tricolour stickers around the place

Four-Percent

devereaux17 wrote: »

i cant wait for a united ireland and then we change the national flag, what should the new one be?

nonexistent.

devereaux17

oh clever, well what i mean is that the irish flag stands for unity amongst nationalists and unionists but surely a peaceful united ireland would mean that well ireland would be completely different and i don't think the religion should come into it, because then we should put the islamic star onto the flag to represent the fastest growing religion in ireland, so we need to have a whole new flag, we should make a cool one like brazil

ummm maby we should change the name of the country as well? Atlantis anyone?

An Fear Aniar

devereaux17 wrote: »

i cant wait for a united ireland and then we change the national flag, what should the new one be?

Not gonna happen, forget about it. The island of Ireland has never been under one rule at any time, this island was always politically divided - even since the days of Leath Mhogha and Leath Cuinn. It's about time people got used to it.

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DTrotter

PirateShampoo wrote: »

And whats the reason for the Anti-British rant?

Last time i checked they didn't make our road signs.

And i don't see anywhere in this thread anyone being offended by the Irish flag. Think you should take a deep breath and lose the imaginary British chip on you'r shoulder.

Well it's their fault the language is dying, the hill of tara being bull dozed and most people supporting man utd, liverpool etc.

~me~

ive seen them around maynooth as well, have been wondering for a while what they're about... not that any of that adds to the thread at all..

ShooterSF

DTrotter wrote: »

Well it's their fault the language is dying, the hill of tara being bull dozed and most people supporting man utd, liverpool etc.

Oh oh. Quick someone let United and Liverpool know that someone is onto to them. They might as well drop the whole "playing football" cover and admit they were just set up to destroy the Irish language. I miss having national Irish speaking class on Satuday afternoons at 3 o'clock. It all went down hill when they started televising the premiership.

994

Bandit12 wrote: »

Imagine that. Irish people who are proud of their flag.:eek: They must be all racists then huh.

Why would one be proud of a bit of cloth? it's not even a nice flag. East Timor, they have a stylish flag.

PirateShampoo

DTrotter wrote: »

Well it's their fault the language is dying, the hill of tara being bull dozed and most people supporting man utd, liverpool etc.

Typical Irish small mindedness, blame everybody else except our selves. Its not the British fault nobody speaks Irish outside of the Gaeltacht because last time i checked it was being taught in all the schools.

And last time i checked the British dont plan our roads, which is a shame because our road net work sucks compared to the UK.

Oh and theres a reason why people support United and Liverpool. Its because League of Ireland sucks ass.

darkman2

I noticed these especially on the newer motorways in Co Dublin like the M1 - I thought they were put there by the contrators for some novel reason.

devereaux17

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Typical Irish small mindedness, blame everybody else except our selves. Its not the British fault nobody speaks Irish outside of the Gaeltacht because last time i checked it was being taught in all the schools.

And last time i checked the British dont plan our roads, which is a shame because our road net work sucks compared to the UK.

Oh and theres a reason why people support United and Liverpool. Its because League of Ireland sucks ass.

Sure why not just have a European Super League?:rolleyes:

PirateShampoo

devereaux17 wrote: »

Sure why not just have a European Super League?:rolleyes:

Because if we did it would destroy the Domestic leagues.

AdamusAdonis

PirateShampoo wrote: »

And last time i checked the British dont plan our roads, which is a shame because our road net work sucks compared to the UK.

Well...

A bit of background:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/new-14km-stretch-of-motorway-shortens-trip-up-to-belfast-1049415.html

The route:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.087791,-6.333275&spn=0.142573,0.308647&z=12

Description:
Instead of cutting the border at roskeagh, the M1 runs paralell to an indent on the southern stretch of the border (on the Irish side).

To start, does this mean we paid more? and to get back to the point, does this imply that the road was planned externally or that Irish road planners are... a little slow?

PirateShampoo

AdamusAdonis wrote: »

Well...

A bit of background:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/new-14km-stretch-of-motorway-shortens-trip-up-to-belfast-1049415.html

The route:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.087791,-6.333275&spn=0.142573,0.308647&z=12

Description:
Instead of cutting the border at roskeagh, the M1 runs paralell to an indent on the southern stretch of the border (on the Irish side).

To start, does this mean we paid more? and to get back to the point, does this imply that the road was planned externally or that Irish road planners are... a little slow?

Whats ur point? Are you saying our road infrastructure is better than the UK's?

AdamusAdonis

basically: NO!

allow me to narrow the quote down to "And last time i checked the British dont plan our roads".

Then have another wee look at my conclusion

garbanzo

What I heard was that it was a bunch of lads from the Continuity Dyslexic Ivory Coast-ians ? ?

PirateShampoo

AdamusAdonis wrote: »

basically: NO!

allow me to narrow the quote down to "And last time i checked the British dont plan our roads".

Then have another wee look at my conclusion

oh right, sorry

Larianne

I've seen a good few of these around - M1 and back of signs on roundabouts. But I've just been to JC's Supermarket in Swords and at the bottom of the rail at the steps near the bus stop was a tiny one of this flags. WTF?

bricky10

Theres one on the N4

Stoner

Don't know if there has been a thread for this already but for the past 4 months I've been noticing an increased number of small to large tricolours on traffic lights and bridges on the M50. Anyone else notice this? are they tracked.

1st one i noticed was on the M50 North exit at the redcow
2nd On the M50 near Sandyford
3rd On a bollard outside the Esso Starion on the Navan road near castleknock

Since then I've noticed loads more.

Anyone else even bothered?

donkey balls

there was a thread on this a few weeks ago i will try and dig it up

Smcgie

Is that them green white and orange ones' or the green white and gold?

Sharpshooter

Thread merged.:pac:

genericguy

flogen wrote: »

I've spotted a load of tricolour stickers popping up around the place in the past few weeks on road signs, traffic lights and motorway fly-overs etc. and I'm trying to figure out who's behind them.

noope, but some fella called "bollox" wrote his name all over the walls in the park near my house.

IIMII

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

Not gonna happen, forget about it. The island of Ireland has never been under one rule at any time, this island was always politically divided - even since the days of Leath Mhogha and Leath Cuinn. It's about time people got used to it.

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Surprised you know that much and don't know of Brian Boru? And was England much different to that up until the time of the Normans? Anyway, lets just say if we hadn't been occupied and settled by colonists, we would have evolved like every other European country. Remember, it isn't the decendants of the native Irish that have the island divided - it is the decendants of those colonists that were planted here to maintain British power in Ireland that are still following their 400 year old programming today

Squeaksoutloud

I have been wondering what the deal with these stickers is for ages aswell. Someone told me that it was discussed on the Gerry Ryan Radio show and that it has something to do with Irish jobs for Irish workers? Can anyone confirm this? Interested to know!

Tallaght Twin

After 2 threads, four years of questions, and hundreds of little tricolours on road signs up and down this land, and no one knows what it's all about. Is it an arts project...a Banksy style guerrilla arts project? 4.5 million people in this land, and no one has seen anyone placing these flag stickers?

electrobanana

Tallaght Twin wrote: »

After 2 threads, four years of questions, and hundreds of little tricolours on road signs up and down this land, and no one knows what it's all about. Is it an arts project...a Banksy style guerrilla arts project? 4.5 million people in this land, and no one has seen anyone placing these flag stickers?

That's so 2009

Sulla Felix

I didn't realize dlofnep and chin grin closed their accounts

Tallaght Twin

Thanks for your input. Now back to the question. Does anyone know who is putting up these stickers?

Please start a new thread if you wish yo discuss this subject.
Thanks.