This morning.
Government Buildings, Dublin 2
Sensible tyke Edward Breen runs away from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar while Luke O’Donnell and chief executive of the Irish Cancer Society Averil Power stay to help launch Daffodil Day on Friday. March 23.
Endless funny socks.
Good times.
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Today is World Down Syndrome day and people are asked to mark the day by wearing bright, colourful or mismatched socks.
But hey, get your digs in Bodger.
Moronic.
You sure are.
Pathetic, dumb shill.
Got that earth shattering exposé on Clinton yet?
Funny socks, shill boy.
Oh the compliments fly when the quality meet.
I’ll take that as a no. Must be embarrassing to know you were completely taken in by CA campaigns.
Don’t push it. You’re not smart enough.
I am very confused. Who is playing dumb and who is playing dumber ?
Yet I was smart enough to know why Leo’s wearing odd socks.
You are a shill. You mean nothing you say.
that was an odd exchange
I will not be trolled while I am working on Broadsheet. Pass it on.
I’d love to pass it on but you keep deleting my comments.
This form of bullying stops today.
Portraying yourself as the victim?
Calling those who disagree names?
Removing comments that disagree with you?
You’ve gone full Trump Bodger.
correct Repro, I am wearing my colourful unmatched socks for WDS day.
Bodger….any news on who is on the Late Late yet?
Not today, sad rugbyboy.
@Bertie: I applaud your intervention. Maith thú.
That’s it bodger straight talking, take no prisoners..
+1 bodger..
#justice for Bodger
Here Repo
Stop acting the git you
There’s room for all the charity pressers
And with gold like Leo and Averil put out for us by Broadsheet
Why da’ rhymes with múc would you want to deny us that
BTW Banner Blue shoes???
FFS girl
D”mind the socks lads
Averil looks like she raised Panti Bliss’s wardrobe
This won’t be the last time Leo wears silly socks. There will be plenty of time for mocking him and them in the future. Today just wasn’t the day for it.
says you an rotide..
taxi..
Why not?
would ya refer we discuss Leo’s inability to conduct himself like a Statesman and Leader? And thats why he has lads like you and the crew in the SCU to spin around him forming a shield like on an fictitious spaceship
This thread is all a bit like yerself RepBerto
Sticking to soft ground to make your mark
rather than try and and reach a daycent standard of gotcha that tattoos itself
Jaysus we’d a made pulp ah’ you back in the Day
your forefather Young Kenny must be disgusted at the standard of his seed
Either get better at this wumming
or get another log in
I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else. I’m an unrepentant Green voter and have no time for FFG. So yes, I’d much prefer that we have a go at Leo for the things that matter, like displaying his inner eejit in Washington, than inane stuff like his socks. The spin unit must be loving that his socks are the focus point.
Today is World DS awareness day. The only other time we’ll hear about DS over the coming months will be as pawns in the referendum. When I pointed out the reason for the odd socks Bodger, instead of acknowledging the day, had a hissy fit.
And you can keep your back in the day, soft ground baloney for someone who hasn’t seen it all before. If you seriously think that was me wumming then you need to go look up the definition.
He’s had enough of your sniping, and just because it’s DS day, that doesn’t cover pr leeches like Power and Varadkar.
If FG cared so much about DS, how come they slashed carers allowance and cut funding to DS charities.
This is a PR stunt, and shame on you for using it to take a personal swipe at bodger, you dropped the mask with the Clinton drivel..
Now you see! That’s the sort of point that would have made sense instead of gibberish about his socks. Happy to promote the day but not to pay their way. More FG hypocrisy on display.
Personal swipe? That Clinton stuff has been going on for longer than you’ve been posting here and it was in response to the “Moronic” comment.
The whole article was about Leo’s socks and his desperate need to display them inspite of the seriousness of the occasion.
All that’s lost on you though Bertie, as you steam forward looking to score cheap points.
And after years of you referring to him as a nutjob, a Trump supporter, Russian sympathiser and more I think he’s fully entitled to reply to you with the wiff of respect that you show him.
Ah give over RepBerto
Clinton is a spent docket
Even I threw it away
After giving her a whole Frill-Bit
Two in fact
Bodger calls Bertie a moron and you’re accusing Bertie of getting personal?
You truly are the reader this site deserves.
Ah come on Frilly, it’s not about Clinton. Bodger called me a moronic shill. I hit back by reminding him of his failure to follow through on a public declaration that he had information on Clinton that would make all the anti-Trumpers change their minds. It was the gift that keeps on giving.
So what,
He called you moronic
What are ya
12?
Did he hurt your feelings?
Ah Baba
Let me tell ye about some grown up stuff
It’s all about timing lads
Never come too soon
Never
Ha!
Maybe that’s why ye’re here playing away with yerselves
Waiting on the Clinton Stories
Are ye too dense to dig it up yerselves?
C’mere Rottie
If I’m the reader this site deserves
What da’ rhymes with múc does that make you?
Same goes for RepBerto
Lemme have a stab at it
Here for professional reasons?
Maybe
Hey
a gigs a gig
I couldn’t care less what ye’re motivation is
Other than to point out that I’m 100% free from such influence
I don’t give a monkey’s about Clinton or information about her. She’s yesterday’s news. The information was something Bodger staked his reputation on is all.
So I reacted to him calling me names. So what? You’re not my ma and some days a meaningless web spat is a fine stress reliever.
I’m pretty sure he wasn’t talking to you.
For the record, I’m here in a purely personal capacity. The only thing I shill for is the Kung Fu club.
Indeed
However
I’ve better stress relief available to me
Ya never know RepBerto
One day
And remember what I said
Timing is everything
Finally
Let me say to RepBerto and Rottie
Suckers!!!
Hook Line and Blinkers
They tend to frown on that sort of stress relief in the office.
“It was the gift that keeps on giving”
There you go right there, he’s listened to you and others sniping for quite some time and is fully within his rights to reply, you just don’t like it..
And he owes you or anyone else on here nothing.
Well
I’m my own boss
So I make me own rules
Got a new desk tho
Tis King Size – like
This is news for me
I never knew it was downs syndrome day
What’s wrong with a downs syndrome kid appearing in the shot
Please enlighten me your views as why evidently de tea shock was not highlighting it but a day next week seen as you make a snide remark
Really david, something you didn’t know? I’m shocked.
So who’s been a snarky git now
Huh?
BTW
I’m not shocked
You don’t know who your falling out with half the time
Special case, david is big on posting from a position of ignorance.
Left a little treat there for ya RepBerto
Your ( sic) welcome
BTW
I didn’t know twas Down Syndrome day either
Not very nice for the CEO of another high profile charity crashing it
Even worse
The Taoiseach
Went along with it
Noone knew it was Downs Syndrome Day.
Bertie educated everyone. Some people here, yourself included Frilly, acted like he murdered your favorite aunt.
Seriously, reading some of the comments today is like reading MAGA tweets.
The Educator
And the Editor
Ha!
Now there’s a FrillBit
The ex-FFs can always rely on charity.
Averil Power
Barry Andrews
Peter Power
I hate Varadker, but if he has to spend time with Avril to suck up to Fionan, then he’s well punished.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/irish-cancer-society-partially-reverses-funding-cut-1.2495182%3fmode=amp
Weather looks good for Friday, so hopefully its a bumper haul for all the daff sellers.
Best of luck to all the volunteers busy at work this week, and all others involved in the ICS.
+1
Great cause, lets all support as much as possible Friday.
…that CEO salary won’t pay itself…
Take the time to read thought the previous years accounts. Its even worse than that. Save your money, your donation is not going towards changing anything.
CEO salary amounts to €125k out of total operational budget of €21 million. Seems like there’s little to complain about there. The money is going precisely where you’d expect it to go.
I wasn’t talking about the CEOs Salary. Read the accounts. https://www.cancer.ie/sites/default/files/content-attachments/irish_cancer_society_2016_financial_statements.pdf
7 million (1 third) of every donation goes to salaries. 3/4 of the charity shops takings (€3M of 4M) ) goes to keeping the shops running. And a lot of dubious programs (for example : one quarter of a million is spent on volunteer driver programs. (? )) all these programs of course have operation costs of there own (I’m assuming legal costs the document doesn’t specify) so a few more million thrown here and there. You go from 21 Million to a fraction of that very quickly. Now you would think the expertise of a 125K a year CEO could run this thing a bit more efficiently. only 15% of a donation goes to cancer research. The details of how that research money is divided is a bit sketchy too. A million goes into Reduce the Risk of Cancer programs, all of which seem like a colossal waste of money and you can bet the people involved are making out like bandits. I mean the prevention in your community X-Hale training course? give me a ***ing break. “don’t take up smoking kids!” jesus!
A quarter of turnover as profit is good.
125grand a year well that’s excessive
Time these roles were non paying
Imam sure plenty of retired captains of industry would do the job as return for what life rewarded them with
I wouldn’t give them a penney . Had cancer and rang them . Was quite upset and they were as cold as can be. Not going to buy a flower . nada. nothing .
The accounts look fine to me.
Salaries overhead includes the service providers, admin costs are a small fraction of that. Volunteer driver programme costs are transport reimbursement for volunteers who drive cancer patients to clinic sessions – not exactly contentious expenditure surely? Cherry picking cancer research expenditure alone simply ignores the remainder of services they provide in patient support, nursing, and information provision / advocacy (if risk info on smoking risks were not needed, then we wouldn’t still have people smoking, would we?). The shops provide healthy profit as noted above.
+another one bisted
LOL Bisted! So true.
+1 bisted
Not a chance
I wouldn’t give them the coppers rattling around the bottom of me handbag
And if ye’ve any sense ye’d do the same
Giving them money to pay their overheads FFS
The biggest drain is a salary for a failed politician with zero Executive Admin and Governance experience
Suckers!
Or should that be Zuckers!
fionan and Averil are no more.
Really? What happened? They’re both as odious as each other. Thought it would’ve worked.
…there were three people in that marriage…
??
…known in these parts as redacted…
as in the water-meter guy?
she has joined another tribe
Clare and the Banner by the looks a’ things
She’s still married to him according to her Wikipedia entry. Should I update it for her?
The whole irish aid,charity sector is a giant slush fund for serving and failed politicians.
“Take the case of Ireland in 2012, for example, when Irish Aid suspended its entire assistance programme in Uganda after it was revealed that four million Euros that were destined to help rebuild the country’s war-torn northern region had been siphoned off to a personal account by the Office of the Prime Minister.
The Tánaiste—Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in charge of Irish Aid—was reportedly ‘absolutely disgusted’ by the revelation, which was followed by a sudden burst of op-eds and public debates not unlike those surrounding the current #Aidtoo moment. Then, in January of 2013, the Ugandan government repaid the misappropriated funds, and by 2014 Irish aid was once again flowing into the country. As public attention moved on, aid professionals got on with business more or less as usual.“
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/pablo-yanguas/foreign-aid-is-waste-of-money-unless-it-s-used-for-transformation
Couldn’t agree more. 6 figure salaries, failed politicians, really is disgusting.
So, to recap – misappropriated aid in Uganda was discovered and returned, and is now being spent on the intended projects in Uganda. Terrible indictment of Irish Aid, eh?
as Bodger is having a day,and you seem like a willy ,here ya go…..
do try to read a little and keep up.
“Irish Aid, Ireland’s development agency, and the British version of USAID — both foundation donors of between $1 million and $5 million — also shared in the U.S.-backed project in Uganda.
Ireland saw a substantial increase in the money USAID and the State Department spent on operations and projects there while Hillary Clinton was in office.
She even made Ireland the site of her final official trip as secretary of state when she traveled there to receive an award from one of her family foundation’s top donors.
The State Department increased its spending in Ireland from $1.65 million in 2009 to $2.96 million in 2010 and $7.48 million in 2011.
USAID also upped its support of Ireland, taking its funding from nothing in 2008 — the oldest year for which data is available — to $29.87 million the year Clinton came into office.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-spending-followed-foreign-clinton-foundation-donors
Is this supposed to be persuasive on any issue in particular? Irish Aid in Uganda was misappropriated, returned, and is now going to the intended projects. End of story.
this is getting old….
misappropriated-it was fraud-the Mokoro report was highly critical of Irish Aid,effectively describing them as incompetent,like yourself.
persuasive-sorry Al this isn’t the Trinity debating society, its one Irelands most ambitious AID programs affecting lots off lives, it involved political fraud and corruption at the highest levels.
“End of story”-who even uses that term, the “story” continues,that was the point.
“In 2012 approximately 30 percent of Uganda’s national budget came from donor support. Donors have suspended aid at various times in response to high-profile graft, but donor funding has nearly always resumed despite the lack of significant reform or high-level prosecutions. International donors should increase their focus on strategies that will promote accountability at the highest levels of government and ensure that any re-engagement is based on substantive changes to Uganda’s anti-corruption structures.”
https://reliefweb.int/report/uganda/“letting-big-fish-swim”-failures-prosecute-high-level-corruption-uganda
Hilariously – the supposed massive increase in USAID support to Ireland (the IFI fund for NI) from zero in 2008 to $29.87 million in 2009, that’s mysteriously attributed to Hillary Clinton, is accounted for by the fact that USAID funding to the IFI followed alternate years. There was no funding in years 2006 ($26.8 million in 2007) and 2010 ($17 million in 2011) as well, and funding actually massively decreased under the Obama/Hillary years.
Doesn’t really support the Clinton/Irish Aid conspiracy theory, does it?
The Ugandan funds were misappropriated, returned, and subsequently assigned to the intended projects. That’s the reality.
Welcome to the “illusory truth effect,” a glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth.
Repetition is seemingly required when you can’t actually engage with the facts and need to find solace in half-baked (and that’s being generous) political conspiracies from conservative freesheets.
To describe the fraud in Uganda as misappropriation is disengenous and false,repeating it doesn’t change that.
I’m not taking the bait on Clinton and Irl,it’s small ball and irrelevant to business as usual at Irish Aid,with zero accountability for a 4,000,000 fraud.
The money was returned after a gun in the form off cutting off all Aid,was put to the govts head.
What exactly is false about calling an instance of misapproprition ‘misappropriation’?
Bit late to ‘take the bait’ on Clinton – you’re the one who posted up the hilarious propaganda regarding Clinton without any prompting whatsoever. Presumably because you had nothing to support your actual Uganda / slush fund / failed politician spiel. Simply repeating that €4 million was misappropriated and subsequently returned, to be spent on the actual projects is hardly damning. Nor is misrepresenting the Mokoro report, which made clear that the Irish Aid funding to Ugandan projects had: “contributed to some very important inroads into reducing poverty and promoting asset creation, expanding access to social services (including in terms of justice) and generating greater awareness around gender and gender- based violence.”
FFS-“Tánaiste suspends aid to Ugandan Government and announces investigation of fraud allegations”
FRAUD
SUSPENDS AID
which part are you struggling with ?
https://www.irishaid.ie/news-publications/press/pressreleasearchive/2012/october/mos-suspends-ugandan-aid/
I’m not struggling at all. The funds were misappropriated, returned, and spent on the intended projects. Money well spent.
You appear to have enjoyed a Jesuital education!
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
….as loath as I am to link to IT.
Yep FRAUD !
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/irish-aid-should-have-spotted-signs-ahead-of-uganda-fraud-1.2947036%3fmode=amp
And here’s the ongoing plans for the Irish Aid supports in Uganda. Seems like you can’t move past the previous instance of misappropriation, despite all of the money being returned. Money well spent.
https://www.irishaid.ie/media/irishaid/allwebsitemedia/20newsandpublications/FINAL-Uganda-CSP-print-version.pdf
anyone who says leave it out with the socks, he’s allowed to have fun. He isn’t. He hasn’t earned it.
Given the number of scolds that populate this place, I’m amazed that anyone ever has any fun.
Don’t be so hard on yourself.
so he is fine with sitting there promoting a cancer charity that needs to go to the general population to raise money to further research into Cancer, Money that should come from Exchequer into health? Same as the Burton one opening a food bank to feed citizens.Shameless.
I’m curious, Are you going to delete any comment I make?
any and every, looks like
this isn’t bodger’s finest hour. not the real bodger, i suspect.
Same here
*gasp*
Say it isn’t so! What foul scallywag would do such a thing?
(Honestly, the outright chaos this has caused is hilarious.)
A crisis actor. Or….a bitchy “resting” actor.
very out of character
I have never, in all my years reading BS, seen the likes of this.
My. Word.
our very own GUBU!
The Haughey era had NOTHING on this.
Nope.
They’re on the deathlist now. Watch what you say, or you’ll be next.
Another mad post from me because there is utter CARNAGE up above.
I don’t know.
It’s like nipping out of a party to buy a pack of cigarettes only to find everything on fire on one’s return.
sit quietly, don’t get out and don’t touch the handbreak… i’ll be back in a minute
No you DO NOT need the keys so you can listen to the radio.
Any more of this nonsense and I won’t be back out with Coke and a bag of Tayto for ya.
Power. Failed politician – gets handy number.
hypocrite troll
He would have worn silly sox anyway you troll
It’s the Wednesday Lunchtime Massacre here.
I’m reading many of the civil war posts in Samuel L Jackson’s Jules voice. It makes them even funnier.
My Dearest Emmeline,
This terrible war has entered its thirtieth dreadful minute. Comment after comment has fallen in this bloody conflict, some comments I have known well and called brother as we stood bravely in the field, our brass reply buttons shining in the morning sun. Now they lie torn and lifeless in the recycle folder, shredded by another bombardment of heavy deletions. I do not know if this comment will live to see the dawn of another day, but know my final thoughts will be of you. Think of me fondly whenever the wind blows sweetly through the grass, and the edit window counts slowly down to infinity,
Your True Love,
A Comment
Thoughts and prayers.
Ah Nidgie
Naw’ful shame to waste it on us here
An’ Clampers deep undercover and not able to engage
Nothing is wasted.
Nothing is lost.
imagine how much worse it would have been if anyone had mentioned Averil’s legs
Brother Barnabas’ hobbies include pulling the Devil by the tail and base jumping without a parachute.
“I gorged on Toblerone and drove to Dundee in my bare feet.”
Asthma Society mustn’t have been lucrative enough for Averil….
Not very photo’Oppo’ genic anyway
leo and advil what a lovely couple. are they there kids?
Awww
I feel like I missed the salacious bits :o(
You certainly did. I wish I’d been quicker with the screen grabs.
#evidence
Those who were there will never forget.
Is there a highlights reel? Did humanity win?
We need music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8
What the fupping fupp?!?
Carnage.
A lot of sand in everyone’s vaginas.
Scratchy. You made me laugh just when I needed it. Thanks
You too Andy?
Free the Broadsheet one. Power to the people.
I am a great believer that the only ones allowed to develop drugs should be the WHO
Private companies should only be allowed to distribute the drugs and not hold humanity to ransome
If this was the case I would say there would be a cure for cancer tomorrow
Massive profits are made in health especially cancer which is a massive earner for the whole industry from drugs to care and keeping the patient alive while draining their assets
“Unless you’re a bodger sockpuppet..”
“Since you’re a bit slow..”
snipe snipe snipe..
You don’t realise how smarmy you are, I never said you couldn’t reply, I only inferred you should expect a snappy response and should therefore adjust your outrage..
Is that you Angela Kearns
Some really carping comments here.
I’ve always been struck by the saintly patience of Broadsheet contributors. If I were running this site I’d moderate most of you relentlessly.
Still laughing at the fact one of you (could it be Rotide?) put up a Reddit thread about being moderated.
It would be funny if it wasn’t for the fact that your attitude is clearly upsetting people who have put a tremendous amount of work into this site, which has been hugely beneficial to a wide variety of people.
Contributors like Bodger do unpaid work in a courteous, kind and sincere way and it’s extremely selfish to treat them so disrespectfully. You should all (including the quislings!) be ashamed of yourselves.
Happy to debate this with anyone who wants – I really think that the commentariat have shown themselves up here as not deserving of the kindness shown to them by one of the site’s owners – a truly good and kind man.
+1
FYI the socks have nothing to do with DS. These are walking all over cancer socks to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society, and not odd at all as they have daffodils on them…
Sock it to the trollers, I hope they go online and buy a pair, as way of apology…
https://www.cancer.ie/socks#sthash.Zyqef1YX.dpbs
FYI this has nothing to do with DS – these are walking all over cancer socks – have a look at the daffodils on them !!!
I say sock it to the trollers, here’s hoping they go order some by way of an apology to Bodger…
https://www.cancer.ie/socks#sthash.Qaefx8u2.dpbs