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May 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The peace process and the reconciliation that it has brought was the backdrop
to Her Majesty’s visit that early summer’s morning last year. In a sense the
visit closed one chapter in our relations and opened another. I believe that
chapter will describe a relationship unique among neighbouring states.
Indeed, that relationship is already unique.
At the state banquet in her honour Her Majesty the Queen noted that “no one
could have imagined the strength of the bonds that are now in place between
the governments and the peoples of our two countries”.
What two neighbours in Europe today enjoy the exchange of people and ideas, of
goods and capital that our two countries do?
We share a complex relationship and we are each the richer for that. Just as
many British citizens are increasingly proud of their Irish origins and
curious to know more about those origins, Irish people are also keenly aware
of their historic, cultural and family links with Britain.
At a time of deep uncertainty, not alone in the eurozone but in the wider
global economy too, we need to draw on these strengths to our mutual
advantage. We may not agree on everything, but the area of agreement is much
greater than any area of disagreement. Whether we are members of the
eurozone or not, we certainly agree on the importance of a strong,
outward-looking European Union which promotes jobs and growth, strengthens
the single market and reduces the burden of regulation on business. We know
that we can achieve more if we work more closely together.
In recent years, as a consequence of the economic downturn, that we have begun
to better appreciate the depth of our economic relationship. In March this
year, Prime Minister David Cameron and Taoiseach Enda Kenny committed our
governments to working together to broaden and accelerate our partnership,
working more closely together for example to secure sustainable energy and
safe food for our citizens and jobs for our young people.
Their meeting was itself was a milestone: it was the first summit meeting
between a British and Irish leader that was not wholly or primarily
concerned with Northern Ireland. They agreed to have annual summits.
Those four days in May last year helped lay to rest the memory of conflict and
opened new horizons, allowing us to imagine a different kind of future.
I thought of words used by a Dubliner and quoted by an Irish American from
Massachusetts. When he addressed the Irish parliament in 1963, President
Kennedy quoted George Bernard Shaw, one of the many Irish writers who lived
and made their reputation in Britain. “Some people see things and say ‘Why?’
But I dream of things that never were and I say: ‘Why not?’”
Or, as the President of Ireland said to Her Majesty the Queen that week, “We
cannot change the past but we have chosen to change the future”.
Eamon Gilmore is the Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) of Ireland
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