The Queen of England is currently on a four day visit to Ireland. The first such visit since the Irish fought off British colonial rule. So far the Queen has celebrated the Croke Park massacre and honoured those Irishmen who stopped bothering with this independence nonsense and fought for Britain during the second world war.
At her only public speech of the visit made tonight (18/5/11) the Queen praised the Northern Irish peace process and congratulated those involved. Meanwhile in Northern Ireland's recent elections both Sinn Fein (Republicans) and the Democratic Unionist Party (Unionists) both increased their share of the vote at the expense of more everyday political parties like Labour and the Alliance. This represents a hardening of sectarian divisions as a direct consequence of Britain spending the last two years trying to break apart the peace process.
Anyway the Queen was invited to Ireland by Mary McAleese the Irish President who presided over the countries economic collapse and the EU bailout which Britain tried to block.
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