Nigel Farage never seems like the cleverest in any room. However, why is it that this same issue turns up again and again in Ireland? Is there some reason British people are supposed to know the whole of Irish history? Are the entire country to do a collective exam on this?
I guess we could test the French on Spanish history, or the Americans on Canadian history? If they get it wrong then clearly should be lampooned?
The core question here is why the issue? I have several ideas about the answer. Genuinely, why do Irish people care if some 'Brit' doesn't know when the Act of Union was or something?
It's pure political gaming, one upmanship and propaganda, deliberately designed as part of the wider attempt to make Brexit look like the worst thing that has happened since The Holocaust. Handily enough, it deflects the attention away from the very real crises and problems faced by Irish people currently. All the media is state owned or part funded by the state. I may as well watch the Chinese news. For two years it consisted of nothing other than Covid figures or government advice. Now, there is sometimes a debate about easing restrictions, that's about as radical as it gets.
In the meantime the government built a net zero of no social houses at all, from a target of 10,000. The reason for continuing restrictions, the dire straits of the Health Service. Make you're own mind up if Irish people give a shyte about Nigel Farage. Look up the article in something like the Journal (completely Liberal media) and see the comments. Not even 50% of the people are fooled, far from it, and they hate Nigel with a passion.

Presumably because he's spent so much time in recent years discussing the issue.

I don't disagree with your point as a whole, but Farage has claimed to be informed in this space and clearly isn't, so criticism is fair game.

Even in Ireland, there's no deflecting from how rubbish the government are. Normally people just put up with it. However, the average person is genuinely angry - you won't hear much about it. However, Sinn Fein will win the next election, which will be frankly unprecedented. I guess they're nationalist, but perhaps not likely to want Farage's blessing! Personally, although I could understand some of the reasons for Brexit, I always thought Farage was "a bit of a bluffer".

Yeah, he"s just winging it like all the others, and got lucky with the result, making him a political god in half the countrys eyes, and would have been a has been had he lost, he got lucky that corbyn didn"t go for a remain ticket, might have been a different outcome. Are Sinn Fein surging or is it just that people don"t like the power sharing from two conservative parties?Do you think Mary Lou would be any good or just another talker?I been looking at properties this afternoon over there, online obvs, suprising what you can get for your buck, until you look at the map and see its 10 miles to the nearest small town.(one shop, a church and a school)!

I honestly don't know what Mary Lou will be like. I suspect she won't be as shouty in power, as she is out of it. I kind of look at it as can't be any worse than what we have. But you never know!

Massive rural decline in Ireland. You'll frankly be lucky if there's a pub or shop these days. Places with a Post Office tend to have a bit more community.

Garda Stations, Post Offices and Pubs are all too commonly for sale these days.