After Hours, one and only Queen thread

Live in Leixlip and housemate heard crazy sirens a few minutes ago. according to twitter theres a bomb scare in maynooth, and the main st is closed.

search for maynooth on twitter and youll get it, could all be rumours I suppose.

Will be a long few days if this is whats gonna go on.

K-9 wrote: »

I understand your points but you seem to view "Irish" things as exclusive and foreign sports as incompatible.

I appreciate Gaelic football and hurling, the game of the Gods, doesn't mean I can't appreciate soccer, rugby, snooker, hockey, golf or cricket (though I hate it).

We have our distinctive cultures, doesn't mean we have to reject others.

Quite the contrary: this was initiated because a 'republican' poster rejected Irish culture and embraced British culture. In other words, embracing British culture was not an eclectic act, but one of rejection of Irish culture. There is a huge difference between this and the ideas which you're running away with now.

And is our "distinctive culture" really worth self-government? How "distinctive" is it without the Irish language, traditional music or Irish sports, which are the things which were rejected in the post which I've challenged? Do any remaining difference justify having a sovereign state, rather than a regional administration?

K-9 wrote: »

Independence is about being a Republic, where all views respected equally. I respect your view, just think it's blinkered and our dated.

Given that you patently don't know my view, this piss-poor attempt at paraphrasing Voltaire is, well, fairly superficial.

Are you saying all views are not respected equally in a constitutional monarchy like Britain? That British people are not "independent" because they are not in a republic? Let me have a go at being patronising and supercilious: "I respect your view, just think it's blinkered and out-dated".

K-9 wrote: »

Sounds a bit like FF, the GAA and the RC being the bedrocks of Irish society and Irishness.

Hold on a minute: where, in what I've said, is the basis for this, particularly the RC bit? Anybody familiar with my posts here will have a very good idea of my views of Fianna Fáil. Are you really that desperate to box somebody into your preferred stereotype? It would be simpler then, I suppose.

K-9 wrote: »

Ah right, funny you quote him as some form of authority but reject the Catholic bit. You aren't Irish then!

Not as an "authority", but rather as somebody who pointed to a valuable cultural distinction between Irish-Ireland and British-Ireland. Nothing more to it.

K-9 wrote: »

As for the RC's history, you can say the same about the Protestant church's in Northern Ireland.

True, and many histories of the Church of Ireland which I've read argue that it is the true Christian inheritor of the Church which Patrick (allegedly) founded. Although the sense that Roman Catholicism is a "native" Irish religion is much stronger and the enormous obliteration of traditional Irish religious beliefs by a distinctly different Roman Catholic church from, at least, the 1790s is greatly underacknowledged by Irish Catholics.

Hahahahahaha do people actually care about this?

kfallon wrote: »

Yeah.....I don't want to be baking that 'brown loaf' all morning ffs!

Ah... kfallon... we meet again.

RTE have some photos of the last visit which I found interesting.

I'm not worried about the people who are organising the protests its the scumbags that will see this as an opportunity to cause a bit hassle. Similar to the love ulster parade a couple of years back

No rumor , Car load of us headed out, Garda check point told us to turn back, the british army are here too, we going to try another way in