Irish Royalty

Gunnerkid

So with the British Royal wedding today and the Queens visit in May has got me thinking, imagine if Ireland had a Royal family, what would it be like??, would you support it or would you be against it.
I personally couldn't see it doing any harm and as seen with other world royal families they bring in money and tourism into their countries, however I could see different families fighting over the title of royal family of Ireland as we were left with a good few ruling clans before the British entered Ireland.

Coriolanus

The ra would have assassinated them decades ago.
We'd be in the middle of an anastasia style controversy involving some traveller bird.

stimpson

FFS...

krudler

settle it with a scrap, traveller style.

Daegerty

I'd be all for it. A King would have no problem standing up against the fecking EU and their high interest rate

They'd be better than Fianna Fail or the current shower any day

chin_grin

Where's the Atari Jaguar option?

orourkeda

Hyacinth Bucket

KeithAFC

Sounds like an interesting idea.

Agricola

Monarchies are irrelevant in modern democracies. We already pay a president a fat salary to fulfill an ambassadors role for the country. Why would we need anyone else?

chin_grin

orourkeda wrote: »

Hyacinth Bucket

It's Bouquet! :pac:

Gunnerkid

feelingstressed wrote: »

Didn't the leaders of 1916 want to invite over some Prussian prince?

And Sinn Féin was founded as a monarchist party. Well dual monarchy anyway

wow didint know that about the 1916 leaders :eek::eek:

heres a link to that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Joachim_of_Prussia

rockmongrel

Absolutely, unequivocally, no. Never ever forever never.

Knasher

Well I don't really seeing them adding anything to the country so it wouldn't be something I'd support.

Unless you're asking me to take the job, in which case I'm all for it.

Nodin

Gunnerkid wrote: »

So with the British Royal wedding today and the Queens visit in May has got me thinking, imagine if Ireland had a Royal family, what would it be like??, would you support it or would you be against it.
I personally couldn't see it doing any harm and as seen with other world royal families they bring in money and tourism into their countries, however I could see different families fighting over the title of royal family of Ireland as we were left with a good few ruling clans before the British entered Ireland.

So we'd make Ivor Callely an institution and support him and his offspring and descendants forevermore. Great stuff.

mikemac

Gunnerkid wrote: »

wow didint know that about the 1916 leaders :eek::eek:

heres a link to that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Joachim_of_Prussia

Interesting alright, and I just deleted my first post by accident.

Anyways it depends
Yes to Munster ruling everyone like Brian Ború
No to some High King in Meath

UP MUNSTER!

Blisterman

Well if David Norris get's elected president, we'll once again be ruled by a queen!

patmac

Well the nearest we had were the Ahearn's when the Celtic Tiger was in full swing and look how that turned out.
The only way it could work was if we offered it to the Gaddaffi and his kin as long has he gave us the €80 billion he has stashed away and he had no control over the army.

P_1

Ahem...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Tara

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland

Knight who says Meh

Bah. Most of us have gotten over bowing and scrapeing to Priests and Politicians so why replace it;)

charlemont

Hugo O Neill is a direct descendent of the O Neill family, He lives in Lisboa.

Knight who says Meh

Blisterman wrote: »

Well if David Norris get's elected president, we'll once again be ruled by a queen!

OOoooohhh. Thats new.

smokedeels

The Corrs?

Has anybody traced the bloodline from the Irish Kings?

Knight who says Meh

smokedeels wrote: »

The Corrs?

Has anybody traced the bloodline from the Irish Kings?

I bet Jim has.

Nodin

Knight who says Meh wrote: »

I bet Jim has.

...I think that was just a test to show he was free from the Orion Lizard taint....

dlofnep

Unsure why anyone would want an unelected family, with an over-inflated sense of self-importance as our head of state. At least our president is elected, and doesn't cost the state billions in declaring a national holiday for a wedding. The idea of a royal family is an archaic idea, that should have been buried 100 years ago.

Krusader

dlofnep wrote: »

Unsure why anyone would want an unelected family, with an over-inflated sense of self-importance as our head of state. At least our president is elected, and doesn't cost the state billions in declaring a national holiday for a wedding. The idea of a royal family is an archaic idea, that should have been buried 100 years ago.

the thing is the royal family generate billions from tourism and the selling of tat, but it is an archaic idea and elitist

lcrcboy

Im a descendant of Brian Boru so all ye bow down to me and build my palace overlooking Dublin City

Einhard

God, what a horrible idea. At least with our wretched politicians, we have the chance to vote them out. I shudder to think of someone like Bertie or Charle Haughey lording it over us for life.

Nodin

.....I think the closest thing we had to royalty here was CJ Haughey - arrogant, corrupt, tempramental, greedy, filled with a sense of his own 'greatness' and entitlement....its bad enough we elect the eejits now and again without giving them and their line jobs for life forever....

Xivilai

Ireland had too much royalty back when it was important, they couldn't decide who should rule who, and destroyed eachother. The End.

smokedeels

Einhard wrote: »

God, what a horrible idea. At least with our wretched politicians, we have the chance to vote them out. I shudder to think of someone like Bertie or Charle Haughey lording it over us for life.

We'd get to chop their heads off