Rain On His Parade

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From top: US President Joe Biden; Taoiseach Micheal Martin with US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at the Ireland Funds 30th National Gala at the National Building Museum in Washington DC earlier

Last night/this morning.

Washington DC, USA.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has tested positive for Covid-19. It means he will be unable to meet US President Joe Biden in person later today as part of the traditional shamrock ceremony.

Via PA:

Just before the positive Covid-19 test result was confirmed, Mr Martin had been listening to remarks from US President Joe Biden, who addressed the dinner on Wednesday evening.

Mr Biden had welcomed the Taoiseach to Washington and said he was looking forward to renewing their friendship on Thursday.

Mr Biden, who was greeted with a lengthy round of applause and repeated cheers from the audience, was in fine spirits as he addressed the gathering.

He welcomed Taoiseach Micheal Martin and recalled meeting him at the White House shamrock ceremony in 2009, when Mr Martin was foreign affairs minister and Mr Biden was vice-president.

“We’ve come full circle.

“You’re Taoiseach, I’m President – what the hell are we going to do?”

Last year, Mr Martin had been forced to meet with the US President virtually due to the pandemic.

In front of an audience that included Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis, Mr Biden spoke passionately about his Irish heritage but did not shy away from the multiple crises facing the world.

He said that Ireland was the only country in the world that was “nostalgic for the future”.

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Taoiseach tests positive for Covid-19 in Washington DC (RTE)

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81 thoughts on “Rain On His Parade”

    1. Dinkum

      Well there truly is a god
      All these on all expenses paid holiday world wide
      Let’s hope everyone of them ends up I’m isolation
      We have the possibility of WW3
      A national emergency thanks to spiralling price rises that is causing misery for our people and the whole lot of them living it up
      A thundering disgrace

      1. Jake38

        Ireland. The only country in the world with a guaranteed annual meeting with the president of the USA. But let’s begrudge it.

        1. Jake38

          Did she mention it was also the anniversary weekend of the Warrington bombings and the beating to death of Robert McCartney?

      2. Dinkum

        So look at Ireland
        A bit annexed by the British and the rest part of the EU or is it the other way around
        Depends of course what tradition you are
        But do we see the uK invading Ireland
        But what if they did .?
        Maybe we need Mary Lou and Peter Robinson to be part of the EU negotiation team instead of simple Simon Leo the loin and Micky Mouse that really only do what our new masters tell them to do

    2. Dinkum

      MEHOLEACROM is a new variant that’s hit the US
      Is it my imagination that he is not isolating but attending festivities ?
      If so he needs to be lifted by the men in hamza suits and placed in a room and put on a pizza diet because it’s the only thing that will slide under the door

    1. Ellie Campbell

      There are no spaces between punctuation marks in the English language!! As you can see from my example.

      1. K.Cavan

        Please leave your pettifogging at the door, Ellie, else your corrections will clutter up the thread, many of those who type their minds here paid very little attention in English class, nor any other class, truth be told.

        1. anti bot

          At least pretend to be clever nordie. “or else”. You can’t use “nor” without “neither”. You should have started a new sentense after thread. Sorry, I forgot you know everything from the qanon tinternet from your parents box room.

          1. anti bot

            no reply? you are soq. any challenge, run away. ‍♀️ it is true that all bullies are cowards

  7. GiggidyGoo

    Waiting with excitement for the announcement from Eamon Ryan that he’s caught it for the 3rd time. Beat that Michilín!

    1. Mad

      Hahaha (genuinely)
      Happy St Patrick’s Day
      Will you be getting a St Patrick’s Shake today?

  8. E'Matty

    Every wave, they roll out one or two members of cabinet as having Covid. Remember Egghead, then Ryan, we had Harris at the start of this wave too. It’s a playbook. We’re all “in this together” remember?

      1. E'Matty

        I’d say Martin probably does but Harris, not so much. He’s the playbook token cabinet case for this wave. Anyway, your vaccine is probably waning now Nige, best get out there and get shot 4 into yourself to “protect others”. Be sure to wear your mask and bring your Yellow and Blue colours to the parade today. Happy St Patrick’s Day.

        1. Nigel

          So he really has it, but he’s a ‘token’ case, and Harris probably doesn’t, all based on mumblemumblestuff. Your thinking on this is as coherent as ever.

          https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/17/ba2-variant-experts-warn-covid-resurgence/

          The US covid metrics ‘improvement,’ by the way, means veering between four hundred and a thousand deaths a day or so, closing in on a million deaths total. Be sure to wave your Trucker Convoy Don’t Put A Mask On Me flag.

          1. K.Cavan

            Elderly & ill people die, Nigel, they always have & they always will. Running around the corpses, attaching labels to them doesn’t make any difference to anything. 229E probably kills just as many people as Sars02, every day & has been doing so for a millennium.
            When someone dies, unless it’s a possible homicide, the cause of death is not a matter than doctors have ever bothered with. There’s only one reason to collect these sort of stats, an obsessive mental derangement. You tested positive for that quite some time ago.

          2. Nigel

            ‘the cause of death is not a matter than doctors have ever bothered with.’

            Yeah, historically the most common recorded cause of death is ‘Lol dgaf.’

        1. anti bot

          Cavan judging by your name and disjointed thinking you’re obviously a nordie and qanon gobsheen just like soq. at least we know Charger is taking the piss. But you and soq…every conspiracy bat sxxt crazy theory in the book. Deny covid and deny an illegal invasion of Ukraine. Bet you think the US election was stolen? Google Jordan Klepper and see the thickness of your red neck US first cousins. all follow your bs conspiracy theories. and also get out of your parents box room, get off the tinternet and try to meet real people.

          1. SOQ

            We had a year of these shapeshifter idiots pushing vaccine propaganda and now that it’s being proven that the vaccines are harming people- will they apologise? Will they hell.

            Disgusting abusive creeps.

          2. anti bot

            Ah go on soq, avoid the question as usual. Any time you are challenged on here you either avoid the question, or bring up some other bs conflagration, or abuse those who question you. Are you Cavan?

    2. jungleman

      So you’re saying Martin has agreed to give up the opportunity to meet the US president so he can pretend to have Covid?

      1. ce

        Yeah – the yanks threaten that they’d publish a shocking video of him drinking full-fat milk while dressed as a blueshirt unless he played ball and pretended to have Covid…

        It was in the plan…

        Happy national act-the-muppet day…

          3. Me So Harney

            Exactly, he does what he’s told.

            You believe what he says, I don’t.

            Biden didn’t want to see him and this is how it’s reported.

  9. Johnny

    That very disappointing for everyone involved,I was a little surprised he went on the lash in London,can’t imagine the expenses,is it because it’s his last chance,or did he feel he was owed a double header,like covid cheated him last year,karmas a bitc….
    What a goddam fiasco and shambles,the perfect analogy for him and his govt,a fitting end.

    1. jungleman

      “Russia moved to take those labs out as soon as the pandemic was over- join the bloody dots.”

      You going to explain your above statement?

        1. jungleman

          My guess is you’ve found something in some dark corner of the internet that explains how Covid and Ukraine are inextricably linked and that Putin is fighting some sort of elite cabal to save the world.. You know it sounds crazy (but you also believe it because you believe all conspiracy theories) but you blurted it out because you just couldn’t resist..

          1. SOQ

            Guess away- I couldn’t care less.

            Anyone who deliberately lies in order to smear other people is not someone I wish to converse with.

          2. Vlad X. Novichok

            You and all those Toady Choads like you do a pretty damn good job of smearing yourselves and in Putin boner snot for good measure.

  11. Micko

    “ Just before the positive Covid-19 test result was confirmed”

    Ha! It’s all very exciting eh? Just before he met Biden. :-o

    I can just imagine secret agents shouting into their radios as they wrestle Michael to the ground.

    “The leprechaun is green! Repeat! The leprechaun is GREEN!! “

    “Operation unlucky charms is a go!!!”

    1. SOQ

      I am probably doing 2+2=5 but I kind of wonder if there is not an ulterior motive in Mehole not being pictured with Biden?

      There is high tensions in Europe and Ireland may already be compromised by Shannon- God knows what is moving though there right now.

      And, the Republic of Ireland is in exactly the same situation as Ukraine, meaning it is not part of NATO, which leaves it in a very vulnerable position.

      As I say- probably 2+2=5, but never underestimate the power of imagery in a propaganda war.

      1. TenPin Terry

        Mate, you don’t seriously think Mehole getting patted on the head by a senile old fool is a powerful image in the propaganda war do you ?
        A prime example of an Irish person mistakenly thinking anyone outside Ireland cares a jot about Ireland.
        You’re the BS equivalent of that embarrassing Colm Meaney Paddy Power Cheltenham commercial.
        Get real.
        Mehole got unlucky that’s all.

        2. SOQ

          This from the Sitting Image puppet who spends his time trying to goad people with stupid anti Irish bile? Go away you clown.

      3. Topsy

        So, some country is going to attack Ireland. Are you having a laugh. However if Ireland joins NATO we certainly would be in the firing line as we will probably have a NATO base at Shannon.

        2. SOQ

          If the choice was between NATO defending Ireland and World War 3- which do you think they would choose?

          Ireland isn’t that important, and neither is Ukraine.

          3. Nigel

            There’s another one of those lying smears about people who disagree with you you hate so much.

  12. TenPin Terry

    Oh Queenie you poor thing.
    ‘ Ireland is not in NATO so if Mehole is pictured with Biden at the White House this will make us vulnerable just like Ukraine so at the very last moment before the photo-op let’s pretend he has COVID. ‘
    Have you any idea how asinine that sounds ?
    Your vax paranoia is spreading.

    1. SOQ

      And there is that spitting image puppet again- not even a very good one either- maybe you should go to improv classes?

      People are getting injured and dying from those bloody vaccines- no doubt it will take another year before you morons even accept that. Or, until it is you or one of your family get sick of course and then, it becomes close up and personal.

    1. ce

      “Take back control” update – keep it classy P&O…

      “”Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) general secretary Mick Lynch said: “We are receiving reports that security guards at Dover are seeking to board ships with handcuffs to remove crew so they can be replaced with cheaper labour.

      “We are seeking urgent legal action and are again calling for the Government to take action to stop what is fast turning into one of the most shameful acts in the history of British industrial relations.”””

      https://www.thejournal.ie/po-ferries-announcement-liquidation-5714078-Mar2022/

  14. Termagant

    I ran across an interesting factoid the other day
    “The current Government jet costs €3,780 an hour to run.”
    Isn’t that interesting?
    “The current Government jet costs €3,780 an hour to run.”
    wow

    Incidentally it’s an 8 hour flight time from Dublin to Washington DC

  15. K.Cavan

    The important thing is that Martin is banned from ever bringing his deadly pathogen back to these shores. Of course, that means Varadker gets to pretend to be Taoiseach, again & gets to bore people to death with that nasally droning sound he makes when he attempts to talk.
    Every cloud has a silver lining, every silver lining, a cloud.
    It’s time to ban the celebration of that patriarchal Christian preacher, anyway, it just doesn’t fit with our self-image as progressive, atheist, non-binary bog-warriors, happily cheering on our own cultural & genetic demise, here on the little piece of muck we rent from the EU.

  17. DOC

    ME HOLE will be happy to stay there to isolate for the next two weeks
    Leo will have to listen to the bellyaching about Gas Electricity Cost of living etc. etc
    But Leo is Mr. Photo Op
    There is no way he will miss the fun next March when he is T-Shock

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