Date: August 12th, 2026 1:31 PM Author: comical center roast beef
"Security insiders revealed the group is exploiting public anxieties following the stabbing of Stephen Oilvie last month, allegedly by a Sudanese asylum seeker. The incident sparked riots in Belfast."
Wasn't this guy decapitated in the middle of the street on 4k video? Stabbing is underselling it a bit.
Date: August 12th, 2026 1:45 PM Author: Pea-brained Candlestick Maker Business Firm
This is likely a tiny splinter group with no real power. The IRA are, essentially, socialists. Time has passed them by because nobody cares about reuniting Ireland anymore, unfortunately.
Date: August 12th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: electric milky address
how much "real power" does it take for them to cause trouble? seems like they just have to want it badly enough, and speak for enough other people who might not have been IRA types otherwise. hell I bet they could even win over some of the NI loyalists to their cause at least in a cheerleading role.
Date: August 12th, 2026 5:15 PM Author: electric milky address
but they support a united ireland don't they? what I foresee is a bunch of loyalists eventually giving up and just identifying as "protestant irish" and joining the racist IRA along with the catholics, and that's what the final form of irish nationalism ends up being. why wouldn't it?
Date: August 12th, 2026 6:03 PM Author: Pea-brained Candlestick Maker Business Firm
Most people in the Republic don't care about uniting Ireland. Most people in the North probably don't either. The racist drive just isn't there to pull people together on this. THey will, sadly, go the way of ENgland on the immigration issue. Hope I am wrong.
Date: August 12th, 2026 6:08 PM Author: electric milky address
polling in NI has been trending towards unification and it's up to them—they vote and ireland will go along with them. however the UK has to call a referendum first. this doesn't happen partly bc the UK ignores NI but also because they're afraid of sparking sectarianism. but if sectarianism got phased out in favor of racism that'd stop being true.
I see a route to this happening where extremist groups could play a productive role, but they could also blow it for everyone if they do things wrong.
Date: August 12th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: Pea-brained Candlestick Maker Business Firm
The unification thing is interesting. It is not religion or nationalism driven anymore-- it is economic. The Republic is doing better than the UK and northerners probably think Brexit was a bad idea.