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Why are they collecting for the publican when he already chose his most favourable outcome... to ensure the guilty parties got banged up for 3 months? After all his building & contents Insurance will ensure damages are covered? Just in time to accomodate numerous marching bands with UDA flags on Lundys day the week before Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by bohs til i die
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Originally Posted by dortie
I know what you're saying but as a PR gesture from decent Bohs fans it works!
Poor Student,if this thread had been in the i l secrion of the forum it would have been blocked long ago'
Panel is on now - wonder if this will get a mention?
Is there any danger with Bohs collecting money for the publican that they are in some way suggesting they are responsible?
I suppose either way we can't win.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
You sound disappointed.Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
If they smash up another pub and the publican decides to choose the same action will gypos did deep into their pockets again?Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Hopefully we won't get to find out....Quote:
Originally Posted by Raheny Red
Fair play to him. it would have been too easy to have taken the money. Nice to see the scumbags get what they deserve.Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
so whats the story, how many are out now and how many are going to have to stay for the duration?
2 have appealed the sentance and are out on bail until that appeal is held. the other two ahven't appealed as of yesterday
They must like the food and/or "physical recreation" in the shower block... :eek: :ball:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
As - I hope - the final installment in this story, I copied and pasted this from the Bohs MB: (Posted by Bionic Bohs)
I would like to thank everybody who helped with yesterday’s handover of the money collected to Kingsley Curry in the Tavern Bar in Derry. I would particularly like to thank PigBodine for organisational work, BARD for getting the Directors to support the initiative, LukeO and Neil for getting the bus of Bohs fans there, Gerry Houston for organising the Derry City fans, most of whom were visiting the Tavern Bar for the first time, and Dotsy for filming the event for a future BohsTV piece.
The event was a great success, and was a very emotional occasion with Mr Curry and his customers saying they would never have believed that there would be such a mix of people in their bar. There were fans and directors of both Bohemians and Derry City mixing with the usual customers of the bar, plus the Mayor of Derry Drew Thompson of the DUP, Councillor Sean Carr of the SDLP, and Dean William Morton.
On behalf of the Bohemians fans, we presented Mr Curry with a thousand euro cheque and a Bohemians jersey. We also gave him a letter from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, which I have copied below. On behalf of the club, Denis Maher presented Mr Curry with a club pennant and scarf, and invited him and his wife to be the guest of the club for our Cup Semi-Final against Cork next week. Mr Curry also gave us a china ornament with an imprint of the Guildhall of Derry, and he, his wife and his staff put on a very welcome sandwich buffet for everyone there.
We got a lot of direct media coverage yesterday, including live interviews on Radio Foyle and RTE Radio’s Drivetime programme, and a recorded piece for the BBC Northern Ireland Television News. We may of course get other coverage over the next few days. But more importantly, we brought together a group of people who would normally never have met, including for example one Republican who had not been in the Tavern bar for thirty years, and we made a lot of new friends for future visits to Derry.
We also heard first-hand from staff and customers who were present when the bar was attacked, and they certainly went through a very frightening experience to which they reacted courageously and which outraged people throughout the City. Thankfully, while the people of Derry will always remember the attack on the Tavern Bar as a violent crime on innocent people, they will now also be able to associate it with the positive goodwill generated by everybody involved yesterday.
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Everyone lived happily ever after. The End.
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Bohs and Derry fans at The Tavern:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-o0oq_rcsM
was that the actual bar or an office?? if the bar, strangest ive seen!!
well done to bohs and derry fans though, fair play.
Yes well done to the genuine decent Bohs, Derry City and Galway United fans who also contributed to the whiparound!
It was a function room/back bar. There was food laid on and everything. £2.30 a pint too! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by biscuit
thought so...good one, and no food poisining from the sambos??:p:D
a good result all round!!
I'd Like the echo what the Board said "I hope the memory of this gesture will live longer than the memory of what these thug's did"
Bohs Till I Die. Real Bohs Fans the Best in The World
Well done to everyone involved - a cracking thing to do. Rather than divide people, it seems the actions of those who trashed the bar has actually helped to inch people closer to together - north and south, and even within Derry itself.
I think I've only ever been in the Tavern once in my life - and that would've been about 17 years ago. But I'm gonna to pop in when I'm back at Christmas to have a wee nosey and see if they've got the Bohs penant up yet... :D
I hope the City fans there can keep a wee dialogue going with Mr Curry and help open a link for the club into the residents of the Fountain as well.
Great stuff to see all round.
"But I'm gonna to pop in when I'm back at Christmas to have a wee nosey and see if they've got the Bohs penant up yet... :D"
I hope your taking the **** steve! A lot of scum frequent that bar! You would feel intimidated walking past it when they're out smoking.
The locals in there were sound I have to say. Genuinely nice people welcomed us with open arms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucky-O'Hare
We'll there's one way to find out Bucky..... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucky-O'Hare
Five people in there when the Bohs fans trashed the place - incl 2 Canadian tourists...? Aye - wile intimidating place......
Sure half the bars in Derry would terrify you if you saw their clientele hanging out outside... :D
Come on now BP - don't ruin Bucky's perception of the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Maybe it just attracts intimidating sorts to it's doorway for an aul' feg......?
a bit cringy, but fair play great to see things like that bring all sides together. I wonder what pond the mayor fishes in "southern Ireland" :D
Did they play "through the barricades" for added atmosphere?
Wouldnt walk past that place even if i was a champion power walker with a helmot and body armour, anyone who thinks any different is either not a realist or living in cloud cuckoo land. Try visiting outside of public relations hours without the media present !Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucky-O'Hare
I've walked past there literally dozens of times - including in much, much rougher years than these are.Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
No media present, no public relations, not even a tourist in sight. Not a hint of trouble nor even a sinister look neither.
Have you been in the bar yourself Dortie ?
Lets just say i wouldnt entertain anyone or any place that permits UDA/UFF flag waving bandsmen into their establishment every year, whether it be burn a tricolour night on July 12th or burn a resemblance of a traitor night during the month of December.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Not to mention a self proclaimed 'Loyalist' bar.
I was just trying to offer u a bit of sound advice ya arrogant f**ker!! When the term loyalist bar is used in this case, we aren't talking about constitutional loyalists! If those 4 bohs "fans" went to that place on a saturday afternoon they wouldnt make it through the door! But u go right ahead steve, lets hope you get what u need!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
So how do you know what it's like on a normal afternoon or evening outside of Parades times if you've never been there....? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
Maybe it is just normally a bar with 5 fairly inocuous locals and the odd Canadian tourist....
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Thanks for the advice Bucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucky-O'Hare
I'll try to put a jumper on over my Wolfe Tones T-Shirt and remove my Easter Lilly before I pop in for a nosey.......
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The fact that it hosts and welcomes such punters twice a year is enough to tell me that the usual inocuous locals dont have a problem with sectarianism. Or do they drink somewhere else on those occasions, i think not.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Have to say fair play lads, hopefully this will galvanise the clubs fans against the scum minority
just wondering how you know this?Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
What about the random Canadian tourists. Are they also now confirmed Orange bigots...?Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
Does that mean that everyone who drinks in the Bogside Inn (a much, much bigger bar) and the numerous other bars that those attending Republican rallies like the Easter Parade in the Bogside go to therefore all also have no problem with sectarianism...? :confused:
They used to always collect for the Republican prisoners (PDF) every Sunday on the grounds of my local church when I was a kid. Would that therefore mean that everyone who went to Pennyburn church also has no problem with sectarianism, for example...? :confused:
As Bob Dylan wrote "The times they are a'changing". It's usually best to at least try to keep up with change.
I am certain the tourists are not orange bigots, just in the wrong place at the wrong time unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
The Bogside Inn or Catholic Church has never labelled itself a 'Republican Establishment', not to mention publicly in the media, unlike our local 'Loyalist' establishment.
As for Bob Dylan, im sure many a fan was easily brainwashed with his ideology ! Thankfully i was never a fan.
I live in Derry, its common knowledge.Quote:
Originally Posted by gspain