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    #752
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    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...

    It'll be a welcome change for her!


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    #753
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,476 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    baldbear wrote: »
    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.......

    Yep....he said being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse!


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    #754
    DWCommuter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭DWCommuter


    SLAINTE!


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    #755
    Dunny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    SLAINTE

    (might aswell join in)


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    #756
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    baldbear wrote: »
    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.......

    Wellington, though born in Ireland into an Anglo-Irish family, would have considered himself ever inch an Englishman. Also, that quote is often attributed to him, but he never said it.


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    #757
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Fantastic speech by our president. Really and truly fantastic.*


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    #758
    Xivilai
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    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.

    That quote could be a myth, but lets just say that by today's standards. He was an ultra west-Brit he probably didn't even spend much time in Ireland.

    I'm no historian but thats the way I see it :pac:


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    #759
    Propane Nightmare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Propane Nightmare


    Slainte


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    #760
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Baby Guinness would have been better for the toast.


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    #761
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Go on ya good thing!


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    #762
    See Ye
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭See Ye


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

    Psst - You could have whispered that to me - we're in the same room !!


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    #763
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Now we will see if its all one way


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    #764
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users Posts: 4,855 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    Am I the only who is only realised now, that they would totally plough Mary McAleese?


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    #765
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users Posts: 4,412 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Here we go......


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    #766
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Ah, as gaielge!


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    #767
    jos28
    Registered Users Posts: 7,194 ✭✭✭jos28


    Is the Queen tee-total ? That's the second time today that she didn't partake of alcohol


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    #768
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    HA ha lizze speaking Irish!


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    #769
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Nodin wrote: »
    Where is this being held....?
    Converted stable ......

    Dublin Castle I think


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    #770
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Jaysus she's going to give back the 6 counties. Is Keithafc watching......


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    #771
    siobhan.murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭siobhan.murphy


    now hand over the cash lady!!!


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    #772
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    Jasus a bit of Irish, next thing she'll be singing The Four Green Fields! :D:D:D


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    #773
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    she tried at least


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    #774
    Cypher_sounds
    Registered Users Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭Cypher_sounds


    Great speech from Mary there, very articulate speaker.


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    #775
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Take that, anti-gaeilge brigade!


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    #776
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    LOL! Queenie speaking Irish in that cut glass accent!


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    #777
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Latchy wrote: »
    Converted stable ......

    Dublin Castle I think

    O.


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    #778
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    ShagNastii wrote: »
    Am I the only who is only realised now, that they would totally plough Mary McAleese?
    apt name


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    #779
    Propane Nightmare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Propane Nightmare


    Wheres éirígí now, you bunch of dole grabbing, plonkers!!...


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    #780
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    I prepared a poem to say at the dinner tonight, but sadly wasn't invited, so I'll just have to recite it to you peasants

    Oh goodness gracious me, why don't you take a seat, for we're in for a royal treat, oh yes, it will be so sweet, for we're going to get to watch the Queen eat!

    They invited Seamus Heaney instead, I really don't know why...


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    #781
    amdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    I loves Madge's bling.

    Particularly the diamond harp brooch :)


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