Today’s column: an explainer on Rockall with the help of the Wolfe Tones, whose song “Rock On, Rockall” was released in 1973. https://t.co/B4I9k7yu4X pic.twitter.com/XjoPjmIx5h
— Colette Browne (@colettebrowne) June 12, 2019
FIGHT!
Yesterday: Between Rockall And A Hard Place
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Knew every word by the time I reached 4.
Carraig na nGall
It’s a British rock.
Maybe let the rock decide.
Did your FG Commonwealth-loving buddies insist you post that?
Do your Renua buddies insist that you always try to pester me?
ROFL Renua would be more in your line. After all, wasn’t it a Fine Gaeler who jumped ship to form it? After she didn’t get her own way?
Tell ya what tho’
She was definitely onta something
Over 700k in taxpayers spondoulies
To date
I know what my next gig is
All territorial and economic claims on uninhabitable islets hundreds of miles out to sea are spurious nonsense.
+10 points for spurious, which is a favourite word
+1
As per the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which the Brits ratified in 1997. Yet they still claim sovereignty because they plonked a Union Jack on it in 1955 and gifted it to the Scots in 1972. The area offered oil and gas reserve potential as is well known and studied.
I enjoyed Scottish Fisheries Minister Fergus Ewing speaking on the wireless at the weekend, repeatedly warning Irish fishing vessels to ‘cease and desist’. It was all very Paisley-ite.
This current dispute is not about fishing at all.
Leave it to the gannets – ’tis their home.