Talk:Áras an Uachtaráin
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- In the 1940s, one American cardinal who was staying there as a guest of President Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh caused a security scare by trying to smuggle rent boys (male prostitutes) up to his room!
Our friend 159.134.168.17 can add interesting contents to the project. They would be perfectly interesting, without these "spicy" additions. Wikipedia is not a Forum on catholic clergy's... forbidden preferences. ;-) G
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[edit] Controversy at Áras an Uachtaráin
Recent additions relating to Controversy at Áras an Uachtaráin probably need to be reviewed for factual correctness, and citations added for reference. Also need to consider rewording where additions are speculative or deal with possible future events. EG: "may in future even see the President of Ireland been called as a witness which would be totally unprecedented". Guliolopez 10:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Palace
Can someone clarify the use of palace here. Afaik it was only called the viceregal lodge in viceregal times not a palace, the gaelic name doesn't translate as palace so how has it come - if it is - to be known by that name. Alci12 15:50, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image
Can a free pic of the "front" (What the pic there shows now) be easily taken? If not (Security or whatever), then the {{fairusereplace}} should probably be removed from the pic. 68.39.174.238 18:34, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Árus?
If Áras an Uachtaráin is 'sometimes written' Árus an Uachtaráin, it's by people who aren't aware that 'Árus' is not an Irish word. Or if it is, it doesn't mean 'residence'. No doubt the White House is sometimes written The Whiet Hous, if only by kids and illiterate people. In other words, I see no reason to grant authority to a spelling error. Lexo 14:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ordinarily I'd agree. However some of the main "misspelling" culprits are not "the illiterate and kids". Rightly or wrongly, the transcripts of many Dáil debates (from the inception of the state) use the "Árus" spelling. See: [1] and [2]. That said, I agree that "Árus" should probably not be given too much prominence, and have determined to move the "misspelling" to the name reference.Guliolopez 16:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- A point well taken. If the frickin' Dáil can't spell it properly, I don't know who can be expected to...
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- Incidentally I looked it up in not one but two Irish dictionaries (De Bhaldraithe's 'Gearr-Fhoclóir Gaeilge-Béarla' and Dineen's venerable if wacky Irish-English Dictionary) and 'Árus' is not a word in either of them. Lexo 02:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
