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President Higgins' State Visit to The UK

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  • #62
    D1stant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    I like that thought...'a time before Joe Duffy'

    Ah yes BJ Time


  • #63
    Going Strong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Going Strong


    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.

    I can't see the fuss either. Sure haven't us Paddies gone over to England for generations to stay with someone we barely know while we try and get a start on a building site? Give it a week and Liz will be asking Michael if he's thought about renting a bedsit in Kilburn at all?


  • #64
    Jimminism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭Jimminism


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

    I'm not Irish but are Irsh people making a big deal over this or just this board? Embarrassing either way.


  • #65
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    it's top story on the UK bit of the BBC News website

    I remember in the olden days we had to blow something up to get there


  • #66
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    I hope Sir Martin is enjoying his trip to Windsor Castle.


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  • #67
    Lapin
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    Poor Nick Clegg there.

    Doesn't realise that Cameron and Miliband are laughing at him.


  • #68
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Villiers with the big cheesy grin on her boat race.

    The saucy minx.


  • #69
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Nice touch there with the green, white and gold flower arrangements at the stage


    Oh dear God another possible cringe post


  • #70
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Be great to see him walk into that room wearing a crown on his head !


  • #71
    Happyman42
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    If anybody thinks Michael D will b saying anything they don't want him to say then they are deluded.
    Makes a sham of the whole thing....optics.


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  • #72
    Fred Swanson
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #73
    c_man
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    Happyman42 wrote: »
    On a personal level it's sad to see Michael D having to accept this display of archaic nonsense and dare I say, silliness.

    Whereas our own Presidential customs are totally rational, and not at all ludicrous...


  • #74
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    If anybody thinks Michael D will b saying anything they don't want him to say then they are deluded.
    Makes a sham of the whole thing....optics.

    You're the deluded one if you think state visits would be used for such speeches.


  • #75
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    c_man wrote: »
    Whereas our own Presidential customs are totally rational, and not at all ludicrous...

    Michael is a socialist, having to witness this inherited privilege silliness and pomp and circumstance must be difficult for a real socialist to endure.


  • #76
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭Lisha


    F*ck the begrudgers, I thought Mr Bercow's speech was lovely :)


  • #77
    comongethappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    Touching intro from the Speaker of Parliament.


  • #78
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Good man Mick. The cúpla focail.

    Enough to get many a man barred out of that building in the not too distance past.


  • #79
    Happyman42
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    Lapin wrote: »
    You're the deluded one if you think state visits would be used for such speeches.

    The wouldn't normally be full of peace and reconiliation guff as Mrs Winsdor's here was. 'Whatever you do, say nothing of substance!'


  • #80
    Lapin
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    Lisha wrote: »
    F*ck the begrudgers, I thought Mr Bercow's speech was lovely :)

    Very warm speech. Hard to top that really.

    Lump in throat stuff really.


  • #81
    Lapin
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    You can tell Mike had a big hand in writing this speech himself.


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  • #82
    Lisha
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Very warm speech. Hard to top that really.

    Lump in throat stuff really.

    Yes it is. I'm just disgusted I've to go out now and miss the rest.


  • #83
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Am I the only one that thinks that Martin McGuinness being invited by Lizzy to attend a function in Windsor Castle is a bigger deal than Higgins' visit?


  • #84
    c_man
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    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Michael is a socialist, having to witness this inherited privilege silliness and pomp and circumstance must be difficult for a real socialist to endure.

    Lol


  • #85
    BBJBIG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭BBJBIG


    Jayz.

    Mickie D is wafflin on now.
    Sounds loike a roigh load a shoite to me.

    Give em loads a Mickie ... :D


  • #86
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Am I the only one that thinks that Martin McGuinness being invited by Lizzy to attend a function in Windsor Castle is a bigger deal than Higgins' visit?

    I thought it could overshadow the president's own visit.

    A lot depends on how the media will cover it.


  • #87
    tayto lover
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Am I the only one that thinks that Martin McGuinness being invited by Lizzy to attend a function in Windsor Castle is a bigger deal than Higgins' visit?

    He'll get a knighthood.


  • #88
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Michael is a socialist, having to witness this inherited privilege silliness and pomp and circumstance must be difficult for a real socialist to endure.

    He's also a realist and understands what this means to a lot of people.

    I know my daughter is thrilled by this. Two years ago she loved waving her union flag at the jubilee celebrations, last month she was covered head to two in green and draped in a tri colour.

    Days like this mean a lot to the thousands of Irish/British people who are proud of both their identities, despite the begrudgers.


  • #89
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    tayto lover wrote: »
    He'll get a knighthood.

    To go with Gerry's, how quaint.


  • #90
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Lapin wrote: »
    You can tell Mike had a big hand in writing this speech himself.

    I'm starting to think he wrote the whole lot now.

    You could never imagine Bertie making a speech like this.


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  • #91
    Happyman42
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    He's also a realist and understands what this means to a lot of people.

    I never said any different, just pointed out that on a personal level he would be finding it all a bit difficult.

    It is a speech as I expected, staying in the lyrical & poetical and not pointing out that much work needs to be done.


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