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Rock on, Rockall! (it's back)

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    #152
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Yeah sure why not, am at fúck all else this evening.


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    #153
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Thid whole story sounds a bit fishy to me.


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    #154
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    If we or the Scots have any sense we'll leave it to the seagulls... fighting over it? Can't even get a leg over it!

    rockall_2003_01.jpg?x=442&y=293&crop=1

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #155
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    If we or the Scots have any sense we'll leave it to the seagulls... fighting over it? Can't even get a leg over it!

    rockall_2003_01.jpg?x=442&y=293&crop=1

    We could try to get some Irish fella to live on it for longer than the British were able to live on it?


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    #156
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Can ye hang on until Killing Eve is over. I can join ye then.


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    #157
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    If we or the Scots have any sense we'll leave it to the seagulls... fighting over it? Can't even get a leg over it!

    rockall_2003_01.jpg?x=442&y=293&crop=1

    it's actually about who gets to control the oil, gas, fisheries, airspace and transport corridors, not the rock


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    #158
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    janfebmar wrote: »
    We could try to get some Irish fella to live on it for longer than the British were able to live on it?

    Any volunteers? If Roy Keane is busy I reckon thats where we bench our two Brexit MEPs!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #159
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Nobelium wrote: »
    it's about who gets to control the oil, gas, fisheries, airspace and transport corridors, and nothing to do with the actual rock.

    Your facts are not welcome here!

    Now back to the seagulls.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #160
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Do the Scots have a Rockall song?


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    #161
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Your facts are not welcome here!

    Now back to the seagulls.

    sorry about that, I constantly forgot boards is allergic to them. :)

    Back to more important matters . . .maybe we can distract the scots with deep fried mars bars ?


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    #162
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus will be spinning in his grave.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_Dublin_Bay_Rockall_Loftus


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    #163
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Nobelium wrote: »
    sorry about that, I constantly forgot boards is allergic to them. :)
    Back to more important matters . . .maybe we can distract the scots with deep fried mars bars ?

    That's the After Hours spirit!
    Distract? I think one of them could defo clog up a ship's engine.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #164
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Could we change our constitution so anyone born on Rockall automatically becomes an Irish citizen?


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    #165
    archer22
    Registered Users Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭archer22


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Could we change our constitution so anyone born on Rockall automatically becomes an Irish citizen?

    You might have a job convincing expectant mothers to give birth on it.


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    #166
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Nobelium wrote: »
    You also need to factor in the Scots have Iron Bru

    No worries on that front - they watered down the sugar content a few years back. Deep-fried mars bars could be an issue though.


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    #167
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Don't respond. Don't raise an eyebrow.


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    #168
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Could we do a reality tv show from it, Big Rockall.


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    #169
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Conchir wrote: »
    Saw this on the RTE news story. “The rocky outcrop lies around 230 nautical miles northwest of Donegal and 240 miles west of Scotland.”

    230 nautical miles is over 260 miles. A harmless bit of journalism, or intentionally misleading?

    can't understand why RTE are stirring the pot on this? STV news had this as their fourth lead story


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    #170
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Could we do a reality tv show from it, Big Rockall.

    Eoghan Murphy is already writing the blurb... an exciting co-living opportunity...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #171
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Nobelium wrote: »
    You also need to factor in the Scots have Iron Bru

    And Buckfast.


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    #172
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    We should rebrand that rock shore beer rockall


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    #173
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,121 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    We should rebrand that rock shore beer rockall


    Someone already done it :D...


    Foroya%20Rockall_zpsz34f9l7c.jpg


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    #174
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    And Buckfast.

    Bucky is made in the South of England, but aye the Scots drink a fair wedge of it!


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    #175
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Someone already done it :D...


    Foroya%20Rockall_zpsz34f9l7c.jpg

    damn even the Australians got in there before us


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    #176
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,267 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Most Scots hate us

    :rolleyes:


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    #177
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,260 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Nobelium wrote: »
    odyssey06 wrote: »
    If we or the Scots have any sense we'll leave it to the seagulls... fighting over it? Can't even get a leg over it!

    rockall_2003_01.jpg?x=442&y=293&crop=1

    it's actually about who gets to control the oil, gas, fisheries, airspace and transport corridors, not the rock

    Don't know why the Irish government give a feck then cause they tend to continually give away oil gas etc from within Ireland's territory.......
    Oh I guess the politician from the controlling country is the a one who gets the large envelope so it's worth fighting for.


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    #178
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,198 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    archer22 wrote: »
    Actually the Scots were never forced into the union...there was only hundreds of years of back and forth invasions between England and Scotland.
    England invading Scotland, Scotland invading England and so on over and over.

    Eventually it was sorted when a Scottish king became king of England...so in that sense it was actually the Scots who took over England.

    The history between Scotland and England is very different to the history between Ireland and England.
    Also the English and Scots shared the same religion, which bonded them closer.

    They were effectively forced into the union after they bankrupted themselves with the disastrous Darien Project. They tried and failed to set up a colony in a swamp in central America. They couldn't have picked a worse spot. To this day the area remains the final uncompleted section of the Pan-American highway.

    England bailed Scotland out in exchange for their sovereignty.


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    #179
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,356 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Your facts are not welcome here!

    Now back to the seagulls.

    What religion are the seagulls?


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    #180
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Atlantic dawn. Your name sake fishing vessel should be brought up and anchored to the rock.


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    #181
    Balanadan
    Site Banned Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Balanadan


    The more I think about this, the more I think "**** Scotland!".


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