Sectarianism in the Republic of Ireland

Strumms · 21-02-2015 6:00pm

I have English friends living here and work colleagues who I socialise with when they come over and get can never get over how well they get treated here and how friendly everyone is from work to when we go out for meals or for beers. Never ever have I heard anyone complain or witnessed any remarks, hassle or otherwise. Maybe you are English OP and maybe you just have an attitude problem yourself and or a persecution complex. Be my guess anyway.

contactbackup · 21-02-2015 6:04pm

The only one with the victims complex here is you. As expected the denials, spin and apologists came out ...seems only the Irish can receive such abuse. You are in complete denial.

21-02-2015 6:07pm

contactbackup wrote: »

The only one with the victims complex here is you. As expected the denials, spin and apologists came out ...

seems only the Irish can receive such abuse. You are in complete denial.

You're unwilling to accept that other Brits in Ireland don't get the same treatment.

It might not just be you, but it's not the universal experience you're trying to portray either.

I like Irish people though, maybe that's the difference.

contactbackup · 21-02-2015 6:10pm

Candie wrote: »

You're unwilling to accept that other Brits in Ireland don't get the same treatment.

It might not just be you, but it's not the universal experience you're trying to portray either.

I like Irish people though, maybe that's the difference.

Irish people are excellent overall. It does help if we are from a similar social economic background. The ones with chips tend to have hailed from a different environment but it is also fairly impossible to avoid them too.

Strumms · 21-02-2015 6:20pm

contactbackup wrote: »

The only one with the victims complex here is you. As expected the denials, spin and apologists came out ...seems only the Irish can receive such abuse. You are in complete denial.

I am ? How do you qualify that exactly ? :pac:

Denials, spin and apologists ? I dont think so, just people with different views and experiences to you, who have called you out and why in my view you in fact have a poor attitude and a persecution complex. Fact.

contactbackup · 21-02-2015 6:27pm

Strumms wrote: »

I am ? How do you qualify that exactly ? :pac:

Denials, spin and apologists ? I dont think so, just people with different views and experiences to you, who have called you out and why in my view you in fact have a poor attitude and a persecution complex. Fact.

Stating fact at the end of a post does not make it so. Even if you are 12, which you very well just might be.
I have no victims complex I just started a debate on a issue that exists on a message board. I don't let it effect my life and it doesn't or can't have any effect on my professional life.

Strumms · 21-02-2015 6:34pm

contactbackup wrote: »

Stating fact at the end of a post does not make it so. Even if you are 12, which you very well just might be.
I have no victims complex I just started a debate on a issue that exists on a message board. I don't let it effect my life and it doesn't or can't have any effect on my professional life.

Well why so upset about it ? Why start two separate threads minutes apart ? Going by the tone of what you post, the defensive nature of your replies which seem to be driven by the fact you are not being agreed with or perhaps some neurological issue coming into play you definately do have some sort of deep seated issue.

I am still awaiting you to clarify why I am the only one here with a victim complex btw. Feel free to dodge that :pac:

Hitchens · 21-02-2015 6:40pm

Strumms wrote: »

why I am the only one here with a victim complex btw.

is it 'cos you're from Kildare? :eek::pac:

blatantrereg · 21-02-2015 6:40pm

I've observed a significant amount of antipathy towards English people in the Irish. I've observed a lot less of it in the last 10-12 years than before that though.

I would guess at a couple of reasons for this apparent change.

One is that the Provos disarmed and the Real IRA replaced them as the masked face of militant republicanism. There was plenty of armchair support for the provos. Don't know that I've met anyone who thinks the RIRA are anything but murdering pigs.

Another is that the Catholic Church in Ireland was exposed as a monstrous institution, and popular reverence for it turned to abhorrence.

21-02-2015 6:40pm

contactbackup wrote: »

Irish people are excellent overall. It does help if we are from a similar social economic background. The ones with chips tend to have hailed from a different environment but it is also fairly impossible to avoid them too.

Those pesky peasants are everywhere. We can but dream of a life unmolested by our lessers.

Strumms · 21-02-2015 6:43pm

Hitchens wrote: »

is it 'cos you're from Kildare? :eek::pac:

:P I'm not even from Kildare and in fact I've moved from there very recently, must change that.

The_Captain · 21-02-2015 6:47pm

I was at a party in college where a young Irish girl took exception to an English guy coming over here for college.

She actually compared him "taking a college from an Irish person" to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

In fairness her comments went down like a lead balloon and she was swiftly taken home by her friends and put to bed

Karl Stein · 21-02-2015 6:48pm

I wonder what OP thinks of a Rugby loving unrepentant Fenian bastard like me?

diomed · 21-02-2015 6:48pm

contactbackup wrote: »

Sectarianism in the Republic of Ireland

Lesson 1: The name of the country is Ireland or Éire, not Republic Of Ireland.

Electric Sheep · 21-02-2015 6:48pm

Strumms wrote: »

:P I'm not even from Kildare and in fact I've moved from there very recently, must change that.

Blow in:p

21-02-2015 6:50pm

Karl Stein wrote: »

I wonder what OP thinks of a Rugby loving unrepentant Fenian bastard like me?

You can do no wrong in my eyes since you posted about how to clean up a laptop.

Karl Stein · 21-02-2015 6:53pm

Candie wrote: »

You can do no wrong in my eyes since you posted about how to clean up a laptop.

Glad to be of help!

Fratton Fred · 21-02-2015 7:07pm

I've got friends who'll greet me with awroit mate, ows it goin. Cor blimey it's a bit faackin parky tonight. To which they'll get a top o the mornin to ya, tis a grand stretch in t evenin to be shure to be shure. Other than that, no one ever takes the piss out of my accent.

I've never been refused service, in fact I find a lot of Irish people make an extra effort and are overly nice to the English.

I had an old guy have a go at me before I moved over. I was wearing my pompey shirt and he told me they all knew I was English, I didn't have to flaunt it by wearing my football shirt. At this point, the lads sat either side of him in Liverpool shirts took the piss out of him mercilessly.

Nodin · 21-02-2015 7:09pm

Karl Stein wrote: »

I wonder what OP thinks of a Rugby loving unrepentant Fenian bastard like me?

If you put the ball into the scrum he tries to listen to see if it's ticking.

Sunnyisland · 21-02-2015 7:24pm

Karl Stein wrote: »

I wonder what OP thinks of a Rugby loving unrepentant Fenian bastard like me?

Your still a bollex :-)

tipptom · 21-02-2015 7:50pm

Ah,I had his number as early as when he said that he thought Pat had stopped working on the buildings in 1976.

contactbackup · 22-02-2015 12:48am

Karl Stein wrote: »

I wonder what OP thinks of a Rugby loving unrepentant Fenian bastard like me?

What does that actually mean

contactbackup · 22-02-2015 12:54am

Strumms wrote: »

Well why so upset about it ? Why start two separate threads minutes apart ? Going by the tone of what you post, the defensive nature of your replies which seem to be driven by the fact you are not being agreed with or perhaps some neurological issue coming into play you definately do have some sort of deep seated issue.

I am still awaiting you to clarify why I am the only one here with a victim complex btw. Feel free to dodge that :pac:

What are you on about?

Strumms · 22-02-2015 2:17am

contactbackup wrote: »

What are you on about?

Think that question might me more apt when put to you my skinny friend ?

But dodge away

Smiles35 · 22-02-2015 6:02am

I think their was a certain rugby set your after op. People like Tony O' Rieally .ect
But you may as well be chasing cambrige rowing nowadays.

aido79 · 22-02-2015 6:13am

diomed wrote: »

Lesson 1: The name of the country is Ireland or Éire, not Republic Of Ireland.

I'm surprised he didn't call it southern Ireland.

Buona Fortuna · 22-02-2015 9:28am

contactbackup wrote: »

I am well aware of banter. After living away on bases and previously boarding at school, rugby tours etc.. I am well aware of banter.

Its not so much that you're English. its that you are fcuking posh.

Build a bridge.

Get over it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 22-02-2015 9:33am

diomed wrote: »

Lesson 1: The name of the country is Ireland or Éire, not Republic Of Ireland.

Who says he means Ireland as a nation? Maybe he just wants to limit the conversagtion to the 26 counties? And who the hell actually referrs to the country as "Eire"?

Knowing AH, if he'd he written "sectarianism in Ireland" we'd be talking about the North right now.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-02-2015 9:43am

I've always held Church of Ireland members in high regard. Good decent charitable people. We're all Christians on this island, there's no need for any hostility.

westcoast66 · 22-02-2015 9:55am

We have neighbours who are English. Its kind of weird, they accept tardiness from people and seem to think that that's the way things work over here. Things like a tradesman being a few hours late for something or never showing up. If that happened to us we'd tell them to f off and never come back unless they had a damn good excuse.

Sectarianism in the Republic of Ireland

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