9 responses to “RTE’s enduring partitionism”

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   Aidan May 1st, 2009 at 11:25

   Their web stream is good, I listen to it all the time in Holland. Yesterday I was annoyed when a number of people from the printing industry were giving out about contracts going north or to Britain. This state nationalism is an unfortunate symptom of the country having been split for so long. The sooner the UK joins the Euro the better as that will do more for Irish unity than any other political decision.

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   Pól Callaghan May 1st, 2009 at 12:26

   Tubridy must be reading from the same book of nonsense as Conor ‘Here and There’ Murphy MP.

   That so-called Republican doesn’t think that roads in Donegal count as real roads, so DRD doesn’t fund the Foyle Ferry service but does fund the Strangford Ferry.

   It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

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   John Bradley May 1st, 2009 at 17:29

   Conall,

   You make a very important point. When I drive the 3 miles from my former home in Derry to Donegal – in the same province, I should point out for Dubliners who may not be aware -the accent changes little, the countryside and fields share the same colours and we all, no matter what shade of opinion have a common pride in “the North.” However, having worked for a technology company based in Dublin, “the North” – indeed Donegal, too – might as well have been “the Arctic” so far away did it seem in many peoples’ minds. Small minds. Short memories.

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   Wolf May 2nd, 2009 at 09:17

   John Bradley – Donegal is in a different country though. That is a fact.

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   Conall McDevitt May 2nd, 2009 at 09:34

   Wolf

   If by country you mean a seperate jurisdiction then of course you are right. But Donegal is in the same province as NI and its people as part of the Ulster people as the rest of us.

   That we all play in the same championships, represent the same nation and are, dare I say all Irish, in one form or another is also a fact.

   My point is that RTE claims to be a 32 county broadcaster but in reality is just a southern one.

   Conall

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   Wolf May 2nd, 2009 at 19:57

   Hmm… I see where you are coming from. However Donegal is not part of the UK like we are (which is a big deal).

   Play in the same championships? Represent the same nation?

   Im not buying that at all im afraid.

   Certainly in football or athletics if you are from there you represent Eire (like Shay Given).

   I have never been able to get RTE in any of the houses i have lived in and very much see it as a foreign broadcaster.

   Which is a shame.

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   Fearghal O Boyle May 5th, 2009 at 11:44

   Partitionim has most certainly been internalised by the vast majority of people outside of Ulster, Louth, and Leitrim. But a fair few of them are making a bee-line north to do their ‘unpatriotic duty’ this last while. This too makes a nonsense of SFs repeated calls for a ‘border poll’ – most southerners want nothing to do with the north. Is it fair to say that more and more Unionists are realising that the southerners are not necessarily their enemies, but fewer Nationalists are copping on to the fact that they are not necessarily their friends?

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