wrong when I said Belfast is a normal city, maybe I meant it is getting more normal, and had potential...like I say its up to us

[conr16]

@eyleseo Unless you are lucky enough to live in a leafy wealthy suburb or completely outside of Belfast in Crumlin, Glenavy up in Antrim etc etc then the only thing that has changed is that car-bombs dont explode anymore. Gunshots still go off and people still riot and fight on an almost weekly basis. You may say well thats me just propogating the negative lifestyle of Belfast, but im sorry its the truth. For someone on the Malone Road it might not be but where i live HRF or Hoods Run Free.

[eyleseo]

@conr16 when i wrote that comment 2 years ago, things were not as bad as they are now thanks to so called dissident republicans,but in general I still think Belfast and Northern Ireland in general is on the up, terrorists and hoods wont be allowed to rule society and when police are fully allowed to do their jobs by the policing board then things such as what you mention in some areas may improve, that and the fact that the community in these areas need to be on the side of the police also.

[conr16]

@eyleseo The police are scum, sorry, not ALL officers of the PSNI are.. the upper echelons are definately.. or whoever pulls the strings so to speak. And before you write something to the contrary, how can you explain to me that areas like Divis, Saint James, Poleglass, Twinbrook, Turf Lodge and the Murph all have high crime rates which is commited time and time again by the same fellas? And when they do get lifted they are out on bail or do a short whack in Jokebank due to 50% remmision. Touts.

[eyleseo]

@conr16 Its not just as simple as saying that the police are scum, I know for certain that if something terrible happens to you, you may well rely on the police,and be genuinely lost without them when it comes to the crunch.If you really have an issue with the psni then take it out on the policing board, because they pull the chief constables strings, ask the likes of martina anderson and alex maskey why areas such as st james and poleglass etc have higher crime rates.

[conr16]

The PSNI use criminals as informants that is one of the main reasons why crime is so high in the areas i named. Heres how it goes - say i live in West Belfast and i burgle a house wherever, in the process i stroke a car, later on i get scooped and get taken to Woodbourne, after a while a Anti-Terror/Special Branch man comes in and i agree to give info on local Republicans, im then free'd and paid money up front. If i live in a non-paramilitary area or if i refuse to tout i'd go to hydebank.

[eyleseo]

@conr16 I know that in some areas things have not progressed,but looking at the bigger scale of things, they have.Maybe the solution for these certain areas is going to take longer to discover,but paramilitarism isn't the answer to anything long term.

Hopefully things will improve for you.

[conr16]

@eyleseo And then you wonder why the RA or cough cough ONH have my community crying out for something to be done and so many young fellas get tapped in the legs, then how many of the gunmen and women are jailed? Think how many have ever been charged yet alone jailed for a kneecapping? My community supports that action because of the police inaction against criminals and using them as ten pound touts. How can you ask my community to "be on the side" of scum that allow drug dealers to run rampant?

[eyleseo]

@conr16 Im not asking your community to be on the side of anything bud, I dont live within your community to be able to know enough about it,but how do you know yourself that your community supports the action of kneecapping and worse? Has there been a door to door census taken on the matter,or are the community just too scared to speak out and say that they deplore things like kneecappings and punishment beatings?

[conr16]

@eyleseo People do speak out against punishment beatings and shootings because i will admit that at times certain OC's of different areas would let power get to their heads and then have a "who does this 16, 18, 21 or 24 year old kid think they are? i'll show him not to mess with me again". A wee man named Barney Cairns belted a RA-man in the face after he slabbered to him for standing in the street drinking a tin of beer, they then came and blew off his legs, subsequently he hung himself...

[imatim1888]

all you unionist are squatters in ireland ,go home .tiocfadh ar la

[imatim1888]

you can never surrender something you never owned . tiocfadh ar la

[mcilwrath2005]

We own the world.....FUCK THE POPE AND THE IRA.......WE ARE THE UVF

[jonathanb014]

NO SURRENDER EEYYOO

[devilchild177]

belshaft <3 lol

[STPATSCM92]

TIOCFAIDH AR LA

[jumpingjack7877]

nice to see a positive video on here about the north

[marsonabike]

The Crown Bar, what a pub. I live and work in Belfast and it is now a completly different city. The days of 1000lb bombs exploding on a regular basis are gladly over. Just a pity that all those people were killed of wounded over the last 40yrs becaues people were fighting over wether an invisible super being was on their side or not. In a recent Quaker survey, religion is viewed as the number one evil in society in the UK, greater than poverty.

[anthonyjamesireland]

in the world.

[conr16]

in reply to marsonabike - The conflict was never about "religion" or "god" who ever told you that needs their head checked out. It wasnt, isnt and never will be a "religious war".. Get a clue or are you too young to have expierenced the conflict mate?

[marsonabike]

I'm 38, lived in Belfast most of my life, had friends and relatives killed and have been close to being wiped out a few times myself myself. So tell me, what was 1690 all about then, Catholic James V Protestant William, I think you are the one who needs a history lesson.