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What was the editor's name? Was it Mooretwin?

There were several editors involved, one was a unionist but a lot of his major writing was in Irish history especially ancient Ulster history.

It is a bit trivial.

Trying to boycott a massive and genuinely awesome open source project like Wikipedia because of a few rogue issues you have with it is a very north of Ireland response to a problem.

I urged Irish nationalists to boycott wikipedia, if you aren't irritated by this then you aren't an Irish Nationalist.

Have you nothing better to be doing?

You know the time it took you to type that comment is the same time it takes to make a wikipedia edit

It might sound a bit trivial but it is the principal of it.

I started an account to do a bit of editing, I tried to edit Liam Neesons nationality to Irish, this isn't controversial as he talks about being Irish on most of his TV interviews but my edit was reverted by an 18 year old Australian because "There was no proof that Neeson was Irish", I explained about him calling himself Irish in interviews but he said I need official proof of his nationality. The way they have listed Neeson is "Actor from Northern Ireland" which is ok compared to other celebrity pages.

Of course you don't seem to have to need official proof when calling someone Northern Irish on wikipedia, it isn't an official nationality anyway so getting official proof isn't possible.
I tried to edit some soccer figures like Neil Lennon, Pat Jennings and Brendan Rodgers to "professional footballer from Northern Ireland" to keep things in line with what I was told by the Neeson editor, of course my changes were reverted back to "Northern Irish professional footballer" because "there was no need to edit them", I assumed since they played for Northern Ireland at some stage they had to be categorised as Northern Irish which is their own fault really, James McClean is listed as "Irish".

Recently I tried to edit actor Colin Morgan who is from Armagh and has called himself Irish in a TV3 interview to "Irish actor", my change was reverted back to "British/Irish" actor because of dual citizenship, the unionist editor wouldn't be as quick to change a Protestant actor to being British/Irish.

Then there were a couple more figures, Johnny McDaid being one, a musician originally from Derry, I changed him from Northern Irish to "from Northern Ireland" of course it wasn't allowed and the editor threatened to ban me, apparently it was ok to call him Northern Irish as the 2011 census showed a lot of Catholics view themselves as Northern Irish only.

To sum things up it is ok for unionist identities to be put on people but it isn't ok for Irish to be used as a nationality for someone of the Ulster-Irish heritage. It isn't ok for Neeson to be Irish but it is ok for the Northern Irish tag to be used for people.

I'm not a big fan of Brolly either, I think he was an over rated player too, I only witnessed the last year or two of his career though I did watch a lot of his previous games on VHS tape.

I like the new ground, not as nice as the old one but it looks very good, it reminds me of the mid 90s Croke Park with the two terraces. However it disappoints me to see what they have done with the seating, they painted them white and grey which looks terrible, It is a pity didn't paint them like ths old stadium. Croke Park seats look terrible too. One of the most beautiful grounds is Offalys.

and an interesting fact for anyone interested is that some of the material used in the new stadium was from Ulster as I remember a lorry going down to it 18 months ago.

A great achievement for the team but people shouldn't read into it too much,

Derry 2002 minor winners   -   Seniors have been in 1 semi final since then

Derry 2007 minor finalists   -   Seniors haven't reached AI Quarter final since that same summer.

Derry never seem to learn, they talk about how there is hope for the county yet, lets take a look at the records.

2002 - All Ireland minor champions  (seniors have only been in 1 AI semi final since)

2007 - All Ireland minor finalists  (seniors haven't made it to an AI QF since)

Youth football needs to be taken with a pinch of salt and not used as a prediction for the future.

Best of luck to Armagh today, my own modern county of Derry was also  in Tír Eoghain in medieval times as was Inishowen but modern Tyrone hijacked the name for themselves.

Tyrone the only county in Ireland named after a Donegal man.

My mother said that Dubs would rob you off your tooth fillings.

If Kerry win they don't deserve it, two lucky goals

'deserve's' got nothing to do with it!

Explain that logic to me, I stand by my point, a strong team like that who come back from 5 down derserve to be playing in the final

If Kerry win they don't deserve it, two lucky goals

Dublin should win this encounter by 8 points, Kerrys best days are behind them and their best player is an Ulsterman

I would prefer Donegal to win it, for any historical enthusiasts, County Tyrone is actually named after an Inishowen man named Eoghan MacNeill, his grave is outside Muff near derry city

There are 5 Roman Papists on that set up I think, McGovern, McGinn, Ferguson, MacAodh and McLaughlin.

There are 4 English players and 1 Canadian.

I am not aware of the Republic set up but they probably have a load of Northern Catholics in their youth sides.

In 10-20 years there will be no Catholics in the NI squad at all I would think, maybe just the ones who never got a Republic call up, if they get rid of that sordid flag then that might change, a native aboriginal red hand being used as a unionist symbol doesn't make sense in the slightest.