Scottish sectarianism gets the green light
Scotland's battle with sectarianism has moved onto the roads -- or, more accurately, the pavements. Apparently, the green lenses in traffic lights have become a . Since January 2004, 205 traffic signals have been attacked in the town of Larkhall, in South Lanarkshire, at a cost of £16,880, with most incidents involving green lights. The town council has now erected grilles in front of lights. Some readers in Northern Ireland may be moved by this story to tut and note that even in the worst days of the Troubles, "we" didn't attack green or amber traffic lights. That's right. We had drive-by shootings instead. And even though we now have a working Executive, Northern Ireland still tops the polls for sectarianism and .
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Yeah ive never known of traffic lights to be attacked like this in northern ireland. there's prob not much difference between this and attacking someone because of the colour of their football shirt. Scotland's sectarianism has been an open secret for years and it's good that more people are now talking about it. name it, shame it.
Yes Franky from Andytown, you'd know all about sectarianism with some of the bigotted & sectarian bin-lid comments you phone into Talkback every day!
Green eyed monster