Comrade:

Partition exists.

Deal with it.

Businesses have to, and here Aer Lingus did.

NI workforces are represented by Dublin unions and London unions depending very often on historical and anachronistic circumstances; which Mick may be in the process of making…….

Donegal?

Nothing to do with the reaction – which has focused on the loss to the Shannon region and not to the economy of Ireland.

However, Ireland is in competition with Northern Ireland for inward investment. Naturally, folks on this side of the border would rather that corporation taxes be paid to the Irish state rather than the British Exchequer. Equally, partitionists on the other side would rather the taxes are paid to the British Exchequer. That’s what they signed up for.

“It’s ridiculous. The whole mess boils down to the misleading name that the southern state has arrogantly conferred upon itself. Rectify that and we no longer have a problem.” – beano

It doesn’t have anything to do with trite demands for a secular use of the word “Ireland” – which properly refers to the Republic of Ireland in common use and in its primary definition and not to the island (with a little transitory statelet stuck in the top left corner). Still, if they were harping on about that, it’d be petty sectarian squabbles about Catholic and Roman Catholic or Derry and Londonderry.

The union simply wants to know if it is bound by Labour Court recommendations in the matter of whether or not the Labour Court considers Belfast to be “foreign.” I doubt that Impact actually required the clarification, as its own solicitor would inform it that the Court has no authority in another jurisdiction. It’s just wasting the Court’s time to play politics with the State via the media.

To be fair, Comrade, they’d probably put up a similar fuss.. just on different grounds.

Fairly simple. Northern Ireland is not within the jurisdiction of the Labour Court. I think that’s what they mean when they say “foreign”.

It also makes me wonder whether those that consider themselves republicans in RoI should be objecting to the move, if they wouldn’t but up a similar fuss if AL decided to shift their services to Sligo or Dublin or Weston.

I agree, the whole thing sounds very partitionist.