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Should a united Ireland join with an independent Scotland and create one country?

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  • #52
    All Seeing Eye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 330 ✭✭All Seeing Eye


    Just like Dal Riada


  • #53
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    We ain't got nothing in common with Scotland in a lot of ways.

    Na


  • #54
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    We ain't got nothing in common with Scotland in a lot of ways.

    Mountains, Gaeilge & Junkies for starters


  • #55
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Mountains, Gaeilge & Junkies for starters

    Pretty much every country has mountains and Junkies :pac:


  • #56
    NasserShammaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    Pretty much every country has mountains and Junkies :pac:

    we have mountains OF junkies


  • #57
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    If we did we could claim Nina Nesbitt as our own. ;-)


  • #58
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    I see no scenario in which it would be beneficial to the 26.

    If Eire is staying in the EU, then it may as well do so as 26. There is no gain with adding Scotland, or even Wales (there are rumblings they may leave England to it alone also, but cant see it going anywhere), to a United Celtica.

    If NI sticks in the UK, then it would be utterly bananas to join the Scots.

    The only realistic solutions, assuming Brexit goes ahead, are, in order of desireaility :

    1) NI joins Eire, and the EU
    2) NI joins the EU as an independent 6. The EU will foot the bill collectively.
    3) Eire triggers Breunion and joins the existing UK without any of the other regions leaving it.

    1 is still too politically charged, even if economic good sense, to happen for a couple of generations.

    2 is a possibility they must consider, but would need strong safeguards to reassure Unionists that it wasnt just a stepping stone to 1. And sufficient reassurance is probably not possible for a few generations yet, as per 1.

    3 is the action in the hands of Eire. If the Brexit is stark, with serious collateral damage to Eire's economic and social position, it is a means of reducing the impact, and the best of a bad lot at worst, or, a chance to launch a bright future as an integral part again of the British Isles, mending old fences, and acknowledging the effective one people that all on these islands are at the back of it all, having a major capital city we can be proud of, and restoring the monarchy.

    Joining the Scots fits nowhere in those realistic potential scenarios.


  • #59
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Sure we already have Celtic, what'd we want with the rest of it?


  • #60
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,287 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    No - be good friends with an independent Scotland though

    Edinburgh today

    https://twitter.com/PhantomPower14/status/1048539309072994304


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  • #61
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    No. But Northern Ireland should form a new independent state with Scotland. They're far more aligned with the Scots. And leave us alone.

    Personally I wouldn't know which of the two would be worse to be associated with.


  • #62
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Two Doors Down could do an Irish special.


  • #63
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Aye we should and also take England as far south as Cheshire and Yorkshire with it. Be a powerful nation to counteract the soft southern English types who seem intent on driving the world demented


  • #64
    Tuco88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    For one world cup id love to see an all ireland,scottish and welsh team.

    Might actually win the thing. Eh probably not.


  • #65
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Tuco88 wrote: »
    For one world cup id love to see an all ireland,scottish and welsh team.

    Might actually win the thing. Eh probably not.

    To differentiate themselves from the British and Irish Lions they could be called The Celtic Tigers.


  • #66
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Can we take in Cornwall.
    Nice aul spot


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  • #67
    bilbot79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Perhaps it's inevitable. Wasn't the north protestantised to break the link between Irish and scottish Celts?


  • #68
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Or, with the creation of a devolved English Parliament, based in Birmingham or somewhere, join a five state Federal Kingdom of Britain ?


  • #69
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Or, with the creation of a devolved English Parliament, based in Birmingham or somewhere, join a five state Federal Kingdom of Britain ?
    Come on! Even you must realise how outlandish that is.

    Birmingham FFS!


  • #70
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Come on! Even you must realise how outlandish that is.

    Birmingham FFS!

    True, its quite a dump. But then if they Scots can have theirs in Glasgow...


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