Vocally wayward actor Aiden Gillen speaks out on behalf of Goal using the words of Abdullah Kurdi, the father of the drowned Syrian boy who was photographed lying lifeless on a Turkish beach .
Earlier: Free On Sunday?
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Vocally wayward actor Aiden Gillen speaks out on behalf of Goal using the words of Abdullah Kurdi, the father of the drowned Syrian boy who was photographed lying lifeless on a Turkish beach .
Earlier: Free On Sunday?
Aiden Gillen still in character for Charlie Haughey.
Abdullah, the people smuggler?
Yeah I read that as well but that’s not the kinda news Bodger likes.
Do people smugglers bring their kids along, taking up valuable space?
For a cruise in the stars like?
Wouldn’t have thought so, but then Accountancy is my strong point.
Apparently so….
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/aylan-kurdi-drowned-boys-father-accused-of-being-people-smuggler-in-charge-of-boat-that-crashed-denies-claims/story-fni0cx4q-1227523270638
Apparently smugglers are not involved with crossings in anyways. They designate one of the refugees to steer the boat. In exchange the said refugeee gets a free passage. That way they dont risk being caught by the authorities or just die.
The family were safe in Turkey. There was no need to put them in danger.
a Syrian kurd safe in Turkey? they might not have thought that especially after the Turkish airforce started bombing kurdish targets recently.
Abdullah was desperate to get to Canada to have his teeth fixed . . .
ah yes, this ol’ chestnut still doing the rounds eh?
@Eamonn Clancy: Racist A-hole.
How is his comment racist, please explain? Or is the bandwagon moving too fast for you to actually have any valid opinions of your own, apart from name calling.
…goal…John O’Shea…Irish charity…that’ll help…someone…not Syrians
Hi bisted, sorry to bother you but I don’t understand your comment there. Could you elaborate please? Goal aren’t a good charity for some reason?
Hi Rory…sorry for being sounding oblique but let me try to be more direct. The charity sector in Ireland, in my opinion, is a business. It is in the business of eliciting donations, ostensibly for a good cause, but fundraising is it’s goal. The cause is incidental. Charities in Ireland are not a means to an end, they are an end in themselves. The CEOs of these organisations pay themselves extavagantly and often use their position as advocacy for steering government money into their groups to further feather their own nests.
I have long suffered compassion fatique and been cynical of the methods employed by the charidees but lately I see two brilliant organisations having their reputations sullied by the Irish arms of their operations.
Thanks.
he’s really cool isnt he, I saw him drinking a craft beer recently.
Fupping goal? There’s a whole rake of performances by gillan that makes me cringe, but I think this takes the biscuit.
What’s wrong with Goal? (Genuine question.)
Australia decided to start bombing in Syria, this week. They have been bombing in Iraq since 2003 (how is that working out?).
This is one Aussie cartoonist’s take on this:
https://twitter.com/GlenLeLievre/status/642599307246305281
Is there a “bomb by date” on bombs or are they like yesterdays cell phones, not the sort of thing you would want hanging underneath the aeroplane, if you don’t want to be laughed at?
@Sido: Is there a “use before” date on your comments or are they naturally stale?
See Russia delivered “humanitarian aid” to Assad this week, things getting tricky?
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/12/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-idUKKCN0RC0FL20150912
i saw this guy presenting other voices, i thought to myself, is this guy acting or is this who he really is!? funny guy but for all the wrong reasons! what an insufferable gobsheen. good cause though!