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craggles

Jaysus though, I asked some idling bus drivers in donnybrook if they knew anything about it and they said it was news to them, they had been waiting an hour for the buses they were supposed to be driving...

Liam Byrne

Elliemental wrote: »

You're comparing one tabloid to another, though. The Express may not be a "red top", but lets' face it; the Express and the Daily Mail are pretty much in the same vein as a tabloid. You don't expect clear, balanced and intelligent reporting from any of them.

You shouldn't, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people unfortunately do take the rubbish in these "news" papers as fact.

Latchy

gigino wrote: »

Is that the reason this 85 year old great grannie was brought to Croke Parkt, even though she has no interest in football - but yet she was not brough to Mullaghmore which is where her Uncle + family happily spent their months holidays each year and where he + others were murdered ?

Well the Queen attends a lot of functions of which she is not to fussy about and I don't know why she was invited to Croke Park ,like the Islandbridge vist it's part of the Itinerary of which a lot of thought went into I'm sure .As far as visiting Mullaghmore ,why would you want to bring her there to be reminded of were her uncle was murdered ? .

Beefy78

Elliemental wrote: »

I don't know if this is because my home city (Liverpool) has a huge Irish community living there, and there has always been great sympathy for the Irish struggle, in Liverpool; but we all knew about Bloody Sunday (the first one, that is).
I clearly remember reading about it. Also, ofcourse, the movie "Michael Collins" covered the event and a lot of English people would have been made aware of it through that.

Yep. Certainly at my school in Essex we learned about the Irish struggle for Independence, including Bloody Sunday, at A Level.

FloatingVoter

gigino wrote: »

Is that the reason this 85 year old great grannie was brought to Croke Parkt, even though she has no interest in football - but yet she was not brough to Mullaghmore which is where her Uncle + family happily spent their months holidays each year and where he + others were murdered ?

Lord Mountbatten was Prince Philips's uncle AFAIK.

Sir Oxman

gigino wrote: »

Thats the image of Ireland now in some peoples minds - an unfriendly country where young yobbos riot when the head of state of our neighbouring island, an 85 year old great grannie, visits. Each time they send over 7 billion , to save our skin, we do not riot at that though ?

No offence but I really, really resent reading this bull the last few days on here.
The bilateral loan offered as it was in the UK's national interest, amounted to £3.25billion with an expected interest payback of £414million to the UK.
Denmark and Sweden judged it was in their national interest to also offer bilateral loans.

Lady Chatterton

heyheyhey1982 wrote: »

It looked a lovely pint- cant believe the Queen didnt take a gulp of it.

The guy at the bar called her "her Royal Heiness" tut tut its "her Magesty"

Philip looked like he was raring to have a go of the black stuff. although after a certain IMF head found out- its better to ask before you grab the black stuff.....:P

I'll get my coat

The Queen is not allowed to be photographed while eating and drinking so that is why she didn't take a sip.

The other thing is, my granny is 85 too and she is one of those women who grew up believing that it was unlady like to drink from a pint glass. I reckon that the Queen would feel the same.

Spudmonkey

Philip was dying for that pint!!

Latchy

murpho999 wrote: »

it's the tabloids that sell most and have a large influence in forming people's opinions.

Millions of joe soaps don't buy any tabloids at all because they are full of shyte .

starviewadams

TV3's coverage sucks ass compared to RTE's yesterday!

Luxie

Has Phil insulted us yet?

Kerrydude1981

Will be the Queen be meeting the most important people of the GAA,the players,be a nice touch if each county was represented by a member of their county teams,I doubt this will happen though.

K-9

starviewadams wrote: »

TV3's coverage sucks ass compared to RTE's yesterday!

Was it Amanda Brunker?

LuckyGent88

Love watching John Hayes in that clip singing the national anthem with so much passion and emotion.

murpho999

MrsD007 wrote: »

The Queen is not allowed to be photographed while eating and drinking so that is why she didn't take a sip.

The other thing is, my granny is 85 too and she is one of those women who grew up believing that it was unlady like to drink from a pint glass. I reckon that the Queen would feel the same.

In all fairness I can't imagine she would get stuck into a beer in a half pint glass either!

Esoteric_

Does anyone know if the buses are running again yet? Need to get a 4 from Blackrock and then a 27 out of town, don't wanna end up stranded in town this evening! :eek:

Cathaoirleach

MrsD007 wrote: »

The Queen is not allowed to be photographed while eating and drinking so that is why she didn't take a sip.

Jaysus, if only there was the same rule for Brian Cowen.

http://i.imgur.com/0ikAk.jpg

gigino

gambiaman wrote: »

The bilateral loan offered as it was in the UK's national interest, amounted to £3.25billion with an expected interest payback of £414million to the UK.

And what about the other tens of billions we have received from the UK, inc through EC / EEC funds/ grants / handouts etc, and the tens of billions their banks already lent us too ?

Kerrydude1981

Isnt Christy Cooney the head off Bertie

Sir Oxman

gigino wrote: »

And what about the other tens of billions we have received from the UK, inc through EC / EEC funds/ grants / handouts etc, and the tens of billions their banks already lent us too ?

I'm not getting into an argument on this thread.
You were wrong with your 7billion and wrong to simply say it was to save our skin.

mikemac

Minister Christy Ring???

Is this presenter from Cork?

Edit, now corrected

Sir Oxman

Luxie wrote: »

Has Phil insulted us yet?

Unfortunately no - though plenty of time left

ArmaniJeanss

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Lord Mountbatten was Prince Philips's uncle AFAIK.

No, Philip is a Greek who adopted the surname Mountbatten and dropped his own surname. Lord Mountbatten was from Elizabeths side of the family.

edit,Actually, no, seems you are correct.

starviewadams

Crap that she has to visit an empty stadium!

LuckyGent88

could have at least got some of the good G.A.A players

Liam Byrne

starviewadams wrote: »

TV3's coverage sucks ass compared to RTE's yesterday!

"Sucks ass" ????

Does that mean that it's better or that it's ****e?

Hannibal Smith

gigino wrote: »

Is that the reason this 85 year old great grannie was brought to Croke Parkt, even though she has no interest in football - but yet she was not brough to Mullaghmore which is where her Uncle + family happily spent their months holidays each year and where he + others were murdered ?

the irish government didn't murder her uncle. If the Queen didn't want to come here, she didn't have to. She's apparently abdicating in 2013, she could have left the visit to Charles to do it.

murpho999

I wish the people in RTE would just shut up so we could hear what they are saying!

ejmaztec

MrsD007 wrote: »

The Queen is not allowed to be photographed while eating and drinking so that is why she didn't take a sip.

The other thing is, my granny is 85 too and she is one of those women who grew up believing that it was unlady like to drink from a pint glass. I reckon that the Queen would feel the same.

She prefers Phil to bite the bottle-cap off with his teeth so that she can slug it straight from the bottle. If he's not around, she usually breaks the bottle-neck by smashing it on a table and then sucks the beer through the glass fragments.

Micky Dolenz

Does anybody else hope someone trips or do something so this can become remotely interesting?