40 thoughts on “Wednesday’s Papers

      1. TheWhiteWolf

        Another ‘petit mort’ for Charger.

        Lads, how many times does it have to be said. Whenever you respond to him you are the equivalent – in text – of a hand shandy.

        1. scottser

          here’s the thing; is he actually dumb enough to think that the eu is a country, or is it just bait?

    1. E'Matty

      Not sure any British person can claim to hold the high moral ground when it comes to illegal and murderous military invasions, eh Charger? At least Russia can rightly claim it’s acting in self defence and to date, within its own borders.

    2. Hope

      Ah come on charger.
      Our brave west cork fishermen put paid to the Russian navy ,
      The thought of compo claims swung it.
      The EU are using this phoney war in order to justify a EU army

  1. TenPin Terry

    Naval Service monitoring transit of Russian warships through Irish-controlled waters ‘ – is the big headline in the online version of the Irish Times.
    The article confidently reports that two Russian frigates are being monitored by Royal Navy frigate HMS Argyll and the US navy destroyer USS Roosevelt.
    Yet curiously even though the Irish navy is ‘ monitoring ‘ the situation ‘ the current
    location of the vessels is unknown ‘ – presumably because their transponders are switched off so can’t be seen on freely-available online ship tracking websites.
    And can’t even confirm whether there’s an Irish navy vessel at sea in the area.
    ‘ The Defence Forces said it does not comment on specific operational deployments.’
    So the Yanks and Tans have named ships and aircraft shadowing the Ruskies but Ireland won’t reveal top navy secrets and doesn’t know exactly where the vessels are anyway even though it’s ‘ monitoring ‘ them through Irish-controlled waters.
    Riiiiight.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/naval-service-monitoring-transit-of-russian-warships-through-irish-controlled-waters-1.4791313

    Lads, who are you codding ?

    1. TenPin Terry

      For an exercise in utter delusion nothing quite beats this rubbish being pedalled in the Irish Times about how Putin beat a retreat thanks to Irish diplomacy.
      There are rich pickings among the seam of drivel.
      ” The controversy over Ukraine offered Ireland an opportunity to test the benefits of the soft power we have accumulated through our neutralist internationalism and accelerated through our UN role. ”
      Apparently the Russians blinked because even though Ireland is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council
      ” We have led debates about climate security, passed resolutions on UN peacekeeping and helped bring issues such as the conflict in Ethiopia to the table.”
      However the real giveaway was the line ” with the goodwill and strong multilateral relations that Ireland has built up at the UN, but also within the EU during the Brexit process,”
      For it turns out the role of the author
      Professor Alanna O’Malley as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice at Leiden University in The Netherlands is entirely funded by the EU.
      Not that this is mentioned anywhere by the Irish Times.
      Champagne all round.
      Huzzah !

      https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/why-did-russia-change-location-of-its-naval-drills-hint-it-wasn-t-the-fishermen-1.4790969

  2. bisted

    …pity that the Irish Times has chosen the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses to publish a bluffers guide to the book…Frank McNally puts his name to the lazy exercise in cut and paste…can I break it to Frank that anyone who has read Ulysses could spot a bluffer in seconds…

      1. bisted

        …usually features at the top of any list of the greatest books ever written…but I see you prefer the Frank McNally school of literary criticism…

        1. TenPin Terry

          Tbh I prefer Dubliners.
          Ulysses has taken on a life of its own that far outweighs the merits of the book.
          But as you say, it’s a subjective opinion.
          The Marmite of literature.

          1. bisted

            …Ulysses certainly took on a new life when a group of people got together to celebrate the first Bloomsday…one the main organisers that day was a certain John Ryan…recognise the name?

      2. Hope

        It’s like the emporors new cloths so the likes of norris can set themselves up apart from the ignorant rabble that do not laud the pretentious guff as genius.
        My mother loved Plato but sadly thought James Joyce way above her education .
        I often smile as I see them all dressed up as Joyce outside cavistons each year .
        But I did not smile when cavistons sold me a seafood platter at €330.00 for a wedding of 8people last year at the height of the pandemic .
        Such poetic lines like oh wonderful wild smoked salmon and the prawns just so delicious and the organic wild salmon (how can anything wild be organic in the sea)
        It was pretty rich
        The price that is .

    1. GiggidyGoo

      From that – “ Three former Fine Gael ministers openly attacked Environment and Transport Minister Eamon Ryan last night”
      Where’s the Gardai when he needed them?

          1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

            next stop previously ” loved bags” at arnotts…still costing an arm and a leg

    2. Hope

      I chucked at that
      Destabilisation
      You cannot stabilise this ship of fools
      I would just weld the rudder and aim the ship into the Atlantic and ensure there was only enough fuel to make it half way to the USA

      1. SOQ

        Ah that’s nice. Thing is, Baby Castro isn’t even very good at throwing the old clichés. On vaccines. no politician on this side of the world would dream of using the ‘safe and effective’ mantra these days- because everyone knows they are neither.

        Powerful speech by an American politician called Del. Freitas on this subject. I know nothing else about him apart from this speech btw- but he is on the mark.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvz-uZnWYU

    1. Doxxy Chainsaw

      Hopefully it will protect the homeless from being beaten up and having their food taken by truckers who seem to forget the $7million raised for them.

      1. SOQ

        They are also feeding the homeless genius, as well as collecting their own garbage- and it is now over 10 million.

        That they actually have homeless in such conditions is probably the trucker’s fault too according to you I expect.

  3. SOQ

    Dr Robert Malone joins ‘The Dana Show’

    On Facebook- “I am touch with various groups of lawyers that are really looking forward to the opportunity that Zuckerburg has created. To take on his company because I think he has left himself with a huge liability. Basically what he has done is he has supressed the information that patients needed to have true informed consent.

    So a case can be made, in my opinion, that the patients who have suffered adverse events, would have been avoided if they had to been able to really get the information about the potential risks, have a court case against Zuckerburg and his company- as well as Twitter.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP22-nt7WyU

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