Obsessed about the Queen and royalty in general. Like the people in the video.

And we’re not obsessed about anything?

What are you on about, Ger? Are you featured in the video above? Did I hit a nerve?

What I was saying, was that I personally know some Irish people who are obsessed with the Queen. Super fans, like those featured in the video. And I find it strange due to the history of imperialism between Ireland and the UK.

No nerve slaps. But don’t we have our own indigenous obsessions – or do you not think so?

Why’s it any more crazy than other people’s obsessions… Know any Kardashian superfans, or Trekkies?

Ger, of course we do, I never said otherwise. Every nation has some people who are obsessed with something, and those who take that obsession to ridiculous lengths. I’m simply pointing out the strangeness, to me, of IRISH people obsessing over the Queen.

Fair enough slaps. I can’t abide obsession/fanaticism about anything – but see it regularly. To religions, political parties and even sports. As a nation, we seem to have more hang ups/obsessions than most…

None of that is unique to Ireland, Ger. Religion, sports, political party fanaticism is prevalent all over the world. And the obsession with royalty is not unique to the UK either.

What’s the weather like in the Shankhill today, Ger?

Dunno m8. Sunny in Dalkey.

Somebody implies some British may be a bit unhinged if they are fanatical about royalty.

Ger Comings response:
What about obsessions in Eye-land, they’re more obssessed?
What about the North?
What about the Cah-lics?

Whataboutery…..

Touched a nerve, I suspect.

I smell a Ukipper….

Coming from someone who trolled the article about Joshua Molloy being arrested:

“Funny the way if the British army got their way, there would be no Irish passports, yet we’re expected to get their squaddies out of trouble when they’re captured.
British army are as racist to Irish people, Arabs, etc as they’ve always been.”

Pot, meet Kettle.

Gloves. Doesn’t want any of the great unwashed actually touching her.

Krabbs – please don’t presume to talk/type for us! What gives you the right – just like the IRA decided to fight for ‘our’ cause in NI?!

Ger, at the end of the day, her and her crown terrorised this country for 800 years. I didn’t advocate taking up arms and bombing people in Northern Ireland like you are hinting. I cannot comprehend why you care about her, you are free now yet you still seem to be held in mental hand cuffs, time to wake up and realise our country is still under foreign occupation, let’s do something about it.

You are entitled to your opinion. Glad you’ve stopped speaking for the nation!

Your ignorance is the only thing stopping you from understanding.

The mandatory/childlike personal insult, when a potential disagreement arises.

Ignorant means unaware or uneducated, it is not a personal insult. You are ignorant of the bigger picture, Ireland is still unfree and here you are preparing to celebrate your oppressors birthday. You are a sheep.

Another childish insult – to an unoppressed person…

Get over it Eugene you spa.

Eugene,
You seem a little obsessed with the Queen yourself.

Ger, you may not be oppressed but our comrades abandoned in the 6 counties are being oppressed.

Simon, it seems you are the ‘spa’ by telling me to get over someone preparing to celebrate the birthday of a foreign invader after 800 years of unjustifiable occupation of our land.

Eugene – everyone in Ireland doesn’t share your opinion on the monarchy or the ‘blood shedders’.
But you’re entitled to your opinion and those of us who have a different opinion to ours.

The UK is our nearest neighbour and biggest trading partner. We watch their TV (including news), sports – and eat their food. Why should the story not be here – many of us were glad to get a job there in recent years?!

Likewise, many an Englishman came over here to sponge off our social welfare system.

Perhaps – but the main traffic was Ireland to the UK. Beginning in the 50s. Without work in the UK, many of us would have been in big trouble, after our country virtually imploded – due to inept and corrupt bankers and politicians in recent years. But why not cover their news?

Yes, but that trend went the other way during our boom. Largest ethnic minority in Ireland now. Are we abusing them now, and putting up signs no blacks, no dogs and no English. No we are not. They are a racist xenophobic bunch of people.

Having lived in the UK, off and on, for many years – I could not agree with your last statement. They are versy similar to the Irish and, if it wasn’t for them, we might well be speaking German…

Likewise, only for them we would be speaking our own language. And not a mongrel language that is English. Which Btw is German, French and God knows what other crap thrown in.

BTW Seamus, have you ever worked – for any length of time – in the UK? As your negative views of the British are not what I normally come across.

Have you ever lived in Australia. You will see their true colours over here. Every Irish person is a potential terrorist in their uneducated mindset.

PS, they know nothing Btw about bombs planted in Ireland ten years almost,, before bombs went off in the UK. They have a blind spot, to their own acts of terrorism.

Yes, I was in Sydney for a year. But I note you didn’t live in the UK – and that explains your bias.

What for a year. I live here. Big difference. Plus, the Irish community, took to the streets in Birmingham demanding an end to racism against them and members of the black community. Do you see, similar protests in Ireland from the English community. Answer no. You are very naive.

Seamus – why type about a country you never lived/worked in?

Why support a foreign monarch.

Goodbye Seamus. Not having lived in the UK rules you out of any meaningful discussion about the British and the UK. Its like talking about American Football to a chap who has never seen a game.

Run rabbit run.

Interesting, how the rabbit ran when it came to points made about the treatment of Irish people in the UK, compared to the treatment they get here.

Ryanair have cheap flights to most UK cities.

Travel – and learn, Seamus.

Take your blinkers off rabbit.

And get out of Ballysmalltown – to see what’s happening in the wide world….

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Btw, ger interesting how attacks on the irish community are on the rise again within the UK. Which has been documented and reported it..Liverpool, Sheffield and other areas in the north of England. Don’t see any attacks on the English community here. Funny that. Must be nice, living in a goldfish bowl

Links and/or evidence please, bearing in mind you were never in the UK?!

Jesus mate, I have probably seen more of the world than you. Any more lame comments coming.

Any links?

This website covered it not so long ago.

That a ‘no’ then?

Liverpool had to cancel the St Patrick’s day parade because of attacks.

You can google it yourself.

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/generationemigration/2012/07/17/return-of-anti-irish-racism-in-britain/ look ger not hard to find. First page.

Simply UNTRUE

Parade cancelled?

Yep must be. Because you said so. Time to run along rabbit. Live in denial like the rest of your ilk.

Forced to hold the march around Irish housing estates. While constantly getting abused. Sure must be untrue. The photos published must be fake.

Why lie Seamus? The Liverpool St Patrick’s Day parade took place as planned. Stop making stuff up, from Bohola (?)….

Must be a lie so ger, because you said so, and with absolutely no evidence to support your statement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kEFkpvWCVw

Some British people have apparently contributed greatly to Irish Society over the the last few decades. The leader of the third biggest party in the Dáil is a UK citizen and former MP.

@Ger Comings, I’m a born and bred londoner to an Irish dad and English mum, lived there until I was nearly 16. I do not support or follow the British monarchy and whilst I was growing up there could never understand the obsession a lot of English people have with them, to me they are leeches, who put on a jolly good show for the serfs entertainment. They wave and smile all the time looking down their noses at Joe public and they contribute nothing to society.

Good for you, molly…

What can I say Get, I’m a realist. The Brits don’t need ‘em, the royals are only a family of Germanic extraction representative of a bygone era when they dominated innocent lands tyrannically. Only good for tourist attraction these days.

*Ger.

Been having back problems lately Seamus? Lumbering around with those log-sized chips on both your shoulders tends to have that kind of effect.

It’s also hilarious watching someone drone on and on about ‘xenophobia’ all the while proudly wearing it on their own sleeves. LMAO

Your a disease mate.

You’re*

I know. It’s particularly hilarious when someone accuses me of being poorly educated…in a series of posts littered with logical fallacies, contradictions and typos aplenty.

Yes H. Seamus has mental issues…

#Godwin’sLaw

Ahhh the old fallacisits fallacy. So that applies in hyperbolic comparisons and not when the direct comparison is actually to Nazi crime.

To say Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump are comparable to the Nazis is a breach of this Internet discussion law as it’s clearly a silly comparison.

To say people who committed genocide are like the Nazis is not.

Oh please, enlighten us all! Pray tell exactly what ‘genocide’ has HM committed?

Harry I’ll take it from your first name, surname and reference to a megalomaniac named Elizabeth as HM that you are in fact British.

It’s not an unsafe assumption then that you were educated in Britain or at least influenced by British parents or family.

That being the case I’ll put it this way. If Germany had have won the war, we wouldn’t have known about the ovens or chambers just as you probably don’t know much about the 800+ years of occupation involving but not limited to summarily executing my people for speaking Our native language in order to stamp it out. Or the giant concentration camp that was my country during the “famine”. That’s the one where Elizabeth’s grandparents forced my people to grow food for her people with the hope that starvation would be a solution to the Irish question. The official British apology from Toby Blair was, “we should have done more to help our neighbors”.

Its actually not unlike Joeseph Fritzl saying, I should have recognised those squatters in my basement were in need of being released.

“That being the case I’ll put it this way. If Germany had have won the war, we wouldn’t have known about the ovens or chambers just as you probably don’t know much about the 800+ years of occupation involving but not limited to summarily executing my people for speaking Our native language in order to stamp it out. Or the giant concentration camp that was my country during the “famine”. That’s the one where Elizabeth’s grandparents forced my people to grow food for her people with the hope that starvation would be a solution to the Irish question. The official British apology from Toby Blair was, “we should have done more to help our neighbors”.”

Very nice Killian. Unfortunately you still haven’t answered my question. What genocide did HM commit? We’re not talking about her grandparents, we’re talking about her. HM hadn’t been born when the Easter Rising took place, or even when the Anglo-Irish War had ended, let alone the Hunger.

And if you’re going to attribute blame for the Hunger, it wouldn’t even have been her grandparents you should be blaming – the blame for that lands squarely upon the shoulders of our (elected) Parliament and Anglo-Irish landlords. The Crown hasn’t had direct power for, er, hundreds of years.

Killian, don’t waste your time. They are poorly educated when it comes to their own history.

I will answer that one. Maybe Have a look at your Virgin queen Elizabeth. Her policy was one of genocide in. Ireland. Absolutely destroyed our landscape, in an attempt to rid Ireland of the pesky Irish that was annoying her uninvited settlers.

Where do you think you got the materials from to build the house of parliament. Yep, Ireland, destroyed our forestry. To the extent, it still has not recovered today. Plus, the royal parasites took massive back handers during era of the slave trade, which decimated our population. Go read a history book mate.

You haven’t answered the question any more than Killian has, Seamus.

We’re not talking about Elizabeth I. You’re off by several centuries.

Try again.

At the top of every pyramid there’s point, that family were and are, it. It’s like saying again that Hitter has plausible deniability. They’ve never had to apologise because they can hide behind control of the story and the best of all allies, time.

I love the English, now that their soldiers and patrolling our roads and pointing rifles at us (I grew up in Derry) I’ve made a frequent habit of getting to know all parts of England it’s lovely (for the most part) variety of people. Our countries figured out something none two other have. That living in peace and getting to know one another works a lot better.

But, this has been largely a one sided accord. We’ve made pretty much all the effort and England maintain control of the story.

This seems to me because yet again, these mad megalomaniacs must maintain the air of some kind of divinity on earth. Suckling out of the people.

I’m fond of those two lads William and Harry but in reality if any other family in England lived off of the state in such a prolific fashion and popped out sprig gets left right and centre they’d end up on the Jeremy Kyle show.

I’m saying. Yee need to just accept it and learn more about us. We’ll get along way better.

Excuse these horrid typos. My screen is smashed to shite.

You convietenly, have glossed over the little history lesson you got for free. The Virgin Queen ring a bell. The damage is still felt today. Stop living in denial of your country’s barbaric history.