Fuinseog wrote: » would it be true to say that northerners are not know for their travelling or interest in the world outside of the UK?
Fuinseog wrote: » how much do you learn about The south aka The Repulic aka 26 counties in Northern Ireland- I was amazed that two different hotels in Belfast did not have any Irish channels, while we would have BBC NI. the average citizen of the North seems to know very little about teh republic. would it be true to say that northerners are not know for their travelling or interest in the world outside of the UK?
aquascrotum wrote: » There are plenty of travellers from NI - not sure what sort of slackjawed yokel aspersion you are trying to make with your statement tbh.
smcgiff wrote: » Nah - too easy
owenc wrote: » i know of people who have never been down south before, we really have no reason to go down, some people don't like it and others see nothing to do like me, besides scenery tbh there isn't much to do their for a person like me.
d'Oracle wrote: » Why would you actually want Irish channels anyway? The majority of the stuff worth watching they show you can get on UK channels anyhow.
pow wow wrote: » You can get them on Virgin too, though they block out the stuff that is shown on both channels so you can't get ahead of yourself with series that UK channels show! I think we think Northerners don't know too much about ROI because we expect them to know too much (tongue twister eh). Just like England for example, many will have never been to ROI, would be unfamiliar with the education system, geography etc. When I worked in the civil service my HR manager insisted I was a Commonwealth citizen because ROI is, of course, part of the Commonwealth :rolleyes:. I agree that most of the people I know in my age group have zero interest in traveling though - very few people studied abroad during college, went abroad after graduation, or plan to go to Oz etc. compared with friends from the Republic. I'm not sure why, but it is definitely something I noticed when I first moved.
chughes wrote: » I worked in Belfast for 5 months in 1990 and many of my work colleagues from the Unionist tradition had never crossed the border.
chughes wrote: » I was genuinely saddened to read this although I'm not surprised by it. I worked in Belfast for 5 months in 1990 and many of my work colleagues from the Unionist tradition had never crossed the border. When I asked about this, they would say that they were concerned that they would be targetted in their cars for being from the North. When I asked if it was possible to tell a Unionist Northern reg from a Nationalist Northern reg they had not thought of it like that. Mind you, my Unionist colleagues took great delight in describing us Southerners as Mexicans. I could understand why there would have been great reluctance years ago for Unionists to travel south. By the same token, many Southerners would not travel north for safety reasons. Maybe I'm being naive but given the state of the peace process I would have thought it was perfectly safe to visit each other's country. It would be like visiting your next door neighbour's house. Unless, of course, if the whole peace process is just something that exists in the minds of politicians and in the hearts and minds of many people in the North a Cold War is now the current status of the relationship between North and South.
Fuinseog wrote: » just find it bizzare that the two countries are so close. as I said we all have BBC NI. its usual to watch the channels of a neighourig state when so close.
Archimedes wrote: » That was my biggest grievance with the North in my 3 years living there - Virgin Media blocking any football matches RTE showed
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » No nationwide for the northeners!!
owenc wrote: » Its a uk tv channel why would british people want to watch irish sports?
murf313 wrote: » Not everyone from the north is british. But you unionists tend to forget that. BTW cop yourself on, scotland is not nearer to coleraine that the rep. of Ireland......
Fuinseog wrote: » if they watched some RTE programmes they might learn something of their neighours, which does no harm in terms of general knowledge. I watch UTV live now and then. a friend of mine taught in the north donkeys years ago and he was a geography teacher, but was forbidden to teach them anything about the geography of the south, which i found bizarre, because in primary school i had to learn aout the rivers and mountains of britain.
D-Generate wrote: » Colraine town centre to nearest point of the Republic is 12.477 miles Colraine town centre to nearest point of Scotland is 36.528 miles.
owenc wrote: » Erm do you seriously think a country is going to waste money on something for 600,000 people that 60 million others don't want, naw i didn't think so. And yes scotland is far closer than southern ireland anyone from county antrim will tell you that, plus why can i pick up scottish radio and not donegal radio?.:P From torr head you can see the houses in kintyre and even as far as ayr and that is on a cloudy day.
owenc wrote: » Actually nearest point is 34 miles.. and i don't live in coleraine i live near it. My house to mainland, scotland.. 24 miles.. Very north east of donegal 20 miles.. big woop one wee tooty bit of donegal the rest is far further than scotland.
Fuinseog wrote: » there are one or two paddies in Britain so there could be a market for it. again to reiterate my point belfast is two hours from Dulin, yet we have more contact with China that the nearest country to us. BTW is it Setanta sports tahts hows aussie rules? you wouldn't think there would e a market for that either. a cold war mentality still exists Northern Ireland is a small place and the people appear to be insular. there appear to be very few northeners on this forum.
D-Generate wrote: » Point still stands and also the last statement makes no sense. The rest of Scotland is far further than the tip of that point of Scotland, same with Donegal! Just face it, you harbour xenophobic tendancies towards Ireland.
