Fatboy slimslow:
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
You may have had B&B in āBarukiā by any chance 
i must be missing somthing. all the years ive been driving (alot of which in ireland) religion, riots, attacks on drivers or threats to drivers has never came into the equation, id far rather drive over here than in the Bean, all the driver get on like the band of brothers, the drivers all have respect for each other, for most of us its not a job, its a lifestyle, irish drivers have a habbit of getting the job done, If you need a job done , give it to a Tang!!!
V8-Chris:
i must be missing somthing. all the years ive been driving (alot of which in ireland) religion, riots, attacks on drivers or threats to drivers has never came into the equation, id far rather drive over here than in the Bean, all the driver get on like the band of brothers, the drivers all have respect for each other, for most of us its not a job, its a lifestyle, irish drivers have a habbit of getting the job done, If you need a job done , give it to a Tang!!!
Id take what most have said on this topic with a pinch of salt, as for the ex para, id say the nearest action that man seen was on the news! A man writes in looking a bit of advise on his trip, and bingo a sectarian tennis match!
irishexpat:
V8-Chris:
i must be missing somthing. all the years ive been driving (alot of which in ireland) religion, riots, attacks on drivers or threats to drivers has never came into the equation, id far rather drive over here than in the Bean, all the driver get on like the band of brothers, the drivers all have respect for each other, for most of us its not a job, its a lifestyle, irish drivers have a habbit of getting the job done, If you need a job done , give it to a Tang!!!Id take what most have said on this topic with a pinch of salt, as for the ex para, id say the nearest action that man seen was on the news! A man writes in looking a bit of advise on his trip, and bingo a sectarian tennis match!
Beans on a fry is just wrong.
Big Truck:
You may have had B&B in āBarukiā by any chance
borucki was one of ours paratrooper from three para killed by a bomb on a bicycle just about three years before I went out there on my first tour. 
stevoxsi:
Beans on a fry is just wrong.
FFS man what is wrong with you!
Canāt call it a proper fry up without a portion of Heinzās finestā¦
I thought beans on a fry was part of the good Friday agreement? Fair enough, Iāll take the soda bread, thatās quality. Dries the mouth though. Beans isnāt just wrong on a cowboy supper then?
Oh yeah, you can get a cowboy supper over here. And you get a curry from a Chinese, not an Indian (according to my other half). You get champ too and the best scampi in the whole ā ā ā ā world!
I have been caught in a riot once with the petrol bombs etc. Had a brick thrown at my taxi roof on valentines night with my misses from a bunch causing trouble in short strand during some shindigs or other. Work colleague was punched for being English on night out (the bloke said it was because he was āyou Englishā ) These are being honest and factual events I cant lie about rather than glossing over and saying nowt has happened at all. Iāve lived here 7 years and that was it. Thatās it. 7 years of living here. You get more trouble in England any day of the week these days. I feel safer here provided I donāt go to rough bits which I donāt generally. Itās a cool place with a very bright future once the old buggers with the old prejudices pass on and leave todayās bright young things to take up the reigns.
irishexpat:
V8-Chris:
iād take what most have said on this topic with a pinch of salt, as for the ex para, id say the nearest action that man seen was on the news! A man writes in looking a bit of advise on his trip, and bingo a sectarian tennis match!
lol your news over there WAS A SITREP. 
as for action maybe my medals starting from 1979 GSM with Northern IRELAND bar on it was there for a laugh, South Atlantic medal with rosette was just a laugh and a jolly in the Falklands in 1982 you know for six weeks we didnāt really do nowt, honest!! 
as for other different Ops in your country ie Op banner, op cara cara and op Motorman they didnāt really exist! then throw in some tours for two years plus ago doing covert surveillance you know just for a laugh, seen nothing me! Iāll name a few things which you can check up on, North det, South det, green slime, castlereagh, MRF, FRU, JSG, 14int, THE REGIMENT, golf five zero ( AKA BORUCKI SANGAR ) stagger on in numerous sangars all watching the border really good fun! But apart from that Iām married to a catholic.
miked:
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 lifeā¦hence click on these to prove a pointā¦ demotix.com/news/7137796/loy ā¦ 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 religonā¦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 flagsā¦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 ā ā ā ā like meā¦he will be boarding the ferry now with his bum twitching like a rabbits nose at this very minuteā¦let us know how you get onā¦
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 likeā ā ?
for ireland and the rest of the world the irish tricolour represents the flag of the republic of irelandā¦for northern ireland and obviously some of scotland regarding rangers and celtic etc,then the irish tricolour is regarded as a pro catholic/ira ,anti brit flag to the retarded timewarp bigots on both sides that still care about religon.if you want a perfect example,then come onto the start of the westlink and look at the catholic/predominant ira high rise flats in front of youā¦you may wonder why the irish tricolour is flying next to the boarding with ira hunger striker names and faces painted on it,( apparantly theres been some previously unseen footage of some of them just been released as they found out they were cheating whilst on hunger strike by biting their nails),strange you may think as its apparantly illegal ,or at least disrespectfull to fly the flag of a foriegn country in britain unless in designated areasā¦then as you climb the hill and round the corner to face the clifton street overpass,you see the reason whyā¦the clifton street orange hall flying the union flag,and /or the northern ireland flagā¦everytime the prods fly the union flag,then the catholics fly the tricolourā¦both sides as sad/bad as the other.the catholics burn and deface the union flag,and the prods do the same to the irish flag.theres lots of things and arnt relevent elsewhere,that still matter ti the braindeads over hereā¦hence the immortal stroke city debate .the correct and legal name for it is londonderry,no ifs and buts,londonderry is the only correct name that it can be calledā¦anyone (including the republic of ireland goverment with their road signs) calling it derry is calling it incorrectly.this also means that if a million years ago some soldier groped your granny and you dont like the brits,it dosent make it 1 rule for you to be able to call it derryā¦if you travel across the country towards l/derry,then in any catholic areas,you will see the roadsign painted out to leave the word derry visible,and also you will see that some proddy will have painted in the word london to compete with the original catholic artistā¦nothing here will ever change as for whatever kid gets born into a bigoted family,then they will have 2 generations of parents,neighbours,skoolkids etc to poison their brain whilst they grow up,and so it goes on.thats just the way it is over here.
Edit. I was responding to a removed postā¦
You say that you donāt care then you say you wouldnt call over the water the mainland. If you truly didnt care you wouldnt even think about saying such a minor pedantic thing. Thatās the thing Iāve noticed in NI. Thereās still a lot of ā ā ā for tat. I got a full on lecture by a bloke the first week here for mistakenly calling over the water the mainland. I felt guilty at the time, now not so. Iāve lost patience with it, especially as this person wasnāt old enough to have been in the troubles.
Iāve come to the conclusion some over here just like to have a winge and moan and feel lost without something or someone to blame about something. It seems a trait. Iāve travelled the world and seen people who really have serious stuff to worry about these days without bringing up the past and get quite annoyed with Northern Ireland sometimes and feel like the two sides need their heads knocking together, yet other times I realise Rome wasnāt built in a day and itāll take time as it want long ago the place was a battle zone. I just hope it will and my doubts I have that itās a cultural thing to want to be at odds with anything or something/someone despite the common sense prospect of moving on are proved wrong.
The only hope is with each era that passes the youngsters that buy into and become part of this retrograde outlook are less. Consider even the 90s. A fairly large amount of kids were subject to this stuff and it was their world, now itās only in the hardened areas where employment and quality of life is lower than elsewhere in the North.
Kids are more interested in whatās cool and of today rather than listening to the bitter old dinosaurs. Iāve been to more music festivals and events over here than I thought would be possible. For this case social media and connectivity is a good thing as it has broadened the young minds. The teenagers of Northern Ireland of today are into music, having fun, getting out into the world like most of their piers in Europe.
Unlike the 70s and 80s they see on their phones and news feeds news how real poverty gives people something to really worry about and makes them realise how pathetic a continuous debate of attrition is in a first world country with all the luxuries afforded to it. They realise they should be embarrassed and ashamed if theyāre to carry that legacy when people in countries like Bangladesh are living in sewerage infested shanties. At the minute whilst the old ā ā ā ā ā ā ā are still around thereāll be an influence but with each generation itāll be watered down, I always said to my other half, it wonāt be her generation but the next where itās consigned to history once the people with living memories of the violence have passed on.
Anyway, I like it here and these points arenāt to be blown out of proportion for the visitor. This stuff only grates when you make a home here, itās a very friendly place with some great scenery, good food and youāll be looked after. They donāt do beans with a fry up though, be warned.
people in britain.refer to europe as mainland europe when in fact its surrounded by warer,so why wouldnt people on a small island with a part of it british not refer to the rest of the british isels as mainland britain?..same horse different jockey is it not?..but as you can see by the way the posts have been going,then its just the same as it always has been over here where unless your civilised and have no issues with the way it is here,then its still pick a sideā¦welcome to 1970ā¦apart from that,then its great living in the land that time forgotā¦unless you go into donegal where its even greater as you travel further back in the blink of an eye 
dieseldog999:
people in britain.refer to europe as mainland europe when in fact its surrounded by warer,so why wouldnt people on a small island with a part of it british not refer to the rest of the british isels as mainland britain?..same horse different jockey is it not?..but as you can see by the way the posts have been going,then its just the same as it always has been over here where unless your civilised and have no issues with the way it is here,then its still pick a sideā¦welcome to 1970ā¦apart from that,then its great living in the land that time forgotā¦unless you go into donegal where its even greater as you travel further back in the blink of an eye
Have to say I see you most weeks on the road,didnāt realise you thought so low of us irish men and our country.
But you never really know anyone eh.
As for Derry !
Itās Derry always was and always will be .
simples!
And as for soldiers getting shot when they are in a war zone.
Thatās what happens when you go to war ffs.
dieseldog999:
miked:
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 lifeā¦hence click on these to prove a pointā¦ demotix.com/news/7137796/loy ā¦ 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 religonā¦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 flagsā¦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 ā ā ā ā like meā¦he will be boarding the ferry now with his bum twitching like a rabbits nose at this very minuteā¦let us know how you get onā¦
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 likeā ā ?
for ireland and the rest of the world the irish tricolour represents the flag of the republic of irelandā¦for northern ireland and obviously some of scotland regarding rangers and celtic etc,then the irish tricolour is regarded as a pro catholic/ira ,anti brit flag to the retarded timewarp bigots on both sides that still care about religon.if you want a perfect example,then come onto the start of the westlink and look at the catholic/predominant ira high rise flats in front of youā¦you may wonder why the irish tricolour is flying next to the boarding with ira hunger striker names and faces painted on it,( apparantly theres been some previously unseen footage of some of them just been released as they found out they were cheating whilst on hunger strike by biting their nails),strange you may think as its apparantly illegal ,or at least disrespectfull to fly the flag of a foriegn country in britain unless in designated areasā¦then as you climb the hill and round the corner to face the clifton street overpass,you see the reason whyā¦the clifton street orange hall flying the union flag,and /or the northern ireland flagā¦everytime the prods fly the union flag,then the catholics fly the tricolourā¦both sides as sad/bad as the other.the catholics burn and deface the union flag,and the prods do the same to the irish flag.theres lots of things and arnt relevent elsewhere,that still matter ti the braindeads over hereā¦hence the immortal stroke city debate .the correct and legal name for it is londonderry,no ifs and buts,londonderry is the only correct name that it can be calledā¦anyone (including the republic of ireland goverment with their road signs) calling it derry is calling it incorrectly.this also means that if a million years ago some soldier groped your granny and you dont like the brits,it dosent make it 1 rule for you to be able to call it derryā¦if you travel across the country towards l/derry,then in any catholic areas,you will see the roadsign painted out to leave the word derry visible,and also you will see that some proddy will have painted in the word london to compete with the original catholic artistā¦nothing here will ever change as for whatever kid gets born into a bigoted family,then they will have 2 generations of parents,neighbours,skoolkids etc to poison their brain whilst they grow up,and so it goes on.thats just the way it is over here.
so what your saying is that the irish flag is only an ira flag to loyalist bigots?
miked:
dieseldog999:
miked:
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 lifeā¦hence click on these to prove a pointā¦ demotix.com/news/7137796/loy ā¦ 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 religonā¦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 flagsā¦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 ā ā ā ā like meā¦he will be boarding the ferry now with his bum twitching like a rabbits nose at this very minuteā¦let us know how you get onā¦
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 likeā ā ?
for ireland and the rest of the world the irish tricolour represents the flag of the republic of irelandā¦for northern ireland and obviously some of scotland regarding rangers and celtic etc,then the irish tricolour is regarded as a pro catholic/ira ,anti brit flag to the retarded timewarp bigots on both sides that still care about religon.if you want a perfect example,then come onto the start of the westlink and look at the catholic/predominant ira high rise flats in front of youā¦you may wonder why the irish tricolour is flying next to the boarding with ira hunger striker names and faces painted on it,( apparantly theres been some previously unseen footage of some of them just been released as they found out they were cheating whilst on hunger strike by biting their nails),strange you may think as its apparantly illegal ,or at least disrespectfull to fly the flag of a foriegn country in britain unless in designated areasā¦then as you climb the hill and round the corner to face the clifton street overpass,you see the reason whyā¦the clifton street orange hall flying the union flag,and /or the northern ireland flagā¦everytime the prods fly the union flag,then the catholics fly the tricolourā¦both sides as sad/bad as the other.the catholics burn and deface the union flag,and the prods do the same to the irish flag.theres lots of things and arnt relevent elsewhere,that still matter ti the braindeads over hereā¦hence the immortal stroke city debate .the correct and legal name for it is londonderry,no ifs and buts,londonderry is the only correct name that it can be calledā¦anyone (including the republic of ireland goverment with their road signs) calling it derry is calling it incorrectly.this also means that if a million years ago some soldier groped your granny and you dont like the brits,it dosent make it 1 rule for you to be able to call it derryā¦if you travel across the country towards l/derry,then in any catholic areas,you will see the roadsign painted out to leave the word derry visible,and also you will see that some proddy will have painted in the word london to compete with the original catholic artistā¦nothing here will ever change as for whatever kid gets born into a bigoted family,then they will have 2 generations of parents,neighbours,skoolkids etc to poison their brain whilst they grow up,and so it goes on.thats just the way it is over here.
so what your saying is that the irish flag is only an ira flag to loyalist bigots?
YEPā¦thats what it represents in northern irelandā¦this bonfire pic may clarify the opinion of these peopleā¦all thats missing from the pic is the effigy dummy representing the pope that will be placed on the top just before its litā¦not forgetting the balaclava brigade that will appear and fire a few rounds off into the air after midnight on the 12thā¦just in case anyone in mainland uk is in any doubtā¦there is no guy fawkes bonfire night over here in novemberā¦instead its the 12th july 1690 battle of the boyne king billy bonfire night as another way of showing hatred and intimidating any catholics in the country.correspondingly then that same weekend is the busyest weekend for air/sea and hliday travel and lots of normal people want out of the country diring that time as its always without doubt an excuse for days of rioting.
and for the other dude being a perfect example of why northern ireland will be stuck in the bigoted timewarp that it isā¦then no matter where you look,or what you may prefer to personally call it.then londonderry is the correct name for the city called londonderry that used to be called derry.irrespective of your own preferanceā¦personally i refer to it as stroke city,if im in eire then its derry as thats what its incorrectly referred to,eire being a catholic country,but legally and correctly then its title is londonderry. ive no religeous axe to grind here and ive no interest in religeous bigotry,i just think the ones that still flog their dead horse are sad people. your reply simply proves that point for single minded bitter tunnel vision. google cities in northern ireland,look up wikipedia,search every provider for the citys nameā¦derrys name was changed legally years ago to londonderry simple as that.
Big Truck:
Fatboy slimslow:
XMG ( crossmaglen ) has some lovely people too, I used to love bimbling around South Armagh with my gimpy, puts HAIRS ON YOUR CHEST!You may have had B&B in āBarukiā by any chance
golf five zero stag on
Why do you call it derry when your in Eire?
If they ask what football team you support then tell em if it dont do at least 150 mph and have an engine then you aint interested.
Fatboy slimslow:
irishexpat:
V8-Chris:
iād take what most have said on this topic with a pinch of salt, as for the ex para, id say the nearest action that man seen was on the news! A man writes in looking a bit of advise on his trip, and bingo a sectarian tennis match!lol your news over there WAS A SITREP.
You have some mouth on ya, singing like a canary! I couldnāt give a ā ā ā ā if you where in Forkhill or st Lucia barracks in omagh! Or if you seen this or that! Iāve seen action in the north of Ireland and on the British main land but that isnāt anyoneās business! Like I say the fella was looking advice on his journey, no need for the history lesson, a bit of advice would have done, alot has changed since the 70ās / 80ās
