Government to launch Irish ancestry certificates in January

How ironical!!

JACERS! QUICK!- ONE OF YOUR 'IGGERANTS' HAS ESCAPED!

Under the towntroll ethos, this "britain" thing should be broken up into hundreds of governable euro regions eventually superseded by a World government. This will end the phony british identity which has created so much misery for the world. Modern ethno supremacism began with the british terror state and could end there once this whitehall contrivance ceases.

I AM HEARTBROKEN: for you karenduffy. Your post is really honest and moving. I only wish you could save yourself all that heartache by just accepting that who or whatever you are that has developed into the nice person you seem to be. Jackersagain and I have been having a bit of fun with this subject as you may read below, but Ireland is an much invaded island with many different identities since the Ice Sheet rolled back and therefore its people must be as mongrel as it gets! It is interesting to realise the ice covered all of the island we now call Ireland but only two-thirds of the big island next door. It follows that they were probably the first to re-populate the little patch to the west. So your heritage will lead you back through many invading and occupying peoples such as the current occupants, Norsemen, Thuata de Dannan, Fir Bolg or Milesians, Celts, Romans, Scots, et.al. before finally reconnecting to ancient 'britain' and so on back through europe to our real roots in Africa! Karen, you are truly a sweet child of Nature and a good citizen of World. I hope one day that will be good enough for you and provide you with the validation you crave. This Certificate is an insult to you and a cynical political ploy by a disgraced ‘government’.

I AM HEARTBROKEN for you karenduffy. Your post is really honest and moving. I only wish you could save yourself all that heartache by just accepting that who or whatever you are that has developed into the nice person you seem to be. Jackersagain and I have been having a bit of fun with this subject as you may read below, but Ireland is an much invaded island with many different identities since the Ice Sheet rolled back and therefore its people must be as mongrel as it gets! It is interesting to realise the ice covered all of the island we now call Ireland but only two-thirds of the big island next door. It follows that they were probably the first to re-populate the little patch to the west. So your heritage will lead you back through many invading and occupying peoples such as the current occupants, Norsemen, Thuata de Dannan, Fir Bolg or Milesians, Celts, Romans, Scots, et.al. before finally reconnecting to ancient 'britain' and so on back through europe to our real roots in Africa! Karen, you are truly a sweet child of Nature and a good citizen of World. I hope one day that will be good enough for you and provide you with the validation you crave. This Certificate is an insult to you and a cynical political ploy by a disgraced ‘government’.

I an so delighted to see this after years of disappointment at seemingly a tenuous claim to Irish roots. There is uncertainty on both sides of my lineage as at grandparent level there is second generation Irish status but illegitimacy also, so I have no way of knowing who the nationality of my paternal grandfather nor maternal grandfather (whose mother was Irish but there is no record of his father). My own son counts as Third Generation through his father and will be ticking the Irish box in the forthcoming census. My own Father was raised by his Irish grandmother in Ireland before being adopted at 7 years old, when his grandmother died. I have been so close, yet it seems so far to my Irish heritage and now at 52 I am over the moon at the prospect of a certificate, together with my recently rightful birth name of Duffy. Grateful thanks. Karen Woods Duffy

Perhaps hateful and racist anglo-supremacism can be bred out of existence bringing an end to the global nation mugging projects.

Given our common descent, bring on more mass third world immigration and Sharia law to the british terror state!! After all, they mugged the nations supplying the cheap labor immigrants so they deserve them much more than Ireland!

I agree Townie... Cheers m'Bwana. *Drums a thumping* Let's get all those thousands and thousands of iggerants out of the swamp NOW and let's move on and on... (Psst Townie, I am their leader... which way did they go?)

Jakers.: Ah well, we have done our best to explain that a certificate of heritage - although a nice idea - to show a connection to Ireland for people who can't prove a connection to Ireland! - when those who can, get a Passport! - its all just plain daft!. .......... As for our African origins, you're right: Our Middle-eastern (pro anti) pals on here seem to think the M-East is in Africa! .........If any proof were needed to demonstrate that we first wriggled out of a mudswamp in east Africa as a single cell amoeba millions of years ago, we only have to read some of the attempts at 'Commentary' by certain contributers to this site who are still clearly struggling for breath on the lower edge of the swamp, when the rest of us moved on to sophisticated heights of advanced ironical humour! Cheers!

@Towngate... I tried despairingly to make contact using the drums. All I got back was echoes off the walls of Jerusalem... Or it cuda been the walls of Mecca. D’ya think the middle-eastern Jews and Muslims are in cahoots, interfering with my Catholic dispatches and desire to find my roots?

Since the most recent scientific data suggest original descent from the middle east, I think that the british terror state should follow the lead of many of its Muslim neighborhoods and obey Sharia law.

Towntroll, given your views on common descent/ethno-nationalism, I assume your support unrestrained third world immigration to your homeland britain? Perhaps britain should be more accomodating to the language, laws, and customs of its more recent immigrants?

ANYONE who wants to go back to Ireland now - needs to be Certified!

I wouldn't refuse if Aer Lingus and Bord Failte offered me a commission on encouraging folks to go to Ireland. People need to just go and stop all this nonsense about certiifcates and discounts.