On the night of December 3 2012, crowds of angered loyalists took to the streets as councillors voted to no longer fly the flag from city hall 365 days a year.
Footage of a woman screaming "no surrender" while peering through the broken glass of doors at city hall became a defining image of the upheaval which made global headlines. The former deputy lord mayor, who attends the protest with his 75-year-old wife Ann, said that every week tourists and passers-by ask the group for photographs and selfies.
"I know city council officials wouldn't rip it down but that was the terminology used on the leaflet." Mr Dickson acknowledged the city hall protest has "dwindled" over the years, with an "average of around 20 people" now attending and most aged "50 to around about 75".
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You mean FLEG protest with a handful of sad ldiots who fail to understand democracy & wish it was 1690 for eternity? 🙄
He must have nothing to do
Head count not 1 person 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What a load of bullshit. Stop living in the past for feck sake. You had 100 years of sectarianism against Catholics. It is over. You are a minority. Behave yourselves.
Can’t and won’t let go of his bitterness. But all around him time s are changing and people are moving on.
Just on my way to town will let everyone know how many there you can count them on one hand 😂😂😂😂
He probably gets benefits to help him stand and walk up the streets
How about standing up for getting a bloody life?
How terribly sad. Bless him.
Hard not to pity him. Imagine this was your life 🙈
75yo eejit.
Stuck in the past meanwhile all around him life moves on, ah well least it gets him out of the armchair and out the house 🤣🤣
It’s a disrespected lamppost fleg. It symbolises sectarian lawlessness
poor Silly Dickson its not a tourist attraction its a laughing stock.. 'Mon see the pics of us full with these oul ejjits' 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Nobody stood up when the Unionists flag was removed from public buildings- hard talk is not hard action-?- Lol-
Britons don't exactly love unionists in any shape or form.
Flags create boundaries.
theres no fool like an old fool.
Wrap it around you this winter, as your political leadership won’t make sure your provided with anything else, but hay ho least your British 🤦♂️🤦♂️
But he isn’t standing up for a flag. He standing up for holding it over everyone
Watching the World Cup & jealous of the pride folks have in their nation compared to the aggro of this place
Maybe stand up for humans rather than a meaningless fleg? Just a thought
That was such a sad read. He knows he was played by the DUP He knows their rhetoric put out on the leaflets was false (imagine the DUP were lying even then) He knows every one else has gone back down the hill But he just can't, he's stuck in the anger Incredibly sad
.Imagineyourdad
Sad individual
Its fkn Fleg fkn lundy
You could stand up for loads of things better than a flag. The poor, homeless, refugees maybe. Much more value to be had there I'd suggest.
Flegs and statues.
Shagger
Wiser eating grass
It's 'fleg' 😆👍
Pathetic and sad, imagine getting to 75 and this is where your passion in life lies. Also Bill, the lads on the beer pedal things jeer you, I've seen them do it 🤷♂️ To be pitied.
Pathetic...
Sad
Sad bitter sectarian wee man. Bet he spent his hole life hating feninans.
I believe the term is vandal or rioter, attacking a govt building, over a flag protocol that followed the actual monarchy’s own protocols
This Billy 👀👀🤔
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