Reply #15: The RUC are gone but their memory remains..... [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

The Royal Ulster Constabulary have been disbanded & a Police Service formed to take their place. Many surplus RUC uniforms have been re-purposed--by strippers.

Last March, the Observer's Ireland Editor reported on the phenomenon & interviewed Geoff Dowey, owner of Angels Promotions in North Belfast.

"'I think the reason why there has been an upsurge in demand for the RUC strip show is that people in Northern Ireland like to laugh at themselves. Even former enemies of the police can do that, and surely that's a healthy sign,' he added.

"Dowey could barely be heard over the roars and cheers inside the Pavilion Bar, a pub with a religiously mixed clientele. Most drinkers only had eyes for Angela Woodage, a slender 6ft stripper in an RUC woman's uniform.

"She said she was still surprised at the popularity of the uniform: 'In the hardest republican and loyalist areas they just want me as the RUC woman. The boys ask me to handcuff them and caution them. It's as if they miss the thrill of it all.'"

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4636730-102285,00.html

Two questions:

1) When's Ian Paisley's birthday?

2) Should we send a female stripper--or a male?