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Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed April 06, 2022 3:44 am
by simple schoolboy

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed April 06, 2022 7:30 am
by dimejinky99
Irish diaspora refers to Irish people who now live overseas. It doesn’t refer to mick who’s from Boston and fifth generation Irish :)

At least that’s my understanding of it so far

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed April 06, 2022 12:41 pm
by spike
Only about 130k Irish born in the US.

500k in UK though, which is a more significant 10% of Irish born in the world. I assume they count as living abroad?

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed April 06, 2022 2:32 pm
by dimejinky99
This was more about giving Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland the right to vote than anywhere else. It wouldn’t be open to people of Irish descent as that’s chaotic. There’s only 5 million people in Ireland. The US alone has around 40 million of Irish descent. Think it’s 6 million of Irish descent in the uk.

This won’t go anywhere though. Can’t see it passing at all at referendum stage.

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed April 06, 2022 4:01 pm
by spike
Right, only Irish born; that’s pretty clear. The tweet is mistaken.

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed April 06, 2022 9:16 pm
by Norah
dimejinky99 wrote:Irish diaspora refers to Irish people who now live overseas. It doesn’t refer to mick who’s from Boston and fifth generation Irish :)

At least that’s my understanding of it so far
I played darts against a bunch of micks from Boston last night. Decent lads.

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed April 06, 2022 9:18 pm
by dimejinky99
Norris wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Irish diaspora refers to Irish people who now live overseas. It doesn’t refer to mick who’s from Boston and fifth generation Irish :)

At least that’s my understanding of it so far
I played darts against a bunch of micks from Boston last night. Decent lads.

Braver man than me :)

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Fri April 08, 2022 5:06 pm
by simple schoolboy
spike wrote:Right, only Irish born; that’s pretty clear. The tweet is mistaken.
They seemed to believe it applied to people with Irish grandparents.

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 10:42 pm
by Green Habit
dime, anything details we should know?

https://apnews.com/article/boris-johnso ... 8c9253717b

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 12:24 am
by Norah
the border poll is coming

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 1:21 am
by dimejinky99
This is my fourth time trying to write this.

GH.

Basically the unionists have fucked themselves. Beyond understanding. Seriously
And now there’s a nationalist majority
On top of that, brexit. Protocol, absolute bullshit
The British government have all big abandoned
Northern Ireland. They just need to hang onto Scotland.
For reasons (massive resources, nuke military base, North Sea )
Chud is correct though. Border poll incoming. At speed. And we are not ready.

Ps Sinn Fein government in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Dunno if I even have the space to explain that here

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 2:21 am
by Green Habit
dimejinky99 wrote:This is my fourth time trying to write this.

GH.

Basically the unionists have fucked themselves. Beyond understanding. Seriously
And now there’s a nationalist majority
On top of that, brexit. Protocol, absolute bullshit
The British government have all big abandoned
Northern Ireland. They just need to hang onto Scotland.
For reasons (massive resources, nuke military base, North Sea )
Chud is correct though. Border poll incoming. At speed. And we are not ready.

Ps Sinn Fein government in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Dunno if I even have the space to explain that here
Thanks. And sorry if you're annoyed at retyping, I'll try to reread stuff I'm sure I missed since I don't check here nearly as often anymore.

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 4:26 am
by simple schoolboy
Image

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 9:55 am
by dimejinky99
Simple schoolboy is a fitting name it seems.

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 11:13 pm
by dimejinky99
Here we go

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 12:19 am
by Norah
simple schoolboy wrote:Image
lolol amazing

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 12:54 pm
by dimejinky99
This is bad news. UUP are the moderate ones. Hopefully those votes have gone to alliance.
And not the DUP or TUV.

God I love Election Days.

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 7:49 am
by dimejinky99

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 12:52 pm
by dimejinky99
Bbc just shouting the quiet part out loud

Re: Ireland Reunification & Scottish independence referenda

Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 1:00 pm
by dimejinky99
And those are the numbers so the bbc guy is wrong. But they’ll push the union narrative no matter what