Someone explain to me why the Olympic Flame is in the Republic of Ireland?

[Working class pride]

Maybe to try and help the British image in a country split in two? I couldn't give a monkeys about sports like the hop skip & jump and so have no interest in the torch being in England or Ireland. Only thing worth a candle is the 100m for the fastest man on earth title. The rest are just a collection of minority sports that nobody cares about. Nobody gives those sports the time of day except when the event that is the Olympics is on and that says it all.

 

[wellquickwoody]

At seagullsovergrimsby

:raspberry:

 

[skipper734]

I can't honestly say it bothers me one bit that the torch relay has spent a day in Ireland (it's probably a rather nice gesture in truth), however I struggle to believe that they couldn't have found one single Irish man, woman or child that would have had a better claim to running with it than that pair of HATSTANDS.

They still got nearly four times the points of Tom in Eurovision. They are so Irish. The torch didn't need to go to Ireland so the Irish could see it, as popular myth has it that there are more Irish men living here, than the Emerald Isle itself.
Maybe Dave and Seb have colonial ambitions.

 

[pork pie]

i can think of a couple of bars in Belfast that i would pay you good money to go into and say that out loud ..............purely for entertainment purposes only you understand.

Wow really? Is it full of IRA terrorists then? Maybe you could also think of some loyalist pubs where I would be made very welcome? We could all sing "no Surrender" together!

 

[ATFC Seagull]

23 posts before someone mentioned the IRA. New record? I thought it'd be in the first few.

 

[salty seagull]

They may have killed our servicemen and blown up our innocent civilians at will,but we really shouldn`t mention it.It`s just not cricket.(the IRA, not Jedward)

 

[Martinf]

They may have killed our servicemen and blown up our innocent civilians at will,but we really shouldn`t mention it.It`s just not cricket.(the IRA, not Jedward)

Words fail me.

 

[salty seagull]

Words fail me.

Not for the first time,I`m sure.

 

[pork pie]

23 posts before someone mentioned the IRA. New record? I thought it'd be in the first few.

Well, it was following an irrelevant reference to Belfast?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

They may have killed our servicemen and blown up our innocent civilians at will,but we really shouldn`t mention it.It`s just not cricket.(the IRA, not Jedward)

Depending on how far back you choose to go, the same would apply to the Germans, the French, Libyans, Americans, Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans, Spanish, Italians, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Danes, Pakistanis and Argentines, to name but a few.

 

[salty seagull]

Depending on how far back you choose to go, the same would apply to the Germans, the French, Libyans, Americans, Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans, Spanish, Italians, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Danes, Pakistanis and Argentines, to name but a few.

Blimey,you`re worse than me.Is there anyone you do like? Joking aside,the offending post mentioned `pubs in Belfast`, so the `Opium Wars` or `The hundred years war` didn`t spring to mind.

 

[glasfryn]

got to happen otherwise we don't get our 7 billion back

 

[skipper734]

got to happen otherwise we don't get our 7 billion back

Good point Glas. That's it, we've bought Ireland.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Its a torch

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Wasn't it in Britain a few weeks before the Beijing Olympics?

 

[Falkor]

Wasn't it in Britain a few weeks before the Beijing Olympics?

Yes it used to do a world tour but due to protests its now stopped.

 

[User removed 4]

Because it doesn't matter.

It only ever seems "not to matter" when its something that we , the British find questionable , it always seems to "matter" very much when its Irish sovereignty or sensibilities that are ruffled , the fact is , the torch is supposed to be on its final tour around the HOST country , which the Republic of Ireland, isnt.

 

[User removed 4]

Its a torch

Its a foreign country, which they are always at great pains to stress.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It only ever seems "not to matter" when its something that we , the British find questionable , it always seems to "matter" very much when its Irish sovereignty or sensibilities that are ruffled , the fact is , the torch is supposed to be on its final tour around the HOST country , which the Republic of Ireland, isnt.

Its a foreign country, which they are always at great pains to stress.

Why do you CARE though? What difference does it make to ANYTHING?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

The torch taken to the Sydney Olympics went all through Oceania before it hit Australia. Went through the Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand etc.

It's route

Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Guam - Palau - Federated States of Micronesia - Nauru - Solomon Islands -Papua New Guinea - Vanuatu - Samoa - American Samoa - Cook Islands - Tonga - Queenstown - Christchurch - Wellington - Rotorua - Auckland (New Zealand) - Uluru - Brisbane - Darwin - Perth - Adelaide - Melbourne - Canberra - Sydney (Australia)