Current Affairs Irish Border and Brexit

[Charlie Sweet]

There was not even an issue about peace until he raised it in public. Also, and let’s be very clear here, the ROI did not suffer that greatly, the overwhelmingly greatest number of deaths took place within the U.K., specifically NI. So it was not even Varadkars place to be going on about this in the first place. He has deliberately stirred the pot and he should be ashamed of himself......

If ever there was a single post to nail the ignorance of the UK government and hard Brexit fans it's this.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

If ever there was a single post to nail the ignorance of the UK government and hard Brexit fans it's this.

It was straight out of the Sammy Tache School of Braindead Ranting.

The most loss of life in a single day in the Troubles took place in the Republic.

For which no-one has yet been prosecuted, I might add, due a cover-up by MI6.

 

[Taifi gorm]

I had one of those ancestry dna kits bought for me a couple of Christmas's ago: I found out I was 65% Irish and Scottish (with a genetic community centred around South Down and North Louth) and 35% English, Welsh and North West European.

There you go lad. Jim Larkin was born off to the left there for a bit more of a Scouse connection.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Glad you agree

Don't be naughty now Jeffrey, he doesn't agree. It's the madcap British government that are driving a bus at top speed towards the edge of the cliff and who will find themselves deep in the brown stuff when they go over the edge.

Leo is playing this cool as he knows he has plenty of support in Europe and America. It is the UK that will find itself isolated if it continues along the Path of Doom. You'd be better off joining up with the rest of your country in order to avoid the worst of the consequences.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

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There you go lad. Jim Larkin was born off to the left there for a bit more of a Scouse connection.

Ah.....Flagstaff viewing point showcasing Carlingford Lough in all it's glory. I live a couple of miles from there.

Amazing to think that land on the left of the river is supposedly a different country from the land on the right which is also supposedly a different country from the point from where that pic was taken.

Nah it just isn't.

 

[Khalekan]

I had one of those ancestry dna kits bought for me a couple of Christmas's ago: I found out I was 65% Irish and Scottish (with a genetic community centred around South Down and North Louth) and 35% English, Welsh and North West European.

I have never taken a test like that Dave....I must try it some day,

Anyway....my maternal grandparents are from Belfast and my dad was the son of a Letterkenny, Co. Donegal woman and a man from Rosslare in the County Wexford

Hence my love for and deep rooted family connections with those three Irish regions,

Both parents born in Liverpool, regarded by many as the capital of Ireland

 

[Khalekan]

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There you go lad. Jim Larkin was born off to the left there for a bit more of a Scouse connection.

That is a beautiful photograph.

Carlingford is a mad party town these days lol

 

[Khalekan]

Sammy Tache won’t like this.

Belfast shipyard wirkers and Irish Language activists in a joint protest against Johnson as Stormont.

Harland and Wolff shipyard workers hand letter to PM

Harland and Wolff workers say a commitment was made it would be given to Boris Johnson's aides.

www.bbc.co.uk

lol

 

[davek]

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There you go lad. Jim Larkin was born off to the left there for a bit more of a Scouse connection.

"The pipes the pipes are calling...."

 

[davek]

I have never taken a test like that Dave....I must try it some day,

Anyway....my maternal grandparents are from Belfast and my dad was the son of a Letterkenny, Co. Donegal woman and a man from Rosslare in the County Wexford

Hence my love for and deep rooted family connections with those three Irish regions,

Both parents born in Liverpool, regarded by many as the capital of Ireland

You'd be about 98% Irish...with a bit trace region thrown in.

 

[Khalekan]

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There you go lad. Jim Larkin was born off to the left there for a bit more of a Scouse connection.

Big Jim Larkin....a man among men.

Leader of the Dublin dockers during the Lockout of 1912.

Which is the backdrop to one of my favourite ever novels....Strumpet City by James Plunkett.

 

[davek]

Big Jim Larkin....a man among men.

Leader of the Dublin dockers during the Lockout of 1912.

Which is the backdrop to one of my favourite ever novels....Strumpet City by James Plunkett.

That was a great drama series too. Remember it well.

 

[Khalekan]

You'd be about 98% Irish...with a bit trace region thrown in.

Yes, I must have some Scottish blood because the great Irish patriot from Belfast, Henry Joy McCracken, is among my ancestors and he was a Presbyterian of Planter stock.

 

[davek]

Yes, I must have some Scottish blood because the great Irish patriot from Belfast, Henry Joy McCracken, is among my ancestors and he was a Presbyterian of Planter stock.

Was he any relation to Phil McCracken?

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

That is a beautiful photograph.

Hmmm.....not sure about that sunset which is pretty rare around these parts. Here's one I took of what it normally looks like...