Recent content by Aindriú Pádraig

It's quite funny to see people refer to 'Northern Ireland' and 'Ireland'. It's one island of over 6 million people. Excluding our many friends who have recently moved to the island, 82% of the native population is native Irish, and about 18% of the population is Scotch Irish which was...

Being taken seriously by England? Nobody cares what England thinks of them. My family and friends back home in Ireland definitely don't, and nor do my Scottish relatives. Have you ever actually been outside your royal monolingual backwater?

That's a very racist quote. Typical high minded ignorant Englishman. No wonder half the Scots hate ye. Scotland actually pays more than its fair share of tax, and due to its fisheries and energy resources it should be more than capable economically of surviving. This 'subsidising' nonsense...

The North is part of Ireland. It's not called Northern Britain.

Firstly on your mentioning the North of Ireland. It is not actually called Northern Ireland as the English think, but Ulster or Uladh in Irish. It is a province of the Irish republic and it is occupied by the English army the same way Israel occupies Palestine(although admittedly the war...

Irish people are probably less euro-sceptic traditionally than our English neighbours. However I'll be flying home to vote no to the austerity treaty in May in between working in Berlin and studying in France. I personally don't buy into the propaganda that being a European citizen should come...