Map of Ireland minus Northern Ireland - why am I bothered?

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Before every act at last weeks eurovision, a graphic appeared on screen of the map of each participating country. Ours had Northern Ireland completely cut out. It looked incomplete! Now I'm not normally political or easily bothered by issues of nationalism etc. but I found myself a bit peeved at this. Maybe it's something in my DNA, I'm not sure! We once had a eurovision winner from Derry and we now have a President from Antrim and, for many other reasons, I don't think any map of Ireland should exclude NI....regardless of politics. I suppose I'm creating this thread to tease out (a) if anybody else noticed and (b) does it offend people somewhat.

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(c) Couldn't care less.

Every single other country was displayed in cookie cutter fashion. Get over yourself.
 
Howitzer said:
(c) Couldn't care less.

Every single other country was displayed in cookie cutter fashion. Get over yourself.
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Aye ok Free State Fred.:rolleyes:

The entire country should of course be displayed, which of course includes the north eastern part of this beautiful island.:)
 
I thought I was the only one who noticed that :(
It would be nice to show the complete outline of our island, it just doesn't look right with the northern half amputated.
 
My kids mentioned this to me..they said the map of Ireland looked weird!!
The way I see it is, this is the island of Ireland and they should have shown the whole Island ..Now who can I complain too...................
 
So why we so special? Every country was displayed using it's political boundaries.

The UK didn't display the British Isles. Sweden didn't take over the whole of Scandanavia. Serbia didn't annex the former Yugoslav reublics. Isn't that one of the essential points of the competition?

Get over yourselves.
 
Very useful to keep repeating "get over yourselves"..

Maybe those whom you mention are not too pleased about it either.
Either way, we are talking about Ireland ,and my kids did seem a bit peeved by the island being shown as 26 counties.As opposed to the island of Ireland.
 
thedaras said:
Very useful to keep repeating "get over yourselves"..

Maybe those whom you mention are not too pleased about it either.
Either way, we are talking about Ireland ,and my kids did seem a bit peeved by the island being shown as 26 counties.As opposed to the island of Ireland.
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So why are we so special? Why should the geographical, rather than the political, boundaries of Ireland be displayed as opposed to everyone else?

The Euovision really does bring out the whinners in us.
 
MANTO said:
I dont see the problem so, there goverened by the UK not the ROI.
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That's it. It's just a fact - I wouldn't read anything into it.

What about e.g. the map of Spain - did it show the canaries too?
 
Howitzer said:
So why are we so special? Why should the geographical, rather than the political, boundaries of Ireland be displayed as opposed to everyone else?

The Euovision really does bring out the whinners in us.
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Who claims we " are so special"?

And where did anyone post that the geographical rather than the political ,boundaries be displayed as opposed to everyone else?

I thought the OP was about how we felt about the 26 county's been shown,with NI not shown at all,as opposed to showing the island of Ireland with NI shown in a different colour.

Anytime my kids draw a map of Ireland they do so with the 32 county's and not just the 26.

You only have to "google " map of Ireland to see the whole of the island shown.
 
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thedaras said:
Who claims we " are so special"?

And where did anyone post that the geographical rather than the political ,boundaries be displayed as opposed to everyone else?

I thought the OP was about how we felt about the 26 county's been shown,with NI not shown at all,as opposed to showing the island of Ireland with NI shown in a different colour.

Anytime my kids draw a map of Ireland they do so with the 32 county's and not just the 26.

You only have to "google " map of Ireland to see the whole of the island shown.
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So what exactly should have been displayed? Your kid's artistic impression? I'm not sure what you want. I'm happy with the graphic as displayed because it was factually correct.
 
Caveat said:
... What about e.g. the map of Spain - did it show the canaries too?
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The Canary Isalnds are not part of Spain (nor are they part of the EU), just as the Channel Islands are not part of the UK (nor are they part of the EU).

MANTO said:
but Google the Republic of Ireland: ...
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Why would I want to do that? The name of this country in the English language according to Article 4 of our Constitution, is Ireland (or Éire, as Gaeilge) not what Google decides.

A map of the country Ireland would show the 26 counties, a map of the island of Ireland would show the 32 counties. A map of the UK would show Northern Ireland doing its floaty thing.

Isn't the Ministry of Eurvision lucky Dana wasn't singing for us; their graphic designers and computers would have gone into melt-down (how bad would that be?) :)
 
As odd as it looks the map of the republic was the right thing to show in the context of the show, they were showing the political boundaries, just because we're an island doesnt mean the map should be shown differently
 
Howitzer said:
So what exactly should have been displayed? Your kid's artistic impression? I'm not sure what you want. I'm happy with the graphic as displayed because it was factually correct.
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Good for you..
Ive already told you what I think should have been displayed.Twice!
"your kids artistic impression"..how very grown up of you...
On the list of country's we were displayed as IRELAND NOT REPUBLIC OF IRELAND.
 
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