Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Heh, yeah, I guess it must seem strange to some people that the continued fascination with Irish issues doesn't actually take place in Ireland itself. I guess it's the nature of the demographics in Scotland. Our Irish/Ulster immigrants (depending on what they would call themselves), whether Proddy or Catholic, were all working-class. Today, they are voiced through Rangers/Celtic, and they are pretty much the scum of Scottish society. Don't mind using the word scum either, I'm a part of it, I guess I'm just adopting the language used by the oh-so-righteous pc-bridage. They are working-class, come from crappy areas, and pretty much hate each other. Ireland on the other hand is a succesful country, and it has moved on. And the rest of Britain never cared in the first place.
Without going into any detail or socio-economic blah blah blah I have nothing in common with those people as a County Mayo farmers son who has an engineering degree I can safely say we are not the same class at all.

My grandfathers who actually fought and then laid down there arms would not be capable of comprehending these people at all, they would not recognise themselves in them as opposed to either side in this arguement whose greatest achievement is probably beating people up at pub closing time