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Old 05-03-2011, 09:12 AM #1
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Her Majesty the Queen is to visit Eire. Will the Eire populace protest against this gracious visit?

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First off, it's Ireland. And second, we've got more important things to worry about. I hope she enjoys her visit.
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First off, it's Ireland. And second, we've got more important things to worry about. I hope she enjoys her visit.
Sinn Fein plan to hurl potatoes at her - it is a disgrace.
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How very nice for the Old and Young folks of Eire.
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Sinn Fein plan to hurl potatoes at her - it is a disgrace.
Potatoes?! Aren't they softening in their old age.......................
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Her Majesty the Queen is to visit Eire. Will the Eire populace protest against this gracious visit?

How utterly enthralling.
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Seeing as how Eire were quick enough to snatch the £7 billion bail out from the UK to prop up their economy, the very least they can do is to treat the Queen with respect and give her a warm welcome.

Sinn Fein are definitely going soft - it used to be bombs they threw, not potatoes.
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Times have moved on. They prefer her to the Pope now... understandably.
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well she is much fitter.
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Seeing as how Eire were quick enough to snatch the £7 billion bail out from the UK to prop up their economy, the very least they can do is to treat the Queen with respect and give her a warm welcome.

Sinn Fein are definitely going soft - it used to be bombs they threw, not potatoes.
I dunno.................. taking inflation into consideration and all, I think the UK probably got off lightly for 700 years or raping our livestock, crops and natural resources................................. €7 billion sounds like a steal
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I dunno.................. taking inflation into consideration and all, I think the UK probably got off lightly for 700 years or raping our livestock, crops and natural resources................................. €7 billion sounds like a steal
Nah, I think the atrocities committed by the IRA are enough revenge for anyone to exact, without resorting to daylight robbery as well. If you want to be independent that means paying your own bills.
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yay, irish/british tension that never really goes anywhere since none of those still alive on either side are directly accountable for said atrocities (well, the IRA...maybe...)
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Nah, I think the atrocities committed by the IRA are enough revenge for anyone to exact, without resorting to daylight robbery as well. If you want to be independent that means paying your own bills.
Politically independent, financially tied into the EU, as is the UK. And the major banking interests who fuelled the outlandish lending here and in so many other countries are scattered across Europe. This is a global issue and culpability knows no traditional geographic boundaries.
Oh, and there were atrocities on both sides. I'm no apologist for the IRA and have spent most of the last week ranting at anyone who would listen about the dangerously significant protest vote Sinn Fein picked up in our national election.
However, in a historical context - which is what I was addressing - they didn't lick all that anger off the ground, you know. A great many people who comment on this would do well to read up a bit on the genesis of the republican movement in Northern Ireland.
Also, I'm a citizen of the Republic of Ireland and the activities of a small number of extremists does not speak for me or settle any debts on my score - no more than those who most recently planted bombs on London busses spoke for you.
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yay, irish/british tension that never really goes anywhere since none of those still alive on either side are directly accountable for said atrocities (well, the IRA...maybe...)
Were you paying attention to the recent report into the Bloody Sunday atrocities by the paras?
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All Nations have some reasons for holding negative thoughts to certain things and people visiting their country where in history there has been tensions.
English hands in history are very far from clean as to the Republic of Ireland too.

However the President of Ireland has invited the Queen to the Nation and she has accepted,naturally some will welcome the visit,others not so, that does not mean necessarily disrespect to the Queen but its only natural there will be some reservations to the visit.

Whatever any protests may take, I am sure they will be lower key protests but as I said English(and I am English) hands are far from clean as to our treatment of the Irish in parts of history so it is never likely our Monarch would be welcomed by everyone there.

I hope in the end it goes well for her and all the great people of the Republic of Ireland too.
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All Nations have some reasons for holding negative thoughts to certain things and people visiting their country where in history there has been tensions.
English hands in history are very far from clean as to the Republic of Ireland too.

However the President of Ireland has invited the Queen to the Nation and she has accepted,naturally some will welcome the visit,others not so, that does not mean necessarily disrespect to the Queen but its only natural there will be some reservations to the visit.

Whatever any protests may take, I am sure they will be lower key protests but as I said English(and I am English) hands are far from clean as to our treatment of the Irish in parts of history so it is never likely our Monarch would be welcomed by everyone there.

I hope in the end it goes well for her and all the great people of the Republic of Ireland too.
Thanks for that very fair post. I think she'll get a cordial, courteous welcome. The suggestion earlier in the thread that Ireland is somehow beholden to England because of the EU/IMF Euro rescue package - because that's what it was, a self-serving currency rescue package - riled me. I should know better.
In any event, that issue has nothing to do with the Queen visiting Ireland. I have little interest in the Queen or the rest of her family but, as I said earlier, I hope she enjoys her visit.
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Thanks for that very fair post. I think she'll get a cordial, courteous welcome. The suggestion earlier in the thread that Ireland is somehow beholden to England because of the EU/IMF Euro rescue package - because that's what it was, a self-serving currency rescue package - riled me. I should know better.
In any event, that issue has nothing to do with the Queen visiting Ireland. I have little interest in the Queen or the rest of her family but, as I said earlier, I hope she enjoys her visit.
You are welcome,I am sure the visit will go well. As to any EU/IMF rescue package,well the UK has had to have IMF assistance in the past too and if the UK has contributed to the rescue package decreed by the EU for the Republic of Ireland,then I for one am glad to see the UK doing something for one of our closer neighbours in the World rather than shifting massive funds to all and sundryall over the globe elesewhere.
I think you had some justification to be a little angry.
I too also think the Queen will get a courteous welcome, the Irish are well known for their hospitality.
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I think the woman is okay I suppose, if she wants to visit Ireland it's not really a big deal, Irish people are awful though, some kids will probably try to petrol bomb whichever form of transportation she uses. Irish children are brought up to hate the queen and to hate the English, I know it's wrong but people are automatically against anything the queen does, I know she wasn't even born, so I can't possibly dislike her. Hopefully everything will go well during her visit, I have nothing against her or the rest of her family personally.
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I think the woman is okay I suppose, if she wants to visit Ireland it's not really a big deal, Irish people are awful though, some kids will probably try to petrol bomb whichever form of transportation she uses. Irish children are brought up to hate the queen and to hate the English, I know it's wrong but people are automatically against anything the queen does, I know she wasn't even born, so I can't possibly dislike her. Hopefully everything will go well during her visit, I have nothing against her or the rest of her family personally.
Irish people are amongst the best educated in the world. You, on the other hand, went through an education system that conveniently ignores all of England's 'activities' in Ireland.
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She's from Limerick.
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She's from Limerick.
You have seriously got to be kidding me? The only assumption I can now make is that she's under 12.
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I think she has a point. Irish kids are thick. Most kids are. They will be gatheting in their droves to throw empty coke bottles and cigarette butts as close as they can at the proceedings.

I'm from Cork, I should mention. Huns out etc.
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