WTF.A minutes silence for the death of Queen Elizabeth in the Dail today. Micheal Collins and Dev

More of this cr@p. Thankfully most of the nation are more mature than this.

Did we have a minute for Hitler...?

Maybe we're more mature than them.

Gestures and peace are all about using symbolism in a positive sense. That is how respect is shown. Particularly among societies who like to create a 'them v us' on either side. Someone has to show maturity and cop on instead. Setting an example.

A rather apt example is the reaction across the political world when John Hume died two years ago.

And a man of peace like John Hume understood positive symbolism, in pursuit of a more sustained peace. It does not cost anything to show maturity and respect.

The opposite is an inferiority complex with a chip on your shoulder. That gets no one anywhere and only causes divisiveness. Such as this thread where some people live a life of 'them and us' in the small confines of their minds. Small minded bigots basically.

Why only go back that far?

Ah yes that great republican James Joyce.

Many an angry alcohol fuelled poem did he write to free our country with his British passport in hand.

graves

I’m going to disagree here. I actually don’t think they would be turning in their graves.I think they’d be happy with the amount of progress both our nations have seen. Yes, they might still wonder when the North will be United with the South, but I reckon these men would try see the positives here between our nation and our neighbour. They’re probably not near as bitter as people would have you believe.

The queen herself did it with her cúpla focail and the later famous handshake with Martin McGuinness.

You can look back with bitterness, or try to tentatively move forward with respect.

No no no. A day of mourning!😜

Perfect!

He was in the GPO . Only went in to buy some stamps, but that’s another story !

It was when we were a bitter, scared, cowed, poor, brow beaten, pious little Country, full of spite and abuse, that we wouldn't have marked the passing of the Head of State of our nearest neighbour, when we wouldn't have done enough for the fear of doing too much.

Now, as it happens, the new King is a visitor here more than people know, because he visits friends privately and is even a close friend of our President and Head of State and they have a relationship of equals.

And so we acknowledge the death of his mother and the efforts she made to support peace on this island in the latter decades of her reign.

Just a simple mark of respect and acknowledgement. Like all the people who stood outside front gates during Covid as the funerals passed by.

Basic decency, nothing more, nothing less and we get on with our day.

Maybe we were invaded again during the minute's silence and missed it?

i agree op, it was cap doffing fauning crap.

it was not maturity or moving on or any of the other drivel churned out by the "maturity" brigade.

we can have a relationship with our neighbour away as we should, but we should absolutely not be holding minute silences because the head of a moraly bankrupt and out of date institution passes away.

she was not our queen, he is not our king and will never be, this is ireland and not little britain.

nothing small minded or petty about it at all, simply a recognition of cap doffing nonsense that has no place in this country in this instance and is not being done in mine, or other's name.

yeah, not a chance would a minute silence be held in britain if our president died and it wouldn't be expected.

actually our judgement on the moral bankruptsy of the british monarchy is relevant when politicians are engaging in cap doffing on our behalf.

actually the death of the queen is likely to see it off long term.

It also seems to have escaped the attention of the minutes silence bashers that there are around 1m British citizens / UK passport holders living on this island (some of whom compete for our sports teams). It's as if this fact is completely meaningless to them.

They are taking really well. Perfectly, in fact. Exactly how they are intended to take it. With a great big dollop BS that they are swallowing whole. Just because the British public are dutifully complying with the orchestrated hysteria doesn't mean we should, too. Not our circus, not our monkeys. An official message of condolence from our state to theirs is sufficient, respectful and appropriate.

Meh, nothing to see here. Our landlords paying tribute to the nearest and the biggest landlord passing.