47 Comments

• LwaoiseNíMhaol | Aug 30, 2012, 02:40 PM EDT

  No one cares or minds if they come....wedon't even have celebrities here so formal celebrities are an anthesis to Irish culture. We have such a different mind set to the British. It sounds like an off the cuff remark followed by a polite refusal.Why would they get involve in Irish charities...this is a republic...we should respect British ways in Britain and they should respect Irish ways here. There is no need for royal visits it's weird in a republic. They are welcome genuinely but lets not make a mockery of it let it be real...and let's not pretend Ireland is important we are tiny!

• sirpeter | Aug 09, 2012, 04:30 PM EDT

  Creaky your begrudgery is terrible.And you getting all those golden oldie freebies.Come on now Creaky the EU is one big family.It's all give and take.The krauts got their free lunch by having an undervalued currency.They made big bucks out of this Euro caper.That's as good as a bailout or money in the Bundesbank.We all know this Creaky.Look at all that Cork oil and gas and yummy fish we are giving away for nothing to Europe.That's how it works Creaky.Look at it this way Creaky it's a lot better to be vastly overpaid than vastly underpaid.Anyway Creaky it's all just the ebb and flow of the economy.As for the Brits working.They are swinging the lead I think.My Brit investments aren't returning half enough.

• Towngate | Aug 09, 2012, 08:15 AM EDT

  Creaky Calling ... Creaky Calling ... Curpeter, given the almost and unusually intelligent and amusing tone of your splutter @10.34, I have to be fair and admit I snorted at 'Londonistan' - very good! Of course there are area's which are almost dominated by incomers and their descendants, and they are generally very welcome and contribute greatly to the healthily mixed society.Btw: immigrants of make up only 3% of the 60 million current population of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so there is no trouble finding a spot in the Shires, old chap! Yeah, Britain might be under pressure at the moment,but it's far from 'broken'. It will no doubt get out of the difficulty by pulling together and working hard first - before rolling over like mad dog Ireland and begging for a bailout from countries where the population works and pay their taxes properly! Despite the Bailout, the place will still slide further down the pan until the State and Population realise thet are living in a cloud cuckoo land of vastly overpaid Farm Subsidies, Salaries,Pensions and Social Welfare Payments. Britain works for it's own living - Ireland should try it one day! Slainte!

• sirpeter | Aug 08, 2012, 10:34 PM EDT

  Hey Creakygate..You give all the bowsies hell.I like that.Speaking of lost territories.Now that we see eye to eye.What are we going to do about Londonistan?Do you think the title of Carrickfergus being bestowed on William and all this visiting is because they can't find a white spot in the Shires?White Shamrocks? They know Britain is broken.

• curtisjohnson | Aug 07, 2012, 11:20 PM EDT

  Another rambling mess of thought fragments from towntroll complete with random exclamation points. Only a political imbecile would assert that the German Royal family residing in england are anything but showpieces for brtain's ruling oligarchs (who will keep the foreign cheap labor flowing in until the phony british identity is completely eroded).

• Towngate | Aug 07, 2012, 06:30 PM EDT

  Excuse me, dear reader, while I bash a few bowsies! >>> Ciaradexy @ 06.09 - is so unfamiliar with a healthy sex life, she thinks a Building is a sex object! ~/~ Mamaginnty complains about Enda Kenny earning too much money; but would she care to reveal to us how much unearned money she has extracted over the years from hardworking Irish /German Taxpayers, and how much she is currently raking in?! ~/~ Kurtjohnson @12.06 - 11 displays his ignorance by not recognising the famous quote from Patriot Robert Emmett's Speech from the Dock! - and accuses Emmett of class racism! On the Royals he is completely lost: Of course they don't wield Absolute power as in the foggy old days of yore, where the Shamrocksiders choose to set their minds, but Reign over a wonderfully successful Parliamentary Democracy of over 60 million people. Shamrockshire should try it sometime! As for the Title of Carrickfergus being bestowed on William; only a total fool would ignore such a clear marker (of the White Shamrocks on his collar and all over her wedding Dress) as to the intention of the British Establishment regarding their 'lost territories'! WE are saved by IrelandNorth's sensible acceptance of the prospect, although he mistakenly refers to her visit to " the greater part of Ireland" - no;she already owns that!

• IrelandNorth | Aug 07, 2012, 08:42 AM EDT

  Our current Taoiseach Ó Cíonnaith/Kenny seems to have lost the run of himself. Throwing royal invitations around like snuff at a wake, while the already overburdened Irish taxpayer are paying off the debt for last years' shin dig. Could be 90 years before we can cater for Will (Liam) and Kate (Cáit). Since Gran insisted he wear Irish Guards uniform for his wedding (King Willian IV - of Scarlet?), perhaps Her pleasure is for a nullification of the constitutional seperation/divorce between Britain and Ireland. Her visit to the greater part of Ireland was also described as accessing a room which She had been locked out of for so long. Only a room - in a four roomed palace? And Her Christmas address, on the importance of 'family', after Her "partnership of equals" reference in Her Dublin Castle Queen's speech to "A Úachtaran agus a Cháirde[/Mme President and Friends]". Still, if all this entente cordiale is necessary to calm the besieged Ulstermen, so be it. Could handle a Commonwealth much more than realm. And if the school teacher plays his cards right, he might be the first Taoiseach in Anglo-Irish history to receive a peerage. Arise Lord Mayo.

• sirpeter | Aug 07, 2012, 07:29 AM EDT

  Unrealist lol..Oops!! Did I let the cat out of the bag? I meant to just say GFA.Unrealist there was a Unionist problem for the Brits since 1910 when the Ulster Unionist Council formed a secret committee to oversee the creation of an army in Ulster to fight against the imposition of Home Rule.The Brits NEVER wanted to partition Ireland.They knew it was going to be useless to them economically due to disunity in NI.It's about economics and control.It's always about economics and control.Partition was all about economics and control.The EU is also about sharing economics and control and closer integration.Are you getting the picture yet? Power sharing was the key.That's what 1910 was all about.Unionists holding on to all the power.The true reality is partition has failed,the Unionists have lost what they had,the Republicans have gained and still NI continued to fail economically as a viable entity.That won't be allowed to go on indefinitely by the UK,Ireland and the EU.Reunification is the viable economic option to the UK,Ireland and the EU.So who is the problem?

• Realist | Aug 07, 2012, 03:59 AM EDT

  sirpeter: "the GFA/Reunification Process"? Lol is that what they're telling you now? Well I'm glad you think so. "The sad thing about all this is that the British set this up. This is the British answer to the Republican problem in Ireland. It’s a British solution, it’s not an Irish solution. It’s not a solution that we have control of"...."Never in the history of republicanism was so much sacrificed and so little gained...."....but then Brendan was not as easiliy pleased as you....lol.

• curtisjohnson | Aug 07, 2012, 12:11 AM EDT

  " "Of course the future King Billy II and Queen Catherine will want to pop over and check out what the territories they may wish to restore to the British Monarchy." The irony being that the "royals" haven't even held real power in britain since bill the orange I.

• curtisjohnson | Aug 07, 2012, 12:06 AM EDT

  To anglo materialist degenerates such as towntroll, "place among nations" means slavery to trans-national ideologies which are not only destroying the common classes in Ireland but also in britain. Admittedly, the creole language which has come to be known as "english" is ugly but efficient in terms of business dealings.

• mamaginnty | Aug 06, 2012, 12:13 PM EDT

  Unless our lick ass Enda Kenny can pay for it all from his bulging wage packet then the couple can stay where they are.

• ancavker | Aug 06, 2012, 12:08 PM EDT

  I have no problem with the royals coming to visit Ireland. I do have a problem if the Taoiseach fawns all over them, as Mr. Bruton did some years back when Charles visited. He told Charles that he was what all Irish people aspired to!!! In a word that was disgusting!!

• sirpeter | Aug 06, 2012, 10:29 AM EDT

  Unrealist..LOL.Of course I'm concerned for their safety in Ireland.But only on a political level.As a supporter of the GFA/Reunification Process.It is paramount that nothing happens to cause strained relations between our two countries when all is going so well.There are some risks to their well being in Ireland.They haven't all gone away you know.You see you are getting it all wrong as usual.Lizzy "the hun" Saxe-Coburg and Gotha can rot in hell as well as her bloodsucking dysfunctional family.I still agree with that.Still we can hope something will happen to Willie and Katey so they can't come over.I'd say just about now the Royal family relationship dysfunction is starting to set in.Katey just might push Willie down some stairs accidentally on purpose hitting Charlie and Camel like a bowling ball and they all end up in hospital and save the Irish authorities the headache of watching out for their safety.As for Mountbatten's Imperial ass he's just particles of crab sh*t now.lol

• ciaradexy | Aug 06, 2012, 06:29 AM EDT

  Sirp, Towngate is male? I assumed it was some sort of hermaphrodite. Abhainn, most Americans havent got a clue about anything to do with ireland except years ago some people starved, emigrated or did just fine or they still think the Irish and the Brits are involved in some sort of bizarre war. But youd be one of them seeing as youre not Irish yourself.

• Towngate | Aug 06, 2012, 04:34 AM EDT

  abhainn; wouldn't it save all this tortured tautology if the Irish got a 'tidder o' sense' and only used the Irish terms for the parliament and officials, when speaking or writing in Irish. As the adopted English language is generally and reasonably well-spoken throughout the Island and Internationally understood,that will do nicely. It will be a clear indication that Ireland is getting serious about taking "its place among the nations of the earth" when it stops all this diddle-i-eye cod-ology nonsense. Note also that their bailout begging is always done in English - not Irish!

• abhainn | Aug 05, 2012, 06:54 PM EDT

  "Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny was introduced to William and Kate...". There is only one taoiseach in the world so it is a tautology (a type of style fault) to write "Ireland's Taoiseach". Furthermore, it is unnecessary to add "Prime Minister" as readers of this organ are Irish Americans and Irish people who already know what a taoiseach is.

• Realist | Aug 05, 2012, 06:42 PM EDT

  sirpeter: Lol....am so glad to learn that you are "concerned about their safety". You're all heart...quite a contrast with your views on the visit of William's grandmother only last year though. Then you wrote, and I quote, "Liz Windsor can rot in hell as well as her bloodsucking dysfunctional family..I hope someone pushes her down some stairs accidentally on purpose. This one Irishman who won't be greeting the head of the British armed forces. Still we can only hope something might happen..The last time was when we scattered Mountbatten's Imperial ass from Sligo to Donegal in 1979.The crabs ate like royalty that day tee-hee..A great day for Ireland. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. I hope she knows the risks." Remind me, what is it Sinn Fein are telling you to think this week? Lol.

• sirpeter | Aug 05, 2012, 04:06 PM EDT

  Ciaradexy.I can't imagine Ear Lingus getting a kiss from anybody.If Charlie boy got a kiss.I can only imagine it was from some auld wan with low standards when it comes to men.Someone like Towngates wife.

• sirpeter | Aug 05, 2012, 03:56 PM EDT

  barneyjo.Well I was wondering where you were going with your give me your tired and poor huddled masses in relation to my comment about the Royals coming to Ireland.I am concerned about their safety.They could be a target for some person who feels the peace process has gone on long enough.I don't feel comfortable with the Royals in Ireland.Maybe you were referring to my adoption comment.That was tongue-in-cheek.You know not meant to be taken seriously.And now we are back to the famine.But I'll answer that too.If the US didn't exist during the famine they would have went to England.No country takes immigrants out of the goodness of there heart.Immigrants were needed.The western United States was opening up in the middle 19th century.All that stolen Indian land had to be settled. ;))

• Towngate | Aug 05, 2012, 01:33 PM EDT

  Of course the future King Billy II and Queen Catherine will want to pop over and check out what the territories they may wish to restore to the British Monarchy. Sad thing is: if the clowns who have made such a dogs dinner of the place for the past 90 years,continue to do so,it may yet beg to return to the fold even sooner than their Coronation!.... IF this happens, then look out America ... they may do the same with some temporarily misplaced Western Colonies!

• TayandCake | Aug 05, 2012, 12:52 PM EDT

  I rather a state visit by daffy duck and goofy, please let me get what I want

• barneyjo | Aug 05, 2012, 10:56 AM EDT

  @sirpeter - not really the point I was making. I would pose the question what would have happened to starving and destitute immigrants on the famine ships if the US Government had encapsulated such a stance into official policy on immigration?

• ciaradexy | Aug 05, 2012, 10:27 AM EDT

  Good! My nearest neighbours are always welcome. i have many British mates so why wouldnt I welcome their representatives? Sirpete, Charles has been here before and If Im not wrong, some aul wan grabbed hm and gave him a kiss and a hug!

• sirpeter | Aug 05, 2012, 09:38 AM EDT

  @barneyjo.No!!Americans are great at stringing together words of bullsh*t.Those words don't do anything to inspire me.As a matter of fact I see what they really mean to Ireland.But then I understand the economic harm,the family hurt,the truth and the effects that the lure of money has on the youth of a small rural community/small country.Barneyjo - Do the words "Give me your youth,your highly educated,your future wealth,we yearn to keep you down" have any resonance for you?

• curtisjohnson | Aug 05, 2012, 12:01 AM EDT

  towntroll succinctly (at least for him) articulates the core values of the british terror state - celebratory triumphalism of global nation rape. The caveat being that from the importation of bill the orange forward the mercantile oligarchs were in control of britain.

• barneyjo | Aug 04, 2012, 04:45 PM EDT

  @sirpeter - do the words "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" have any resonance for you at all?

• merefalow | Aug 04, 2012, 04:28 PM EDT

  1000 years to get rid off them,now you want to invite them back in an official status.not.

• seagreen | Aug 04, 2012, 02:07 PM EDT

  It is apparent that the Irish Ministry of Paranoia, Cynicism, Schitzophrenia, and Bad Vibes is fully operational on this site.

• Sparklet | Aug 04, 2012, 10:07 AM EDT

  I just nearly spat my tea over the keyboard. @sirpeter. Camel.LOL. I do like Kate and William. And Harry. Since seeing her acting with Daniel Craig, the Queen too has jumped up a notch. But I loathe Charles and his wife, known forever to me now as Camel.

• Towngate | Aug 04, 2012, 07:16 AM EDT

  To Silling @11.39. What a brilliant idea: Bring back the Irish Royal Family! Then, once established and indulging in countrywide internicine wars, they could beg the king on the next island along to come awith an army and help him take revenge on someone who seduced and absconded with his girlfriend! ..... oh, wait a minute, that sounds familiar...! .......... To Portia777: Firstly: William, Duke of Cambridge is Colonel of the Irish Guards and honoured ireland by chosing to wear the Dress Uniform of that regiment for his Wedding. Kate's dress was adorned with lace shamrocks. This is a deliberate statement by the Royal family of their connection (ownership) of Northern Ireland. To underscore this fact, the Queen dubbed him the Earl of Carrickfergus whish gives him land holdings and authority there. And if anyone has any doubt about their future intentions regarding the Province, please remember that Carrickfergus is where William of Orange (King Billy) landed his troops before the decisive swampy skirmish at the Boyne which won him the Crown of England and Ireland. Yes, the history of conquest asserting itself in a much more subtle manner. Like it or not!

• sirpeter | Aug 03, 2012, 09:31 PM EDT

  These Royalists are taking advantage of the good nature of the Irish people.Kenny never meant that they should actually take him up on the invitation.He was only been polite.Charles and Camel want to visit as well.Who is going to pay to keep their frolicking asses safe around Ireland?My taxes is it?It's always the same with foreigners.You be nice to them and they think you have adopted them.

• curtisjohnson | Aug 03, 2012, 09:00 PM EDT

  As referenced by sparklemagic, he likely just wants to use them as a distraction in a similar manner in which they are used by ruling commercial oligarchy in britain. I would also say all of the options presented by aloismartin are material contributing factors. @cillowen - "brother in arms" " usual racist bigots in the Catholic community"???? What on earth are you on about?

• aloistmartin | Aug 03, 2012, 05:35 PM EDT

  I. Don`t Understand the Symbolism of the Matter ? Is Mr. Kenny tries to establish Solidarity with The British on which basis: As Inter-Economic Bourgeois Fetish, As Demonstration of Non-Aggression Unilateralism, As a Pretense for Unification Diplomacy; Or D. All Of The Above ?..@!

• RedBranch | Aug 03, 2012, 03:56 PM EDT

  Sure we'll throw in a title for good measure, the Duke and Dutchess of Coolock, why not?

• EamonnDublin | Aug 03, 2012, 03:36 PM EDT

  "Silling" - Please stop talking rubbish. Éamonn, Dublin.

• cillowen | Aug 03, 2012, 01:02 PM EDT

  brothers in arms

• cillowen | Aug 03, 2012, 12:11 PM EDT

  I welcome the Royal couple as most irish people will welcome them. They are a lovely couple and since the peace process has brought about more mutual respect between Irish and British people they should be made to feel very welcome, there will be those usual racist bigots in the Catholic community who will see it as a threat or insult but these are the same people who won't wear an orange t shirt or buy anything with a union flag on the label, but they will wear English premiership football tops and watch British sports on a weekly basis, speak the English language on a daily basis without seeing the irony.

• lyoness555 | Aug 03, 2012, 11:57 AM EDT

  How fabulous!! I am very excited to hear this news and hope to reunite these two countries - UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL. Stop the hatred you Irish kooks you are living in the past stop the hate you are not helping anybody you are destroying our country!

• Silling | Aug 03, 2012, 11:39 AM EDT

  I think it is time to bring back both the Irish Royal Family. It would mean the abolition of the Republic, which would endear us to the Northern Irish Royalists and make unification a far easier process. We could then reintroduce the Brehan Laws. I am living in France where the republic was forced to adapt the lowest common denominator when choosing egalitarianism as a national standard. This is also the problem in Ireland since we have nobody such as a royal family to give us the ethics and protocol that is sadly lacking. The Archers and Mrs Dale's diary is no longer sufficient. So, lets all get together and bring back our aristocracy.

• EamonnDublin | Aug 03, 2012, 11:32 AM EDT

  My God, but there are some mean-spirited people on here. I suggest it is time for such dinosaurs to move forward in a spirit of optimism, togetherness, love and forgiveness. Stop eating yourselves away with useless hatred. I welcome the potential visit of Kate Middleton and Prince William to the Republic of Ireland, two people who have never done anything whatsoever to harm this country. There are plenty of enemies in the long grass without trying to make an issue out of something that is in the process of being resolved. To them both I say "Céad Míle Fáilte". Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

• pilib04 | Aug 03, 2012, 10:57 AM EDT

  I could understand the visit of Elizabeth Saxe Coburg and Gotha to the Republic and this year to Northern Ireland. Her visit contributed to the healing and peace process. However, to continue inviting these "parasites," as subvideo called them, does not seem productive. Instead, I would agree with sparklemagic, that it has more to do with taking the heat off of Enda. I think the whole crowd should leave England and relocate to their fatherland, Germany.

• freekazilla | Aug 03, 2012, 10:43 AM EDT

  The new ROYAL ? / No, she is no rose, / Nor a flower made of brass, / She's no classless lass, / No albino gorilla, / Butt a ROYAL Camilla ?

• Portia777 | Aug 03, 2012, 09:43 AM EDT

  Prince William, who married last summer in the Irish Guards red uniform. Battle of the Boyne Ritual again.??

• sparklemagic | Aug 03, 2012, 09:43 AM EDT

  I'm sure they're very nice. Enda wants a distracting circus so that people won't notice how deeply the bankers, property developers and the old boy government have wrecked the nation.

• YoungPike | Aug 03, 2012, 08:06 AM EDT

  Elitist parasites? How biased and cynical! Can't you just accept that they are a nice and genuine young couple?

• SubversiveVideo | Aug 03, 2012, 04:49 AM EDT

  NO, because they are elitist parasites.