Snowballing isn't the word.

I have never experienced a basis against ulster. In fact any time I go to Dublin, cork, Galway etc. people make a point of chatting to me when they hear the accent. I have never heard a bad word said about ulster by any southerner except on the blanket which is a tactical point not an anti-ulster bash. We do have a chip on our shoulder up here and anything something is said we adopt a siege mentality.....which i thought was a tactic only used by our neighbours on the other side of the fence.

The only basis I have ever noticed is mars bars at games being sold for a euro or a pound......and wouldn't you know I always forget my euro!!

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 14/08/2015 11:25:09    1769967

And why not? For the Maya, the north was white for the heavens... with 9 gods. The south was gold for the underworld... with 13 gods. The divinity split is better than the relative Sam hauls.

plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 14/08/2015 11:25:10    1769968

The good posters of Hoganstand are not partitionist by any means.

The Dublin Government are a different matter.They adopt a completely
"laissez faire" attitude to the North.How you can be so indifferent to
a part of your national territory occupied by foreigners is beyond me???

All we need is a few soundbites like "we are preparing for reunification"
and dont put a date on it and it will panic the Unionists so much they
would destroy themselves.But we get nothing like this.

REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1619 - 14/08/2015 11:32:08    1769983

Foreigners is it? They have us by the short and curlies. Who? De EU, dat's who. Be the by, does the UK, directly or indirectly, subsidise any part of the GAA up there???

plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 14/08/2015 11:45:25    1770000

plike I dont think they get any funding by i could be wrong.

Hate bringing politics into it but 2 examples i remember is a Derry school getting turned down for new hurls and a omagh or strabane school refusing to take free clothes for their kids to play sports in as it came from o'neills

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 14/08/2015 11:48:27    1770004

Is it true that Munster tabled a motion back in the 70s to get the six counties back? I suppose the win over the All Blacks must have gone to their heads, ha?!?

plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 14/08/2015 11:49:53    1770006

Plike I think Stormont does put some money in but not as much
as they should given it is the most popular sport in terms of
attendances.

Significant money was being given for the Casement Park
redevelopment should it go ahead.

REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1619 - 14/08/2015 11:51:00    1770011

We'll swap you Down and Fermanagh for Donegal and Monaghan?

redhanddefender (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 14/08/2015 11:55:44    1770018

redhanddefender last I checked Donegal and Monaghan are in the northern province! Didnt know you counted that wee line on the map. Tut Tut

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 14/08/2015 11:58:07    1770019

Yup. Armagh amuses me no end. The cricket pitch is slap bang in the town centre... and... seldom used.

plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 14/08/2015 12:00:31    1770021

Is a return bus ticket to Dublin still £16.90 from there?

plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 14/08/2015 12:07:19    1770033

We'll swap you Down and Fermanagh for Donegal and Monaghan?

Ha, sure they tried to get rid of all 9 Counties of Ulster back in the days of the Boundary Commission so don't think that would be a tempting offer somehow redhanddefender. ;-)

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 14/08/2015 12:28:12    1770053

Must have been a different commision than i know. Derry city was to be moved!

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 14/08/2015 12:33:05    1770059

Who in their right mind would want Derry City, I would take 5 Ballycolman estates before Derry City

tyronemanc (Tyrone) - Posts: 163 - 14/08/2015 12:39:43    1770067

Collins wanted it

And on another post here several southerner said they love coming here and to celtic park.

My mates from Laois said its their fave place in the north

And there the whole city of culture and that wee fleadh thing that brought 430000 people into the town. Plus MTV concerts, the walls, the bogside, some of the best food in the country, a rugby football and soccer team, 3 Nobel prize winners.....oh and we have jobs!!! More events and things to do in Derry city than all of county tyrone.....although i did love the folk park as a child.

trip advisor: #3 in strabane is the library
#1 in omagh is a car and bike museum.....the library is a lowly 7th
# in cookstown is Lissan House

Its all opinion but I think people would chose the 5th biggest city on the island and a place voted in Lonley planets top ten places in the world to visit over Tyrone.....although it has its charms

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 14/08/2015 12:53:52    1770084

tyronemanc
County: Tyrone
Posts: 118

1770067
Who in their right mind would want Derry City, I would take 5 Ballycolman estates before Derry City

Those are strong words!!!!

Bain (Donegal) - Posts: 470 - 14/08/2015 12:57:02    1770087

Don't take the bait DoireCity FC

tyronemanc (Tyrone) - Posts: 163 - 14/08/2015 12:57:23    1770088

Derry/Londonderry? Fantastic place. Fabulous setting. Great people. Outstanding culture.

Would love to catch the new Beckett festival in Fermanagh mind. Lack the readies, sadly. Smart lad that Adrian Dunbar. Some school to produce O Wilde & S Beckett. Wonder if either would be handy with a hurl? Beckett was into cricket & rugby.

plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 14/08/2015 13:02:10    1770097

Ath Cliath and Ritchie going head to head for most sensible posts on subject , well done lads excellent posts , some wont bother to read them unfortunately , their playing a different game , with a different agenda .

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 14/08/2015 13:05:26    1770100

Nah same Commission I'd imagine DoireCity. There were a lot of negotiations going and re-drawing from the initial proposal which included Derry City remaining part of the Freestate as well as some areas in South Down and South Armagh etc. But the 9 were offered except it didn't fit the Protestant state for Protestant people ideology being sought as it would have given a Catholic/Nationalist majority.

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 14/08/2015 13:13:01    1770109