Is it likely Irish unification will happen in years to come?

[cuppateaandabiccie]

I’m in NI and I quite like being a part of the UK so I most certainly am against a United Ireland.

i like our education system and I know the health service is on its knees, but I’d rather not pay every time I need to go to the doctors.

obviously Sinn Fein are now the biggest party meaning they can nominate for First Minister - does this actually pose a risk to the union with the UK?

If the Deputy First Minister and First Minister both hold equal office - then surely they had the same chances of trying to implement a border poll when the they were Deputy First Minister?

if there was to be a border poll, do people think the majority would support Irish unity or go against it?

also, do people think the DUP will refuse to enter government with Sinn Fein as FM?

Who was responsible?

repsonsible for what? Cos in a couple of sentences you’ve jumped from millions of people presumably in the famine, to British soldiers presumably English ones in 1972 to your Protestant friend with a Russian husband.

I really can’t keep up

all I can tell you is there is and were a lot of evil people on this island and a lot of people who got caught up in stuff much bigger than them. I’m referring to both British and Irish evilness because it existed everywhere
there are and we’re also a lot of good innocent people on both sides who had nothing to do with it and many who actually tried to help heal people both lysiclaly and mentally. And people like myself who went out as a teenager and voted for GFA to try and bring an end to it because the only power WE was hope and a vote.

so I won’t apologise to a keyboard warrior like yourself. I have every right to live here just as you do and if you don’t want to unite with NI if the time comes…well you’ll have a vote so make sure and use it.

What an evil act! I agree!

and I could also sit here and tag you in multiple videos where nasty evil IRA bastards blew up 29 people and a pregnant woman in omagh

a couple of kids on the shankill

workmen on their way home

forced men to drive suicide bombs into a checkpoint

same with the other loyalist bastards who shot people dead in pubs, burned children, set bombs and murdered their way through innocents.
all day long.
they are all vile, evil and nasty..

I grew up with it! I experienced an IRA bomb. I saw this evilness every night I turned on the TV and someone else was dead. Doesn’t matter what side did it, I hated it.

i know a man who has to go into a car to pull a baby out before it blew up in an IRA bomb with her in the car near it. He still isn’t over it and talks about it all the time

I had to make the awful decision to let those bastards out of jail to get peace. So that my children wouldn’t be going round the same cycle of hatred. and it was a good decision because they grew up in a different world. Anything less would keep the cycle of hate going and going.

You are confusing ordinary people with the vile acts of others and you are so blinkered you only show yourself one side. How do you feel about what the IRA did in Omagh? The Shankill?

You literally just told me to apologise and get out of my country just because I happen to live here and what my DNA might be

did you say that to your Protestant friend? Did you tell her she had no right to exist because her ancestors likely originated from Scotland? Or do you only say it to strangers?

or her Russian husband; did you shout at him to apologise because his ancestors raped and brutalised their way through Finland in 1939? Did you tell him to fuck off?

I bet you didn’t!

have you checked out your own DNA to make sure you don’t have some Scottish ancestry in there? I bet you do!

anyway the OPs post was about seeing a way forward to see if unification is possible You have contributed nothing constructive. It is clear the hate consumes you. I’ve done my bit in my lifetime to forgive people for their evils and I certainly don’t take it out on other people. If you choose not to that’s your problem not mine.

On my maternal grandmother's side, we're related to a former US president.

There are no cnuts in the closet.

@JetTail

Anyone still here and wanting to be part of the United Kingdom is not Irish. They are British

Here? You mean as in your location of London? Yes people in London usually want to be part of the United Kingdom. Cos that’s where you are love!
Have you got your blue passport yet? Cos you are a UK citizen living in London.

I am not willing to simply shut up and get on with it. Apologise

Nobody told you to shut up but I bet you are pretty quiet in your London suburb. Or do you go out in London and shout about Irish history. Sure the Queen is round the corner from you would she not apologise on behalf of her ancestors if you went round there?

or is it because you are really English and you’ve just been having fun for 2 pages drinking Moscow Mules?

How’s the weather over there in London? Here in Ireland my homeplace it is pretty wet.

Ah so now that @JetTail has been revealed to being actually English and living in London with a lot of faux outrage about things she hasn’t actually experience in Ireland she has gone in and deleted all her vile posts

Perhaps you don't understand citizenship? I'm British?

I didn't delete anything. HQ did apparently!

Could I apply for British citizenship? Of course. Would I? When hell freezes over.

I've never really known of anyone famous from Northern Ireland? Hard to do anything when you're trying not to get shot.

On MN users aren't able to delete their own posts.

Indeed. All it takes is one user to report a post and whoosh........ it's gone. Blubberyboo clearly reported my posts.

Aw....spoil sport! 😆 😂 😆

It's funny that not many people in Ireland know the full lyrics of Amhráin na bhFiann! We had a very brilliant Irish teacher in school who made us study it. Not the translated version. The original version in Irish. The accepted translation doesn't really encapsulate the original.

It's very difficult to translate appropriately sometimes as some languages do not have an equivalent. The soldier's song is the translation of our national anthem but it doesn't capture the real feeling at all.

For e.g. the first line of our anthem is

'Sin na Fianna Fáil'

translated into English (the accepted translation) is

'Soldiers are we'

Ok, it was written in English first.

Probably why the teacher wanted us to study the Irish version!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Northern_Ireland

Extensive list of famous NI'ers on there. Just fyi.

Down this end we are all taught it in Irish - I actually would be hardpushed to know anyone who learned the English version nor why they did. The Catholic side of NI also learn the Irish version.

@JetTail

no I didn’t report anything actually , was quite happy for everyone to see how unhinged the posts were, and how prejudiced you are.

The audicity of coming onto an Irish page quoting lyrics of songs and poetry as if the people of craicnet had never heard of it before and then explaining the meaning behind.

Everyone in ROI and NI knows the fields of Athenry. To come on and explain the meaning of the lyrics and of Yeats poetry is the equivalent of mansplaining.

it is clear from your other posts on other threads you are in London England and enjoying the full benefits of being in Britain whilst being completely unhinged about people in NI. Pure nasty. you are completely detached from reality of life here