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She thought the EU was just unnecessary bureaucracy

Northern Ireland is still in the customs union, just with zero democratic representation and annoying customs forms when trying to trade with the mainland.

Granted, I like it because it means we are strategically important. A business here can do business with both the UK and the EU. We also had the UK's discounted tariffs for the USA. We're kind of a funny special economic zone.

My mum voted brexit and she regrets it. She says such an issue shouldn't have been put to a refurrendum as the average person didn't know what the EU was, so they just had to be lied to for a few months.

Possibly. Common travel area and all that. Although I have gone through an irish-european border checkpoint before, same as in the UK when it was in the EU, it's basically an unstaffed cubicle which scans your passport, face and just lets you through.

I think ireland also opted out of the whole "let's get rid of daylight savings time" thing because the UK wasn't doing it.

I think Ireland adopting the Euro (it used to use Irish pounds, was pegged to GBP) was a bad move though. It's a hassle if you use cash and cross the border with the UK, although easier now due to contactless payments. Also changing their speed limits without the UK doing so.

Ireland has had a weird back-and-forth with aligning with the UK and aligning with the EU. Sometimes they like to be different from the UK, sometimes they like to be united.

They have even had strange signs on the border with the UK instructing drivers to "drive on the left". But now the border is typically just "welcome to county xyz" instead of even acknowledging the change of country. And sometimes it just depends where you are on the border.

Also, Irish road signs are diabolical. They align with no-one. It's a weird mix of USA style signs and european ones. The UK roadsigns are basically consistent with the rest of Europe using the Vienna Convention.

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Christian philanthropy accounted for 70% of all American philanthropy in 2022 at $300 billion total. Christians also out-gave the US Government in addressing global poverty.

Ah yes, your average Evangelical Christian is a billionaire

Schengen won't work well unless the Republic of Ireland also joins

What toxicity? You could try standing up to them potentially

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It was really bad with the new train/bus station being worked on

Just a reminder that this forum is non-political, this question might be better suited to !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk if you're looking to get political.

You can talk about Northern Ireland itself, just not go deep into the politics of it. It really is a lovely place generally with nice people. Although it's been raining non-stop for the past month 😭

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