Posted on 03/17/2008 9:07:42 AM PDT by doug from upland
THE BALLAD OF MIKE MORAN is now on YouTube. It honors those who gave their lives trying to protect others on 9/11. "Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish *ss"
LOADS OF ST. PATRICK INFO ON THIS SITE
Nobel winner: Hillary Clinton’s ‘silly’ Irish peace claims
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 9:30am GMT 08/03/2008Page 1 of 2
Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a “wee bit silly” for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.
Hillary Clinton with the Rev Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness after their meeting in Washington last year
“I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around,” he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely “the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets” during elections. “She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”
Mrs Clinton has made Northern Ireland key to her claims of having extensive foreign policy experience, which helped her defeat Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday after she presented herself as being ready to tackle foreign policy crises at 3am.
“I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland,” she told CNN on Wednesday. But negotiators from the parties that helped broker the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 told The Daily Telegraph that her role was peripheral and that she played no part in the gruelling political talks over the years.
Lord Trimble shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume, leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, in 1998. Conall McDevitt, an SDLP negotiator and aide to Mr Hume during the talks, said: “There would have been no contact with her either in person or on the phone. I was with Hume regularly during calls in the months leading up to the Good Friday Agreement when he was taking calls from the White House and they were invariably coming from the president.”
Top ‘o the mornin’ to ya Doug! I’m not only Irish, but it’s me birthday today. I’ll be tippin’ the Guinness after work. He he!
This was my dad’s birthday - John Patrick Cogan
So he was ... Lithuanian?
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I’m an Irish lass from Rockaway Beach. Thanks for adding this to youtube. I’ve made it a favorite.
Alice
Will we see Hill Da Beast or Obama-Rama drinking green beer today?
I’m sure he was a wonderful guy. It’s a lucky day for we Irish to be born.
Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed it. :)
My grandfather came here from Ireland, but he died a short time after I was born. I never had a chance to know him. The name in Ireland was DeCogan.
It’s amazing that Paisley is still alive. I have relations in Derry and that man’s name doesn’t bring a smile to their faces.
Happy birthday, Edgar3!
Be Jaysus. Now what part of the old country would Clan O’Bama be hailing from? Could he be from Mayo—God help us?
COUNTY KENYA-—is there such a place LOL
Thank ye! I dub ye an honorary leprechaun!
Today was 6 months, 6 years and 6 days from the 9/11 attacks. A little freaky if you think about it.
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