25 Comments

• seamus60 | Oct 20, 2012, 01:23 PM EDT

  Aloismartin. They`ll never get Adams to live on it with those bishops. No trees to hug.

• pilib04 | Oct 18, 2012, 01:20 PM EDT

  The Wolfe Tones may want to re-release Brian Warfield's "Rock on, Rockall."

• jacersagain | Oct 16, 2012, 04:52 PM EDT

  Good one cas...! *chuckling*

• casualMBA | Oct 15, 2012, 11:10 PM EDT

  Would this be the "North-Northwest Celtic Sea" then, since the British cartographers have designated the oil-gas rich southern waters off Ireland the "North Celtic Sea" field???

• seanomelb | Oct 15, 2012, 06:39 PM EDT

  Roes tinted glasses ToryTory!! You should try to see the world with a clear mind. What UK!! watch this space in 2014 and weep.

• jacersagain | Oct 15, 2012, 04:06 PM EDT

  I would have thought that Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) would have sorted out the question of Rockall's proximity to whatever claiming country by now. Why waste Irish taxpayers’ money sending an Irish Navy ship all the way out there if GPS can pin-point Rockall’s closest neighbour?

• curtisjohnson | Oct 15, 2012, 04:00 PM EDT

  The only thing that has materially set it back is the economic downturn. The phony british identity is still unwinding, however.

• ToryTory | Oct 15, 2012, 07:24 AM EDT

  Breakup of the UK & Irish unification? You're living in cuckoo land.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 15, 2012, 07:20 AM EDT

  A interesting documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 1 on The Story of the British Race, recognise the Welsh as the original Bretons/Britons/British, and how there was no love lost between them and the invading medieval Angles/English from the low countries - Netherlands and Belgium. But when it comes to nationality v[ersu]s socioeconomic class, the latter trumps the former every time. Hence why an indigenous Irish petit bourgeoisie relate more readily to their Euopean counterparts and their multicultural/cheap labour agenda than to their own great unwashed sweaty lumpenproletariat. There's a far greater gulf between Dublin's 04 and 24 than there is between the Hibernia and old Anglo-Saxonia. As for Rockall, time to settle some Anchorite monks there and claim it for Constantinople.

• ForTheRepublic! | Oct 15, 2012, 06:20 AM EDT

  Kinda sad how Brits feel the need to come here and have their say! Unionists are so arrogant they believe the English and their illegitimate German monarchy have a God given right to rule. Yes it is possible the majority of people living in Scotland won't vote for independence in 2014 but nationalism is growing stronger and I think it is only a matter of time before we see the breakup of the UK and the re unification of Ireland. The English need to get over their imperialism and realise they cannot rule the world by spilling blood in this day and age!

• ToryTory | Oct 15, 2012, 05:34 AM EDT

  Good one Sean, when all the evidence suggests the Scots will reject separation emphatically, what are the polls saying now? 28% in favour of separation? 52% in favour of union? The rest undecided? Anyway, this rock is insignificant barring any resources that may be located on the rock bed. The Irish claim is weak; the British claim is the strongest, if anyone is going to get rights to it, it'll be the UK.

• Seanmor | Oct 14, 2012, 10:58 PM EDT

  There one great irony here. Several times in recent years the government of the Irish state have used taxpayer's money to encourage it's electorate to surrender more and more of its sovereignty to the E.U. in referenda. If the Dáil crowd should legitimize their claim to Rockall, will they then turn it over to Brussels.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 14, 2012, 08:40 PM EDT

  Thankfully, a growing body of Scottish, Welsh and even English (and Cornish) no longer adhere to the phony and contrived "british" identity.

• seanomelb | Oct 14, 2012, 07:51 PM EDT

  Spoken like a true Brit I never said the Scots were not Brits! I stated come 2014........etc! BTW They are paying for it now and BOS became part of the HBOS group and now part of Lloyds a private bank and no longer a Scottish problem.

• DanOLoingsigh | Oct 14, 2012, 07:10 PM EDT

  Seano - The 'Brits' are the Scots, English and Welsh...Oil and Gas is found in most of the North Sea...if Scotland opts for independence they will need to take on the debts generated by the failures of Bank of Scotland and RBS...so their nascent economy will be constrained - How it will turn out is far from settled!!

• seanomelb | Oct 14, 2012, 06:34 PM EDT

  The Brits trying to steal(again) what may be Scottish oil/gas as they did in the north sea. Come 2014 when Scotland releases the shackles they will negotiate with Ireland and the Brits can F### off back to their little country.

• aloistmartin | Oct 14, 2012, 06:05 PM EDT

  Perhaps someone should have the Island Blessed ? Just in case Edna Kenny manages to exchange The Thing, for a couple of Old Left Winger`s, and Bishop or Two ;{

• aloistmartin | Oct 14, 2012, 06:02 PM EDT

  Rockall ? Ireland can`t even keep the English Weasel`s out of Grandmomma`s Chicken Coop :)

• brendan gillen | Oct 14, 2012, 05:44 PM EDT

  Lets take Rockall back. We'll give the Brits the Isle of Man. That'll keep them happy. Read, High Noon in Stewart.

• Murph46 | Oct 14, 2012, 04:14 PM EDT

  Rock on Rockall!

• cillowen | Oct 14, 2012, 03:40 PM EDT

  Gerry Adams should prod the southies into building a platform on Rockall with adjustable steps - such a project to excite young uns creativity and chutzpah. Stop the muthers who glomb onto every sq inch - as they choose. Such a bold undertaking with hopes of jobs jobs jobs to prevent Erin's bleeding of her well educated talent.

• WoundedKnee | Oct 14, 2012, 03:01 PM EDT

  Makes no sense. They make a big to-do of claiming a rock in the middle of nowhere, yet they daily give away Ireland to foreign migrants.

• slainte9 | Oct 14, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT

  Much about nothing: The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea states, “Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.” The convention was ratified by all four states in dispute over the Rockall Plateau – Iceland on 26 January 1985, Ireland on 21 January 1996, the United Kingdom on 25 July 1997 and Denmark on 16 November 2004. In 1997, the UK Government declared that "The United Kingdom's fishery limits will need to be redefined based on St Kilda, since Rockall is not a valid base point for such limits under Article 121(3) of the Convention". This is the only example to date of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock" and thus reducing the area of its claimed maritime zones.[

• Sarge524 | Oct 14, 2012, 11:28 AM EDT

  Maybe Moochelle will vacation there.

• ForTheRepublic! | Oct 14, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT

  The Brits and their illegitimate German monarchy feel the need to claim every bit of land they can find and look at the damage they have caused the world over their land grabs! In their Island of Rockall Act 1972 they claimed it as part of Inverness-shire in North Britain even though it is much closer to Ireland and nowhere near North Britain!