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| Irish couple invites stranded American troops to their wedding |
| 2009-07-31 |
| U.S. soldiers were given a true Irish welcome at a wedding in Co Clare this week. The 300 troops were stranded in Shannon last weekend after their Iraq-bound plane was grounded. As luck would have it, they were booked into the same hotel as the wedding party for Amelia Walsh and Sean O'Neill. And so the 300 troops were invited to join the festivities at the Clare Inn in Newmarket-on-Fergus. The groom's uncle, Joe O'Neill said: "It didn’t take long before the combat fatigues were manoeuvring to the strains of ‘The Walls of Limerick'." The happy couple posed for pictures with the troops earlier in the day and Eamon Walsh, the father of the bride, said the couple were "proud" to have the soldiers at their function. Walsh said the couple invited the men in so they could experience an Irish wedding. "They behaved in an exemplary manner at all times and if our troops behaved in the same way when they are on peacekeeping duties, I would be very proud," he said. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Glad to see Irish hospitality is not a lost art in the auld sod. Sorry to see they have their share of anti-military lefty pricks. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-07-31 23:23 |
| #2 "It wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't in uniform but there were some people who were taken aback." So these people falsified a story about soldiers barging in uninvited and then called the newspapers. I bet if you cornered them, they'd say something like, "but we were just so offended, what were we supposed to do?" |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-07-31 23:04 |
| #1 Awesomesauce. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-07-31 20:16 |