Posted on 03/04/2017 1:41:51 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
DUBLIN — Northern Ireland’s snap election has left the rival extremes of politics virtually neck and neck for the first time — and facing a bruising battle to put their Catholic-Protestant government back together again in an increasingly polarized landscape.
The big winner from Saturday’s final results to fill the Northern Ireland Assembly is the Irish nationalist party that triggered the vote, Sinn Fein.
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Ah, the Irish. 700+ years of breathtakingly bad decisions and grudge holding with no end in sight.
European Nationalism is winning.
Thanks to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. If the Church had remained the same, there would have been no problem. But the British attempted to stamp out the original Church, the Catholic Church, and replace it with the English version ruled by the State.
BTW, even some Anglican clergy in the late 18th, early 19th centuries thought this was too harsh.
Wow, someone actually has the guts to say it?
A week from so-called St. Pat’s day, too (Irish Blowhard Day), the original PC holiday in the US.
Exactly. The British never let up on Ireland and Ireland has suffered in full from the brutal split (Northern Ireland is still part of the British empire) since then. Frankly, the Irish have a perfectly legitimate reason to be furious.
But voting for that Communist Adams can hardly be a solution.
Apparently, the British have succeeded in destroying the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, the Catholics in Northern Ireland have not become Anglicans (even if they had become Anglicans, that would not help much now that most Anglicans are barely Christian). They are socialists now. Their political parties are the SDLP (socialist) and Sinn Fein (communist).
Are there any conservative Catholics left in Northern Ireland? Who do they vote for?
I’m not of Irish descent. I’m not of English descent.
I recently read a book on European History.
I was amazed to discover that when the Romans occupied England, the unoccupied Irish raided England to take English slaves.
When the Romans left England, the Irish increased their slave raids on the English.
This all happened long before the Catholic/Protestant issue.
As a Dorrity whose grandfather hailed from County Cork, and with some knowledge of my ancestral history, I can get away with that.
I don’t know. LberationTheology (and massive clerical corruption thanks to VII) sure took over in Ireland.
“Apparently, the British have succeeded in destroying the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland.”
The pedo priests destroyed the Catholic Church in NI.
NI had an election, The Hezbollah of Hibernia got within one seat of the lead (and thus the First Minister post) and the Unionists (whatever you think on the question of Irish unity conservatives have no choice but to vote unionist as the Irish Republican parties are socialist and communist) parties lost their overall majority so expect nasty legislation to get through.
NI has this ridiculous undemocratic system where you need 80% support or something to form a government, this was designed to force SF to be included in any government.
The small party “Traditional Unionist Voice” is the only party that is opposed to this disgusting system.
I have Irish blood but I have to toast Queen Lizzy, Irish republicans are marxist trash.
Don’t be fooled, Sinn Fein are Internationalist Communists.
Sinn Fein [We Ourselves] has existed [1905] before the Communist party. They are a left-wing nationalist party.
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