@Fi Wyse: Not an actual answer to the question there.

@François Pignon: a relatively endearing monarch, stayed away from controversy. Could she have acted more during the troubles as head of the army, probably not. A ceremonial position, but her death does feel to represent a change in time. Like today’s culture, the next monarchs will be social media kings and queens.

@Lad: kept her son andy out of harms way. Great mother.

@Míchael Búrké: held down the same job for 70 years..

@François Pignon: your avatar suits you well, a sad little clown

@Míchael Búrké: Not much. Got born to a particular set of parents at a particular time in a total genetic lottery.

Other than that, bugger all really but for some reason, people here will still make out that she was some kind of amazing person…

@ForrestG45:

@Fi Wyse: brilliant

@Liam Clyne:Good riddance

@François Pignon: You don’t need to write period after the period.

@Wiill S Rimer: used it for impact, “poetic licence” its called

@Lee King Buckett: Weren’t we all born to a particular set of parents in some sort of a genetic lottery? She took her role seriously and never deviated in her long life. If the British people want to have a royal family and pay for their upkeep, that is a matter for the British people. A bit like us having a kind of monarch up in The Park. You’re entitled to assess her worth as you see fit, as am I. But without going too far down that particular road, all I would say at this point in time is that I am deeply saddened by her passing.

@Pat Kelly: Indeed we were, so if that is being held out as her greatest achievement, she is no different, better or worse than the rest of us.

I’m not deeply saddened by her passing as I never knew her or any of her friends or family and she had no impact on my life. I wish her no ill for the same reasons and I’m sure she was a perfectly fine person to those who knew her.

I do wonder though, about commenters here who, despite the above, gush platitudes about her strength, achievements, etc etc when, as discussed, there were none other than that which befalls us all.

It smacks of insincerity to me.

@Rotts: take a hike you very small peson..

@Lee King Buckett: Lee, I’m not sure who held out the circumstances of her birth as her greatest platitude. Certainly not me. But you knew her, just as I did, by virtue of her public persona. And in the same way that we knew John Lennon, Sam Beckett, Sean Connery and, well, the list goes on. If you are not moved by the passing of a significant person because you didn’t know that person personally, or any of her family or friends, then that is a matter for you entirely. I, personally, am deeply saddened by her passing.

@Liam Clyne: did a lot of favors to mankind by decreasing the size of her bloody empire

@wormtubes: should have held her sons down

@Lad: She did not have a ceremonial position as you claim. She and she alone appointed people to the unelected House of Lords, the majority of British Parliament, amongst her many other political powers. Unelected and unaccountable, an inconvenient fact for you, which amongst many of her medieval privileges enabled her to write a cheque for £12,000,000 of British taxpayers money for Randy Andy (to donate to someone he claims he never met) safe in the knowledge that she could never be voted out of office and knowing that she would never have to account for it or explain her actions to anyone, least of all the taxpayers who funded her and her extended family.

@Pat Kelly: John Lennon – left us some of the greatest songs in history which continue to give joy long after his passing.

Samuel Beckett – did the same in a literary context.

Sean Connery – not in the same league but a talented actor nonetheless who entertained millions.

The Queen…. Nope…. Hmmm….

That’s my point.

@Lee King Buckett: No, that wasn’t your point, which was that her death didn’t sadden you because you didn’t know her or any of her family or friends. Yet you attribute worth to other people mentioned even though you didn’t know them personally either. It’s different stokes for different folks, Lee, and you can do better than that.

@Rory Jennequin: Name one, in living memory.

@Rory Jennequin: well ya see rory im just an ordinary Irish man with normal respect when someone dies.as for history unlike you i actually put on a uniform of the Irish state and served it for 33 years to be part of history instead of reading about on the sideline like yourself…and safe to say at my age i will probably not see someone of her strength again to serve as head of state for 70 years….but you have a lovely evening on the cheep seats of sideline history

@Rory Jennequin: as a point of history tho i was serving my country over seas in 1992 when you started school in blancherdstown …as i said be part of history not just reading about it in your lab in Pfizer

@The Divils Avocado: Nelson Mandela

@Dave Omihuly: good man.. well said, majority of these keyboard warriors are sitting at home all day in their pyjama’s, Googling, I honestly get a good laugh out of them, easily risen and would swallow a roll of bull wire!!

@Kevin Farrell: Fine! Name two..

@Big bad bull: totally agree with you…. telephone tough guys …in thir paw patrol pjs and and their frozen duvet cover… playing with his Nintendo

@Rory Jennequin: presumably you have little to do in your life but begrudge, begrudge, etc.

@Dave Omihuly: Just because you done a few peace keeping missions and played cowboys & Indians for 33 years in random fields around Ireland doesn’t make you some sort of war hero who can speak down to others like you are Rambo! LoL!! Your part of no history, I’ve never heard you. The Queen had ZERO strength as she was wined and dined and pampered all her life!

@The Divils Avocado: John Paul 2nd

@Dave Omihuly: ever hear of Dalai Lama or is he beyond your intellect ?

@Craig Thompson: 0⁰⁰pp⁹

@Craig Thompson: don’t ever speak ill of john Rambo he was accused in the wrong and they drew first blood ….now back in your box gimp and we will take you out when we need a laugh

@Dave Omihuly: Is that the best you can come back with? LOL! I clearly hit a nerve. Maybe you should have joined a real army like the Americans where they actually fight in real wars. Or you could have joined your beloved late Queen’s British army. Instead you joined a glamorized version of the FCA!

@easilyfrustrateddad: when your time comes I hope someone will at least think rip

@John Smith: I suspect they will be saying “who???? Nope sorry don’t know they guy?, just leave him in the bin”

@easilyfrustrateddad: aw, you felt the need to write that.. good little “rebel” you are

@Jack Crummey: ah! don’t be so grumpy crummy Crummey!!! see what I did there with your name? Let us not forget what we did to her utterly incompetent deviant cousin also… terrible stuff really.. jolly rotten…

@Andrew Barber: is commander in chief not the head? Because she was in fact the commander in chief.

@Andrew Barber: Think you would want to check your facts.

@Seán Ó Maoláin: didn’t she/the royal family distance themselves from Andrew?

@Claire King: she awarded medals to the British military present on blo ody sundy, what a gal true humanitarian.

@Sean Walsh: take a hike please

@Greedylocks: you also can take a hike

@Seán Ó Maoláin: what precisely did she do to protect him?

@Seán Ó Maoláin: He did nothing illegal. Immoral maybe, but “sex offender”? No.

@Greedylocks: And the IRA blew up her cousin Louis Mountbatten, a 15 year old deckhand and his teenage grandson, so are we quits ?

@Sean Walsh: the IRA are a terrorist organization and don’t represent the people of Ireland.

@Seán Ó Maoláin: As any mother would do.

@Andrew Barber: why don’t you both take a hike together?

@Seán Ó Maoláin: innocent until proven guilty?

@O Swetenham: so are the British army why were they in Ireland, there probably would be no IRA if the Brits kept their greedy paws off our country, like the shite they cause in every country they tried or did colonise

@Daire Hanrahan: my point was that the British Army were representatives of their state. The IRA were not.

@Claire King: I really hope the shamrock makes a full recovery

@Sean Walsh: cop on or condom on

@O Swetenham: Your comment is already unbearable and it only took you seconds. Well done you.

@Mustafa Leek: don’t watch tv. All news sites will be consumed with this at the expense of other more important news.

@lelookcoco: stay classy……….

@lelookcoco: take a hike, you are and never were funny

@O Swetenham: disengage…

@Tony Doyle: how do you fit so much bitterness instead you for such a small Man..if you call child line they might be able to put you in contact with someone that can help you..if not i here the wax museum are looking for a hobbit lookalike

@Sam Murray: says who

@Sam Murray: troll

@Sam Murray: Join the Commonwealth – put the crack pipe down

@Sam Murray: Why spoil a non-political moment with tripe

@Sam Murray: I sincerely hope you’re taking the p1ss

@Sam Murray: Whist!!!!

@Sam Murray: yea and than we ask for Andrew to be king.

@Sam Murray: Herself & her family line never showed us (or any of the Commonwealth nations) any when they murdered & pillaged every country they took over!

@Sam Murray: Good on Sam, I’m sure people could use a laugh right now.

@Sam Murray: King of trolls

@Sam Murray: Sam please keep taking the pills.

@Sam Murray: trolls gonna troll

@Sam Murray: agree

@Sam Murray: Gas man sam, you have em all up in arms now. Many will be unable to sleep tonight due to such incendiary comment. Lol!

@Alison Maguire: what a load of boll..ks

@Sam Murray: Careful Now

@Sam Murray: all for paying respects and all but joining the commonwealth?? NEVER.

@Charles McCarthy: haha thank you thank you, all in a days work

@Alison Maguire: they all seemed to get on brilliantly at the Commonwealth games in August…was such a shame we had no part