Kate Middleton and Prince William to attend 1st Battalion Irish Guards St. Patrick’s Day parade

No integrity Robin? Is saying sorry a bridge to far for you, i suppose I'm not suprisedf after all a pom saying sorry to an Irishman would be a bit much.

Your crazy RobinF if you read back you might find it was Seanmor who wrote the article in question. I am a retired business man and ran three successful business's. I do not live in the USA. An apology would be in order.

No one's got any interest in your opinion, you've never sold goods, studied or took any notice of advertising, and have never wondered why tourists pick one destination in prefereance to another, are you the same Seanomelb who wrote when you were in the US Army stationed in North Carolina, white-anglo WASPS were great, but the miserable Irish/Americans were not, especially those from N.I. Your post is still here on IC.

WE love Ireland and your ignorance of a Ireland is well known on this site. England maybe your egocentric world and Ireland no longer needs to go cap in hand to England in this global village we live in. I have a right to my opinion and I'M sure the corporate world have no interest in that opinion. Therefore I find your post silly and puerile.

Seanomelb: As it never occurred to you, that you and Ireland North are badly damaging Ireland’s image at home and abroad, with you’re non-stop sniping. If I was the CEO of an international company and I accepted what you both say without question, then I wouldn't dream of investing in Ireland, or ever visiting there. Your 'dripping with dirty water' posts are portraying Ireland as the worst possible place to do business in. At the moment Ireland is fighting to survive, and is having to compete with the appeal of London / England and the grants they can offer new companies, and the and convenience of flying into Heathrow International airport. The Irish Trade and Tourist Board must be heartily sick of you both scaring away travellers and investors.

Ancaver what a silly post at least you're entitled to say what youi wish even if you are wrong

STEVEN: Ireland is a mess in large part because of the Irish people and their inability to govern themselves and make a go of it once the achieved freedom. As far as anti English, I love the English people, down to earth, friendly, and I don't have to listen to constant anti American nonsense that is so prevelant in Ireland. And the English people whose parents and Grand parents came from Ireland are a great bunch!! You know them STEVN, the ones you call the Plastic Paddies. These English/Irish have great pride in their Irish roots and would do anything for you! Manchester is a wonderful city! Now you keep going on about The Quiet Man, and Maureen O Hara and Hollywood. How would you like Ireland to be portrayed if you are unhappy with that portrayal? Should it be nasty begruddgers, with deep inexplicable anti- Americanism, and grown men running around in Nanchester U Jersey's?

Gordon Duggan@ " And on the days that followed I listened to his words I strained to understand him I chased his thoughts like birds "

Gordan Duggan@ " Yeah, listen to me dog before you start to whine That side yours and this side mine ... Move it on over Rock it on over Move over little dog A big old dog is movin' in ... Yeah, she changed the lock on my back door Now my key won't fit no more ... Move it on over "

Well we're now in the year March 2013... Ireland is in an even Bigger mes it was 12months ago. More Taxes, Higher unemployment, more job losses. more people moving abroad, Property taxes, Water taxes.Why blame the Irish goverment? They dont run Ireland its Europe/ Brussels dictate everything now the Irish goverment are mere Puppets for Angela!! We owe the Germans Billions!!! Even our new electricty bills now have a low usage chargse on them.. In other words if you use little electricrty they charge you for that also .. The list goes on.. Ireland is in the Biggest Mess ever along with the Euro!! There seems to be a real sinister anti British element on here cominng mainly From Americans & the few Irish republicans who are left. I for one like alot of more evolved Irish citizens who live in Ireland ...Believe we would be far better off Linked upto the UK and sterling and get out £Punt back...and to HELL WITH EUROPE.. The days of Maureen O Hara, The Quiet Man and all these hollywood images of Ireland are gone. Americans need to move on.. and if i had my way so would Europe the Euro and Angela Merkel (the new Hitler)Be gone!!!! and southern Ireland would be linked up with the Uk more as a trading partner etc etc Southern Ireland be linked to The Uk Scotland and Wales... Im comfortable in my irishness to not feel threatened by that like alot of old school people on here..!!!

Could anyone explain what Aloismartin is going on about on this site. Is it Marxist? Whatever it is, it make little sense. BTW I had an uncle in the Irish Guards. He won medals and served in many countries with them. He joined them because he could not get into the Irish Army as they were not recruiting and he wanted to travel.

Could anyone explain what Aloismartin is going on about on this site. Is it Marxist? Whatever it is, it make little sense. BTW I had an uncle in the Irish Guards.

ancavker: I have no interest in revisonist nonsense and hope what facts I have presented are correct and fair. The famine occurred during 1845 / 1852, a 7 year period. To understand it you have to draw comparisions and not overlook small clues which reveal what was going on - on the ground. For instance I was not impressed with, and object to (a) the British Government not drafting an Emergency Law proclaiming all farm-rent debts including those becoming due for payment, or in arrears were to be cancelled for all Irish famine victims with provable potato blight losses (b) that all evictions had to cease forthwith, and any evictions which had occurred were null and void in order to avoid hardship to families which almost certainly included young children (c) that Landlords Agents were forbidden to offer nominal sums of money (or shipping line tickets) to tenants to induce them to give up their farms/homes and rights. I'm certain I could soon find another 10 proposals to alleviate want, distress and one hopes avoid death, illness, or loss. So who can we blame for not going down this road, A side issue is how many Irish lived in an ordinary domestic house and not a farm and who had no connection whatosoever with potato's, with potato blight, and if enquired closely into had a certain amount of prospertiy about them? Could we say 1 million died, 1 million emigrated, but amongst them was only 100 000 actual potato growers? It's an interesting subject, and your 3xsails ahead of me on it.

Kilsally! I'm gratified to see a fellow Irishman (Col Timothy Collins) made it into the upper echelons of the British military establishment - the Sandhurst Brahmin caste, and in one incarnation too! (Could he be related to his name sake Michael (1890-1922) from Sam's Cross in west Cork, who was in London on important business c1920, and entertained by society hostess, Anglo-American heiress Lady Hazel Lavery. Hmmm!

Robin: I am well aware of the draft riots in NYC during the Civil War. One shameful chapter in an otherwise outstanding history of Irish accomplishment in the U.S. I am not going to argue with you about who left and who did not leave. The fact is so many Irish left Ireland because of the simple fact they were starving. As opposed to the others you mention who left for all the reasons immigrants hace come to America down through the years. Ireland was supposed to be a constitutent part of the U.K., and yet England did almost nothing during the famine. There is no way an English government would have stood by and did nothing had the fammine occured in England. Yes it is the past, but it does not change what happened. All your revisionist nonsense does not change that fact.