No Iâm saying that because someone helps out a good cause it doesnât mean that theyâre sticking their nose in where itâs not wanted.
Ah lovely Croppy_Boy making a bust for IOTM 
Hmm, have you given Artfoley your login details?
I was at a launch of an initiative to re-open mines in South Tipp a good few years ago.
Niall Quinn and Nicky English were supporting the launch along with a few trade union heads.
It was held at the Posthouse Hotel in Dublin Airport as ROI were playing NI the next day.
Jack Charlton walked past and asked what was going on, someone said youâll relate to this Jack as you worked down the mines.
Jack said it was a great cause and if they wanted heâd stand in for pictures and show his support.
Nobody present said fuck off, itâs none of your business.
They all accepted his support and Jack stood in for the photos.
It made Jack Charlton and alright sort in my book as wellâŚ
Great story.
Iâm just countering your previous point and presume that you, as a man of principle, retract your remarks in defence of JP McManus as you are biased on the matter.
Fair is fair.
Trying to change topic here is not going to work croppy. Deal with the matter in hand rather than trying to deflect attention away from yourself onto another topic. And bringing up a previous debate where you made a bit of a fool of yourself is hardly going to help your cause either.
any chance of deleting the last few pages of complete and utter scutter?
Quoting the past is not acceptable in a debate? Thatâs a first, I was merely arguing the point that you made about my opinion not being valid based on my support of Fergusonâs club.
Not as good as some of your tales from the bog admittedlyâŚ
When are you going to tell us the punchline?
Huh?
Decent gesture by Ferguson to raise awarness of this issue. Not sure if itâs been mentioned but it reminds me a bit of Colm Murrayâs work on MND.
No such thing as bad publicity.
Well said Bandage. A gesture worthy of any fan of the New York Giants.
Eamonn Deacy RIP
I posted him in the celebrate deaths thread the other day , A.C. was a thoroughly alright sort.
Donât think weâve had Sean Penn yet:
Less than 24 hours after he criticised Britain over the Falklands during a visit to Buenos Aires to see the Argentine president Cristina FernĂĄndez de Kirchner, Penn accused the UK of âinsensitivityâ for posting the heir to the throne to the disputed south Atlantic territory.
Penn accused the UK government of geopolitical grandstanding after a meeting with Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in Montevideo, a visit undertaken as part of Pennâs role as ambassador at large for Haiti. The presence of Prince William in the Falklands was an act of provocation, he suggested.
âItâs unthinkable that the United Kingdom can make a conscious decision to deploy a prince within the military to the Malvinas, knowing the great emotional sensitivity both of mothers and fathers in the United Kingdom and in Argentina who lost sons and daughters in a war of islands with a population of so few,â he said.
âThere are many places to deploy the prince. Itâs not necessary, when the deployment of a prince is generally accompanied by warships, to send them into the seas of such shared blood.â
The double-Oscar winner condemned criticism of his earlier comments as âhyperboleâ. He said: âMy oh my, arenât people sensitive to the word colonialism, particularly those who implement colonialism.â
The leftwing actor, who has previously called for the impeachment of George W Bush over the Iraq war, praised Americaâs longstanding alliance with the UK but said he felt criticism was necessary. He added that he understood and respected the wish of people living in the Falkland Islands to remain British, but said Argentina and Britain needed to negotiate the sharing of the islandsâ natural resources.
Tory MP and former army officer Patrick Mercer told the Daily Mail his comments were âmoronicâ. He said: âWhat on earth has this got to do with Sean Penn? Heâs neither British nor Argentine and seems to know nothing about the situation judging by this moronic comment. A good number of his movies have been turkeys, so I suppose we shouldnât expect much better coming out of his mouth.â
After an earlier meeting with the Argentinian president, Penn urged Britain to join UN-sponsored talks over what he called âthe Malvinas Islands of Argentinaâ. He said: âItâs necessary that these diplomatic talks happen between the United Kingdom and Argentina. I think that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology.â
Tensions have been growing between Buenos Aires and London for months, as the anniversary of the start of the Falklands war approaches on 2 April. British officials last week dismissed claims it was âmilitarisingâ the situation in the south Atlantic by deploying nuclear weapons nearby.
Argentina said it had intelligence that a Vanguard submarine had been sent to the area, and demanded to know whether it was carrying warheads. Britain insisted the deployment of one of its most modern destroyers, HMS Dauntless, to the region was merely routine.
The arrival of Prince William in the Falklands for a posting as an RAF search and rescue pilot has further infuriated Buenos Aires. And there were protests on the streets of the Argentinian capital after the website of Falklands newspaper the Penguin News ran a photo of FernĂĄndez labelled âbitchâ.
An actor with so bloated a sense of his own self-importance that he starts commenting on global affairs is a cunt, regardless of whether you agree with what he is saying.
Always felt the same about him. Heâs yet to do anything to change my mind.