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    #812
    Magic Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Magic Eight Ball


    The Queen speaking Irish? Duuuirty :D


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    #813
    Wolfe Tone
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    Will Biffo entertain us with impressions?


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    #814
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    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...

    To "Brown girl in the Ring"....

    Brown nosin the queen, tra la la la la

    We're all Brown nosin the queen, tra la la la la la

    ...show me a freebie, tra la la la la


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    #815
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Excellent speech from the Queen. Very eloquent.

    Great to hear her address every issue & not skirt around any issues too. I'm sure the idiotic head-in-the-sand, so called "Nationalists" will pick holes in it, but fuck 'em - this speech has made the Queen's visit more than a symbolic thing. It has concreted the very real ties between us & our closest neighbours.

    Fair play.


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    #816
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    I have to say I have found the events of the last two days to be quite moving. Im glad I saw it in my lifetime.


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    #817
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Fair City is late


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    #818
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users Posts: 4,982 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    "I like this clinking glass"?


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    #819
    hondasam
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    round of applause everyone for the speeches.


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    #820
    jack presley
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    I hope people who have the DVR set for Fair City have added on a few minutes!


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    #821
    Latchy
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    A few Valiums knocked back early on I'd say ...


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    #822
    Pauleta
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    That was nice :)


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    #823
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭Degag


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    "I like this clinking glass"?
    Lol, heard that too!


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    #824
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,702 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    KINGVictor wrote: »
    I never thought I would ever say this but....well said Walshb!

    And Fair City to follow, what a night!


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    #825
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Fair play to Lizzie that was a good speech (plus her Irish is better than mine!).


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    #826
    pjmn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭pjmn


    Outstanding speech from Mary McAleese and excellent response from The Queen - fair play to both of them...


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    #827
    decies
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    3 cheers for her majesty !!! Tv3 will be livid nobody watching the match!!!


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    #828
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Will Biffo entertain us with impressions?

    That God Bertie didn't make a speech. They'd think he was taking the piss out of George VI.


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    #829
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭Degag


    jack presley wrote: »
    I hope people who have the DVR set for Fair City have added on a few minutes!
    For their sakes, i hope not!


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    #830
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Mcaleese saying 'wow' when Elizabeth spoke Irish...


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    #831
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,476 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Very good speech by Liz there.

    Definitely historic. Think it went farther than expected.

    Also saw that the queen is an old pro......end with a standing toast and guaranteeing a standing ovation!


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    #832
    See Ye
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭See Ye


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Will Biffo entertain us with impressions?

    Whist up it's a classic ..


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    #833
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Any news of the riots? Stream gone quiet but I suppose they have all headed off to watch the footie. :rolleyes:


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    #834
    amdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    "I like this clinking glass"?

    Loved that!!!!

    I had to rewind to hear what she said and I lol'd!!

    :D


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    #835
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    The major forces in British and Irish politics have made considerable efforts to leave the past in the past. Things are well on their way to changing.


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    #836
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    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.......

    Actually, Wellington, while clearly being culturally and politically British, didn't say that. Daniel O'Connell said it about Wellesley on 16 October 1843:

    'The poor old Duke! what shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.' (16 October 1843)


    Shaw's authenticated report of the Irish state trials, 1844


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    #837
    gandalf
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    decies wrote: »
    3 cheers for her majesty !!! Tv3 will be livid nobody watching the match!!!

    I stated to watch it and turned away it was so turgid.


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    #838
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    Wow, good speech. Class act :)


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    #839
    DWCommuter
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    I have absolutely no problem with that whatsoever. Loved it. Can we please move forward peacefully?


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    #840
    K-9
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    Jaysus, I know it's a cliche at this stage, but she's some woman for 85. Great speech and about as diplomatic an apology as you'll get.

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



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    #841
    Dunny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Any news of the riots? Stream gone quiet but I suppose they have all headed off to watch the footie. :rolleyes:

    Why would they watch it? Theres no British team involved


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