It is not my puprose to prove you wrong...or right, Dave. But I thought it odd in the extreme that the first (sorry, 3rd), thing that you could say about the starting of this thread was to 'dredge up' and 'renew' the 'Irish hatred of the British'.

NEVER in my time here at the Mudcat have I experienced 'Irish hatred of the British' Certain Irish people may not get on well with certain English people, this is true.

But 'hatred'. Sorry Dave, you're chasing dragons with swords made of wood.

I have seen pro-Unionist hatred of the Nationalists on this forum, and scarcasm directed at everything from our music to our hunger strikers.

As one who grew up, and suffered at the hands of the forces of occupation, I may be more entitled to have hatreds and predjudices against the 'British'.

I don't.

Well, not because they are 'British', anyway.

What you did, on the other hand, was to raise an, heretofore, irrelevant point. And you did so like a true Brit.

B.