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I don't remember answering it either Merv, but then I don't remember filling in the form at all.big mervyn wrote:Was there a question on the census about passports? I don't remember answering that oneSnipe Watson wrote: 2011 census.
You got new felt tips for the 2011 census?Snipe Watson wrote:2011 census.Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Prapper source, Snipe, or did you just get new felt-tips fer Fathers day?Snipe Watson wrote:Interesting
It was one of the questions, remember pondering as to which passport I would mention then had recorded British as Nationality so used British passport I think in other answerbig mervyn wrote:Was there a question on the census about passports? I don't remember answering that oneSnipe Watson wrote: 2011 census.
There has to be a level of granularity with a map like that. Rathlin is so small that they need to avoid publishing identifiable responses.big mervyn wrote:That is interesting.Snipe Watson wrote:Interesting
Derry and Belfast are surprisingly red. Some other anomalies albeit on a smaller scale - Rathlin/Ballycastle for one.
big mervyn wrote:Ni nat British says Daily Heil. (and Scots are really Irish).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... avian.html
Some of the British are not that British either 
Modestly amusing Grumps, very very close to being ..................funnyCap'n Grumpy wrote:I think you'll find that Germany and UK were level on 175 each ....... but Germany won on penalties.Russ wrote:Wrongrumncoke wrote:Is it possible to visit without a visa ?
Not to sure what the position will be but before the referendum you could visit over 50
Countries with a British passport which was more than any other passport .
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Germany
175
Switzerland
174
UK and 3 others
173
You're a cabbie Merv?big mervyn wrote:Took some Aussies on the Black Hack tour of the "peaceline" yesterday. Very good
I never would have guessed So the Norn Irish are effectively half-breeds whereas unexpectedly the rest of the UK are a bunch of crazy mixed upbastards.big mervyn wrote:Ni nat British says Daily Heil. (and Scots are really Irish).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... avian.html
Well Scotland more or less means land of the Irish(Gaels) so no real surprise that a large number of them would be Irish and Northern Ireland(clue in the second word) is in Ireland so again no real surprise that a huge number of folk there would be Irish.big mervyn wrote:Ni nat British says Daily Heil. (and Scots are really Irish).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... avian.html
A distinct genetic pattern
By performing a number of genetic tests the scientists were able to identify a particular genetic pattern in the Y chromosome of the Irish. An ancient genetic marker, known as haplogroup 1, was found in most Irish men. Scientists think that most of the population of Western Europe carried this gene over 10,000 years ago. Over time however, through the movement and mixing of peoples, this gene was diluted. Now it is found in relatively fewer people throughout Europe.
The greatest movement and migration of peoples in Europe has been the movement of farmers from the south-east of the continent after the invention of agriculture about 10,000 years ago. The farmers moved with their new technologies north-west into Europe, probably displacing the local hunter-gatherer populations that were living there at the time. In this way the haplogroup 1 genes in Europe were diluted, the farmers introducing new and different genes.
Men with Gaelic names are more ancient
This resulted in the formation of a gradient of haplogroup 1 genes throughout the continent, the lowest frequency of these ancient genes being found in Turkey, and the highest frequency in Ireland, with intermediate frequencies in continental populations. In Ireland 78.1% of all men have the haplogroup 1 gene.
In Ireland men with Gaelic names have higher frequencies of this ancient marker than men with non-Gaelic names. For example, men in Ireland with surnames of English origin have 62% haplogroup 1 genes; men with Scottish names have 52.9% and men with Norman and Norse names have 83%. In Leinster, 73.3% of men with Gaelic surnames have this gene, in Munster, 94.6% and in Ulster 81.1%.
So my application took just over 2 months to get a passport. I don't know what it was before the Brexit flood of applications...mikerob wrote:There may be a bit of a wait for an Irish passport at the moment... the Irish embassy in London reported they had received a million requests for passport application forms.
