GAA need to step up

regarding signpost there does not need to be binary outcome. a signpost can say Derry/Londonderry. for the 75% who call it Derry why do they need for the londonderry to be taken out? makes no difference to them if it is on the post. But by insisting that it is taken out is dominance and using democracy as excuse for this dominance. Dito with bilingual signs where a minority are in favour of it.

Is you giving out about Londonderry being on the sign not exactly want Downcow is doing with Irish being on the sign outside the orangeman hall?

The name of the city is a bone of contention for Nationalists and Unionists - equality should mean both names be on it, then neither side can say they won or lost.

Why should we need to though? Every town and village in Ireland is signposted in English which isn't the "native" language. Is that not the equivalent of having signs in Irish amongst Unionists by your logic?

I couldn't care less, we'd even spell it correctly.

Whats questionable about the "native" status of Irish? Wales, Scotland, and parts of England also have their native, non English languages - and have dual language signs.

You are lamenting that road signs in NI have got dual language road signs, and that that is an attempt to "stamp out Britishness". But it's DUAL language - it is demonstratedly accomodating British and Irish. Despite your experiences with people you associate with that language, it is Bryson type talk...

You then try to push it further by saying why don't we have signs saying Londonderry or refer to it as that, which is fine. My point is, you are ignoring our WHOLE COUNTRY already has dual language signs. So do we not overwhelmingly accommodate "Britishness"? Or is that also stamping out Britishness, or Irishness in you logic.

You chose to point out the one town that we don't name to your tastes, and use that as justification for you not wanting Irish signs, which are in themselves equality.

Unless you don't want an equal society, which is also your right. But you have seen what type of society that is, and it isn't a happy one. It may have made some people feel good that they dominated and kept the "others" in their place, but the cost of that was enormous, and the actual practical side of living there was much more dangerous and violent.

Since the drive for equality came in, NI is far better, safer place to live for all its citizens.

Nice tool for applying/checking the status of dual signage in the north.

https://www.dearg.ie/en/uirlisi/sraideanna

The ignorance of that speaking Irish and blame comment. And from the lad who says a dual language sign outside his hall equates to "wiping Britishness out of NI" and sees no irony. If your winding me up, fair play!

Yes- 100 years running Roi and we have been doing a pretty fine job of running it all in all.

We've made plenty of mistakes, and still are - but we managed to turn Ireland from being a violent, uneducated, third world poverty stricken hellhole that was poorer than most of the UK and Europe, into one of the most affluent and happy countries in the EU, with a GDP per capita far higher than the UK. People are coming here to live, after centuries of mass emigration.

It's ridiculous how we've come so far. And we aren't stepping on anyone's necks, we aren't sending our soldiers in to plunder, and murder, we aren't oppressing and terrorising populations of people so that we can take their wealth.

Who's to blame for what's gone wrong in NI the last hundred years do you think?

The truth is they fear equality and integration...right across the board from Arlene Foster to Bryson to downcow. It has to be repudiated and diminished in some way.

And of course the pretense is always that they support it.

Flags, anthems, names, none of it bothers me blanch. Change it if you get your rocks off on that stuff.

Does the same thing that several posters here do - sets up a spurious connection 'Gael = militant separatist republican' and has a go.

And this doozzie thrown in there for good measure too:

What a pile of nonsense. The Newsletter really has become a rag.