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LIDL IS RECALLING two batches of biscuits because the ingredients are not labelled in English.
It’s recalling the following batches:
The implicated batches contain cereals containing gluten. There may also be an unintentional presence of egg, milk, nuts, peanuts, sesame and soybeans.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said this may make the batches unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of cereals containing these ingredients.
The FSAI announced the recall on its website this afternoon.
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A sizeable amount of Scots in the west of the country need to sort out their anti Irish feelings, that would be a start to improving relations.
To be fair everyone obsession about Celtic just because they are Irish or Catholic is also part of the problem.
I am 1/2 Scottish and I avoid Scottish football like the plague for that reason, I can’t stand Sectarianism
Who mentioned football? There’s is a deep rooted hatred among certain elements of Scottish society as a whole of all things Irish & Catholic, nothing to do with football, all stemming from famine times.
Planters in West Scotland and north east Ireland are a hot bed of hate.
I admit there are some attitudes like that (I mean I went to a Catholic school in the Far North of England since I was 7 and ended up being a Catholic which irritated some of relatives immensely, even though I dumped it all a couple of years back, although most of it was from people who are now in their 90s)
But the fact that you are tainting so many Scottish people this way is ironically as bigoted and ignorant as you are accusing them of being.
I mentioned football due to certain types of people down here fetishising Celtic just because they are Irish Catholic which IS as sectarian as you are accusing them of being.
Intolerance is a two way street
Ewan, bigots always think that it is the ‘others’ who are bigots. Most bigots do not know that they themselves are bigots. The Irish ‘republican’ movement is an extremely bigoted organisation whose members think that they themselves are a fair minded people.
Since you have brought football into it, Celtic has always been an All inclusive club, Jock Stein, Kenny Dalglish, Danny McGrain to name but a few protestants who have played or managed the club. When did Rangers (the former establishment club) end their policy of signing Catholics? Who was the first Irish player to play for Rangers?
I’m not a Republican,no interest in Celtic and i absolutely concur with comments made by Pauliebhoy, who to his credit,specified “certain elements” of Scottish society.
I refuse to tip toe around the issue just because some clown like you might call me a bigot.
1886 when Pat Lafferty played for them.. It’s a much propagated myth that Mo Johnson was the first in 1989. John Spencer played 7 years for Rangers from 1978-85. I believe he even came up through their youth system. Rangers were sectarian for far too long but then again so were Liverpool and how many Irish Catholics support them.?
Maybe so Ciaran but there was a policy in place for many years of only signing non Catholics, as Jock Stein said when asked if there was a choice of 1 of 2 players he could sign for Celtic, 1 being Catholic and 1 being Protestant, he would always sign the Protestant as Rangers would only sign the the Catholic. Link to Marco Negris interview about the goings on at Rangers which is still prevalent in a section of Scottish society today https://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20081019042920AAaTdeL
For “only” read “never” facepalm.
But does Flanagan know this?
Pauliebhoy, I hear what your saying and your dead right, there are quite a few in the west of Scotland that hold anti Irish and anti catholic views but dare I say it, it’s a two way street. As a Celtic fan myself I have seen and heard some pretty venomous stuff coming out of the mouths of some so called Celtic fans so it’s not just the Rangers fans. That said, I agree with you that certain areas and groups in Scotland have a real problem with sectarianism and bigotry, many of the same hold racist and homophobic views too. The Scottish Orange order and other various ‘orders’ are closely associated with their friends in NI and several also have connections to right wing groups in Scotland and in England. The Scottish government are well aware of the sectarianism and have mad some feeble attempts to tackle it, it’s a social problem that needs sorting but alas you only have to see how young some of the kids are who are taking part in some of the sectarian chanting and singing to realise what a problem it is. Also I’d just like to point out Scotland is not alone in this, Ireland also has a major problem with sectarianism, you don’t have to travel to Glasgow or even football matches to hear anti protestant or anti British diatribes, just read some of the posts on here from time to time and you’ll see that dear little Ireland has it’s own legions of bigots, racists and Brit hater. As an atheist I find sectarianism completely baffling, also most people living in these islands are so mixed up that it is highly unlikely that anyone could call themselves truly Irish, Scottish, Welsh or English such has been the inter mixing and inter breeding that we are all more or less the same people!
I don’t disagree, every team has its idiots/bigots/racists, my point however is more aimed at the institutional, somewhat accepted, hatred of Irish & Catholics in some parts of Scottish society.
Braveheart, lol, so he was hung drawn and quartered only for hundreds of years later then Scots to vote against independence.
There is no “Scotland”. Lets just call it North Britain.
So much for your ethnic solidarity ideology!
You’ve kinda skipped over the entire period prior to the 14th century, and also missed the period between Bannockburn and Darien. But great analysis otherwise.
Braveheart is as historically accurate as Knights Tale I am afraid
What? You mean Scotland wasn’t saved by an angry 4ft tall Australian covered in blue poster paint.
Ethnically speaking here isn’t really much of a Scottish ethnicity. Most of the Lowland Scots are descended from the same people as Northern England for crying out loud. (Edinburgh used to be an English city (King Edin of Northumberland) and Carlisle used to be a Scottish town (not in the doomsday book) )
Can’t wait to hear “Flower of Scotland” at the Aviva this year. Send them homeward my arse
You won’t be hearing it at the Aviva this year, Scotland vs Ireland is at Murrayfield this year
I’d better tell the fai to cancel the FOOTBALL qualifier so…
Soccer*
Football, we haven’t been fully americanized yet(that’s americanized with a z, not an s)
The most rabidly anti Irish country on the planet and we Irish are absolutely oblivious to it.
Yep, some people like to blame it all on football.
Absolute nonsense! I lived in Glasgow for two years in the late 80s. I hung out with both Rangers and Celtic supporters, had a Protestant girlfriend and never encountered a bit of bother. Truthfully, I had a great time and made some lifelong friends. The biggest problem I had was trying to understand exactly what the Glaswegians were saying! That took a while.
It might look bad when 20,000 idiots decide to sing The Famine Song but that’s 20,000 out of 5,000,000 and some of them just think it’s funny
Flanagan needs to listen more instead of mouthing off how great Ireland is doing. Scotland provides free education in its universities and has the best NHS health care in the UK. They also know how to generate tourism which many in this country could learn from.
At the expense of the English taxpayer.
You’re right. No tourists here at all.
The Scottish NHS isn’t as great as people claim, waiting times are above England and Wales etc.
They just have free prescriptions which to be honest is just popularism since if you can’t afford them elsewhere in the UK (Say Jobseekers, disability) you get them free anyway
British taxpayer , they also pay into the British tax system .
3 out of 4 take more from government than what they put in.
True but the Barnett formula means Scotland gets the most funding per head than anywhere else.
Considering that parts of Northern England for instance are fairly deprived shouldn’t they get an increase in funding instead of say Golgi in Edinburgh?
True people in these areas are in some of the most deprived parts of Britain, Nottingham Leicester, Mansfield, Derby, Corby, Lincoln. The midlands and the north of England get a raw deal in my opinion.
I grew up in Carlisle which is having a huge brain drain, the town centre is a ghost town with all these empty stores etc. there.
Newcastle survives thanks to its Uni, Redcar is dying, Teeside, Middlesborough etc. are dead. Even though I am 1/2 Scottish I feel far closer to Northerners than careerists like Sturgeon and Salmond. The fact is Scotland does far better and isn’t the abused oppressed part of the UK that some seem to think. For Christs sake the two previous PMs were Scottish.
Midlands has suffered due to Manufacturing collapse tanks to Cheap Asian imports etc. I did my BEng in Coventry which is often referred to as the Detroit of Europe thanks to its booming motor industry which collapsed leaving nothing left (the Specials song Ghost Town is about Cov) , thankfully the Government at least did something right and established a pretty decent university which has resurrected the city
If that’s what happens to the north of England, imagine how badly off we’d be if we’d stayed
You are wrong there Mike, Scotland actually contributes more to the UK exchequer that it gets bac. This was one of the key arguments they had during the independence referendum
Not quite ready to take our relationship to the next level, Scotland.
I’m still very disappointed in you for bottling it in your chance for freedom.
William Wallace must still be turning in his grave.
Scotland is a very different country from Ireland despite the Gaelic culture. Unlike us they benefitted from the Union with England, while Ireland was gripped with famine and oppression they were rapidly industrialising into one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Even a lot of the Highland Clearances were carried out by other Scots. Most of the planters who arrived here to colonise Ireland were also Scottish. The Scots are every bit as British as the English and it’s a misconception to think we and the Scots are practically the same.
The Gaelic culture in Scotland only exists in the far North East.
The Lowlands never Spoke Scots Gaelic, they spoke Cumbric, Scots and Eventually Scots English etc.
That makes no sense,the Gaels settled in the South West when the North East was a Pict stronghold.
Aren’t most of the remaining Gaelic speakers in the western isles?
As far as I know there was only one small part of the south east of the country that never spoke gaelic, gaelic did at one point spread deep into the Lowlands. This trend was reversed however in the 13th century when Scots/English started making inroads through “burghs” which were centres of commerce in Scotland which attracted English immigrants. Eventually the English/Scots language took over and Scots Gaelic was confined to the Highlands and Western Islands.
The highland, proper Scotland, never did support the English and as I am half and lived in and out of the place especially when young never found a single word said against Ireland. Indeed many married into Irish or the other way about (depending upon how you look at it) as my mother (Irish) and father (Scottish) did.
I defend Scotland here and never have had to defend Ireland there.
Maybe its a new chapter because Charlies hoping we’ll rejoin the UK?
And why would he hope that
We never joined in the first place.
Still happy to keep sucking on the Queen’s tit.
At Least there getting paid for it . We are paying Merkel to screw us up the rear end .
Transition from austerity???
Is he for real?
Well, Councillor Flanagan has never really been anything other than a low level local offical. SO, it sno suprise to see him trotting out party propaganda like this.
Still, nonsensical and all as it is, I see potential in the phrase: ‘Just as Ireland completes its transition from austerity and recession to recovery and job creation….Sexton breaks through the cover….
‘Just as Ireland completes its transition from austerity and recession to recovery and job creation…I went out for a walk..
You thought it would end overnight and you’d wake up rich?
Scotland didn’t have much austerity
Nothing changes, so Scotland became part of the U.K. in 1707 because they were that broke and in debt to the English. Like us now with Germany???
You’ve got it the wrong way round. The crash came after the monetary union and was worsened rather than salved by it. Plus there’s no political union.
The birth of the crash started in the U.S.with AIG and it spread from this. The Euro was not built on good foundations, Goldman Sachs inspected the Greek economy and passed them with as many people have later described as cooking Greece’s books. The Euro didn’t start it but it creates the medium that made the crisis worse and the Euro fed and made the crisis extremely worse as it was predicted to do before the Eurozone began to use the Euro. The Euro was loaned and force fed into E.U. banks due to its cheap interest rates as the ECB wanted as many people as possible to be using loans made in the Euro to increase the Euros value. What made the recession worse was that each E.U. country was different and so were their debts and being in the Euro meant austerity for everyone because everyone shared a currency that was not their own and therefore couldn’t devalue it but had to share in austerity because of it. If the Euro was devalued rather than put into austerity then that would led to growth, even if countries in the E.U. had their own currency then that would led to better growth for them.
Due to austerity our finances and how we budget are controlled by German politicians and when you see how Merkel and her government control the foreign policies of the E.U. over Ukraine and Russia as well as Frankfurt, Berlin and Brussels controls the environmental policies, banking policies, fishing policies, the E.U. Courts ruling over Irish laws and rights here. Even the E.U. has control over imports and exports and the E.U. has taken over what countries can trade with others now as is seen with the U.K. The U.K. is not in the Euro but with international trade agreements their policies are set by Germany and France without the U.K. being involved in that as they can not go with them to trade on their own behalf?
You can not have a single E.U. wide currency with out political control over how that money is used, even the process of imports and exports will effect the value of that currency and in austerity the currency needs to be controlled as do imports and exports. Having austerity means having political control as seen with Berlin doing our budgets for us and the political control from Brussels is seen in OUR DOMESTIC and FOREIGN policies… http://ec.europa.eu/ireland/key-eu-policy-areas/index_en.htm “The EU is active in a wide range of policy areas, from human rights to transport and trade.”
You can not have control over a single currency without political control over it. There is not a full political union yet but it is nearly there?
http://www.ellopos.net/politics/mitterrand-kohl.htm
“Mitterrand and Kohl urge European political union
Letter by the German federal chancellor Helmut Kohl and French president François Mitterrand
to the Irish Presidency of the EC . 19 April 1990 . SOURCE: Agence Europe, 20 April 1990.”
At sword point Michael.
There are no Scots anymore there all English now…
That is why the vote went that way.
Scotland is not a “nation”. It had a chance to become a nation last September but rejected it.
Only for older people afraid of change the Yes campaign would have walked it, I know many Scottish people and not one of them voted no, gutted for them.
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