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    #92
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭baldbear


    DWCommuter wrote: »
    Iris Robinson is coming to town later! Woo Hoo!

    Lock up you're leaving cert sons!!!


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    #93
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Probably bought from the States. No doubt it has super duper security features.


    Like a bailer attachment?


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    #94
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Hannibal Smith wrote: »
    I think there's a bit of a difference between what an illegal terrorist organisation does and the alleged actions, or inactions, of a Government's security force.

    It wouldn't play that way in Britain though. That's the political reality.


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    #95
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭baldbear


    I hope the UUP leader Tom Elliot isn't too offended by the Tricolour!!!


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    #96
    blaze1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭blaze1


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Unfortunately that's probably how they'll keep reporting it. It's hard to sell "everything's going fine, most people welcome her or aren't too bothered really."
    BBC seem a bit more balanced in fairness.

    RTE showed some riots last night as well, will that stop the rest of ireland coming up to dublin?


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    #97
    martic
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    Like a bailer attachment?
    :D:D:D:D


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    #98
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Did they not do this yesterday?


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    #99
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Quick its last orders!!!


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    #100
    Latchy
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    Yesterday was the official greetings and welcome .....


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    #101
    martic
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Did they not do this yesterday?

    They did but I think the secret plan is to bore the living dung out of the woman while she's here


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    #102
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I feel sorry for the Queen. having to go through this type of BS on a regular basis. She must be bored out of her head.


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    #103
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    I feel sorry for the Queen. having to go through this type of BS on a regular basis. She must be bored out of her head.

    Was just thinking that - I'd say she can't wait to get out of Dublin and down the country to see the horsies.


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    #104
    thehairyelbow
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭thehairyelbow


    Jaysus, that brought a lump to my throat. Well done to the military and services. Proud to be Irish. And good luck to all the forgotten heroes of forgotten wars.


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    #105
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    I feel sorry for the Queen. having to go through this type of BS on a regular basis. She must be bored out of her head.

    200 days a year every year until the day she dies. I'm sure there are perks to the gig but it's tough for an 85 year old (and 90 year old Phil for that matter).


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    #106
    Dyr
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    DWCommuter wrote: »
    Iris Robinson is coming to town later! Woo Hoo!

    http://oneworldscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/V_Diana.jpg


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    #107
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Is Betty going to give any public speech on this trip, or is it all just going to be quiet words in the ears of a select few?


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    #108
    strokemyclover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    Beefy78 wrote: »
    200 days a year every year until the day she dies. I'm sure there are perks to the gig but it's tough for an 85 year old (and 90 year old Phil for that matter).

    She's a big TV freak I hear anyway, into some things you wouldn't expect too. Might have posted in the TV forum on occassion! :eek:


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    #109
    martic
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    In fairness watching all the ****e she has to put up with I'd say she is secretly thinking to herself "please some1 kidnap me"


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    #110
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    Beefy78 wrote: »
    200 days a year every year until the day she dies. I'm sure there are perks to the gig but it's tough for an 85 year old (and 90 year old Phil for that matter).

    Ah, they get on ok.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7PDyEDFUmE


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    #111
    COYW
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Is Betty going to give any public speech on this trip, or is it all just going to be quiet words in the ears of a select few?

    Speeches tonight in Dublin castle.


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    #112
    DWCommuter
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    And Kevin Myers finally has his day.:D


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    #113
    Sir Oxman
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    Just glimpsed Kevin Myers - he has such a smackable face.


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    #114
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    strokemyclover wrote: »
    She's a big TV freak I hear anyway, into some things you wouldn't expect too. Might have posted in the TV forum on occassion! :eek:

    She gets double the Sky Plus recording allowance than everyone else too apparently.....


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    #115
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    An eternity's worth of fapping material provided there for Kevin Myers


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    #116
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    lcrcboy wrote: »
    I hope she will make some form of apology (even though she probably wont) why is it such a difficult thing to do is the UK's ego to big to allow such a thing to happen, it would also give the dissidents one less excuse to use when committing violence. I dont like the way sky news has been reporting the whole thing always focusing on a few little scumbags in hoodies shouting around the place.

    This goes beyond words. Through her actions, such as the visit to the Garden of Rememberance, the Queen is acknowleging the errors of the past, and the making an effort to draw a line beneath it. An apology is just words, and this is more than that, imo. I really don't think "ego" comes into it. Most of todays Brits, and certainly my own, (I'm English myself), generation, regard the Evil Empire as exactly that!
    As for Sky News. I Know its' unfair, but what can you expect from a "tabloid" news channel that consistently panders to the lowest common denominator? Disregard them. They warp everything.


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    #117
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭Degag


    Wouldn't you just love to hear what Prince Phillip was saying. I'd say you could write a book on the sh!te he's coming out with!


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    #118
    Liam Byrne
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    Hannibal Smith wrote: »
    I think there's a bit of a difference between what an illegal terrorist organisation does and the alleged actions, or inactions, of a Government's security force.

    Fair point, however the argument is diluted when the same people support the existence and actions of said illegal terrorist organisation, no ?


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    #119
    heyheyhey1982
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    Kevin Myres should be given to her Magesty as a gift


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    #120
    Nodin
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    heyheyhey1982 wrote: »
    Kevin Myres should be given to her Magesty as a gift

    I'd imagine shes enough around her thinking they should be on the throne as it is.


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    #121
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Elliemental wrote: »
    This goes beyond words. Through her actions, such as the visit to the Garden of Rememberance, the Queen is acknowleging the errors of the past, and the making an effort to draw a line beneath it. An apology is just words, and this is more than that, imo. I really don't think "ego" comes into it. Most of todays Brits, and certainly my own, (I'm English myself), generation, regard the Evil Empire as exactly that!
    As for Sky News. I Know its' unfair, but what can you expect from a "tabloid" news channel that consistently panders to the lowest common denominator? Disregard them. They warp everything.

    Fully agree. BBC said there were "pockets" of protesters. Which would seem about right, a few planks who reckon they have the right to disrupt what is a historical 4 days. The BBC also filmed some Dubs saying that she deserves respect and she was more than welcome, as any head of state would be!

    She won't apologise, but I think the wreath at the Gardens of Remembrance was a monumental gesture! I'm looking forward to hearing what she has to say this evening.


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