You are letting yourself down Notch by resorting to playing the sectarian card.
It is rather insulting to assume that every Catholic born in Ulster will grow up to be a Brit hating Sinn Fein supporter.
Could the outcome of NI the election be the real beginnings of reunification?
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It is rather insulting to assume that every Catholic born in Ulster will grow up to be a Brit hating Sinn Fein supporter.
(with 10 kids)
You won't find a single Catholic in the 6 counties who believes they were born in Ulster.
Van (the man) Morrisson.
Van Morrison is from a Protestant family, and descended from Ulster Scots who settled the province 'back-in-the-day'.
When Brexit looked like it was definitely going to happen I wondered if the ERG thought that unification would eventually be the solution to an obvious problem. Me well I changed my car sooner than usual and as I thought saved a lot of money.
I have a slightly different view point on this area as I spent several months working in Dublin. I was surprised how deep feelings went and the historical reasons. Some long ago. It was clear to me that taught history was a little different to what we get in the UK and certain factors not even mentioned. I also attended a concert intended to fund the IRA and heard other more recent factors that could be added. I also took a UK registered car over their briefly. Scarcely noticed apart from an extremely limited number of people. Being a brit didn't matter at all with the majority
Views get leaders though................... The views tend to be rather fixed. Some views attract more people than others which may not help solve basic problems. They will do what ever they can to keep people following them. Some views are extremely black and white.
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I think that all depends on where abouts in the Republic you were (in Dublin, evenm the area you lived/worked in) and the period.
I've lived and worked in Ireland several times (each stint being a 6 to 12 month job) from the mid-1970s to about 20 years back and seen a massive shift in attitude towards us Brits. In the late 80's there was a lot more anti-British sentiment in places like the northside in Dub than there is now. I put this down in part to the fact that 30-odd years ago you'd never see an "ethnic" face (we had one engineer, an Indian, but he was a rare exception) but by 2001 there were Nigerians, Ugandians, Bosnians, etc. They not only sounded different, they looked it, too. I think the Irish had major problems accommodating these people because they were so very different.
Certainly in the 1970s (at the height of the Troubles) I wouldn't have dared walk into an unfamiliar bar in a place like Drogheda.
It was in that period. B'ham bombings while I was there.
The Alliance party relies on Unionist votes for their seats.
West of the River Bann is majority Nationalist, the Alliance party is non existant there.
This shows that where Nationalists are a majority they have no interest in working with protestants.
The Alliance party seats are almost exclusively in Unionist areas and the 7 extra seats they gained were due to moderate Unionists switching their votes.
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