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Belfast....silly question!

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  • sturll
    sturll Posts: 2,582 Forumite
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    wayne77 wrote: »
    You KNEW it was UK...but you thought we used Euros. Wise up.

    Of course Northern Ireland is part of Britain.

    :confused:

    Give her a break.

    You would think that Wales's first language was Welsh given that everything is written twice...... Until you find out about only 4 people still speak the language.
  • daedalus_2
    daedalus_2 Posts: 19 Forumite
    Southern Ireland 'Eire' is a different country and uses the Euro currency. Northern Ireland is in the UK and uses Sterling pounds even though its notes look different to those on the 'mainland'. It is the same situation as Scotland. The difficulty is many shopkeeepers/people have hazy geography/political knowledge and are confused about this so incorrectly refuse to take perfectly good sterling notes just because they are issued by an unfamiliar bank. The key, as with Scottish bank issued notes, is in the Queens head and the word sterling. I'msorry . i'mnot a pedant so I'll get off my high horse now. I had to fight all though the 7 years I lived there to get the notes accepted back in england and it still annoys me.
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    wayne77 wrote: »
    Of course Northern Ireland is part of Britain.

    Well genius, shows what you know.

    Great Britain is an island comprised of England, Scotland, and Wales. I've had a look out the window, and the Irish Sea is definitely between Northern Ireland and Britain.

    There is no country called "Britain". Unless something is physically attached to Britain, it can't be part of it.
  • mintymoneysaver
    mintymoneysaver Posts: 3,527 Forumite
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    edited 26 April 2009 at 2:30PM
    wayne77 wrote: »
    You KNEW it was UK...but you thought we used Euros. Wise up.

    Of course Northern Ireland is part of Britain.

    :confused:

    Thanks for that Wayne. I knew WE didn't use euros, but I thought as Northern Ireland was next to Southern they may do, in the same way that I can pay in euros or sterling at my local airport. I'm sure being in NI it may well annoy you when people get them confused, but that wasn't my question. It was a question of currency not Geography.To everyone else, thank you so much for your USEFUL advice!
    And Marty J, thanks for the useful advice to Wayne. As I said and you confirmed, I knew it was part of the UK, not Britain! As I learnt in school...543 BUG-British Isles, United Kingdom, Great Britain.

    Wikipedia states....
  • omelette451
    omelette451 Posts: 1,900 Forumite
    Lobell wrote: »
    It is very difficult to use NI notes in the majority of the rest of the UK.

    Obviously we must shop in different places... Sometimes I've had to tell a shop assistant what it is, and sometimes they've checked with a colleague, but I've never had one refused. I could understand it being easier here in Merseyside, but it wasn't a problem when I lived down south either.
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    Thanks for that Wayne. I knew WE didn't use euros, but I thought as Northern Ireland was next to Southern they may do, in the same way that I can pay in euros or sterling at my local airport.

    You can spend Euros in some places in Northern Ireland, especially as you get closer to the border.

    But Sterling is the de facto official currency, so you'll be fine with your strange English money. :p
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