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Tommie, two interesting snippets from my visit to Belfast today.. I noticed two of your city buses with different routes on them. Both were travelling to City centre ,one via Falls Rd abd other vis Shankhil Rd. . One also displayed a sign" Lar an cearthar" as well. Why not thr other one?. Of...

Other than the UK in the guise if NI had that type of Temperance Minister 50 to 70 years later than the 1920s..not much wrong with your post. OG may gave gone a little OTT, but the sentiments would have been strongly felt. ..and within our lifetimes. My fathers first appointment was as a...

Tommie, and perhaps others, there is an opinion piece in todays Guardian by a John Harris regarding NI attitudes towards Brexit. Other than I feel no anger ,just profound disappointment,I can relate to everything in the Article.

Obviously a fallow day for real Brexit news.!

Nothing that he does or says interests me.,let alone anything of 15 years ago The beauty of PR is that while he is a representative for some people in this constituency, he is not the representative I would willingly meet.

Thank you. Ray Kinsella is not professor any more than am I ,we are both retired. But the current Professor from TCD ,Lucey has an very critical analysis of his speech introducing the Party.in 2017. But from my ignorance of the party, you can gauge its importance in the Irish political debate...

Well actually OG both Tommie and that advisor have a point. At the time of the crisis ,there was no rule so following a rule or a principle was not an option. It was an unprecedented situation, and the demand that Ireland bail out a small private bank ,or guarantee its debt was bullying. Why...

You failed to respond when I asked you who was funding this IREXIT group. There is no churchgate or crowdfunding venue in Ireland, North or South, where they would be entertained. Like I have said on a few occasions, there has never been a topic in the past which has so united the peoples of...

No. Policemen with machine guns, barbed wire pointing inwards these are better clues. I visited East Berlin in 1972 ,so have seen first hand. I kept my hand in my passport all 5 hours I was there.

No. A lot closer than that. There are 35 working days for local goods and for shipping coming with frozen NZ lamb, Brexit has happened.. For Goods shipping from China, Brexit is next Friday.

And in that is the essential difference between the EU and any other multi ethnic federation on earth. .. The Chinese have been attempting to regain their breakaway province of Taiwan. There was never a chance that they would have allowed Hong Kong remain under foreign ownership , once the...

Maybe it is that simple .. Leavers BELIEVE that the EU is a prison. Now what caused them to have this belief?. ,When the facts do not support it?.

We I dont know how much physical contact, but we do have plenty of social contacts with the Commission, the Commissioners, the Parliament andthe key players. Tommie etc.. give over on this nonsense meme.

Rugby... No actually disappointing. The world is on about how good J. Carbury was , but it was clear that J.Schmitt had some reservations.... A player with more experience would not have allowed the second Scottish try. Now he did make amends.

Finally!!. It had to happen sometime ,but you are making sense. In Victorian times they did not even bother naming children until they were a few years old,such was infant mortality. It is also the reason why boys were left in petticoats until nearly three years old.

The sense of solidarity which Ireland has received from the 26 has been a source of comfort. The statenents which D. Trusk had made prior to the "hell speech" ,were well structured and pertinent

The reason the Seaborne contract collapsed is because the ships were going to be provided by the Irish based Arklow Shipping Company with its fleet of 50 ships... Yes 50. Who have decuded to withdraw. Perhaps you did not see the Irsh Navy ships because they are on Fisheries Protection and...

Tommie,Tommie, you are better than this. We are a Republic, and hard fought to make it so. We have a Government a state,a legislature,a judicial system .. and even better a constitution . As a sovereign state we are empowered to make alliances with other sovereign states , including the UK...

As OG reminded me, there is no way that he will be able to understand the difference between policy and execution.

Which industrial revolution are you referring to ?. The textiles,the metal working,the mining the chemicals, the agricultural, the glass,