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THE GOVERNOR OF Montana, Brian Schweitzer, is to travel to Waterford to be guest of honour in this year’s 1848 Tricolour Celebrations.
The celebrations mark the birth of the Irish tricolour in the city, where the flag was first flown by local man Thomas Francis Meagher.
Unveiling the tricolour 164 years ago, Meagher shared his vision of a peaceful and equal Ireland – stating that the orange and green symbolised a truce between Protestants and Catholics.
Born in Waterford City in 1823, Meagher was exiled to Tasmania for sedition the same year he flew the flag. He escaped to United States three years later, where he became a founder of the Irish Brigade in New York, fought for the Union against slavery in the American Civil War, and led the field of battle as Brigadier General in several famous battles.
At the end of his extraordinary and short life, he became the first governor of the state that is now Montana.
During the 1848 Tricolour Celebration in March 2011, the Irish Flag was flown over the State Capitol in Montana by the Thomas Francis Meagher Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernia. In response, the Mayor of Waterford Pat Hayes invited the Governor of Montana to the 2012 celebrations as a special guest to preside over the flag raising ceremony.
“We were absolutely thrilled with the recognition the State of Montana has given to our celebrations here in Waterford and we wanted to thank them in an appropriate fashion,” Cian Foley, chair of the 1848 Tricolour Committee said. “We felt that inviting the Governor as a special honoured guest would be the best way to do that.”
All the events for the celebration run from the 9th – 11th of March and Beat-102 103 will be broadcasting live from L.E. Aoife on Saturday 10 March from midday to 3pm.
The 1848 Tricolour Celebration aims to commemorate Meagher’s vision of a peaceful Ireland, and involves marches, music, and speeches at 33 The Mall, Waterford City between March 9th and 11th.
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Stand by for tons of comments from smug, self important atheists ridiculing the Filipinos.
Stand by for the inevitable smug comment slamming the atheists comments.
So bloody predictable.
You just got to see the comical side of millions of people running after a piece if wood in excessive temperatures.
Whatever turns you on.
@Joe, the reason they seem ‘smug’ is because all the evidence is on their side.
It’s the same way a physicist feels ‘smug’ about some mathematical equations to send a ship to the moon…because they firmly believe the facts are with them.
Of course, they could just launch a rocket and pray….
Or, the billions of people chasing after paper.
Queuing to see Michael Jackson relics at Newbridge Silverware good queuing to see Catholic relic ………..
I bet you guys called Copernicus and Gallillio Gallilei smug too just because they had a problem with believing stuff without any evidence whatsoever.
I guess, when you have little hope to address the core of the argument with coherent points, you’re left with name calling.
Black Friday?
Ah Joe,I see what you tried to do there,with your attempt to incorporate subtle racial connotations,which in fact proves you know little or nothing about atheism.
Superstition. Hope one day they have the education to see through it
I feel sorry for these people and how they have been colonised and continue to be exploited by westerners. A pushed belief in a better afterlife is a great way of keeping the indentured slaves happy.
Rip Jesus xx
@Joe, why is an atheist seen as smug, or self important? When you have millions of people scrambling to touch a wooden statue thinking it has powers it questions many things, doesn’t the bible mention not to worship false idols, and since the main population changed to Catholicism 400 years ago, did the previous religion not work?
Faith is seen as a virtue, but I won’t apologise for looking for fact, if you see that as smug then so be it. I am not laughing at those people but sad to see that many believe is superstition in the age we live in.
Because of Eamon Gilmore he ruined it for all atheists
Could not agree more, Graham
‘Scenes reminiscent of a rock concert mosh pit’. I was at a jesus and mary chain gig at the national, kilburn. It got so rough and abusive at the front they left the stage for their own safety! Music eventually broke out but we continued to smash the shit out of each other.
Now that’s where I found religion.
Halcyon days…..
Science, b!tches!
Thoughts and, er, prayers to his family at this tough time. Xx.
Sure they’re only having the craic nothing to see here at all.
All I am thinking about is oh my goodness all them people and I for one could not be there crowds like that no thank you just looking at them gives me a panic attack. As for what anyone believes in it’s down to them I am not judging anyone.
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