Serious Q About Northern Ireland?
 

What happened? Did it fall off the face of the earth? No news out of that hellhole for God knows how long. Did they resolve their issues and go back to being completely unimportant?

Yeah theyve solved the issues i think............ apparently Belfast is a really nice place to live these days.

so what, the IRA has all but disbanded now?

they came to a agreement, they dont have anything to fight over.

Dont think i would say they "disbanded" - they just dont need to fight any more. I'ts more a political orientation now, than a regular resistance groupe.

The leprechauns have taken over and are blocking all news channels.

There are still divisions but it is peaceful and fine to live now, and the republic of ireland is becoming an economic power house, loads of businesses moving there because of the tax breaks they get.

but the truth is...ireland is so fucking boring.

who cares? they still eat too much cabbage and taters

Ireland has had an explosion of high tech companies over the last few years. House prices are crazy expensive now too...

It went thru a huge boom to say the least.

But yet I digress the reason the lord invented whiskey was to keep the Irish from ruiling the world ;)

God bless Ireland.

They all kissed and made up.

The IRA are now all assembling furniture for $11 ph.

yeah, what everyone above said. However, the other side of the story is, N. Irelande gave up fighting the Brits for independence to return to the mother land, cos the mother land sold its soul to the capitalistic devil and so no longer wants to be associated.

Better the devil you know.


Such a shame to see *ALL* the Irish fields devoid of cattle. Paying the farmers to not farm so the land could be sold to industry is going to make a soulless country in the long run.

Boring, are you serious? have you ever been to any city in Ireland?

I was in Cork and Kinsale recently and yeah, they were boring. Sure, lots of night activity, plenty of bars with kids getting rat arsed, but the places had no soul.
Rep Ireland sold its soul for ? for sure :2 cents:

I grew up in Dublin, Lived in London/manchester for eleven years.

Yes I can relate to the changes the last 15 years has brought, some good, some bad, but It's a country that needed to update it's self to the rest of Europe.

Believe it or not, there is even black people living on my moms street now. that was unheard off when I was growing up.

Me and my friend got chased by a black man with a knife and he got mugged when we went to visit ireland.

Never going back.

Sorry to hear that, times have changed over there, btw: I was chased by skin heads in scotland when I was a kid. was there with with my mom visiting her sister. they heard I was a catholic lol. was no big deal to me at the time.

Been to scotland many times after though, got married there infact. shit happens in this world.

Anyone else in here now got a craving for Tayto chips?

lol, not me I have an import store close by, where I get all my old favourites.

It was last September :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

There was an immigration centre nearby which explains things.

The Irish themselves were great people and I loved the bakeries and the general hospitality of bar staff.

Yeh I may go again actually, I think too rashly.

Northern Ireland and Ireland are 2 different countries.

I was not talking about the time you were there :winkwink: and good hit dublin it's not much different then London and Im sure you love London lol.