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Sinn Fein to meet the Queen

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  • #102
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    It wasn't a proper handshake; Liz didn't take off her gloves.


  • #103
    Lambretta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Lambretta



    I think today is a great step forward for both communities in NI. Sky News (typical of British and Sindo media ) pre-coverage of the event focused only on the atrocities committed only by the IRA and the victims families of these events. Why did they not also mention the atrocities committed by the British Army and the suffering on both sides of the divide? Why not show a real picture of the situation.

    Given that the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment’s commander of Colonel Derek Wilford received an OBE from England’s Queen Elizabeth II for his work on Bloody Sunday and Prince Charles, the heir to the English throne, was the Paras’ royal commander-in-chief. A Ceremonial title indeed only for Prince Charles; but none the less a ceremonial title over a murderous regiment.

    Both sides are accountable. You would swear by the media and some posters on this side that the Royal Family and the British Army were Mother Theresa and the Samaritans during the conflict.
    Families on both sides suffered and it is as hard for many families of civilians murdered by the British army to accept Queen Elizabeth as it is for families hurt by the IRA to accept Martin McGuiness but it is time to move forward in my opinion and well done to both sides here.




  • #104
    Livvie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭Livvie


    Maybe an idealistic opinion, but her smile looked incredibly warm - there are smiles, and there are smiles. She looked like she was meeting an old friend. I wonder if that's a sign that she's looked differently at the history since her visit next year, and recognises why there have been troubles. That's the smile of a woman who understands....surely she just wouldn't smile like that if she didn't.


  • #105
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Livvie wrote: »
    Maybe an idealistic opinion, but her smile looked incredibly warm - there are smiles, and there are smiles. She looked like she was meeting an old friend. I wonder if that's a sign that she's looked differently at the history since her visit next year, and recognises why there have been troubles. That's the smile of a woman who understands....surely she just wouldn't smile like that if she didn't.

    Piles!
    They call her 'Choo Choo Train'...................because she has a tender behind!


  • #106
    Eggy Baby!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Eggy Baby!


    I think today is a great step forward for both communities in NI. Sky News (typical of British and Sindo media ) pre-coverage of the event focused only on the atrocities committed only by the IRA and the victims families of these events. Why did they not also mention the atrocities committed by the British Army and the suffering on both sides of the divide? Why not show a real picture of the situation.

    Good points, but what is "Sindo media"?


  • #107
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Eggy Baby! wrote: »
    Good points, but what is "Sindo media"?

    The Independent (The Irish one, not the British)/Sunday Independent newspapers. Both have been known to take not just an anti-republican line, but an utterly hysterical one.


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