If Foot and Mouth breaks out in the Republic, it's not the fault of the British people. It's the fault of some greedy asshole of a livestock dealer who smuggled infected lambs over the border into the South.Christ! Don't blame the British for everything.I'm getting sick of this "seven hundred years of English domination" crap we hear from all sides. Some things happen through greed(as above) and some things are, believe it or not,are our own fault, nothing to do with the Brits. We don't need them to make a cock up of things for us, we're perfectly well able to do it ourselves. Mariner.