Ireland General Discussion

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Have they considered changing their name, perhaps to something more accurate?

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Is the new leader going to be another sticky?

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I think he means it in a strictly Sir Humphrey sense. But perhaps, even so, courageous would be better?

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This means that Irish 'Labour' are now polling higher numbers than the LibDems are on the other side of the Irish Sea, lol.

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RIP, FF

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Best 30yr rule revelation ever?

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Dude, you don't have to convince me that the coalition sucks. I think the oddest thing is why Labour decided to jettison its economic left so readily. Wasn't that the whole point of the Democratic Left?

Mostly Democratic Left just stood for cultural cringe. Think of that as being like repentant ex-Commies but with an added touch of unintentional clownishness.

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lawd

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I did notice one day a few months ago that #irelandisfull (or similar) was trending on Twitter - as is so often the case, this sort of mindless violence doesn't spontaneously erupt out of nowhere.

Libraries and bookshops have been having 'issues' with much the same crowd for months.

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The mildly malicious might wish to point out that there has been something of a cultural disconnect between that section of Dublin and the rest of Ireland for quite a while: it just so happens that the bulk of the Dublin Rathmines constituency that returned the one Unionist MP for a territorial seat outside Ulster in 1918 can now be found in Dublin Bay South (along with a lot of other territory, naturally).

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Harris is primarily/historically a surname of the West Country and South Wales, which is why it's also common in Leinster. Consider also e.g. Morgan and so on.