“Sadly when one reads the sort of ludicrous, uneducated and bigoted comments made by "Irishman" one realises why that poor Ireland has seen so many years of bloodshed hardship and hatred.

Northern Ireland like Scotland and Wales is part of the United Kingdom and the MAJORITY of the people there want that (despite attempts by a small minority to bomb and murder to achieve a different outcome). After independence from the rest of the UK the Irish Republic entered a dark time of great economic hardship and self imposed cultural isolation which would certainly not have been so severe had it remained part of the UK, indeed Ireland would probably by now have been far more comfortable with it's Irish Identity and less polarised. It would also probably be far more multi cultural, and I suspect that were Armagh not one of the most mono cultural places in Western Europe and instead populated by large numbers of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs then different denominations of the Christian religion would forget their differences and get on!

I am Welsh, speak Welsh as my first language and rarely visit England but I do not consider my country to be 'occupied' by a ¿Colonial¿ British power as we are part of the UK and benefit enormously from this. This does not make me any the less Welsh, indeed were it not for UK funding we would not have had Welsh Radio and TV many, many years before the Irish had their own language stations. The great thing about the UK is it¿s diversity, you can be who you like, it is without doubt one of the most tolerant and free places in the world and so it makes me so sad to read the sort of utter rubbish spouted by the aforementioned poster and their ilk. These are the sort of people who were they English would join the BNP!

If Scotland does one day elect to ¿go it alone¿ in the future good luck to them, and what a wonderful testament to democracy it would be that they would achieve this without needlessly killing thousands in the process!”

“Sadly when one reads the sort of ludicrous, uneducated and bigoted comments made by "Irishman" one realises why that poor Ireland has seen so many years of bloodshed hardship and hatred.

Northern Ireland like Scotland and Wales is part of the United Kingdom and the MAJORITY of the people there want that. After independence from the rest of the UK the Irish Republic entered a dark time of great economic hardship and self imposed cultural isolation which would certainly not have been so severe had it remained part of the UK, indeed Ireland would probably now have been far more comfortable with it's Irish identity and less polarised now. It would also probably be far more multi cultural, and I suspect that were Armagh not one of the most mono cultural places in Western Europe and instead populated by large numbers of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs then different denominations of the Christian religion would forget their differences and get on!

I am Welsh, speak Welsh as my first language and now rarely visit England but I do not consider my country to be 'occupied' by a ¿Colonial¿ British power as we are part of the UK and benefit enormously from this. This does not make me any the less Welsh, indeed were it not for UK funding we would not have had Welsh Radio and TV many, many years before the Irish had their own language stations and Welsh be very much more widly spoken than Irish. The great thing about the UK is it¿s diversity, you can be who you like, it is without doubt one of the most tolerant and free places in the world and so it makes me so sad to read the sort of utter rubbish spouted by the aforementioned poster and their ilk. These are the sort of people who were they English would be members of he BNP.

If Scotland does one day elect to ¿go it alone¿ in the future good luck to them, and what a wonderful testament to democracy it would be that they would achieve this without killing thousands in the process!!”

“ireland has lived as a divided state to long,british rule is what caused all bloodshed on this island,reunification is the only way that total peace can develop.History tells us that any nation that the british have colonised for there own good and stripped it of there natural resources all have problems to this day,ireland,scotland,wales,iraq,africa,hong kong,but to name a few,it was once said that the sun would not set on the british empire,well the sun is setting fast and ireland very soon will have no english rays shining on them,but i can see an irish sun rising with no opressive rays,every national constitution have held their right to their indepdence,but by denying this means england is no democracy but a dictator nation that is slowly but surley losing ARMAGH ABU”

“If Protestants and Catholics in the Republic of Ireland can live together why can't the Protestants and unionists live in a united Ireland? I pray for the day that Ireland is one again and I know it will happen. I also can not wait for Scotland to vote for independence and for the Welsh to realise that we should also go the way of our Celtic brothers and sisters.”

“Mr Adams, your terrorist campaign did not achieve your aims and the constitutional position of Northern Ireland is for the people of NI to decide democratically. It was Sinn Fein who refused David Trimble`s (leader of the Ulster Unionists, now a Tory peer) offer of a border poll, precisiely because SF knew they would lose it! The way forward is an expansion of BIPA and the `Council of the Isles`, in a very loose federal arrangement involving the various administrations throughout these Isles.”

“John Neath-castell Nedd: "History will look back upon Mr Adams and see what a great man he is."

Mr Adams has been part of a violent terrorist organisation that took 35 years to realise that murdering people was not the way forward. Murdering innocent Protestants and Roman Catholics, blowing up people at a Poppy Day service, murdering children in the Warrington bombings - to name but a few. Mr Adams has all along used sweet words while his hench men have been butchering people across these islands. A great man? Only if you believe in murder, torture and terrorism.”

“"New Language act," the minority forcing their wishes on the uninterested, if people wanted to speak Welsh, they would, of their own accord forcing it on people only breeds resentment and will achieve nothing, the only people who seem to go into politics are those who want to fulfill their own agenda.”

“There are plenty of Islands in the world which comprise two or more nations (in the far east and carribean) - it is not unnatural at all to have a people with a totally separate culture in Northern Ireland separate from those in the south; the differences are not so big now, but when Ireland was essentially a totalitarian catholic state, backwards in all ways and poor, then the differences were huge. EU freebies have made the Irish richer - partly British handout money of course, that.

Spain shares a peninsula with Portugal, for example - and it's ironic that as many places like Spain are giving more autonomy to regions, former terrorists like the marxist Adams want to make everything centralised.

The troubles ended because people are richer not because they are more tolerant; they still hate each other, but now do so in comfort...

Leave things as they are. No need for a unified Ireland at all.

And no need for an independent Wales either, nor Scotland - though I am sure the English would like to get their cash back from the Scots (they just saved their skin after all by saving Bank of Scotland).

There should be at least 80% support for independence too before it goes ahead anywhere anyway. Petty little nationalists really are irrational and clueless and do not seem to realise that massive numbers of people are not so obsessively nationalistic and racist and are happy to be part of the UK.”

“Well i for one as well as many of 1000s of peolple DO NOT WANT a independent Wales, God help us if it ever Happened. and ireland will take many Years to sort out there Troubles. its still on Going,”

“Great words from a man with a vision. It is well past the time for re-unification in that disturbed country. It is time for ALL Irish men and women to forgive and forget and look to a bright and culturally rich future.
The Time Is Now!”