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War expected to break out between Ireland and Scotland later today
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2019-06-10 at 7:40 AM UTC
A warning from the Scottish government that it will take action against Irish fishing vessels that fish in the area around Rockall, a disputed island off the Co Donegal coast, came as a “bombshell” to Irish fishermen, the chief executive of Killybegs Fisheries Organisation has said.
Seán O’Donoghue said the organisation’s members are not going to accept the warning and will continue to fish there as normal.
“If there is an enforcement by the Scottish authorities we will rigorously defend it [our fishing] and we expect and we believe that the Irish Government will fully support in that action,” Mr O’Donoghue told The Irish Times on Saturday.
In a formal letter of notice, Scottish external affairs minister Fiona Hyslop warned the Irish Government that Scotland will deploy its vessels to protect Scottish fishing rights around Rockall, which is about 418km west of the Donegal coast.
The Irish Government, which contests the Scottish claim on Rockall and also its claim of exclusive fishing rights, has condemned the move.
Minister for Agriculture and the Marine Michael Creed briefed fishing industry representatives, including Mr O’Donoghue, about the impending Scottish action on Friday.
“They [the fishermen] are very disturbed about it and they are very concerned, given that they have traditionally, over the last decade, fished both inside and outside the 12-mile zone in Rockall, without any problem,” Mr O’Donoghue said.
“We never saw that there was an issue. We were absolutely shocked when the Minister announced to us that the Scottish authorities declared that they were going to enforce an exclusive zone around Rockall.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-fishermen-to-defy-scotland-s-bombshell-warning-on-rockall-1.3919670
Dirty Scottish bastards have claimed Rockall Island, rightful Irish stone. We will embrace martyrdom to prove to them the error of their ways. -
2019-06-10 at 11:21 AM UTChey now whats wrong with the scots? details details
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2019-06-10 at 11:32 AM UTCi reckon the paddies ll do the jocks an all.
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2019-06-10 at 11:50 AM UTCThe battle of awesome accents
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2019-06-10 at 11:58 AM UTCaye, sure it is it was
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2019-06-10 at 12:26 PM UTCI am ready for Ireland to reboot the IRA.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-06-10 at 12:28 PM UTCaye, i'm sure they will so it is
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2019-06-10 at 1:14 PM UTCTrying to claim another island when neither of them can unite their own islands.
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2019-06-10 at 1:16 PM UTCThat means the price of Fish and Chips will go up.
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2019-06-10 at 1:27 PM UTC"UP THE RA!"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-06-10 at 1:34 PM UTCIrish people looking for sea potatoes in other people's countries smhThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-06-10 at 1:55 PM UTCWill they fight in kilts? 😍
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2019-06-10 at 2:07 PM UTCfor some reason this thread reminded me that the liberties were a band so I've been listening to up the bracket since
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2019-06-10 at 2:23 PM UTCDon’t forget the cranberries
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2019-06-10 at 6:24 PM UTCYer some quare aul bollix narcy me lad
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2019-06-10 at 6:49 PM UTCRemains found of the last great Hiberno-Caledonian hyperwar.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/10/ancient-asteroid-crater-off-coast-scotland -
2019-06-10 at 7:03 PM UTC
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2019-06-10 at 7:07 PM UTC
Originally posted by Bobby Sands There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.
It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.
It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.
It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.
It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.
It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.
It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.
It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.
It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.
It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.
It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.
It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’
I memorized it by heart. It was written by Bobby Sands, whom died on a hunger strike. It was originally written on toilet paper. The Irish are stubborn.
My father used to tell me that the Irish aren't a race, being Irish is a state of mind. I believe that too. I do happen to have a good deal of Irish blood in me, however the Irish had wanderlust and traveled all around and fucked everything with a pulse. The Irish are truly Heinz 57's anyway. It's what's in your heart and mind, not what is in your heritage.
I'm glad they're not taking it laying down, and well... They are right, and apparently they have the thought that says they are right. Next thing you know they'll have SAM missiles in the skies toward the scotts. The Irish seem to enjoy explosives and blowing shit up... After all, in the 70's and 80's alot of IRA had to flee Ireland, so they went to the middle East... That's where they taught sandniggers how to blow shit up since before they couldn't fucking blow their fucking nose, much less blow anything up.
I think it's a mistake on the scotts for trying to start shit over fishing territory with the Irish. It won't end well for them. The Irish won't give up out of the principle of it now.
