‘Welcome to Northern Ireland’ border signs ripped down in apparent protest

Fade away little man you admitted yourself that the council changed the name is that not Legal.You do like P1##ing against the wind.

Seano - you say elswhere that you're always putting me right...notice you haven't come back on your FACTUALLY INACCURATE post below (Aug 10, 2012, 06:39 PM EDT)??????

Hardly anything to get into a tizzy about. Martin Mc Guinness now acknowledges the border and actually endorses it by position. Now that long ago he would have wanted vols repremanded for not referring to it as the imagionary line. As for using cost as part of the complaint. how much have street signs in Irish cost all the tax payers of the North. I agree with them even though most people don`t know what they say only for the writing in english beside them. SF have many more pressing things to be getting on with. Just the stuff they have promised pre-election would be a good start.

We are not going anywhere allan07 end of discussion.

IrelandNorth is that you again talking pants. One day your half a Roman Catholic the next your half somethig else. One thing is for sure your always confused. Northern Ireland (I speak having being born here as generations of of family have on both sides mother and father)does want to become part of a failed state. The nationalist dont get it socialism doesnt work, all the parties in the free state have taken the country (Eire) to the edge of being bankrupt. Anyway to put the question to you having been born in the Dublin area what has Northern Ireland (My country) got to do with you? Nothing so keep your nose out of our affairs. Mind your own business. Buzz off. The ammendment to the constitution in Eire in 1998 removes all claims to Northern Ireland. Now or for ever more. Amen. Good Night. End off discussion.

Posters are advised to keep their statements in the first person singular. No one is qualified to use first person plural "us" without duly authenticated and verifiable electoral franchise. (NBBelfastBoy/BúchaillBéalFeíriste BB!) WP00! Peter Brook was the then British Secretary for NI who said that: "Great Britain has no selfish, strategic or economic interest in staying in Northern Ireland!" Signs are a manifestation of characteristic besiegement.

I'll try again. Seanmor!! Sinn Fein is correct in objecting,the signs are a belligerent attempt to get into the faces of nationalists.As far as I know the Irish government has not made any official comment one way or the other.

Belfast boy...oh my god... another one of these brit posters using an Irish pen name. Do you not understand DUDE that Ireland is Irish "historicly and geographically" and that your warped colonial mentality is long gone into the past.Did not one of your own, brit secretary Paddy Mahew some time ago state that the failed colonial empire had no more selfish interest in stealing from their Irish neighbours.Run along back to your own warped colonial secterian site where ever it may be DUDE.

Second biggest Belfast Boy. You seem to have convenient memory lapses.

I popped into here out of curiosity and my suspicions were well founded. Unlike other American ethnic groups that are constantly replenished with new stock and contact with their homelands regular, Irish Americans are far removed from their ancestral home by several generations. Whats left is a nostalgic and warped view of contemporary Ireland. You`re idea of Ireland is cabbage and corned beef, Guiness and 19th century style Nationalism. You`re simply a source of amusement to us here in Ireland (north and south) as we watch you trudging through the streets on vacation with your fanny bags, trying to cling to an identity thats long gone. SF cynically, or intelligently depending on how you look at it, drip feed you a daily dose of tripe about "occupation" and "6 counties" with the single aim of taking your money. You oblige with glee, safe in the knowledge you are holding onto some kind of identity. Sorry guys but you are not. Northern Ireland has moved on into an increasingly multi cultured, mature place. You`re nostalgic, sectarian views belong back with your ancestors. So please keep your nose out of our affairs and focus on your own countries terminal decline, the USA, the biggest proponent of colonialism the world has ever seen.

To my knowledge Sinn Féin is the only party in the Dáil that has any objections to these offensive road signs. The other parties in the Southern parliament regard the North as rightfully and permanently British territory. On the other hand, all Christian denominations, including the Church of Ireland, consider Ireland as one national entity.

Nine roadsigns? One for every county in the province! Albeit three too many for Norn Iron. Seems the hounds of Ulster are back to peeing on lamposts again. Or the Rt Hon Daniel Kennedy/Ó Cinnéide is getting his Ulster-Scottie spóran in a twist. Lift the siege, Danny Boy. It's 2012. Not 1690. Will this mean that the 26 county administration will have to erect "Fáilte gó dtí AN ÚLADH/Welcome to ULSTER" roadsigns on Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan county boundaries for geographically-challenged Ulsterians. Apropos Derry/Londonderry. Surely Lundyderry an amicable (if historically problematical?) nominal compromise. And if ROI be X and NI be Y to EU, might GB be the Z in the federalist equation? Ask Angela and Francois.

Eire is merely area X to EU and NI is area Y.

Perhaps the sign should read "Welcome to the occupied statelet."

Wrong again Seano - the council is called Derry Council BUT the legal name of the CITY is still LONDONDERRY...the SF motion to change the name was rejected by other councillors...