Irish Current Affairs.

[mancity2012_eamo]

My father shares your views, but in the South anyway, Sinn Feins success is due to the corruption of FF and the fucking non entity that is FG and labour.

The health service, high taxation/poor services, homelessness and the abomination of the housing market has driven younger voters who did not grow up in the troubles into SF. SF have also been clever an put front and centre good communicators with no historical link to the IRA. People like Mary Lou and Pierce Doherty are far more effective communicators than anything FG/FF have.

Sadly, all true.

 

[mat]

Roll on Monday.

I can't see the DUP turning up but you never know.

 

[Magicpole]

Roll on Monday.

I can't see the DUP turning up but you never know.

I have to laugh at the Staunch Unionists. Going fucking mental about the Brexit Protocols where the vast majority of that tribe voted leave. Talk about thick as fuck? Go figure.

 

[bluethrunthru]

That old empty threat recycled again

i Front Page 9th of May 2022 - Tomorrow's Papers Today!

According to the i, the Government is seeking an urgent change to the Northern Ireland Protocol because it is dissatisfied with trade policies that create a "border in the Irish Sea".

www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

That old empty threat recycled again

i Front Page 9th of May 2022 - Tomorrow's Papers Today!

According to the i, the Government is seeking an urgent change to the Northern Ireland Protocol because it is dissatisfied with trade policies that create a "border in the Irish Sea".

www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk

It really is like stepping back in time.
Trouble is, just claiming Ulster Says No, nowadays is not completely accurate.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I’ll place this here too.


Edward Carson:

• What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power.
  • Speech in the House of Lords (14 December 1921)

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I’ll drop this here. Could put it in a few different threads at this stage.
I think it a fair summation and shows that the guarantees to the unionist communities in the North that are afforded to them in the GFA, should they find themselves in the minority in the future, were never afforded to a minority of nationalists North of the gerrymandered border which guaranteed unionist power.

Unionism in the north east of the whole country would have been a much smaller minority as a whole, compared to the nationalist minority in the set up new state.

We down south know this and knew this when we overwhelmingly voted in favour of the GFA. We knew what the agreement meant going forward which is why I could never understand the UP (boycotting the D) being so against it. Against it until now that is, when it’s suddenly of use to them.

 

[bluethrunthru]

One can only hope the DUP intransigence and general wreck it Ralph approach will result in the dinosaur denying DUP being obliterated having hitched their horse to the wrong wagon

 

[bluethrunthru]

I didn't watch it but did they?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

They did indeed. Although it was during a rap about sport so maybe not so controversial e.g. One Irish international rugby team.

Queen’s Jubilee: WATCH – Major error as BBC Platinum Party at the Palace concert displays Irish tricolour to represent Northern Ireland

A major faux pas has occurred in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, which were staged at Buckingham Palace and broadcast last night.

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