Fair dues. Don't know why I'm arguing about this to be fair. But I still think McLean's a dick for laughing at all NI football fans due to the actions of a few nutters.
He seems to be a bit of a bucket mouth I know but giving a football team and their fans (some of who have threatened to kill him) a bit of stick is hardly the crime of the century.
And to think with a name like that, he probably would have qualified to play for Italy, and been on their world cup winning team.
Opted to be British? My family didn't opt to be British citizens, they were born on British soil. Ciaran & Mick can I ask where you pair both born in the Royal Victoria hospital? Did you or do you still use the NHS and have you ever claimed say job seekers allowance from the British government?
Just the John Snow -> (warmer) -> John Thaw Didn't read the rest. Looking forward to the Euros, Spain look a bit spent, the Dutch are... Dutch, it's between England and the sausage munchers, I predict 4-2 after extra time.
Never claimed Jobseekers in my life, and of course I use the local health service, just like I used the Maltese/Guernsey/Isle of Man Health service. I don't give a flying **** about you being British, if you wanna be a Brit they are welcome to you - in all honesty, god bless them for having you.
Repatriate to Britain all thee who call it home, keep Ireland for the Irish not for London or for Rome. John Lennon.
I take it he's having a dig at the Catholic Church there (as well as the British Government obviously).
Actually I will tackle this one in more detail. So both you and I were born in roughly the same part of the United Kingdom / Ireland (both terms are true). You were born into a community who sees itself as British, I was probably a mile or two up the road to a family who seen themselves as Irish. I am a human, you are a human - do we agree with everything so far? So the questions would be - why do you see your culture as superior to mine, why do you proudly declare our shared territory to be British soil - to undermine my own national claim - why do you see your nationality as superior to mine, why do you question whether or not someone of my nationality has the right to job seekers allowance, or to use the local health service, why by random Birth right do you have more of a right to these services than me, the person who grew up a few miles from you? I think I'll go down the diplomacy road, there are slightly more of your people than there are of mine - congratulations, you win the prize of a having a majority within a border that your own people drew - does that make you right, does a head count make you superior, does your culture prevail over mine because there are about 200,000 more souls randomly born into your community within this border which was drawn by a man of your own political persuasion? Well actually the truth is that we are not equal - we are not equal because you are stupid. There are many many members of your community who are more clever than you, and I will treat those people as equals - but you, as a human being, by probably every sensible measure I can think of, are below me.
All your family were born over in Britain? The rest is keek, none of that defines my nationality. Stick all the flags on lamp posts that you want.
Yes, very much so. The Church held far too much sway in the development of a (semi) independent nation. I still don't think the country has recovered fully from decades of social conservatism.
