After Hours, one and only Queen thread

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-05-2011 04:31PM

stinkfisting wrote: »

Of course, those supporting the visit were actively encouraged to line the streets...yet Dublin looks like a ghost town. Says it all really. No warm welcome here, just paid government lackeys and social "elite" licking their lips at the prospect of a slap up Dublin Castle meal at the expense of the tax payer. I'm sure these scenes will have tourists visiting Ireland in droves...

You obviously havent a clue have you. So you think that anyone that wanted could come out on the streets to weccome her? :rolleyes:

Seanchai · 17-05-2011 04:31PM

On this day in 1974, 33 people lost their lives (will the pro-British royalist posters object if we say "murdered"?) in Dublin and Monaghan and almost 300 were injured in the biggest loss of live in a single day during the troubles.

Despite widespread allegations that the loyalist UVF could not have carried this out without the support of British state intelligence, the British government refuses to hand over its information about the attack.

Dublin & Monaghan bombings, 17 May 1974

Mint Sauce · 17-05-2011 04:31PM

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

More commonfolk!!

Invited commonfolk.

Judgement Day · 17-05-2011 04:32PM

stinkfisting wrote: »

There's been bomb scares for the past few days...do you think this security operation was planned after these bomb scares? Or that they increased security massively in response? This scale of policing has been planned for months, long before hoax packages were being left besides train stations. So no, the "RA heads" haven't scared anybody off...nobody could be bothered being there, "let's be honest".

Your full of it. Very few people bothered turning out because of the security, road closures and the possibility of another "Love Ulster" fiasco.

DWCommuter · 17-05-2011 04:32PM

El Horseboxo wrote: »

So it's better to just create a false image of a welcoming nation through all the barriers and closed streets for the media than show the world the real Ireland? No wonder people have fúcked up views of the world.

But we haven't created a false image of a welcoming nation. We have created a void, a no mans land, a sterile fear driven emptiness.

Wolfe Tone · 17-05-2011 04:32PM

Seanchai wrote: »

On this day in 1974, 33 people lost their lives (will the pro-British royalist posters object if we say "murdered"?) in Dublin and Monaghan and almost 300 were injured in the biggest loss of live in a single day during the troubles.

Despite widespread allegations that the loyalist UVF could not have carried this out without the support of British state intelligence, the British government refuses to hand over its information about the attack.

Dublin & Monaghan bombings, 17 May 1974

Ah maybe the pres can ask tomorrow when she has the UFF there?

Jen Pigs Fly · 17-05-2011 04:33PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Invited commonfolk.

Vetted invited commonfolk

Dunny · 17-05-2011 04:33PM

Philip on the pull again..:D

gubernaculum · 17-05-2011 04:33PM

OPENROAD wrote: »

Have to say very impressed with Trinity, that Long library is quite impressive, have never really had a look around Trinity apart from the Pav Bar but will definitely venture in.

personal favorite is the museum building (where the geology dept is). it's a bit like indiana jones.

pablomakaveli · 17-05-2011 04:34PM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Ah maybe the pres can ask tomorrow when she has the UFF there?

I would agree that they shouldn't have been invited. Thats the only part of the visit i don't approve of.

OPENROAD · 17-05-2011 04:34PM

gubernaculum wrote: »

personal favorite is the museum building (where the geology dept is). it's a bit like indiana jones.

Am definitely going to go in

Standman · 17-05-2011 04:35PM

Strange, the majority of protestors are men and the majority of people meeting the Queenn outside Trinity are women.

blaze1 · 17-05-2011 04:35PM

"someones brought a hat... they thought they were going to ascot... classic

stovelid · 17-05-2011 04:35PM

gubernaculum wrote: »

personal favorite is the museum building (where the geology dept is). it's a bit like indiana jones.

Was it the geography dept that had the big skeleton in the foyer? Love that building too.

Haven't been in since I left TCD.

ricero · 17-05-2011 04:36PM

banjopaul wrote: »

Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL6n4A8b9Tw

im actually ashamed of my fellow irish men after watching this video. what a pack of ****ing idiots

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-05-2011 04:39PM

ricero wrote: »

im actually ashamed of my fellow irish men after watching this video. what a pack of ****ing idiots

what's to be ashamed of? They are doing nothing wrong in that video, that i can see anyway.

HellFireClub · 17-05-2011 04:40PM

I take it there won't be ballads allowed after dinner this evening...

gubernaculum · 17-05-2011 04:40PM

stovelid wrote: »

Was it the geography dept that had the big skeleton in the foyer? Love that building too.

Haven't been in since I left TCD.

Yep! That's the one. Googled it and it said it's called 'the Museum Building' but think it has loads of the natural sciences in it. Gorgeous architecture.

Chardee MacDennis · 17-05-2011 04:41PM

stinkfisting wrote: »

There's been bomb scares for the past few days...do you think this security operation was planned after these bomb scares? Or that they increased security massively in response? This scale of policing has been planned for months, long before hoax packages were being left beside train stations. So no, the "RA heads" haven't scared anybody off...nobody could be bothered being there, "let's be honest".

what are you talking about? there is only security because of the fear dissident republicans will do something! if there was no threat, then people would have actually come out to watch.

Wolfe Tone · 17-05-2011 04:41PM

HellFireClub wrote: »

I take it there won't be ballads allowed after dinner this evening...

Maybe phil could give everyone a rendition of the boys of the old brigade

Standman · 17-05-2011 04:41PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

what's to be ashamed of? They are doing nothing wrong in that video, that i can see anyway.

Throwing missiles and fireworks, yea really mature.

sensibleken · 17-05-2011 04:41PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

what's to be ashamed of? They are doing nothing wrong in that video, that i can see anyway.

eh? The tache, the tracksuit, the jerseys??? This is the country that created the tara broach. We have lost our sense of haute couture.

df1985 · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

Theres a girl in pyjamas in he middle of the day, thats definately wrong anyway.

Wolfe Tone · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

leave the tache out of this

Richard tea · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

what's to be ashamed of? They are doing nothing wrong in that video, that i can see anyway.

Yeah, I mean like come off it. Its not like they have a democratic right to protest.

My name is URL · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

ricero wrote: »

im actually ashamed of my fellow irish men after watching this video. what a pack of ****ing idiots

You're ashamed of Irish people because a few of them decided to protest?

sensibleken · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

HellFireClub wrote: »

I take it there won't be ballads allowed after dinner this evening...

not all ballads are shítty rebel songs

Wolfe Tone · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

df1985 wrote: »

Theres a girl in pyjamas in he middle of the day, thats definately wrong anyway.

Theres always people in pajamas in dublin during the day

southsiderosie · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

LOL at your man out front there...

BunShopVoyeur · 17-05-2011 04:42PM

Standman wrote: »

Throwing missiles and fireworks, yea really mature.

I'll certainly be walking down to Islandbridge tomorrow to give her a clap, the muppets can go **** themselves. Bloody children.

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