A partitionist attitude

[st333ve]

LOL!

Oops.

Well thats the weirdest typo Ive made in a long time.

Bad example, but you catch my drift.

[joel]

dublin south, that would be the american accent yes?

I always thought dublin was full of american tourists until one day i realised that they were native.

If i'm not irish because i was born in the uk then michael collins wasnt irish, de valera wasnt and neither was james connolly the man born is scotland to ulster parents.

Are brian boru's ashes in st.patricks cathedral armagh not an irish burial place?
Is leslie neeson not an irish actor?
Are the gaelic hurling and football teams up here foreign?

The more you think about these idiots the dafter they seem.

he made the story up!

[Estragon]

DJ on Today FM yesterday morning, can't remember his name but I think he's from Mayo, was saying how, when he went to choose an Irish voice on his sat-nav and it was from Belfast he didn't consider it as really being Irish. That's an odd example to be giving but I'm just highlighting the fuked up mentality we have in this state....the fruits of partition.

Did he actually say that on live radio? Jees, what a tool.

[Fraxinus_]

Did he actually say that on live radio? Jees, what a tool.

Yep, whoever the looder that was filling in for Ian Dempsey was. Absolute clown.

[mutley]

The real D4 does sound very American sometimes. The George Lee sounding accent is south-Dublin but very neutral. Give me the Tallaght accent any day.

What about the Guy in the Niquitin Mini's adverts, he has to have the most annoying accent ever!
Is this the typr of accent you and St333ve are talking about?

[teapot]

I am not Irish-born, but of Irish family - so take it from there... when I grew up in Northern England in the 30's, the accents varied, not just from County to County, but from village to village. After spending a lifetime in Canada - where I perceived there to be just 3 or 4 accents; and studying the USA where I could tell a Georgia Cracker from a New England Bluenose, but not a lot else - when I returned 'this side' I was shocked to see/hear how the old accents had waned and were all becoming a bland BBC type somewhat Hollywood-ised single tongue. Let us rejoice in the difference between your accent and theirs... this is part of the heritage which must not be let go. For god's sake don't sound like stage Irishmen with the begorrah an' all. But do be your own Irish, be it from Roaringwater Bay or Lough Swilly. Please.

[Mr.Ograff]

Another made up story from the site's Troll. All day long you start arguements. Sad case.

What are you on about. I only post about 2 posts a day. That is hardly trolling???

[Fraxinus_]

What about the Guy in the Niquitin Mini's adverts, he has to have the most annoying accent ever!
Is this the typr of accent you and St333ve are talking about?

Hahahaha, if that's the same Niquitin ad I looked up then not really. There was an ad on the radio a while back, a fella with a really annoying D4 accent and the only thing I can remember from it was he pronounced spark as spork. Can't find any examples on youtube for you. Get the train down tomorrow and visit a few of the hotspots.

[HJ McCracken]

...even big Ian says he's Irish.

[cry freedom]

The main point the OP started out making was the resentment felt by Southerners about Northerners coming across the border and under bidding for schools and other public works.
The OP stated that we should be happy if 100,000 or so was saved on a public works contract as this would benefit everyone down here.
This is fairy tale economics.
What the hell good is 100,000 saved when 5 or 6 million flits across the border together with all the taxes and spending power that might have stayed down here.
I am all for this hands across the border thing if it could be made to work both ways.
If a southern contractor could win work in Northern Ireland without opening his lunch box one day and finding a cryptic little note advising him about his future health.
If taxes were on that famous level playing field.
If union bully-boy imposed wage rates were the same on both sides.
Business people have to work in the real world and not some Pollyanna
type bubble.