FFS, next they’ll be telling us Ireland should have a Queen as head of state.
They have no right to tell us to vote for David Norris
We are the 51st State. Oh say can you see, yes I can!
What an outstanding women!!
The feel good factor felt by the nation over the last few days hasn’t been felt since the heady days of Italia '90. In many ways it has felt like the return of a long lost relative, and as many have commented it just felt right, or natural, her being here.
This sets it up nicely now for Will and Kate to visit next year, and a return to the Common-Wealth by 2014
David O’Leary looks slightly Downs Syndrome
The Duke of Edinburgh is 90 today. A few of his comments:
While on an official visit to China in 1986 he told a group of British exchange students staying in the city of Xian: “If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”
However, during a documentary to mark his 90th birthday on June 10, Queen Elizabeth’s husband the Duke of Edinburgh still claims the resulting outcry was disproportionate.
He said: “I’d forgotten about it. But for one particular reporter who overheard it, it wouldn’t have come out. What’s more, the Chinese weren’t worried about it, so why should anyone else?”
Speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, in 1995 he asked: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
He told a 1986 meeting of the World Wildlife Fund: “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”
During the 1981 recession he mused: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
When accepting a figurine from a woman during a visit to Kenya in 1984 he asked: “You are a woman aren’t you?”
The Duke asked a British student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea in 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”
To a British tourist in Hungary in 1993 he quipped: “You can’t have been here that long — you haven’t got a pot belly.”
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”, he asked an islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994.
Following the 1996 Dunblane massacre, he questioned the need for a firearms ban: “If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?”
In 1999 in Cardiff he told children from the British Deaf Association, who were standing by a Caribbean steel band: “If you’re near that music it’s no wonder you’re deaf”.
While touring a factory near Edinburgh in 2002 he said a fuse box was so crude it “looked as though it had been put in by an Indian”.
To Australian Aborigines during a visit to Australia in 2002 he asked: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
In 2010 on asking a female Sea Cadet what she did for a living, and being told that she worked in a nightclub (as a barmaid), the Duke asked “Is it a strip club?” Observing her surprise he dismissed the suggestion saying that it was “probably too cold for that anyway”.
Amongst her own people
Queen ‘deeply moved’ by reception on Cork visit
By Eoin English
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
THE Queen of England was “deeply moved” by the warm welcome she and her husband received in Cork.
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In a letter to the Lord Mayor of Cork, Queen Elizabeth II asked that a special thanks be extended to the people of Cork for the welcome she received on Leeside during her historic state visit to Ireland.
In a break from protocol on the final day of her visit, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh shook hands with dozens of people who had lined the Grand Parade.
A letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace arrived at City Hall yesterday, in which the Queen described her visit to the English Market as a particularly “memorable occasion”.
“It was such a colourful and lively visit, as well as a wonderful opportunity for Her Majesty and His Royal Highness to meet members of the public,” wrote the Queen’s deputy private secretary, Edward Young.
“Please would you tell the people of Cork that the warmth of their welcome was deeply moving and greatly appreciated.”
Revealing receipt of the letter, Lord Mayor Cllr Michael O’Connell also thanked everyone, including gardaí, city council staff and English Market traders, who helped make the visit so successful.
The visit has sparked interest among tourists.
So far this month, searches on the Hotels.com website have risen by 69% for Dublin, 74% for Cork, 191% for Kildare and 80% for Tipperary compared with the year-ago period.
Falling hotel rates and cuts to the tourism industry VAT rate from 13.5% to 9% have also helped.
This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Ms Price has been released today.
It really is terrific news that the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be travelling over from the mainland from 19-22 May. Don’t believe its confirmed yet, what days they will be in Éire. Poignantly, it is anticipated that the visit will include a visit to Sligo and possibly Mullaghmore, where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered by terrorist thugs.
With 22 May polling day, it should serve as a tremendous boost for the no campaign. As someone who at the age of 66 is still serving his apprenticeship to be head of state, the timing of this visit could serve as a body blow to this nonsensical campaign to reduce the age requirement to be head of state in Éire to 21.
[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 1128433, member: 377”]It really is terrific news that the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be travelling over from the mainland from 19-22 May. Don’t believe its confirmed yet, what days they will be in Éire. Poignantly, it is anticipated that the visit will include a visit to Sligo and possibly Mullaghmore, where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered by terrorist thugs.
With 22 May polling day, it should serve as a tremendous boost for the no campaign. As someone who at the age of 66 is still serving his apprenticeship to be head of state, the timing of this visit could serve as a body blow to this nonsensical campaign to reduce the age requirement to be head of state in Éire to 21.[/QUOTE]
lets hope he doesnt go on a paedo spree like his uncle did
He can see the spot where his uncle found out he couldn’t swim
[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 1128433, member: 377”]It really is terrific news that the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be travelling over from the mainland from 19-22 May. Don’t believe its confirmed yet, what days they will be in Éire. Poignantly, it is anticipated that the visit will include a visit to Sligo and possibly Mullaghmore, where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered by terrorist thugs.
With 22 May polling day, it should serve as a tremendous boost for the no campaign. As someone who at the age of 66 is still serving his apprenticeship to be head of state, the timing of this visit could serve as a body blow to this nonsensical campaign to reduce the age requirement to be head of state in Éire to 21.[/QUOTE]
Be funny if there was a local choir there to welcome them. Who’s that standing…
ei ei o
With a bang bang here
And a boom boom there
Lord Mountbatten everywhere
And some kids.
e i e i o
The Queen of England is a tax dodger 
How is her wealth generated again?
the barstool west brits will be seething