the Queen 'to make first visit to Ireland'

Surely Graham Norton is Irish, though?

oldbean, see celtic special thread , you are required to honour a wager

first visit to the Republic, not Ireland.

She does so love the Commonwealth

does she have to, she should never step foot here, anyone from her generation shouldnt anyway

Maybe Mary should offer her the country back and apologise for the condition it's in.

Will the Dubs line the streets again to welcome her waving their Union Jacks in their thousands, as they did the last time the British monarch visited the city!

Hence the nickname "Jacks" for the Dubs.

Bio-the generation that fought the Nazis-while the Freestaters were smuggling butter?

Ive still got some Silver Jubilee plates, any of ye lads reckon i could knock em out there if she visits???

most of the west brits on here,never mind dublin, will welcome her with open arms.

i shall be protesting as usual with my family.

Tiocaidh Ar La.

Kyrie Eleison

SL UT

Tiocfaidh not tiocaidh you ignorant pleb.

tradewank you are an uneducated, priest molested, inadequate, limping, anally retentive , bag of shoite .

"as usual", so how many of the Queens visits have you and your family protested at?

none intended!

flushgordon is a H0M0 NAP

what difference does it make? i don't care.

maybe if the "euro" goes down the drain, we could use sterling?

I hear sterling is in trouble over the next few months

been advised to short it but I couldn't be arsed

Serious question about sterling, how much has trade dropped from visitors to Ireland from the UK since the pound took a dive, i was over in 2000 and it wasnt cheap then!!!

I suppose the UK seems a cheap place to visit for you lads now......

I'm so patriotic I would** her for my Country and**z all over her face whilst singing rebel songs.

sh ag & ji zz

whilst munchin a plate of tatties?

c l o w n ^^^^

usual apes tgm and tradesport ruining threads

So a woman of German decent visits Ireland, its not as if she is English for God's sake.

does this mean Cobh will be renamed again?

Paddy Hair 04 Mar 01:27
So a woman of German decent visits Ireland, its not as if she is English for God's sake.

Born in England to English-born parents who themselves had English-born parents.

Makes her English in my eyes.

Are you one of these culchies who regards anybody who can't trace their ancestry in the local village back to the famine a "blow-in"

NO FREESTATERS

My granda would be turning in his grave, he was on a schilling a week, got his man.

Wonderul news. Time to embrace our biggest trading partner. I shall be unfurling a banner which reads "Ma'am, will one kindly consider taking us back under one's wing?"

The experiment is over imo. As with many of the former African colonies, we have proven ourselves clearly unfit for self governance. The Brits have had centuries experience of governening half the globe and we need to tap back into that imho. Sterling and the relative fiscal control that comes with it would be a massive added bonus.