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    #722
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Well, it took nearly 14 years, but she's finally being put to use.


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    #723
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    gandalf wrote: »
    He is there as a contingency. If the thugs get through the Gardai will get the Queen out and leave Bertie behind for the Celtic Jersey brigade to take their ire out on ;)

    He will buy them a pint each and will be their best mate again.


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    #724
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    gambiaman wrote: »
    "Did I mention my five point plan, ma'am?"...

    'Its a plan....with 5 points!!!!.....you can find it on www.Fine...'


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    #725
    DDC1990
    Registered Users Posts: 10,365 ✭✭✭✭DDC1990


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    So now we have 40 shades of republicanism. It seems we have lapdogs and lackies in celtic jerseys all claiming republican umbrella.

    Absence is an insult, and does SF plan more black, blue or red baloon stunts?
    Eh no. Anyoner has the right to attend an event or not to attend.

    Why would you believe that Absence is an insult?

    As for your comment about the baloons, thats more an insult than anything else. Those baloons were in memory of the dead of Ireland, not some flimsy PR stunt as you seem to be suggesting.


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    #726
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    HellFireClub wrote: »
    Whats the story with the state of the room, red chairs not properly dressed, looks awful tacky, it has all the appearance of a parish hall tea party or a debs...

    If you look closely you can see the raffle tickets in a USA biscuit tin on a folding table in the corner.


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    #727
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    Xivilai wrote: »
    Oh God Mary just said the Duke of Wellington was Irish


    Cringefest

    He was...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington


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    #728
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Did anyone else just see this guy at a table?


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    #729
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    ppink wrote: »
    wonder if he's got an earpiece in:p

    :D I'm hoping for some youtube classics after this!


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    #730
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Xivilai wrote: »
    Oh God Mary just said the Duke of Wellington was Irish


    Cringefest

    He was, born in Mount Street!


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    #731
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,926 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Xivilai wrote: »
    Oh God Mary just said the Duke of Wellington was Irish


    Cringefest

    Yes he was born in Dublin.


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    #732
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Aldebaran wrote: »
    Well, it took nearly 14 years, but she's finally being put to use.

    Who? Iris? Wouldn't be sure of that now.


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    #733
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,476 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Fair Play to Mary....making a good speech, well worded and delivered!


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    #734
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users Posts: 4,982 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    Mary's nipples look a bit lopsided:D


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    #735
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    McAleese's finest moment to be fair - well done to her!


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    #736
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭Degag


    Xivilai wrote: »
    Oh God Mary just said the Duke of Wellington was Irish


    Cringefest

    He was.


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    #737
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    So now we have 40 shades of republicanism. It seems we have lapdogs and lackies in celtic jerseys all claiming republican umbrella.

    Absence is an insult, and does SF plan more black, blue or red baloon stunts?

    I'd be more worried if Dublin people were out waving Union Jacks on the streets of Dublin. Now that part of the history of Dublin was deeply shameful to any self-respecting Dubliner.


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    #738
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    brian thinking where is the food,


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    #739
    Xivilai
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    HellFireClub wrote: »
    He was...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington


    See, I always heard that he was a Brit born in Ireland. We tend to claim a lot of figures. Like Robert Boyle who didn't love Ireland and whose own father thought we were ignorant backward pigs.

    They were very much at home in Britain.


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    #740
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭baldbear


    gandalf wrote: »
    He was, born in Mount Street!

    Didn't Wellington say he couldn't help if he was born in a pig shed or something offensive like that??? Thats why its cringe.......


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    #741
    See Ye
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭See Ye


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Yes he was born in Dublin.

    But wasn't he the lad who coined the phrase "Being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse" or somesuch ? He didn't consider himself Irish hence the cringe.


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    #742
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    TheZohan wrote: »
    The chairs look vulgar without covers...


    If a Groucho Marx lookalike showed up just after the speech all bent over with cigar ,that's exactly what he would say .Then he would grab Mary ,throw her back over his knee and snog ...


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    #743
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    I can't get over the ordinary look of the room, it looks more like a Chamber of Commerce dinner than one for the Queen...


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    #744
    ppink
    Registered Users Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭ppink


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    Oh that was former GAA president, Nickey Brennan :D:D

    OMG isin't he from Tipp........*shame*:o


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    #745
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Is that Seamus Heaney beside David Cameron?


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    #746
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    See Ye wrote: »
    But wasn't he the lad who coined the phrase "Being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse" or somesuch ? He didn't consider himself Irish hence the cringe.


    No. It was what Daniel o' Connell said about Wellington though most people get it mixed it.


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    #747
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Watching on RTE....what are Sky saying?

    Switched over she was that bad, Irish woman commenting on it.

    Apparently the 1,000 balloons released by SF was for the victims of the troubles and the British are more or less giving us money for free, cheaper than the IMF and EU. Other stuff too.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #748
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    See Ye wrote: »
    But wasn't he the lad who coined the phrase "Being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse" or somesuch ? He didn't consider himself Irish hence the cringe.

    He did say that, but it didn't change the fact the he was born here though! ;)


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    #749
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    HellFireClub wrote: »
    I can't get over the ordinary look of the room, it looks more like a Chamber of Commerce dinner than one for the Queen...

    I cannot see anything wrong with it.


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    #750
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    HellFireClub wrote: »
    I can't get over the ordinary look of the room, it looks more like a Chamber of Commerce dinner than one for the Queen...

    Where is this being held....?


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    #751
    marcsignal
    Registered Users Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I don't think it's fair to expect the Queen to apologise if Mary McAleese isn't going to apologise for Tubridy.

    Not to mention having to sit through a Westlife gig as well..


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