Maria Ryan writes:
As an avid reader of Broadsheet, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy sixth birthday. We here in the National Library of Ireland have archived your website since 2011 and we thought on this occasion you or your readers might like to take a trip down memory lane.
Mmmf.
Earlier: Now We Are Six
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Fair play NLI
in fairness like
Hey, Happy Birthday BS.
Hookers and blow for all.
Lets leave Clampers Ma outta thisa….
* clips Fluffy on the ear *
You mean I’m actually mentioned in the National Archives…….
Delighted me meself here
Any chance I get a plaque
Or sum’ting…
Pass Inter Cert English first and then we’ll talk.
Ah would ya give over Lance
Sur what would I do that for?
I think FC’s more of a Chase!
Ha…those geometric avatars! Jaysus it’s like looking at yer old school photos.
…will you be releasing all the moderated comments or do we have to wait for your 30th…
The musings here are preserved for posterity? Well I never!
We’re going to have to up our game.
Happy birthday BS
I changed me socks and washed me hair an’ all.
Thatcher and Gadaffi were still alive! Mmmmf
Back in the era of Chompsky’s Freakishly Long Leg, Anne Doyle’s Back Garden, Michael Squee and Cabra West.
Mmf.
Ah…. the memories :)
Actually. Looking at this… https://www.broadsheet.ie/2010/07/28/broadsheet-the-faqs/
When did Chompsky change his name from Chompski? Was it an Ellis Island-type situation or did you just realise Noam was unlikely to sue…
was that The Real Stephen Fry commenting there?
well done all, i’m only a newcomer but even i recognise this site’s fight against the forces of corruption on this island
And what forces of corruption would they be dav?
Congratulations lads, buy yourselves a 99 to celebrate.
Tins?
More coverage of climate change please.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2016&cid=N00005582&type=I&newmem=N
These are the companies that sponsor this guy:
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/289414-gop-chairman-kids-are-brainwashed-on-climate-change
(Someone sent me this 1minute clip today which I think is a neat illustration of our problem:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=xnhJWusyj4I )
Ah the good old days, when we were all innocent and there was no Leather Jacket Guy.
And walls knew their place.
I just remembered how I heard about Broadsheet – it was the Ray Foley show one lunchtime when I had a crappy call centre job after coming off the dole and I used to sit in the car at lunch sometimes to escape the din and listen to the show.
It was either Ray or JP saying they were addicted to it. Took me a while before it became a favourite but it certainly is now.
Ray Foley saved many lives
It turns out it WAS for this.
Found you via Gombeennation with his video post of ‘Ding Dong Denny’s History of Ireland’ in
2011, during the presidential election build-up amidst the summer swirl of David & Ezra’s man-love-letter scandal.
Denny’s Dubliner sat in ‘The Hairy Bowsie’ does the Norris twang regaling the tourist. A quick search of similar independent fare had the Broadsheet join Gombeen, Bock the Robber and Guido Fawkes for a regular leer.
Fascinating
Yeah ehh, jelly and custard all round.
Wonder are there many folks who can boast if that be the word, that their writings are in the National Archives.
Infamous at last or/.
In 100 years if folk stumble across broadsheet and all comments, the mind boggles as to what they may think.
“So, Donald Trump wasn’t an aberration.”
“His brain farts I mean.”
“If only they knew their brain farts could be harnessed as a clean energy to power their flying cars.”
*all thoughts spoken in Chinese.*
“If only they knew what was coming down the road with climate change. Oh wait…”
The Internet Archive has done the same thing with the entire internet – https://web.archive.org/web/*/Broadsheet.ie
Or search their 498 billion archived pages here https://archive.org/web/
All this nostalgia made me look out the post that first brought me to this site, I was trying find out more about a house fire in Dublin when I stumbled on what I thought was a serious new site at first…
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/04/01/unecessarily-long-distance-photo-of-large-fire-in-terenure/
..but I was soon hooked and spent the first few weeks going back to look at the earlier posts that I’d missed – something that would be a Herculean task now!
*news site
All these years and we still can’t edit out posts…
FFS
*our
Happy birthday.
Aww! Happy Birthday Broadsheet & welcome to middle age (dog years & all that).
P.s. Frilly, yer not the only famous one. That first featured comment from 2011 was mine. (Why it’s featured, God only knows, but hey, it’s meeeeee, recorded for posterity. Yay!).
Like Hillary
Breaking the glass ceiling Carole
Where did you end up
Happy Birthday BS. Thanks for all yeer hard work and for letting me know about a good few things.
Happy birthday! Nice to feel there is one corner left in Ireland’s internet where the truth is told no matter of the consequences.