Irish joining British Army in large numbers

And why not there our neighbors ! all the comment below from Americans are pretty sad.. you should keep out of Irish affrairs its the year 2012 we've moved on and the old bitter comments are not relevant anymore..

Well, historically, it seems "oxymoronish", but a livelihood is a livelihood. It is 2011, afterall

Irish soldiers serving in the British army should remember that " THE ENEMY OF YOUR ENEMY IS YOUR FRIEND ".

Snakes. The Metaphorical Snakes of Saint Patrick is what those rats are. Blaming the economic downturn is a load of Bollicks. I came to France in 2000, not a word of French, lived on the streets, busked and now own 3 houses here.No excuse lads, I am sorry.

Gerry Adams Peace Dividend bearing fruit. Discard the tricolor use Awhrann na Sassanach with an upside Harp. Fighting irish bleeding for the crown who wudda thunk it would become a practice.

It's a long way to Tipperary

Monkeyapplenerd – Irishmen from Nth and Sth join the American Armed Forces. Does that make them that make them betrayers too? My Irish-Canadian cousin saw four of his unit killed in action in Afghan killing fields. People need to recognise that it is not only members of American and British armed forces that are fighting the evil of the Taliban and Al Qaeda there on behalf of peace for us. Irishmen doing so as members of another country's army are no different and should be respected and thanked by us for their courage.

Mr. Cooper plagiarised this story from the Irish Times’ (IT) printed version. What he doesn’t tell above is that the number of men from the Irish Republic who have joined the British Army for Afghanistan is just 80 (eighty), as the Irish Times prints, which also stated that a few hundred from the Nth of Ireland have joined. Out of all Ireland, I don’t think that amounts to “large numbers”, Mr. Cooper. Three letters to the IT’s editor today btw: two writing like the posters below, one writing as a pacifist. There will be more in the coming days. I’ll watch with interest.

This explains more than anything why the Irish will be forever slave of the Sassanach. Their Queen will be home to visit their counties in 2011. Can a body imagine a chosen brethern doing something like this. They'd come together to pool their energies and forge a nation as they bloody well have. In every land bent on success with eyes ever on a homeland.

I don't care how bad economic conditions are an Irish person joining the British army, that is a betrayal to their race, country, and their fellow Irish people.

Royal Irish Regimental Sgt Maj, Dubliner Frankie O’Connor says: “As soon as the lads are taken from the enclave, wherever that might be. Sorry but this make me sick