Paul Murphy is rather bizarre,
If he thinks it’s not going too far,
To whip up a crowd,
‘Till they hurl abuse loud,
And try to flip over a car.
John Moynes
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Paul Murphy is rather bizarre,
If he thinks it’s not going too far,
To whip up a crowd,
‘Till they hurl abuse loud,
And try to flip over a car.
John Moynes
Moynes now spinning the Blueshirt line.
C’mon in Broadsheet, your time is up,
It’s not only blueshirts that think that surrounding a car (with anyone inside) and rocking and banging on it before proceeding to block it in for a number of hours is taking things too far. Murphy will saddle up with any old group of thugs if he reckon’s it will get him some airtime.
Refreshing change from Chompsky’s posts, it has to be said.
Yet another verse from John
Which gets what happened wrong
They weren’t having a moan
They had their camera phones
And just wanted a photo with Joan
Normally I’m not one to moan
But this story isn’t just about Joan
So where were gardai? Were they all drinking tea?
When the country’s second most important politician was left to stew on the phone.
Senator Katherine Zappone said it took the 15 minutes for the boys in blue to answer her 999 call and come to Burton’s aid. What in the name of all that is holy were they doing? The Tanaiste’s safety was seemingly at risk and it takes them 15 minutes to send reinforcements to the scene? This snippet seems to have been glazed over by the country’s erstwhile media…
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You’d be lucky to get the boys in blue out in 15 hours in parts of the country. Where’s your indignation for the rest of us?
You have me head wrecked now trying to think of the country’s first “most important politician”.
What a bizarre rant.
Not very catchy.
Surprised at that rhyme John, I didn’t know that you were that right-wing.
How could you have missed that
He nearly wet himself over the US mid- terms results ffs
Jeb Moynes more like
I normally skip his rhymes to be honest. But the ones I had read were normally not rabidly anti-democracy.
Picture Palin with a hairy face
Similar IQ too
Although I’d say she’s more outdoorsie and capable
Whereas Jeb Moynes is more of a ‘Mommy’s’ boy who still gets his clothes bought for him.
I don’t blame Paul Murphy for the fracas, I don’t approve of what the mob did, and to make the suggestion that Murphy “whipped up the crowd” into a frenzy is complete and utter bullcrap Mr Moynes.
Very disappointing to read that Limerick which reads like a govt sanctioned propaganda piece :(
Wait are we all supposed to take John seriously now ?
…no, jaysus no :)
….Monday morning and all that…
What is shouting into a megaphone for two hours if it isn’t leading a protest? A protest where missiles were thrown and an elected official unlawfully detained for 2 hours? Shouting “peaceful protest” while others commit acts of violence unrestrained does not a peaceful protest make.
Heh. That made me giggle this morning. People ROARING “peaceful protest”. It sounded mental.
So, a badly run protest then. One which disaffected youth infiltrated in order to cause trouble. But saying Paul Murphy was responsible is total bollix.
no its not, if he is leading the protest he is responsible for it “disaffected youth” and all, I suppose all the people stopping the car and beating it were “disaffected youth” as well were they? If he is leading he sets the tone of the protest, and that tone was one of intimidation not peaceful protest.
He’ear He’ear
And as for ‘unlawfully detaining’ Joan chorusters. FFS.
Next time park her warm arsed distress in Tallaght A& E to wait her turn and see what she makes of that.
For clamp btw
She was assaulted and falsely imprisoned, that’s not protest, that’s intimidation.
She’s well able
I like the dealer sticker on the car… was using this pic intentional??
Protest, yes; throwing water balloons and eggs, no; gardaí pushing protestors roughly, no. We’re losing the run of ourselves in the kind of discourse we think is ok.
I might take a while for a public that has been docile for so long to find the balance of peaceful and effective.
Waiting 5 years to elect another crowd of chancers isn’t a good option.
Letters to the papers accomplish little-to-nothing.
I don’t blame people for being that angry. I do dismay that it has taken so many years since the bank guarantee for something of this magnitude to arise.
Hopefully there will be a bit more thought put into the next one. Angry mob isn’t much of a tactic, but I can’t say I can muster much sympathy for any of the politicians who have thought themselves immune from public anger.
You rob people, they get angry.
Given Moynes’ extremely clear support of labour I think it’s getting into an ethical grey area to continue having him cover politics in his limericks. I know that’s a ridiculous sentence and this isn’t a newspaper but he’s clearly very biased.
Some readers will question the ethics,
Of a Labour man writing these limericks,
But I’ll give him a break,
And for poetry’s sake,
I’ll pretend that he’s being sarcastic.