Sunday Independent Poll

SINDO........gets closer to Tabloid trash(ie daily indo) every week.Sunday Times is a league in its own(followed by the Sunday Business Post).

As for the Poll,let's hope we have a new party by the time of the next general election.

I can never vote for FF again, just out of principal i'll never do it. Sums up the country if these polls are accurate, we're a bit of a joke and so are our leaders and the political class.

fianna fail will go courting sinn fein now.....yip....it is trendy to be a republican nowadays.......

I hate to be the beare of bad tidings, richeters, however.....drom todays Sindo....

Even the most trenchant critic of Irish nationalism would have to admit it's a little incongruous that the entire fate of the country should rest in the hands of a woman who is directly descended from a family whose number included the lord lieutenant of Ireland during the Great Famine; but that's the way it is. What's more, we all voted for it as part of the Good Friday Agreement, which gave the British secretary of state for Northern Ireland – aka The Right Honourable Theresa Villiers, great-great-etc grandsomething of our one-time Famine overlord – the final say as to when a border poll can be called.

That doesn't stop the rest of us having an opinion on the matter, of course, though on the evidence of the latest Sunday Independent/Millward Brown poll, it's not something that exactly keeps us up at night with worry. Forty per cent are in favour of Northern Ireland having a border poll; 36 per cent are against. Let's call it a score draw.

Even supporters of Sinn Fein, which has made the call for a border poll a cornerstone of its preparations coming up to the centenary of the Easter Rising, don't seem overly enthusiastic. At 49 per cent, Shinner support for a border poll isn't even breaking through that psychologically crucial one-in-two barrier.

Those polled were asked a very simple and direct question: Would you be willing to pay higher taxes in return for a united Ireland? When sentiment clashes with pocket, the results are bound to disappoint idealists. A measly 11 per cent of us are willing to pay higher taxes for unity, with 67 per cent saying no and a further 14 per cent who weren't ruling it out entirely but presumably wanted to see the nitty gritty.

well oz a man of your wealth money is obviously not an issue...what is own your personal opinion?YEA or NAE.......

We gave away our sovereignty when we were bullied into voting yes to the Lisbon Treaty in the replay,the fact that we won the first game was deemed irrelevant,they certainly don't believe in the best of three.

That crazy deed meant we were duped into the Euro with low interest rates imposed on us by the Germans and the ECB and now we haven't a party that advocates us getting out of this straitjacket.

The bulk of us have no party to vote for.

No for me, i pay enough taxes, every time you have a coffee you pay taxes, no thanks i pay enough.

The last thing I would want is to make a decision on your behalf, richters.  Frankly it is none of my business, its only the people living up there who should have the right to decide. 

I would imagine that no sane people would want to join a failed state such as ours anyway, unless of course they are blinded by bias and biterness.  If I were you I would be thanking the Lord for Lizzie Windsor and the mighty way she is looking after you all up there.

i would say it will come to down to money in the day oz....because the disability payments and dole payments and carers allowances will probably all be reduced...this will have devastating consequences for a certain forumite who doesnt work and has no intention of ever going to work......that is the underlying reason of his hatred to irish republicanism........

It doesn't really matter as Britain too has handed over sovereignty to Europe,they just had the wit not to join the Eurp.

Europe has been good for big famrers like you Wildman, i remember you saying that you bailed your neighbour's field, so you must be very wealthy as not every farmer could afford that equipment. CAP would sound like it's been good to you my friend.

Can you get anything right,I hardly qualify as a farmer at all as my holding is too small,I did bale ( not bail ) straw for a neighbour but that doesn't mean I owned the baler.

In some parts of the country neighbours still help each other.

In the west coast of Ireland i still go out and help my neighbours bale on their baling days, no worries we have a few smabo, taytos, club orange or cidona and then gather up the bales, get them into the shed and shower and off for drinks for the night. I'm guessing you just do round bales, they seem to be all the rage for the rich farmers like you guys down there in the south and the east.

classic wmfb.....

check out my spot the difference thread, jesus and I don't even believe in god will this country get its head out of its hole and give us a new political party, or maybe guys the intellectuals of this country are still tied to their mothers apron, either which way guys we're ****!!

Will useless priicks like rocketfingers still get the dole going forward....the  country is fccuked....

You've never played football or any type of sport Wildman or if you did why did you not take a shower? Nothing wrong showering after a gym session even if there are other males there. I'm comfortable in sexualty to shower in front of team mates etc.

Rocketfingers..The Ultimate PPrick!!..with a capital P!!

There is a hell of a difference between a gym and a barley field with a shed in it especially after a feed of Tayto and Cidona.

There were no showers in my day probably another strand to compensation claims from people of my vintage.

oh to be powerless to make a difference???

where are you people, this country is ripe for a revolution?

All we'd want is one of these protests to kick off then we'd all be going out for them having a few beers then marching and rioting. Let's face it would be the only activity in most towns these days. But we need a new political party.

understatement rocket, but our intellectuals are all sons and daughters of a political poison!, hence why we're ****