how come Ireland aint in the Commonwealth Games ?

Ireland's Commonwealth membership was terminated when it became a Republic in 1949.

You have been cast out into the outer-darkness....you must beg to be at one again with the Empire !

There may be a vacancy coming up soon ?

well yeah I know that ... 

but here we are .... peace process .....65 years later ... on the doorstep....frankly embarrassing really isn't it ......

not even invited back ?????????????????


We'd love to be able to tell yer to f*ck off again !

Eire made it's boggy bed and can lie in it

Yeah...but we have to keep lending the trotters shed loads of money to keep them going !

(bog trotters  ..oc)

Not welcome!

Not long after the Republic of Ireland's (ROI) exclusion, the Commonwealth decided that republics were eligible for membership. ROI chose not to rejoin.

They should not be allowed to watch the games, these are the British games.

The suck off our culture and economy but don't want to be part of our great nation.....treason !

They suck off our culture and economy but don't want to be part of our great nation.....treason !

Blame it on the Scottish Nationalists... they don't want their major source of funding, i.e. the sale of ginger wigs, compromised by having a competing nation splitting the revenues.

The ROI were asked but couldn't afford to compete.
Give tem another 20 years and they'll be knocking our door and begging (how apt) to be allowed back to the fold.