Does the Southern people care what happened to the Northern Nationalists?

[st333ve]

*Double post

[Darren Mac an Phríora]

The question title of this thread is "Does the Southern people care what happened to the Northern Nationalists?" and the answer is yes. But that is in the past and people who haven't gotten over it are scarred frankly. If you are living in the past then few people will have much time for you. The people who are scarred should go to psychotherapy. There are some of them on this site. Northern Ireland is a very different place then what it was even a couple of years ago.
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[MrYouGoBoss]

I was referring to how he referred to everyone in the ROI as 'cowards'; he sounds just like a UVF member.

i said the people running things you idiot,

[hurling_lad]

There was plenty of media coverage in the south of the Robert McCartney and Paul Quinn murders, and they were both nationalist, as far as I know.

[iartaoiseach]

Why do people in the south just randomly say rude things when they hear your northern accent?

Do you think its because theyre sick of hearing people complain or because there is an attitude against the north which is no different than the sectarianism people face up here?

I dont think I've heard anyone in the south ever acknowledge this problem, theres always an excuse for it.
Ask anyone up here who goes down south a lot and I guarantee you they could come up with atleast 3 instances when some stereotyping southerner has had a go at them for being from the north.

People in the south dont give a stuff about their own country considering the fact that FF is still in power, I dont care if they dont care about the north but I would expect to able to go out for a night without being told 'speak f*ing English' or spat on in Dublin for wearing an Armagh top, having my car attacked because it had northern plates or getting asked ' how to you live in that awful place up there'.

Do I deserve comments like this from people who dont even know me or have spoken to me?

I'd rather walk down the Shankill road in Belfast than through some parts of Dublin or other towns, I'd be safer.

I wouldn't defend anyone who would say the things you point out there. a-holes really
I would say that the 'how can you live there' comment might be a genuine question same as one might ask a palestinian or an israeli how they put up with the constant threat of violence where they live.
You have just accused southerners of not caring about their country some might think that rude.
I think we in the south share a lot of the immaturity that is evident up north when it comes to voting -civil war BS politics, hence the muppets in the dail. as a country we has a lot of growing up to do.
some of the comments on this thread from your fellow northerners are pig ignorant in the extreme, but it wouldn't change my attitude to the decent people up there.
as for the shankill I wager plenty of dubs would also feel safer there than in their own areas.

My own opinion of the whole nationalist/unionist thing is that it should be seen as throwback to an era when religion and psychotic notions about where one was born prevailed on all sides, and that an accident of birth should not really be a reason to go to war with your neighbour. like I said earlier a bit of seeing the others point of view would not go amiss. the problem with the peace process is that it left a lot of festering sores about who got justice and who didn't when an attampt to clear the slate should have been made like in south africa. it might not have been perfect but it was worth trying.

[HEAVENHELPUS]

"Its seems that the Southern media and people never get outraged if a Northern Nationalist gets murdered, but it becomes wall to wall coverage if anyone from the Unionist side is murdered by Nationalists! Surely both are equally wrong!?
Or are Northern Nationalists lifes not worth as much?"

Oh the irony! You expressed outrage at the release of loyalist terrorists and yet you support the release of the scum who murdered Jerry McCabe so if you want to deal with hypocrisy start with yourself.

You really are a silly little man. I stated that i hadn't seen to many in the 26 Counties worrying about loyalist murderers being released after 18months but you get in a tissy when someone gets released after serving their full 10 year sentence! You are a hyporcrite.

[iartaoiseach]

You really are a silly little man. I stated that i hadn't seen to many in the 26 Counties worrying about loyalist murderers being released after 18months but you get in a tissy when someone gets released after serving their full 10 year sentence! You are a hyporcrite.

you able to make a point without adding an insult?

[HEAVENHELPUS]

There was plenty of media coverage in the south of the Robert McCartney and Paul Quinn murders, and they were both nationalist, as far as I know.

But very little about Mr McDaids murder!
I wonder why?

[st333ve]

I would say that the 'how can you live there' comment might be a genuine question same as one might ask a palestinian or an israeli how they put up with the constant threat of violence where they live.

There's less violence up here, less crime and less murder.
Their immediate opinion of the north is ridiulous, again I blame the media.

The souths media has a fixation with bad news from the north, RTE doesnt broadcast from anywhere in the north from any of their radio shows and nothing positive is ever shown about the north to people living in the south.
Thats why theyre generally surprised when they come up here, I'd say its a shock when they realise its pretty much just the same with different road signs.

[HEAVENHELPUS]

you able to make a point without adding an insult?

Please check Eldritchs post and you'll see why!