Yes Northern Ireland has its issues like many other countries its to do with religion. I think we have gone way off point here anyway. The Guy is bringing a load over on a boat doing a drop and then going home again. He aint gonna have any issues noone will be writing down his plate and making a call to find out if he is friend or foe and aint gonna be punching him in the nose for referring to Londonderry as Derry, maiden city, stroke city whatever.
I hope he has a nice run over meets some nice folks in his travels and goes home having had a good trip.
I’ve only been trucking for a short time and do multidrop around N.i mostly bangor newtownards, newcastle and omagh magherafelt etc. really enjoy it. haven’t had much time to chat to other truckers due to the nature of rushing about but those I have stopped and chatted to are very friendly nomatter what area it is. But I would like to think truckers are the same in mainland. nice to be nice and all that
mattni:
Yes Northern Ireland has its issues like many other countries its to do with religion. I think we have gone way off point here anyway. The Guy is bringing a load over on a boat doing a drop and then going home again. He aint gonna have any issues noone will be writing down his plate and making a call to find out if he is friend or foe and aint gonna be punching him in the nose for referring to Londonderry as Derry, maiden city, stroke city whatever.
I hope he has a nice run over meets some nice folks in his travels and goes home having had a good trip.
I’ve only been trucking for a short time and do multidrop around N.i mostly bangor newtownards, newcastle and omagh magherafelt etc. really enjoy it. haven’t had much time to chat to other truckers due to the nature of rushing about but those I have stopped and chatted to are very friendly nomatter what area it is. But I would like to think truckers are the same in mainland. nice to be nice and all that
thats about right regarding truckers anywhere.plus the lack of vosa,speed cameras and officialdom over here in relation to the rest of the uk makes it easier all round… 
Fatboy slimslow:
Supatramp:
The worst bit is going from the boat up to the roundabout at the M2. The southern guys seem to be in some mad panic to get to it. I came off the 11.30 last Sunday, and on the approach to the roundabout, a southern clown went from the inside lane, to the middle, then the outside.So where did he go at the roundabout? Back into the middle lane and the slip onto the southbound M2. Bloomin’ eejit!
After that, it’s pretty normal. But yes, irrrespective of what ‘persuasion’ you might be, it’s Derry!
but there’s no such place!
look on any map
it’s londonderry
no ifs or buts.
Catholics may call it what they want but you it’s londonderry.
Learn your history the original name was Doire which was then changed to Londonderry when they added Lord London’s name in front of Derry. TBH it has nothing to do you, you do not live there, the funny thing about what it is or isn’t called is that it is always people who don’t live there who make the biggest fuss about it.
peter s:
tommyboy1289:
Evening guys, first run to NI on Monday, heading over on the 11.30 stena ferry from cairnryan, all being well back the same day.Anything I need to be aware of/watch out for?
Here’s a question for you tommyboy. I’m interested to know, but, what do YOU think you need to be aware of/watch out for? Are you expecting to find a war zone, constant riots, fighting, danger round every corner? Would you ask the same question if you where visiting any city/town in England? Don’t think so.
As everyone knows places are only in the news if/when bad things happen, a lot of that I heard whilst I was a kid, now as you know colleagues like to wind you up where possible, and having never been to Ireland they were telling me a lot of stories, most of which were 20 years old, so rather than listening to them I thought I’d ask on here just to see IF there was anything I need to worry/watch out for.
Unfortunately my trip was a short one, 20 mins each side of belfast now parked up at the docks waiting for a ferry back.
Hopefully that answers your question.
dieseldog999:
mattni:
Yes Northern Ireland has its issues like many other countries its to do with religion. I think we have gone way off point here anyway. The Guy is bringing a load over on a boat doing a drop and then going home again. He aint gonna have any issues noone will be writing down his plate and making a call to find out if he is friend or foe and aint gonna be punching him in the nose for referring to Londonderry as Derry, maiden city, stroke city whatever.
I hope he has a nice run over meets some nice folks in his travels and goes home having had a good trip.
I’ve only been trucking for a short time and do multidrop around N.i mostly bangor newtownards, newcastle and omagh magherafelt etc. really enjoy it. haven’t had much time to chat to other truckers due to the nature of rushing about but those I have stopped and chatted to are very friendly nomatter what area it is. But I would like to think truckers are the same in mainland. nice to be nice and all thatthats about right regarding truckers anywhere.plus the lack of vosa,speed cameras and officialdom over here in relation to the rest of the uk makes it easier all round…
Indeed and vosa are so seldom out that when they are out the world knows about it in mins. Lol they were at the Mellon outside Omagh today must have been waiting on some country singers
tommyboy1289:
peter s:
tommyboy1289:
Evening guys, first run to NI on Monday, heading over on the 11.30 stena ferry from cairnryan, all being well back the same day.Anything I need to be aware of/watch out for?
Here’s a question for you tommyboy. I’m interested to know, but, what do YOU think you need to be aware of/watch out for? Are you expecting to find a war zone, constant riots, fighting, danger round every corner? Would you ask the same question if you where visiting any city/town in England? Don’t think so.
As everyone knows places are only in the news if/when bad things happen, a lot of that I heard whilst I was a kid, now as you know colleagues like to wind you up where possible, and having never been to Ireland they were telling me a lot of stories, most of which were 20 years old, so rather than listening to them I thought I’d ask on here just to see IF there was anything I need to worry/watch out for.
Unfortunately my trip was a short one, 20 mins each side of belfast now parked up at the docks waiting for a ferry back.
Hopefully that answers your question.
Glad you got sorted and all was good for you. Did you get my PM?
aye got tae say some o the best memories I have are when I was on multi drop dragging a trailer around Ulster an the south,came back on an ulsterbus tour frae stranraer wae my folks a few yrs later …bus stopped for lunch near one o my regular old drops ,I called in got welcomed like a prodical son called a a fair few names for leaving the multi drop co. and was taken out for a few beers much tae my folks/ bus drivers amusement. 
jimmy.
mazzer:
Fatboy slimslow:
Supatramp:
TBH it has nothing to do you, you do not live there, the funny thing about what it is or isn’t called is that it is always people who don’t live there who make the biggest fuss about it.
but I knew you’d bite you see as your tricolour tinted spectacles you call it that! I’ve served many a year there and unfortunately it’s only catholics like yourself that moan about things for hundreds of years history tells me, a certain william of Orange 1690 but like I told you, I’ll come to your house in my No.2s, para beret for a cup of tea and a slice of cake, no hard feelings old beam 
it was the Creggan you live again? No hard feelings we don’t hold a grudge, Protestants,paratroopers and englishmen who served there and lost plenty of friends but you keep banging on about it!
Fatboy slimslow:
mazzer:
Fatboy slimslow:
Supatramp:
TBH it has nothing to do you, you do not live there, the funny thing about what it is or isn’t called is that it is always people who don’t live there who make the biggest fuss about it.but I knew you’d bite you see
A para talking like that about Derry■■? U must be havin a laugh, shows what kind of person u are. Derry has the nicest ppl in the world and thats a fact.
Fatboy slimslow:
mazzer:
Fatboy slimslow:
Supatramp:
TBH it has nothing to do you, you do not live there, the funny thing about what it is or isn’t called is that it is always people who don’t live there who make the biggest fuss about it.but I knew you’d bite you see
LOL you are more than welcome we don’t hold grudges but you certainly are very quick to stereotype probably why you didn’t contribute to much to trying get peace just saw it as a chance to batter a few catholics without having the common sense to realise that not all catholics supported the IRA as I said the offer is there any time you want pop over you might be surprised
irish44:
a para talking like that about Derry■■? U must be havin a laugh, shows what kind of person u are. Derry has the nicest ppl in the world and thats a fact.
lol! another stereotypical PARA! the whole country is brilliant as are the people, BUT A MINORITY dragged you down! see how YOU JUDGED ME AS I’M AN EX PARA!
mazzer:
LOL you are more than welcome we don’t hold grudges but you certainly are very quick to stereotype probably why you didn’t contribute to much to trying get peace just saw it as a chance to batter a few catholics without having the common sense to realise that not all catholics supported the IRA as I said the offer is there any time you want pop over you might be surprised
we didn’t batter anyone, soldiering changed for the better, and please remember as an RSM in charge of 650 blokes you’re going to get rogues, remember don’t judge a MINORITY! just as an aside the training is aggressive but people do silly things on patrols! Not forgetting the amount of years of painstaking covert surveillance IE living in your home tome remember I looked like you it’s a beautiful country, I’ve fished it for years and in Eire too! Top people top craic and history wise I’ve read countless books so please don’t insult ones intelligence
Fatboy slimslow:
irish44:
a para talking like that about Derry■■? U must be havin a laugh, shows what kind of person u are. Derry has the nicest ppl in the world and thats a fact.lol!
mazzer:
LOL you are more than welcome we don’t hold grudges but you certainly are very quick to stereotype probably why you didn’t contribute to much to trying get peace just saw it as a chance to batter a few catholics without having the common sense to realise that not all catholics supported the IRA as I said the offer is there any time you want pop over you might be surprisedwe didn’t batter anyone, soldiering changed for the better, and please remember as an RSM in charge of 650 blokes you’re going to get rogues, remember don’t judge a MINORITY!
Wasn’t looking to insult your intelligence but your comments about Derry didn’t show a great deal of intelligence, unlike your last quote and yes a minority on both sides did no one any favours. All that was asked was that in the sixties people were treated equally if that problem had been resolved there then might not have been 30 years of violence with the loss of live that followed
If you want to annoy fatboy tell him your a scouser
LASHHGV:
If you want to annoy fatboy tell him your a scouser
Lol I went anfield for our annual scouse bashing mash up on Sunday. always a good day out Stanley park for a read and write. lol
Fatboy slimslow:
irish44:
a para talking like that about Derry■■? U must be havin a laugh, shows what kind of person u are. Derry has the nicest ppl in the world and thats a fact.
lol! another stereotypical PARA! the whole country is brilliant as are the people, BUT A MINORITY dragged you down! see how YOU JUDGED ME AS I’M AN EX PARA!
not looking to get into this sort of discussion but id just like to say i didnt judge and i dont believe anyone dragged us down, everything we were put through we stood tall kept our heads high and are extremely proud people. I have my own opinions of the conflict and everything that goes with it throughout history but I keep it to myself.
irish44:
A para talking like that about Derry■■? U must be havin a laugh, shows what kind of person u are. Derry has the nicest ppl in the world and thats a fact.
i don’t doubt you, but like you say you’ve your own ideas on the conflict which you’re entitled to not all PARATROOPERS are murdering monsters you know!
XMG ( crossmaglen ) has some lovely people too, I used to love bimbling around South Armagh with my gimpy, puts HAIRS ON YOUR CHEST! soon be Easter, nice to make your accaintence irish44
dieseldog999:
id think the guy was asking quite reasonable questions.having lived here myself these last 12 years,and coming from scotland,then my opinions is that its not changed much from the 1970 era the feelings are the same,and its just a shambles of a religeously bigoted part of the british isles. england has its own no go areas from immigrants whereas n.i has its own religeous issues.to say the place is religously bigoted is quite an understatement,for the many that dont care,theres many that do care with the resulting timewarp way of life…hence click on these to prove a point… demotix.com/news/7137796/loy … tricks-day
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30299078
apart from that,all you need to do is google 12th july belfast riots for the other side to be shown just as bad.
anything ive written is definately relevant to someone not knowing the pros and cons of the local mindset here and its always best not to ask anything pertaining to religon…you cant say derry or londonderry hence its stroke city,and as soon as your out of the city centre in the lower class areas,then its either red white and blue lamposts or ira flags…if they thought about it,then how disrespectfull is it to hang the union flag from halfway up a lampost. due to the lack of immigrants over here as the troubles kept them in the uk,then its religeon rather than racism here,though racism is quite happily catching up in leaps and bounds.
i still wouldnt go back and live on the uk mainland for a pension though,so its happy days over here if your an old ■■■■ like me…he will be boarding the ferry now with his bum twitching like a rabbits nose at this very minute…let us know how you get on…
seen you mention an ira flag a couple of times mate, stayed in Belfast for a good few years and still visit often and can honestly say iv never seen one, what dothey look like■■?
Certain sections of society in the North view the Irish Tricolor as an IRA flag despite it being the flag of an independent country highly unlikely that you will see a flag with IRA on it nowadays, more likely to see ones with UVF and UDA on them especially around md-ulster
In the early 90s I used to run in and out of NI and the South a fair bit. I was working for an Irish fella, they had a deal with Sally Line and Norse Irish Ferries so I used to cross the border every time I went over rather than turning in Liverpool.
My British passport used to raise eyebrows with the squaddies at the checkpoints as I was driving a Dublin registered lorry.
I only ever had one problem whilst doing that job, I had a load of kids pelting the lorry with stones, there were a lot of red, white and blue flags flying, but I’m sure it was just kids being kids, rather than a sectarian attack. Little [zb]s busted one of my headlights!
When I was on the beer job to Caffreys Brewery at the end of the 90s I was totally ignored by one of the girls serving breakfast in the canteen, she just stood there giving me evils as I asked for my food, I was with one of the shunters and he gave her an almighty bollocking.
Obviously there was a time and there were and possibly still are places best avoided, but I found it a friendly place, apart from the colours of the street furniture it was less sectarian than Glasgow.
dieseldog999:
it all depnds on who your talking to…if their catholic,then their irish…no messing,just always irish their logic behind that is i think that they dont accept that n.i is part of the united kingdom,hence british,same as scotland and wales and still consider it as ireland…if you ask a prod who dosent care,then you may get irish,or northern irish,theres some…checkout the ali g clip who say their british,then theres some who say their scots irish,and some who say their ulstermen…just a can of worms really and depends on the political perspective of who your asking.e although being british,then theres always bad feeling against the cops,army,etc with the predictable rioting at every excuse. if you go abroad to spain/tenerife ect,then if you go into an irish bar,itl not have prods from northern ireland in it apart from the occaisional one that isnt biased as itl be deemed an irish/republican/catholic pub…any prod from northern ireland will go to the nearest rangers bar. sad but true…there kinda rebels without a clue now. until recent years itwas safe to call yourelf jewish,that way you only needed to worry about an arab coming up to shoot you…im scottish having lived here for a good few years,and theres never a definitive answer as to what to correctly call someone indiginously born to northern ireland…to me id say they were northern irish as thats where they were born,but always a subject best left alone. hence derry/ londonderry…itl never change here with both sides nose to nose and bringing up their kids the same way.though its calmed down a decent bit in recent years,you just dont want to walk or drive into the wrong area. its still definately better living over here than in mainland uk though…completely different world.
I’m from the North and would call myself Irish (nothing to do with religion, my parents are from ‘opposing sides’). Also I wouldn’t dream of calling the Uk, the ‘mainland’. I’ve been there enough times to know.
There you go.