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Sean
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Cork man meets the queen
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What do you think about irish rugby player and cork man, ronan o'gara style for meeting the queen of england.
some are calling for his head to be chopped off.
we have no love lost between us in kerry and cork. we would never defend cork without a very good reason. but don't they know that he was not being rude.
all cork men keep their hands in their pockets, all the time. they never want to buy a round ROFL
you have to admire or laugh with his cork style. who else but a corky man would do it.
and besides the english woman is very rude, she is wearing gloves but expecting people to be shaking hands with her, who does she think she is, michael jackson
news reports about the meeting of o'gara and the queen.
ROFL
something in the water is class
So, here's the deal. You are invited to meet the Queen. You either see it as something of a quirky honour, something to have a laugh with your mates about. Or maybe you see it as a bit of a pain in the arse, but as a professional sportsman you just have to grin and bear it every time you're dragged out for some stupid photocall when you'd really rather be back home.
Or, if you're from Cork, you display all the manners of a 13 year old corner boy.
That was the impression given by the reliably surly and truculent Ronan O'Gara last week when the Irish rugby team met the Queen.
Now, as someone who is the product of a bunch of in-bred Germans, Betty always seems actually quite nice; and, after all, when you're married to a madman like Philip the Greek, you need to have a good degree of forbearance.
But that cut no ice with the charmless O'Gara who stood in front of her with his hands in his pockets and a typically Cork slieveen smirk on his face.
If he is that much of an anti-Royalist why didn't he invent a brief illness to keep him away from the event? Or did he want to show off to his mates back home?
Although, as one Leinster fan pointed out in the office yesterday, he played with his hands in his pockets for 80 minutes in Croke Park, so why should he be any different meeting the Queen?
Stephen Ireland, Roy Keane, the Cork footballers and hurlers, Michael Collins and now O'Gara -- is there something in the water down there or something?
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/this-charming-man-1734768.html
report about meeting
Crowning glory as Grand Slam stars hailed by Queen Elizabeth
President McAleese is warmly greeted by Queen Elizabeth during the celebrations at Hillsborough Castle to mark the all-Ireland side's rugby Grand Slam
By David Young
Thirteen members of the Grand Slam winning side and coach Declan Kidney joined Irish rugby legends from yesteryear to meet Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip yesterday, as the royals visited the North.
Jack Kyle and Jimmy Nelson from the 1948 team that had won Ireland's only other Grand Slam, and 1974 Lions captain Willie John McBride, chatted with the royal couple at Hillsborough Castle.
Captain Brian O'Driscoll and Ulster's Rory Best accompanied the queen and Prince Philip as they were introduced to the present generation of stars.
At one point the queen asked the Leinster talisman what the difference was in the trophies the team clinched in March.
"We had that a few years ago," O'Driscoll said pointing to the Triple Crown trophy for beating the three other 'home' nations.
"But that is the real one," he said motioning to the Championship Cup.
O'Driscoll and out-half Ronan O'Gara may have been on the same side for Ireland but last weekend the pair faced off against each other in the Heineken Cup semi-final between Munster and Leinster.
O'Driscoll pointed out to the queen that O'Gara was sporting a black eye as a result of the clash. "But I'm hardly one to talk," he said to the monarch as he pointed to stitches under his own eye.
Leinster and Ireland centre Gordon D'Arcy cut a peculiar figure on arrival as a foot injury required him to wear flip flops with his Ireland team suit.
Sandals
But the former British and Irish Lion changed into formal shoes for his royal appointment, before hastily retrieving his sandals after the queen left.
Afterwards O'Driscoll said the event was another highlight in a long lap of honour.
"We've done an awful lot of touring with the cup," he said. "We've really milked it, besides ourselves travelling I know the cup has done a huge amount of travelling whether it be with sponsors or schools.
"So it's great to come up to Belfast and share a bit of the wealth and see the smiles on people's faces up here.
"And to have the Sovereign of the north of Ireland to come over, the queen, and give us her time was great too.
"I think the players from the Republic understand that meeting the queen means as much to the northern players, as it does to the southern players when they meet Mary McAleese.
"It's a reciprocation and an understanding and it's another opportunity to be patted on the back, so that can't be a bad thing."
Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness boycotted the celebration at Hillsborough because he said it was a British government-sponsored event.
Queen Elizabeth later met President McAleese as part of her visit to the North.
- David Young
Your front page photo in today's newspaper (Irish Independent, May 8 ) shows that Ronan O'Gara is not only a brilliant rugby player but is also, apparently , a dab hand at pocket billiards.
Joe Curran
Celbridge, Co Kildare
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