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DATES AND DETAILS HAVE YET to be announced, but Queen Elizabeth II has accepted President Mary McAleese’s invitation to visit Ireland this year.
No ruling British monarch has visited Ireland since 1911.
Today the Department of an Taoiseach issued a statement saying:
The Government welcomes the acceptance by Queen Elizabeth of President McAleese’s invitation to visit Ireland. The visit will mark a further improvement in the very good relations between Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The British Ambassador to Ireland, Julian King, said the invitation “symbolises how far the relationship” between the UK and Ireland had progressed in recent years. King also said the trip would provide an excellent opportunity to celebrate economic and political ties, as well as developments in Northern Ireland.
Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the Queen’s spouse Prince Philip will accompany her on the visit. Philip is famed for his ability to say highly inappropriate things during state visits.
In 1963, as the Union Jack flag was being lowered at a ceremony to mark Kenya’s independence from Britain, he asked Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta,”Are you sure you want to go ahead with this, old chap?”
Queen Elizabeth’s son Prince Charles came to Ireland on a state visit in 1995.
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Here we go again. Will soon have no arm left
@Shaun Gallagher: Wouldn’t sweat it, unless you feel you’re part of an at risk group ?
16,000 people in the whole wide world have a rash and it’s a health emergency. You couldn’t make it up.
@Eoin Clancy: kids get really sick from it,not too big of a deal for adults
@Niamh Hayes: Kids shouldn’t be getting monkeypox. Also, have they not changed the name of it yet?
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: Why would the name change?
@Eoin Clancy: While they’re out sick, presumably there’s a shortage of healthy staff, in fairness.
@Eoin Clancy: 16,000 becomes 32,000 quite quickly, thus addressing early is key. How is it a self certified journal.ie epidemiologist such as yourself missed that?
@Gavin Conran: I didn’t know you needed a phd in epidemiology to make a comment. Making everyone scared doesn’t need a phd qualification does it? Did you specialise in fear at university?
@Fiona Fitzgerald: Huh?
@Gavin Conran: just saw you’re fake Facebook account. Bot
How long does vaccine last, think I was given as a child
@Margaret Deacon: “How long does vaccine last”.
Googled : ‘Smallpox vaccination provides full immunity for 3 to 5 years and decreasing immunity thereafter.’
As opposed to the Covid ‘vaccine’ which may reduce your chances of serious illness
@Margaret Deacon: Immunity may last a lifetime, these researchers found that an 88-year-old was likely still immune due to the vaccine he received as a child. Though other info online says the vaccine provides maximum immunity for 3 – 5 years, and after then immunity starts to decline.
Taub, D.D., Ershler, W.B., Janowski, M., Artz, A., Key, M.L., McKelvey, J., Muller, D., Moss, B., Ferrucci, L., Duffey, P.L. and Longo, D.L., 2008. Immunity from smallpox vaccine persists for decades: a longitudinal study. The American journal of medicine, 121(12), pp.1058-1064.
@David Jordan: what science have we to follow this time ?
which of those studies is going to be called misinformation and anyone you read it a antivax nutter
@David Jordan: I assume that’s vaccination for smallpox. From what I’ve read on some UK information sites as this is a smallpox vaccine that also works for MP it may not provide full immunity but rather lessens the symptoms.
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