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Looking to new boarders
The thawing of relations between
the North and South of Ireland has taken a new twist.
And it’s not in the political arena where the new development has
emerged.
Instead its taken place in the world famous board game Monopoly.
A new British-wide version of the board game has been launched and an
online vote took place among members of the public to vote for the locations
they would most like to see represented on the board.
But the majority of voters from Northern Ireland em-braced inclusion in
the all-Ireland version of the board and neglected being part of the British
edition.
Apart from Belfast Airport the British version includes no region from
Northern Ireland.
A spokesman for Hasbro who make the game said: “”We did a
search for a UK edition of the board and an all-Ireland version of the
board, so the people from Northern Ireland had the choice to vote for
either or even both versions.
“If they voted for the all-Ireland version, they voted for a county;
for the British edition they voted for a town, city or village in Northern
Ireland.
“What seems to have been the overwhelming reaction is that they
decided to vote for the all-Ireland edition rather than the UK edition,
which has resulted in them not being represented on the board, with the
exception of the airport.
“The airport was already set on there anyway, so it wasn’t
based on votes.”
The new edition generated plenty of debate on a number of Irish websites.
One post read: “Sounds like the war is over to me while another
post Northern Ireland is a part of Ireland although not part of the Republic
of Ireland.”
The Irish edition is unveiled later in the month and it will be interesting
to see what part of Northern Ireland have made it into the all Irish edition.
Since its launch in 1935, more than 200 million of the games have been
sold worldwide.
According to a new survey by market research site Onepoll.com, Monopoly
is the most popular game of all time, followed by Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble,
Pictionary and Cluedo. |
