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Northern Ireland

  • 01-12-2010 12:46AM
    #1
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭


    Do we really want it back, like right now?

    The amount of money the State (if it has any) would have to invest would be rediculous... it is a **** hole after all that needs to be clensed (woops, I meant cleaned :P) up...

    Is it worth it?

    If Northern Ireland turned around tomorrow and said "you know what, we love you guys" 198 votes

    Accept Northern Ireland into our Republic
    0% 0 votes
    Disregard because of the sheer amount of money (which we don't have) to be pumped in
    100% 198 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    nope


  • #3
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Please - just have it back.



    You know when your mate has a really hot curry? Like a tindaloo or something. And you take a bit. Maybe about a 5th of it.

    You taste it, and think 'Oh Jesus Christ that's hot, I wish I'd never taken it'; and you spent the next century drinking water, waiting for it to cool down?



    That's what Northern Ireland is to Britain. A Tindaloo. Please just have it back.


  • #4
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Here's one I prepared earlier:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055837249


  • #5
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Pauleta wrote: »
    nope

    Wow, we should hook up for lunch sometime :P


  • #6
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Here's one I prepared earlier:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055837249

    Pete, that was ****e :P


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  • #7
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    London can hardly afford it, how do you think Dublin would?


  • #8
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    irish-stew wrote: »
    London can hardly afford it, how do you think Dublin would?

    the IMF may support a bailout of the North to :D:D:D


  • #9
    Fluffybums
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭Fluffybums


    If Britain was given a referendum to demolish the UK the answer would be yes, I suspect. (Before you get too excited United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - so GB would continue)

    Having been a GB taxpayer - get rid of UK.
    As an Irish tax payer - no thank you, UK can stay


  • #10
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Fluffybums wrote: »
    If Britain was given a referendum to demolish the UK the answer would be yes, I suspect. (Before you get too excited United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - so GB would continue)

    Having been a GB taxpayer - get rid of UK.
    As an Irish tax payer - no thank you, UK can stay

    Ah yeh, but the UK is Ghey though :p


  • #11
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Cmdr Keen wrote: »
    Pete, that was ****e :P

    Least I had a fecking Poll on my thread and there was free tea and biscuits :mad:


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  • #12
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Least I had a fecking Poll on my thread and there was free tea and biscuits :mad:

    I'll show you a poll!!!!!!


  • #13
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Yes I want it back.

    Past generations of Irish men and women died for a united Ireland, I'm not so shallow and self centered to ignore their sacrifice's.

    So it'll cost us money, and more heart break - tough sh*t, its our's and will be forever.


  • #14
    RMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    People seem to think reuniting Ireland will end all violence and unrest about Northern Ireland's relation to Britain.

    Seems most people have never opened a history book and read about the Loyalists "no surrender" ideology. There would be civil war yet again, bombing campaigns, tit-for-tat killings etc.


  • #15
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Cmdr Keen wrote: »
    Erm money we don't have? If a united Ireland was achieved, you don't think the savagery would reach Dublin, then you are naive....

    Of course it'll reach Dublin.

    As for savagery and being naive, I've seen war first hand. I understand completely what it mean's.. And before you hit me up with a civil war being worse, I was serving in Lebanon through their civil war in the mid 80's.

    In my heart its still our's and I'm completely filled with confidence that should it come to a civil war I'd have the courage to stand up for my convictions.


  • #16
    RMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    Alberto Gigantic Self-restraint wrote: »
    Yes I want it back.

    Past generations of Irish men and women died for a united Ireland, I'm not so shallow and self centered to ignore their sacrifice's.

    So it'll cost us money, and more heart break - tough sh*t, its our's and will be forever.

    Claiming you want it back due to the sacrifices of past generations, do you not feel the obvious ensuing killings / bombings / possible civil war would make it even worse?

    Justify the sacrifices of past generations by killing members of the current?


  • #17
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    brummytom wrote: »
    That's what Northern Ireland is to Britain. A Tindaloo. Please just have it back.

    Yeah well, in an effort to get that Tindaloo, they ruined our chances of having curry chips for years :mad:


  • #18
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    I really, really, really loathe to say this, but the only realistic way I see our 6 counties being handed back to us peacefully is if there's a spot of ethnic cleansing Bosnia style first. I hope it doesnt come to that, I so do, but I know in my heart that it will someday.


  • #19
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    its an illegally occupied part of our territory, so yes i want it back


  • #20
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    its an illegally occupied part of our territory, so yes i want it back

    Is it illegal?.

    Didn't the Irish republic (shamefully) vote away (under articules 2 & 3) our constitutional claim to Northern Ireland?.


  • #21
    ReacherCreature
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    Alberto Gigantic Self-restraint wrote: »
    Yes I want it back.

    Past generations of Irish men and women died for a united Ireland, I'm not so shallow and self centered to ignore their sacrifice's.

    So it'll cost us money, and more heart break - tough sh*t, its our's and will be forever.

    Tbh, it'll be worth more trouble than neccessary. You'll have riots and demonstrations flaring up overnight in protest that will make the Troubles look like a stroll in the park if people are dead set against it.

    I'm all for remembering the past and their sacrifices but in this case, best leave it. I think our ancenstors would be happy enough with our stature after independence and before this clusterf*ck occurred.

    More money and more heartbreak is most definitely not what this country needs.
    newmug wrote: »
    I really, really, really loathe to say this, but the only realistic way I see our 6 counties being handed back to us peacefully is if there's a spot of ethnic cleansing Bosnia style first. I hope it doesnt come to that, I so do, but I know in my heart that it will someday.

    A spot? You're talking about killing all the people who don't want a 'unified' Ireland, so lets just say for the sake of argument that all the Unionists/Protestants want unity, you're talking about killing a majority in massive amounts. Even at that, Republicans/Nationalists may want to stay. It's a scary situation but the South will have to be desperate for the North and I can't feasibly see why.


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  • #22
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    People on this forum go on as if there is still a bloody war going on in N.I.

    There isn't!!! A few serious incidents here and there by a few minority idiots and the place is condemned as a warzone, even by the people that live on the same Island!!!

    The ignorance and downright one track thinking of some people in "the more irish" part of Ireland is disgraceful and one of the main reasons that the country is as ****ed and backward as it is.

    People in Northern Ireland have moved on, it is a pity their brothers across the border can't.


  • #23
    123balltv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭123balltv


    No England gives them scraps as it is
    Ireland cant even give them the steam of our piss


  • #24
    ReacherCreature
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    123balltv wrote: »
    No England gives them scraps as it is
    Ireland cant even give them the steam of our piss

    I doubt it's 'scraps', from the 1920s onwards, Northern Ireland recieved considerable amounts from Britain and still does iirc.


  • #25
    markesmith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭markesmith


    You'd have to wouldn't you? Or else the children would never let you forget it.


  • #26
    scientific1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    Yes. Without a doubt.


  • #27
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Having lived in the north for 5 years, NO i do not want it part of the Republic. Our forefathers wouldn't want it now either, its a very different place to the 6 counties of pre 1920. It might be "land", but you cant have the land without the people and problems.


  • #28
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Cmdr Keen wrote: »
    Do we really want it back, like right now?

    The amount of money the State (if it has any) would have to invest would be rediculous... it is a **** hole after all that needs to be clensed (woops, I meant cleaned :P) up...

    needs to be cleaned up lol, have you been to northern ireland lately, i really look forward to my visits to belfast, such as joy to see a city centre on this island that hasn't half its businesses shuttered, a city centre where you don't see hundreds of junkie scum wandering around the place, a city centre where you are not raped when you order a pint in a busy bar


  • #29
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    Judging by the OPs posts I wouldn't think he would understand too much about politics anywhere.

    Off to bed little man, school in the morning.


  • #30
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    I like your stile of questioning OP, By the way, have you stopped beating your wife?


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  • #31
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Alberto Gigantic Self-restraint wrote: »
    Yes I want it back.

    Past generations of Irish men and women died for a united Ireland, I'm not so shallow and self centered to ignore their sacrifice's.

    So it'll cost us money, and more heart break - tough sh*t, its our's and will be forever.

    We should have an Arms Crisis again.

    Unionists will not want it and there are too many Nationalists, when push comes to shove, are too fond of the Queens head on the pound! They know what side their bread is buttered on.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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