The Queen's Visit- what do you think?

Ireland Ltd is on its knees financially. We can do with an injection of cash to get the economy moving again. We have the opportunity to advertise the country for more tourism when the queen visits.

I think we should grasp what's on offer. We need tourism. Whether we like it or not we need the Brits (and their money). Remember, the Brits dont need us. They have supplied an outlet for our emigrants for years.

Let's show the world what a welcoming people we are.
 
Leper said:
...Whether we like it or not we need the Brits (and their money). Remember, the Brits dont need us. They have supplied an outlet for our emigrants for years.

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This is simply not correct despite what the British tabloids would like to make out. We are one of the UK's major trading partners and export markets. They need our money as much as we need theirs. They offered us help out of enlightened self-interest.

Recession/depression or financial turmoil here has a major impact on the UK. Many of the UK banks also have major exposure in Ireland. Also the single largest minority group in Ireland is in fact British. We have an intensely symbiotic relationship with the UK at just about every level from societal, historical and cultural to economic.
 
Just heard John Stokes on the radio. He owns the Players Lounge pub and is the father of Anthony Stokes. He has a banner outside his pub objecting to the Queen's visit.
He comes across as a complete idiot. I hope this is not a taste of things to come for the visit.
 

+1. The Joe Duffy discussion is ridiculous, talking as far back as the Famine! And that we were conned with the Good Friday Agreement. The pub owner needs to get a grip on reality.
 
I think the Real IRA and grip on reality are mutually exclusive concepts.

If its any consolation they're about as representative as the nut jobs in Combat 18 and the like in the UK - every country has its eejits, lets just hope they dont inspire the ...errr... patriots who turned out for Love Ulster.
 
Because his opinion differs from yours he's an idiot?
 
No, because the arguement's he put forward against the queen's visit make him sound like an idiot.

Did you hear the interview?
 
If he talks like an idiot and acts like an idiot its fair to presume he is an idiot.

Another gent who doesn't believe in democracy. The people on this island voted together for the first time since 1918 when they voted on the Good Friday Agreement.
The people have decided thats the way forward and there is no support for paramillitaries acting against the will of the people
 
Well according to him, the 97% of the people in the republic that voted for it were "fooled" into voted for it.
 
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No, because the arguement's he put forward against the queen's visit make him sound like an idiot.

Did you hear the interview?
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I'd hardly call it an interview, he barely got a sentence out without Joe Duffy or one of his incoherent callers shouting him down.

Joe Duffy and his brigade have made this a bigger deal than it should be, I'm sure the bar owner is delighted with the publicity.
 
Yesterday I noticed that spray can wielding yobs had destroyed a neighbours newly painted wall, and also another house on the Howth road Raheny Village with a message "F... the Queen." Charming.

Apart from the obvious rogue vandalism, we're probably likely to see more of this kind of thing as the visit approaches. Whilst I understand that people may have some genuine reservations or even outright opposition to the visit, this kind of criminality seems to attach itself to Republicanism. With all that's happening in the North, and a viable "device" found along the Dart line yesterday, are we seeing a resurgence of violent Republicanism in the South and how should we deal with it?
 
horusd said:
Yesterday I noticed that spray can wielding yobs had destroyed a neighbours newly painted wall, and also another house on the Howth road Raheny Village with a message "F... the Queen." Charming.
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Pathetic.
 
horusd said:
Yesterday I noticed that spray can wielding yobs had destroyed a neighbours newly painted wall, and also another house on the Howth road Raheny Village with a message "F... the Queen." Charming.
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She's a buxom lass, but even then, that's extending Irish Hospitality too far. Maybe it was an invitation from Swingers Ireland to show how much we really have matured as a society.

Though you'd feel for the girl who pulled Philip's car keys out of the fruit bowl.
 
I see the socialist "freedom fighters" at Eirigi are setting up a freedom camp in the garden of rememberance. They also have a very useful countdown clock to Liz's visit for those who don't want to miss her:

http://www.eirigi.org/


I also hear that some republican nutjobs were tryng to buy missles presumably to have a go at the Queen. What gives with these people? They supposedly would send a missle/mortar or whatever to kill the Queen and at the same time presumably kill loads of Irish people indiscriminately. There really is a case for 24 hour hounding of these nutters by the Gardai and the PSNI. They speak for no one, represent no one, care about no one, except some crazy ideology that should be dumped into history's bin and left to rot.
 
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Anyone know where I'd find detailed traffic restrictions/diversions as I have a lot of travel/appointments coming up this week
 
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@ horusd, the Garden of Rememberance has been closed to the public since Thursday, so there isnt a hope in hell of eirigi getting in before the Queen arrives. The Gardai have been all over that area for the past two weeks and more.
 

Doubt the idiot is too happy with the latest publicity. Also since you were obviously listening to Joe Duffy, doesn't that make you one of his brigade?
 
Opportunity Knocks - we can take it or not. I think we should take it.

Already there are people employed washing down electricity poles, cleaning the outside of buildings, etc etc. The Brits were always good for tourism and were driven out by stupid anti-Brit graffiti, bar-stool provos and greedy hoteliers etc.

We have an unexpected chance to lure the Brits back as tourists - Let's take it.
 

Agreed. I was in the city last night. The place looks great, all spruced up, hardly a beggar in sight, but nowhere to park! Pedestrianville. We should invite the Queen more often. Hope the weather improves a bit, it would make the place look a lot nicer if we got a wee bit of sun.
 
I couldn't care less about her visit or that of Obama, they will come and go and my life will go on the same.

My husband is in Dublin this morning, set off about 6.15 for a 9.30 meeting thinking it would take ages to get in and get parked but he has been parked up in in Jury's Custom House since 8.30. Says the place looks lovely, if it hadn't been an all day meeting he was at I might have gone up with him for a wander round.

Just hoping he finds getting home as easy!
 
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