Is mise an Ghaeilge
Is mise do theanga
Is mise do chultúr
D’Úsáid na Filí mé
D’Úsáid na huaisle
D’Úsáid na daoine mé
is d’Úsáid na lenaí
Go bródúil a bhí siad
Agus mise faoi réim.
Ach tháinig an strainséir
Chuir sé faoi chois mé
Is rud ní ba mheasa
Nior mhaith le mo chlann mé
Anois t’acuteim lag
Anois t’acuteim tréith
Ach fós táim libh
Is beidh mé go beo.
Tóg suas mo cheann
Cuir áthas ar mo chroí
Labhraígí mé
Ó labhraígí mé!
"We in coming days may be" 
Before anyone asks here is the translation:
(have a great day everyone)
I am Irish
I am your language
I am your culture
The poets used me
The nobles used me
The people used me
and the children used me
Proud they were
And I flourished
But the stranger came
He suppressed me
Something worse than that was
my own people rejected me
Now I am weak
Now I am feeble
But still I am with you
and I will be forever.
Raise up my head
Put joy in my heart
Speak me
Oh speak me!
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I’d like to wish everyone – equally whether protestant or catholic – a Happy St Patrick’s Day.
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I echo that Factual
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Happy St Patrick’s Day to all from Queensland. Thanks for the email BD, like I said to you, I hope you and yours are well and the same to all of the readers and commentators here.
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‘Anois t’acuteim lag’
Ní saoi mise ach cad é an rud seo?
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Lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh, a chairde.
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Hi all,
You may have noticed that the thumbs and ratings features have disappeared from the site. I have not removed them. It is a wordpress problem I’m afraid. I trust they will be restored soon,
BD
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Big thumbs down to no thumbs! 😉
Hope you had a good weekend, a chara. St. Patrick’s Day seems to have passed without any serious disruptions in the north-east (diverted parades aside) so hopefully it might be the harbinger of a quite marching season. (I’ll put my pessimism to one side for now…)
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Or “quiet” even 😛
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The rain may have helped! So much more pleasant to riot in summer! Not just in NI but true in London too.
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Do you think it would be possible to remove the “thumbs down” button?
It feels rude to come back to the forum and find someone has thumbed me down.
Maybe we could say that we should only use the thumb up and not the thumb down? The latter seems rude.
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Unfortunately, can’t be done Factual. I seem to get a lot of thumbs down myself which begs the question why the phantom TD’er bothers to read my blog 😉
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