The IRISH RUGBY thread

[Ghost]

Anybody got any sites to stream the match on the phone later tonight? Don't think the hotel we're in here is going to be showing it.

[Milltown Row2]

itv player will be, if available

[Milltown Row2]

I was watching some analysis on TV3 that included Andrew Trimble who studied theology at Belfast Bible college and is a devout whatever class of Prosedant he is  and it's so weird the difference between how comfortable people like him are in the South compared to the bullshit that the DUP spout-- I know rugby is a class thing but still. The closer the connections between the North and South the easier the transition will be. I think rugby could teach the rest of the country a lot about this.

Middle-class "small U" Prod so I'm sure he'd be more at home with middle-class Catholics playing rugby than someone from a loyalist housing estate. In Ireland we like to pretend that class isn't "a thing".

It's more than class. Trimble knows he is safe in dublin and that nobody cares where he is from. He isn't treated like that because he is middle class.
It's not inherent that working class Prods in the North of Ireland despise the South. We are not a threat to anybody in the North and nobody cares what religion loyalists  have. They have a category error. 
N

 It wasn't inherent in 1910 that the Dublin merchant class were Unionist. The DUP needs a political base. If that model collapses anything could happen . At the end of the day it's all the same country. I cannot imagine the all Ireland without the Derry or Tyrone wans.

My wife is a blow in from the continent . She had heard about the North  from the news growing up and it was all about violence and whatever. One time we were driving up to a B&B in Co Down.She had never been further north than Sligo.  We crossed the border near Newry and there was a sign that said "welcome to Northern Ireland" and after a few minutes she said said that the landscape  and he houses looked very like Ireland. Just fancy that.

Is she English?

[RedHand88]

You might laugh but I heard a Unionist one make the case for partition and the two states being different countries because "the countrysides look different".

[Wildweasel74]

With France down there starting fly half and scrum Half, finishing 2nd here actually looking at a better option than taking on the All-Black's.

[Rudi]

First decent game of world cup England v Chile. Entertainment at last & Chile having a go.

[Capt Pat]

With France down there starting fly half and scrum Half, finishing 2nd here actually looking at a better option than taking on the All-Black's.

Agreed. I can't beleive Irish people saying it would be better if we take on the all blacks in the quarter final. France are a top side but down their number one choice half backs they give Ireland a good opportunity.

[seafoid]

I was watching some analysis on TV3 that included Andrew Trimble who studied theology at Belfast Bible college and is a devout whatever class of Prosedant he is  and it's so weird the difference between how comfortable people like him are in the South compared to the bullshit that the DUP spout-- I know rugby is a class thing but still. The closer the connections between the North and South the easier the transition will be. I think rugby could teach the rest of the country a lot about this.

Middle-class "small U" Prod so I'm sure he'd be more at home with middle-class Catholics playing rugby than someone from a loyalist housing estate. In Ireland we like to pretend that class isn't "a thing".

It's more than class. Trimble knows he is safe in dublin and that nobody cares where he is from. He isn't treated like that because he is middle class.
It's not inherent that working class Prods in the North of Ireland despise the South. We are not a threat to anybody in the North and nobody cares what religion loyalists  have. They have a category error. 
N

 It wasn't inherent in 1910 that the Dublin merchant class were Unionist. The DUP needs a political base. If that model collapses anything could happen . At the end of the day it's all the same country. I cannot imagine the all Ireland without the Derry or Tyrone wans.

My wife is a blow in from the continent . She had heard about the North  from the news growing up and it was all about violence and whatever. One time we were driving up to a B&B in Co Down.She had never been further north than Sligo.  We crossed the border near Newry and there was a sign that said "welcome to Northern Ireland" and after a few minutes she said said that the landscape  and he houses looked very like Ireland. Just fancy that.

Is she English?

No

[Wildweasel74]

What's the point in Irelands call, when lads like Henderson refuse to sing it.

[seafoid]

Shoulder to shoulder. Ireland is calling for unification.

[Estimator]

Irish attacking Line out = 3pts for South Africa

[Wildweasel74]

Poor start to lose 3 line outs, we normally so good in that area,

[Estimator]

Poor start to lose 2 line outs

Now its 3

[Wildweasel74]

4, that's shockingly poor. Is it him or Sheenan the normal starter at Hooker?

[Estimator]

At last!!