That there’s really no Sam Maguire. That’ll placate the locals. They’ll hardly buy it but shur’……
Every President would be enthusiastically welcomed here.
The beliefs Reagan and in britain thatcher brought about was far reaching and having profound effects today. They were not good for society.
We are so cocooned here. Life here is exceptional. Being poor in the US is utterly devastating. britain, despite what @flattythehurdler says is a shithole.
One example; thatcher demonised teachers so much and devalued them that their education system basically collapsed. Not in Eton though but in most comprehensives.
They were two cunts. If a study was carried out when neighbours started ignoring each other, keeping up with the Jones began a reality and I’m alright Jack really took off, it would I reckon go back to Reagan and that cunt who got lucky at Brighton.
Up to the 60’s britain and the US were quite socialist. I’m up to correction but did the change happen between then and the late 70’s or when the film star and the witch came to power and policies changed severely.
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Not as enthusiastically in Dublin as in Ballyporeen.
UPI ARCHIVES JUNE 4, 1984
DUBLIN, Ireland – Three members of the Irish Parliament walked out on President Reagan’s speech today and 5,000 angry protesters outside burned an American flag and chanted ‘Arrest Ronald Reagan.’
Police standing three-deep and shoulder-to-shoulder held back the street demonstration a block from the Parliament building where they chanted, ‘One, two, three, four, Get out of Salvador,’ as Reagan began explaining his policies on nuclear weapons and Central America.
In the chamber, two left-wing deputies of the 166-member lower house and an independent deputy rose one after the other to speak out of turn as Reagan was introduced. Their comments could not be understood from the press galleries.
They marched out peaceably to cries of ‘Out! Out!’ from members from both sides of the horseshoe-shaped chamber.
Reagan noted the walkout at the start of his speech, saying, ‘There are some countries in the world today where representatives would not be allowed to speak as they have today.’
Police estimated the street protesters numbered as many as 5,000, including some elements of Provisional Sinn Fein, the political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA).
At one point the demonstrators burned an American flag.
The protest, the latest in about two dozen demonstrations staged up and down the country during Reagan’s four-day visit, took place in a virtually deserted city center.
They chanted ‘Ronnie, Ronnie, Ronnie, out, out, out’ and ‘Arrest Ronald Reagan,’ and sang ‘Go home, Go home.’
Police hurriedly called up reinforcements when the marchers arrived within a block of Parliament and nearby government offices.
Earlier, police had stopped traffic on the roadways along the Liffey River and sealed off eight of the city’s nine downtown bridges in a bid to keep the demonstrators well out of earshot and sight of the president as he drove in motorcade to Parliament.
About a half-dozen placard carriers managed to get through the police cordon and were seen by Reagan as he drove past.
It was a national holiday and very few sightseers turned out to greet the president.
One of the three Irish Parliament members who walked out on Reagan’s speech was Tomas MacGiolla, leader of the Marxist Workers’ Party.
‘As pre-arranged, I stood up after the ovation and said I was withdrawing from Reagan’s speech as a demonstration against foreign policies pursued by his administration,’ MacGiolla said. ‘Not attending was not a sufficient way of showing how we felt.’
Police arrested 33 women anti-nuclear protesters in Dublin Sunday before Reagan arrived. Another 5,000, ranging from nuns in their habits to Trinity College students, marched peacefully to Dublin castle but were kept well out of sight of the president when he arrived for a state dinner in the evening.
What most Americans consider the good old days they paid twice in income tax what they pay now. Since then they have stripped all services back to the bone and still think they pay too much tax. And then complain about everything.
What they do pay for is healthcare. And they pay more than anyone for it and yet none of it is free. And they believe it is right for people to die because they can’t afford it inspite of what they pay for it in tax.
In summary. They are all fucking fools. And socialism is bad.
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As Sir Trevor McDonald remarked about Ronnie- he was the only man I met who could have been king of any country.
That’s some compliment
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The Thatcherites are circling
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Didn’t Michael D. Higgins rip up his university degree or something in protest at Reagan’s visit?
He may have been a socialist once. But by god he has embraced the trough now.
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That was when he had ‘principles’ and long before he turned into a human cannon
Did he send back his pension from the University?
Tbf he looked after his driver
Careful now
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Are you sure it wasn’t the other way about?
One man he didn’t oust was his gallant ally Saddam Hussein.
He armed Osama too
Yous fellas aren’t seriously trying to separate out the moral minutiae here? Saddam, gaddafi, osama, assad etc etc. The US has backed, armed and deposed the same drug lords and dictators from Afghanistan to Zaire and everywhere in between. Right now they’re providing actual support to the head choppers of isis in their quest to butcher the citizens of Damascus. And there’s no ‘but trump’ btw. Obama started it, trump continued it and biden couldn’t give a fuck. Lads like sid and rocko have a massive weepy concern for syrian refugees… once they land on someone else’s doorstep, but god forbid they should rock their own woke credentials by acknowledging why there are so many syrian refugees. That would take half a brain and an ounce of credibility. Nope, they’re not interested.
Roy has spoken.
Roy gets it.
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Prick
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Ballin-a is what the aussies call their town