@JoeNaConnacht As we know, there's nothing the IRFU likes better than paying people to not draw attention to them in public, so this could be interesting.
@HenryJackson87 There seems to be a coordinated campaign to get him back in. Nice guy and all that but for the amount of chances he got, his finishing was frustrating.
@MichaelMcI92861@ninnythebear@Gnomesopinions@BelTel And you're still not getting it. The issues you would vote on in the NI BP will not be the same as what we will vote on in the Republic's BP, that's the point. We stand to lose big time thru bearing the cost, the unresolved sectarianism and the diminished status of our cities.
@DEXTER_J0RDAN@donnchup@ieatantz Yep, and they have boxed themselves into a dead end because they know the current system is killing the language but they won't change because they'd lose so much money. Catch 22.
@DEXTER_J0RDAN@donnchup@ieatantz It all comes down to money. If compulsory Irish ended tomorrow, the tide would go out and you'd see the numbers they rely on for grants, and jobs, drop to the real level of interest and then those cushy grants would come under threat.
@DEXTER_J0RDAN@donnchup@ieatantz Look, Irish is a waste of time & money for the majority of kids in our schools but personally it doesn't bother me on road signs. It costs β¬1bn a year to carry Irish, signage isn't the biggest part of the waste of public money. Compulsory Irish is the real sin, and hurts it too
@fangtwoball@BelTel Not sure how you got that from what I wrote. However if the nordie republican knuckle scrapers can't bring even 10% of unionists over to the UI side, why would we in the Republic vote for a poisonous UI ? We don't have to take any of you in, and a potential return to violence.
@MichaelMcI92861@ninnythebear@Gnomesopinions@BelTel Lol, there would also be a BP in the Republic too, and we have the ultimate option of saying No. In that situation your repetition of republican talking points would be a little hollow. The Republic of Ireland has moved on since the GFA which reflects SF desperation for a BP.
@DEXTER_J0RDAN@donnchup@ieatantz Btw if the Shinner scum got a UI eventually, compulsory Irish would have to go, and a lot of that is due to them weaponising Irish against unionists in NI, who won't accept this indoctrination for their people. If they get it, there'll be a court case waiting to happen here too.
@DEXTER_J0RDAN@donnchup@ieatantz Tbh I ignore irish on the roadsigns, as they're in italics, so not a problem. My son did the LC last year and over 20% of his year got the exemption. My fella coasted Irish as he was doing an 8th subject, and still got a H4. 60k kids got the exemption in 22 & 23.
@DEXTER_J0RDAN@donnchup@ieatantz TBF that's true π Over 100 years of compulsory Irish in schools and 71,000 speak Irish every day, and most of those work in the Irish language industry. A grift is the best description. I did 14 years of it in school, such a waste, Latin would have been more useful.
@ConorWalsh10640 Ultimately they are working against the interests of the citizens of the Republic of Ireland as a one issue UI party. It's the working class and poor of the Republic who would pay for a UI, despite them chasing their votes. They should return to NI and push from there.
@haggan_steve@paulgirvan_mla@BelTel Hi from Cork, Steve. We're not like that clown, down here. π Cork hurling, when we are in full flow, is a thing of beauty π