She's Irish. Do you mention that Dubliners are from the east when you congratulate them?
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@Treasa5555 some of us are Northern Irish, Irish, British all three or two or one, relax we're still great
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And some of us are just one identity. But you are right we are great. I just think our president shouldn't make us 'other'
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But some of us want to identify as Northern Irish and Irish, to a lesser extent British, but it's still who we are and the background our families hail from.
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You can identify however you want. But stop assuming a 'Northern Irish' identity can be ascribed to 'we'/others - it isn't mentioned in our GFA? Plus, if the President had checked, he'd have learned Anna Burns is an Irish Nationalist RC from Ardoyne and known to identify as such.
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She's Irish. When are you people going to realise that there are people in the North that consider themselves Irish, we don't recognise N Irish. You have no right to label us as Northern Irish. And as the President of Ireland it's insulting. We're Irish end of story.
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Just Irish.
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Looking forward to reading that biography on Pat Mustardpic.twitter.com/GGynTQ0THx
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And Sean Gallagher for the part he played in making this happen
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She’s from an Irish nationalist background, so I imagine she’d rather be called Irish than “Northern Irish”. Try acting like the President of (all of) Ireland.
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As an Eastern Irish Dubliner
May I say Comhghairdeas to our Irish Author
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Well said Micky D, can people just be happy for Anna and not have this constant bickering about our Island. It's actually embarrassing..
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No it's not embarrassing. You can't label people of an identity that they don't consider themselves to be - thats embarrassing.
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Maybe an Eastern Irish person will win it next year....
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