Six Counties
(Ireland, informal) The six Irish counties that form Northern Ireland.
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Conceded, but my own and my family’s experience in grappling with the HSE vs. treatment on the NHS has been consistently better in the six counties. If I had a choice, I’d opt to go over the border every time.
We should do this and then secretly enrich the uranium until we have the Bomb and then we can colour in the six counties on maps like Kashmir
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(Ireland, informal) The six Irish counties that form Northern Ireland.
“Conceded, but my own and my family’s experience in grappling with the HSE vs. treatment on the NHS has been consistently better in the six counties. If I had a choice, I’d opt to go over the border every time.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“We should do this and then secretly enrich the uranium until we have the Bomb and then we can colour in the six counties on maps like Kashmir”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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