Alright Sort of the Year 2014

In anything. There are plenty of staunch unionists would cheer for the English soccer team. Would cheer for anyone bar Ireland.

He said he’s Irish - not Northern Irish.

Right so. He also said he is fighting for anyone cheering him on. Catholic or protestant. I haven’t paid it much attention to be honest. I was glad he won. My view is that if fighting for NI gives the communities any common goal, it can only be a good thing. Look , I would want, and vote for a united ireland. That seems unlikely to happen, so a perception of some sort of unity as a country up there would be the next best thing. If this helps that, then great. It surely can’t do any harm.

Why does it have to be one or the other?

Why is he taking part in a games that Irish people are excluded from then?

Incorrect. Paddy Barnes is Irish.

Which one of these nations is he from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations

But Ireland is not part of the Commonwealth?

If it’s not part of the commonwealth then why is it taking part in the Commonwealth Games?

You are hardly confusing Irish people with the Republic of Ireland are you?

Who knows?

I feel like there’s a bandwagon I missed. How many medals have we won so far

Please direct this question to Bomber, he’s surely up to speed on this. I think the archery and shooting events are next week - the Dail and Westminster are in recess, so they should have al squad to pick from.

No target practise though.

I presume Katie Taylor picked up a medal in the boxing.

John Joe will be disappointed he missed out on an opportunity to go one better than the Olympics due to his unfortunate injury.

The great thing about today was Barnes sticking it to that soup taking cunt Barry McGuigan.

[QUOTE=“Fran, post: 993626, member: 110”]I presume Katie Taylor picked up a medal in the boxing.

John Joe will be disappointed he missed out on an opportunity to go one better than the Olympics due to his unfortunate injury.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunate family tree

Bitterness is a killer man, you got to pick your battles.

Paddy Barnes is an exemplary Irishman for his efforts yesterday.

Barnes is representing Northern fucking Ireland at the Commonwealth fucking Games.
Does that not make him a soup taking cunt also?

Look, he’s a boxer, so it’s not like he is restricted to only representing the six county statelet like people in some other sports. As a boxer born on the island of Ireland he can represent Ireland (just plain old Ireland, no Northern variety) in Olympic, World, European and a plethora of other competitions.
If you choose to represent NORTHERN Ireland at the British Empire games, then you can hardly get a bug up your hole because they don’t play Amhrán na fucking bhFiann. He can count himself lucky he got Danny fucking Boy and not God Save Queen Liz.

So yer man is either mildly retarded or a partitionist fucking souper. Which is it?