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Prince Charles unwittingly meets Sinn Fein publicity man at Glastonbury

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DARA KELLY,
Published Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 12:09 PM
Updated Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 7:36 PM

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Prince Charles visits Glastonbury festival
Prince Charles visits Glastonbury festival


Here was a photo opportunity the House of Windsor could have done without. This week the Prince of Wales met Sinn Fein's former director of publicity Danny Morrison in a field at the Glastonbury festival on Thursday and asked how the camping was going.

But it's unlikely Prince Charles knew who he was talking to. (There's a strong case to me made for the fact that this is not exactly unusual for him either). The heir to the throne talked tents with the former Sinn Fein ad man.

'Yesterday when we were up at the green field, there was a whole bustle, I saw a BBC camera crew and people thought Bono was arriving,' Morrison said.

'When we got up it was Prince Charles. He was the only person out of quarter of a million wearing a shirt and tie. He asked myself and my brother Ciaran did we actually camp out for three days. We come for about six days. He was very personable.'

Morrison added: 'I had no problem with him. There is a line drawn through the past.'
 

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Downunderyan | Jul 04, 2010, 05:35 AM EDT
Barneyjo The instances you cite merely reflect the degree to which the republic has moved to accommodate british interests, not the other way round. Barriers may be coming down, but in whose intersts? A short-sighted view of the relationship between Ireland and its eastern neighbour as assessed by platitudes and hand claps is very remiss. Actions speak louder than words. When will Britain pay reparations to Ireland as they demanded from Germany? To my knowledge, the only britisher who apologised for what britain did to Ireland was the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, a humble man of working class background. No royalty or elected representative of britain has ever even made that token gesture towards long-suffering Ireland.

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Nelliegrace | Jul 03, 2010, 02:42 PM EDT
Sorry, but I feel this Englishman is not worth a comment.

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barneyjo | Jul 02, 2010, 09:42 PM EDT
Downunderyan, oh yes I was alive at the time, but not in Derry. I was and am a survivor of the troubles in general, and of the misbehavious of State Forces. And yes I am reading the Saville report (its going to take a while) I think what you find difficult to grasp (from a distance maybe)is that there are barriers coming down all over the place; old enemies are looking at each other anew Paisley has just recently been to tea with Uachtarain na hEireann; to quote Shakespeare, "Misery acquaints men with strange Bedfellows" which explains why we have the Government we deserve. Did you not see the Nationalist People of Derry applaud a Conservative Primeminister when he acknowledged that Bloody Sunday was an "own goal" for the British state, and when he apologised on behalf of the British State. But getting back to my original point, how do you know that Danny Morrison and Prince Charles didnt get on when they met? were you there by any chance? Enlighten me please do with an insider's view.

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galway2001 | Jul 01, 2010, 10:20 PM EDT
why in the world would danny morrisey shake prince charles 's hand he's a low life

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Downunderyan | Jul 01, 2010, 06:07 AM EDT
barneyjo You can't have been in Ireland on 31 Jan 1972. Read the Saville Report released last week (albeit 30 years too late for justice to be rendered) to learn that there was no way Charlie's Paras would have "hunkdred down, shared a "spliff" and chilled out to the music!!

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YoungPike | Jun 30, 2010, 05:53 PM EDT
Prince Charles, although a bit of a fool, is a nice man. Danny Morrison is one of the most amiable former Sinn Fein men. Given the opportunity, there's no reason why they shouldn't get along okay.

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JamesMurphy | Jun 30, 2010, 02:34 PM EDT
Whatis there to think about? Prince Charles is a civilzed individual and was behaving in character in meeting another human being. Had he realized that Morrison represented the organization that blew up his favorite uncle, the insufferable Lord Mountbatten, he no doubt wuld have been quite put out.

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Reilleyfam | Jun 30, 2010, 12:47 PM EDT
Aaaw, let's be nice here. THIS natural interaction between these blokes shows that all this conflict is self-created and left to our own natural instincts we get along - and YES share a pint & a spliff!

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barneyjo | Jun 30, 2010, 07:29 AM EDT
My my what a glib(and stupid) statement. If the truth were really know, they may have hunkdred down, shared a "spliff" and chilled out to the music!!

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Downunderyan | Jun 30, 2010, 07:20 AM EDT
If Charlie only knew who he was speaking with, he might have called in the infamous 'Paras' regiment, of which he was the chief, to finish off the unfinished business of 'Bloody Sunday' 31 January 1972.

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