Unbelievable scenes....

[Cian]

Anyone else here been to Northern Ireland? It's probably the most consistently friendly place I've ever visited, anywhere.

Quite frequently. Theres pockets of the most horrible, hate-filled people possible, and then some of the friendliest people around. Travelling on their decimated (by lack of investment/vandalism) rail network you get surprised at actually -helpful- rail staff, who appear to take their job seriously, etc.

 

[Buzzer]

Anyone else here been to Northern Ireland? It's probably the most consistently friendly place I've ever visited, anywhere.

Beautiful place. Forget all those memories of the 80s - Belfast is really on the up. The new Dublin, methinks. Giant's Causeway is unbelievable and right here in the British Isles too!

People are as friendly as they come but I've rarely met anything but friendliness in non-tourist Britain.

 

[Nibble]

My Mum is from Belfast and after living in England for some time moved back a few years ago (she has since moved back to England) and I visited very regularly. Can't say I am over enamoured with the place. Not especialy unfriendly but no differant to any other rundown british town. However the countryside outside of Belfast is magnificent.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Post 9/11, that whole Northern Ireland thing just looks like a schoolyard squabble. In the Wars League it's strictly Conference standard. The world's moved on and nobody cares very much about their in-bred feuding anymore. 1690, FTP and all the rest of it, what a load of old shit.

Still, as has been said up top, if seemingly unreconcilable enemies can form a government together, then it gives hope that other conflicts in the world can be similarly resolved, however unlkely it might seem at the moment.

 

[The Auditor]

Theres pockets of the most horrible, hate-filled people possible, and then some of the friendliest people around.

Thats how I remember it....english accent and a short hair cut made for a few problems in the early 1980s

 

[Cian]

Thats how I remember it....english accent and a short hair cut made for a few problems in the early 1980s

Irish accent also in parts. An ability to run, Very Very Fast can save a lot of situations.

 

[The Auditor]

An ability to run, Very Very Fast can save a lot of situations.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Thats how I remember it....english accent and a short hair cut made for a few problems in the early 1980s

Were you a 'telephone engineer'?

 

[rool]

How Paisley has the nerve to call himself a man of the cloth I will never know. While we shouldn't judge others, we can judge their words - and his have been vicious and bigotted.

I don't think being a man of the cloth makes anyone immune from being vicious and bigotted. There's a more powerful man than Paisley with very interesting views on gays and womens rights, not to mention contraception and past crimes that were swept under the carpet by moving the offenders somewhere else.