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BRITAIN’S PRINCE CHARLES will not be receiving a warm welcome from everyone on this island when he arrives next month to visit Sligo with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Though politicians and dignitaries will, no doubt, be lining up to warmly greet him, republican and anti-war groups will also be waiting. Des Dalton, President of Republican Sinn Féin told TheJournal.ie that he hopes protests on a similar scale to those during the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 2011 can be mobilised.
“We’ve made it clear that representatives of the British state are not welcome in Ireland and that statement continues,” he said, adding that he believes visits like this are part of the “normalisation process”.
Charles and Camilla are visiting Sligo because that is where his great-uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed.
Jim Roche of the anti-war movement said it is likely his group will also stage protests, as they did in Dublin when the Prince of Wale’s mother was in town.
“Prince Charles is a big fan of the Saudi Arabian regime,” Roche said, adding that the prince had been in the country in February last year at the same time as arms deals were being signed with British companies.
“We would want to bring attention to that,” he added.
Éirígí, which had the largest cohort of protesters during Queen Elizabeth’s 2011 visit, is waiting to see what kinds of events are planned for Prince Charles before deciding whether or not they will get involved.
“It’s not on the same level as, say, when you had the British Queen here because she was coming on a formal State visit as the head of State and chief of the British military,” spokesperson Brian Leeson said.
“A lot of this comes down to the nature of the trip,” he said adding that official events with government ministers would certainly draw protests from his group.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said yesterday he hopes the visit will be an occasion to promote reconciliation, respect and understanding.
“I am conscious that Prince Charles is the symbolic head of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment and the grievous wrong they have done including to the people of Derry and Ballymurphy where I grew up.
“However I am also conscious that the British Royal family have also been directly affected by the actions of republicans.”
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It’s beyond a joke. We are constantly being battered by advertising every bloody second of the day. I agree some works, but Certainly NOT all. As in the case of Renault and RTE. Sometimes we need a break from the ad breaks!
Beautiful ironwork and craftsmanship gone into this bridge and many others around the country,a crying shame to cover it up with advertising for multinational billionaires,who do naff all only take their profits and run…take the advertisements off them and have them cleaned/repaired/restored to the original beautiful structures they once were.
Has the Ballybough Pride of Place group contacted Councillor McAdam to inquire whether the signage requires planning permission or falls under exempted development that doesn’t need approval? As a planning committee member, he must have some expertise on this matter.
That James Bulger story is one of the scariest and saddest things I’ve heard of on a longtime. I’d like to say I won’t put photos of my kids on the Internet but the fact is other people can do it. Regulations are so far behind.
@Lad: What regulations would you propose?
If anyone cared, the bridges even with tasteful signage, could be nice to look at. If you look at the bridge over the river Boyne, when the light are on at night , it looks great. The same bridge is over the roads at Churchtown, it looks horrible.
I suppose the thing to do would be to just discuss topics from other articles on the ones where the comments are actually open.
Does anybody really pay attention to the ads, or are they in any way influenced by then. Personally I never, ever, pay attention to an advertisement.
The elites want Blade runner style full motion Building advertising facades polluting our citys. This is to keep the normies from thinking..The sountrack from these Advertisements will be ’5G’ d into the sheeples bluetooth ear buds. With the sheeple living in a trance they wont hear the NWO thanks coming around the corner smashing into Croke park
Ballybough is just the start of it. by 2026 enormous airships will fly close overhead, with both video and audio advertising even in small towns like Ennistymon.
@Chief Of police Retired – Truther MAGA Trump 2024: What are you smoking? Can I have some?
More ads
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We need to feed the economy
Keep rowing!
on the subject of psychological implications of covid advertising, it appears it really hasn’t gone away. Despite the fact that at least a year after many states reported their own data to the unaccountable WHO regarding the collapse of their covid figures, when you contact the hse attempting to give feedback or access people you first have to go through a complete ringer of them trying to connect you to covid options. I recorded six recently, before you reach someone who’s totally unlikely to identify themselves you need to ask.
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