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Suggest a story for 23 August 5:51pm on 23 Aug 2008 With regard to Simon Clegg's comment that Team UK would not include those in the IOM or overseas territories, their own website states "Team GB is the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team."
What IS the problem with using UK and not GB?
Team GB or Team UK? 12:17pm on 23 Aug 2008 .
The problem for a great deal of folk in this country is that they think Great Britain, England and the UK are all interchangeable so they won’t understand the argument about “Team GB” as opposed to “Team UK”

There is also the problematical name of Eire. In English, the official name is Ireland and that is the name the Irish Government used for many years. Our Government used to speak of the Government of the Republic of Ireland and the Irish called ours the Government of the United Kingdom, omitting “and Northern Ireland.” Since the Belfast Agreement, both now use the terms Ireland and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The reason I raise the Irish name is that for many folk, the name they use for Ireland is the Republic of Ireland (in order to differentiate between it and Northern Ireland). To them, “Ireland” would indicate a “united” Ireland .On the Olympic Council of Ireland website it says, “The Irish Olympic Team ‘Team Ireland’ is the Olympic Team for the island of Ireland.”

We now have a farcical situation whereby the UK’s Olympic Association team is that of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but is called Team GB omitting NI and the Irish Olympic Team, Team Ireland is the team for the island of Ireland which includes NI.

It is time for Northern Ireland to be included either by referring to the team as Great Britain and Northern Ireland or as the UK.

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