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Replying To Seanfan:  "The voters elected the successful candidates."
Thanks for that, you learn something new every day.

tireoghainabu (Tyrone) - Posts: 465 - 27/05/2026 13:19:29    2675991

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Anyone who thinks that there are two countries on the island of Ireland is living in some strange world.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4333 - 27/05/2026 14:05:16    2676008

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Replying To tireoghainabu:  "Thanks for that, you learn something new every day."
You asked how they get elected!

Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 586 - 27/05/2026 14:33:34    2676029

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Replying To tireoghainabu:  "I was just watching the news on RTE , and a Fine Gael counciller for Monaghan stated that people from Monaghan and Tyrone are from two different countries, who elects these people?"
also @BarneyGrant -

Ah lads. Let's not delude ourselves. Fact of the matter is:
The Republic of Ireland is an independent, sovereign country.

Much as you dislike the term or the reality of it, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (of which Northern Ireland is obviously a part) is a separate independent, sovereign country.

It therefore clearly follows that people from Monaghan and people from Tyrone are from two different countries, no mater how much you or they would like to be regarded as being from the same.

If it really was all the same country, how then do you explain the two different governments, different currencies, different education systems, different healthcare systems, different policing systems, etc., etc.?

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3708 - 27/05/2026 15:05:06    2676048

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "also @BarneyGrant -

Ah lads. Let's not delude ourselves. Fact of the matter is:
The Republic of Ireland is an independent, sovereign country.

Much as you dislike the term or the reality of it, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (of which Northern Ireland is obviously a part) is a separate independent, sovereign country.

It therefore clearly follows that people from Monaghan and people from Tyrone are from two different countries, no mater how much you or they would like to be regarded as being from the same.

If it really was all the same country, how then do you explain the two different governments, different currencies, different education systems, different healthcare systems, different policing systems, etc., etc.?"
Two different states. Not too different countries.

The fact that there are two different states, currencies, education systems etc just illustrates how absurd it is.

An arbitrary line drawn on a map and now recognised even by the republican movement that refused to for three quarters of a century.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4333 - 27/05/2026 15:34:28    2676063

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