All polar bears are Irish: Modern polar bears are descended from a mixture of ancient polar bears and long-extinct Irish bears.

27 comments

1. [more here](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4677796/)

2. Plastic paddies the lot of them.

   When’s the last time ye seen a bear down the local with a pint of smithwicks in one hand and a stolen pack of bacon fries in the other.

3. I know these fuckers would be able to bat my head off my shoulders with the ease of fanning one’s face on a sultry afternoon but… wouldn’t you love to pet one. Ah, you would.

4. Shhhh!! Don’t be giving the Green Party ideas!! Some loons have already mentioned repopulating the Irish countryside with wolves. Fucking wolves!!!??

   And IIRC some other gobshites have suggested we reintroduce bears here too. Because that’s exactly what we fucking need and have been missing; random wolf and/or bear maulings and deaths. “I’m just going for a hike dear, if I’m not back in 3 hours, I’ve probably been eaten by that big bastarding bear that has been seen a lot in the area over the last 6 months, the one that tore off and ate Martin down the road’s leg.”

5. Will we reintroduce them so? It’s cold enough lately.

6. Is he eligible for the Irish team?

7. Tis where we get béarla from

8. Ah, well we have to save them, now

9. You mean Arctic of Irish descent

10. I would be fully in favor of selective reintroduction, release a few in areas where scrotes congregate, let nature find balance.

11. It’s the Irish diasbeara

12. So, should we send them something or ?

13. Jaysus could you imagine those lads bopping around Ireland back in the day? How anyone got anything done with the threat of them is beyond me.

14. I feckin’ hate all these polar bears going “I’m Irish, too!” just because he had some bear great-great-great-granny from hundreds of years ago. You’re Polar-Irish, not Irish-Irish.

15. > Bloody Nordic bears coming here on boats raping our bearwives and carrying them off with them.

    – Irish Bear, circa 500BC

16. No continent is free from our influence.

17. So do we own them like the Chinese own the pandas?

18. Originally discovered by Pól Èir, man was a bit of a narcissist

19. The yanks about to complain that we are accepting the bears, but not them

20. 

21. So we should introduce polar bears in Donegal?

22. No wonder they are fluorescent white

23. Good lads those polar bears.

24. The truth laid bare – they’re bi-polar bears

25. I think technically that makes all the Arctic oil and gas Irish too.

26. This is literally a thread about me wtf

27. Coming to a minor league sports arena near you: yh Boston Polar Bears!

    (their mascot is a polar bear dressed like a leprechaun)