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What would you sacrifice for the island whole again?

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  • #32
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    not a cent but the Angelus i could move on

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #33
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #34
    gw80
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭gw80


    I was recently talking to a guy from belfast, his business involved him driving quiet a lot,around Ireland, he drove a 4lt audi a8,
    We got into talking about his car and i asked him how much he was paying for tax and insurance, he said about £400 for tax and somthing like £250 for insurance or vise versa, he nearly died when i told him he would pay up to about 3 grand in tax in the south on that car,
    Just on that reason alone, why anyone in the north want to join in to be gouged out of it by the state and private gougers we have in the republic,


  • #35
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I'd sacrifice everyone who has ever posted on Boards. It's the only way we'll ever have peace.


  • #36
    Jrop
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Jrop


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    Having effectively married into Protestantism, I can reassure you that I'm feeling 15% less guilty and the traybakes are exquisite.

    Damn must have married into the wrong branch of Protestantism cos no traybakes :P:P


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  • #37
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Nothing, don't have any interest in it.


  • #38
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    6 grand is a bit much, offer them 3. We can break it up and sell off the counties individually.


  • #39
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,269 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Nothing.

    Once the Prods arrived there 400 years ago the game was up and it is too costly for us to take back now anyway.

    Now that EU money will soon dry up let the Brits pay for it.

    I don't think the boys on the Shankhill realise how unpopular they will be in a few years time when it's costing Britain even more to keep it going.


  • #40
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,854 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Be great on a sporting front. We could then claim Darren Clarke, Graham McDowell and Rory Mcilroy as our own.


  • #41
    Elemonator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    I don't think it would cost as much as common thought seems to suggest. I hear the example of East Germany all the time but people seem to forget that it was part of the Soviet Union for 50 years and hadn't seen much investment, hence poor infrastructure.

    Tax here isn't bad despite what people say. I'd wish some people would take a tour of Scandinavia, Denmark and the like. The only difference is they get services, we don't.


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  • #42
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    I'd sacrifice Sinn Fein.


  • #43
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Would you sacrifice 2 thirds of Connacht, say Mayo Sligo and Galway (Yes, the good bits)

    For northern Ireland?


  • #44
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    gw80 wrote: »
    I was recently talking to a guy from belfast, his business involved him driving quiet a lot,around Ireland, he drove a 4lt audi a8,
    We got into talking about his car and i asked him  how much he was paying for tax and insurance, he said about £400 for tax and somthing like £250 for insurance or vise versa, he nearly died when i told him he would pay up to about 3 grand in tax in the south on that car,
    Just on that reason alone, why anyone in the north want to join in to be gouged out of it by the    state and private gougers we have in the republic,
    I was reading it costs like 50+ euros to get a meeting with a GP and you pay for subscriptions?


  • #45
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 6,410 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    Elemonator wrote: »
    I hear the example of East Germany all the time but people seem to forget that it was part of the Soviet Union for 50 years

    Maybe wherever you're from can invest in some good history textbooks as well.


  • #46
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,269 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    I was reading it costs like 50+ euros to get a meeting with a GP and you pay for subscriptions?

    Yep and go to A and E and sit for hours to be seen and get charged 100 euro for it.


  • #47
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Glenster wrote: »
    Would you sacrifice 2 thirds of Connacht, say Mayo Sligo and Galway (Yes, the good bits)

    For northern Ireland?

    I'd sacrifice Mayo for any one of the six counties. :D:D:D


  • #48
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Yep and go to A and E and sit for hours to be seen and get charged 100 euro for it.
    Go to the likes of westdoc first (if it's outside of GP hours) and they'll send you to the hospital, I don't think you pay the €100 then.


  • #49
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    on the plus side, we'd get an extra bank holiday and easier access to bowler hats :D


  • #50
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Absolutely zero. I don't want the 6 counties as part of Ireland.

    I know in my heart and soul that it will never happen in my lifetime and probably not in my children's life time either. You have to remember that there are approx 50% of the NI population which would be staunchly opposed to such a unification. Convincing them otherwise isn't going to happen anytime remotely soon.


  • #51
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Unifying NI with the Republic will only work if they spend years of failure outside of the UK.

    It would be too much to ask them to leave the UK and join the Republic because there is too much financial impact to the people living there.

    Currently UK pay less income tax and have the NHS for healthcare.

    Asking them to stump up another few K per year in taxes and to drop free healthcare would be enough to cause an uprising by itself.

    If the leave the UK they would need to govern themselves for a while and if it is an economic failure they can be accepted into the Republic and you wont have any whining about what they have lost.


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  • #52
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,132 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Nothing, makes no difference to me either way.


  • #53
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    We came very close to bankrupting the 26 that we have as is.


  • #54
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Something like 220,000 people in northern ireland work in the UK public sector. Absorbing that in a united ireland would be a tad difficult.

    That's a bit misleading, and people often confuse Public Sector with Civil Service.

    The Civil Service employs 23,422 as of Jan 2017. Source. And a lot of people assume both terms mean the same thing.

    Public Sector figures include Police, Council Workers, Hospital Workers, Firemen to name just a few professions. These have fallen too since 2014 with numerous job cuts and redundancy schemes ran this last 3 years. This currently stands at around 202,000 (this figure includes the 23k Civil Service employees)

    In fact Public Sector employment in the UK as a whole has fallen by over 1 million since the report you quote was published, and with the way things are going these jobs are going to keep declining in number.


  • #55
    cuculainn
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭cuculainn


    How about sacrificing, our status as a republic. Become a unified island, and take Scotland's place in the UK when they get independence.

    That way we would get the best of both worlds. United Ireland and cheap car tax/insurance.....etc


  • #56
    dinorebel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    cuculainn wrote: »
    How about sacrificing, our status as a republic. Become a unified island, and take Scotland's place in the UK when they get independence.

    That way we would get the best of both worlds. United Ireland and cheap car tax/insurance.....etc

    FrancieBrady head explode:D


  • #57
    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Absolutely zero. I don't want the 6 counties as part of Ireland.

    I know in my heart and soul that it will never happen in my lifetime and probably not in my children's life time either. You have to renember that there are approx 50% of the NI population which would be staunchly opposed to such a unification. Convincing them otherwise isn't going to happen anytime remotely soon.

    Indeed. We can't even manage what we have.


  • #58
    dinorebel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    I live in Donegal and it's just not a conversation people are having I work in a large company with employees from both North and South and nobody seems to care.


  • #59
    voz es
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭voz es


    dinorebel wrote: »
    I live in Donegal and it's just not a conversation people are having I work in a large company with employees from both North and South and nobody seems to care.

    Are you sure it's not just avoided?


  • #60
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,164 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    If Britain will take the Healy Raes off us I'd be happy to foot the welfare/NHS bill for the north. Definite net gain.


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  • #61
    dinorebel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    voz es wrote: »
    Are you sure it's not just avoided?

    I could understand that at work with people from both communities here but amongst friends and acquaintances away from work it very rarely comes up even with republican friends.


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