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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ I like to think that some of these traditional rivalries are exaggerated. When I was at primary school about a quarter of the class were Irish, with names that even schoolchildren could identify (O'Shea, O'Dee, Murphy, O'Malley etc) but as young children will in the right circumstances, we all got on just fine. There was no kind of factional divide at all.
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Same mate not too different here, two or three of the areas next to mine are Irish hotspots, most families were born here but of Irish descent. It doesn't seem like a foreign country when you've grown up around it if that makes sense. Cos pretty much everyone will have a parent or grandparent who is Irish and moved here to work.