Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone View Post
Well, to be honest, given views you've expressed in the past, it does come off as pretty snarky. But that's not really what my post was about. I don't imagine you're out there skulking in an alley-way someplace in Glasgow, ready to glass the next Celtic fan that crosses your path stumbling out of a bar.

But these people DO exist... In the USA, in Scotland, in Canada, in Australia....and it's not limited to anti-Irish bias, it's an anti-Catholic sentiment. I'm wondering aloud to it's causes and whether it'll ever subside. I suspect probably not, as the progenitor of it, English nationalism, has already made it's peace and moved on. The rest of the English speaking world though seems mired in it.
If that was the intent of the op I apologise for my dismissive reply, it came across as the typical Irish American view with no real idea of the situation in Northern Ireland bemoaning the fate of the poor Catholics in Northern Ireland. Though you have to admit the use of the words Tiocfaidh ár lá and Orange made that an easy assumption to make. And I'm not saying it has been a bed of roses for the Irish Catholics over the last 800 years either, unfortunately it does look to the Protestant community at times that the forgive and forget part of peace is very one sided.