Northern Irish, but I'd not live in the Republic of Ireland anyway, my entire, cultural, political, and whatever you care to mention, immersion as a person is in a Northern Irish and British context. Thats my association by both choice and wish.
There is something that the simplification types elsewhere in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland have missed about this place and its the idea of Northern Irishness. Its a thing.
2011 census
• 40% of usual residents had a British only national identity • 25% had Irish only national identity • 21% had Northern Irish only national identity
• 48% of people included British as a national identity • 29% included Northern Irish as a national identity • 28 % included Irish as a national identity
What if there were no longer a British state and England, Scotland and Wales were independent. How do you think British/unionist identity would find expression?
Expression is in the mind and association of people of like allegiance and mind as much as within a state, Not a great adage but the old Soviet Union no longer exists but some people's attachment to it still finds expression,
@NickPalmer, people here much more aware and comfortable with a mongrel status than people outside Northern Ireland give us credit for or sometimes seem willing to accept.
For the uninitiated, the infrastructure for checks on goods passing from Ireland to Northern Ireland is already being built. I already know of one secure area being prepped at the moment. What most people who have their particular axes to grind in this debate seem to miss is that people will be moving across that border without really any impact because no one has any interest in stopping your daytrippers either way.
A notable amount of items coming south to north doesn't stay in Northern Ireland, it gets on a boat to GB so there is one logical set of check locations. Of that which does stop, a lot of it is held at larger facilities, so there's another set of check points. As for the rest, you do what most countries do in day to day trade, you don't really check it at all.
I don’t think this need much hedging. Someone who has just undergone such a cardiac procedure shouldn’t be spending the next twelve months in the extraordinary stressful environment of a presidential campaign. Let alone at the age of 78.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179542037479202816
Doctor: “Don’t worry, you have analogy.”
@NickPalmer, people here much more aware and comfortable with a mongrel status than people outside Northern Ireland give us credit for or sometimes seem willing to accept.
For the uninitiated, the infrastructure for checks on goods passing from Ireland to Northern Ireland is already being built. I already know of one secure area being prepped at the moment. What most people who have their particular axes to grind in this debate seem to miss is that people will be moving across that border without really any impact because no one has any interest in stopping your daytrippers either way.
A notable amount of items coming south to north doesn't stay in Northern Ireland, it gets on a boat to GB so there is one logical set of check locations. Of that which does stop, a lot of it is held at larger facilities, so there's another set of check points. As for the rest, you do what most countries do in day to day trade, you don't really check it at all.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/trump-press-conference-finland-ukraine-sauli-niinisto.html
Which some first, 25th amendment or impeachment ?
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/bernie-sanders-heart-attack-diagnosis-stents-chest-pain.html
Let alone at the age of 78.