@Col de Gal… I feel dirty now, thanks a lot

Of course it is, I do the TheJournal.ie poll almost every day, not every single topic fascinates me!

Twud be mighty craic if the baby had red hair.

Like his uncle Harry ?

I voted in the hope the journal will take the result on board and not bombard us with stories that must of us couldn’t care less about.

Too funny Marty

….excellent….

….@col…good thinking batman…

Yes, no more interested in her than any other young woman who is this ill and worrying about whether her baby will survive. Glad she’s going to get the best possible care – pity most won’t be as well looked after. Horrible to have the eyes of the world on you when you feel like s**t.

Exactly Nick. I’m about as interested in the baby as I would be in the baby of anyone I didn’t know, but I wish them well!

Yeah… They seem to be really into each other…
Too literal?

The window cleaners will be mentioned and the floor cleaners too!

All these visits to the hospital – reminds me of the time Rafael Benitez cut a post match interview short cos he wanted to visit Arjen Robben.

yes cos the media have been proven to be like that haven’t they!!

Totally agree!

Meh is more ambivalent.

true

Welfare of state employee?

Welfare or state employee?

Heh heh….

Welfare? Have a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw&feature=g-user-a&list=PLqs5ohhass_TpkWBnZrgA-71yOvdbchdE

really? this news evokes happiness in you? you should get out more

Yeah, babies are sweet and fun.

so some complete strangers pregnancy makes you happy? really? very sad

I’m happy for anyone who gets to experience the pleasure of having a child.

Some people don’t.

once again, the child bearings of complete strangers that you will never encounter making you happy is ridiculous

If you like.

@Revolting Peasant: Don’t troll if your not intelligent enough to maintain a clever, but infuriating argument.

Yep, over in Blighty they’d whip it out and throw it in the bin if she were to get even a sniffle.

And you care so little about this that you decided to comment on it? Meh!

Be fair now, Jill. Sometimes they smile and wave.

Jaysus Jill, will ya chill. I’ve no interest in them really but I don’t get angry about foreign monarchs.

mmm yummy! Me too. Good idea.

bullshit

Not in this country, this couple get nothing from the Irish taxpayer.

Even in the UK, they do nott scrounge of the country, i think it is about time people learned that.

Who said anything about Ranelagh?

What about people in East Anglia?

they are east anglicans

Not ours, yours (assuming you live in the UK, that is)!

John, do you know what the “immaculate conception” is? I don’t think you do…

Meh.

Indeed!

Very happy for her, I hope she has a healthy and happy child.

sad

Would you prefer it if I was endlessly miserable and begrudging?

ah so your usual begrudgery has been diluted by the news that a complete stranger, that lives in another country is pregnant, tell you what ill make you delirious, there are hundreds of millions of pregnant women all over the world! how happy are you now?

I’m not usually begrudging, I’m usually quite chipper.

if you say so…

Lads, there’s a room on the Titanic, booked in your names. Go to it.

” the news that a complete stranger, that lives in another country is pregnant”

With the future monarch.

looool so what?

Well it’s interesting to me, I don’t expect it to be interesting to you.

why is it interesting to you?

Well why do you think … FTLOG.

its a simple question, you must know why you are interested

Because they’re my monarchy, obviously.

ah, so are you a monarchist then?

I’m not opposed to the monarchy. It’s handy to have it, and they do a lot of good work.

What is wrong with you

To be fair to Rob, I don’t understand why the Irish show so much interest in a monarchy they rejected either.

King or Queen not just of England, but Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, etc etc etc…

Monarchy doesn’t make any sense in this modern age. The expenditure is excessive and the spirit of it is anti-democratic. The English Monarchy has a history of bloodshed, colonialism, imperialism and general nastiness in the world. Who the hell do they think they are, Americans?

This is to seamus, being in the mordern age has nothing to do with whether you have a monarchy or not and nor is it anti democractic as there is nothing that says a democracy has to be a republic. Also it is less expensive then an elected head of state ( of course depends on the country you loo at) and as for bloodshed? most countryies leaders have some of the blame, but so do other members of the goverment. You forget that colonialism and imperialism happen mostly when the British monarchy regined not ruled. Also many elected and un elected head of state have blood on there hands or rather the nations as a whole.

William only has one parent.

Rob, straight question. Why do you care about what other people think?

If it is a girl, she will still overtake Harry because William is a direct descendant to the throne and therefore his children (male and female) will be too. That’s what I heard on Channel 4 news last night anyway.

They have changed the rule on that, in fact I believe the did so shortly after the pair were married. Boy or girl, the child will be ahead of Harry in the line.

They changed the rules, regardless of gender Williams heir will be 3rd in line

I didn’t know about that one. Ah well, it’s fun to be Wrong on the Internet sometimes. It does still suppose that the Revolution won’t come though… here’s to Britain as a free republic!

She would always have been 3rd in line. The only difference is that a girl won’t be leapfrogged by a younger boy.

I’m sure we can all agree that primogeniture is a much fairer system than male primogeniture, right?

they haven’t changed the law. They are in the process of changing it. When they do it Will be back dated ti when the decision was made to change it. So this child regardless of gender Will be third in line.

The rules as I understand them are:
Rule 1
Boys or girls, Harry will be 4/5/6th in line (depending on how many children William and Kate have)because any children they have will have precedence over Harry or his children.
Rule 2
The rule of primogenitur has been changed so that the firstborn becomes monarch regardless of sex. Legislation is to be brought in to underpin this and the approval of the heads of the Commonwealth is also required.
At least this what I understand from Sky News and the Beeb.

They have changed the law.