Rockall: a patriot writes

Here's something which brightened our week: a well-reasoned and moderately-phrased argument for Irish dominion over Rockall. Or is that Rockal?

Just stumpled across your pathetic british shite. No wonder you are a couple of sad british gits who are living in the past, of 'glorius' days gone by when brits earned their wealth from the slaughter and plunder of those innocent natives of wonderful lands, rich in culture and land. Get over it!!!!

As your own fucking site says, Rockall comes from Irish Gaelic (of which Scottish and Manx Gaelic are more recent variants). This shows how long it has been part of Ireland. There is no english name for it!! Just an english version of the Irish!! I think this suggest something!!! That is has always been only Irish!! Only in recent times have the brits laid claim to it......when they discovered it may have oil around it's waters!!! No surprises there then!!

This apart, the fact that you consider Foinn MacCumhaill and other ANCIENT Irish mythological stories 'bollox' when relating to the Irish outcrop island of Rockall, clearly shows your lack of intelligence and huge level of ignorance. It is not the story that counts here in claiming that Rockall belongs to Ireland. It is the fact that it has been part of Irish culture and history from ancient times, way before the brits (or anyone else!!) even knew it existed that proves it is, and has always been, totally Irish. It has played a big part in Irish history for many thousands of years, hence the reason for these great stories.

Your suggestion that Rockall is anything but Irish, proves your typical british lack of respect for international rule and law. No surprises there either!! As it is west of Ireland on the continental shelf, according to internal law, european law, Irish law, and even undemocratic british law, this means that it can only be Irish. Even a German diving team not too long ago proved it was Irish by locating its position on the European continental shelf.

The fact that it is nearer to mainland Ireland, County Donegal (In the Free State of the Republic of Ireland too!!!), than anywhere else in the world, should also prove to even you nimbwits, that there is no other country in the world it could possibly belong to.

Your blood-thirsty 'empire' is gone! Grow up! Get over it! Look after your own country!! I can understand your desperation in trying to get your filthy hands on foreign lands. After all, God only gave you britain, his left-overs!! But that is not our fault! Take it out with God! Rockal always has been, and always will be, Irish!!!

Shane

To address these points in order:

• The English name for Rockall is, er, Rockall.
• There is no oil around Rockall — only haddock and Russian factory trawlers. You're thinking of the Falkland Islands, another fine example of "brit slaughter and plunder".
• Regarding Rockall's role in Ireland's history, we reckon that would make a very slim read indeed — unless the sacred islet participated in the 1916 uprising or something similarly impressive.
• A German diving team? Sure they hadn't mistaken Rockall for Scapa Flow?
• Rockall is not closer to Ireland than the UK — use GPS, rather than a tape measure.
• Finally, Rockall is no longer actually British, but the The Peoples' Republic of Rockall, as declared on 16 June 2005.

Enough said. For the record, visitors are welcome to Rockall irrespective of race, creed or colour. Except the Danes, of course. Landlord Vince down at the sacred islet's Fighting Dog and Pikey public house says he's more than happy to serve the Irish, as long as they respect the clearly-signed Rules of the House which state: "No jeans, no trainers, no tricolours, no ceilidh, no petting, no diving, no bombing."