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See it is a nightmare. Grandfather clauses are not unusual in cases such as residential rights. My understanding is that I would be entitled to apply for a UK passport in the grounds that my father and indeed my mother was born in Ireland pre 1923. , A date when the treaty between UK and the...

.. so no dreamcatchers, magic crystals, or dreamy candles for you then, or those inspiring words from sundry Eastern mystics, what do you do when you go to those quaint tourist traps? . The article I found actually brings in a few topics recently mentioned on this thread...

People's flexibility to move might not be as free as you are assuming, when they move into other places they acquire baggage, husband's, wives, children, mortgages, careers, health problems and insurance, school certificates etc etc ... Now the EU has attempted to make these as flexible as...

There has been an outburst of spleen on this thread over the last few days so I think an non denominational prayer is in order... Sourced from the Irish times... For our non Irish Readers a short glossary... Cork is a southern county in Ireland where the people have a melodic accent and can be...

... And why not allow them register as charities subject only to a few conditions 1. Submit all accounts to the charities regulator 2. Pay all staff, including adminstration national norms eg NHS rates. 3. Have no shareholders, recieving any monies under any guise. Any share capital must be...

... And leavers won't accept that half the country want to stay... Could you consider that the psychological principle of consumer risk had taken place... We made a decision , so we stick to our decision right or wrong. it takes a lot to be bothered changing our mind. When one buys a...

Well he made it to the BBC news tonight.

.. don't worry Zlantan didn't forget you...

There were any number of responses he can or could make. He can disagree or agree with the proposition that that referendum was finely balanced. He can accept or reject the reasons why the different groups may have voted as they did.. I have tried to be impartial, but as you say I would also...

.. not a delicacy I have yet sampled.. Is that your famed caustic wit?

.. do pedants hang around?

I go back to the wafer thin majority again and winning and losing. Approx 32million people voted. 17 voted one way and 15 the other. Had 1 million more out of the 32 million who voted voted for stay, the referendum would have been lost. So the margin of victory was actually only 3%. . Now how...

.. if a judgement is advisory it's not a judgement its an opinion.

We don't want a hard border on the island. The NI people don't want a hard border, the UK claim they don't want a hard border, the EU recognise that sorting out the Irish UK border is one of the three primary problems to be sorted out before access arrangements can be made. They don't want a...

.. that is a pretty clear analysis of the current situation. I don't accept their fundamental premise, but their analysis of the state of play is spot on.

.. OK I am happy to be corrected on that detail. But the relationship between child and parent should have been such that this void at puberty would never have happened. By the time gangs get to the stage of forming outside doors , the battle is basically lost and it needs a task force to come...

This is a discussion I didn't want to get into. However from my perspective it I do see a racist element. It has been confirmed in law that the perpetrators were of one ethic group and the victims from another. It was an extensive operation, not just down to one or two people. There have been...

There is a bigger world out there, but none as wealthy as the EU block. It is the world's largest economy, and it starts literally metres from the UK. As I and other posters have shown, linking in to its standards is the smart move. Regrettably you are 100% correct. I am in the slightly...

I agree with you about the unnecessarily confrontational headlines from both sides . I don't read or get UK daily newspapers, so am dependent on the selection of headlines you and other posters refer to. I am appalled by the partisan nature of these. Some common sense and maybe a notion of fair...