DUP brands IRA re-enactment with fake guns a ‘glorification of violence’

James Alexander: This is the sort of thing that media outlets like The Nolan Show turn a blind eye to as part of the agenda to demonise unionism.

Martin McGeown: And yet it’s being discussed today. Funny that.

Darren Millar: I think unionism is doing a pretty good job of that on their own without any perceived media agenda.

Dave Hutch: Are these guys Gerry’s ’they have not gone away, you know’ people? They never went away; they just changed clothes, got into suits and called themselves politicians.

Jake O’Donnghaile: What has this got to do with Gerry Adams? Or, in fact, Sinn Fein?

Dave Hutch: I am surprised, Jake O’Donnghaile, that you ask a stupid question like that. Gunmen out on the streets was Gerry’s answer to everything.

Jake O’Donnghaile: Again, this had nothing to do with Adams, or Sinn Fein. It’s a band with toy guns. Stop trying to blame Sinn Fein when it’s got nothing to do with them.

Colum O Ruairc: Compared to the loyalists, who still have their guns.

Stevie Ritchie: So, republicans don’t have any guns? Colum O Ruairc: Stevie Ritchie, I don’t doubt the small dissident groups are armed. However, traditional mainstream groups of the loyalist community still maintain much of their arsenal from the conflict.

William Bradley: They’ve taken cowboys and indians to a whole new level in the Bogside.

Richard Willighan: Disgusting behaviour from disgusting people. Jeff Scott: And republican trolls complain about Orangemen. Never has a loyalist flute band ever done anything so divisive and obscene. Another example of republican triumphalism and total disregard for victims and community.

Albert Sufferin: They would have nothing to be triumphant about if only the unionist people would stick together. Remember the old war-cry, ‘United we stand, divided we fall’?