To not find the name "Irish Car Bomb Cupcake"

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... or cocktail or anything else similar acceptable.

Ugh, brings back way to many memories of near misses and growing up hearing about the latest civilian deaths on the 9 o clock news.

Americans.

Karma- sein fein have 29 MLA and DUP have 38, hardly a huge majority, so you can see how a significant proportion of people in NI see themselves as Irish and not British.

Yes, but still not the majority.

There's a bit of a difference between saying NI as a whole has no desire to leave the UK and saying the majority don't want to, though. The second is a much more sensible way to put it. There isn't really anything that NI thinks 'as a whole' on this issue.

There were some polls a couple of years ago that were interesting, link to them here:

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/belfast-telegraph-exclusive-poll-on-united-ireland-14721124.html

The picture is a bit more complex than is traditionally assumed. I noticed that 17% of those considering themselves Irish were not Catholic, a significant number. It seems that younger Protestants increasingly identify as Northern Irish rather than British. Perhaps that's linked to Welsh and Scottish increasingly feeling the same way. And 55% of Catholics said economic troubles made union with ROI less likely. Probably that would be higher now.

"People from NI can be part of Team GB though, Wendy Houvenhagle is (cycling), Mary Peters, Wayne McCullough all are / were."

Yes, but people from Northern Ireland aren't from Great Britain, they're from Northern Ireland. The name of the team excludes NI. If it was called Team England there would have been uproar, but somehow Team GB is ok. Just something that bugs me, that's all.

While the unionists do have a small majority, there are still a huge number of nationalists in NI and their views can not be ignored, and as someone else mentioned, they are entitled to call themselves Irish and hold an Irish passport. I myself am Protestant and don't particularly see myself as British, but as Northern Irish and have no real preference as to whether Ireland is united or stays in the union, and I know many of my friends feel the same.

I don't think anyone is ignoring their views - there is power sharing in NI.

Stokes and Wips the full team name is GB and NI (but gets conveniently shortened, which I'd find annoying if I was from NI)