32 thoughts on “Meanwhile, In Sfort Road

      1. dav

        it’s something charger has made up, like everything that spews from his orifices it’s nothing to be too concern about.

        1. scottser

          we should rate charger’s post in likewise fashion. what would you call the scale, i wonder. ‘Hubris Quotient’? or just plain old ‘W@nkometer’?

          1. Otis Blue

            Cian has suggested the Charger Mystical Index (CMI).

            His post in the UN thread sketches out the parameters.

          2. Vanessanelle

            Yeah, mebbe

            but I think ye’re all giving that WUM far too much mind

            Ignore the account completely
            and see what happens

            If ye can’t resist, then reply in a different language, or in wingdings or in reverse/ mirror,
            That WUM is too lazy and hyper to go and decipher, it’ll drive them nuts

  1. Gabby

    Rename it Connacht Hell Road and that will put Cromwell in perspective. We’ve got to situate streets, statues and institutions in perspective, you see.

  2. The Dude

    Cromwell’s lot were iconoclasts – disfiguring sculptures in Christ Church and elsewhere – so this seems weirdly appropriate.

  3. Formerly known as @ireland.com

    Can someone explain why the posh areas kept their Brit names but the slums are named after Irish patriots? There is scope for replacing some colonial names, e.g. Lansdowne Road. How about Liam Brady Road?

    1. Bobby

      He was such a good player I’d re-name O’Connell Street for him, tbh. I actually think Lansdowne has transcended its origin at this stage but there should be a thoroughfare named for Brady someplace for sure.

          1. Tighe’s Cylon

            Chapelizod is a beautiful village but it does have a bang of plantation about it. Half expect to see a Spitfire doing a barrel roll over it.

    2. Charger Salmons

      Considering so many of Ireland’s greatest players were English they should call it Albert Square.

  4. NobleLocks

    …. the stupidity of these victim culture people never ceases to amaze me. Wahh wahh wahh… I’m a victim.

    Look, it comes down to what you want to arm your children with: Knowledge or Opinions. I want my kids to ask: “Who was Cromwell and why is this named after him?” rather than the “Vegan, Rainbow, non-binary, disabled, Muslim, Single-Mom, Cyclist-only, Safe-Space” it’s bound to be renamed to.

    1. millie von strumpet

      That’s you just projecting all of your biases onto a post that really has nothing to do with any of the nonsense littering your post.

      Historically, Cromwell’s name has always been dirt in this country, and for good reason. This kind of graffiti is hardly new.

      1. scottser

        if cromwell built a fort there then what on earth is the place going to be know as? in exactly the same way we named our towns and villages after fortified settlements of all kinds in gaelic? to be honest i’d be more offended at ‘mcdonalds street’ or ‘starbucks plaza’.
        this is the same crowd who went around dublin spraying over street signs named after ascendency and royalty figures i presume. while i have no great love for the tans, capitalism or ‘the ruling classes’, unfortunately we wouldn’t have dublin without them.

  5. Vanessanelle

    Just as an interesting side bar here
    The lad that was at this in Cork
    Changing out street names, burning EU flags etc
    Diarmaid Ó Cadhla
    Didn’t hold the seat he got by a co-opt on Cork City Council
    Barely broke 3% in the LE2019

    SIPO dissident as well

    He ran in Cork North Central there in February, and gawd love him, .4% – yep, thats a point before the 4%
    And its not that the Constituency might have been a poor choice, it elected Mick Barry handy enough

    Morta, for a lad that’s never off the local media down there
    Even PRoC have a thread on him that must be 30 pages deep

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