Prince Charles visiting donegal

ednwireland

Must get the union jack out.

Hopefully the office will be closed (no hope)

FortySeven

What has he done to deserve that? Poor fellow.

schizo1014

They are going to be visiting Magees in Donegal Town, large Gardai presence here all day haven't seen the likes of it before

Cee-Jay-Cee

Visiting LYIT and Glenveigh castle too.

schizo1014

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Visiting LYIT and Glenveigh castle too.

Yeah there has been a protest organised for him in Letterkenny I've heard

Maldesu

schizo1014 wrote: »

Yeah there has been a protest organised for him in Letterkenny I've heard

:rolleyes:
FFS.

ednwireland

4 garda transit vans rolled into donegal town this morning

FortySeven

ednwireland wrote: »

4 garda transit vans rolled into donegal town this morning

Did the locals line the streets to marvel at those new fangled steel horses?

schizo1014

ednwireland wrote: »

4 garda transit vans rolled into donegal town this morning

There was a few parked at the Bosco Centre last night and a a few squad cars. Charlie boy is heading to hanna hats tomorrow and Magees so he'll be a cool looking cat by the time he gets to Letterkenny

Maldesu

schizo1014 wrote: »

There was a few parked at the Bosco Centre last night and a a few squad cars. Charlie boy is heading to hanna hats tomorrow and Magees so he'll be a cool looking cat by the time he gets to Letterkenny

Would be great for Magees if he picks something up there. They have a really nice product.

ednwireland

Magees bought the company that makes his tartan I believe. That's the reason he's visiting magees apparently.

byte

ednwireland wrote: »

Magees bought the company that makes his tartan I believe. That's the reason he's visiting magees apparently.

Aye, that's the story I heard too, whether it's true or not, I dunno.

NIMAN

Not a royalist myself, and would have no time for the Royal Family, but jez these 2 are embarrassing.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/donegal-shamed-prince-charles-and-camilla-greeted-by-two-solitary-protesters-in-donegal-town-34745702.html

overshoot

l love how the irony is always lost on these protesters as they wear the jersey of a club... from Britain.
And agreed on the monarchy... lets face it they only still exist because they make England more money in tourism than it costs to keep them

Ernan McGettigan was giving it his full sales pitch in the radio interviews I heard :pac:

blinding

NIMAN wrote: »

Not a royalist myself, and would have no time for the Royal Family, but jez these 2 are embarrassing.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/donegal-shamed-prince-charles-and-camilla-greeted-by-two-solitary-protesters-in-donegal-town-34745702.html

If you are going to be daft enough to carry on like that surely you would have the sense to have a bottle of whiskey in the hand or is that poteen in the water bottle.

Mint Sauce

NIMAN wrote: »

Not a royalist myself, and would have no time for the Royal Family, but jez these 2 are embarrassing.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/donegal-shamed-prince-charles-and-camilla-greeted-by-two-solitary-protesters-in-donegal-town-34745702.html

Had to be a piss take of your man outside Croke Park during The 6 Nations whilst Lansdowne Rd was being redeveloped.

NIMAN

Unfortunately I don't think it is.

oranbhoy67

Celtic is a football Club based in Britain as everyone knows but started by and for Irish immigrants with a very Irish Nationalist and indeed Republican fanbase .. Im sure no one needs this pointed out to them, but there it is.

I think it's refreshing to see some young girls out protesting about this idiot being in the county and the waste of money thats went into to it , instead of sitting on their arses watching TOWIE or somesuch, pity there wasn't more like them.

sunny2004

These pair should have been arrested ......its that simple, not for what they were doing, but for their dress sense..

Maldesu

Friend of mine was in Donegal town when they arrived and had a little video of the meet and greet. Lots of people seemed really happy and excited with the visit. You'll always get the odd ones like the girls above, who seem to forget that our county in particular are heavily reliant on cross boarder tourism, medical facilities and cold hard cash. They probably nip over to Enniskillen for a couple of bottles at the weekend rather than pay the Irish prices.

washman3

NIMAN wrote: »

Not a royalist myself, and would have no time for the Royal Family, but jez these 2 are embarrassing.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/donegal-shamed-prince-charles-and-camilla-greeted-by-two-solitary-protesters-in-donegal-town-34745702.html

You do realise that this picture was a set-up organised and paid for by a journalist, just like the picture of the guy outside Croke Park some years back carrying the 'NO FOREIGN GAMES' placard.
Turned out that guy was an alcoholic/druggie in dire need of a few bob.

muffler

washman3 wrote: »

You do realise that this picture was a set-up organised and paid for by a journalist, just like the picture of the guy outside Croke Park some years back carrying the 'NO FOREIGN GAMES' placard.
Turned out that guy was an alcoholic/druggie in dire need of a few bob.

Post up the proof of this please.

overshoot

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

Celtic is a football Club based in Britain as everyone knows but started by and for Irish immigrants with a very Irish Nationalist and indeed Republican fanbase .. Im sure no one needs this pointed out to them, but there it is.

as im sure this was a reply to me...
despite all that Irishness... some of the money from that jersey went into the pocket of the person they are protesting. thus the irony

Cee-Jay-Cee

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

Celtic is a football Club based in Britain as everyone knows but started by and for Irish immigrants with a very Irish Nationalist and indeed Republican fanbase .. Im sure no one needs this pointed out to them, but there it is.

I think it's refreshing to see some young girls out protesting about this idiot being in the county and the waste of money thats went into to it , instead of sitting on their arses watching TOWIE or somesuch, pity there wasn't more like them.

Can I take it by your strong opposition to his visit that you never enter Northern Ireland to go shopping, you don't subscribe to Sky who are a British company and you don't do anything that would in any way lend support to anything British. If you do any of the above then you are typical of the ignorant hypocrites that come out of the woodwork on visits such as these.

enzo roco

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

Celtic is a football Club based in Britain as everyone knows but started by and for Irish immigrants with a very Irish Nationalist and indeed Republican fanbase .. Im sure no one needs this pointed out to them, but there it is.

I think it's refreshing to see some young girls out protesting about this idiot being in the county and the waste of money thats went into to it , instead of sitting on their arses watching TOWIE or somesuch, pity there wasn't more like them.

Would you get a grip. The club is British, full stop. It is a big British city. Get over it.

Refreshing to see??? Why dont they protest about something useful, like important issues. Not about royalty of our neighbour visiting.


Why are you so anti-British?

Cherry Blossom

You have to feel a bit sorry for him. He's spent his whole life in training for a job he will probably never take up.

oranbhoy67

enzo roco wrote: »

Would you get a grip. The club is British, full stop. It is a big British city. Get over it.

Refreshing to see??? Why dont they protest about something useful, like important issues. Not about royalty of our neighbour visiting.


Why are you so anti-British?

Thanks for telling me about my home City which I grew up in and lived in until I was 26, and which btw voted FOR independence from the UK in the referendum.

Why didn't it get partitioned off from the UK after that like N.I which was partitioned for less ??

Anway I wasn't talking about the city i was talking about the football club


Id say the commander in chief of the parachute regiment which killed 14 people dead in our neighbouring county is someone that not only should we not be welcoming, but we shouldn't be paying a fortune for the privilege neither .

Where exactly did I say I was Anti-British?
I was born and brought up in Britain.. I don't like their Royal Family, neither do a lot of people in Britain, who are forced to pay tax for the unelected spongers .

And lastly back to Celtic, yes of course Celtic is a British Football Club, but as I pointed out it was started by & is followed mostly by those from the Irish Diaspora around the world and our fans proudly fly the Irish flag everywhere we go and have won awards from both FIFA and UEFA for our behaviour whilst doing so . So if the best cheap shot that can be had at these girls is that one is wearing a Celtic top then they aren't doing too bad.

Tbh I think it's wrong posters having digs at them on here, its snide & they are obviously local girls and could be a boardsies sister or daughter.

Half of the ones commenting I bet have sang a rebel song some night full of the ale, at least these young girls have the conviction to stand up for what they believe in.

oranbhoy67

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Can I take it by your strong opposition to his visit that you never enter Northern Ireland to go shopping, you don't subscribe to Sky who are a British company and you don't do anything that would in any way lend support to anything British. If you do any of the above then you are typical of the ignorant hypocrites that come out of the woodwork on visits such as these.

I don't subscribe to Sky nor do i enter the north to go Shopping , not out of principal i just don't , I was born and brought up in the UK I have many things to be thankful to it for, but the Royal Family is not one of them.

Again I will reiterate I am not Anti-British but I don't agree with the money spent on today's visit nor the visit itself due to Charlies deep connections with the Parachute regiment.

When the day comes that there is a United Ireland then and only then should we be inviting these parasites over , id much rather have David Cameron at least he was elected .

oranbhoy67

overshoot wrote: »

as im sure this was a reply to me...
despite all that Irishness... some of the money from that jersey went into the pocket of the person they are protesting. thus the irony

not if she bought it off ali express like any sane person would

overshoot

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

Half of the ones commenting I bet have sang a rebel song some night full of the ale, at least these young girls have the conviction to stand up for what they believe in.

tbh looking at the pictures they were struggling to stand...

enzo roco

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

Thanks for telling me about my home City which I grew up in and lived in until I was 26, and which btw voted FOR independence from the UK in the referendum.

Why didn't it get partitioned off from the UK after that like N.I which was partitioned for less ??

Anway I wasn't talking about the city i was talking about the football club


Id say the commander in chief of the parachute regiment which killed 14 people dead in our neighbouring county is someone that not only should we not be welcoming, but we shouldn't be paying a fortune for the privilege neither .

Where exactly did I say I was Anti-British?
I was born and brought up in Britain.. I don't like their Royal Family, neither do a lot of people in Britain, who are forced to pay tax for the unelected spongers .

And lastly back to Celtic, yes of course Celtic is a British Football Club, but as I pointed out it was started by & is followed mostly by those from the Irish Diaspora around the world and our fans proudly fly the Irish flag everywhere we go and have won awards from both FIFA and UEFA for our behaviour whilst doing so . So if the best cheap shot that can be had at these girls is that one is wearing a Celtic top then they aren't doing too bad.

Tbh I think it's wrong posters having digs at them on here, its snide & they are obviously local girls and could be a boardsies sister or daughter.

Half of the ones commenting I bet have sang a rebel song some night full of the ale, at least these young girls have the conviction to stand up for what they believe in.

I would never sing any ridiculous song about being anti-British. Because I have no reason to hate a whole country or their royalty.

Youre British, and you feel their spongers, ok, then maybe you should protest about them in Britain.
The Scottish independence vote is none of my business, you vote whatever way you want.

You mention the murder of 14 people. Well obviously that was awful. But both sides have done such stupid things. Omagh was so stupid and horrible. What did it achieve?
There are stupid people on both sides that have done such horrible things to eachother. Its time to cop on and show a little respect to one another.
The women saying brits out today, and in July you'll have some clowns in Northern Ireland burning an Irish flag. This crap will not stop unless we all grow up and stop hatting eachother.


The women deserve to be called silly. They have brought embarrassment to their town

Cee-Jay-Cee

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

I don't subscribe to Sky nor do i enter the north to go Shopping , not out of principal i just don't , I was born and brought up in the UK I have many things to be thankful to it for, but the Royal Family is not one of them.

Again I will reiterate I am not Anti-British but I don't agree with the money spent on today's visit nor the visit itself due to Charlies deep connections with the Parachute regiment.

When the day comes that there is a United Ireland then and only then should we be inviting these parasites over , id much rather have David Cameron at least he was elected .

His visit was at his own request. The government or no one else actually invited him. Do you honestly believe that the government/dept of foreign affairs are going to refuse the visit citing 'cost or expense'?

Yes it was very costly but which would be better for Ireland, a budget security operation which resulted in a security scare and international embarrassment or pay the money to ensure the safety of one of the most recognised Royal figures (possibly in the world)? Can you imagine how damaging it would be to Ireland if there had been some form of attack on the visit??? Common sense prevailed in this instance, thankfully.

retalivity

Pretty sure it's a lad in a blonde wig on the left holding the sign...

oranbhoy67

enzo roco wrote: »

I would never sing any ridiculous song about being anti-British. Because I have no reason to hate a whole country or their royalty.

Youre British, and you feel their spongers, ok, then maybe you should protest about them in Britain.
The Scottish independence vote is none of my business, you vote whatever way you want.

You mention the murder of 14 people. Well obviously that was awful. But both sides have done such stupid things. Omagh was so stupid and horrible. What did it achieve?
There are stupid people on both sides that have done such horrible things to eachother. Its time to cop on and show a little respect to one another.
The women saying brits out today, and in July you'll have some clowns in Northern Ireland burning an Irish flag. This crap will not stop unless we all grow up and stop hatting eachother.


The women deserve to be called silly. They have brought embarrassment to their town

First of all I'm not British, but thanks for putting that tag on to me , Both My Parents are Irish and I have an Irish Passport and I am an Irish citizen .. would you say James Connolly was British too ?

Again I never said I hate a whole country and being Irish Republican does not mean this.

Omagh was an awful atrocity but the Irish Government or (head of state) didn't give the perpetrators medals and deny it was a crime for nearly 40 years. It wasn't a state sponsored massacre anyway it was a tiny splinter group making a horrible evil mistake. Id be against anyone involved in the Omagh bomb being asked to a neighboring town for a civic reception too.

I don't even hate Charles, he comes across a bit gormless but nothing to hate there, I dislike the institution he was born into and I am against that our country (That's Ireland I'm on about BTW) is divided and part of it is ruled by his family and government and eejits like whom you mentioned who burn our flag every year despite the orange on it representing them. eejits who are brainwashed by religious bigots who are meant to be leading them .

Anyway I've said enough im on to a losing battle here, Irish Republicanism takes a battering on boards at the best of times, the things said about these girls is IMO wrong but I for one say fair play to them at least they made a stand , god knows how much Letterkenny businesses lost out on today and I heard tons of people complaining about it but doing nothing , at least those two young girls went out and made a stand , and god forbid one of them wore a Celtic top eh , at least they don't have the blood of 14 Derry men and youths on their hands .

oranbhoy67

overshoot wrote: »

tbh looking at the pictures they were struggling to stand...

are you saying they were drunk do you have proof of that?

overshoot

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

are you saying they were drunk do you have proof of that?

na just a general observation from the pic in the thread. Sure its clearly a water bottle shes holding....

oranbhoy67

NIMAN wrote: »

Not a royalist myself, and would have no time for the Royal Family, but jez these 2 are embarrassing.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/donegal-shamed-prince-charles-and-camilla-greeted-by-two-solitary-protesters-in-donegal-town-34745702.html

That newspaper could start with getting the name of the football team right for a start, there's no such team called Glasgow Celtic

Spanish Eyes

Isn't is something else that a Royal visit to Donegal has only 37 posts. Most about the setup muppets or whatever they are. LOL.

We have moved on, thankfully.

oranbhoy67

overshoot wrote: »

na just a general observation from the pic in the thread. Sure its clearly a water bottle shes holding....

yeah just like all the other observations on this thread hinting or joking that one is a man in a wig, one is an eejit, they should be arrested for their dress sense they are shaming their town .. etc etc

A nice way to talk about a couple of girls from the county.

Just two girls protesting is all I see anything else is conjecture, there was a decent protest in Letterkenny today but not seeing much media coverage about that, no doubt if/when there is coverage then the people at that will get their share of personal abuse from all the high n mighty's on here.

ScouseMouse

NIMAN wrote: »

Not a royalist myself, and would have no time for the Royal Family, but jez these 2 are embarrassing.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/donegal-shamed-prince-charles-and-camilla-greeted-by-two-solitary-protesters-in-donegal-town-34745702.html

Embarrassing indeed. They are like the pair out of Absolutely Fabulous.

muffler

Right lads, you all know the topic here so please stick to it.

Alternatively the politics and history forums are that way

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Cee-Jay-Cee

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

yeah just like all the other observations on this thread hinting or joking that one is a man in a wig, one is an eejit, they should be arrested for their dress sense they are shaming their town .. etc etc

A nice way to talk about a couple of girls from the county.

Just two girls protesting is all I see anything else is conjecture, there was a decent protest in Letterkenny today but not seeing much media coverage about that, no doubt if/when there is coverage then the people at that will get their share of personal abuse from all the high n mighty's on here.

There was approx 30 people at KFC. No one paid them a blind bit of attention to them, those they were protesting about weren't even aware they were there. All in all a pointless and embarrassing exercise...and deservedly so.

enzo roco

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

First of all I'm not British, but thanks for putting that tag on to me , Both My Parents are Irish and I have an Irish Passport and I am an Irish citizen .. would you say James Connolly was British too ?

I agree with the rest of your post, but I wasnt tagging you. I was just saying youre British, as you said you voted in a British referendum, so I obviously guessed youre British. So you are Irish citizen but entitled to vote as you were born there. You be whatever you want to be.
Also, I would say James Connolly was Irish, Irish-British, or Scottish-Irish, whichever.

Joshua J

Them girls should know their place, standing up for what they believe in like that should be ashamed of themselves. And to do it peacefully too, the thought of it. I'm mortified for their mothers.

overshoot

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

A nice way to talk about a couple of girls from the county.

Just two girls protesting is all I see anything else is conjecture

Do you have proof of that? Surely thats just conjecture....

overshoot

Joshua J wrote: »

Them girls should know their place, standing up for what they believe in like that should be ashamed of themselves. And to do it peacefully too, the thought of it. I'm mortified for their mothers.

Im all for peaceful protests but do it in a way that you can convey your point. I would imaging we have heard less of the LK protest as it had a bit more decorum. You will rightly be ridiculed if you sit on a wall drinking out of finches bottles and when asked, you cant give more than...

When Mr Defoe asked one of the protestors why they felt so strongly about the Royal visit, she asked him to "shove it up your hole".

While I have as much interest in any monarchy as the Kardashians and think theyre as outdated as.... er... swords? Donegal has been featured on rte, bbc etc. Id imagine the policing hours was well covered in the value of air time the area received.

liamos43

Special message for ORANBHOY67 - lets do the sums. Quite possible 5000 tourists could holiday in Co Donegal as a result of today. If they spent E500 each that would equate to E2.5 million - not bad revenue in these difficult times Mr Bhoy

Joshua J

overshoot wrote: »

Im all for peaceful protests but do it in a way that you can convey your point. I would imaging we have heard less of the LK protest as it had a bit more decorum. You will rightly be ridiculed if you sit on a wall drinking out of finches bottles and when asked, you cant give more than...



While I have as much interest in any monarchy as the Kardashians and think theyre as outdated as.... er... swords? Donegal has been featured on rte, bbc etc. Id imagine the policing hours was well covered in the value of air time the area received.

Sorry bud you don't get to choose how or when people protest. What you're doing is creating an environment where you and others like you ridicule people who stand up for what they believe in because you don't. If you think you live in a perfect world where nothing is worth protesting about then you're divorced from reality. If you think there are things to protest about then don't ridicule those who do just because you don't agree.

schizo1014

overshoot wrote: »

Do you have proof of that? Surely thats just conjecture....

What proof do you want? The two of them are from the town actually I see them every week and know where they live, is that enough proof?

Joshua J

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

I think what most people here are taking issue with is the manner of this particular protest. Can anyone look at that picture and tell me what exactly they were trying to achieve? Why they're protesting his visit? Brits out, Donegal shamed. All right, but why? No one is going to give a **** about a protest if the protestors can't get a decent point across. I understand why they'd have a problem with the visit, but is an outside observer going to see anything other than a couple of people with incoherent messages?

Then leave them at it I say. There's no FETAC course in protesting or books you can read about it so they just went out and said their piece. If more people were willing to stand up for what they believe in the world would be a better place. But as soon as someone raises their head above the parapet there's snipers taking shots.

Maldesu

Joshua J wrote: »

Them girls should know their place, standing up for what they believe in like that should be ashamed of themselves. And to do it peacefully too, the thought of it. I'm mortified for their mothers.

Do they not like tourists from Britain?