President Higgins' State Visit to The UK

Lapin · 08-04-2014 11:02AM #1

Anyone following the coverage?

RTÉ have decamped to London and Berkshire and left Keelin Shanley behind.

Bride Rosney in studio spending more time talking about Mary Robinson's trips to the UK than whats going on today.

We need Kay Burley on the job.

D1stant · 08-04-2014 11:40AM

This visit in in danger of sinking without a trace. We need to pull this one out of the bag lads. We need someone with passion, curls and a flair for mystery. We need a Hero

Get Marty Morrissey over there ASAP. Scramble the jet

Agent Smith · 08-04-2014 11:43AM

The Coverage of this is so important theres only one man for the Job.

When all hope is lost
When nobody else is willing.
When the chance of getting humped by seal are higher then Barely....

You Need Charlie Bird.....

Legs.Eleven · 08-04-2014 11:44AM

I love our president. Swoooooon

foggy_lad · 08-04-2014 11:47AM

D1stant wrote: »

This visit in in danger of sinking without a trace. We need to pull this one out of the bag lads. We need someone with passion, curls and a flair for mystery. We need a Hero

Get Marty Morrissey Whelan over there ASAP. Scramble the jet

FYP:D

mike65 · 08-04-2014 11:51AM

It'll be interesting to see how much coverage this gets in the British media. Full State visits happen twice a year and most of the time you'd hardly know they've happened.

Fratton Fred · 08-04-2014 11:58AM

mike65 wrote: »

It'll be interesting to see how much coverage this gets in the British media. Full State visits happen twice a year and most of the time you'd hardly know they've happened.

Absolute pain in the arse if you work in Windsor.

Lapin · 08-04-2014 11:58AM

That stage looks like the reviewing stand for our local Paddy's Day Parade.

Cue a load of tractors, quad bikes and lawnmowers to be driven by any minute advertising Windsor Motors.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 08-04-2014 11:58AM

Nor did you speak too much.
You had broken an attendant’s glasses,
The holy nurse told me,
When you were admitted.
Your father is a very difficult man,
As you must know. And Social Welfare is slow
And if you would pay for the glasses,
I would appreciate it.
It was 1964, just after optical benefit
Was rejected by De Valera for poorer classes
In his Republic, who could not afford,
As he did
To travel to Zurich
For their regular tests and their
Rimless glasses.

What a man!

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:00PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Absolute pain in the arse if you work in Windsor.

And Westminster when they happen there.

Feckin noise of the guns salutes in Green Park.

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:02PM

Our queen has a nicer hat than their queen !

_Kaiser_ · 08-04-2014 12:03PM

At the risk of spoiling the love-in, no I'm not watching it (in work anyway) and have no interest in it.

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:07PM

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

At the risk of spoiling the love-in, no I'm not watching it (in work anyway) and have no interest in it.

You're not spoiling anything.

If you're not watching it and have no interest in it then nobody here gives a fuck.

Kerrydude1981 · 08-04-2014 12:08PM

Who is the bird talking with Dobbo?

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:11PM

Eamonn Gilmore - Anything for a free lift to a free dinner.

Fratton Fred · 08-04-2014 12:13PM

So if Gilmore, Kenny and Higgins are all in Windsor, who has control of all the nukes?

Kerrydude1981 · 08-04-2014 12:13PM

Lapin wrote: »

Eamonn Gilmore - Anything for a free lift to a free dinner.

Should give him a shovel and make him clean up the horse sh1te,

Work for his dinner

Lisha · 08-04-2014 12:14PM

It all looks so pretty

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:16PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

So if Gilmore, Kenny and Higgins are all in Windsor, who has control of all the nukes?

Mick Wallace

comongethappy · 08-04-2014 12:17PM

Looks well alright.

Those cavalry always scrub up well.

So weird seeing Gilmore waving to crowds from an open carriage..... Imagine doing same here!

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:18PM

Lucky Mike D is a small man.

Or would have banged his head off the roof of the carriage when he stood for the anthem just there.

Lisha · 08-04-2014 12:20PM

comongethappy wrote: »

Looks well alright.

Those cavalry always scrub up well.

So weird seeing Gilmore waving to crowds from an open carriage..... Imagine doing same here!

I'm sure Gilmore has waved from the back of many an open truck in many paddys day parades !

Muise... · 08-04-2014 12:21PM

Was listening to it on the radio just now - is it just me or did the brass band turn our anthem into an end-of-pier knees-up? I'm not at all patriotic; the anthem is an alright piece of music when sung with the full voice of a stadium, but not with the farting bassline trolling of tuba and a few sarcastic trumpet flourishes.

Plazaman · 08-04-2014 12:21PM

Seems to be a big crowd lining the route in Windsor from the still pics I'm getting of the net. Wonder if they're all Irish, wonder if we could use this opportunity to take over the castle....nah never mind, it'd be too expensive.

Gwan Mickey D ya ledge.

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:22PM

More national anthems than an All Ireland Sunday.

Was hoping Prince Phil the Greek would shout 'Up Galway' at the end of one of them !

Lisha · 08-04-2014 12:24PM

I'd love to hear what Sabrina is asking the Queen.

How is that an inspection by the way, Michael D is not even looking at them?

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:24PM

Keep up Philip FFS.

Nice Dag !

castletownman · 08-04-2014 12:27PM

It's like a PG version of Game of Thrones.

With Mickey D playing the Imp of course

Lapin · 08-04-2014 12:28PM

Yep, you gotta hand it to them.

They do put on a good show.

I love all the horses.

vicwatson · 08-04-2014 12:29PM

Lapin wrote: »

Eamonn Gilmore - Anything for a free lift to a free dinner.

I lol when I saw him going along in the carriage waving to all

Costing the English a fortune - prob not as much as for us though !!

philstar · 08-04-2014 12:30PM

the only ones making a big deal about this are the irish, the british don't seem to give a toss

President Higgins' State Visit to The UK

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