Posted on 06/25/2016 8:19:55 PM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight
What do you think they are?
Unlikely but roughly a thousand times more likely than them joining The UK. Eire and England will never be part of the same country again.
Not at all likely. The six northern counties are more likely to join the Republic. They voted, somewhat like Scotland, to remain in the EU where the Republic still is.
The vote percentages in Northern Ireland were pretty well split along religous lines, with Catholic regions voting to remain and Protestant voting to exit (i.e. for British Independance).
There are few in the Republic of Ireland today who would want union with the UK, where most of the Loyalists/Protestants have been ethnically cleansed since the split from the North.
The North is moving towards union with the South nowadays anyway because:
(1) This has been the policy of the British Government for the last thirty years to appease Irish Republican terrorists
(2) Because of (1) above, the population in the North is shifting (Loyalists/Protestants leave as Catholics move into the province).
Joe Kernan, is that you?
Ireland should withdraw from the EU and join with the US, Canada and UK (and others) in a free trade agreement. NOT a EU tangled mess, and NOT a “trade partnership.”
As for currency, the could have a national currency again.
Actually, Ireland is, and always has been, a dependency of Britain. Britain being in the EU was a godsend, because the agricultural and very close social ties could continue while pretending they didn’t exist at all.
Exactly. I don’t believe the oligarchy will permit GB leaving at all. They will cook up some excuse to deny the people their choice.
The UK will likely desintegrate. Scotland and Northern Ireland will break away to stay in the EU. The EU offers a €14.3 trillion market and the UK a €2.8 trillion market. Not a hard decision at all.
Spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty & doubt) again.
The UK is the 5th largest economy in the world and that's without a lot of natural resources.
I think they would be happy to have their whole country back ....
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I don’t know. Look how they are letting the mohammedans overrun their 3 remaining Green Fields.
Monday is going to be interesting if you like to follow the markets around the world. Panic selling? A bounce back up?
I think it is more likely that Northern Ireland would leave the UK.
Terrible idea.
Where is St. Patrick when you need him? They would have been better off just letting in people from Poland and eastern bloc countries. The EU probably sets quotas for who and how many. I don't know when they started letting Muslims in. Years ago I wouldn't have thought it such a bad thing. Now I see that letting them in has consequences.
If they did a poll and people were free to speak their hearts (and a lot wouldn't), they don't like being overrun by Muslims in the cities.
It didn't start until they started experiencing a burst of economic growth and prosperity.
I had quite a few ancestors from N. Ireland; they were Scots Irish refugees. Have no proven Irish lineage at all. I had a Jane White gr (lots of gr's) from the 1600 or 1700's who was born in Dublin. I have a gr gr grandmother Jane White (her married name) who was born in Manchester circa 1810.
Those Scots Irish did NOT interbreed with the native population to any extent. There was probably some illegitimacy though.
Guess I shouldn't divert this to genealogy. I just know in later years one Irish person. Even after a few generations, that Irish fervor, pride and the old conflicts are just beneath the surface.
Such a gorgeous country, never visited there.
Well, I have quite a bit of Irish blood, and, for many years, I had a longing for and very romantic notions about the land of my ancestors. It is no longer that country. Very sad. They have turned their back on their religious heritage.
Yes, it is a truly beautiful country. Visited there once.
I'm so glad you got to visit. My acquaintance was enthralled after her first visit, then the next time it was so changed.
The photos I've seen are breathtaking, especially along the coast.
The Irish would never willingly give up 800 years of grievance
“What do you think they are?”
I know that the Irish are not a bunch of weenies.
My visit was only once in 1996, so I had no basis of comparison.
There are so many places I’d love to visit, but I would be afraid to leave the country now.
Two of my sisters visited Germany in the spring, and I was quite worried for them. They had no problems, but the terrorist attack on the train station in Munich occurred just a week after their trip!
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