Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness likely to meet the Queen this summer

And you accuse me of digging holes!tut!tut!

Seano - you said the words were interchangeable, thus making your earlier point invalid...you're still wrong...but it's only a big issue with you...move on, you and your little shovel...stay out of the sun for a while...

Verbal diarrhea is a big issue!!!

seano - I don't really care if it is, or not...you made a big issue out of nothing...that's what you do...I don't know why...

I suppose you think cobber is a commonly used word in Australia. The last time I used a shovel was to clean-up your verbal diarrhea.

seano - stop digging, cobber....

Collins English dict. my dear boy. As why I questioned your use!! does simplify for simpletons ring a bell lynchy

Referenda and referendums are interchangeable? They're not, as it happens...but if they were, so what point were you trying to make by highlighting my use of any one of these 'interchangeable' words, then?

Referenda and referendums are interchangeable A modern phenomenon) to simplify the word for simpletons and those who do not comprehend a smattering of etymology. Maybe you should etymologize the word in question

Ciarad - some other possibilities...George 'n Groucho are man 'n wife...or brother and sister...I think I prefer the latter, there is less chance they would breed...what of a child carrying the genes of their huge egos...as well as their immense intellects...recalls GB Shaw's riposte to Isadora Duncan when she suggested they had a child together "With your brains and my body, what a wonder it would be" Shaw replied "Yes, but what if it had my body and your brains?"...now that's frightening...

citizen69, you yourself like to hide behind obvious impossibilities, so why accuse others of it so freely? ciaradexy, don't toot your horn before the chickens hatch. (I love mixed metaphors! did a triple once.) Sorry to disappoint you by pointing out one of your endless errors, but I'm merely an alpha FEmale. Such women are irrepressible angels, you know. Break one of our wings and we'll climb on our broomstick to find you. We're adaptable that way.

Whether people want to hear it or not, Dan is absolutely spot on as regards on the requirements for a poll on eventual Irish Unity; predicated on the Good Friday Agreement reached between the Governments of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland and witnessed by the Government of the United States of America. It is an agreement, binding on both parties, and a copy of the agreement is lodged with the United Nations in New York. The agreement was implemented only after the it was endorsed by a clear majority which voted in support of its implementation. Here again, facts which are independently verifiable from media resources available to all!!

Groucho - thanks for the 'drowning' information...as for your speculation...only vaguely heard of Karl Rove...as I make a point of not commenting on things I know little about, I won't comment further on him...I suggest you adopt the same strategy...but where would you post your tribal rubbish then, amigo?

I have just realised that Meanolgrouch IS George Dillon! He is now using Georgies ''style'' of posting! Brilliant!

@Meanolgrouch: Your answer regarding the native American question a rather lame one. 1). It's very easy to agree to something you know has a snowball's chance in hell of ever happening. The native American population has been decimated to the point of near extinction (95% population genocide) and will never have any kind of political clout and therefore a voice to ever challenge the colonial establishment. How do you plan to support the natives in this objective you agree with? Or are you passively going to wait for an order to pack your bags that you know will never come? Maybe there's a site called NativeAmericanCentral.com where you post about how the invading oppressors have denigrated and enslaved them and that they cannot be free until they send Uncle Sam packing back to mother Europe? 2). "return of as much of their sacred lands as possible". As much as possible? Not all? So is the plan to take six states in the north east, rename them 'Northern USA' and give the rest back? ;)