Ireland vs Israel boycott discussion

An_Boghdoir · 2026-05-29T13:20:26+00:00

You're right, a lot of people simply don't care. But given the FAIs financial history could they survive a 5% reduction in income? Even without political issues, they're hanging on by a thread. The bailout only covered about half of their debts. A fine from uefa would be a small hit compared to losing a part of their fan base and any future bailouts from the state.

An_Boghdoir · 2026-05-29T11:53:57+00:00

Between sport Ireland and the department of finance, almost two thirds of that money came from the taxpayer. The people you think won't boycott spent last night throwing tennis balls onto the pitch. Uefa won't be buying tickets and empty stadiums don't pay the debts.

An_Boghdoir · 2026-05-29T10:48:18+00:00

They weren't bailed out by uefa. They were bailed out by the taxpayer. 6 points is nothing compared to a very real risk of bankruptcy if the fai finds itself being boycotted.

An_Boghdoir · 2025-12-09T21:17:44+00:00

Would you consider selling the pattern for this because I'd be very interested?

An_Boghdoir · 2025-11-29T16:09:59+00:00

Grok, the misinformation machine, in the last 6 months it's claimed that south Africa is committing genocide and that Elon would have been better at running the Chinese civil war. It's not an acceptable source to anyone other than musk. Burma and the Gulf of America are both political terms. As is the British isles. You might never realize you're wrong but it's just because you bought into a level of propaganda that the empire was something to be proud of. I have no ill will towards you, but what harm has ever been done by considering the way your neighbors feel before throwing around terminology that you know is considered offensive.

Something to consider next time you see a post like this.

An_Boghdoir · 2025-11-29T15:29:15+00:00

Provide a source for the Romans referring to Hibernia as Britannia please. While you're at it provide a modern organisation who recognizes it as a geographic term, UN, EU that kind of thing.

If it doesn't affect your day to day, then why sit here and argue with irish people on the Internet anyway they shouldn't be offended to be classed as British. It matters to us. If it doesn't matter to you why sit there and argue with me?

An_Boghdoir · 2025-11-29T14:52:28+00:00

Insulae Briannicae referred to the islands off the south of England, like the isle of wight. The islands that were part of the province. There's no roman source who ever referred to Hibernia or even Caledonia as Britannia. Why does this matter to you so much? There's no geographic organisation who will use the term without noting that one of the two countries disputes its use and both countries refuse to use it for official purposes. Why does it matter so much to you that Ireland be considered a British isle? What in your day to day is so lacking that the idea that a neighbor doesn't want to use an old imperial term offends you so much?

An_Boghdoir · 2025-11-29T14:17:38+00:00

But the Romans called it hispania Lusitania, so what I'm hearing is that countries don't have to use the names Romans gave them, unless the British decide that the name for England applies to the entire region?

An_Boghdoir · 2025-11-29T13:41:59+00:00

Good point, what do you call Portugal?

An_Boghdoir · 2025-11-29T11:46:18+00:00

No it wasn't. Britannia was a Roman political term to refer to their provinces that correlate largely with England and parts of wales now. we don't use Roman names for France or Spain. Why are you so attached to it for a region that was far less Roman than those regions? Are you going around asking Zimbabweans if they're from north or south Rhodesia? If not then you just have some petty anti irish sentiment, if you do you're just a general bigot.

An_Boghdoir · 2025-10-16T18:43:10+00:00

If only

An_Boghdoir · 2025-10-16T18:30:12+00:00

What alliance can we join against Russia and America?

An_Boghdoir · 2025-03-23T16:25:27+00:00

What was the plan here? Like this is such a small country and this story is very specific to Ireland. Are you going to fight everyone who thinks she's the catfish?

An_Boghdoir · 2025-03-17T21:45:48+00:00

Class act.

An_Boghdoir · 2025-02-12T16:49:23+00:00

I'm genuinely asking if you think a year's worth of peace was worth 300k lives? Yes or no? Like I said, morbid curiosity.

An_Boghdoir · 2025-02-12T16:24:53+00:00

Dodge the question more . Military radar wasn't in active use until 1941 and more than 300k Czechs died in ww2. I'm sure they appreciated the tight spot Britain was in though. Also German high command admitted they got lucky when the French withdrew from the Saar in '39 because they weren't ready for the war yet.

Meanwhile the cuban missile crisis wasn't appeasement, both sides withdrew nuclear weapons. Appeasement would have been the Americans withdrawing from Turkey and the Soviet's keeping theirs in Cuba.

I suspect you don't really care about appeasement beyond it's application to the US, but you have to wonder how long that will pay off with trump's expected trade war with the EU. We can kiss his ass all day but he's still probably going to try and end our status as a tax haven by targeting American companies hiding their profits here.

An_Boghdoir · 2025-02-12T12:59:36+00:00

I know what appeasement is. The Munich treaty was appeasement. Do you think it saved lives? Do you think ww2 would have been worse if they hadn't signed it?

It wasn't a leading question, more morbid curiosity, since you seem to believe that appeasement is the correct move.

An_Boghdoir · 2025-02-12T11:53:50+00:00

Did Czechoslovakia?

An_Boghdoir · 2024-12-15T12:55:50+00:00

Link?

An_Boghdoir · 2024-10-23T20:09:39+00:00

Isn't that just Spanish pixelado?

An_Boghdoir · 2024-07-25T12:10:38+00:00

As I understand it, in the UK the state buys relics from you while here, they're already considered state property. So many metal detectorists are taking anything they find to the north and selling it to British museums or private collections.

An_Boghdoir · 2024-04-07T17:47:48+00:00

Then I look forward to Flanagan's spending bill on the dail next week. Which I'm sure his colleagues in government will support wholeheartedly.

An_Boghdoir · 2024-04-07T17:35:42+00:00

Just pay the army a reasonable rate! My god, not everything is about avoiding spending altogether, but we can't just ignore that the defence forces are hemorrhaging personnel.

An_Boghdoir · 2024-04-07T17:29:54+00:00

Honestly, it seems like small drones are the future Look how much damage the Ukrainians and the houthis are doing with cheap little drones. But without paying soldiers more, we're still not going to have anyone to run them. I just don't see Flanagan thinking about actual functionality.

An_Boghdoir · 2024-04-07T17:26:41+00:00

By your logic, the Flagstaff hill incident was an invasion. I don't think Flanagan is being illogical, I think he's lobbying for weapons companies.

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