Fuck me, this is one delicate area.
This year I'm living with two Irish girls- one from the North and one from the Republic. The girl from the North is Protestant while the one from the Republic is a Catholic.
Anyway, we've been living together since the start of September and I feel like I'm in the middle of some international crisis or aomething. The two of them don't really get on because of the differences that I've mentioned in the above paragraph. For fucking weeks on end, I've had to put up with the two of them bitching about each other to me about everything from the partition in 1921 to religion to Gaelic bloody football.
It's the 21st century for fuck's sake- call me ignorant, but why is stuff like religion and secterianism still a thorn in people's side?
Quick question to the Irish contingent on TLW; is all of the above still a sore point for a lot of people, and if so, why?