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Why is Sein Fein such a dirty word down south?
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Rebelheart wrote: »If you think that's backward, maybe you should re-examine the meaning of that word. Here's a dictionary:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Backward
PS: You can bet there is nobody in the Department of Finance who appreciates the border either. It is profoundly backward to think there is a future without ending partition. And maybe the economic problems associated with it are just sinking in for a lot of people now.
certinly going to cause old slab murphy and few other 'friends' of sinn fein so economic problems if you got rid of the border. Saw an atricule today saying that you get charged for the fire brigade coming out to your house, so guy has just got charged over 1000 euros for being rescued from his car by the irish fire brigade add to the the A&E charge it shows how 'profoundly' important it is to keep the border, thanks but we like our free health care and free rescue services, what next are the gardi going to be charging for thier services?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_...st/8082454.stm
A Donegal motorist has said he was astonished after being charged more than 1,000 euros for firefighters to attend a crash he was involved in.
The itemised bill from the county council was sent to the man's home in St Johnston.
It charges him nearly 300 euros for a fire appliance from Stranorlar and 729 euros for one from Northern Ireland.
The man who does not want to be named said it was "ridiculous", especially as he did not call for the fire service.
"I never called them out so I don't think I should have to pay it," he said.
"It just says about the price and what fire brigades came and where they came from and what they're looking for.
"They're looking for 1,024 for coming out and doing nothing, never had to cut anybody out or nothing."
Bobby McMenamin, the acting chief fire officer for Donegal, said the billing system has been in place since 1985.
"With any response from the fire service in the Republic, there is a charge and a bill is issued," he said.
"A typical house or chimney fire would be about 100 euro."
"But a commercial or business fire is billed at the full rate plus 30%, and then a road accident is the full rate of 1,000 euro."
Mr McMenamin said that the bills are sent to the owners of the cars involved in an accident.
"Sometimes the cost is divided by the number of cars involved," he said.
"If there is a court case the person who is found responsible for the accident then pays it through their insurance "
"We do look at every case individually, for example if there are any fatalities we would not bill the family."
Maybe its you that should be thinking of joining us in the UK
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.... Maybe its you that should be thinking of joining us in the UK
Interesting post, Junder. I note he was charged more by the firebrigade coming from Derry which adds to my original point.
Ara I wouldn't worry about all that UK stuff. Sure what with the EU deciding everything and the Scots looking for freedom and all sorts of other commotions its days are numbered. At least in the old empire times the rabble could be sent abroad to civilise the natives and the Scots could be bought off by positions in the same Empire. After the wars are done, politics and nation-making is primarily (if not entirely) about buying people off and the resources aren't in the UK for that anymore. It's no coincidence that the rise in Scottish nationalism correlates with the decline of the British Empire.
Come on, join us in the European Union, Junder. Share our wonderful metric system and currency with 175 million of your fellow countrymen. The king is dead; long live the king!
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All these parties arguing about not wanting to go in collation with the Sein Fein.
Why is that?
I vote for them. I don't fully agree with all their policies (they are a bit too left wing for my liking) but I see them as a party with integrity and they have been at the forefront of change in the north for years.
Obviously they have links with the (P)IRA. Is this the main reason?
I just find it irnonic that most parties in the south expect DUP and the rest of the unionists to work with them but dare not do it themselves.
Oh and Jason, Sinn Féin is actually two words (and no matter what anybody tells you it means, it actually means 'We Ourselves' not 'Ourselves Alone') 0 -
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.. that was either a very nuanced attempt at humor, on ah epic PHAIL.Dirty-Old-Man wrote: »What would Markievicz say to all these Poles coming in taking Irish women? What would DeValera say to the girls going off to Ibiza and coming back with half-spanish kids?
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