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The Daily PollTHE US FIRST Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters Sasha and Malia paid a two-day visit to Ireland this week, while Barack Obama was busy in Enniskillen meeting world leaders at the G8 summit.
Parts of Dublin and Wicklow went into lock-down as the US secret service swarmed the area and put blockades and street restrictions in place, while Bono and his wife, Ali, took them out for some pub-grub in his local in Dalkey.
The three were also taken on a guided tour through the monastic site in the Wicklow Mountains National Park, visited Trinity College to view the Book of Kells and attended a special performance of Riverdance at the Gaiety Theatre.
Many welcomed the Obama ladies with opening arms, believing that their visit benefited Irish tourism. However, others, like TD Clare Daly criticised the govenment’s handling of the visit and accused Enda Kenny of showing off Ireland “as a nation of pimps, prostituting ourselves in return for a pat on the head”.
So, today we want to know: Do you think we went over-the-top when Michelle Obama and her daughters visited Ireland this week?
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Eh McGuinness can’t vote….
He knows he’s not going to win so why bother go down and vote. He is probably not planing another bank robbery with people he doesn’t know
He is giving the other 6 a head start out of the goodness of his heart. That’s why he is not voting.
I am so dissapointed that the standard of our presidential candidates is so low !!!!! is that what we have become ??? Where is the Statesman or woman in that lot !!!!! Martin McGuinness ???? HOW COULD THE COUNTRY EVEN CONSIDER HIM AS PRESIDENT. Sean Gallagher !!! please , who does he think he is ??? a half baked go between for shady people………. and the rest, well harmless and hopeless. Our country has lost its way for sure.
MMG is not voting because he doesn’t have a vote. Like many 10′s of thousands of Irish citizens who live in the 6 counties we don’t have a vote. Ironically we can stand though !
Hopefully the forthcoming constitutional convention will right this wrong.
Yes that true it is wrong that you can stand to be the Irish President if your from a DIFFERENT COUNTRY. Hopefully that will be sorted soon.
Thought there was a moretoreum till voting closes tonight
only applies to “mandate broadcasting”…..ie Special Mary talking about her integrity and all that shite!!!
df you think to much
Or not!
I reckon they’ll all be in the toilet.
have your say