Unless someone corrects me:-

Unionists = loyalist = loyal to the crown = NI+GB

Unionists tend to be labelled "protestants" as well but that's more of a
generalisation.



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 02 February 2005 19:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:32174] RE: Belfast Telegraph


Forgive my ignorance, but I can never remember what the term Unionist 
means in Northern Ireland. Is it meaning wanting a union between NI and 
GB or between NI and ROI?

David King

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Stephen Humphreys wrote:

><<It is also a pro-Unionist publication,>>
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>I wan't aware of that.
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><<so their metric stance cannot be dismissed as a politically motivated

>one (as for example, a similar article in say An Phoblacht could be).>>
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>I'd liken it more to the British Mirror where one "full page" regular 
>columist had a right go at the so called "metric martyrs" and took the
>P--- out of imperial an dhow the UK is "lagging behind" and being a 
>"laughing stock of thre world".  But the Mirror is hardly a pro-metric 
>paper.
>
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