When a Protestant marries a Catholic in Ireland and can't be buried next to each other in the same cemetery.
Posted on 04/12/2022 11:43:40 AM PDT by Cronos
Northern Irish politics are on the brink of an inflection point on 5 May if the latest polling proves correct, ending a century in which the largest party in Northern Irish politics has come from the unionist community.
Instead Sinn Féin, a party that campaigns for a united Ireland, seems likely to win a historic victory, becoming the largest party in Stormont.
....The latest Northern Irish opinion poll puts Sinn Féin on 26% of the vote, seven points ahead of the Democratic Unionist party on 19%. The DUP fiercely defends Northern Ireland remaining in the UK.
It would be only the second time in the region’s history that a nationalist party (one advocating a united Ireland) will have gained the most first-preference votes*, and the first time nationalists have won the most seats and the right to appoint the first minister.
...“Northern Ireland was created as a Protestant state for Protestant people,” says Dr Nicolas Whyte, a visiting professor at the University of Ulster and senior director at the consultancy APCO Worldwide. “To have a nationalist first minister … means that there has been a historical shift.”
...In practical terms the shift is less significant. The Northern Ireland assembly is designed for a power-sharing coalition and Sinn Féin has been in government since 1999, and has held the position of deputy first minister since 2007.
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I don't see it as so sectarian any more, considering the declines in religiosity
It might be good for an Ireland that isn’t divided along sectarian lines.
It would also save the UK a large amount of cash it gives northern Ireland in welfare
It hasn’t been that sectarian for some time. Sinn Fein is quite socialist to Marxist and the IRA has been heavily Marxists for a long time.
Ireland, north and south, is almost as Godless as East Germany.
My mother was a Catholic girl, from county Cork was she.
They were married in two churches, lived happily enough, Until the day that I was born and things got rather tough.
Oh, it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen. My father, he was Orange and me mother, she was green."
As long as Bushmills is good so am I!😎
The division in NI today is more pro-UK vs. pro-EU.
When a Protestant marries a Catholic in Ireland and can't be buried next to each other in the same cemetery.
It’s not really sectarian anymore in the sense that you have Catholic pro-lifers supporting the DUP!
I believe it!
Republic of Ireland:
Purchasing Power Parity: $111,360[6] (3rd in the world);
Nominal: $102,394[6] (3rd in the world);
United Kingdom:
PPP: $48,693[16] (28th in the world)
Nominal: $46,200[16] (22nd in the world).
No matter how you look at it, the Republic of Ireland is vastly better off than the UK and that the UK is holding Northern Ireland back economically and by extension socially.
Bushmills! You bloody Orangman! lol
I recommend Academy Award winner ‘Belfast’.—directed by Kenneth Branagh who grew up there. It’s basically a story of life there in his youth.
It doesn’t particularly take sides, but is an excellent depiction of life during tumultuous times.
Made me grin with that one! Our local pub has an Irish session every Tuesday evening. They usually call me up to sing one or two; I did The Orange & The Green a few weeks ago.
This evening's candidates are Fiddler's Green, The Rising of the Moon, and Join the British Army.
Result of a “blind taste test” (I was blind drunk) mate! Slàinte! 😀
Death
Red Hand is hardly vanquished
Politics aside car it will be good to see Ireland united, and Britain kicked out.
PS Move it to Cork and I’ll still be fine! Love me some Jamesons too!
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Jameson, now you are talking :-)
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