Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. I agree. Brexiters seem to think that No Deal will damage everybody else except themselves. Utterly delusional.
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  2. If the UK government had spent more time giving attention to the Irish government much of the humiliation around Brexit could have been avoided. Furthermore, one of the strands in the GFA is the relationship between London and Dublin. There should be plenty of time made for meetings between both sides.
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  3. Why would Ireland leave the EU??
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  4.  @traoresfan208isback8  Ireland was united until 1920.
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  5.  @OnlyGrafting  European identity is not a sham for me. It is a very visceral thing I share hundreds of millions of others, regardless or their social, cultural, ethnic, religious of political background. It is based on shared values and perhaps on a shared heritage also. The rest of your comment is incoherent nonsense.
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  6.  @bevroe5354  Ireland needs the EU. It does not need England. That is just a matter of fact.
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  7. The IRA are in retirement.
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  8. I believe it. Trump has f*cked the country.
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  9. I think Ireland is looking at its next Taoiseach.
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  10. When did the Irish Republic bomb the UK?
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  11. Why?
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  12. Ireland has chosen the EU AND the GFA.
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  13. So Northern Ireland needs to say out loud to the world - and particularly to London - they they are Part of the United Kingdom and still in the EU Single Market and that the NI Courts have stated that the Protocol is not the problem, Brexit is. Indeed, they need to state that while the EU does not insist on a border for customs, the fundamentals of international trade do. Cheers.
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  14. That's because Sky News is not in denial about reality while Brexiters require it.
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  15. What is a 'prostate country'?
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  16. Its not a fact, actually. Only 10% of Irish exports go to the UK, while well over 40% goes to the rest of the EU. 'FACT', indeed.
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  17. 'The EU literally forgot the Irish government exists, that's how much they care.' Just like Brexiters....
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  18.  Jo Sm  Leo is quite tall actually.
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  19. 'Southern Ireland is now used as a pawn by the eu, because they did not want to be part of the UK.' Ireland has not been part of the UK for a century. Far from being used as a pawn, it was the Irish who got the EU to make the border it central issue, because it is the single most important issue for the Irish. The EU stood by the Irish because the Irish are EU members and the UK are leaving. 'The eu insisted that the 16th amendment was illegal if used by UK but they were prepared to use it their selves.' Obviously this was a mistake.
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  20.  @lilbrit1019  The Scots don't need England. This need to believe that others cannot survive without the English is truly pathetic.
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  21.  @bevroe5354  I'm afraid there is no majority in NI that supports that view. But who cares about that, right?
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  22.  @eckyx9019  Brexit means Brexit.
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  23.  Leroy Jenkins Alpha  The point of being part of the EU is the use of hard won sovereignty to to improve living standards and opportunities for its citizens. The English could be independent, if only they would grow a pair and leave the right union.
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  24. Relations between the UK and the ROI will be repaired quite quickly and it is an essential relationship for both countries. I understand that Brexiters can be very spiteful people, but I don't expect Ireland will receive any retribution for acting like the sovereign state that it actually is.
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  25. Puny Ireland got its border in the Irish Sea and tariff and quota free trade with the UK. That's the power of astute diplomacy and EU membership.
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  26. Ireland has 26 other countries behind it and has used its influence with Brussels better than the UK. It also has the ear of Washington. Ireland is no superpower, but Irish success is a measure of just how much Brexit has weakened the UK on the world stage.
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  27.  @1bluetoe  These are not circumstance under which Ireland should be united.
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  28. The point is, after all the foot -dragging by the UK, it is now believed across the EU that the UK has no intention of implementing the deal it signed. Therefore Article 16 will see the EU shelve the deal and sanction the UK.
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  29. I don't think he expected what he is getting now, though.
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  30. What international laws do the EU break? I can't think of any.
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  31. These are the rules of the EU. The EU negotiates as a bloc so the UK must leave first.
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  32. Ireland and the EU cannot negotiate with a UK that is still negotiating with itself.
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  33. I would recommend the Former United Kingdom of England and Wales or the F.U.K.E.W.
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  34. She will be proven right when there is a hard border, others will regret people not listening to her words.
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  35. Brexit is a cover up - to conceal decades of mismanagement of the UK by successive UK governments of all hues: blame the EU for the inequality and democratic deficit at the heart of the UK society and polity. 40 years of grooming by certain right-wing media outlets prepared the ground. Recruiting the British people in their own oppression has been standard operating procedure for the English-dominated elites of the UK since at least Victorian times. Hence Brexit is a False Flag operation by the UKs elite, many of whom are unelected and some are oligarchs. Brexit will make them rich at your expense.
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  36. The bailout was in 2010, and was from the IMF and ECB. The national debt of Ireland as a percentage of GDP is now considerably lower than that of the UK. This is because the Irish economy grows faster than the UK economy. Irish culture has never been so healthy and strong. Its literature and music has a wider global audience now than ever in its history; Irish sports remain extremely popular and immigrants are being integrated into Irish society because of the inclusiveness of Irish culture. The Irish economy is the second most global on the planet, after Singapore. Dublin is perfectly recognisable, but it is also the home for people from 200 other countries; there is no 'repopulation', whatever that means.
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  37. I agree, but your moral equivalence between the army and IRA is vacuous. As it happens, both the IRA and the British government opposed a Truth and Reconciliation process which would could have avoided the prosecution of soldiers in this case, but would have meant both the IRA and British Government would have had wash their dirty linen in public.
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  38. They seem like nice people. I actually feel sorry for them, being born into such a constrained public life.
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  39. What an articulate man.
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  40. I agree. I don't want my countrymen and women going over to that basket case of a country.
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  41. Ireland's debt to GDP ratio is lower than the UKs.
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  42. They would not be able to import medical supplies made in the EU if they walk away from the arrangements they made with the EU. Only the UK is intending to do that.
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  43.  @noodlyappendage6729  There is no irredentist claim on northern Ireland; there is however a legitimate aspiration to unite the people of the island.
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  44. Nope. Its a murder-suicide at the hands of the UK.
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  45. So Brexiters keep telling themselves. So far they have been wrong about everything.
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  46. In my opinion Bruton's analysis is simplistic.  There is no certainty that a united 32 county republic could have been achieved had the Rising not happened.  Ulster Unionists have never willingly conceded anything ever. The President's response makes more sense to me - that the Rising should be seen in the context of the nature of Imperialism and that it was the British response to it that turned Ireland from a country awaiting Home Rule to one seeking Independence.  Because of the Imperial context, it is significant (in my opinion) that armed groups that claim a legacy to the ideals of 1916 have failed to change the hearts and minds of Irish people and if anything have re-enforced partition.  I doubt their day will ever come at this stage.
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  47. Brexiters and their predictions.
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  48. Well, the UK certainly has a track record in creating division...
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  49.  @honestdave9855  Despise democracy? The UK despises democracy - it is one of the least democratic states in Europe.
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  50.  @dsuse3949  Typical unionist, acting as if nationalists don't exist.
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