Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Brexit: Why is the Irish border so vexing for negotiators? | DW News" video.

The Irish border has been a problem for negotiators because the EU has been negotiating with a UK that does not understand any of it.
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That's actually not the case. Ireland has benefited hugely from EU membership, developing its economy and increasing the prosperity of its citizens. There is no plan to 'erase Irish people from history', and if there was it would not work in any case. I have no idea who Ms Charlton is, and you provided no contact details for her.
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@rosshilton Nobody 'hates the damn Brits' - but the Irish do dislike the English privately educated elite that run your country. The only paediatric cardiology facility on the island of Ireland is in Dublin and it has an all-Ireland remit The health service issue is a two way street.
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@jmcc8156 Actually, as the British Army discovered, it is impossible to close that border effectively. Secondly, rather than 'feeling used' over the border issue, the Irish people of Northern Ireland feel that for the first time in a hundred years the Irish government defended their interests. There is no majority in Ireland for Brexit and there is an even larger majority that do not want a customs border on the island. So to simplify it for you, the border issue forced Brexiters to realise just how weak they are. Rather than confront reality, people like you pretend the EU put the Irish up to it and now you are claiming the Irish 'didn't want to the cost of its obligations to protect the EUs single market'. I was not Ireland's job to deliver Brexit. Self-pity will make you feel oppressed when you feel superior to others but can't back it up. You lost. The border is in the Irish Sea, get over it.
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flip inheck Time to sum up: First you claimed: 'The Irish created the Border act of 1921/22, it was an agreement between the Free state government and the NI government. Ireland (Free State) created the border when they left the UK.' The Irish did not create the border, the British government did in conjunction with unionism. The Irish nationalist majority - both advanced and constitutional - were NOT consulted. Having dropped this clanger you then changed tack and offered up this gem: 'LOL, Partition never happened until 1937, Ireland remained part of the UK under the name of the "Free State" until 1937 with a devolved government when they left the UK and changed the name of the country to "Ireland", Ireland later left the Commonwealth in 1949, Ireland was not recognised as an independent country by anyone until 1949 which happened to be the same year it went back to the stone age, all historical facts that you have ignored.' This more historically inaccurate nonsense. Now you flailing around, waffling on about Dominion status and the oath, the Dunning-Kruger effect in full flow. My advice to you is to keep silent and be thought a fool rather than to continue to post and remove all doubt.
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Religion is a badge of identity, whether you are practicing, an agnostic or (famously) an atheist.
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@jmcc8156 On the contrary. You are the one who doesn't understand the point you were making.
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flip inheck 'It is a historical fact that Ireland (Free State) left the UK creating the partition, your ignorance of historical fact is obvious' You owe Bush Ranger and apology. Partition took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The smaller of the two, Northern Ireland, was duly created with a devolved administration and forms part of the United Kingdom today, but the larger one, intended as a home rule jurisdiction to be known as Southern Ireland, failed to gain acceptance. The territory instead became independent and is now a sovereign state also named Ireland and additionally described as the Republic of Ireland. The Act of 1920 was intended to create two self-governing territories within Ireland, with both remaining within the United Kingdom. It also contained provisions for co-operation between the two territories and for the eventual reunification of Ireland. However, in 1922, following the War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the southern and western part became the Irish Free State, while Northern Ireland exercised its option to remain in the United Kingdom. Therefore, partition occurred before the creation of the Irish Free State. Incidentally, Irish nationalists were not consulted on partition or the Government of Ireland Act, 1920. The British government only consulted Ulster Unionists who took the opportunity to abandon their brethren in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan in order to ensure a larger Protestant majority in their truncated province.
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flip inheck So now you claim partition never happened until 1937? Odd that, the DUP are already talking about commemorating the centenary of the creation of Northern Ireland later this year... Contrary to your claim, Ireland left the United Kingdom following the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, becoming the Irish Free State. Partitioned in 1920, the Boundary Commission cemented the border in 1925. In 1923, the Irish Free State joined the League of Nations, and with the adoption of the 1937 Constitution following a plebiscite, the name of the state changed to Eire and it elected a Head of State. In 1949 the state became Ireland, left the Commonwealth and declared itself the Republic it was in all but name. Contrary to your other claim, Ireland was universally recognised as an independent country, with any doubts being removed following the 1938 Anglo-Irish Agreement which saw the removal of the three RN bases. Irish independence and neutrality was recognised during WW2 when the UK and the rest of the Commonwealth declared war on Germany.
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@jmcc8156 Thank you for making my point for me.
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Nobody can force Northern Ireland to join the republic and there is no majority for independence for Northern Ireland. It could not support itself economically as an independent entity.
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@rosshilton Probably because is it bunkum: Brian Boru claimed Kingship of Ireland but there is no evidence that he achieved it in reality - his writ only extended in Munster and notionally beyond it, he had no challengers.
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