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THE WORLD MAY have got its first look the latest royal baby in London today, but most Irish people say they won’t be paying attention to the upcoming royal wedding.
According to a poll for RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live by Amarách Research, 57% of people said they won’t follow the wedding of British Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Just over a third (34%) said they will be paying attention while 9% said they didn’t know.
Unlike the Friday wedding of his brother Prince William, Harry’s nuptials won’t mean a day off the UK’s populace as it’s being held on Saturday 19 May.
Pubs are being allowed to stay open until 1.00 am across the weekend though, two hours later than usual.
Some 600 people have been invited to attend the wedding service in Windsor Castle with the ceremony taking place at midday.
Not among the invited guests however are political leaders like US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May with Kensington Palace saying that “an official list of political leaders” was not deemed necessary.
Whether Irish people bother watching (or travelling over) or not, onsultancy firm Brand Finance said the wedding overall could bring more than £1 billion (€1.15 billion) to the UK economy this year, including £300 million from tourism alone.
- With reporting by © – AFP 2018
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Have you any idea how boring a wedding is? Any wedding….never mind this circus for tabloid minds.
@Dessie Deratta: I do… ok I will get my coat
Whoopdy fecking doooo!
@Dessie Deratta: you must have had a bad experience
@Dessie Deratta: I’ll give her three years with them murdering snobs. that wont last.
@Dessie Deratta: Why do the mainstream Irish media on a daily basis promote the parasitical UK inbred Royal family.? We all know there are quite a few West Brits living amongst us, and would love dearly to be still under British rule, and of course the deluded Irish natives will watch in large numbers, they never really stopped bowing and holding in high regard those they consider their betters.
Ah need to see what the dress is like but that’s it ..
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: and what she is wearing also
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: we know she’ll look stunning, I’ll be tuning in to see what Beatrice and Eugenie can pull outta the bag for this one!
@Donna Bartley: god love them…they are a tad unfortunate.
Here’s an hour long video of grass growing. Enjoy
@Dermot Mc Carthy: Grass or Hemp?
Harry could have done better for himself.
@Gene Dexter: bullshit
@Gene Dexter:
Loaded, did you do better for yourself?
@helen walsh: he should have went for some of the European royals some of them are very hot, Megan markle being an actress won’t be able to resist courting the media.
Their wedding will be 95% more interesting than the cr@p my 300 other tv stations will be showing. I’ll watch..
That fella on the Claire Byrne show put it well,will be only the unionists from the north of Ireland and unionists from south dublin interested in this circus
@dick dastardly: Go back to Cork you frightened savage.
I’d rather watch Glenroe re runs
I’m already scheduled to watch the grass grow that day
I will be glad when two events are over . 1.The Referendum. 2. The Royal Wedding, because I am sick and tired listening to the never ending publicity about them. Also down with all Yes and No Posters. Waste of money.
Watching the wedding of two people I don’t know, have never met and don’t give a shyt about? Yes I can’t wait.
I’m Irish not British and I don’t give a sh 1 t about the royals but you the journal, an Irish news organisation keep feeding me this rubbish. So I’ll have to see it. Its a 3 second swipe down for me and most I’d say
I’ll be washing my socks that night so!
Actually if anyone needs their socks or jocks washed, I’m happy to oblige!
The alternative is red hot needles!!!
@Jarlath Murphy: good job its on in the day so…
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: Have you not seen my socks?
It’s a good 18 hr operation, soak, desoil, rinse, resoak, bring to boil over a cedar chip fire, rinse and repeat……..15 times
Each time dry by gently blowing on them….
@Jarlath Murphy: Throw em under the grill on low heat Jarlath.
@Jarlath Murphy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5648789/Uranus-reeks-rotten-eggs-Scientists-confirm-planets-cloud-tops-dominated-pungent-gas.html It smells the same as jocks lol.
Don’t say anything bad about the Royals Alan Scott will be on saying you buy English papers and watch English football.He likes to think people who hate Royal bloodlines are some way Brit haters no Alan we hate Royal bloodlines.And by the way who buys newspapers this day and age.
13 thousands for only one night at the taxpayers expense !! People starving & homeless! Well make your own mind up!
@Colette Kearns: agh feck off. Not everything is about the homeless. Its a wedding n a chance to drink champagne n eat smoked salmon on guinness and black truffle bread. Much like the poor, the homeless will be with us always. Im getting my Union Jack washed n ready for the big day.
@Colette Kearns: Guaranteed to bring in more than £13,000 for their economy.
I’m actually amazed by the amount of media attention the totals get in this country. It’s embarrassing.
Like watching paint dry! & how come the people that moan about dole scrounges aren’t out in force now?
@Colette Kearns: maybe it’s because the Irish tax payers are not funding it ?
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: ground rents are paid in this country to absentee British landlords….
What odds are PP giving on the divorce ?
Il watch it, but in a begrudgingly fashion, lel
A load of Bull…………..
@Michael Maher: Shit!
@Maurice Heaphy: Correct!
Any odds on what length of time it is before she escapes back to the 13 colonies
I say, I’d prefer to watch beer going flat. Sorry chaps.
Do you take this woman in sickness and in health as long as she doesn’t have a car accident, I do…
@Alois Irlmaier: poor taste
You’d have to be seriously ignorant to be fawning over the benficiaries of the British caste system as an Irish person. I’d imagine those 34 percent are mostly in the Brit enclaves.
I would say a lot more people will watch it and let on they didn’t,sure Mr Adam’s wife watched his mother’s wedding
I will be watching the Wedding maybe even go to london
I’m sure a lot in Outer Mongolia won’t be either. I heard a tribe in the Amazon jungle rented a telly for it though. Is this what we pay license fees for??
Hope it’s not a fancy dress.
Is Harry Kane marrying them?
@Mark o’ Leary: Yes after all those HIV tests he did in front of the camera, one way to do those tests and not get noticed by doing them lol.
Na …… won’t be bothered nite
I won’t watch it anyway. It’s another boring wedding featuring people I have no interest in. I’ll leave it to the people who read glossy magazines.
What rubbish to say Irish aren’t interested. Just wait till you see tomorrow’s papers and Harry’s wedding Tam ratings.
just highlights who the Claire Byrne pollsters are which seems like elitist FG types and not ordinary Irish people. Who thinks that those 1,000 or so people are representative of over 4 million
Kay burleys hysterical antics outside the hospital where the new born prince waa delivered waa beyond vomit enducing, if there was ever a TV presenter so wanting of a queens honor it has to be her, awful tabloidish, opinionated trollop
My friends wedding is that day so ill be having a far better time at that then watching some boring ceremony on the tv!
Bull Sh.t
Are rte broadcasting it live ? Even better t so we can barely see it on the screen
Who are Beatrice and eugenics?
The Irish coprapheliacs Society are organising street parties.
Remember Will and Kate’s wedding when people were drooling of Pippa Middleton’s ass…and it turned out to be a Fake Ass….
I could never really see the attraction to Pippa Middleton though…she has a forehead you could land a B52 bomber on…
@Jimmy Ryan Rises: her hubby’s is like the ski slopes in courcheval,so probably a good match
Kaboom
As for Aspirations of Duke & duchess of Connaught, sorry Megan and Harry, pish right off, surely Wigan will be Grand enough for ya or brummie Land.
Maths..
No, I will be watching the FA cup final and celebrating United,s victory afterwards.
Marry in may,the the day,nothing against them,but somehow me thinks it’s a disaster waiting to happen, too fast,too soon, however, couldn’t be bothered tbh.
@Christine Paulette Roche: rue
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