The Queen She'll Come To Call On Us

What do the Gardai do when checking, Miesque? Are you given a buzz over with a metal detector, have the underside and boot of your car checked for strap-on bombs, etc.? I'd have thought that every possibility was gone over, but nobody will expect a highly-trained suicide pigeon, will they? No matter how many holes you plug, someone will have something in mind to welcome the merry monarch, or at least make some futile gesture of stupidity that will harm some poor innocent.
 
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Good show with the excellent nicky campbell on r5 this morning. Some thick humourless left winger from the Irish socialist republican party (or whatever) was neatly taken apart by NC.

Either way, although im against the monarchy in principle, its hard to imagine anyone doing a finer job than the queen over the past few decades. She uncannily hits the right note time after time and is very english with that understated way and dry humour. Its a given that the irish will take to her

Thank god we didnt send that muppet Andrew
 
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I dont listen to Radio 5 Smug too often and deliberately avoid the more annoying presenters and their oh so ironic "comedian" guests, but NC is ok in my book and clamly and efficiently destroyed this sinister prat this morning

Ok far left politics are generally for bigots and the mentally ill and are thus easy targets, but it was still good stuff
 
If any extemist wanted to 'make a point' or 'put on a show', surely the wedding would have been a much easier target? Hundreds of thousands on the streets, in parks, transport, people with picnic bags, rucksacks.....would have been easy pickings if any of them had dared. It will be much harder to attack the Queen's person, so they could go for soft targets but with the very odd exception, that's always the case anyway.
Fortnight before Charles married again, everything was being searched in the area, barricades on pavements to stop people crossing other than at pedestrian crossings, smell of disinfectant everywhere as people use the Guild Hall entrance as a lavatory.
We could be spending money on a referendum to change the voting system which was never going to change anything. Oh no wait done that.
 
Less than a hundred protesters turned up and they couldn't get near the Garden of Remembrance or be heard. Needless to say some media will concentrate on the rabble.
 
Obviously enough I'm no fan of monarchy but I think that the Queen visiting the Garden of Remembrance carries far more weight than any visit by a Blair, Brown or Cameron could ever achieve. Good on her.
 
Caught a few moments in the OTs bar at Brighton before first race. I was sure she'd wear emerald green and, begorrah, sure an' all, didn't she do just that. (Cue manic Irish fiddler.) A bit obvious - what next, a shamrock-shaped handbag? I said to Christie, the lovely Irish barman, stand by for Phillip cracking inappropriate Paddy jokes.
 
I thought the outfit was let down by those plain black stumpy shoes, though. She could've gone for cream if she couldn't stand the thought of matching green ones.

(Historic occasion, my arse - let's discuss her hair and make-up next!)
 
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Obviously enough I'm no fan of monarchy but I think that the Queen visiting the Garden of Remembrance carries far more weight than any visit by a Blair, Brown or Cameron could ever achieve. Good on her.
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I was shocked by it. A big step forward surely. What protester could argue with that gesture?
 
Because for some people, the past will forever inform their present, Gearoid. Or they just can't help loving a good barney, no matter what, where, or why. Some folks just love to kick off.
 
Out of the whole Country the most they could muster was a hundred arseholes, if they weren't thick they'd be embarassed.
 
I think most were just local rabble using the opportunity to fling a brick at a garda. They'll have another go when water charges are introduced (for which they'll probably be exempt anyway) and when the marginal tax rate is increased to 70%.
 
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You know the type I mean (shouldn't have generalised).

Did you also try and push Gardai without knowing anything about what was going on?
 
Anyone watching the speeches. Whoever wrote Mary McAleese speech should be shot. She's about as funny as cot death.
 
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