whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
I was around Drogheda today.. the amount of ploughs & tillage equipment on the roads was unreal.. some pressure on them boys to get stuff in the ground at the minute.
Very good program on tg4 there on the fishing industry.
Talk about been thrown under the bus by politicians during Brexit negotiations. The lads tied up in port with no quota while Spanish ships land beside them and can't fill their quota!
They got thrown under the bus a few times, when Ray mcsharry negotiated the cap, the fishermen paid a heavy price.
Maybe wer next
We have been thrown under the bus already
Our fishing industry got thrown under the bus in 1973 when we joined the EEC in favour of agriculture. They have been continually thrown under the bus in every negotiation of CFP since.
I would agree with that wholeheartedly base
That's all news to me...
I'm not sure whether you'd be agreeing or disagreeing with me tbh as every post you make has a bit if both as well as not even getting the simple original point.
To put it this way, if, hypothetically, there had been an Irish empire, should all coloured people within be/have been expected to be comfortable with and accepting of the phrase "daoine gorma" (excluding smurfs)?
Maybe you'd be as well off to keep your digging for the garden, my British Queens are up since.
Whats all news to you? That we are and have been inextricably linked to the UK for generations and share a boarder with them?
I'll remind you that this started with other posters visiting England regularly & even choosing to do so over Ireland due to costs….are they also 'Uncle Toms' or some sort of traitors?
Geographic references aren't linked to political status and your frailty around 'empires'.
The archipelago was referred to as The British Isles long before any empires were built.
You saw fit to go the Uncle Tom route. But keep digging.
It’s a geographical term like it or not. There are millions of people born in the americas, that doesn’t make them American.
Giod news. Boards.ie Vanilla were true to their word regarding the update at 7pm, an effective "search feature" is working.
In the same way that history is written by the victors, much of the mapping was conducted on a colonial basis.. Using the term "british isles" to referr to Ireland is indeed a hark back to our colonial repression under the british..
An old Italian saying goes something like "Washing a donkeys head is a waste of water", it seems apt here.
I'll leave my last word to the position of our government on the term, which is good enough for me;
Maybe ye can found a political party or candidates to get involved with for the upcoming elections that might help you promote your viewpoint of Ireland's place in the world.
it isn’t. The term was established long before any British rule.
Still digging.
If I were to go around telling people around the world about “these islands” you think they’d recognise that term? It’s applicable in reference to Northern Ireland due to political delicacies in writing the Good Friday agreement. That’s where it ends in reality.
This is hilariously funny - I googled Atlantic archipelago and got the attached.
You’ve hit the nail on the head. When talking among people who live on these islands and have skin in the game, “these islands” is apt. But if you want to simplify the geographic location for those who’ve never heard of Ireland on your international travels, then feel free to say Ireland is a little island to the west of Britain and therefore part of the British Isles.
All I’d wanted to say it should be easier for citizens of Ireland/Northern Ireland/Isle of Man/Wales/Scotland to fly between those countries!
what was it called- I must show it to some of my students.
Both their parents and I are trying to get them to at least have a back up plan if anything happened the fishing industry.
They don’t even have value in the leaving because fishing will always be profitable.
And yet here we are!
It’s mad the rabbit holes we go down and how discussions meander on here 😂
That sounds more like the Isle of Man. Why not say that Ireland is an island on the west of Europe?
I would say the use of "these islands" was a necessary fudge at the time, (obviously not an everyday term). I just showed it as one example to show the term British Isles is recognised as an obsolete and inappropriate term for Ireland and Irish people.
When in fact the opposite is the case if there is to be any hope of a manageable degree of climate change.
If we can't transition towards a functioning sustainable transport system within these (little) islands (!) without aviation except for exceptional needs, the goose is cooked.
I object to use of the word Ireland to name this country.
Why should it be used when it's the Sasanachy's name for Eire. Eire is our original title as gaelige.
Eire became Eirelonde in the 16th century and then became Ireland.
However British pathe used the title Eire in their broadcasts and reels in the 1900's after independence to not cause offence and some eire people took offence with this and thought it should be Ireland.
Most refer to these lands as Britain and Ireland not the British Isles or "these islands" as used in a specific document. Anyway.
Doesn’t the added tax not magic away the bad stuff and solve the problem?
I forget tbh, was on from 9.30-10.30 wednesday night.
Don't think I'd be recommending any of mine to go into it tbh. If we sent Dustin the turkey to the quota negotiations he'd have come back with a better deal for Irish boats!
One of the kids needed a new bike, old one needs a lot of work. Saw an ad on donedeal €50 for a good sturdy bike locally. Was an old man who does bikes up in his spare time. A new bike would be alot more and in a couple of years wont be used anymore. He was saying alot of kids now can't ride a bike, never thought how to
I’ve a Ukrainian student who’s at that at the moment- always fixing something and solving problems.
I see that Glanbia/Tirlan and Aldi are not going to be at the ploughing championships this year. I haven't been to the ploughing for the last 8 years and I doubt I missed much.
Pissing off their stand holders.
Dinosaur event now.
Took an event built it up. Then killed it off.
