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RTE not showing Easter Rising ceremony??

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  • #32
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I think its a sign of the Irish people in the republic in general. A lot of them seem to be negative of your history overall and for RTE to not show this is very odd. Unlike say the BBC up here when it comes to the commemorations of our volunteers of WW1 and WW2, they show it every year and even UTV do things in remembrance to it.

    Whats going on in the republic?


    Nothing going on ,just a lot of smug people here trying to be something there not,There will be thousands there to watch it so dont be so deluded,


  • #33
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Why are so interested anyway keith would you & your mates not be better of trying to keep your dwindling support base going as i can see from being there last week that your No surrender mentality is slowly crumbling.


  • #34
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    No it didn't. Or did it? Depends who you talk to.;)

    Well, if you talk to someone who does not know what they are talking about on a whole range of issues, you tend to get the wrong answer.

    The 1916 Rising was successful in that it achieved many of the aims that it set out to. Support for Sinn Fein and an Irish Republic grew and the Irish people in the next Gerneral Election threw their support behind Sinn Fein who went on to receive 73 seats to the Unionst's 26.


  • #35
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    realies wrote: »
    Why are so interested anyway keith would you & your mates not be better of trying to keep your dwindling support base going as i can see from being there last week that your No surrender mentality is slowly crumbling.
    Oh i ain't. Don't get me wrong. Just curious thats all. Would of thought RTE would show such an event on TV.

    Don't see why you mentioned going to Ulster for. :confused:


  • #36
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Well, if you talk to someone who does not know what they are talking about on a whole range of issues, you tend to get the wrong answer.

    The 1916 Rising was successful in that it achieved many of the aims that it set out to. Support for Sinn Fein and an Irish Republic grew and the Irish people in the next Gerneral Election threw their support behind Sinn Fein who went on to receive 73 seats to the Unionst's 26.
    It got a ROI in the end but it did not get what they wanted overall.


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  • #37
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    It got a ROI in the end but it did not get what they wanted overall.


    :) Work still in progress :)


  • #38
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    It got a ROI in the end but it did not get what they wanted overall.

    You can't say the rising was not a success because ALL goals were not achieved. Read the many quotes from the rebels on that day and you will see that they knew they were going to get slaughtered but they knew that they needed to go through with it anyway and yes many died and the city was destroyed but there is no way that they would have had the support in the 1918 elections that they did, had the Rising not took place and so without question the Rising was a success. Without that battle, they would not have won the war.


  • #39
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    I suppose palestinians who dont support hamas are anti palestinian? and americans who are anti military intervention are anti-american?

    god damn flag wavers, you're the same worldwide, whatever country you were born in.


  • #40
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    Pauleta wrote: »
    Maybe its because their target audience will probably be watching British football instead.
    Mon the Celts eh?:D


  • #41
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I think its a sign of the Irish people in the republic in general. A lot of them seem to be negative of your history overall and for RTE to not show this is very odd. Unlike say the BBC up here when it comes to the commemorations of our volunteers of WW1 and WW2, they show it every year and even UTV do things in remembrance to it.

    Unfortunately, you are spot on.


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  • #42
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    What is it exactly they're not showing?
    I've never heard of it.
    I hope I'm not alone here.

    Why are people getting all worked up over this?


  • #43
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    complaints@rte.ie

    Start writing guys :)


  • #44
    CommuterIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭CommuterIE


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    I suppose palestinians who dont support hamas are anti palestinian? and americans who are anti military intervention are anti-american?

    god damn flag wavers, you're the same worldwide, whatever country you were born in.

    I think your taking a very simplistic and wrong approach to patriotism....

    There are Palestinians who proudly fly their flag and not supportive of Hamas...

    Likewise, there are millions of anti-interventionist Americans proudly waving their flag...

    Aspiration is fundamental to patriotism... we don't all look back to the past, we look to the future!


  • #45
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    I suppose palestinians who dont support hamas are anti palestinian? and americans who are anti military intervention are anti-american?

    god damn flag wavers, you're the same worldwide, whatever country you were born in.

    Your post makes no sense. Nobody here has implied any overtly Republican sentiments. The thread's about an interest in Irish history. You don't need to be a Provo supporter to want to watch a remembrance ceremony.

    Your words can be easily paraphrased and turned back against you


  • #46
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    What is it exactly they're not showing?
    I've never heard of it.
    I hope I'm not alone here.

    Why are people getting all worked up over this?
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  • #47
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,164 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    I wouldn't watch either, but our public broadcaster should show it. This is the reason for the licence, to show important stuff people have no interest in watching.


  • #48
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    I suppose palestinians who dont support hamas are anti palestinian?

    Believe me - When Palestine is internationally recognised as a state, they will celebrate that moment with the dignity and respect it deserves.
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    and americans who are anti military intervention are anti-american?

    Ever hear of the 4th of July? No, those Americans don't celebrate their independence at all. We mark the Easter Rising as the pivotal moment in Irish history which lead to our independence.
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    god damn flag wavers, you're the same worldwide, whatever country you were born in.

    Oh bollocks off - It has nothing to do with flag-waving. It's to do with celebrating sacrifice that people gave to pursue our freedom. They gave their lives.. Yes, their lives. And all you can do is scorn and thanks-whore on boards for it.


  • #49
    OutlawPete
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    I suppose palestinians who dont support hamas are anti palestinian? and americans who are anti military intervention are anti-american?

    Those things don't equate.

    Any British man or woman that would roll their eyes when the see OAPs out celebrating D-Day is disgrace to their country and that goes for any member of an country around the world that had men and women who gave their lives so that future generations could live live unoppressed by a foreign power and yet has the gall to show them no respect. People like that are jelly back boned and cannot see that the political and social luxuries that they have in life today have come about because of the very people who they disrespect and from the actions they today condemn.


  • #50
    mike65
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    RTE 1 this afternoon

    Service for Easter Sunday
    Rachel Allen: Bake!
    RTÉ News and Farming Weather
    Winning Streak
    Westlife - Live in Croke Park
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone


  • #51
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Believe me - When Palestine is internationally recognised as a state, they will celebrate that moment with the dignity and respect it deserves.



    Ever hear of the 4th of July? No, those Americans don't celebrate their independence at all. We mark the Easter Rising as the pivotal moment in Irish history which lead to our independence.



    Oh bollocks off - It has nothing to do with flag-waving. It's to do with celebrating sacrifice that people gave to pursue our freedom. They gave their lives.. Yes, their lives. And all you can do is scorn and thanks-whore on boards for it.



    Well said. especially the last paragraph.


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  • #52
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Predator_ wrote: »
    Why are ye surprised? RTE are a joke, west brit traitors. No doubt they will have full coverage of that foreign wedding:rolleyes:

    Its a fucking thundering disgrace is what it is.

    And no doubt when Lizzy comes over we'll have the west brit cretin's out waving their little union Jacks & pissing themselves with excitement.


  • #53
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    mike65 wrote: »
    RTE 1 this afternoon

    Service for Easter Sunday
    Rachel Allen: Bake!
    RTÉ News and Farming Weather
    Winning Streak
    Westlife - Live in Croke Park
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Well at least five out of six of those programmes are Irish produced :pac:


  • #54
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    CommuterIE wrote: »
    Why?

    Anyone know where one can watch it live?

    If true, I deeply find that a terrible rotten decision of RTE.
    If true, what a shower of utter **** at RTE - its a new low!


  • #55
    Break all ties
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭Break all ties


    Who cares about a bunch of idiots who thought they could kick the brits out by taking over a post office and biscuit factory?

    The only pity was they did not shoot that yank bollocks that was with them.


  • #56
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    RTE, still Rubbish Telly Everyday.

    What an unbelievable howler not showing the ceremony, they must think that they're privatised already, the useless nepotistic bastards.


  • #57
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Is it on TV3? presented by the Xpose team?


  • #58
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    mike65 wrote: »
    Is it on TV3? presented by the Xpose team?

    Britain's Got Talent :)


  • #59
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Break all ties wrote: »
    Who cares about a bunch of idiots who thought they could kick the brits out by taking over a post office and biscuit factory?

    The only pity was they did not shoot that yank bollocks that was with them.

    Back under your bridge, you
    mike65 wrote: »
    Is it on TV3? presented by the Xpose team?

    Nope, they're currently showing Britain's Got Talent. If it wasn't on UTV last night you can bet your ass TV3 won't be showing it. Although they're forgiven today because they're showing the hugely excellent Dark Knight tonight.


  • #60
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    dlofnep wrote: »
    complaints@rte.ie

    Start writing guys :)

    Done!

    :mad:


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  • #61
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    catbear wrote: »
    Well the Republic died back in November thanks to Fianna Fail so I guess there's little point in rubbing salt into the wound.


    We never had a Republic to start with.


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