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Northern Irish at the Irish Embassy in London?

  • 10-11-2010 09:17PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭


    Here's what confuses me! Prince Charles visits the Irish embassy in London and meet the big names from this land. Yet some of the people there were from Northern Ireland. Some of these Northern Irish must have British passports as they are Unionist politicians. So why were they invited and why did they attend?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Cad tá á tagairt agut?
    What are you referencing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭Cakes.


    Ian Paisely was there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Big Mouth


    Nationalists / Republicans / Sinn Fein are scumbags :rolleyes:. End Thread \


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Big Mouth wrote: »
    Nationalists / Republicans / Sinn Fein are scumbags :rolleyes:. End Thread \


    Iarthar na Breataine:pac:
    Westbrit.:pac:

    Cé go trom, ba chóir nach cén fáth go bhfuil aontachtaithe bhí ann?
    Seriously though op, why shouldent unionists have been there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Absolute fair play Deise, wish I had the confidence and ability in Irish to do that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    Absolute fair play Deise, wish I had the confidence and ability in Irish to do that.

    Is Google aistriúchán do cara.;) Cuidíonn sé leis an litriú, cé uaireanta na haistriúcháin a thagann amach beagán mícheart agus gur gá iad a bheith chuir timpeall thart leis. Cuidíonn sé dom an cúpla focal a fhoghlaim freisin.

    Is Focal.ie freisin an-chabhrach


    Google translate is your freind;) It helps with the spelling, though sometimes the translations come out abit wrong and need to be fiddled around with. It helps me learn the vocab too.

    Focal.ie is also very helpful.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Nolanger wrote: »
    Here's what confuses me! Prince Charles visits the Irish embassy in London and meet the big names from this land. Yet some of the people there were from Northern Ireland. Some of these Northern Irish must have British passports as they are Unionist politicians. So why were they invited and why did they attend?

    So, Irish people born in the gerrymandered occupied Six Counties are no longer Irish? Seán Murphy from Crossmaglen is not as Irish as Seán Murphy from Carrigaline?

    Or, tell us, Seán Murphy of Carrigaline would have not been "Irish" prior to 6 December 1922? The Irish living under British colonial occupation = the Irish people don't exist?

    I think it's really positive that Irish people from all parts of the country are congregating in the Irish Embassy when they are in London. That you've a problem with this is, for want of a better word, misguided. That Ian Paisley is even treating us as rational human beings is astonishing given where he's come from. The partition of this tiny, tiny country is obscene. And, personally, I detest Meteor.ie for telling me that I'm now in a "foreign country" when I visit my family in Armagh. Reynolds, Hume, Adams: hang your heads in shame. There's only one Ireland and my family, north and south, are not going to be broken apart by this British nationalist myth that one side is less Irish than the other. Ráiméis of the highest order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭sirromo


    People in the north are Irish.

    Article 2 of the constitution:
    It is the entitlement and birthright of every person born in the island of Ireland, which includes its islands and seas, to be part of the Irish Nation


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭Jaap


    Nolanger wrote: »
    Here's what confuses me! Prince Charles visits the Irish embassy in London and meet the big names from this land. Yet some of the people there were from Northern Ireland. Some of these Northern Irish must have British passports as they are Unionist politicians. So why were they invited and why did they attend?

    I think it must be something to do with British and Irish relations dont you! :)
    A very weird thread!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    Jaap wrote: »
    I think it must be something to do with British and Irish relations dont you! :)
    A very weird thread!

    No, a very commonplace thread. Cue the mudslinging. Tiresome.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Are Unionists not allowed to think of themselves as Irish? Or is this not allowed?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 949 ✭✭✭maxxie


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Are Unionists not allowed to think of themselves as Irish? Or is this not allowed?

    They are proud to live under the crown and consider themselves British! One or the other!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Are Unionists not allowed to think of themselves as Irish? Or is this not allowed?
    Its ok, everyone in Britain thinks of you as Irish anyways


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭xflyer


    Some of these Northern Irish must have British passports as they are Unionist politicians. So why were they invited and why did they attend?
    Because they are Irish. It is possible to be Irish and proud of it and British and proud of it at the same time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    maxxie wrote: »
    They are proud to live under the crown and consider themselves British! One or the other!
    Some consider themselves British. Some consider themselves Irish. What matters most to me is they are Unionists.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    Its ok, everyone in Britain thinks of you as Irish anyways
    Im as British as them. Like lady thatcher said, we are as British as finchley.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 949 ✭✭✭maxxie


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Some consider themselves British. Some consider themselves Irish. What matters most to me is they are Unionists.

    You can have all the unionists you want mate :) not one of them is Irish in my eyes!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    maxxie wrote: »
    You can have all the unionists you want mate :) not one of them is Irish in my eyes!
    I don't think they care what you think to be honest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Im as British as them. Like lady thatcher said, we are as British as finchley.
    Keep thinking that, to them you are just(seen as we are quoting PMs) a bunch of Spongers.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 949 ✭✭✭maxxie


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I don't think they care what you think to be honest.

    Nobody here cares about your love for thatcher so hit the road ian!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    Keep thinking that, to them you are just(seen as we are quoting PMs) a bunch of Spongers.
    Possibly the worst quote ever from a PM.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Possibly the worst quote ever from a PM.
    Truth hurts eh?

    Sure Churchill didnt want you either, wanted to swap you. Would he have offered Wales or Scotland? Didnt think so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭danbohan


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Possibly the worst quote ever from a PM.

    possibly the most accurate as well !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    Truth hurts eh?

    Sure Churchill didnt want you either, wanted to swap you.
    Being a sponger is being proud of your heritage? That is funny. A lot of people may have tried getting rid of us, still here. :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 949 ✭✭✭maxxie


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Being a sponger is being proud of your heritage? That is funny. A lot of people may have tried getting rid of us, still here. :)

    NO SURRENDER.. give it up dude nobody gives a fock! British government care about money not heritage! They dont want you, what do you have to offer them other than loyalty?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    The poster KeithAFC is entitled to his opinion and if he lives in NI he is British, just as the Welsh,Scots and English are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭danbohan


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Being a sponger is being proud of your heritage? That is funny. A lot of people may have tried getting rid of us, still here. :)
    ;) for now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    So, Irish people born in the gerrymandered occupied Six Counties are no longer Irish?
    If you want people to take you seriously, stop calling Northern Ireland occupied.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    maxxie wrote: »
    They are proud to live under the crown and consider themselves British! One or the other!
    Elisabeth II is Queen of Northern Ireland aswell. They can be Irish and Unionist. It is never one or the other.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    Mr.Micro wrote: »
    The poster KeithAFC is entitled to his opinion and if he lives in NI he is British, just as the Welsh,Scots and English are.

    Do you need me to buy you an atlas?


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