Irish Naval Fleet Review and Air Corps Flyover planned for Titanic Centenary

[Ah Well]

Just seen this online and it beggars belief - the state we're in (in every sense) and this **** is going on

As part of a national tribute, the Navy will perform a fleet review and the Air Corps will execute a fly-past of Cobh on April 11 to mark the 100th anniversary of the doomed liner’s arrival in what was then Queenstown.


Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...#ixzz1geoasvYG

[Dr. FIVE]

It sank ffs

[Ah Well]

It sank ffs

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...n-2841948.html

This is a joke

The Irish on that one way trip to hell were either steerage or if they weren't ... well they were the elite (surreal version of celtic tiger cubs)

And now we have our Defence Forces involved in this farce ...

[PaddyJoe]

Emmm...in slightly bad taste perhaps?

August International Gourmet Festival, including a Titanic-themed gala dinner.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...#ixzz1gey8iyBp

[Ah Well]

Emmm...in slightly bad taste perhaps?

Well ... if they're going to reinact the dinner scene they better start in the middle of Cork Harbour ... on a dinghy ...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H95GspcHJmg"]Titanic: Dining room sinking - YouTube[/ame]

It's the likes of this surreal ***** that makes one despair while the country and its suffering multitudes sink like the Titanic

[Kid Ryder]

Did the iceberg fly the tricolour?

[Holly]

It can't do any harm and if it helps bring a few bob to the people of Cork, I'm for it.

[Baron von Biffo]

If the air corps wasn't at this they'd just be doing formation flying over the Heath in Portlaoise.

[Ah Well]

If the air corps wasn't at this they'd just be doing formation flying over the Heath in Portlaoise.

And how about the Naval Fleet - they'd be sailing in circles around Spike Island?

[Baron von Biffo]

And how about the Naval Fleet - they'd be sailing in circles around Spike Island?

They wont come to Stradbally Lake for me.

To be fair, the navy serves some practical purpose but much of the air corps is neither ornamental nor useful.

[TotalMayhem]

the Air Corps will execute a fly-past

More like a "walk-by"

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Could have been worse- the Corkies might have remembered the WWII U-Boat they discovered off the coast there last year and decided to commemorate the Lusitania's sinking off Kinsale with a re-enactment.

'Hurry up there wid dat thorpedo there will ye bai?"

[Donal Og]

Could have been worse- the Corkies might have remembered the WWII U-Boat they discovered off the coast there last year and decided to commemorate the Lusitania's sinking off Kinsale with a re-enactment.

'Hurry up there wid dat thorpedo there will ye bai?"

WWII U-Boat could not have sunk the Lusitania,bai.That would be a temporal paradox,bai.Anyone would think we sank the shagging thing ,bai.

And,according to most experts,including D C Pochin Mould,who knows more about Cork than anyone living or dead, she was stuffed to the gunnels with arms and ammunitiohn .bai.Still and all,shame about the innocents who died that day.

[TotalMayhem]

WWII U-Boat could not have sunk the Lusitania,bai.That would be a temporal paradox,bai.Anyone would think we sank the shagging thing ,bai.

And,according to most experts,including D C Pochin Mould,who knows more about Cork than anyone living or dead, she was stuffed to the gunnels with arms and ammunitiohn .bai.Still and all,shame about the innocents who died that day.

It's probably a typo, the U-boat discovered in Cork recently was indeed a WWI submarine. But it could not have sunk the Lusitania either. "That would be a temporal paradox" since UC-42 was commissioned in November 1916, 18 months after RMS Lusitania was sunk.

We actually have a thread about UC-42 here.