SPLUTTER!
This afternoon.
Dublin Castle ahead of a visit by UK Prime Minister Theresa May this afternoon.
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SPLUTTER!
This afternoon.
Dublin Castle ahead of a visit by UK Prime Minister Theresa May this afternoon.
Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
Jesus tonight.
Is that not standard practice for visiting heads-of-state?
Did our gaining our independence from Britain mean that we would be in a position to follow diplomatic protocol for what thereafter became a visiting leader of a foreign country?
Yep.
What the fupp is she doing here anyway?
swooning over her Trump hand-holding with Enda, no doubt.
Talking about the border.
She is staving off criticism for turning down Enda’s offer to address the Dail.
She had hoped not to bother since she has no actual answers to provide. Nominally she would like to avoid a hard border but has no real idea if that is really within her gift.
So as a compromise, she has flown over to have a private talk with Enda. Thus, less public remarks to be scrutinised but the semblance of action.
Golly! Do they fly the Tricolour over Stormont and Westminster when Irish heads of state visit?
Nothing flies over Stormont except the birds. And the odd pig of course…….. #chucklebrothers
What Northern Ireland is exactly is up for debate but it’s not an independent nation state.
It’s a devolved government classter. It is entitled to accept and receive foreign diplomats and heads of state. The fleg thing……..eh, no.
Oh fair enough. All I really meant was that it is silly to be measuring ourselves against what Stormont are doing. As attached as I am to my Northern Brethren, we are a relatively mature,stable, independent nation state and Stormont, whatever it is, is not.
Anyhow, the recent UK Supreme Court case has shown how little ‘devolved government’ means in reality.
I know. Stormont is in its infancy and is as volatile as as an infant on skittles. I have been listening to a radio station RFI (Radio France International) and it has a somewhat separtist-style of reporting on Scotland and Northern Ireland. As if ahead of the pack in reminding folk of their devolvement from the UK and steerage to a national referendum in both parliaments. I really hope Inda and May discussed this.
Why spaghetti? Don’t you think those countries should have their right of self-determination?
Ah come on, Mildred at an, BS are trolling you, don’t rise to it.
Dammit Malta, you’re right.
A cup of tea is probably in order :)
Can we all calm down? That square contains all EU flags. Right next to it is the Finnish flag and (I think) the German flag.
Get over yourself
Was it for this? Yes. Previously it was compulsory.
The west Brits love it!! Etc etc etc.
I sleep wrapped up in the union jack <3
you’ve just completed Bertie’s fancy
you don’t sleep in a Crown Paints shirt, too, do you?
;)
Throw in a Ronnie Whelan style mullet and the fantasy is complete.
And the Extreme-Paddies will do their usual jig and scream about 800 years of suppression.
But of course, compared to what happened in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia between 1939-45…. me thinks the Irish really have nothing to whinge about….
Whinging and being the victim is the national pastime.
One hears much more about these ‘extreme nationalists’ than one ever encounters in reality.
Much like the fabled
Anyhow, even if they were real and active, their points would hardly be rendered moot because something arguably worse happened at the interface of (arguably) the two biggest, most advanced totalitarian regimes of all time.
Burn the witch.
Wonder what May will say if Enda tries to hold her hand like Trump did?
…all I needed was a friend to lend me a guiding hand…
May probably took Trumps hand to keep it away from intimate regions.
It would be a step up from being patted on the head.
I rather be patted on the head than have some culchie’s hand in my pocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfCZxy0vHs Interestingly at 11mins into the video – Mrs May has a “Was it for this?” moment.