No sambos at The Players Lounge at Fairview Strand for her majesty.
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The Players Lounge bans the Queen.
March 13, 2011 by Donal
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I’d say one look at the state of the throne in that kip and she’d be out the door like a light.
I wonder if they’ll have the balls to ban the Emperor from Rome when he arrives next year. That little bollix has done more damage to this country than any other monarch.
Spot on FXR. Ban him from the playgrounds maybe.
As far as I know the Players is a haunt of Republican Sinn Fein and other fringe pall bearers of Irish historical dead bodies.
It was outside the same pub a there was a shooting late last year:http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0726/fairview.html
My cousins gaff is across the road. It’s not what you’d call your friendly local pub.
I had this thing about the Queens visit out with members of RSF recently online. They are all so gung ho about the British monarch but turn into forelock tipping Irish peasants when it comes to the much more prescient subject Pontifex Maximus Ratzinger and his black ballgown gang.
This shit about the British “occupying” part of Ireland they suddenly run away from when asked the straight question “how can an army be occupying a place when they are supported by the majority living there?”
These people are loo laas.
But beware the germs carried in the Irish education system. It’s lurking like an odourless fog throughout the land.. (cue Vincent Price laughing in Mick Jackson’s Thriller video). You’ll find a lot of this “No Queen here” in the population but mention Rome and it’s a different story.
They had a protest outside the Dail last week. They couldn’t even muster 20 people. The week before they had a protest outside the GPO. Their numbers were halved when one of them had to go home and let the babysitter off on time.
okay!…. it’s a bit anti-diplomatic, i’ll give ye that! but if one person regardless of there stature is going to offend so many people with a visit to their nation. Then its more immoral on her behalf to come here!… Having said that i completely agree that the visit from the pope is as volatile an idea, perhaps more so as the effects of papal “occupation,” as you could say, has being more devastating in recent years!
But in making the argument that her visit is acceptable, and then saying that the pope is not is contradicting yourself!…
The queen shouldn’t come unless it is to elevate Anglo-Irish relations on Britians behalf and not for any other reason. As the pope should not visit the country unless to make a public statement apologizing for the “sins” of papal officials!!
She’s a parasite though and a symbol of feudal reaction. She’s not welcome by me for that reason (and I’m half Brit). And on the “supported by the majority of the populastion argument, only because the border was drawn to make it so. I agree on your Bishop of Rome argument though. Home rule was always rome rule and that’s part of the problem, still doesn’t mean we should welcome Lizzie to our shores.
Nice one
As far as I know, its owned by Anthony Stokes, the Celtic striker!
His Dad owns the pub AFAIK.
Anthony owns it, his dad owns a share and runs it, the dad is nothing but a jumped up republican and couldn’t run a nail into a wall never mind a pub!
Kudos for them, they’ll be getting my money for drinks. Nice to see that some have the self-confidence to put their money where their mouth is. The British Queen was invited for no good reason from what I can see. Many say that she can come if she wants and that they don’t care….. well if so many are being blasé about the visit then why the fook is she coming…. just to satisify a few Royal-watchers, Fine Gael, The Corrs & Bono.
Protests: yes I agree there should be as many as possible. They shouldn’t just be placards, chants and potential for disruption or violence. They should be artistic, humourous and very visible. This one on the pub is excellent and hopefully more will follow suit. “Yer granny was an ethnic cleanser” (probably a great gmother but I couldn’t be bothered checking wikipedia). “Carlsberg don’t do dysfuntional families but ethnic cleansing, supporting apartied, parasitical raison-etre…” you get my drift.
And protesters please,……… not a Celtic shirt is sight please, it just promotes the stereo-type. Burgle some rugger or cricket club the night before and take & use their jerseys; it’ll confuse the fook outta the Gardai when they’re chasing you.
As for being armed and telescopes…. yes very much so. Everyone should be armed with a camera and the longer the telescopic lens the better. They shouldn’t aim at Betty as we all know what she looks like but at the grovelling, snivelling, forelock tugging peasants who’s eyes light up on being greated by their ‘betters’. Each of these West Brit’s photos should then be posted on the Indymedia site and I’ll donate a €100.00 to a charity-of-choice of whoever produces the one generating the most votes.
Pope is unrelated to the visit of the queen and anyone who brings that into the conversation is being disengenuous…… Neither King nor Kaiser nor crozier
id like to shake joe stokes hand. the man has the courage of his convictions. im a belfast man and find it insulting that the so called free state would invite the commander and cheif of an army who are responsible for the murder and torture of irish citizens, icluding my 14 year old sister. this same army in case people dont know are still occupying the six counties, and it beggars beleif that this country should invite this woman. shame on them.fair play to joe. thanks.
Live and let live. Didn’t the electorate of Louth welcome another army chief who is responsible for the murder of many Irish citizens?
Feck off queen. Simply put as a Dublin citizen I was saddened to hear that the funding for Justice for The Forgotten, which sought justice for the Dublin Monaghan bombings who were planned by mi5 and covered up by the irish police and state and yet they are going to squander millions to bring this controversial character that symbolises all thats wrong at the moment. She Personifies pillage, plunder, inequality, materialism, anti-democratic, authoratarianism. Talking about kickin the irish people when they are down, the cry should be, feck off IMF, Feck off Monarchs, we want a real alternative
“She Personifies pillage, plunder, inequality, materialism, anti-democratic, authoratarianism. Talking about kickin the irish people when they are down, the cry should be, feck off IMF, Feck off Monarchs, we want a real alternative”
+1 to this ragman, nicely put.
I will always want in my heart and my mind to see one Ireland. From the days since 1690 the English had no business in Ireland. Shipping food out of Ireland during The Great Hunger. Responsible for creating the word Joury in the Irish language (banished). The stealing of generational family land. Banning music. Arbritory beatings and imprisonment and torture in the H-Blocks. The lies and cover ups of British authorities, police,military, and the British Govt. How they cannot hang their heads in shame for all the wrongs and the crimes perpetrated on the people of Ireland, I will never comprehend and shame on the rest of the world for letting it go on since William of Orange and for the 500 years prior to that while the British tried. My last name is Ronan and I am a non practicing Catholic, my ancesters are Irish, They are Munroes, Brennens, Mullens, and Gilligans. I wish every person who cared enough would simply hold a sign from Derry, NH usa to Derry in Ireland that said GET OUT !!, WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE because i’d be thinking as well, when you bastards finally do leave, make sure you apologize for 800 years of your crimes against the people of Ireland. Any foreign country who is in anothers and does so with arms, occupies that country. GET OUT NOW I say and take the queen with you and the rest of the officials who deny jobs and housing and take the Orangemen from the marches and that serve in the Parliment as well. They are all a bunch of no good bastards.
Oh no it’s another plastic paddy… your ancestors were African. You’re as much a foreigner in Ireland as the Queen. The Catholic Church has done, is doing and will continue to do, far more damage to this country than even the British managed. And just this week bookshops took delivery of Spitting on a Soldiers Grave by Robert Widders. Discrimination and torture against Irishmen, their wives and children didn’t end when the British marched out. All it took was a corrupt state run by small minded arch Catholics and a nationwide gulag run by their Roman Church.
Well Mr Stokes is entitled to put up any banner against the queen of england Liz Winsor. Shes the queen of England not Rep Of Ireland so we as a free country we call her Liz. Its call free speech and its what many many brave heroic Irishmaen and women gave their live for. So its no brit scum royal on Irish soil
Everyone is welcome to travel to Ireland and thankfully everyone including the serial responders and abusers and mockers have the right to their opinions but very few have the integrity to carry off a peaceful and intelligent protest and so bula bos to the Players – even though I would have the Queen of England particulalry round for supper at the drop of a hat, the great family woman and who has served her people and country and even the world so very very well for many many years – never heard her crib or look for better wages or rant.
‘So its no brit scum royal on Irish soil’
On Free State soil you mean? She’s been to the 6 counties loads of times.
You be surprised the number of oul wans who love the Royals, not all Dalkey ‘west brits’ by any means.
Anyway, very few people actually give a fuck.
The Queen personifies pillage and plunder? I think you need to hand back the plastic helmet from the Viking Splash Tour, it’s taken over your imagination.
The Queen is a figurehead in a foreign country. They want it that way and they keep her and her mad family as part of their system. She is not there against the popular will or against the wishes of the people. She is only a ceremonial head of the Army. She was invited here by the elected gombeen government.
As for this mysterious body of brave (or stupidly short sighted) Irishmen and women who died for..eh..free speech. I wonder if the Blasphemy bill caused a ripple effect in Glasnevin graveyard when it was passed.
It’s no wonder one rebellion after another ended up in farce. They were probably weighted down carrying a 200 lb. list of what they were dying for since new discoveries are made by the week.
Ok lads before we attack the Castle deh yis know what yis are dying for. “Sir yes Sir”. Any questions? “Sir it’s just number 128, deh Shell teh Sea Campaign and 129 Tracker Mortgages for All, I don’t know what they are”.
My bus was late this morning. A guy with a harp popped up from the bushes and started shouting “is this what our brave Irishmen and women died for…He popped up again when the queue in the GPO was a bit too long…And McDonalds when a guy from the back skipped to the front..
The banner on the front of the pub was put up by idiots. When they’re confronted they’re as thick as planks. The British do not occupy any part of this island. The British presence is every person in Ulster who want’s to remain a British citizen. They’re in the majority. The banner outside the pub is just Boys Own with chest hair gone toxic when mixed with years of Christian Brothers Faith and Fatherland brainwashing.
Is anyone assaulting the gates of Leinster house demanding the British are barred from giving Ireland loans or buying Irish goods? What about the car parks in the North jammed with Irish shoppers? That must be another dastardly trick of deh underhanded British. Why not demand the return of all the Irish people earning a living in Britain? How did they get there anyway? They must have bleedin’ kidnapped them!
FXR, I must have missed that election.
That and a whole lot else. The majority in Ulster are loyalists. There is no reason to believe, or evidence to suggest, that a referendum on a politically united island would result in the scrapping of the border. It would require too many mad people.
Firstly the people in the North would have to be mental to join a badly run bankrupt state. The south does not have the money to run itself without taking on the expense of bigotry central. Rome would always fear an Irish government with a sizeable number of Northern Irish Protestants. A Protestant in the Dept of Justice might not be so inclined to stall the files of clerical child rapists to protect the church.
Then you’d have the opposition of northern shops and the souther shoppers who fill their car parks. Another wealthy group of merchants whose interests lie in the maintaining the border are all those “patriotic” cigarette and fuel smugglers. Some of them are even alleged to be funding…..the eejits who put the banner over the pub. They’ve cost the economy more money over the years than 10 Queenie visits. Taxpayers can’t pay student fees from money gone into the black economy.
The tens of thousands of people who support British soccer teams while local clubs languish in poverty don’t seem all that adverse to the border either. Tesco shops in Ireland don’t suffer because they’re English. They’ve been thriving like all the other British owned shops in the South. I’ve never seen anyone boycott them.
The banner over the pub represents the lunatic fringe of a delusional minority ably supported by the wispy wishes of people who otherwise show not one whit of belief in a re-united Ireland. Grow up: life is not an Irish rebel ballad.
Right, just let them stay and keep believing its ok because the shops are making money, It’s not the church, it’s the ocupation, you take your eye off the prize.
Is this kevin myers? Theres an opening there for ya buddy. Like sound of your own voice. Your entitled to your opinion but unlike your sort we dont demonise people for their views. Anyone even raising their head in the whole argument against the visit at the moment is bashed in the media for bein some kinda back water reactionary knuckle dragger ‘catholic'( for some reason) amongst other random traits you mention above. I can see people who are indifferent to her visits point and try to understand those that may welcome her but I do not make such generalisations as if they are all a homogenous group of some type of people i just made up in me head on a blog. Why do you have so much antagonism against those that are against such a figure. Just ask yourself that. Half the energy you wasted above wasnt even concerning the ethics about her position and visit but was a list of economic and cultural issues ya wanted to get off your chest. Well i hope ya feel better now xxxxxx. I like the style of your writing though, id love to see a post not so vitriolicly full of prejudice and hate.
I would love if the good hosts of this sight posted Connollys letter about kings visit 100yrs ago.
“I would love if the good hosts of this sight posted Connollys letter about kings visit 100yrs ago.”
Connolly’s 1911 anti-visit leaflet:
https://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/the-socialist-party-in-ireland-the-royal-visit-1911-leaflet/
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Originally posted by dfallon “No sambos at The Players Lounge at Fairview Strand for her majesty”.
I see from the heading at the top of the page^ that the Players Lounge not only objects to the Queen calling in for a cuppa, but they also have a racial bar for her supporters too!!! Call me old fashioned, but has the players Lounge really got a ‘No Blacks’ policy on the door?
I presume by “they,” The Players Lounge mean the Royals, not the British people…!
I was refering to the use of the word “Sambo” which the Oxford English dictionary defines as; Sambo, a black person, …a person of mixed race, especially of black and Indian or black and European blood…
Ham Sambos.
I wonder will she be met by Sir Bono, Sir Bob Geldof, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, Sir Terry Wogan and be taken to the Royal Dublin Society after a quick whizz past the Royal College of Surgeons. Philo can be kept entertained out in the Royal Golf Club on Bull (not John) Island. She oughta feel right at home but bewildered at any adverse reaction considering how many of the natives have gladly bent the knee to her for a title.
She’s stuck with the title by birth, the likes of Bono got on a plane to take the honour.
Quote from the James Connolly link:
“Fellow-workers, stand by the dignity of your class. All these parading royalties, all this insolent aristocracy, all these grovelling, dirt-eating capitalist traitors, all these are but signs of disease in any social state – diseases which a royal visit brings to a head and spews in all its nastiness before our horrified eyes. But as the recognition of the disease is the first stage towards its cure, so that we may rid our social state of its political and social diseases, we must recognise the elements of corruption.”
So does Bono, Sir Bob Geldof, Sir Tony O’Reilly and Co fit into the category of “parading royalties”? Does moving a publishing company from Ireland to Holland when the tax law changes constitute “capitalist treachery”? Should U2 be on the banner as well?
The whole problem with the sudden scalded cat reactions is the hypocrisy and short-sightedness. It’s the auto reaction of created by years of unbalanced misinformation. It’s simplistic and belongs with the kind of gobdaws who drink in the Players Lounge. Maybe it should be called the Armchair Players Lounge or the Fairview Society for the Promotion of Wolfe Tones Ballads As History.
What about the Ferns report? Where was the reaction to the Ryan Report? Were there any banners that barred Cardinal Brady from a pub for swearing child rape victims to secrecy? He has far more pressing crimes to answer for than a rich oul wan with a silly title on a PR visit.
FXR the “The majority in Ulster are (NOT) loyalists.”
The Majority in Northern Ireland are of a culturally protestant background alright but not the majority in Ulster. And of course this is because the border was drawn to make it so. Don’t get me wrong I agree with you when you say “people in the North would have to be mental to join a badly run bankrupt state.” and of course mad to join a state where the Catholic church still has a lot of power but that is hardly what I (or anyone as far as I can see) here is arguing for. Opposing feudal reaction does not equate to support for bourgeois catholic republicanism.
I’d class them as loyalists Marcus in the sense they would rather remain part of Britain. Beyond those classed as Protestant/Loyalists I don’t think it’s by any means certain that Nationalists/Catholics would automatically, given the choice, vote to become part of the South. Economics and would probably play a greater role in how people would choose than Wolfe Tone or even Bloody Sunday II. I know the smugglers on the border would be loathe to see their lucrative trade ruined by historic sentiment.
The term “opposing feudal reaction” is not one that makes any sense to me. I have noticed that most of the arguments around the queen centre on money which is a very debatable basis for objection. If it can be argued that the money spent on Lizzies visit will be an investment that will pay off than that’s out the window.
If it’s up to anyone to oppose the Queen based on the hereditary system of privilege she benefits from it’s the people who live under that system.
The reaction to Liz visiting to Ireland is just knee jerk. Barring the Windsor (or Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) family from a pub they’d never be in anyway is just the childish act of adult thugs. There is no system of royalty here (well except for Bishops and Builders maybe) and the economic argument just doesn’t hold up.
This is so hypocritical, it is not the banner on the outside of the pub that is the
problem, it is what is being shown on the telly on the inside of the put and the clientele
that is the problem here. English soccer being adored at the altar of irish society (pub)
with Irish Men wearing English soccer shirts saying that “we were beaten blah blah”, so
what part of Manchester, Liverpool are you from? When talking about the Dubs for example
oh “They were beaten”. I am no fan of the English either but if you look at it, they first
ruined our Country with their forces and now that we have got rid of their forces they
have slipped in the bargin basment part of their culture in exchange and nobody sees the
elephant in the room. This is I believe the real problem, we have taken the soup once more
and this time at the expense of our culture which those who rid the forces fought so hard
for. It makes me laugh to hear all this crap about losing our financial soveirnty but who
was crying when we lost our culture to worse than the IMF, i.e. British\American culture.
Kids are all now governed by soccer/English soap operas/x factor. I very rearly hear
anyone talking about speaking Irish, a trad session they attended, the craic they had in a
pub and someone they met. It is all soccer and x factor. If we are serious about this it
is saving our culture from this crap being bombarded once again into our country from the
skies and not the helga that bombed Dublin all those years ago. It is a great shame that
on the 100 anniversary of 1916 no kids will be able to speak much Irish, recognise a
traditional isntrument not to mind play one, tell a story (other than their beloved MU).
sad indeed. It is only a matter of time before we paint the post boxes red once again and
do you know something at least lizzy might actually preserve and revive our culture if we
let her reign here once again. Get the shit out of your pub and get some TG4 on the tv, trad sessions in etc. before you get rid of the banner outside.