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What would you sacrifice for the island whole again?

voz es

I was thinking about this since it is quite relevant right now. I'm thinking about how we would manage to integrate the 6 counties back into our country, if it ever occurred.

I think myself that it wont only be the €6000 tax per a household that I being told by others about but genuine steps will need to be made in order to integrate the whole of Ulster.

I think myself that if it were to occur the whole of parliament would need to be moved to Belfast. Could we continue to call the Garda the Garda?

So what would you be willing to sacrifice for a 32 counties?

Oh and I realise in advance I'm leaving my self quite open for abuse, but then I think about Martin McGuinness reaching across the table with his arm out reached.

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silverharp

not a cent but the Angelus i could move on

Permabear

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gw80

I was recently talking to a guy from belfast, his business involved him driving quiet a lot,around Ireland, he drove a 4lt audi a8,
We got into talking about his car and i asked him how much he was paying for tax and insurance, he said about £400 for tax and somthing like £250 for insurance or vise versa, he nearly died when i told him he would pay up to about 3 grand in tax in the south on that car,
Just on that reason alone, why anyone in the north want to join in to be gouged out of it by the state and private gougers we have in the republic,

Conall Cernach

I'd sacrifice everyone who has ever posted on Boards. It's the only way we'll ever have peace.

Jrop

alchemist33 wrote: »

Having effectively married into Protestantism, I can reassure you that I'm feeling 15% less guilty and the traybakes are exquisite.

Damn must have married into the wrong branch of Protestantism cos no traybakes :P:P

The Specialist

Nothing, don't have any interest in it.

ScumLord

6 grand is a bit much, offer them 3. We can break it up and sell off the counties individually.

Galwayguy35

Nothing.

Once the Prods arrived there 400 years ago the game was up and it is too costly for us to take back now anyway.

Now that EU money will soon dry up let the Brits pay for it.

I don't think the boys on the Shankhill realise how unpopular they will be in a few years time when it's costing Britain even more to keep it going.

DellyBelly

Be great on a sporting front. We could then claim Darren Clarke, Graham McDowell and Rory Mcilroy as our own.

Elemonator

I don't think it would cost as much as common thought seems to suggest. I hear the example of East Germany all the time but people seem to forget that it was part of the Soviet Union for 50 years and hadn't seen much investment, hence poor infrastructure.

Tax here isn't bad despite what people say. I'd wish some people would take a tour of Scandinavia, Denmark and the like. The only difference is they get services, we don't.

amcalester

I'd sacrifice Sinn Fein.

Glenster

Would you sacrifice 2 thirds of Connacht, say Mayo Sligo and Galway (Yes, the good bits)

For northern Ireland?

A Little Pony

gw80 wrote: »

I was recently talking to a guy from belfast, his business involved him driving quiet a lot,around Ireland, he drove a 4lt audi a8,
We got into talking about his car and i asked him how much he was paying for tax and insurance, he said about £400 for tax and somthing like £250 for insurance or vise versa, he nearly died when i told him he would pay up to about 3 grand in tax in the south on that car,
Just on that reason alone, why anyone in the north want to join in to be gouged out of it by the state and private gougers we have in the republic,

I was reading it costs like 50+ euros to get a meeting with a GP and you pay for subscriptions?

EagererBeaver

Elemonator wrote: »

I hear the example of East Germany all the time but people seem to forget that it was part of the Soviet Union for 50 years

Maybe wherever you're from can invest in some good history textbooks as well.

Galwayguy35

A Little Pony wrote: »

I was reading it costs like 50+ euros to get a meeting with a GP and you pay for subscriptions?

Yep and go to A and E and sit for hours to be seen and get charged 100 euro for it.

pilly

Glenster wrote: »

Would you sacrifice 2 thirds of Connacht, say Mayo Sligo and Galway (Yes, the good bits)

For northern Ireland?

I'd sacrifice Mayo for any one of the six counties.

:D:D

ScumLord

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Yep and go to A and E and sit for hours to be seen and get charged 100 euro for it.

Go to the likes of westdoc first (if it's outside of GP hours) and they'll send you to the hospital, I don't think you pay the €100 then.

Jawgap

on the plus side, we'd get an extra bank holiday and easier access to bowler hats

Cee-Jay-Cee

Absolutely zero. I don't want the 6 counties as part of Ireland.

I know in my heart and soul that it will never happen in my lifetime and probably not in my children's life time either. You have to remember that there are approx 50% of the NI population which would be staunchly opposed to such a unification. Convincing them otherwise isn't going to happen anytime remotely soon.

BrokenArrows

Unifying NI with the Republic will only work if they spend years of failure outside of the UK.

It would be too much to ask them to leave the UK and join the Republic because there is too much financial impact to the people living there.

Currently UK pay less income tax and have the NHS for healthcare.

Asking them to stump up another few K per year in taxes and to drop free healthcare would be enough to cause an uprising by itself.

If the leave the UK they would need to govern themselves for a while and if it is an economic failure they can be accepted into the Republic and you wont have any whining about what they have lost.

Mickeroo

Nothing, makes no difference to me either way.

valoren

We came very close to bankrupting the 26 that we have as is.

irishejit

Winterlong wrote: »

Something like 220,000 people in northern ireland work in the UK public sector. Absorbing that in a united ireland would be a tad difficult.

That's a bit misleading, and people often confuse Public Sector with Civil Service.

The Civil Service employs 23,422 as of Jan 2017. Source. And a lot of people assume both terms mean the same thing.

Public Sector figures include Police, Council Workers, Hospital Workers, Firemen to name just a few professions. These have fallen too since 2014 with numerous job cuts and redundancy schemes ran this last 3 years. This currently stands at around 202,000 (this figure includes the 23k Civil Service employees)

In fact Public Sector employment in the UK as a whole has fallen by over 1 million since the report you quote was published, and with the way things are going these jobs are going to keep declining in number.

cuculainn

How about sacrificing, our status as a republic. Become a unified island, and take Scotland's place in the UK when they get independence.

That way we would get the best of both worlds. United Ireland and cheap car tax/insurance.....etc

dinorebel

cuculainn wrote: »

How about sacrificing, our status as a republic. Become a unified island, and take Scotland's place in the UK when they get independence.

That way we would get the best of both worlds. United Ireland and cheap car tax/insurance.....etc

FrancieBrady head explode:D

Mr.Micro

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Absolutely zero. I don't want the 6 counties as part of Ireland.

I know in my heart and soul that it will never happen in my lifetime and probably not in my children's life time either. You have to renember that there are approx 50% of the NI population which would be staunchly opposed to such a unification. Convincing them otherwise isn't going to happen anytime remotely soon.

Indeed. We can't even manage what we have.

dinorebel

I live in Donegal and it's just not a conversation people are having I work in a large company with employees from both North and South and nobody seems to care.

voz es

dinorebel wrote: »

I live in Donegal and it's just not a conversation people are having I work in a large company with employees from both North and South and nobody seems to care.

Are you sure it's not just avoided?

ED E

If Britain will take the Healy Raes off us I'd be happy to foot the welfare/NHS bill for the north. Definite net gain.

dinorebel

voz es wrote: »

Are you sure it's not just avoided?

I could understand that at work with people from both communities here but amongst friends and acquaintances away from work it very rarely comes up even with republican friends.