George Galloway on Queen's visit to Ireland

From BBC News:

This visit will stand alongside any that the Queen has made during her reign in terms of its significance.

In word and deed she has made a difference. She has said and done things in the past four days which have impressed all but the most extreme Irish republicans, whilst at the same time retaining the dignity of her position as Britain's head of state.

Ireland has waited so long for this visit. By any logical measure, it is nothing less than absurd that it has not been possible, until now, for Britain's Queen to visit the territory of Britain's closest neighbour.

But that is to ignore what the Queen described as the "complexity" of our history, the terrible burden left by centuries of turbulence and bloodshed.

Those memories neither can nor should ever be erased, but the worst of the poison can be drawn from them, and that is what has surely happened this week.

Buckingham Palace and the British government clearly felt that the Queen needed to make a very obvious declaration that Ireland's struggle to break free from the British crown had been legitimate and - more than that - that there were aspects of British rule in Ireland that had been wrong.



George Galloway comments on the Queen's visit to Ireland, the first monarch to visit the country for 100 years.

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[irishxxkelt]

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[irishaware]

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[irishxxkelt]

@kargwain187 Yes we misunderstood one another.

[irishxxkelt]

@kargwain187 I was in the Gardaí Reserve.

[kargwain187]

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[irishxxkelt]

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[kargwain187]

@irishxxkelt well you have refered to me as a tosser for trying to stop[ my national flag being destroyed. You have also tried to insinuate that i am not Irish because one side of my family is only 800 years in the country. What was i supposed to think ?

I am of coarse trying very hard to remain as polite as possible which is a new thing for me and only ever done for the benefit of a woman.

[irishxxkelt]

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[kargwain187]

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[irishxxkelt]

@kargwain187 So you are not Irish...........