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Queen Elizabeth II dies

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    #272
    McFly85
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭McFly85


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591292#Comment_119591292

    Shes a deceased head of state, it is news. If Joe Biden was in a similar position I’m sure they would lead with that.

    You can not like the monarchy while also appreciating the death of the head of the family is newsworthy?

    Confirmed now on Sky



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    #273
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,348 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    She's been called dead on 2 channels. CNN and bloomberg



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    #274
    Rawr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭Rawr


    And there you have it, death now confirmed



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    #275
    Zebra3
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    Flag lowered. Slán.



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    #276
    Spanish Eyes
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    Could be Lazarus Liz. I remember when my grandmother was dying, all her children were gathering from all corners and were around her bed praying. She got a second wind as many near death do, and sat up, ate and drank something for the first time in four or five days and chatted to everyone. Died the next morning though bless her. She was a very young member of Cumann na mBan but secretly loved reading about and looking at photos of the Royal Family. Her name was Eileen and we slagged her for years after the Coronation of the Queen that she even had the same name albeit hers was the Irish version.

    They are waiting for Harry. Won't be long now, unless he takes the scenic route to Balmoral as an act of defiance or something.



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    #277
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,953 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Just announced now.



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    #278
    amdublin
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    RIP



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    #279
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    This is history



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    #280
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    RTE website leads with it, yet BBC website still reads about her ill health, weird



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    #281
    Sudden Valley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    Be interesting to compare the mourning to the queen with the same for princess Di. Id say the death of the queen will have a far larger effect on the monarchy



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    #282
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    RIP.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #283
    Rawr
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    BBC stream crashing, but got in eventually. They are calling Charles, «King» now. It’s wierd to be on the other side of this…



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    #284
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,348 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591292#Comment_119591292

    It's the headline story on pretty much every media outlet. From rate to Bloomberg to arise and al Jazeera. Everywhere



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    #285
    Cork Lass
    Registered Users Posts: 6,847 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    I Liked her and I'm sad that she has died. Wouldn't have any time for the rest of them.



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    #286
    Be right back
    Registered Users Posts: 6,159 ✭✭✭Be right back


    It's the end of an era really. Here in Edinburgh airport and news slowly getting through.



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    #287
    ChickenDish
    Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭ChickenDish


    RIP Liz, you had a good run



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    #288
    [Deleted User]
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    RIP. The mother of the British people for the past 70 years, and a great woman. There will be raw feelings in millions of homes in the UK tonight because her death symbolizes the formal passing of the WW2 generation and twentieth century Britain.



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    #289
    lawred2
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    Great opportunity over the next while to determine the servile amongst us



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    #290
    DrumSteve
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    Whether or not you agree with Royalty and more specifically, The British Royals, there is no doubt she has served her country for literally her entire adult life to the best of her abilities.

    I reckon that's it now for the royals, the slow descent into irrelevance continues.

    RIP.



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    #291
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,546 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    I feel surprisingly sad - that was a real lump in the throat moment when they announced it.



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    #292
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,529 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591193#Comment_119591193

    What a ridiculously silly post.



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    #293
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,529 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Very sad day for many people. A life long commitment to duty…



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    #294
    Tazium
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭Tazium


    RIP



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    #295
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,141 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    RIP



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    #296
    SuperBowserWorld
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    End of an era. Rip.



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    #297
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,141 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    sligeach threadbanned



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    #298
    Panrich
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    She was a part of history and a constant in all our lives, no matter what your opinions of her or the monarchy. This is especially true for those of us on the older side.



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    #299
    _Kaiser_
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    RIP.

    Some of the posts above though!



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    #300
    Loafing Oaf
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    Mad to think she was doing the 'kissing hands' thing with the other Elizabeth just a few days ago. when you get to that age I guess things can go downhill very fast...



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    #301
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591417#Comment_119591417

    Diana was very of the 90's, of Cool Britiannia and all that, a bit of a flash in the pan in the public mind. High emotion that hits that hard that fast, tends to die off just as quickly.

    Elizabeth II, one of their greatest monarchs* in a time of rapid change unheard of in history and known by generations of British people as a constant fixture in their cultural lives will have a much bigger legacy than an unseemly sideshow like Diana** and her passing a much greater effect.




    *not a high bar to be fair, but she defo jumped it. Not unlike her earlier namesake.

    **tbh I always though Diana a right whinge

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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