Stuff we did before the UK

The Church of Ireland ordained a woman priest 4 years before the Church of England.

Cable TV was the norm in urban areas of Ireland decades before cable/satellite TV became widespread in the UK.

We had Friends and Prison Break eps before uk

i think we organised our tax system in order to attract tech companys, and multinational corporations

our civil service organisation ,goverment departments , social welfare system is broadly based on the uk system of government.

thankfully we did not follow the british in privatising selling off government owned utilitys which has been a disaster in the uk. we wisely did not follow the uk in leaving the eu which has been a disaster for the uk economy.

we allow competition in terms of telecom services ,internet and mobile service providers .

uk has the bbc ,we have rte but other competing radio stations are allowed .

i,m sceptical as to why the taxpayer has to fund 2fm when its very similar to other pop music stations in terms of its programming

Whilst UK and Ireland allowed limited voting for women in the 1918 election, I believe Ireland preceded UK in allowing equal voting rights to women.

I'm sure whoever said that wasn't biased.

First mention of substitutions being used in GAA is in 1908.

Substitutions were only added to the laws of Soccer in 1958.

When he was a prince he was renowned for writing letters to Ministers trying to influence them.

what is PR?

I guess it is proportional representation

you mean while we were still part of the U.K. - or else we wouldn’t have been sending anyone to Westminster (not that she went, she turned up at the Mansion House instead).

Deter the Roman Empire from Occupation.

" Did our ancient forebears use some form of body marking? Yes, although the archaeological evidence seems to suggest tattooing was performed for therapeutic or religious reasons rather than as simple body adornment. Was Woad the body-paint or tattoo ink of choice for ancient Britons and their northern Pictish neighbours? Almost certainly not. It performs poorly as a body-paint, is too highly caustic for a tattoo ink, and in neither case would a consistent blue colour result.

So why does Woad-painted Britons hold such sway? Put simply, outside academia few people are aware of the mistranslation of Caesar and that his use of the word 'vitrum' does not equate with Woad. Most, therefore, are happy to hold as 'true' the accepted version of later antiquarians, and so the myth of bodies painted with swirling patterns in Woad is perpetuated by modern authors, documentaries and, of course, that scourge of historical accuracy, film and TV."

Dispelling Some Myths: Woad.

The Womans remarked on the native Britons tradition of body painting, this remained with the use of Picts for the tribes in Scotland/beyond the extent of their Northern Britain conquests.

And engaging in necrophilia with horses according to Giraldus Cambrensis.

And something Wales and Scotland had before us.

But not england or NI. Hats off to the them.

Britain had Porter first and there are some suggestions that Guinness was a Welsh drink.

We were about a decade ahead of the UK on mobile phone adoption and coverage. I still remember being stunned by the lack of coverage on major roadways in the UK during the early to mid 00's.

Get rid of Horatian Nelson 😷😷😷

No, we use STV/AV for those - which is what the UK were going to use, they were going to keep single seat constituencies.

You cannot have PR for a single seat.

But STV is close to PR in that eliminated candidates votes are transferred. It's not a first past the post system and voters mark their candidates with numbers in order of preference.

Allow unaccompanied minors to board a transatlantic flight at Dublin Airport 1985.

Started by Thwaites soda water back in 1799 in Dublin. 😁