69 thoughts on “Saturday’s Papers

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      except the ones in utero, time will tell for those I suppose data wise, if it has any effect.

  1. TenPin Terry

    Good luck to the Irish lads in Paris today.
    Andy Farrell has assembled an excellent squad of young committed players.
    And Paul O’Connell is having a significant impact as the forwards coach.
    Dupont though.What a player.
    And watch out for Penaud.A proper handful.
    It’s a mouth-watering and likely championship deciding tie.
    And perfect timing for scoops.
    A solid 10 on the Marvellous Scale™

    1. Joe F

      Ah that’s quite good stuff TenPull Terrry/Charger Salmons/Admiral Nelson etc etc
      Maith an fear (jolly good old boy)

    2. TenPin Terry

      And it lived up to its billing.
      Great game of rugger with Ireland earning a deserved losing bonus point.
      My word but the French look strong.
      Next year’s world cup should be a corker.
      Marvellous™

      1. Joe F

        Ah that’s quite good stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmons/Admiral Nelson etc etc
        Well said old boy
        Marvelous

      2. TenPin Terry

        Sadly and predictablly right on cue the IT’s Gerry Thornley – blames the referee.

        ” Ireland’s other problem was Angus Gardner. As suspected, last week’s assistant referee was never likely to permit Ireland going 50-odd minutes without conceding a penalty and it seemed as if Gardner had a pre-ordained plan to watch Porter’s scrummaging, or had been alerted to something.”
        Get off your knees you miserable scribbler.
        It was a great game which France deserved to win but Ireland also deserved their losing bonus point.
        Not that it matters to Thornley – he’ll be at CDG now propping up a bar in the departure lounge boring the pants of anyone unlucky enough to be in his vicinity.
        I’ve seen the waster in action.

        1. Joe F

          Ah that’s quite good stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmons/Admiral Nelson etc etc
          Wonderful, wonderful words
          Marvelous

    1. Chris

      The same outlets that were peddling Covid hysteria are now drip feeding HIV/VAIDS. It’s all very suspect. I didn’t partake in any testing for C-19 but I will try some of these home test HIV kits they’re going to be pushing.

      If I test positive for VAIDS I’ll know it’s nonsense as I’m unvaccinated. They have announced new mRNA ‘treatments’ for HIV. This looks like a push for those, when in all probability it’ll be the same toxic junk (heavy metals) that was in at least a percentage of the batches for C-19.

  2. Slightly Bemused

    I have perused these headlines several times now, and realise that the most important news of all is missing.

    Today is Little Slightly’s birthday, and she turns 21 today. Finally the hold over states that required that until you reached 21 you were not at your majority, and considered still to be subject to your parents’ wishes. Thankfully Ireland, and the State she lives in, changed that to 18, although only within my lifetime in both cases.

    But today she does not get breakfast in bed, as Floppy, her fiancé, has to self isolate for a few more days. But they have a new kitty called, imaginatively, Cat (pronounced Kee-at by Floppy) so she will not be alone, before heading to her mother’s house to be overwhelmed by siblings and maternal pride.

    Needless to say, this is having absolutely no impact on me….

    1. Lush

      Big hugs Slightly; not easy to be far away on such a special day. Hope you get a Zoom/Facetime/Skype call in later.

  3. TenPin Terry

    Excellent piece by the great Douglas Murray in the Torygraph on Ardern and Trudeau and how pride comes before their fall.
    ” Empathy is an overrated trick in political leadership. It only gets you so far. Much more important are grit, capability, adaptability and expertise. Neither Ardern nor Trudeau have demonstrated any of these traits. ”
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/11/ardern-trudeau-woke-darlings-western-world-finally-getting-comeuppance/

    You can get past the paywall by making up a profile.

    1. jungleman

      Lol, it’s the right-wing chancers like your darling BJ that are getting their comeuppance. It should be a source of national embarrassment for the English that the Telegraph is their ‘paper of record’.

      You really are a tosser of the highest order. Why don’t you piss off over to little engerland if you love the place so much, stop clogging up the comments section.

      1. TenPin Terry

        The funny thing is that the very same people who accuse others of xenophobia and racism are the ones quite happy to indulge in it themselves.
        Imagine if you were in a pub in the UK and someone told you to wee off back to Ireland ?
        I’d call you a hypocrite but, as your username indicates, a knuckle-dragging gibbon like you wouldn’t understand the word.
        Toodles.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDzlhW3XTM

        1. GiggidyGoo

          This isn’t a pub though.
          It’s a place where you come and try insult the Irish anonymously (Sure Have Inferiority Troubles hitting high on the scale already this morning eh Charger?), And then complain when you get your own back.
          It’s been your outlet for the past few years to release your own pent up racism and ‘phobes’ ’ because you wouldn’t walk into an Irish pub here and repeat what you spew here, because you wouldn’t be anonymous.
          Pip pip old boy. Now toddle off and see what’s new in the Tory camp.

          1. TenPIn Terry

            I think in your own simple mind you easily confuse criticism of the Irish government with a waycist attack on all Irish people.
            It’s a sympton of the MOPE virus that afflicts large sections of the public.
            Fortunately with more and more non-Irish people in our society there’s a form of herd immunity developing with newcomers not carrying the same emotional baggage as locals.
            But you’re going to have to get used to your fellow taxpayers telling you what they think about the place – it’s the price you have to pay.
            At least come up with something original or amusing occasionally because you have become quite the dullard on this forum.
            How do you say it like the kids ? Oh, that’s it – ROFL.
            Does anyone REALLY use ROFL any more ?

            Heh x ROFL

          2. GiggidyGoo

            Obviously you’d like a listing of the insults you spew here regularly, directed at irish people. I can provide that if you like.

            More to the point though is your quick exit from the ‘ Imagine if you were in a pub in the UK and someone told you to wee off back to Ireland ?’ conversation.

            You see, you’re the type of yoke that can’t take it when you’re called out over stupid things you write. Yep, try to divert to something else.

            Try your anti-Irish ‘get off your knees’ etc. next time you’re in The Mardyke, or a pub close to your bedsit in Cork.

            You’re still top hit for Charger Salmons by the way in Google search.
            https://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/forums/index.php?threads/charger-salmons.209757/ Funny how you never address that isn’t it?

          3. GiggidyGoo

            Hee hee. You can’t rest a case, if you haven’t one. As usual you get your ass handed to you, and off you scarper and hide behind a fog of diversion.

            Funny you don’t address your performance as Charger Salmons though. What-ho old boy!

          4. TenPin Terry

            As George Orwell wrote of Sean O’Casey, “Why is it that the worst extremes of jingoism and racialism have to be tolerated when they come from an Irishman?”

        2. Joe F

          Ah that’s excellent stuff TIn Pun Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmonella etc etc
          You’re some man for five men
          Marvelous

  4. SOQ

    It seems like the more authorities try to clamp down in Ottawa, the more control they actually lose. The numbers that flooded into the city yesterday surpassed anything so far, which proves the point that support is growing, not waning.

    It appears that the Canadian army was never a fan of Trudeau and there are rumours that they have refused to be a part of any action against the protesters but now, they are starting to speak out.

    Canadian Army Major Stephen Chledowski speaks out against tyranny in Canada.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoKaOkqnW9c

  5. johnny

    Dunner did a runner,this aged well, he always claimed to be a visionary,man that US BK trustee is metering out justice for NAMA,he should stayed made a deal.He was always an arrogant know it all,but in fairness his plans for Ballsbridge were fabulous and he shur could build an oul house or two,but he could never wash that farmer muck of his wellies.

    “IT’S 3 a.m. at Doheny & Nesbitt, a favorite watering hole of Dublin’s political and business elite, and the property tycoon Sean Dunne stoops to retrieve a penny from the pub’s grimy floor.”

    NYT.

    …mother the god,there goes weekends in Connecticut….cry havoc let lose the dogs of war NAMA:)

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/construction/killilea-denied-new-trial-in-long-running-bankruptcy-case-1.4800052

  6. SOQ

    Meanwhile in Australia- the peasants are revolting too.

    Canberra convoy March to Parliament protest 2022 Victoria by Drone 12th feb

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocULvVMeFm4

    One to watch will be Paris where tanks are being deployed.

    Even the most unquestioning of minds must now be wondering what is going on because this is clearly about more than just a flu in drag.

    The legacy media’s coverage of these protests has been so bad that it should be obvious that there is something way more sinister at play.

        1. SOQ

          A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes.

          Note the words- ‘usually male’, which means not always. The joke in this case is that he pretends to think he looks like a woman- when he obviosity does not.

    1. TenPin Terry

      Beret Boy – wait till you grow up to be a big boy and discover what the other side were up to …

        1. TenPin Terry

          You know all about it ?
          You must have fought a dirty war from the safety of your barstool asking for the landlord to put on his Wolfe Tones CD.
          Another Muppet bites the dust.

          1. Joe F

            Ah that’s excellent stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmons/Admiral Nelson etc etc
            Maith an fear
            Marvelous

          2. Fearganainm

            I wondered when you’d ooze back. Good thing that you did because now we can all see your ‘morality’ for what it is. In response to an article about British state collusion with and failure to legally deal with murderers, people who murdered innocent people for decades, your feeble response was a failed attempt to smear the person posting the article followed by a piece of whataboutery, in keeping with your ‘look over there’ tactic whenever some negative material about the British state appears.

            That you would seek to trivialise and dismiss state oversight and enabling of murder gangs doesn’t put you on any moral high ground. That you revert to the ‘other people were doing bad things’ line isn’t the defence that you think it is either.

            In some respects you remind me of one of the architects of the Birmingham pub bombings. You couldn’t put a cigarette paper between your dismissal of the murder of innocents and his when it comes to morality. You’re his moral and ideological soulmate. He justified killing innocents ‘because of what the other side had done’ just like you. Devoid of any politics and clearly something of a psychopath he later lamented that more pubs filled with civilians weren’t blasted.

            If you look at the chronology of violence there was a steep decline into savagery following the early and subsequent murders aided and abetted and carried out by the British state and its agents. It’s no surprise, it’s what the British did in Ireland in the early 1920s, they did it in Palestine (where some of their Black and Tans and Auxiliaries got a second run out), they did it in India, Aden, Kenya etc. Running murder gangs is what they do. There are many history books that docement these events and the authors didn’t have to wear berets to write them.

            Drawn from British government records and British state security forrces’ documents the story of the recruitment and employment of paid assassins and the overlooking of their murders of innocent people is a matter of public record.

            You’re now on record here as trying to justify and excuse it. Not a good look. And not very civilised. You’ve exposed yourself as someone who doesn’t care one whit about the taking of innocent lives or the escalation in violence that inevitably flows from that. Everywhere that the Brits employed the tactic it ultimately failed and yet here you are defending it.

            Don’t ever try to claim to be on any moral high ground, you racist lout.

      1. Joe F

        Ah that’s good stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmons/Admiral Nelson etc etc
        Super altogether
        Marvelous

  7. Shayna

    The kid in Limerick who took his mum’s car for a “spin” doesn’t ring true. Na Gardaí are going to leave it at that? He was running for his life, or, for his parents’? Piotyr was born here -Irish national. There was clearly more to it than that? Further investigations, surely?

    1. Fearganainm

      The child’s name has been given as Wiktor Chojecki, son of Ewa and Bartosc Chojecki. They have a daughter, too. Gardaí have stated that they’ll be examining Wiktor’s ‘phone (found in the wreckage), and any social media he may have had to see if there are any signs of a possible reason for his taking off in his mother’s car.

    2. Mad

      Would you like if we danced on Michaela Harte’s grave like this? Such comments are unsavoury and your racist slur below should be deleted.

  8. Shayna

    Hey, Ta Garda Fearganinm. I defer to your knowledge. It’s extraordinary, I recall being 12 years old. My mom had a Vauxhall Chevette, my Dad had a Ford Granada in the ’70s, I’m currently 6′ 2″, Shayna at 12 could not reach the pedals in either car, one small, bigger – ah? Automatic- perhaps? Where was the driver’s seat positioned? Not gettng it!

    1. Fearganainm

      He was just a few weeks shy of 13, no idea of the size of him. According to some reports he’d travelled just over 20 km when the collision occurred, if he’d never driven before it’s likely he’d been watching his mother and father driving. A terrible tragedy for the family, may he rest in peace. Apparently he’d been at an uncle’s funeral just the day before:

      https://extra.ie/2022/02/12/news/irish-news/limerick-crash-tragedy

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