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After Hours, one and only Queen thread

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  • #122
    Auvers
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    Yeah great thread


    Freddie Mercury rocks


  • #123
    Madam
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    Áras an Uachtaráin - will she be staying there during her visit?


  • #124
    sensibleken
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    and commencing with an oration by Pat Ingoldsby


  • #125
    kfallon
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    hondasam wrote: »
    you forgot these guests

    Louis Walsh
    Keith Duffy
    ray darcy
    Linda Martin

    They can't make it so are joining her for lunch in O'Neills on Suffolk St for the carvery....great value in there tbh!


  • #126
    Wolfe Tone
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    Is the British Queen honoring and commemorating those who fought for a 32 county republic and whose aims have not yet been realized displaying tacit support for a united Ireland?


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  • #127
    xxshebeexx
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    Is there anywhere the commoners can get a look at her? I really want to see her :( Or does anyone know where I'd find that out?


  • #128
    Wolfe Tone
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    xxshebeexx wrote: »
    Is there anywhere the commoners can get a look at her? I really want to see her :( Or does anyone know where I'd find that out?
    This poster is in the ra, good effort but we are on to you!


  • #129
    sensibleken
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    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Is the British Queen honoring and commemorating those who fought for a 32 county republic and whose aims have not yet been realized displaying tacit support for a united Ireland?

    now i may be jumping the gun and being extremely presumptuous. But i think...I suspect you may already know the answer to that question


  • #130
    kfallon
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    xxshebeexx wrote: »
    Is there anywhere the commoners can get a look at her? I really want to see her :( Or does anyone know where I'd find that out?

    What, catch a glimpse of the Queen on her public visit.....don't be so ridiculous :pac:


  • #131
    breadandjam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭breadandjam


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Is the British Queen honoring and commemorating those who fought for a 32 county republic and whose aims have not yet been realized displaying tacit support for a united Ireland?
    Oh you're on dangerous ground there.

    I wonder has the British security checked out the advance US security for anti royalist feeling


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  • #132
    InTheTrees
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    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Is the British Queen honoring and commemorating those who fought for a 32 county republic and whose aims have not yet been realized displaying tacit support for a united Ireland?

    Yes.


    (:pac: :pac: :pac: :pac:)


  • #133
    kfallon
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    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Yes.

    Is your Username an idea of where you are going to be tomorrow with your rifle???


  • #134
    Wolfe Tone
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    sensibleken wrote: »
    now i may be jumping the gun and being extremely presumptuous. But i think...I suspect you may already know the answer to that question
    Shh, I'm trying to make keiths head explode.


    Its interesting though, I doubt Keith, or his unionist friends would honor our patriot dead.


  • #135
    sensibleken
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    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Shh, I'm trying to make keiths head explode.


    Its interesting though, I doubt Keith, or his unionist friends would honor our patriot dead.

    arent the UDA joining her to lay a wreath at the garden of remembrance? rather nice of them


  • #136
    Wolfe Tone
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    sensibleken wrote: »
    arent the UDA joining her to lay a wreath at the garden of remembrance? rather nice of them
    No, thats at the garden thats for WW! and 2 dead, not Pearse etc


  • #137
    InTheTrees
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    kfallon wrote: »
    Is your Username an idea of where you are going to be tomorrow with your rifle???

    LOL!

    Oh I support her visit totally. I think its a big step forward. I think it shows a "maturing" of our nation. The sooner we can get together with them as equals, as partners the sooner we can fix our differences.


  • #138
    sensibleken
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    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    No, thats at the garden thats for WW! and 2 dead, not Pearse etc

    ah i see. ironically my memory was hazy as to which one it was


  • #139
    sensibleken
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    InTheTrees wrote: »
    LOL!

    Oh I support her visit totally. I think its a big step forward. I think it shows a "maturing" of our nation. The sooner we can get together with them as equals, as partners the sooner we can fix our differences.

    we've been ridin each other for years (us and the brits) we dont need to spend 30 million to get together. Just a drink in a touristy area


  • #140
    Madam
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    Discover Ireland are quick on the ball:)

    http://www.discoverireland.com/int/campaigns/royal-visit-2011/itinerary/


  • #141
    baldbear
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    Croke Park Residents write to the Queen


    The letter to the Queen, dated 10 May, from the Croke Park Streets Committee is as follows:

    Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II,
    Buckingham Palace,
    London SW1A 1AA, United Kingdom

    10th May 2011

    Your Majesty,

    As your majesty will be visiting our community shortly, and being aware of your family's expressed interest in promoting good community relations, may we ask a small favour of you?

    In particular when visiting our community you will be calling at Croke Park, headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Historically the GAA has been a strongly Irish Nationalist sporting association set up some years after the 'great famine' in Ireland with the goal of energising local communities and helping in the fight against landlordism at a time when evictions were commonplace.

    Indeed as an association, and up until recently, the GAA would have been unlikely to have extended to a member of the British Royal family a warm welcome on visiting their headquarters in Croke Park. However in these changing times in the relationship between our peoples we now believe that your majesty is regarded with deep affection by many in GAA Headquarters, unlike their attitude to our local community, and it is in this regard that we hope your majesty may be able to be of some great assistance.

    Despite our community enduring great inconvenience and hardship during the many major events hosted in Croke Park, that has helped Croke Park to report income of over €58 million in successive years, Croke Park officials have now sent an eviction notice to our Community & Handball Centre members, copy enclosed. This Centre is a vital asset to our local community that has invested almost €4 million in its development and maintenance over the last 40 years. There is huge opposition to this attempted eviction by Croke Park, and Croke Park's proposed alternative development has been opposed by all 17 local politicians and 10 residents committees representatives at a recent national planning authority oral hearing. I include a copy of our Newsletter that shows how vital an asset this Centre is to our community.

    Your Majesty we would be very grateful if you could let the Croke Park GAA officials, that you may happen to meet, know that you are aware of our plight and that it would be only right that we be treated with the same respect and decency that such as Arsenal's stadium officials treat their local community.

    While Croke Park officials have instructed other GAA communities not to comment on your visit this does not affect us and we trust your majesty will not mind our asking for your assistance in this matter.

    Yours sincerely,

    Eamon O'Brien.
    Chairman, Croke Park Streets Committees.


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  • #142
    phasers
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    Community and Handball centre? LOL


  • #143
    baldbear
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    phasers wrote: »
    Community and Handball centre? LOL

    Yeah. Those 800yrs will be forgotten if you get us a handball centre. Irish people are gas.:D


  • #144
    Pauleta
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    What sort of cars will be used for transporting HRH?


  • #145
    Morag
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    http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/wvon/2011/05/500-maternity-appointments-cancelled-due-to-queens-visit/
    Up to 500 maternity appointments have been cancelled at a Dublin hospital because of the Queen’s visit to Ireland tomorrow.

    And women have been told that if they go into labour they will encounter road closures and heavy security due to a wreath-laying ceremony nearby.

    However the gardai has agreed to make sure that anyone in labour will be allowed through the strict security cordon to the hospital.

    Around 20 – 40 births take place at the Rotunda hospital each day as well as hundreds of routine appointments.

    Dr Sam Coulter-Smith, master of the hospital, said the royal visit was a “headache”.


  • #146
    Gunsfortoys
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    Sharrow wrote: »
    http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/wvon/2011/05/500-maternity-appointments-cancelled-due-to-queens-visit/

    Christ.

    Nice to see the Queen being more important than us lesser humans.


  • #147
    Saila
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    nice while it lasted..


  • #148
    ejmaztec
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    Pauleta wrote: »
    What sort of cars will be used for transporting HRH?

    Armour-plated ones.


  • #149
    Cathaoirleach
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    RTÉ will be spending more money covering the English Queen's visit than they did for the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

    "RTÉ will be providing extensive live television, radio and online coverage, special programmes and extended news bulletins of the visit to Ireland by the Queen"

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0516/televisionschedule.html


  • #150
    Ghost Buster
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    I heard something about the visit being seriously hindered in Cork. Something about Prince William being stuck in Middleton?


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  • #151
    Ghost Buster
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    I hear that the royal visit has run into traffic problems in Cork. Something about Prince William being stuck in Middleton?


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