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Everybody else in the family is at the Commonwealth Games, so why aren't we?

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  • #122
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    maybe we could rejoin for the games and then once its over leave again

    and do the same in 4 years


  • #123
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    LordSutch wrote: »
    "We" didn't, but some drunk Dail politician did ;)

    A big mstake that needs to be put right.

    Oh Lord Sutch, you little rascal...


  • #124
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    FierceMild wrote: »
    We actually left the Commonwealth in 1949 with the implementation of the Ireland Act. It wasn't just a drunken Dail deputy.

    Also, I quite like having a President instead of the Queen. Michael D is good craic.
    LordSutch wrote: »
    "We" didn't, but some drunk Dail politician did ;)

    A big mstake that needs to be put right.





    Please read your own thread or are you having a few yourself tonight lord sutch :-)


  • #125
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    LordSutch wrote: »
    "We" didn't, but some drunk Dail politician did ;)

    A big mstake that needs to be put right.
    Former Taoiseach John A Costello never drank in his life


  • #126
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Who would that be in this odd little family?

    The people that sit on the sidelines making uneducated, snide remarks about having a monarch as head of state, delusions of grandeur etc.

    Obviously they are far superior intellectually and morally than the thousands taking part and the millions watching.


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  • #127
    SERCPRO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭SERCPRO


    Quite a lot of the athletes competing for NI race for Ireland in their respective sports.
    I don't see why we shouldn't join, it could be a great boost for the economy to host
    the games. It might also be a great way to get us a long awaited Velodrome !


  • #128
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Former Taoiseach John A Costello never drank in his life

    He was a very useless Taoiseach


  • #129
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    LordSutch wrote: »
    'Nearly' every country in the world who has even the slightest connection to Britain is there competing in every sport represented, from boxing to athletics, to karate, to rugby, horse riding, shooting, and swimming, yet the ROI is completly absent, leaving NI to go it alone as usual :mad:

    Yes, I know the reasons well, and I know that I will probably get a massive backlash for even suggesting that we should be rubbing shoulders with the Welsh, the Scots, the English, Canadians, Aussies, Indians etc etc, but I still can't help thinking that here we are (the closest of all to Britain) yet still sulking & absent as usual since about 1959, when some drunken Dail politician decided on the spur of the moment that "Ireland had now left the commonwealth".

    Personally I think we should rejoin for no other reason than to be able to participate in the games. There would of course be a lot of trade opportunities with other CW countries too, that might also come into play with such connections. I think its been a disgrace that we have been absent from the commonwealth family for so long.

    What say you?

    Sits in bunker with pith helmet on, waiting for the artillery shells to rain in :D

    Fair play op you have just won the internet.
    Highest ****e per line ratio i have seen in some time.


  • #130
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    LordSutch wrote: »
    'yet still sulking

    Sits in bunker with pith helmet on, waiting for the artillery shells to rain in :D

    Who's sulking?


  • #131
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Former Taoiseach John A Costello never drank in his life

    Shush with your facts.


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  • #132
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    SERCPRO wrote: »
    Quite a lot of the athletes competing for NI race for Ireland in their respective sports.
    I don't see why we shouldn't join, it could be a great boost for the economy to host
    the games. It might also be a great way to get us a long awaited Velodrome !

    They race for Ireland in real championships.

    Host a British fake Olympics?

    To get a velodrome?

    Some Irish people ...


  • #133
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Poor Span, can't even afford an "i" :P
    Say after me: "the Ran in Span falls Manly on the Plan".

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #134
    SERCPRO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭SERCPRO


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    They race for Ireland in real championships.

    Host a British fake Olympics?

    To get a velodrome?

    Some Irish people ...

    You don't need to be insulting !
    It's the small mindedness of certain 'Irish' people that have this country in the state it is in !


  • #135
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    We could badly do with a bit of common wealth, so I reckon go for it. Send Lizzie a "We're sorry, let's be friends" card from Funkypigeon and drag Sonia O Sullivan out of Mothballs. Can't be any worse than that "Gathering" shyte anyway.


  • #136
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    SERCPRO wrote: »
    You don't need to be insulting !
    It's the small mindedness of certain 'Irish' people that have this country in the state it is in !

    Personally I think we're in a great state.


  • #137
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Its no longer the British Commonwealth just the commonwealth and while the queen is head at the moment her successor wont necessarily be, most countries in the commonwealth are republics and others have their own monarchs as head of state. Im not really in favour of joining but there's a lot in this thread that isn't true.

    "her successor won't necessarily be"



    Ha, I'd love to see all those British Lords doff their caps to some Pakistani or Australian as 'Head of the Commonwealth'.

    Have a feeling they'll want to break up the "family" then.

    You'll find they'll soon get cold of the idea and their "historical connections".


  • #138
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    The 'Commonwealth' is a relic

    A Romanian has easier access to Britain than the vast majority of commonwealth citizens.

    The athletes from the third world are shipped in then followed by police until they are shipped off again.

    It's amazing how they treat their "family".

    Some have already claimed asylum. That's the only reason they went.

    One would not be impressed. ;)


  • #139
    SERCPRO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭SERCPRO


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    We could badly do with a bit of common wealth, so I reckon go for it. Send Lizzie a "We're sorry, let's be friends" card from Funkypigeon and drag Sonia O Sullivan out of Mothballs. Can't be any worse than that "Gathering" shyte anyway.

    Don't you mean the 'Scattering' ?? ;)


  • #140
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    SERCPRO wrote: »
    Don't you mean the 'Scattering' ?? ;)

    The Shakedown as Gabriel Byrne would say ;).


  • #141
    Reekwind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Reekwind


    SERCPRO wrote: »
    It's the small mindedness of certain 'Irish' people that have this country in the state it is in !
    This is coming from someone who believes that Ireland should overturn half a century of foreign policy to join the Commonwealth so that Dublin might get a new velodrome? I really don't think that you're in a position to be questioning either the 'small mindedness' or 'Irishness' of other posters.


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  • #142
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    The people that sit on the sidelines making uneducated, snide remarks about having a monarch as head of state, delusions of grandeur etc.

    Obviously they are far superior intellectually and morally than the thousands taking part and the millions watching.


    Yep. :)


  • #143
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    The people that sit on the sidelines making uneducated, snide remarks about having a monarch as head of state, delusions of grandeur etc.

    Obviously they are far superior intellectually and morally than the thousands taking part and the millions watching.

    But we're not in this "family" ;)


  • #144
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    But we're not in this "family" ;)
    By choice. These days the Commonwealth of Nations includes countries such as Mozambique, which was colonised by the Portuguese but was never part of the British Empire. Ireland could easily join if it wanted to - heck, de Valera was in favour of the idea just a few years after Ireland became a Republic - but it would never pass a vote. Too much irrational hatred of anything that might appear to link you to your nearest neighbour.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #145
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    bnt wrote: »
    By choice. These days the Commonwealth of Nations includes countries such as Mozambique, which was colonised by the Portuguese but was never part of the British Empire. Ireland could easily join if it wanted to - heck, de Valera was in favour of the idea just a few years after Ireland became a Republic - but it would never pass a vote. Too much irrational hatred of anything that might appear to link you to your nearest neighbour.

    Why would we though?


  • #146
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    bnt wrote: »
    it would never pass a vote. Too much irrational hatred of anything that might appear to link you to your nearest neighbour.

    So people who would vote against it, people who don't agree with you, are irrational and full of hate?

    That's sounds a lot like hatred of democracy to me.

    Do you hate democracy?


  • #147
    SERCPRO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭SERCPRO


    Reekwind wrote: »
    This is coming from someone who believes that Ireland should overturn half a century of foreign policy to join the Commonwealth so that Dublin might get a new velodrome? I really don't think that you're in a position to be questioning either the 'small mindedness' or 'Irishness' of other posters.

    I was simply making a response ...and I got insulted by a narrow minded poster.
    The comment about the velodrome was made in jest !
    I don't for any moment believe we should be part of the commonwealth, based on history, but if the Irish were invited to be a part of the games as invitees only, I don't see why not, in the interest of forging stronger ties and friendships with other countries !


  • #148
    SERCPRO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭SERCPRO


    Reekwind wrote: »
    This is coming from someone who believes that Ireland should overturn half a century of foreign policy to join the Commonwealth so that Dublin might get a new velodrome? I really don't think that you're in a position to be questioning either the 'small mindedness' or 'Irishness' of other posters.

    I have the right just like ever other poster to give an opinion without being insulted by others!


  • #149
    764dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭764dak


    efb wrote: »
    It's kinda cr@p though even the best athletes don't compete ("injured")

    Usain Bolt is going to run in the 4x100 relays. I think Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will also compete in the women's equivalent.


  • #150
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Personally I favour the following process:

    (1) Re-unification of the national territory

    (2) Usurpation of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha usurpers and restoration of the Jacobite Stuarts line

    After the above steps are put in place, we could potentially talk about Ireland rejoining Commonwealth.


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  • #151
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    "her successor won't necessarily be"



    Ha, I'd love to see all those British Lords doff their caps to some Pakistani or Australian as 'Head of the Commonwealth'.

    Have a feeling they'll want to break up the "family" then.

    You'll find they'll soon get cold of the idea and their "historical connections".

    Hi estranged bitter little cousin.


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