Irish politics discussion thread

Also, i'm typing this from my flatmates laptop cos mine fell off the coffee table on Saturday and now the hard drive is banjaxed. This is me right now
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TDhFeXYJEr0/R_k3dyiY6-I/AAAAAAAAA5Y/KavEsX05XNE/s320/Dublin%2BFamine%2BCloseDSC_0395.jpg

Fuck the Queen. Apropos of nothing.

absolutely fuck the queen.
a few weeks ago I was ambivalent about this visit, altho dreading the inevitable horseshit from RTE/the Irish Times about maturity etc.

i'm now actively annoyed - first off by the ludicrously OTT security operation - there are snipers on the roof of the Spar on the corner by my work. FFS. if they're actually that worried maybe it's not actually the right time for her to visit? not to mention the fact that we didn't have any of this crap for 30 years of troubles when people were being shot/blown up every day, 100 miles down the road.

second off, it's annoying but far from surprising how quickly we switch into police state mode. obv eirigi are headcases but the complete quashing of dissent, including ripping down every one of their cheap little posters, is thoroughly depressing.

Independent editorial yesterday:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-visit-that-will-test-how-far-two-countries-have-come-2284676.html

Our relations could still be better, and would be, if in this country we paid more heed to the horrors visited on Ireland in Britain's name, and if everyone in Ireland was willing to let go of the past.

Incoherent sentiment overall, but the scale of that last clause is fantastic.

That sentence is up there with Tony Blair's "Now is not the time for cheap cliches - I feel the hand of history on my shoulder".

Our relations could still be better, and would be, if in this country we paid more heed to the horrors visited on Ireland in Britain's name, and if everyone in Ireland was willing to let go of the past.

I'd be worrying more about relations with Scotland, if I was Her Majesty's Government

i'd say she'll be done before the trip's over. Are paddy power doing odds?

cmere has big phil said anything good about us yet

fyi media, these

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/images/2011/0517/274160_1.jpg?ts=1305681415?ts=1305681415

aren't 'dissidents', they're cunteógs

gurriers

brats

that Vulcan in the white hoodie looks happy enough

just actin the prick

that is illogical

plax <3

they're some gásúri so they are

ey nv he is a little alright

omen vibe off the little bollix, entirely too comfortable striding through those flames imo

he looks like Lescott's little brother tho but

eh i've been marked with that card in my day tbh, had the same wild eyebrows

kid on the right is scarily old/young

I've met him at close of day coming with Red Bull faces

and yet mol an oige agus tiocfaidh siad

musha and what's strange is often wonderful what

nobody ever told the buckeens that is fear rith maith ná drochsheasamh

I am loving that picture above. Eeeeee eeee eeee.

surprised wayne rooney came over to ireland just for that

it's always something other than is reported, is what annoys. I remember the love ulster riots, that was nothing to do with ulster, it was ugly crowd reaction to keisha cole's woeful support slot for kanye at the rds the night before

you could kick a dog in the street and he'd tell you that sure

nah real talk those guys look like card-carrying Marxist to me

that's the problem with ur side, the splitting, infighting, etc. It's like y'all believe that ideology matters.

(adds this thread to mental list of reasons to learn Irish, along with "The Best of Myles" and the hope of sounding less of a tit when faced with an unfamiliar Irish name and guessing wildly at which letters not to pronounce)

lol

i copied and pasted all of it

what did the chislers do with the fire?

i highly doubt they were there to honour it

Looks to me like they're about to vernacular it at some vernacular vernaculars, the wheels are the giveaway

taking it to replenish the tomb of the unknown gurrier?

a nice thought, certainly

the irish for "gurriers" is "gaginí"

a mate asked me what "fuck off" was in irish. i told him there wasnt a term like that in irish. "oh youre very civilised arent you" "eeeeh i wouldnt go that far"....

isn't there some variation of "fuck off"...thought there was but maybe I'm mistaken.

feic as

a feican me a feican tu and thats the truth says i to you

lan ar aghaidh leat you cunt

picture taken in Dublin when he heard I was English,
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=11444

Actually he just didn't like Nikons

giant haystacks lookin p good imo

thought this was pretty spot-on: http://circumlimina.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-day-eirigi-saved-dublin

Channel Five

Rosenthal in Temple Bar and Trinity
Collymore talking about 'half measures of the black stuff'
Nevin on 'the friendly final'

the real Irish story.

wait

Garret died?

RIP

Ireland much the worse for taking the other path, always the other path.

You've only just heard? It was on the news over here yesterday!

i've been holed up somewhat this week tbh

"Wait a minute - the Queen was here????"