She was gagging for it, they all are mate
Sure who ya telling, buddy.
Too long to copy and paste but very interesting Paul Kimmage article with Joe Brolly today:
http://www.independent.ie/sport/a-walk-on-the-wilde-side-paul-kimmage-meets-joe-brolly-29760681.html
Thereās an RTE documentary tomorrow night about his kidney organ donation too.
Matthew Rees, Welsh rugby player. Currently undergoing treatment for testicular cancer but currently live on BBC as part of their coverage of the Welsh game.
The late Nelson Mandela
So you think heās an alright sort for dying?
Would you not have been better off nominating him for this while he was alive and doing good?
Gerry Adams
+1
More a sort of a -1 +1 -1 +1 -2 +1 type of score for Gerry.
Gerry will walk this.
Ni ceapaim.
+2
Jude Collins
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I was just trying to point out to Miriam OāCallaghan that the one-eyed view in the south of things northern might have been connected to the fact that southern mainstream media consistently paint a picture of the northern conflict as bloody murder by a group of psychopaths (i.e., the IRA), when news broke on mid-Prime Time that Nelson Mandela had died. Immediately and quite rightly, the two guests in the Dublin studio, who had been lambasting Gerry Adams for using the term ālaissez faireā in describing the RUC attitude towards their own security, switched to commending the greatness of Nelson Mandela. It was something that was fitting ā you only had to see the man, let alone listen to him, to know he was a man who knew about forgiveness and a passion for peace.
So while I joined the others in commending the great man, I made a terrible mistake. I mentioned that Mandela was in prison because the authorities saw him as linked to the ANC, which engaged in what the authorities of the time deemed to be terrorism. Why was Mandela in prison for so long? Because he refused to disassociate himself from the ANC, who were deemed by the authorities to be vile murderers. When he was finally released, Mandela devoted himself to making peace with his former enemies.
I also said that while I wasnāt suggesting Gerry Adams was a man of the stature of Nelson Mandela, there were parallels, in that both had been involved in a bloody and sometimes brutal conflict and that both men had led their supporters to a peaceful alternative.
No, no, no, no. Both Fine Gaelās Charlie Flanagan and Irish Independent columnist Martina Devlin wouldnāt hear of any possible parallel between the two. Gerry Adams was a man linked with murder, Nelson Mandela linked with peace.
Which brings me back to the point I was making when the news broke. The southern population have been fed a steady diet by the media ā a diet which presents the IRA as the problem in the north. Coupled with that they present Gerry Adams as an insensitive oaf who blames Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan for their own deaths. No context: no consideration that there was a state which ruled for fifty years by gerrymander and discrimination, no mention of civil rights marchers being bludgeoned off the streets, no mention of acts by the British army or British agents acting through loyalist gangs which killed dozens of innocent Catholics.
If the job of the media is to paint a full picture of the present and the past, then the southern media have confined themselves to one corner of the canvas. The people of Ireland, north and south, deserve better.
[Hereās a link to the āPrime Timeā show itself. I hope.]
Uncle Avram there on SSN. A truly lovely man.