3 responses to “Border war”

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   Greta November 25th, 2009 at 11:47

   Is Shane not making the point that at the moment it is better to put the tax revenue into the Irish finance minister’s pot as oppossed to the Chancellor’s pot in London.. I think patriotism right now is about supporting Brian Lenihan and increasing his pot as oppossed to Mr Darling and his pot.
   Yesterday we had public sector workers striking looking for a bigger share of the pot and then a lot of them taking their day off as a shopping day and heading north to spend their share of that pot in a different territory.. giving the tax take to a different chancellor.. I’m with Shane on this one! Oh and I’ve supported John Hume all my life.

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   El Matador November 25th, 2009 at 15:41

   This is typical of the rampant partitionism on offer from some sections of southern society. Parties like Fianna Fáil are happy enough to call themselves ‘republican’, but republican is as republican does, and advising people not to do business in certain parts of the island of Ireland is the very antithesis of republicanism.

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   Fearghal O Boyle November 26th, 2009 at 11:33

   More evidence that so many people in the south have not only ‘moved on’ from the notion of a united Ireland, they see their northern neighbours as living in a different world altogether, one that threatens their own interests.
   Congratulations to all those who spent (and continue to spend) the past 40 years murdering their neighbours in order to bring us all together in the end.