Anyone else tired of hearing of the north ?

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Is there anyone else out there who is sick to the teeth of hearing about northern irleand and their woes.
Tv and radio stations are carpet bombing us daily , but who cares ?
I see a niche market for a station which promises never to mention the north. I for one would set my radio to tune in.
Am i being heartless but i don't care about these childish politicans they seem to breed up there.
If only we could cut the six counties off and let them float into the mid atlantic. would they then sort out their problems with out acting like spoilt two year olds who come running to their parents with telltales. Their parents in my theory being the irish and british govs.
Does anyone agree with me ? ~Does anyone in the south care !!
I for one don't .
 
Why not stick a rocket under the republic and send us into Space so we don't have to worry about the millions of people living in poverty around the world or the genocide in Africa or the Tsunami victims! Get with it will you! Its news because it affects us here in the south! If the stations gave us regular updates about eastern European affairs you'd be giving out about that i suppose!
 
just taking a straw poll.

Redbhoy, i'm just asking if anyone else thinks like me. Obviously you don't. but thats fine ! Anyone out there agree with me or am i in the minority ???
 
Re: just taking a straw poll.

There are grounds for suspecting that certain parties are dragging out the so-called peace process ad nauseam in order to maximise publicity for themselves. Certainly Bertie Ahern must now be questioning why he has spent (wasted??) so much of his time on this issue in recent years, when so many problems closer to home need equally urgent attention, especially in our health and transport sectors.
 
Re: just taking a straw poll.

As you are asking for opinions; I care, and do prefer the ad-nauseum politics to the misery of terrorism and fear.
 
Re: just taking a straw poll.

Yeah, every time we turn on RTE - especially programmes like the Pat Kenny radio show or the Late Late show - we have Gerry Adams or Mitchell McLoughlin or Danny Morrison or Mary Lou or Nell McCafferty all moaning and whinging about their lot in the North. If they were in a united Ireland they would still be whinging for a socialist state, or Rockall, or celtic union with Scotland, or whatever.

The 2 crowds up north are welcome to each other until they can learn to live together and learn to co-operate.
 
Re: just taking a straw poll.

I wonder if I am in the correct forum but I am sick of hearing educated Irish people suggesting that Malin Head in the County of Donegal in the Province of Ulster is in the south.
I think they are referring to Northern Ireland when they refer to the" north", and the rest of Ireland i.e. the Republic when they use the other term.
According to them if you travel north west out of Dublin and travel far enough you will end up in the south????
 
Re: just taking a straw poll.

No, you will not end up in the south if you leave Dublin in this direction : you will remain in the south if you leave Dublin in this direction, because Dublin is in "the south" as well ie south ofNorthern Ireland / on the southern side of the border in general.
 
RTe coverage is completely unbalanced when compared with the BBC's or anyone elses. Every broadcast by RTE has some moron talking about the North whereas the BBC give it some token coverage and its their f**ing country. I don'r care that they took it from us. Live in the present and deal with it. It is not ours currently and until they [Nationalists and Unionists] sort themselves out, give my head peace!
 
thank god i'm not alone.......

so i'm not the only one who thinks like this !!!
Thank god indeed, i agree with the above post and that not until they sort themselves out should they even dare ask us if we are interested in them or assume that we are.
 
Sorry rabbit wrong again , if you leave Dublin in the east midlands and travel north west you will leave the Republic pass through Derry and emerge from Northern Ireland in the SOUTH??.. i.e. Donegal in Ulster. Did you learn your geography from RTE
 
No, but am tired listening about Limerick and all the scum down there. God knows what that city is costing the taxpayer what with most of them on social welfare plus all the crime down there. The legal profession must love the place for all the work there getting out of it.
 
Sick of Listening

It's not that I'm sick of it, it's more interesting than most of what I hear on the radio or see on TV. But I am sick of the stupidity of it. The ability of these people to find ever smaller and more insignificant things to disagree about is reaching Monty Python proportions.

The solution has been obvious for years. Tell the DUP they are not allowed to share power with Sinn Fein, and Tell Sinn Fein they are not allowed to join the policing board. Both are so childish that the reverse psychology will break the deadlock in a few minutes.

I am sick of hearing people talk for years about how nothing is there fault. In a recent interview with someone from Sinn Fein (They all sound the same to me) he was listing off the faults of the Irish Government, The British Government, the DUP, yada yada yada.

When asked if Sinn Fein had made any mistakes in the process he admitted they had. I was hoping for a glimmer of hope, some suggestion that Sinn Fein might have played some small part in the current problems.

His answer "Sinn Fein were wrong to trust the other parties and the governments.

Children.

-Rd
 
Lordy me, dont you just hate it when you ask a question and it attracts people who make gross assumptions. I am with you loadsofmoney, on the bombarding with news. The comments by Ocras and Redbhoy stink of McCarthyism, they are implying that you (and me too I suppose) would prefer to see a return to violence and regular tsunamies to ad-nausium comment on the North. Do you guys think before you write these comments?
 
loads of money,
i hear ya loud and clear- get a flippin life up there and stop blabbing on about your crap........poor me phenomenon!........we don't give a rat This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language anymore....tsunami - act of god compared to man made violence and hatred??!....
 
Ever since I was a small kid visiting relatives in Dublin in the '60s I've been well aware of the fact that a large proportion of the population of the Republic was totally and blissfully disinterested in what was happening in the north. People were being slaughtered on a daily basis just 100 miles away (spitting distance by any standards) and yet the vast majority of Southerners couldn't give a rats This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language, they were more interested in getting pissed as rats!
At the time (as a kid) it bothered me, but later as I got older and wiser I accepted that most people are so focussed on their own day to day lives they can't be deeply concerned about every crisis around the world...and there are plenty of them.
That's probably a human coping mechanism. But it doesn't absolve us from facing facts.

If you are fed up hearing about it then you are probably fed up hearing about Iraq too, and the Middle East in general, or indeed the Tsunami. I suggest you stop listening to the news - its only gonna be boring for you anyhow - turn off the TV and go down the pub where you can concentrate on important things in your life, like getting pissed.
 
At the risk of wrath, I agree with you Asimov. Preferring to be uninformed about established facts is ignorance.

Like you I was made aware at a young age about what went on "up there". But then, as was pointed out to me, Dublin was in "The Pale" and most employment in the first half of the 20th century was at the behest of the invaders or their descendants. It is also a fact that the worst slums in Europe were in Dublin so one can hardly blame the bias of Dubliners. They had to survive.

Fortunately we have moved on but a dab of Fairy Liquid will not erase the memories of the down-trodden in the North. And they weren't middle-class Catholics either. Mary McAleese is a living witness to that.

Hurling abuse about atrocities on either side doesn't move anything forward.

Bertie is playing slingey 'me fein' type politics right now. His eye is on the next election and the two by-elections. I would give far more credit to Albert Reynolds and Martin Manseragh.

How can any problem be solved without first acknowledging and understanding all the factors that led to "the troubles" in the first place?

The impatience of the "I'm all right brigade" doesn't bother me in the slightest.
 
Question Time last Friday night

To connect to the original post about being "innundated" with media coverage on the situation in the partitioned six counties did anyone watch this on BBC1?

I admire Jonathan Dimbleby's intelligence, integrity and people-skills and never thought it possible he would ever encounter a panel and audience so difficult that he would have to stop the programme.

On Friday Question Time was recorded in Belfast and the panel comprised Geoffrey Donaldson of the DUP, Mark Durkin of SDLP, David Trimble (UUP), Paul Murphy, Secretary for State for Northern Ireland, and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Feinn.

I settled down to watch what I hoped would be a productive exchange amongst these eminents. Instead Dimbleby ended up having to shout over a shouting-match between Trimble and McGuinness. He had to remind them there were about 4 million viewers who would prefer to hear what they were saying rather than have to switch off to get away from the pandemonium. The elementary rules of dialogue and engagement - that you listen when the other one speaks, and they listen when you respond - were not in operation.

The mode of address of Donaldson, Durkin and Trimble and a good number of the audience towards McGuinness was taunting and inflamatory. A member of the audience so much as called McGuinness a murderer.

I don't know anything about Paul Murphy's form as a statesman (and didn't learn as much as I could have from this opportunity due to the near-riot) but he came across as an intelligent and fair man.

The muddle between Sinn Fein and IRA is palpable. I wondered if a solution might be for Sinn Fein to split, the moderates/doves continue as a political party, the rest go off and do whatever it is they do best.

I felt sad that dialogue still appears to be such a remote possibility. Too much coverage? Unfortunately not of the right calibre to properly publicise the issues. If people are bored by complexity they can switch channels.
 
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