44 thoughts on “Was It For This?”

  2. Helvick

    Well Norn Iron is still part of the UK innit? Or should they have tried to put in a Red Hand instead perhaps?

    1. Edwardzzzz

      If you don’t mind me asking, why are you called Helvick? I’ve been going there since I was a kid.

  3. Starina

    it obvs represents Nor’n Ir’nd…might be stereotypical but it’s better than a leek anyway.

    2. Tony

      Walkers sure are s tasty crisp but an orange wouldn’t really represent the sizeable Nationalist community of Northern Ireland.

      I’d say the shamrock is about right.

      Sure we have the harp. That’s much nicer.

      2. munkifisht

        The Royal family will have the harp too, as in look at the royal standard. It still has a kingdom of Ireland quadrant which is representative of the country as a whole and dates back to the 13th century. Despite requests for the Royal family (or should I say the British royal family) to change it they have yet to do so. Personally I find that more offensive than this, and I’m not that offended.

        1. Spaghetti Hoop

          +1.
          Plus the fuppin’ shamrocks in Kate Midleton’s wedding dress…GRRRRRRRRR….

          1. munkifisht

            Oh f**k this website. Can’t post anything even semi controversial anymore about kate middleton’s arse (oh by the way, she has one) without having some prudish BS editor removing it.

    1. meh.

      Just came on to say the same – it’s a desperate looking thing.
      Surely they should switch to the daffodil or something/anything else.
      Gareth Bale’s alice band, perhaps.

  9. CousinJack

    God forbid that the Brits be inclusive. (cross of St Patrick is still in Union Flag)
    Should they focus on petty townland and county rivalries like their island neighbours?

  12. Joe835

    There’s one thing we as Irish people from the state called Ireland don’t get about the UK – as of 1922, it was business-as-usual for them.

    The part of the United Kingdom called Ireland shrank from 32 counties to 6 and was renamed Northern Ireland. The Royal Irish Constabulary was never disbanded there, it was just renamed the Royal Ulster Constabulary under the same auspices; they remained armed (unique then and now in the UK), wearing the same uniforms and using the same ranks as the RIC. The UK parliamentary constituencies didn’t change overnight, the car registration system didn’t change (although we also stuck with it til 1987) and any reference to ‘Ireland’ in UK legislation became applicable to Northern Ireland only.

    To this day, Northern Ireland occupies the same, unique ‘integral-but-separate’ status within the UK that Ireland as a whole once did. You could argue it was that separateness that allowed Ireland to break away in the first place, but the upshot of it all was that Northern Ireland effectively became the “successor state/country” of Ireland within the UK.

    That means they continue to be mentioned in the official name of the country (as we once did), they retain the baronets and lordships we once had (and new ones can be created), there continues to be Northern Ireland titles for the royals where once there were titles from places south of the border and the UK as a whole continues to refer to their own fourth green field as the one with the shamrocks.

    TLDR; as far as the UK is concerned, they never lost Ireland – it just shrank.

  13. Spaghetti Hoop

    Broadsheet Northies – are ye happy with your shamrock representation on the new British pound…hai?
    Isn’t it enough that ye have yer own notes, hai?

    1. MepMep

      Ah let’s hope we join the US Dollar over sterling so we can continue to entice others with a weaker currency. Be grand.

    2. Paolo

      Well, seeing as the default for any nation leaving the Euro is to revert to the currency that they gave up for the euro, I reckon we will not be “joining sterling”.

  18. Mr. T.

    The shamrock represents the part of Ireland still occupied by the Satanist Zionist Spoon Benders.

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