Irish Unity march disrupted by loyalist terror gangs
After a hiatus of four months the Irish Unity movement returned to the streets of Glasgow (Scotland) today.
Hundreds of Irish Republicans marched in the centre of Glasgow today to demand Irish unification.
The parade was organized by local republican group, the West of Scotland Band Alliance, who gathered to commemorate the 48th anniversary Bloody Sunday.
Bloody Sunday refers to a massacre on January 30, 1972, by British troops in Derry, in which 28 unarmed civilians were shot, killing 14 of them. The event is central to the struggle of Irish republicans of all stripes.
Loyalist violence
As expected, today’s parade was attacked by Loyalist terror gangs calling themselves the National Defence League.
Despite promises yesterday that today’s event will be “comprehensively” policed, Police Scotland failed to adequately disrupt loyalist violence.
According to multiple reports, two people were arrested and a police officer was injured at today’s parade due to Loyalist violence.
Earlier, the so-called National Defence League had urged “Loyalists” to disrupt the parade.
The disruption brought back memories of Loyalist disruption of last summer’s Republican marches in Glasgow. The most serious confrontation took place in the Govan district of Glasgow in late August when hundreds of Loyalists attacked a large Irish unity march led by the James Connolly Republican Flute Band.
The onward march of Irish Unity
Although today’s parade was relatively small in comparison, nonetheless it is a harbinger of what’s to come, especially in the summer season.
The Irish republican movement has been significantly strengthened in the past two years, largely due to two factors: a political crisis in Northern Ireland which is in turn compounded by post-Brexit uncertainty.
From a British perspective, the outlook is so grim, that Jonathan Powell, a former senior British diplomat and Downing Street Chief of Staff under former Prime Minister Tony Blair, said in a BBC interview last December that a “united Ireland” could become reality “within ten years”.
Jonathan Powell believes there will be a United Ireland within ten years. Time for @LeoVaradkar to start preparing for it. #Think32 pic.twitter.com/1mWb2N3Twc
— #Think32 (@Think32_) December 14, 2019
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