Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
You can't give something 'back' that someone has never had, p. ou can give it to them (and welcome to it, God knows), but that's it. We didn't give the 26 counties 'back', we gave them to the newly-founded entity of the Irish Republic. Y
We gave them back to the Irish people, if we couldn't give them back to the Irish State.

That's the trouble with your ilk. You only recognise the ruling class of a nation. The ordinary people just don't exist.