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Funnyman Tommy Tiernan[Tommy Tiernan]

Quite literally gagging for it.

Tommy Tiernan spoke to John Murray on RTÉ Radio One this morning during which the following exchange occurred…

John Murray: “Because you travel around the country and you take in what’s happening, are we a little but more at ease with ourselves, have we got over that patch where we thought, you know, everything…”

Tommy Tiernan: “No, I think there’s something. I sense, generally speaking, that we are, we’re still soft, vulnerable, mad, depressed, wild, hopeless, miserable, lovely people. And there’s something about us though that is subservient. I think we do have, and [writer] Pat McCabe reminded me of this great phrase: ‘We have backs that are aching for the lash’. And I think that we put up with the things that, we’re so genetically, historically, we’re so used to putting up with bad management and mistreatment that we kinda, there’s something in us that thinks we deserve it. And the way the banks are treating people now. Your man, what’s the Bank of Ireland lad, Richie..”

Murray: “Richie Boucher?”

Tiernan: “Yeah, Dick the Butcher. The banks, you know. We see drawings and we hear stories about three of four hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, people being ousted out of houses by landlords and having to pay exorbitant rents and we ran from the English into the arms of the church and we ran from the church into the arms of the banks. And the banks are the new landlords now. The system is exactly the same – we’re paying exorbitant amounts of money to stay in our own houses. And I think people like Dick the Butcher,if we were, if we had more, if we weren’t so bent over, do you know? If we were a bit more, a bit more…maybe it just takes a generation, maybe it takes three or four generations for people to learn how to stand upright and to feel entitled to stand upright.”

Murray: “So we’re cowed by it all?”

Tiernan: “I think we’re a little bit defeated, you know, and I think. A friend of mine, Gerry Mallon, a comedian from Galway, had this great line that we just don’t have the weather for revolutions.”

Mmmf.

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The Bishop of Cork and Ross has distanced himself from comments made by a priest who asked mourners at a funeral to pray that former lord mayor of Cork, John Murray (above), would be found not guilty of sex assault charges.

Murray, 83, of Gregg Rd, Cork, was found guilty by a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court last Friday of sexually assaulting a teenager in 1996. The former Labour city councillor is due to be sentenced by Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin next Monday.

However, it has emerged a visiting Augustinian priest who was celebrating a funeral Mass in a church on the southside of Cork City last Thursday asked mourners during the prayers of intercession to pray that Murray would be found not guilty. The priest knew the deceased and it is also understood he is a friend of the Murray family.


Bishop: Friar’s comments on former lord mayor Murray ‘inappropriate’ (Eoin English, Irish Examiner)

90287884John Murray.

Where’s he been?

“You’re very welcome to the John Murray show, with John Murray and I have to say it’s lovely to be back here this morning. I have a lot of thank yous to get through initially. First of all, a very big thank you to Miriam O’Callaghan for doing such a great job in my absence, thank you Miriam. My gratitiude to my Series Producer Margaret Curley and all the gang, Alan, Deirdre, Sheila, Zbyszek, Denise, John and Colm, great to be among you again. And a little bit more personally, my thanks to my wonderful wife Miriam and my two great children, Stephen and Catherine and my family and in-laws and friends.
Well, what to say about the last six months? One minute I’m happily presenting this radio show and enjoying life, the next I’m gripped by dread and anxiety, with the simplest task proving beyond me.

As those with experience of it know, depression doesn’t just drop in and say a quick hello and then head for the hills, or at least my kind didn’t. No, it took a fancy to me and decided to take up residence for a few months, and boy did it make its presence felt. Especially in the mornings, when the day ahead became something to endure, rather than enjoy.

But in my battle to get better, I discovered that I had in my arsenal, a secret weapon, you the listener, I’m so, so grateful to everyone who took the trouble to write to me, send me get well soon cards and mass cards, those of you who rang and texted and emailed the show, enquiring after my health.

All the people whom I met over the past few months in Rathfarnham  and elsewhere, thanks for making the tougher days a bit easier with your love and concern, and for helping me get back here this morning, so we can renew our friendship now and have a bit of craic in the process. I’m a little bit reluctant about giving advice to others who might find themselves depressed or anxious, everyone is different.

But one thing I will say is, don’t be too hard on yourself, you haven’t failed life’s test, share your thoughts and feelings with others and don’t suffer in silence. And can I say, finally to anyone who knows someone who is depressed, don’t be afraid to contact them, they mightn’t reply immediately, or at all, but boy, will they appreciate that someone is thinking of them. I know, I did!”

 

John Murray, RTE R1 this morning.

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