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1916 celebrations *Warning in post #1*

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  • #62
    Torricelli
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Torricelli


    Good to see the military being put to good use for once. Must beat sitting around a barracks playing the Playstation all day.

    At least they're earning their wages for once.


  • #63
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Some of the posts in here are depressing. Some people are never happy unless they're whinging

    Indeed. Shame we only have one TV station in this country and those bastards in the military went around stealing all the batteries from the remote controls of Ireland


  • #64
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    O Connell Street looks great because the crowds are blocking the tat


  • #65
    Jawgap
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    Torricelli wrote: »
    Good to see the military being put to good use for once. Must beat sitting around a barracks playing the Playstation all day.

    At least they're earning their wages for once.

    Oh, what a witty observation :rolleyes:

    You've always studied what the DF do in some depth.


  • #66
    Hitchens
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    very impressive parade


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  • #67
    martingriff
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    Torricelli wrote: »
    Good to see the military being put to good use for once. Must beat sitting around a barracks playing the Playstation all day.

    At least they're earning their wages for once.
    Add your reply here.

    Ya its not like they do not go to places like Lebanon, Congo, Pakistan


  • #68
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    O Connell Street looks great because the crowds are blocking the tat

    Really glad I don't have this horrible outlook on life.

    O'Connell Street is a fine looking street and looks great on TV today.

    I've brought some foreign family there as tourists and everyone of them have been impressed by it.


  • #69
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The two traitors sitting front and centre


  • #70
    lertsnim
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    Will anything be done for the actual centenary?


  • #71
    Hitchens
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    nothing beats a marching band


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  • #72
    BunkMoreland
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    I'd say if we had a referendum on joning the UK it'd be a close call based on the ****e you see on boards on a daily basis.


  • #73
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Really glad I don't have this horrible outlook on life.

    O'Connell Street is a fine looking street and looks great on TV today.

    I've brought some foreign family there as tourists and everyone of them have been impressed by it.

    Some of the shops and fast food dumps drag it down would you not agree?


  • #74
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    It's like a budget/mini version of the shows of force the old Eastern Bloc countries used to parade.
    +1.
    And how much is this country, which was rescued by the IMF/EU only a few years ago and which owes more now than it did then ( €200,000,000,000.00 ?) borrowing to celebrate the insurgents of 1916? Another €50,000,000 ?

    Would that not have been better spent trying to cherish the children of the nation who are homeless or drug addicts often found on or near this very street ?


  • #75
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Did anyone see the guys carrying flags about ten or fifteen minutes ago. Not sure what the others were but one was definitely a Union Jack (or flag to pedants). What was that about? Thought it was something to do with countries the Irish had served in until I saw that


  • #76
    ThisRegard
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    Torricelli wrote: »
    Good to see the military being put to good use for once. Must beat sitting around a barracks playing the Playstation all day.

    At least they're earning their wages for once.

    Last year the rangers won both the international and overall award in the world sniping competition, the first non American team to do so.


  • #77
    TG1
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    Christy42 wrote: »

    And yes it is fine to only allow relatives and important politicians onto O'Connell street. It doesn't mean we aren't equal. Getting front row seats to a parade is not an incredible privilege, inviting them is symbolic and that is why it is the right thing to do.

    Fair play to the organisers for this I have to say.

    Agree, my dad's there front and centre watching a parade commemorating the actions of, among many others, the man he knew as grandad. Why should he not be included, or left at the back of 16 rows of people?

    It's parade to commemorate a huge piece of our islands history, whether you agree with the sentiment or not 1916 happened, it affected the course of politics in the whole country, and had personal consequences for many families. Why would it not be marked, and marked by the military forces given the nature of the event.
    Can't believe the complaining going on!


  • #78
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Some of the shops and fast food dumps drag it down would you not agree?

    Not as much people make out as their appearance is restricted and their impact on the street is not that much.
    The street still has some impressive buildings, statues and monuments.


  • #79
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    That's more like it


  • #80
    Griffin47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭Griffin47


    Of course I'm familiar with the Presidential salute from watching Rugby internationals. I didn't know the Taoiseach also got a salute, and I was intrigued to see that it was longer than the one for Michael D. Those aeroplanes gave me a heart in the mouth moment too. Having two of them collide wouldn't have added anything to the occasion. Does anybody know what type of aircraft they were? I think the historian lady who was commenting on Sky News (I think that was the channel Herself had on) might have got the quote correct from Michael O'Rahilly about winding the clock up and hearing it strike, if she was going to quote it.


  • #81
    flas
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    Torricelli wrote: »
    Good to see the military being put to good use for once. Must beat sitting around a barracks playing the Playstation all day.

    At least they're earning their wages for once.

    Yeah,what do they think they are at,going around the world on peace keeping missions in war torn countries!


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  • #82
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Collie D wrote: »
    Did anyone see the guys carrying flags about ten or fifteen minutes ago. Not sure what the others were but one was definitely a Union Jack (or flag to pedants). What was that about? Thought it was something to do with countries the Irish had served in until I saw that

    It was a representation of the United Nations.

    Amazing what happens if you listen to the commentary.


  • #83
    sonofenoch
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    Christy42 wrote: »
    Or the US or England or South Korea or even Germany have started celebrating their military again or every country in the world nearly.

    The lengths people are going to to try and complain is embarrassing. We are celebrating a military event, it has always been celebrated by the military so it would be odd to change it now.

    .

    'England' has a military ....where do they march, Albert square?

    I was commenting more on the vastness of it, the huge arsenal on display....impressive


  • #84
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Hogwarts teacher on screen now.


  • #85
    That_Guy
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    Well that was great.


  • #86
    mansize
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    RTÉ did a good job- in fairness to them


  • #87
    Dr Strange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Have a look at the comments in the the Sky News section on the commemorations:

    http://news.sky.com/story/1667596/ireland-commemorates-easter-rising-centenary

    Some of the responses are pathetic but not surprising.


  • #88
    Jawgap
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    Nice rendition of Garryowen


  • #89
    FalconGirl
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    I wonder where they hid all the junkies for the day?


  • #90
    martingriff
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    Enjoyed that i must admit. The plane overpass was heart stopping great flying from those in the cockpit


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  • #91
    ThisRegard
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    FalconGirl wrote: »
    I wonder where they hid all the junkies for the day?

    Someone already asked already, and they weren't funny either.


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