That’s Me In The Corner

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OK, Boomer.

This afternoon.

Aras An Uachtaráin, Phoenix Park, Dublin

President Higgins’ shameful, if blissful, hippy past – captured possibly baked watching Bob Dylan at Slane in 1984 – on full display during today’s visit by Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton.

He gave them a print and autographed his little belly.

Pic Via President of ireland

Thanks Bob Foxe

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31 thoughts on “That’s Me In The Corner

  1. Cú Chulainn

    What a man… El Presidente.. why, I’d follow that man down the barrel of a gun..

    1. Ringsend Incinerator

      Is that Gary Glitter behind him in the shades (therefore couldnt find socks)

  2. Shayna

    Double denim and sandals (sans socks) – every inch (sorry!) a statesman in ’84. Great pic.

    1. some old queen

      Posed obviously- start as you mean to on etc.

      What a real world vacuous disingenuous clown he is.

      1. Cú Chulainn

        Ah get away out of that.. it wasn’t posed.. he was enjoying the freedom of being out at the time.. and fair dues to him.. he was always on the side of the good and often on his own.. he’s also great craic to party with.. (or was, it’s been a while..)

        1. Shayna

          I think he’s been a reasonable Prez, not on the same level as the previous Marys. I didn’t care for his last election campaign, but it it turns out, “Better The The Devil You Know”.

          1. V

            Very unfair to compare his Presidency with the Marys

            Robinson handed in her notice the moment a better gig came in, and has exploited the profile it awarded her ever since

            And McAleese proved she had no conviction about anything or even loyalty – the most brazen me-feiner and flipflopper we’ve ever seen.
            A Woman who has only ever served her own self interest; and the worst trait in public life – pushy for anything at all. And that’s before I get started on her fella.

            Miggledy has at least made the Áras a very special place, and returned our Presidency, despite the circus of 2018 which I partly hold him responsible for btw, to an office of dignity and one that should only be occupied by persons who represent all of us no matter who we voted for.

            I didn’t vote for him back in 2011, but I gladly suggest he has been our best President. He has been a President for all occasions, and for all of us.
            He’ll be a hard act to follow and jaysus knows what carnage that election it going to bring.

          2. some old queen

            At the time of Mary’s presidency the joke was she would turn up for the opening of a toilet- her driver and security staff earned their money. She was permanently on the road and her cross community work up north was outstanding. She was welcomed in places no other Irish head of state or even politician ever was before.

            Compare and contrast that to now- when was the last time you heard of Michael D even setting foot in the north let alone east Belfast? And, for someone with very strong Catholic faith, her support for both referendums took a lot of guts- on equal marriage she reached into middle Ireland like none else could.

            We have had this discussion before so we will have to agree to disagree V but, I am certain that if she had to allowed run for a third term, she would have left all competition in the dust.

          3. V

            Both the Equality Referendum and the Repeal Referendum took place after her Presidency

            While I’m delighted to note her change of tune, it’s a pity she didn’t change it earlier, like in her first term, in particular when what is now known as the Ryan Report commenced and finally published – all on her watch
            The Woods Compo deal on her watch
            The Redress Board on her watch

            Nor was there a word out of her when her husband was engaged to produce what some of us call call the Magdalene Whitewash, but you’ll know as the McAleese Report (who btw was appointed to chair this committee in the last days of her Presidency.)

            And it was 2018 – seven years after her full fourteen years ended that she discovered the Catholic Church was An Empire of Misogyny
            And that’s when she also got mouthy about equality – here –
            …how in justice and charity, but most importantly in equality, are you going to include the voices of women in the formation of the Catholic faith? What radical innovative, strategic ideas do you have for their inclusion while being excluded for priesthood?

            I’ll think you’ll find that prior to 2015, when she first spoke out against the Synod 300 elderly celibates she was brazenly eyeing them up for a particularly pretty gig from Rome, and was actually living and studying there. I frankly can’t be ar5ed going into it, but help yerselves

            The time for talking about Equality and Justice from the Catholic Church should have started long before 2015

            My overall point is that everything she comes out with and does is only to serve the convenience of her own needs and ambitions. She is a spotlight chaser.

            She was not a President for all of us, only herself and her family.

            Although I’m glad she went out of her way to make ye know we are all on the same Island.
            I, however, don’t need a visit from anyone to know that.

            In any case, We ALL needed her to speak up for Equality and against Rome a lot earlier than 2015
            When it suited her

          4. some old queen

            She was not a President for all of us, only herself and her family.

            There wasn’t a square mile of this Island she did not visit, right down to primary schools. Now I suppose at the core of this is what should a president’s role be but to me- getting out and meeting the people is the most important.

            And you knew very little about Mary’s past if you think her support for LGBT was of convenience, and indeed her other equality work. For a start she had a bruising time at Queens University and that was before she even took the job.

            As I said- we’ll have to agree to disagree but if I may explain something some people don’t seem to understand. Northern and southern liberals view the Catholic identity very differently. In the north is as much a political label as it is religious.

            You will hear people describe themselves as being left wing and Catholic there which to southerners is a contradiction but- that is the way it is. SF in the north are very like this.

        1. Spaghetti Hoop

          Continues the pretence and has people fawning all over him. Give him a mike and he’ll ramble on about utter nonsense. Very poor prez.

  3. Clampers Outside

    My sister and her beau had reason to visit, on invitation, the Aras for work she had done a few years back.

    Herself and her fella arrived up in their campervan. They were told to park it out the back, and they went about the day’s business, which I’m told was very enjoyable.

    Late, that afternoon, they were getting ready to leave… when…

    Out the back door popped Sabina, “where are ye going?”

    “To find a spot for the night Sabina”, says my sis.

    “We have a room upstairs…..”

    …!:0)>_<'0'\o/wa.the!?*…

    The conversation went on, and my sister bring my sis, declined the invitation (she later regretted… just a bit), but did accept Sabina's suggestion to park-up where they were for the night, in the Aras!

    It was by now 6pm. And they joined Sabina and Michael for tea. There was a feature on MDH on the Six One News, and my sis described the reaction from the pair of them as though it were their first time seeing themselves on the news… it was all very sweet.

    Soon after, my sis+1 returned to the back of the house and to the camper for a night in the Aras
    … carpark :0)

    But it didn't end there…

    Next morning, bright and early my sis+1 were getting ready to go once more.
    Out popped Sabina again, and before they knew it, my sis+1 were sitting down to breakfast with both of them in the kitchen before finally heading off for the day.

    I love that story and I'd say others have similar.
    We have in the Aras, at heart two very ordinary people, and I think that's lovely.

    1. Murtles

      I loved Mickey D’s recent interview with Tommy Tiernan, it was down to earth, intelligent and funny. Tommy giving him a big hug probably echos a lot of peoples sentiments about the Prez.

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