Why is the British media unhappy with Biden's Irish visit?

Normans and Old English are the same thing.

The Normans that invaded Ireland in the 12th century were referred to as Old English by the time the Elizabethan conquest came around in the 16th century and brought the New English.

And both were different from the native Gaelic Irish.

Well given the fact that NI is still part of Britain/UK I really don't see an issue with people from there calling themselves British of they want to.

Nail on the head again….

and it’s this very reason they wanted out of the EU…. even more so since the expansion when the likes of Poland, the Baltic states, Romania, Bulgaria etc joined…… they were sat at a table as equals with these nations who they clearly see as not just below them, but a few levels below them…. And it must have burned them up inside….

Not dissimilar to Ireland tbh. People here worry about what the neighbours think, will I get a bigger SUV than the neighbours, if they have an accent from 'certain areas'.

We may not have a very large upper class but there are haves and have nots. Working class/affluent middle class/'squeezed' middle class areas in towns and cities exist here too. Old boys/crony networks exist.

Replace CBE/MBE with whatever GAA or rugby royalty you play/played for opens doors and that greases the way for you.

You'd swear sometimes the way Irish people go on that we are some sort of egalitarian workers paradise, complete BS. People from one level of our society here readily piss down and pull ladders up on others.

I don't disagree, every country has this to an extent, but the British have it at a whole other level (in my experience).

The Fawlty Towers episode where a fake Lord something or other turns up and Basil is incredibly obsequeous is funny because it's true. The toadying to the monarchy and the whole charade of the Honours List is all part of it. It leaves Ireland in the ha'penny place.

Absolutely - it's just that I think the lunatics controlling a lot of the MSM in the Uk are very much part of the one percenters, or are trying to curry favour with them.

I would agree on this one. Every country has a class system of course and haves and have nots, but the UK monarchy and honours system amplifies to a whole new level, especially in England itself. It didn't necessarily have to be be this way - the monarchy and honours system and House of Lords could very easily have gone out of fashion in the 20th century and come to have been seen as an anachronism, as happened in many other European countries.

I see King Cathal is coming over for a state visit shortly after his coronation. Prepare for round 2 of 'OMG I CANT BELIEVE THE IRISH DID THAT/DID NOT DO THAT/DID NOT DO IT THE SAME AS THEY DID FOR BIDEN/INSULTED THE NEW KING' etc

No doubt about it - anti English feeling is the highest for a while.

I suspect no Irish person will watch

While Charles and Carl do both derive from the Latin Christian name Carolus, Séarlas is the more correct translation of Charles while Cathal is closer to Carl.

So An Rí Séarlas a Trí will be his given Irish address when the State visit happens. Just to confuse the Brits massively like.

Peak levels of sarcasm here.

If King Charles wants to visit Ireland, then I'm all for it…. If he wants to visit us once a year then fine by me….

Id have no interest in the visit itself but rather the economic benefit such a visit would have for us, and the publicity it would shine on Ireland for the few days of the visit…… the exact same feeling I had with the Biden visit.

I guarantee you there are Americans who’s never even thought of visiting Ireland before who are now planning their trips on the back of the Biden visit, and it’ll be no different for Brits following a visit from Charles Windsor.

Based on it most likely being covered wall to wall in British media, exposing a market of 60m to Ireland, and all Ireland has to offer.

All we have to offer is conspicuous wealth.

With our 10 to 16 billion quid budget surpluses while Britain burns, it seems almost uncouth to show them what Ireland has to offer.

I don't think lack of money was ever the issue there. More like bad planning, lack of vision, lack of joined up thinking etc.

The IMF were needed for this country just 12 years ago. This seems to have been forgotten as well.

The Newsletter newspaper was outraged at him not having a union flag on his car. This sums up Ulster unionists to me, they can't cope with any sort of comprises. Catholics on the other hand are well used to compromises, you don't hear Catholics complaining about him not waving Catholic Nationalist flags during his Co.Antrim visit. Many unionists still have the mindset that Catholics are a 30% minority and that they can have it all their own way.

But it's a valid query.

When dignitaries from other countries visit places you often see the cars with both countries flag on them, left and right at the front.

While in the south you had that with the tri-colour and the US flag, but in the north you didn't have the union flag and the US flag on the car, it was just the US flag.

Why was the union flag not on the car also ?.