2 British girls arrested for drug smuggling in Peru

~~Cuthbert~~ · 08-15-2013, 02:11 PM

She's got an Irish passport.

Trollheart · 08-15-2013, 02:43 PM

I don't know the politics of it actually but I know the Irish ex-ambassador or something in Peru was helping out. Generally, when someone from Northern Ireland is involved in the news it's a field day for media: they can be Irish or British, so both the Irish news and the UK news are claiming her to be of their nationality.

But as far as we're concerned, anyone from our island is considered Irish. Why do they call themselves Northern Irish and not Slightly-West-of-British?

It's like the old joke isn't it? When the Northern Irish boxer was punching hell out of his opponent the commentator roared in approval "Oh the British lad is doing well here!" But when he began to take punches and lose ground it was "Oh now the Irish lad is in trouble!"

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	I don't know the politics of it actually but I know the Irish ex-ambassador or something in Peru was helping out. Generally, when someone from Northern Ireland is involved in the news it's a field day for media: they can be Irish or British, so both the Irish news and the UK news are claiming her to be of their nationality. But as far as we're concerned, anyone from our island is considered Irish. Why do they call themselves Northern Irish and not Slightly-West-of-British? It's like the old joke isn't it? When the Northern Irish boxer was punching hell out of his opponent the commentator roared in approval "Oh the British lad is doing well here!" But when he began to take punches and lose ground it was "Oh now the Irish lad is in trouble!" __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	She's got an Irish passport.