I recall speaking to an Irish man from the West in the 1980's who believed that every Irish family who left Mayo for the UK were traitors. His family owned the hotel, garage, local shop and were responsible for 80% of employment in the local town. Thank f**k my family had the UK as opposed to be indebted to this prick. 'Scottish Plastic Paddy' or 'Fenian Bastard' - I am both & say 'fuck off' to those who in Ireland or Scotland harbouring these views. There are so many Celtic fans who want to be 'hun-like' in their thinking - Celtic fans have always been Celtic fans as they can think beyond the black & white.
And your wee claimed Mayo ditty amounts to what exactly? certainly wont change many thinking minds about a red 21st century red poppy!
There are stupid base eejits all over the world! plenty of them in Scotland.
Your ditty makes no point at all in the reality that many will recall millions all over the uk in the 1980's and throughout the 1990's
- who thought simple crude and often nasty jokes at the expense of Irish people, West Indians and Asians as not just acceptable but peak viewing entertainment.
- listening to and accepting the word of british Government ministers continuing the selective and managed news intended to inspire fear and hate of the Irish, so as to justify killing them in law, as they did with the claimed nail bombers and gunmen on Bloody Sunday, lies of the very state they had started long before the 1970's. this is the state not some village eejit!
- Many more will recall how watching Benny hill ogling at schoolgirls was not paedophile pervert like at all, but perfect entertainment for all the family.
- Many more will recall a uk that had Jimmy Saville a national hero for decades
- Some may even recall some of the thousands of jailed innocents and rounded up thousands of innocent Irish without trial, the Irish only mind you, none of those Ireland based-british terrorists, they were acceptable, just rogues. even the ones with hatchets chopping women up, just rogues.
- the list of british idiots and perversions would fill this and many more pages
Do you seriously believe the uk was remotely a superior moral place or one of more generally considered thought!
Perhaps you are delighted to be leaving the EU and going back to GB, back and onto the great uk of the 1970's pre EU, when things were so good people only had to work a 3 day week.
Or was it that the uk GB was bankrupt! and the IMF bailed them out! selective memory hey!
Ireland was not a great place for many either, but you appear to imagine a uk so much better via your idle conversation with what you after all recognize and state was a bit of a village eejit.
You might have some credibility if you knew from more than just repeated cliche, and stated as matter of learning and fair record, how the uk had purposely bankrupted their Irish free state via tarrifs and trade wars alongside constant subtle and not so subtle bully boy threats of violence!,
Ireland the free state or early ROI never was going to amount to much, until the taxed tied political and financial shackles from London were cleared off to at least stand upright and walk alone.
I suggest you go look at the GDP per capita figures for the last 20 plus years if you still hold clichés about backwards broke poor little dependent Ireland! from any credible source you examine! Now that will make really depressing reading for the typically not so well informed british nationalist.
Ireland is an ok nation, not so great even now, but in comparison and I know both islands well. Would not dream of living in that other one off the mainland of Europe.
We are still not a great place for too many, but then we don't go around calling 'ourselves' great Ireland or united anything, perhaps not so daft in comparison!
Your last sentence about Celtic fans btw appears to contradict itself.
