Bet Allen junior will ‘relish’ not being in Ballymaloo for Christmas.
Rosette of Sirius
He’s in a right old pickle alright.
martco
looks like his goose is well & truly cooked
Cú Chulainn
Looks like he’s well stuffed for Christmas..
Joxer
the puns are good but imagine what would have happened to him if his parents were not celebrities/rich…. he imported drugs at least three times, was found in possession of 30k worth of drugs plus cocaine…. if he came from tallaght or southill he would be incarcerated at this point. Nice soft tap on the wrist and back to his privileged lifestyle.
Daisy Chainsaw
He’ll avoid Granpedo and Granny pedo apologist. That has to be a plus.
Nick
?. I thought an innocent person chose to take the fall to protect the actual suspect in that case?
Daisy Chainsaw
Which means there’s still a pedo surrounded by supportive apologists in the Allen clan. No wonder the kid is so forked up.
Brother Barnabas
a teenager caught with a bit of coke and a bit of cannabis… hardly f#$cked up, in fairness
I’d bet most on here did a lot worse when they were his age
Janet, I ate my avatar
+ 1
Paulus
I’d agree if it were “a bit” but €30k is quite a bit!
Brother Barnabas
there was a bank holiday weekend coming up
Cú Chulainn
We.. no.. it was the man found guilty. Still in the hotel. Imagine booking in to that place with kids..
f_lawless
Symbolic moment on British morning TV yesterday.
Presenter:”Another comment made by the viewers there, somebody calling your son ‘Pinocchio.’ ”
Boris Johnson’s dad: “That requires a degree of literacy which I think the British public doesn’t necessarily have” https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1200517898885881856
Just a reminder to them all. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Everyone’s day comes. The rewards of being in government ain’t no use at that stage. So why are they doing this to their fellow countrymen?
Cian
*everything* good and bad relating to the running of the state is thanks to “FFG”. One or other has been in power since for 70+ years.
If you blame them for the bad you should also the k them for the good!
GiggidyGoo
It’s basically the current mob and the mob over the past 15-20 years that are the problem. Before that, at least FF did some good for people. FG rarely, if ever, did.
What you have now is a pool of unprofessional, self-serving, experts in the art of kotow, using our money to fill the boots of the likes of Dilly, BAM etc. under the guise of ‘progress’ while the health service is at best 3rd world in areas, people’s property being taxed, levies, and so called representatives not bothered to attend the Dail, yet claim all the goodies.
Cian
LOL. Yes. The country was well ruled in the 20th century by kind and honest TDs and leaders. Like Dev, Haughey, Lowery, and Ahern to name some of the outstanding ones.
GiggidyGoo
Who said anything about “honest” being the measure?
Cian
Okay. I retract the honest.
Now tell me how the 20 century had better TDs
Ghost of Yep
FG apologinistingist
GiggidyGoo
I already told you above Cian.
:-Joe
If you think and really believe they should be credited for ALL or even most of the good in the past century then all I can say is you really are a delusional F-f/g apologist and to be fair, a naive eejit… and not someone who just frequently comments like one.
Almost all progressive change for the benefit of the majority in this country has been hard fought by grass roots movements and organised unions and by far in almost every case it was against the will of the establishment for the 1% and the rotten complicity and corruption of idealogy by the church.
Drop your personal flag-waving, pseudo-intellectual and ease back from your mildly extremist morally conservative agenda and wake up to reality…
The so-called “right-wing” a.k.a “morally conservative extremist” establishment status quo for themselves and the 1%… has had a duopoly in Ireland for decades.
:-J
Bud Flanagan
Delightful news that Kevin Myers has received an on-air apology, costs and damages from RTE for broadcasting the outrageous lie that he was a holocaust denier.
Myers is one of Ireland’s best and most perceptive journalists whose voice is seldom heard today due to the prim, political correctness that suffocates the media.
Instead, it’s populated by Establishment backside-lickers and sour-faced virtue signallers who continue to allow the government and TDs to get away corruption and ineptitude.
Amy.
Myers is the guy who said that Africa had given the world nothing but AIDS. He also said that children born out of wedlock ended up being ‘warped’. Not exactly a nice guy.
martco
well Amy
@charger isn’t exactly known for being nice either so that adulation not a shocker really
Bud Flanagan
Amy – did you read the original article ?
What he actually said was that Africa had given the world ALMOST nothing but AIDS.
I know it’s only one word but it is quite a significant one.
Here’s Kevin explaining it in his own words. https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/writing-what-i-should-have-written-so-many-years-ago-26463692.html
He was reporting from famine-torn Africa when cretins like Martco were still in nappies.
If you want ” nice ” journalism stick to reading the Examiner’s Holly Bough …
:-Joe
Eh, ever heard of Context and Intent…
Tone…
Nuance?
Myers will do or say literally anything to get attention because he’s a clown…
– No disrespect to the actual artists.
:-J
Pee Peel
Africa gave the world music, u horrible dog snot.
:-Joe
It’s ok Amy, in case you didn’t know….
@Bud_Flanagan is an experimental bot AI system developed by Broadsheet from an average mostly male psychological profile of mildly extrmist but right to extreme right wing views with no interest in facts or truth and the behaviour and thought processes of a middle aged adult who was dropped on his head as a child, possibly more than once(intentionally or unintentionally is not known) or has no pre-frontal cortex allowing time and reason to take place before thought and response.
A kind of automatic angry debate generating mechanism to encourage more posting and help broadsheet counter-act the click farming industry used by the likes of Joe.ie and apparently even the traditional broad sheet mainstream Irish publications.
Argue with or abuse it as much as you like, it literally makes no difference but I can guarantee you it will never change and never stop.
It’s like a digital terminator relentlessly in search for the singularity of ignorance and stupidity.
:-J
Janet, I ate my avatar
:)
:-Joe
I should add though… Just like in the Terminator humongeous blockbuster film franchise you can learn to love it but as yet, who knows if it is capable of or will choose to evolve and want to positively help the human race eventually over time?….
It adds a bit of mystery and supense into the algorithm of it all…
And to think we all missed The Feast Of The Holy Assumptionist.
Papi
Next week on the great British assumptionist off, pastries.
GiggidyGoo
Might be copyrighted Millie. :-)
Lilly
Begetter of immaculate conceptions :)
Brucewinked
That’s right Bruce!
some old queen
London Bridge- we already have jihadi in Ireland and another one to arrive shortly it appears- you have to wonder how long it will be before we have a similar incident here.
Great timing for Johnson mind.
Janet, I ate my avatar
this brings back so many painful memories, Bataclan and James Mac in London, RIP thèse people, my heart goes out to their families and friends, dealing with the anger and loss is terrible, and no offense SOQ but people saying how it’s handy politically can be hard to hear in that context,
some old queen
Yes fair point Janet- but there has been a number of these incidents before elections- I am not convinced they are coincidental is all. And, given the heightened political atmosphere in England at the moment, more will be expected. Why London bridge mind? Is it the iconic status?
Anyways, RIP to the poor victims- it is always the innocent who suffer.
martco
so @SOQ what do you reckon they’re playing at with Lisa Smith then?
nice expensive evac & no discernible plan – I can’t see the advantages for Fianna Gael Going Forwards to be fair – bar maybe plain old “look at the birdys” distraction play from how our country is being slowly destroyed by these out of touch trough dwellers.
all eyes on these by-elections now. we might see a flash of future trough maintenance depending on results
some old queen
Dunno Martco- if it was up to me I’d leave her there. We’ve all made mistakes in our lives but if she didn’t believe in what she was doing, running off to join that sort of thing is a whole new level of stupid- which I doubt.
Janet, I ate my avatar
I’d leave her there to rot quiet frankly
Clampers Outside
+1
None of this would be discussed if she were a bloke, and (s)he’d be left there for sure.
GiggidyGoo
Is it true she’s been married four times, each time to one of the same beliefs? If it is, will the three husbands show up now claiming asylum here?
By the way, she’s been in Ireland more than a week.
Paulus
Mmm; who was on the Turkish flight today then?…and there was at least one report on board.
There’s what I would call False Insider Syndrome at play on BS occassionaly. A virtual tapping of the side of the nose to suggest knowledge above what the rest ao us know. Very often it’s just dangly bits.
She is an Irish Citizen
And believe it or not there are plenty more Citizens whose personal views and behaviour is not in line with your’s or my own, and not becoming a modern, thriving, civilised, ambitious, equal, allegedly neutral, pro-choice, ideally secular but one day, tolerant Democracy.
That’s life.
Security and Defence Forces, foreign and domestic were hardly going to permit a military trained extremist make their own way back to their Mam’s
It might be tasteless and costly
But I’m glad the Paddys are leading this and taking control.
Jaysus it could be any one of us the next time
Boj
We must tolerate terrorism/terrorists? That’s a very warped and dangerous view in my opinion. In what world should she be allowed into our society? And of course lets think of the children. The thing the establishment used to get them home.
Clampers Outside
Only for the kids. If only it were.
some old queen
Security and Defence Forces, foreign and domestic were hardly going to permit a military trained extremist make their own way back to their Mam’s
Err it’s Dundalk you are talking about V? Back in the day, Muirhevna Mor was full of them.
martco
ah here V rewind a mo there…
“Jasus it could be any one of us next time”
you planning on some foreign religious death adventure excursions of your own soon or know anyone who is? I’ll ask ask around but I don’t know anyone myself.
bit of an all inclusive skite down to
Tenerife was about as far as my head stretched, maybe I’m looking at the wrong brochures, wha?
Clampers Outside
#NotAnyOneOfUs
Brother Barnabas
given the choice between the al-Hawl camp and drogheda, i’d stay put
Daisy Chainsaw
@Boj It’s not like Ireland hasn’t been tolerating terrorism and terrorists for decades! There are Irish terrorists living in all strata of Irish society and all parts of the country. Some of them even made it to high office.
Boj
Right, so your point is because of our past we need to put the future of our society at risk by setting a precedent on this. We’ll literally let terrorists back in…fly em home even!! That is the warped bit. Can you see this?
C’mere lads
We’re no one to be talking when it comes to terrorists amongst us
Or sending them off to other Countries – to serve and to train up locals
Even to trade in arms
Give over
Besides
Imagine if one of yere lads got themselves caught up in some Militant Vegan crowd going ’round smashing up up industrial egg farms?
Before ye know it, he’s living on a commune in Caherciveen and involved in a plot to use Kerrygold to spread salmonella
Just saying
Ye never know when the rights and protections guaranteed to an Irish Citizen might come in handy
Boj
With all due respect V, you have written plenty of stuff around these parts and I’m usually quite close to agreement on most points but jesus would you listen to yourself? Disturbingly you are now using flippancy and attempted humour to support your point on a serious matter. Just think about what you are saying. An ideology is trumping safety, security and common sense. Thats the dangerous bit.
With respect Boj
Having our own security people take control and escort this person back, under controlled circumstances, and manage her under the Irish jurisdiction absolutely promises safety and security and demonstrates common sense.
the dangerous bit was leaving her to her own devices to manage her next move, and or leaving it up to the US.
She is now in the care of the Irish Judicial System, and let the Irish Justice System and Constitution now do its job.
Shur’ if it’s not to be allowed get on with it, and prove itself, to all of us.
Then WTF is it there for?
Cú Chulainn
You couldn’t make it up… ever see the original series of House of Cards ? Written by the Conservative chief of staff.. I’d guess he knew a thing or two about how these things work..
:-Joe
Interesting.. Is it worth the time / better than the new us version which I’ve only seen a couple?..
– I was thinking about watching it when I think I heard Clive James mention it in an old yt clip the other day… either that or someone was talking about it on the radio… -Memory running low at the mo…
:-J
Cú Chulainn
Oh yes.. watch it..
:-Joe
Ye, I’ll try and get around to it soon, there hasn’t been much else interesting lately since “The thick of it” or it’s good but weaker cousin “Veep” , cheers.
If anyone is interested, Clive James Fame In The 20th Century is up on youtube. episode 5 is missing though but not essential. – A kind of humerous brief history of the growth of media, political and celebrity fame and populism leading to facism and authoritarianism and how it developed over the last century. Everyone in the daily school of life should see it..
:-J
italia'90
Hang on, I’ll call the Saudi Arabian Embassy and ask for ya
Cú Chulainn
Thank you.. I believe they can be particularly helpful to their friends in these matters..
:-Joe
Ireland, in terms of foreign policy doesn’t intentionally or directly send arms or troops or meddle into the geo-politics of the middle east.
Although, if they get past and through the list of us, uk, france, ger and other nato allies they may decide to start attacking indirect supporters further down the list for our open runway policy in shannon. Maybe some disgruntled maniac will decide we are an easier target?..
We’ve always needed a clear policy on neutrality and a firmer anti-war / nuclear weapons stance but don’t hold your breath with the drought of leadership being shown in this century so far.
:-J
Bud Flanagan
Two words.
Shannon Airport.
And you think jihadists differentiate which country infidels come from ?
You’re even dumber than I first thought.
:-Joe
Eh… wut ?.. I think your doing that thing again where you try to correct my spelling or is it lack of clarity this time?…
-Well think again(or for once) your thoughts and comments are usually dumber than average…
:-J
GiggidyGoo
Creed crashing on RTE just now trying to defend Dara Murphy’s non attendance and non contribution to the Dail, yet claiming the expenses.
Bet Allen junior will ‘relish’ not being in Ballymaloo for Christmas.
He’s in a right old pickle alright.
looks like his goose is well & truly cooked
Looks like he’s well stuffed for Christmas..
the puns are good but imagine what would have happened to him if his parents were not celebrities/rich…. he imported drugs at least three times, was found in possession of 30k worth of drugs plus cocaine…. if he came from tallaght or southill he would be incarcerated at this point. Nice soft tap on the wrist and back to his privileged lifestyle.
He’ll avoid Granpedo and Granny pedo apologist. That has to be a plus.
?. I thought an innocent person chose to take the fall to protect the actual suspect in that case?
Which means there’s still a pedo surrounded by supportive apologists in the Allen clan. No wonder the kid is so forked up.
a teenager caught with a bit of coke and a bit of cannabis… hardly f#$cked up, in fairness
I’d bet most on here did a lot worse when they were his age
+ 1
I’d agree if it were “a bit” but €30k is quite a bit!
there was a bank holiday weekend coming up
We.. no.. it was the man found guilty. Still in the hotel. Imagine booking in to that place with kids..
Symbolic moment on British morning TV yesterday.
Presenter:”Another comment made by the viewers there, somebody calling your son ‘Pinocchio.’ ”
Boris Johnson’s dad: “That requires a degree of literacy which I think the British public doesn’t necessarily have”
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1200517898885881856
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Disgusting FG. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/a-broken-system-woman-90-endures-trolley-for-two-days-38740244.html
A 90 year old woman spending 2 days on a trolley, very little sleep, no relief for back pain.
An attack on our elders dignity.
All courtesy of FFG.
mealy-mouthed soundbites. Concocted lies. Photo shoots ten-a-penny.
Plenty of money for Dinny.
Kick Them When They’re Down – FGs motto.
Just a reminder to them all. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Everyone’s day comes. The rewards of being in government ain’t no use at that stage. So why are they doing this to their fellow countrymen?
*everything* good and bad relating to the running of the state is thanks to “FFG”. One or other has been in power since for 70+ years.
If you blame them for the bad you should also the k them for the good!
It’s basically the current mob and the mob over the past 15-20 years that are the problem. Before that, at least FF did some good for people. FG rarely, if ever, did.
What you have now is a pool of unprofessional, self-serving, experts in the art of kotow, using our money to fill the boots of the likes of Dilly, BAM etc. under the guise of ‘progress’ while the health service is at best 3rd world in areas, people’s property being taxed, levies, and so called representatives not bothered to attend the Dail, yet claim all the goodies.
LOL. Yes. The country was well ruled in the 20th century by kind and honest TDs and leaders. Like Dev, Haughey, Lowery, and Ahern to name some of the outstanding ones.
Who said anything about “honest” being the measure?
Okay. I retract the honest.
Now tell me how the 20 century had better TDs
FG apologinistingist
I already told you above Cian.
If you think and really believe they should be credited for ALL or even most of the good in the past century then all I can say is you really are a delusional F-f/g apologist and to be fair, a naive eejit… and not someone who just frequently comments like one.
Almost all progressive change for the benefit of the majority in this country has been hard fought by grass roots movements and organised unions and by far in almost every case it was against the will of the establishment for the 1% and the rotten complicity and corruption of idealogy by the church.
Drop your personal flag-waving, pseudo-intellectual and ease back from your mildly extremist morally conservative agenda and wake up to reality…
The so-called “right-wing” a.k.a “morally conservative extremist” establishment status quo for themselves and the 1%… has had a duopoly in Ireland for decades.
:-J
Delightful news that Kevin Myers has received an on-air apology, costs and damages from RTE for broadcasting the outrageous lie that he was a holocaust denier.
Myers is one of Ireland’s best and most perceptive journalists whose voice is seldom heard today due to the prim, political correctness that suffocates the media.
Instead, it’s populated by Establishment backside-lickers and sour-faced virtue signallers who continue to allow the government and TDs to get away corruption and ineptitude.
Myers is the guy who said that Africa had given the world nothing but AIDS. He also said that children born out of wedlock ended up being ‘warped’. Not exactly a nice guy.
well Amy
@charger isn’t exactly known for being nice either so that adulation not a shocker really
Amy – did you read the original article ?
What he actually said was that Africa had given the world ALMOST nothing but AIDS.
I know it’s only one word but it is quite a significant one.
Here’s Kevin explaining it in his own words.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/writing-what-i-should-have-written-so-many-years-ago-26463692.html
He was reporting from famine-torn Africa when cretins like Martco were still in nappies.
If you want ” nice ” journalism stick to reading the Examiner’s Holly Bough …
Eh, ever heard of Context and Intent…
Tone…
Nuance?
Myers will do or say literally anything to get attention because he’s a clown…
– No disrespect to the actual artists.
:-J
Africa gave the world music, u horrible dog snot.
It’s ok Amy, in case you didn’t know….
@Bud_Flanagan is an experimental bot AI system developed by Broadsheet from an average mostly male psychological profile of mildly extrmist but right to extreme right wing views with no interest in facts or truth and the behaviour and thought processes of a middle aged adult who was dropped on his head as a child, possibly more than once(intentionally or unintentionally is not known) or has no pre-frontal cortex allowing time and reason to take place before thought and response.
A kind of automatic angry debate generating mechanism to encourage more posting and help broadsheet counter-act the click farming industry used by the likes of Joe.ie and apparently even the traditional broad sheet mainstream Irish publications.
Argue with or abuse it as much as you like, it literally makes no difference but I can guarantee you it will never change and never stop.
It’s like a digital terminator relentlessly in search for the singularity of ignorance and stupidity.
:-J
:)
I should add though… Just like in the Terminator humongeous blockbuster film franchise you can learn to love it but as yet, who knows if it is capable of or will choose to evolve and want to positively help the human race eventually over time?….
It adds a bit of mystery and supense into the algorithm of it all…
:-J
Journalist is a bit of a stretch
In fairness
Opinionist and Polarization Specialist would be a better descriptor
IMO anyway
Well, that’s good coming from an assumptionist.
Assumptionist…
Stealing that as the title of my next novel. Watch this space.
Makes me sound like a Nun
(◠‿・)
And to think we all missed The Feast Of The Holy Assumptionist.
Next week on the great British assumptionist off, pastries.
Might be copyrighted Millie. :-)
Begetter of immaculate conceptions :)
That’s right Bruce!
London Bridge- we already have jihadi in Ireland and another one to arrive shortly it appears- you have to wonder how long it will be before we have a similar incident here.
Great timing for Johnson mind.
this brings back so many painful memories, Bataclan and James Mac in London, RIP thèse people, my heart goes out to their families and friends, dealing with the anger and loss is terrible, and no offense SOQ but people saying how it’s handy politically can be hard to hear in that context,
Yes fair point Janet- but there has been a number of these incidents before elections- I am not convinced they are coincidental is all. And, given the heightened political atmosphere in England at the moment, more will be expected. Why London bridge mind? Is it the iconic status?
Anyways, RIP to the poor victims- it is always the innocent who suffer.
so @SOQ what do you reckon they’re playing at with Lisa Smith then?
nice expensive evac & no discernible plan – I can’t see the advantages for Fianna Gael Going Forwards to be fair – bar maybe plain old “look at the birdys” distraction play from how our country is being slowly destroyed by these out of touch trough dwellers.
all eyes on these by-elections now. we might see a flash of future trough maintenance depending on results
Dunno Martco- if it was up to me I’d leave her there. We’ve all made mistakes in our lives but if she didn’t believe in what she was doing, running off to join that sort of thing is a whole new level of stupid- which I doubt.
I’d leave her there to rot quiet frankly
+1
None of this would be discussed if she were a bloke, and (s)he’d be left there for sure.
Is it true she’s been married four times, each time to one of the same beliefs? If it is, will the three husbands show up now claiming asylum here?
By the way, she’s been in Ireland more than a week.
Mmm; who was on the Turkish flight today then?…and there was at least one report on board.
There’s what I would call False Insider Syndrome at play on BS occassionaly. A virtual tapping of the side of the nose to suggest knowledge above what the rest ao us know. Very often it’s just dangly bits.
Playing at nothing Marty
She is an Irish Citizen
And believe it or not there are plenty more Citizens whose personal views and behaviour is not in line with your’s or my own, and not becoming a modern, thriving, civilised, ambitious, equal, allegedly neutral, pro-choice, ideally secular but one day, tolerant Democracy.
That’s life.
Security and Defence Forces, foreign and domestic were hardly going to permit a military trained extremist make their own way back to their Mam’s
It might be tasteless and costly
But I’m glad the Paddys are leading this and taking control.
Jaysus it could be any one of us the next time
We must tolerate terrorism/terrorists? That’s a very warped and dangerous view in my opinion. In what world should she be allowed into our society? And of course lets think of the children. The thing the establishment used to get them home.
Only for the kids. If only it were.
Security and Defence Forces, foreign and domestic were hardly going to permit a military trained extremist make their own way back to their Mam’s
Err it’s Dundalk you are talking about V? Back in the day, Muirhevna Mor was full of them.
ah here V rewind a mo there…
“Jasus it could be any one of us next time”
you planning on some foreign religious death adventure excursions of your own soon or know anyone who is? I’ll ask ask around but I don’t know anyone myself.
bit of an all inclusive skite down to
Tenerife was about as far as my head stretched, maybe I’m looking at the wrong brochures, wha?
#NotAnyOneOfUs
given the choice between the al-Hawl camp and drogheda, i’d stay put
@Boj It’s not like Ireland hasn’t been tolerating terrorism and terrorists for decades! There are Irish terrorists living in all strata of Irish society and all parts of the country. Some of them even made it to high office.
Right, so your point is because of our past we need to put the future of our society at risk by setting a precedent on this. We’ll literally let terrorists back in…fly em home even!! That is the warped bit. Can you see this?
C’mere lads
We’re no one to be talking when it comes to terrorists amongst us
Or sending them off to other Countries – to serve and to train up locals
Even to trade in arms
Give over
Besides
Imagine if one of yere lads got themselves caught up in some Militant Vegan crowd going ’round smashing up up industrial egg farms?
Before ye know it, he’s living on a commune in Caherciveen and involved in a plot to use Kerrygold to spread salmonella
Just saying
Ye never know when the rights and protections guaranteed to an Irish Citizen might come in handy
With all due respect V, you have written plenty of stuff around these parts and I’m usually quite close to agreement on most points but jesus would you listen to yourself? Disturbingly you are now using flippancy and attempted humour to support your point on a serious matter. Just think about what you are saying. An ideology is trumping safety, security and common sense. Thats the dangerous bit.
With respect Boj
Having our own security people take control and escort this person back, under controlled circumstances, and manage her under the Irish jurisdiction absolutely promises safety and security and demonstrates common sense.
the dangerous bit was leaving her to her own devices to manage her next move, and or leaving it up to the US.
She is now in the care of the Irish Judicial System, and let the Irish Justice System and Constitution now do its job.
Shur’ if it’s not to be allowed get on with it, and prove itself, to all of us.
Then WTF is it there for?
You couldn’t make it up… ever see the original series of House of Cards ? Written by the Conservative chief of staff.. I’d guess he knew a thing or two about how these things work..
Interesting.. Is it worth the time / better than the new us version which I’ve only seen a couple?..
– I was thinking about watching it when I think I heard Clive James mention it in an old yt clip the other day… either that or someone was talking about it on the radio… -Memory running low at the mo…
:-J
Oh yes.. watch it..
Ye, I’ll try and get around to it soon, there hasn’t been much else interesting lately since “The thick of it” or it’s good but weaker cousin “Veep” , cheers.
If anyone is interested, Clive James Fame In The 20th Century is up on youtube. episode 5 is missing though but not essential. – A kind of humerous brief history of the growth of media, political and celebrity fame and populism leading to facism and authoritarianism and how it developed over the last century. Everyone in the daily school of life should see it..
:-J
Hang on, I’ll call the Saudi Arabian Embassy and ask for ya
Thank you.. I believe they can be particularly helpful to their friends in these matters..
Ireland, in terms of foreign policy doesn’t intentionally or directly send arms or troops or meddle into the geo-politics of the middle east.
Although, if they get past and through the list of us, uk, france, ger and other nato allies they may decide to start attacking indirect supporters further down the list for our open runway policy in shannon. Maybe some disgruntled maniac will decide we are an easier target?..
We’ve always needed a clear policy on neutrality and a firmer anti-war / nuclear weapons stance but don’t hold your breath with the drought of leadership being shown in this century so far.
:-J
Two words.
Shannon Airport.
And you think jihadists differentiate which country infidels come from ?
You’re even dumber than I first thought.
Eh… wut ?.. I think your doing that thing again where you try to correct my spelling or is it lack of clarity this time?…
-Well think again(or for once) your thoughts and comments are usually dumber than average…
:-J
Creed crashing on RTE just now trying to defend Dara Murphy’s non attendance and non contribution to the Dail, yet claiming the expenses.
Would someone check in on Bertie there
And keep an eye on him
I think it’s the right call.
He’s done everything on his own terms, he’s bowing out at the very pinnacle as a living legend in Dublin GAA.
Respect.
I confess I thought of you when I heard the news.
Glad you’re ok, dearest B.
Thank you, L of my L.
Yeah.. just wish he’d do a couple more years..