Cost of a United Ireland and the GFA

I'm fond of more than the occasional drop myself. I prefer Scotch, the wife prefers Irish, so as you'd expect, typically when we're buying a nice bottle we compromise.... and get Irish. Probably should have shares in Redbreast at this point.

You can be Irish and a proud member of the UK, same as you can be from Siciliy and still Italian. Do not forget the union flag consists of the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England, which also represents Wales), edged in white, superimposed on the saltire of St Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), also edged in white, which are superimposed on the saltire of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland). 

Bushmills is in part of the UK, pays its taxes to the UK, is defended by the UK, and is also located in the British Isles.

Geographically they are from the island of Ireland, so it is Irish whiskey, just as geographically they are from the British Isles, which the island of Ireland is part of. No contradiction there.

They also say they are from Northern Ireland, their address is given as 2 Distillery Rd, Bushmills BT57 8XH, United Kingdom. They pay their taxes to the UK and get protection and so on from the UK. When these islands are united people can enjoy the best of all worlds.

So irish whiskey is now northern irish whiskey? The bigots better ask Bushmills to relable the bottles. Irish whiskey is distilled differently to scotch. Whether it be in a distillery in Dublin or Antrim the irish process is the same and tastes different to scotch.

Patrick was from britain but around long before the UK existed and if had any national identity it would have been Roman. But if you say he is British just by the fact he came from a geographical island called Britain then the bigots should have no problem referring people from Ireland as irish by the same logic?? And it is laughable that you think he confined himself to a boundary line in Ireland that he predated by 1.5k years. All over Ireland have places he is associated with. I just googled 10 places associated with patric and 7 were in the south.

Hurling is believed to be played in Ireland for 3k years and is one of the oldest sports in the world. Gealic football also predates the UK. By the fact the GAA was set up in Thurles when all of Ireland was in the union does not make it non Irish.

Irish music and dancing are both unique styles that originate in Ireland. Did the irish ivent dancing? no, did they invent music? no. Every form of dancing, music or language is influenced by another but doesn't stop becoming a different style.

Instead of trying to rip irish culture can you instead tell is this rich culture that is unique to NI that you would describe the NI as a nation rather than just people living within a gerrymandered boundaryline in Ireland. So far we have a packet of crisps or do we even have that? Maybe the user was arguing that different crisps are sold in the different jurisdictions in Ireland.

The reason why it is "irish whiskey" is because irish whiskey has a different style to distilling whiskey to Scotch. This style of distilling three times happens in all irish distillerys whether it is bushmills distillery or in Jamson's. It is not calling itself irish whiskey just because it is distilled in Ireland. It is a cultural difference not geography.

No, even a Speyside whisky is distinctly different from an Irish whiskey. They're very different beyond just peat levels.

There's been an increase in peated Irish whiskies too, still taste noticeably different in character to a peated Scotch.

I don't know what I like yet.

Oh look a shiny bottle...................

So a part of Irish culture and not unique to the 100 year old partitioned jurisdiction of Northern Ireland.

So we have still to find anything that is unique to NI that wasn’t there before partition.

That list has nothing culturally unique to NI the partitioned state.

They are Irish culture and customs.

The ‘Ulster’ fry is a variation of an Irish or English fry. Nothing unique in the slightest. And certainly not to NI as I am from Ulster. Crisps the same, a variation of a foodstuff common across Europe.

If you are reduced to foraging around in the supermarket snacks aisle for your unique culture it would be safe to say your unique culture isn’t up to much.

Perri crisps used to rival Tayto here and they all but disappeared and nobody batted an eye

We are paying for some of your infrastructure, nurse training, student Erasmus trips and many cross border initiatives you cannot afford anymore.

What you might reflect on is that despite a wee win on broadband Ireland is doing far better than the UK and NI for a while now.

You have proved there are no significant cultural differences that have emerged since partition. You have literally not come up with one.