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St Stevens day and Boxing day

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    #32
    The Backwards Man
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    c_man wrote: »
    Well before that, we'll have to talk about this "The South" business

    Think he means the free state, and if he does he is way off the mark, we are in both the free state and The South and we say Boxing Day.


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    #33
    c_man
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Think he means the free state, and if he does he is way off the mark, we are in both the free state and The South and we say Boxing Day.

    I bet that "practicing atheist" guy from yesterday also calls it Boxing Day :pac:


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    #34
    The Backwards Man
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    c_man wrote: »
    I bet that "practicing atheist" guy from yesterday also calls it Boxing Day :pac:

    Ha, it's amazing how many people forget about how atheist they claim to be when you take St Stephen away from them :p


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    #35
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #36
    circadian
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    Catch yourselves on.

    It's 26th December.


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    #37
    Tarzana2
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    Why do people have such a problem with people calling it 'Boxing Day'? The UK is a different, mostly non-Catholic country, and Donegal, where it's also used, has strong ties to Scotland.


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    #38
    Cantremember
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Think he means the free state, and if he does he is way off the mark, we are in both the free state and The South and we say Boxing Day.

    The Free State ended in 1937. The name of this country I'm in is Ireland or in the Irish language Eire. It's time you caught up.


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    #39
    The Backwards Man
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    Cantremember wrote: »
    The Free State ended in 1937. The name of this country I'm in is Ireland or in the Irish language Eire. It's time you caught up.
    If Oscar Wilde were alive today, he'd probably have to put a :p after every sentence he bleeding wrote.


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    #40
    Cantremember
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    If Oscar Wilde were alive today, he'd probably have to put a :p after every sentence he bleeding wrote.

    No he wouldn't.


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    #41
    mad muffin
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    Éirinn go Brách!!


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    #42
    The Backwards Man
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    Cantremember wrote: »
    No he wouldn't.
    Yes he . . oh


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    #43
    Cantremember
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Yes he . . oh

    Good man.


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    #44
    The Bould Rabbit
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Say Boxing Day in the South and you're always met with an immediate chorus of Stephens Day.

    You should try saying it in Londonderry.


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    #45
    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Why do people have such a problem with people calling it 'Boxing Day'? The UK is a different, mostly non-Catholic country, and Donegal, where it's also used, has strong ties to Scotland.

    We don't have to copy everything they do in the UK.

    You do know that Ireland is a different country than the UK.


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    #46
    lertsnim
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Why do people have such a problem with people calling it 'Boxing Day'? The UK is a different, mostly non-Catholic country, and Donegal, where it's also used, has strong ties to Scotland.

    It's not the UK so why would anybody call it Boxing Day?


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    #47
    The Bould Rabbit
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    lertsnim wrote: »
    It's not the UK so why would anybody call it Boxing Day?

    Its called Boxing Day in many countries apart from the UK but I wouldn't get upset about it if an Irish person used the name.

    Anyway, when I was a kid we never called it St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day or the day after Christmas.

    Down our way it was called Lá an Dreoilín. And a much nicer name it is too.


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    #48
    Cantremember
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    lertsnim wrote: »
    It's not the UK so why would anybody call it Boxing Day?

    To wind people up possibly. Maybe. Hardly.


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    #49
    Straylight
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    Everyone knows the correct name for the day is actually Stephenses Day.


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    #50
    Sunnyisland
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    c_man wrote: »
    Well before that, we'll have to talk about this "The South" business

    The most Northenly part of Ireland is in the south :-)


    http://www.tripadvisor.ie/ShowUserReviews-g186601-d522471-r131141047-Malin_Head-County_Donegal.html


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    #51
    Tarzana2
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    lertsnim wrote: »
    It's not the UK so why would anybody call it Boxing Day?

    Because they do? Why not ask a Donegal person why they say it? There must be some reason, and I'm sure it's a valid one.


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    #52
    The Backwards Man
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Because they do? Why not ask a Donegal person why they say it? There must be some reason, and I'm sure it's a valid one.
    Because we're thran!


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    #53
    crockholm
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Because we're thran!

    Trannies?

    Call it a kilt all you want-it's still a tartan skirt.


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    #54
    The Bould Rabbit
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Why not ask a Donegal person why they say it?

    Because they'd probably tell you.

    Life is short enough.


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    #55
    The Backwards Man
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    crockholm wrote: »
    Trannies?

    Call it a kilt all you want-it's still a tartan skirt.
    Naw, thran. As in stout.


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    #56
    Galwayguy35
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Because they do? Why not ask a Donegal person why they say it? There must be some reason, and I'm sure it's a valid one.

    Well they have an Orange Hall and do the march so maybe thats how they started calling it Boxing Day.


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    #57
    The Backwards Man
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Well they have an Orange Hall
    There's quite a few of them actually, as there are in Cavan and Monaghan and even Dublin.
    and do the march so maybe thats how they started calling it Boxing Day.
    Yes, there is a march in Rossnowlagh every year, and although the vast majority of Donegal people don't bother about it and it always passes of with incident, the fact that there aren't 160,000 people at it would suggest that we don't 'do' it.

    Both of those things have fcuk all to do with why we call the 26th Boxing Day.


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