Mainland Brits, how many of you have been to N Ireland?
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splodge s4 said:
Most probably, just looked up the estate we often used to have a wander around, oliver plunket park! We often used to gaze down from camlough mountain, ah those were the days!
That's the one! You would have landed beside our house in Ashmore hill.
Used to have great fun as kids watching the helicopters landing.
Quite the view over south down and south Armagh from up there.
The Mad Monk said:
surveyor said:
PS no one calls it Londonderry apart from us English. It's Derry... even most of the signs say this.
Hmm. Not quite.http://tinyurl.com/m2jdp86
thole of a province & they won't change. The signage since the GFA has begun to use Derry to appease the retards whenthey go all snowflake about anything 'Brit' especially in the border areas. It is the original historic name. Did you not know that. The British changed it.
In it's original Gaelic form it is spelled "Daoire" which is actually pronounced "Direh". The English couldn't pronounce it so they bastardised it into "Derry" and later "Londonderry".
I don't care what they call it personally - but do get your facts right.
In it's original Gaelic form it is spelled "Daoire" which is actually pronounced "Direh". The English couldn't pronounce it so they bastardised it into "Derry" and later "Londonderry".
I don't care what they call it personally - but do get your facts right.
Echo66 said:
This ^. Its only the arsewipes on the republican side who call it derry. Always have done the chippy morons. They've been vandalising the signage for ever. I did multiple tours in that sthole of a province & they won't change. The signage since the GFA has begun to use Derry to appease the retards whenthey go all snowflake about anything 'Brit' especially in the border areas.
Londonderry is not recognised in the Republic of Ireland. Every map and road sign says Derry. So if nationalists want to call it Derry let them. Better than sending in soldiers to police them. thole of a province & they won't change. The signage since the GFA has begun to use Derry to appease the retards whenthey go all snowflake about anything 'Brit' especially in the border areas. Interesting thread. I live about 15 miles out of Belfast, I've traveled extensively but always love coming home and can't imagine settling anywhere else.
Anytime I visit the mainland I spend the first day or 2 saying hello and nodding to random people before I learn when they scowl back. I generally limit my visits now to work or lifting a car.
Overall it is a great place to live. A proper community feel and as a previous poster said if trouble strikes people are self sacrificing in their desire to help. Our 6 month old had a 4 week spell in hospital in January and we had food/shopping brought to our door every day by friends and neighbours, we had endless lifts, visits, meals prepared etc etc. Now that we're out of the woods my wife is always fussing about someone or other who is in need of something.
Loads to see and do for visitors too, the north coast is lovely for both tourists and keen drivers, as is the county down coast/ards peninsula. Across the border in Donegal is fascinating too, postcard Ireland with thatch/turf fires and superb food. Belfast is very cosmopolitan now with everything that comes with that.
Anytime I visit the mainland I spend the first day or 2 saying hello and nodding to random people before I learn when they scowl back. I generally limit my visits now to work or lifting a car.
Overall it is a great place to live. A proper community feel and as a previous poster said if trouble strikes people are self sacrificing in their desire to help. Our 6 month old had a 4 week spell in hospital in January and we had food/shopping brought to our door every day by friends and neighbours, we had endless lifts, visits, meals prepared etc etc. Now that we're out of the woods my wife is always fussing about someone or other who is in need of something.
Loads to see and do for visitors too, the north coast is lovely for both tourists and keen drivers, as is the county down coast/ards peninsula. Across the border in Donegal is fascinating too, postcard Ireland with thatch/turf fires and superb food. Belfast is very cosmopolitan now with everything that comes with that.
Yep,
Went over a couple of times in the eighties with School to play Rugby vs. Dungannon/Methodist College Belfast. Was always well looked after/only time felt a bit uncomfortable was when our MCB host took us down the Falls road (don't forget this was when the troubles were still happening) and we probably looked like a bunch of young squaddies.
On that trip - We had our dinner bought (2 rugby teams/teachers/assorted parents). by somebody after we got stuck due to fog at the City Airport (which constituted a couple of portacabins back then). - they had just flown in on a private plane - asked some of us what we were doing over there - came back and handed teacher a wedge of cash !!
Now married to a girl from Bangor, County Down. So been over quite a few times from about 1994 onwards). Got married over there as well.
Planning a wee jaunt over this summer via the ferry and AirBnb'ing it/spend time with the outlaws, and brother/sister in law and their family.
Went over a couple of times in the eighties with School to play Rugby vs. Dungannon/Methodist College Belfast. Was always well looked after/only time felt a bit uncomfortable was when our MCB host took us down the Falls road (don't forget this was when the troubles were still happening) and we probably looked like a bunch of young squaddies.
On that trip - We had our dinner bought (2 rugby teams/teachers/assorted parents). by somebody after we got stuck due to fog at the City Airport (which constituted a couple of portacabins back then). - they had just flown in on a private plane - asked some of us what we were doing over there - came back and handed teacher a wedge of cash !!
Now married to a girl from Bangor, County Down. So been over quite a few times from about 1994 onwards). Got married over there as well.
Planning a wee jaunt over this summer via the ferry and AirBnb'ing it/spend time with the outlaws, and brother/sister in law and their family.
Edited by seyre1972 on Wednesday 17th May 13:23
Smiler. said:
FG Wilson factory in Larne.
Exotic it wasn't.
I have a little bit of a connection to that business... Exotic it wasn't.
I was born and raised in NI until I was 10, I've been back a few times since, and although it is a stunning country with many many great people, there is an underlying tension and a bigoted minority that will forever tarnish it.
I took my other half there last year, first time I'd been back in 5 years, her first time ever there. A lot of things I take for granted, like the clear sectarian divides in certain areas, the way that people ask you loaded questions when you first meet, which she found very strange.
That said, the North Antrim coast even in Autumn is a world-class vista.
Edited by S11Steve on Wednesday 17th May 13:26
nonsequitur said:
Cotty said:
nonsequitur said:
Cotty said:
Never been to Ireland (North or South) or Scotland. Been to Wales a couple of times. Just never really interested me.
?Eric Mc said:
It is the original historic name. Did you not know that. The British changed it.
In it's original Gaelic form it is spelled "Daoire" which is actually pronounced "Direh". The English couldn't pronounce it so they bastardised it into "Derry" and later "Londonderry".
I don't care what they call it personally - but do get your facts right.
My facts are right & i've been to the sIn it's original Gaelic form it is spelled "Daoire" which is actually pronounced "Direh". The English couldn't pronounce it so they bastardised it into "Derry" and later "Londonderry".
I don't care what they call it personally - but do get your facts right.
thole enough times to know its history. Its called Londonderry, we changed it years ago, just like we changed the names of pretty much every other place we've taken possession of. Irrelevant.Londonderry it became because of the Derry names' significance to the the republic crowd. It was part of wholesale snub, just like the BFO hillside taunt in Cyprus. Ppl can call it timbuktu if they want, it doest matter, but its official name in the UK is londonderry despite the whining of the sinn fein/IRA lot.
Echo66 said:
Its only the arsewipes on the republican side who call it derry. Always have done the chippy morons. They've been vandalising the signage for ever. I did multiple tours in that sthole of a province & they won't change. The signage since the GFA has begun to use Derry to appease the retards whenthey go all snowflake about anything 'Brit' especially in the border areas.
The Apprentice Boys of ??????thole of a province & they won't change. The signage since the GFA has begun to use Derry to appease the retards whenthey go all snowflake about anything 'Brit' especially in the border areas. Londonderry the only word I know in which the first six letters are silent.
Echo66 said:
My facts are right & i've been to the sthole enough times to know its history. Its called Londonderry, we changed it years ago, just like we changed the names of pretty much every other place we've taken possession of. Irrelevant.
Londonderry it became because of the Derry names' significance to the the republic crowd. It was part of wholesale snub, just like the BFO hillside taunt in Cyprus. Ppl can call it timbuktu if they want, it doest matter, but its official name in the UK is londonderry despite the whining of the sinn fein/IRA lot.
It was changed - and then it was changed back. thole enough times to know its history. Its called Londonderry, we changed it years ago, just like we changed the names of pretty much every other place we've taken possession of. Irrelevant.Londonderry it became because of the Derry names' significance to the the republic crowd. It was part of wholesale snub, just like the BFO hillside taunt in Cyprus. Ppl can call it timbuktu if they want, it doest matter, but its official name in the UK is londonderry despite the whining of the sinn fein/IRA lot.
"The district of Derry and Strabane was created in 2015, subsuming a district created in 1973 with the name "Londonderry", which changed to "Derry" in 1984."
As I said, I couldn't care less what it's called but the name is not cast in stone and BOTH names have equal validity as far as I'm concerned.
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