The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84113 Message #1562235
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
12-Sep-05 - 07:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are we anti-Irish?
Subject: RE: BS: Are we anti-Irish?
Hello. I'm back again, from a local trip to Manchester this time. We got off the bus on Corporation Street, between Marks and Spencers and the Arndale. Where there is a pillar box next to where the last IRA bomb went off in Manchester. Devastated the area altogether but the pillar box survived in tact and now has a brass plaque detailing the event.
Bit like Anglo-Irish relations that there pillar box, realy. Try to blow it up and it survives everything you can throw at it. It was made by the British government but how many anti-government letters have passed that way? The Irish tried to blow it up but how many letters have been sent to the lads back home via it's slot? It's an anomoly. Bit like us I suppose.
What am I on about? Dunno I guess. But that silent pillar box makes a lot more sense than some of the hate on both sides of the fence in the this debate...
Cheers
DtG