26 Counties Goverment's £0.5m gift to Orange Order

[AZOffaly]

One garda says to the other, " shall I stick it in reverse?"

while you're on a roll, entertain us with a few jokes about protestants.

Plus have you ever, and I mean EVER, heard a guard say 'Shall'?

[Rossfan]

One garda says to the other, " shall I stick it in reverse?"

while you're on a roll, entertain us with a few jokes about protestants.

Plus have you ever, and I mean EVER, heard a guard say 'Shall'?

What I can't understand is how come the Gardai are now working in Canada?

[stew]

One garda says to the other, " shall I stick it in reverse?"

while you're on a roll, entertain us with a few jokes about protestants.

Plus have you ever, and I mean EVER, heard a guard say 'Shall'?

Lighten up, I thought that was very funny.

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ireland should be more inclusive, open to and changed by the peoples who have made it their home and to the cultures that they bring with them

Absolutely. But they must make it their home, not treat it like yobs on holiday.

i can only speak for myself, for the how and where i was raised, but i can assure you that the protestants i grew up with were lovely. understand you might find that hard to believe. but where i grew up there were no neighbours with guns, or anything approaching the antagonisms or the dynamics that were/are in the north. to say that we all got on (i've left now since '87, but i can see no difference in the friendships and how people mix socially when i'm back) would be kind of insulting to the relationships that people had, because those relationships are genuinely warm and not forced in the slightest. 

[stew]

ireland should be more inclusive, open to and changed by the peoples who have made it their home and to the cultures that they bring with them

Absolutely. But they must make it their home, not treat it like yobs on holiday.

i can only speak for myself, for the how and where i was raised, but i can assure you that the protestants i grew up with were lovely. understand you might find that hard to believe. but where i grew up there were no neighbours with guns, or anything approaching the antagonisms or the dynamics that were/are in the north. to say that we all got on (i've left now since '87, but i can see no difference in the friendships and how people mix socially when i'm back) would be kind of insulting to the relationships that people had, because those relationships are genuinely warm and not forced in the slightest.

Push comes to shove and my protestant friends want to stay part of this so called empire and I want a United Ireland, that does not make them bad people.

As O'Neill said on here once, he would live in a cave to have a United Ireland, I would too, I hope to see it in my lifetime but I am dismayed because the southern government seem apathetic toward a UI, and to me that is to their shame.

[Rossfan]

So how will not giving the Orange Order €0.5m help bring about a Politically Unified Ireland?

[stew]

So how will not giving the Orange Order €0.5m help bring about a Politically Unified Ireland?

It won't and no one said it would!

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ireland should be more inclusive, open to and changed by the peoples who have made it their home and to the cultures that they bring with them

Absolutely. But they must make it their home, not treat it like yobs on holiday.

i can only speak for myself, for the how and where i was raised, but i can assure you that the protestants i grew up with were lovely. understand you might find that hard to believe. but where i grew up there were no neighbours with guns, or anything approaching the antagonisms or the dynamics that were/are in the north. to say that we all got on (i've left now since '87, but i can see no difference in the friendships and how people mix socially when i'm back) would be kind of insulting to the relationships that people had, because those relationships are genuinely warm and not forced in the slightest.

Push comes to shove and my protestant friends want to stay part of this so called empire and I want a United Ireland, that does not make them bad people.

As O'Neill said on here once, he would live in a cave to have a United Ireland, I would too, I hope to see it in my lifetime but I am dismayed because the southern government seem apathetic toward a UI, and to me that is to their shame.

well see, that's where you and i differ. i'd live in a cave if it meant that i could live alongside my fellow man, regardless of colour or creed or anything else for that matter. i'd give up a united ireland easily enough, load of old nonsense anyway. i couldn't give two hoots who governed, as long as they were ethical and had humanist values, were not defined by religion, and were represeantative of their regions. you know, casinos, chicken ranches, that type of thing.