Michelle O’Neil

[Jedi boro]

Makes first speech in Irish then pledges to have a referendum on unity with the rest of Ireland and this is on day 1.

Didn’t take long did it.

The fox now runs the hen house.

 

[edinboro]

Coming from a Boro Catholic background and having a sense of right and wrong it cannot come soon enough. The DUP are horrible.

 

[Jedi boro]

Coming from a Boro Catholic background and having a sense of right and wrong it cannot come soon enough. The DUP are horrible.

Im also from an Irish catholic family but I just worry it’s Nicola sturgeon on steroids.

 

[zzzzz]

Fed up with it.
The sooner it's unified the better.

 

[Jedi boro]

Fed up with it.
The sooner it's unified the better.

That will not end well

 

[NI_Red]

Coming from a Boro Catholic background and having a sense of right and wrong it cannot come soon enough. The DUP are horrible.

Wow

 

[edinboro]

Wow

Harsh but true. The Unionists have been terrible and buggered up so much in recent years.

 

[Jedi boro]

Wow

How do you feel NI Red about this shift in the power dynamic and how it could unfold hereafter.

 

[NI_Red]

I feel that some people think they know everything about NI and actually know very little.

 

[Jedi boro]

I feel that some people think they know everything about NI and actually know very little.

That’s why I’m asking your opinion then the op is just my opinion I’m not professing to be an expert but talking in Irish as you take the first minister seat I think is a bold statement. Not very unifying is it.

 

[NI_Red]

That’s why I’m asking your opinion then the op is just my opinion I’m not professing to be an expert but talking in Irish as you take the first minister seat I think is a bold statement. Not very unifying is it.

I'm not getting at you, Jedi.

 

[Jedi boro]

I was wondering what the actual figures were

Some 6,000 people (0.3%) in Northern Ireland claim to use Irish as their main home language according to the 2021 UK Census with 71,900 people being able to speak Irish (circa 4% of population) and 228,600 people overall in the state (12.4%) having some knowledge of the language.

 

[Ziggy]

Back from another 2 year lay off…fully paid. Some academic on the radio this morning said that there hasn’t been a consistent, coherent government in place in reality for about 6 years.
It’s a place where people seem to have longer memories than most. For obvious reasons.

 

[johnsmithsno2]

I feel that some people think they know everything about NI and actually know very little.

Not sure what's wrong with calling for a democratic vote. And I respect your right to express your opinion, @NI_Red, but living there doesn't mean you have a monopoly of knowledge or even experience about Ireland and its history.

 

[NI_Red]

Not sure what's wrong with calling for a democratic vote. And I respect your right to express your opinion, @NI_Red, but living there doesn't mean you have a monopoly of knowledge or even experience about Ireland and its history.

And nobody said I did.

 

[edinboro]

The DUP signed a deal to bankrupt the country and then refused to go into government afterwards. All to protect their precious Arlene. Leaving the country with no government and no funding.

 

[Jedi boro]

Not sure what's wrong with calling for a democratic vote.

But what do you call it on though this “democratic” referendum do you just ask the north or do you ask the whole of Ireland ( which she’ll push for) because then that’s a completely different situation.

 

[johnsmithsno2]

But what do you call it on though this “democratic” referendum do you just ask the north or do you ask the whole of Ireland ( which she’ll push for) because then that’s a completely different situation.

At some point your question won't matter because there will be a nationalist majority in the north itself. Then what will the excuse be?

 

[Jedi boro]

Then what will the excuse be?

That’s quite a confrontational view to take.

 

[NI_Red]

At some point your question won't matter because there will be a nationalist majority in the north itself. Then what will the excuse be?

There already is, John. Perhaps you do need to do some research after all.