What Has Changed In Dublin/Ireland since this?

Yeah, E's fairly prevelent here too. Aparantly there's some in every bar and nightclub in the city. I'd have to say though that I've never come across any. Obviously im just not in with the "right" people. You know when you're a kid and you're going from primary school to secondary school (uuummm...elementary to high) and your mom tells you all these drug stories and not to accept anything from anyone in school, and all the parents seem convinced that everyone in secondary (high) school gets approached and offered drugs? That's never happened to me either. The only things I've ever really encountered are magic mushrooms and hash.

And no, Ireland's nowhere close to being reunited, which is only a good thing. I live in the Republic so technically I guess I'm supposed to want reunification and to "kick the Brits out" and all that crap, but it's infinitely more complex than that. The way I see it, the Irish fought for 700 years to get Britain out, and more relevent to modern times, the Republicans (ie the terrorist groups) have spent the last 30 years trying to get the brits out of the north and bring Northern Ireland under the Republic's rule. This is a baaaaaaad idea. All that will happen is that the roles will be reversed. Then Loyalist paramilitaries will launch bombing campaigns in the North and in the Republic, in Dublin and so on, just like the IRA did in London. And since Ireland has nowhere near as much money or experience as the UK has in dealing with that sort of thing, we'd bassically be massacred. There's also the fact that the economy in the North is a joke and is currently a HUGE drain on the British. If the North became part of the Republic, we'd be totally screwed. I say let the UK keep it.