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Xivilai

Well I gotta say, the Queen has a boring enough life doing all these state visits. Good for her, being rich etc. :pac:

She deserves it for such a tedious job that gets pushed on her from a young age

BlaasForRafa

zerks wrote: »

Oh no, Philip has a hurl.:eek: "One can use one to beat darkies and slant eyes".
"No Philip-you can't say things like that anymore", "Wanna bet,I've the hurl"

Lol I could almost hear him saying "ehhhh so you hit the wogs with this end then?"

Biologic

Anyone else getting the feeling this whole visit is centered around rubbing our independence in her face? Trinity was an old protestant school we nicked back, croker has its stands named after lads killed by british troops, bringing her to cork where Mick Collins was from?
It just doesn't seem right. It'd be like them getting Enda over to London and showing him where they used to offload all the Irish grub during the famine.

sensibleken

was there any trouble or did dole day put a dent in it

The Princess Bride

My parents are years younger than Queenie and hubby ( and have sleep every afternoon)- surely the royals must be due a serious nap after all the nodding and hand shaking at Crokers?
Yawn, I need a nap just looking at the coverage.

Luxie

zerks wrote: »

Only British peasants.;) They have to bow-we don't.

I'm hoping Philip will come out with some embarrising gaffe.He's overdue one.

I will consider the entire trip a failure if he doesn't.

Monty Burnz

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Apparently a load of GAA officials stayed away in protest?

Didn't really look that way, did it? She wouldn't have fitted in the building at all if a load more of them turned up.

DWCommuter

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Apparently a load of GAA officials stayed away in protest?

The terms used were "group" and "several" - not "loads".

ejmaztec

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Apparently a load of GAA officials stayed away in protest?

Have they gone home to Jurassic Park?

Monty Burnz

sensibleken wrote: »

was there any trouble or did dole day put a dent in it

There might be a bit later after they get the tinnies and the drugs into them.

rebel without a clue

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Didn't really look that way, did it? She wouldn't have fitted in the building at all if a load more of them turned up.

typical gaa heads. they had no bother putting the hand out for tickets to the rugby/soccer matches when they being played there!

Latchy

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Didn't really look that way, did it? She wouldn't have fitted in the building at all if a load more of them turned up.

lol's ...that's funny .

gigino

Biologic wrote: »

Anyone else getting the feeling this whole visit is centered around rubbing our independence in her face? Trinity was an old protestant school we nicked back, croker has its stands named after lads killed by british troops, bringing her to cork where Mick Collins was from?
It just doesn't seem right. It'd be like them getting Enda over to London and showing him where they used to offload all the Irish grub during the famine.

not to mention bringing her to bow to our "freedom fighters"...I wonder what the 200,000 Irish people who volunteered to fight for / with Britain would make of it all..

Spudmonkey

Biologic wrote: »

Anyone else getting the feeling this whole visit is centered around rubbing our independence in her face? Trinity was an old protestant school we nicked back, croker has its stands named after lads killed by british troops, bringing her to cork where Mick Collins was from?
It just doesn't seem right. It'd be like them getting Enda over to London and showing him where they used to offload all the Irish grub during the famine.

I thought the same. Although the Guinness trip broke it up. I'd hope the focus is more on things that makes Ireland what it is rather than just the past.

maxwell smart

I was listening to the Radio this morning and Myles Dungan was doing the coverage from the War Memorial Gardens. Halfway through the minutes silence he pipes in "we are in the middle of a minutes silence" !!!!:D

Classic Dungan!

OPENROAD

Do you reckon they have the radio on in the car when she is going from place to place, and if so radio 1 or Newstalk ?

sensibleken

Im bored. But its still the most interested Ive ever been in GAA

Wolfe Tone

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Didn't really look that way, did it? She wouldn't have fitted in the building at all if a load more of them turned up.

Read elsewhere that most of the reps from Ulster stayed away, only one from Down attended

ejmaztec

Spudmonkey wrote: »

I thought the same. Although the Guinness trip broke it up. I'd hope the focus is more on things that makes Ireland what it is rather than just the past.

Perhaps she'll visit the soup kitchens before she goes back.:(

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mikemac

gigino wrote: »

not to mention bringing her to bow to our "freedom fighters"...I wonder what the 200,000 Irish people who volunteered to fight for / with Britain would make of it all..

And the War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge is dedicated to the Irishmen who fought in WW1. She laid a wreath

Spudmonkey wrote: »

I thought the same. Although the Guinness trip broke it up. I'd hope the focus is more on things that makes Ireland what it is rather than just the past.

If Ireland is a world leader at one thing it's horse breeding. The trip to the National Stud was a good idea

Spudmonkey

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

only one from Down attended

Forward thinking individual then?

Hannibal Smith

Biologic wrote: »

Anyone else getting the feeling this whole visit is centered around rubbing our independence in her face? Trinity was an old protestant school we nicked back, croker has its stands named after lads killed by british troops, bringing her to cork where Mick Collins was from?
It just doesn't seem right. It'd be like them getting Enda over to London and showing him where they used to offload all the Irish grub during the famine.

No, I don't think it's about rubbing our Independence in her face. I think Mary McAleese has done a sterling job of welcoming her to the Country and being with her every step of the way, and seems to be making every effort to try and make her feel relaxed. Trinity had a union Jack flying over it yesterday and the Aras was bearing a few of them yesterday.

Trinity also showed her a book yesterday that was commissioned by Queen Mary I and which the Queen seemed very impressed with.

At the end of the day it's a State visit as others keep mentioning and that means that as well as showing courtesy to the visiting Head of State, they must also return the same courtesy and visit various places important to the host Country.

Also, more than that, in an effort to move on and take relations between the two countries to a better level, the ghosts of the past needed to be laid to rest and the Queen was well aware of what would be asked of her. She didn't just pop over for a visit and have all this thrown at her, I'm sure all visits were agreed by both governments before the visit was announced.

Monty Burnz

Spudmonkey wrote: »

I thought the same. Although the Guinness trip broke it up. I'd hope the focus is more on things that makes Ireland what it is rather than just the past.

Yup. I hear day 3 is going to be mostly ghost estates.

Dyr

DWCommuter wrote: »

GAAs Nicky Brennan. Kept holding her arm.

Typical durty GAA man, some habits don't break easy. She's lucky he didn't mulloch into her in the tunnel

Monty Burnz

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Read elsewhere that most of the reps from Ulster stayed away, only one from Down attended

Fuppin' dinosaurs if true.

c_man

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Read elsewhere that most of the reps from Ulster stayed away, only one from Down attended

http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=148138

Not really surprising tbh.

sensibleken

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attractive bunch arent they.

Monty Burnz

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That skanger is throwing a flower at her!

raveni

Biologic wrote: »

Anyone else getting the feeling this whole visit is centered around rubbing our independence in her face? Trinity was an old protestant school we nicked back, croker has its stands named after lads killed by british troops, bringing her to cork where Mick Collins was from?
It just doesn't seem right. It'd be like them getting Enda over to London and showing him where they used to offload all the Irish grub during the famine.

Don't really see it that way, Trinity and especially GAA are big parts of our heritage either way.