Thats a really, really awful effort mickee[/quote]
:rolleyes:
youd be the expert on that given your long track record of banal mediocrity
youd be the expert on that given your long track record of banal mediocrity[/quote]
Yes art, yes I would be.
Mickee seriously rattled.
Wahey! 
:oops:
sorry i let myself and the forum down succumbing to the level of that pissy shit.
im fucking ashamed of myself, banter is about naming names, making allegations and defaming others with half truths not this crap
[quote=âmickee321, post: 887553, member: 367â]sorry i let myself and the forum down succumbing to the level of that pissy shit.
im fucking ashamed of myself, banter is about naming names, making allegations and defaming others with half truths not this crap[/quote]
I heard you were a weak person
yes, its also reflected in my posting of late.
i am being watchedâŚcarefully
I donât know why but Iâm watching a fly on the wall documentary about those who work and travel on the Luas.
Abuse, racism, theft, general bad behaviour - oh Dublin, what is going on with you?
[quote=âBandage, post: 887578, member: 9â]I donât know why but Iâm watching a fly on the wall documentary about those who work and travel on the Luas.
Abuse, racism, theft, general bad behaviour - oh Dublin, what is going on with you?[/quote]
This wouldnât have happened in the good old days of Phillo and Ooh Ah.
[quote=âBandage, post: 887578, member: 9â]I donât know why but Iâm watching a fly on the wall documentary about those who work and travel on the Luas.
Abuse, racism, theft, general bad behaviour - oh Dublin, what is going on with you?[/quote]
Red line versus Green Line
evil Michael knight versus Michael Knight
2 men shot in Ballyfermot this evening.
2 more murdered in Dublin tonight. What a pathetic excuse for a city. Time to cordon it off and burn it to the ground?
What a fuckin hell hole. Yet more six Nations related violence?
Just one of your muckers getting his comeuppance. This really belongs in the matters regarding Limerick threadâŚ
The west Dublin man who put up John Gilligan on his release from prison and acted as his driver was shot dead tonight.
Stephen Douglas Moran, in his mid-40s, was shot by a lone gunman at his home in the Earlsfort estate in Clondalkin at 7.30pm.
Gilligan was picked up at Portlaoise Prison in the armour plated BMW X5 four-wheel drive owned by Moran. After his release Moran regularly drove Gilligan in the car.
Moran was high on the gardaâs list of serious criminals and republican subversives though he had come to little media attention.
Moran, who is understood to own four pubs and a security company, picked Gilligan up at Portlaoise Prison in an armoured car and drove him to his coming out party in Gilliganâs brotherâs home â ironically where Gilligan was shot two weeks ago.
Originally from Limerick, âDougieâ Moran, as he was known, had close links to the Dundon crime family and was also heavily involved in âdissidentâ republican criminal activity. At one stage gardai believed he was head of the âContinuityâ IRA faction running its extortion rackets and other activity.
Gardai believe Moran was involved in the murder of the innocent rugby player, Shane Geoghegan, shot dead in mistake for another man in Limerick in November 2008.
He lived in a heavily fortified house in Earlsfort View on the border of Clondalkin and Lucan with bullet proof windows and up to a dozen CCTV cameras mounted on the outside.
The murder puts further pressure on Gilligan who is increasingly facing the prospect of fleeing Ireland in order to stay alive. Gardai last night said they believed the murder was directly linked to Moranâs association with the drug trafficker who was trying to re-establish himself in the Dublin organised crime scene.
Unlike the botched attack on Gilligan, last nightâs murder was carried out with cool efficiency, gardai said. Moran was shot as he arrived at his home. The gunman was driven away and a short time later the car was found burning in Glen Vale in Lucan.
Moran was pronounced dead on arrival at Tallaght Hospital. Initial reports that a second man was shot in the same incident proved to be untrue.
Moran came from a traveller family background but became involved in crime and subversive activity in his twenties. He was under constant surveillance but managed to avoid convictions for any major crimes.
Gardai believe he was working in close association with Gilligan, who had developed links throughout his career with republican/criminal elements, with the intention of establishing a major criminal network in Dublin and Limerick to rival existing gangs. His death has put an end to this plan, gardai said last night.
A notorious criminal who orchestrated the high profile murder of nightclub security manager Brian Fitzgerald was shot dead last night.
Dublin what a shithole. It is a refuse tip for used and washed up limerick former scumbags.
In the Irish media if youâre a businessman youâre described as a criminal whereas if youâre a criminal youâre described as a businessman.
Ireland needs more of Stephen Moranâs sort. RIP.
Limerick is an oasis of calm these days while Dublin sinks deeper and deeper into the gutter
[QUOTE=âSandymount Red, post: 917121, member: 1074â]Just one of your muckers getting his comeuppance. This really belongs in the matters regarding Limerick threadâŚ
The west Dublin man who put up John Gilligan on his release from prison and acted as his driver was shot dead tonight.
Stephen Douglas Moran, in his mid-40s, was shot by a lone gunman at his home in the Earlsfort estate in Clondalkin at 7.30pm.
Gilligan was picked up at Portlaoise Prison in the armour plated BMW X5 four-wheel drive owned by Moran. After his release Moran regularly drove Gilligan in the car.
Moran was high on the gardaâs list of serious criminals and republican subversives though he had come to little media attention.
Moran, who is understood to own four pubs and a security company, picked Gilligan up at Portlaoise Prison in an armoured car and drove him to his coming out party in Gilliganâs brotherâs home â ironically where Gilligan was shot two weeks ago.
Originally from Limerick, âDougieâ Moran, as he was known, had close links to the Dundon crime family and was also heavily involved in âdissidentâ republican criminal activity. At one stage gardai believed he was head of the âContinuityâ IRA faction running its extortion rackets and other activity.
Gardai believe Moran was involved in the murder of the innocent rugby player, Shane Geoghegan, shot dead in mistake for another man in Limerick in November 2008.
He lived in a heavily fortified house in Earlsfort View on the border of Clondalkin and Lucan with bullet proof windows and up to a dozen CCTV cameras mounted on the outside.
The murder puts further pressure on Gilligan who is increasingly facing the prospect of fleeing Ireland in order to stay alive. Gardai last night said they believed the murder was directly linked to Moranâs association with the drug trafficker who was trying to re-establish himself in the Dublin organised crime scene.
Unlike the botched attack on Gilligan, last nightâs murder was carried out with cool efficiency, gardai said. Moran was shot as he arrived at his home. The gunman was driven away and a short time later the car was found burning in Glen Vale in Lucan.
Moran was pronounced dead on arrival at Tallaght Hospital. Initial reports that a second man was shot in the same incident proved to be untrue.
Moran came from a traveller family background but became involved in crime and subversive activity in his twenties. He was under constant surveillance but managed to avoid convictions for any major crimes.
Gardai believe he was working in close association with Gilligan, who had developed links throughout his career with republican/criminal elements, with the intention of establishing a major criminal network in Dublin and Limerick to rival existing gangs. His death has put an end to this plan, gardai said last night.
A notorious criminal who orchestrated the high profile murder of nightclub security manager Brian Fitzgerald was shot dead last night.[/QUOTE]
âinnocent rugby playerâ:rolleyes:
FF S:rolleyes: 
Take that @Rocko, you cunt!
What does it mean to be Irish? It means to ask what it means to be Irish. St Patrickâs Day is high season for ruminations on the Gaelic soul, and this year even our President, Michael D Higgins, has become involved in the search for meaning, with his nationwide ethical initiative, âShaping Irelandâs Shared Future.â
The Presidentâs intervention is laudable, not least because anguished queries about what it means to be Irish are seldom followed by sincere answers. The small size of our nation should make it possible to cultivate a common set of values and a shared identity, yet the Republic is arguably more fractured today than at any point in the last 50 years. Among the problems is most of us take no pride in our first city.
In the most literal sense it is true, of course, that Ireland has a capital. But can one really say that Dublin is a capital, with all that term implies? Does the city represent our country? Is it an expression and symbol of the nation-state? Is it ever an unqualified source of pride? Of course slagging is part of what makes us Irish, and there is always tension between a capital and the rest of a country, but most of our citizens canât stand Dublin, and that includes many Dubliners. Even in basic economic terms this makes no sense.
The greater Dublin region accounts for four out of every 10 jobs in this country. It is responsible for nearly half of all the goods and services produced here, and nearly half of the tax revenue. To put it simply, without a strong capital the rest of the country is banjaxed. Yet Dublin is regarded with detachment by many â including some Dubliners â and there is a very real sense in which it remains not quite Irish.
This suspicion was confirmed in 2010 when a survey commissioned by Dublin City Council revealed that just 26 per cent of Irish people have any emotional connection to the capital. The figure drops to 15 per cent when you exclude Dubliners. So, only one in four Irish people feel any emotional connection to their own capital.
The results of that survey were, of course, ignored by every media outlet in the capital. How does Dublin respond to anti-Dublin bigotry? Not, as the shibboleth has it, by lording it over the natives, but by keeping her head down. Like a long-suffering wife who does most of the work and gets none of the praise, Dublin regards rural Ireland with a deference that borders on fear.
[B]Friday crusadersWe all know Friday crusaders who colonise defensible pockets of the countryside like Baltimore and Westport. (Roundstone in Connemara is known locally as G4.) The neo-colonial will claim to be welcomed by local communities. It is polite to pretend to believe such claims. If the weekend colonists were ever to listen to community radio outside âThe Paleâ they would quickly realise how unwelcome they really are. Dublin has LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, but it still canât connect to Galway.
There are historical explanations for Dublinâs unpopularity. It was the centre of colonial occupation. In many ways â both good and bad â it still resembles a British city. And itâs true that Dublin gets a large slice of the national pie. As it should. Together these gripes speak to the immaturity of a tribe who are no closer to their own capital than they were in 1922.
This is not an assault on âCulchiesâ. There is fault on both sides. Indeed it is not just that the capital has a dysfunctional relationship with the rest of Ireland. We âJackeensâ also have a dysfunctional relationship with ourselves. For example, most of us self-define as Northsiders or Southsiders. We are so small we canât get over a river.
[B]Parochial v provincial Patrick Kavanagh drew a distinction between the parochial and the provincial. The poet lamented that provincials have no mind of their own, because they are always trying to ape foreign customs. âA provincial,â he wrote, âis always trying to live by someone elseâs loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.â To understand how little we have matured since Kavanagh wrote those lines (he was lamenting the provincialism of middle-class Catholic Dubliners in the 1950s) it is necessary to admit that even Dublinâs defenders still see the capital through the prism of other cities.
Perhaps the loudest of the cityâs champions is an entrepreneur, Niall Harbison, who runs a website, Lovinâ Dublin, that has 200,000 visitors a month. Harbison says his ambition is to make Dublin more like Berlin. Really? Meanwhile a rival website to Lovinâ Dublin has the unfortunate title Le Cool. These digital biographies are both trying hard, but the slavish references to somewhere else suggest that Dublin is not worth loving on its own terms.
Admirers claim Dublin is Europeâs internet capital, an artistic powerhouse and the worldâsfriendliest city. Yet at its best the city is sui generis . Dubliners walk in the shadow of Emmet, Wilde and Joyce.
Annoying and amusing in largely equal measure, we talk at a pace that frightens visitors, our conversation constitutionally remarkable. When the city grates we escape to the theatre or sea, and thereâs always the snug in Kehoeâs. Sociable, compact and cultural, Dublin is essential to far more than the national economy.
In Ireland, the gulf between town and country is all too evident. But there are signs of hope. When you think of someone like Brian OâDriscoll (claimed by north and south Dublin) you are reminded that great leaders make us see the world anew. On Saturday OâDriscoll will receive the Freedom of Dublin, and I donât think anyone in the country will begrudge him that. Also, this yearâs rash of navel-gazing prefaces the centenary of the Easter Rising, the formative act in the struggle for Irish independence. Get ready for a bad-tempered but valuable argument between the Commemorators and the Celebrators. The centenary will encourage all Irish people to embrace Dublinâs story as part of their own: 2016 may even produce a transformative act of reconciliation.
What does it mean to be Irish? Today it means to be fractured. Fintan OâToole has written that Ireland âis a State to which many of its decent, respectable inhabitants feel no attachment whatsoeverâ. We have a stark choice: âWatch the State dwindle away or get serious about building a real republic.â
OâToole recognises the urgency of this moment, just as our President does; theyâre right. We need some sort of ethical revolution that might result in a positive shared vision for the future of our nation. But we also need to take ownership of Dublin. For the country needs a capital, and the city of Dublin is there for the taking.[/B]
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MarkRenton, did you see the response to that article by the guy who runs LovinDublin Blog? Possibly the most egotistical self-centered rant in a long time!