I thought this was those Drumcree campsite boyos and girlos back again. I'd say they're at Spike Milligan's wake, though, Brian rest his soul. 'Ulster Scots' as a term has caused a bit of incredulity recently. I believe that, through DUP pressure, a post was created at the Stormont Assembly for an 'Ulster Scots' interpreter - to a bit of derision in some quarters I also know a bloke from the Ardoyne who, in pre-Troubles days, said he had a workmate from the country near Ballymena who was virtually incomprehensible to poor Belfast folk - due to the same lingo. Obviously there's a musical style to go along with it - unless it was one o' them Orange marching bands - though I think they'd rather play a gig in hell itself than get anywhere near auld Papish Rome
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