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McGuinness says Prince Charles is keen to meet him
RSAUBDate: Saturday, 2011-10-01, 10:47 PM | Message # 1
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Taken from BBC website

Martin McGuinness has said that he understands Prince Charles is keen to meet him and that such an encounter would boost the peace process.

He made the comments during a presidential debate on RTE.

Mr McGuinness defended his decision not to meet the Queen during her Irish visit.

He added that he would be pleased to meet her if he was elected president and said it would be "a huge occasion".

The Sinn Fein MLA and the six other Aras candidates were speaking on the Late Late Show as part of the first ever televised presidential debate.

Mr McGuinness said: "It was very interesting that the Queen of England spoke in Irish (during her address at Dublin Castle).

"It was very interesting that she stood in honour of those who gave their lives in the name of Irish freedom at the garden of remembrance.

"I think that was a spectacular success from Mary McAleese's point of view.

"But I think the day that the Queen of England comes to Ireland and meets with Martin McGuinness as President of Ireland will be an absolutely huge occasion altogether."

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It wouldn’t surprise me if that eejit Charles does want to meet the butcher of the Bogside.

This election will be very interesting, Sinn Fein are doing a very good job of air-brushing history and all those under the age of 25 especially in the Republic will have very little memory of the major atrocities and misery caused by the vermin of the PIRA.

 
CulzieDate: Sunday, 2011-10-02, 2:47 PM | Message # 2
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They they set out to 'respectablise' the murderers,baby-killers and bombers. But then this is nothing new. They have did it in other countries before where they brought the murder gangs into the mainstrean and eventful goverment.

A guy on another site went on about the Israelis and how they murdered soldiers from the BA. True enough,but then hasan't the same happened here and in Kenya etc etc. Maybe we thought we were different here. That we were part of the British parliament and sent our MPs to Westminster. But I don't think that counts for much with our Westminster masters. They have always saw us as not being quite British and of course we didn't help ourselves by going along with them(goverment)when they first encouraged the irishisation of our people and in recent times actually promoted it.

Shows what a waste of space that Charles eejit is. But then too I remember seeing on TV during the Queens visit to Eire a man saying that the Queen had expressed a wish to visit Eire a good few years back.

Eric Waugh was right when he quoted an old Arab saying about the British (goverments) 'They will sell their friends to buy their enemies'
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
 
CulzieDate: Sunday, 2011-10-02, 2:57 PM | Message # 3
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Re the air-brushing. Absolutely right. Young people will have no memories of the past and today we hear repeated ad nauseum...''move on,forget about the past'' That is what young people are being fed by the 'educators' in the schools and elsewhere. Young people especially are up for change,they like change so the shinners seem exciting to some. The shinners get things done. The sdlp etc are old farts/fuddy-duddies. And the mudererous deeds of sinn fein/ira will not only be air-brushed but probably will be elevated to a noble fight for freedom once the myth-makers and song-writers get to work.
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RSAUBDate: Sunday, 2011-10-02, 6:05 PM | Message # 4
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Very true and if there is one thing the Irish are good at is spinning a yarn.
 
CulzieDate: Sunday, 2011-10-02, 8:20 PM | Message # 5
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Yip I remember Robert Kee (writer,broadcaster) saying that the attack on a police station during the ira operation harvest in the late 50s early sixties was a disaster. South and his mate were killed during the botched operation.

They had big funerals for the two in Eire and the myth-makers then got to work. They turned a disaster into victory of sorts.The ira know the irish love dead people,they love martyrs. I read on a site how they wern't doing so well so they heard about some old fenian who had died in America so they got the body home, and they turned out in their thousands for the funeral and gave the ira the lift they needed. They know what turns them on.
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RSAUBDate: Sunday, 2011-10-02, 9:34 PM | Message # 6
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Yip, the Irish know how to play to a crowd. They are experts at manipulation, and most certainly they love their martyrs.
 
CulzieDate: Monday, 2011-10-03, 7:25 PM | Message # 7
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A journalist visiting here at the early part of the troubles thought that the Protestants love celebrating a victory,but the Catholics loved commemorating sacrifice,defeat and funerals. Don't think he was far out.
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RSAUBDate: Tuesday, 2011-10-04, 7:44 PM | Message # 8
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Indeed, he was on the money.

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I was thinking about this earlier on, indeed republicans view themselves as revolutionarys, and every revolution needs a martyr/blood sacriface for the cause. Loyalism on the other hand, a lot of our own, have the attitude of We Are the People and want to have big parades as celebrations of Victorys in days long gone by, and don't want to look at the realitys of what's going on around them as many live in a state of deniel of whats going on at present in this Country.

 
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