[shillelagh]

I was just about to tell you that unionists are protestant - want to keep it to the 6 counties and loyal to the queen. Sinn Finn - are catholic and want a united ireland. Thanks yerself for that.

How we knew the pub was catholic - it was full of tricolours and celtic and there was a couple of ira posters up.
Why the barman said that to me was because of the english accent. I could have been an english catholic and they wouldnt know. I went in a protestant pub - they had a picture of the queen up and rangers stuff and it was totally different. People once they heard the english accent came up to me and said it was nice to hear an english accent in here and i was very welcome and i didnt buy a drink after id bought the 1st one! Why? Because they said because of the troubles people didnt like coming over there because they thought it was all bombs and shooting etc. Okay it was a bit different seeing the police in full body armour and walking down the street with rifles in their hands and army out on the street. But i love it over there.

By the way nearest to what i can think of - tories are unionists - labour party are the labour party over there, lib dems are the lib dems but you dont see that many of them over there.