Lizzie visits Ireland!!

[Old Greg]

As for the Queen's visit, both her family and Philip's have seen much premature, violent death over the centuries and yet they are doing something many British politicians have never had the balls to do. And anything which can patch over the differences must be a good thing, especially given we are just territories in a greater Europe.

I resent that she extended her sympathy to all the victims of the troubled history between the two countries without making an explicit exception for Norris McWhirter's brother.

[RichardCranium]

I resent that she extended her sympathy to all the victims of the troubled history between the two countries without making an explicit exception for Norris McWhirter's brother.

That was a pathetic murder, and probably the point in my teenage years when I realised what values the IRA stood for: nothing. It's just a handful of loonies that should be in some place like Broadmoor who were recruited by cowards to commit hellish crimes against innocents to support the cowards' desire to maintain an anarchistic environment where their crimes (robbing banks, blackmail, local extortion, etc.) could be hidden under the guise of politics.

Prince Philip deserves an extra medal for saying nothing about his uncle, Louis Mountbatten.