IT

Ireland - the final frontier - to boldly go where no man has gone before. The policy of the president to invest heavily in education and youth over the years 1980 to 2010 is proving to be very useful. It meant that the young people of Ireland proved to be more articulate than average counterparts elsewhere in the eurozone with tightfisted governments spawning xenophobic regimes. It has meant that the island at the edge of Europe away from the main events and the big action centres is rising like a phoenix and will soon be the international maestro de facto of a large IT empire - Ireland at the centre of a new restored IT commonwealth. The prospects for the island look rosier and rosier. And now with young people exported around the world and working in lots of advanced IT companies, the great Irish strength and virtue of articulation and communication with a plethora of language skills for the internet age is proving decisive - it is driving Ireland along way forward and way ahead of all old fashioned pre-internet countries. Ireland - a new eurozone silica valley.

Eheu

Now come on lads, sure I wouldn't have to become a prince regent if everybody realised who they were and that Ireland has a Celtic Gaelic aristocracy already on its shores, now would I? Appointed as a prince regent to knight and raise up such a gaelic nobility for future times, it is my job, a sacred mission received from Dr William Byrd and Sr Marie Finistere of Paris to raise up this stock and place ermine on its shoulders. The resident Normans do not need any knighthoods as they have theirs from their lineage to William the Conqueror, but the Gaels do - May Mary of the Gaels protect you all.  I have been touring the country, raising up men and women of sufficient interest and quality. Godspeed. This process of knighthoods should be complete by 2015. And of course all those brave men and women that struggled for their homeland 1916-2000 officially and unofficially in and out of Port Laoise are also considered as worthy stock ipso facto by dint of the love of patria - the Fatherland awaits you all.

Golly Gosh - 2014

Look all this kerfuffle about the idea of monarchy at last coming back to the island that practically invented the concept? We should not allow our own experience of the shadow side of a foreign monarchy so to dominate our minds that all we see is shadow even in our own case. Do we not have institutes of freedom, of redress, of recourse, of democratic leverage? And if so, why should we fear the beginnings of a call from the grass roots for a monarchy. Even an elected sovereign every 20 years would be better than all this rumble and tumble we call an SPQR today lads. So come on, let's give this one a try.