[quote=“sid waddell”]Happy to say I nominated the Cruiser some time ago.
Great (and genuine, he really wrote this) predictions by “Ireland’s foremost intellect” ™:
The first IRA ceasefire would end in disaster, a disaster of such proportions that Dublin would be invaded by the British Army by December 1995. No, I can’t work it out either. Seriously, he actually wrote that in September 1994.
George W. Bush and the CREEP (campaign to re-elect the president) would have such momentum that he would win New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and California in the 2004 election.
When there were letters the following Saturday pulling him up for being completely and utterly wrong, he replied “I was not wrong about anything”. (Irish Indo, Saturday November 6th, 2004).
Maybe he’ll soon be eligible for the #2dead cunts" thread that will surely soon appear here?[/quote]
The shit CCOB did in the 1970s as a Minister for Posts and Telegraphs was unforgiveable.
In summary:
The Irish Government introduced emergency legislation in 1976 after the British Ambassador was assasinated. The legislation seriously curtailed the freedom of the press by holding accountable those who implicitly or explicitly gave freedom or encouragement to someone to support or join or take part in an illegal organistaion.
A NY Times writer visited CCOB to ask him about the new legislation and expected him to be dissenting. On the contrary CCOB thought it was a wonderful way to curtail newspapers. In fact CCOB went as far as to produce a file of Letters to the Editor which had been published in the Irish Press which contained:
a) objections to a memorial fund for the Ambassador
b) a letter which stated that “Britain maintained her grip on Ireland through violence”
CCOB informed the writer that he intended to prosecute the Irish Press for what they had published. The writer told Tim Pat Coogan (editor of the Irish Press) that CCOB was intending to prosecute and Coogan bravely took the decision to republish the “offending” letters the next day in the paper on a full page and against the wishes of the owners of the paper.
censorship was a black mark against this nation - thank fuck british media outlets such as channel 4 & programmes such as dispatches had the balls to make challenging programmes- collusion was exposed by british media out lets notirish ones - so many Irish journalists meekly accepted censorship that the integrity of them will forever be qualified -
A ‘tfk cunt of the year 2008’ t-shirt would be fitting, I can see Kevin Myers head on it now. The more people wear them the better, especially those trend-setting types amongst us.
By the way I’d like to throw a late nomination in for that Philip Boucher-Hayes lad who’s on RTE 1 at the minute.
I would say he is half a travellor…Ignorant fucker with drink in him…
Have a right story about him…
A friend of mine was coming across the bridge in Killaloe a few years ago when he saw Mr Grace pulled up at the lights…he knocked on his window and brendan rolled it down, to which my buddy asked him
" knock knock"
grace: " who’s there"
Friend: " Brendan Grace"
grace: " Brendan Grace who?"
Friend: " I never heard of the cunt either"
and walked off, Brendan had a face like thunder after it…
[quote=“The Puke”]I would say he is half a travellor…Ignorant fucker with drink in him…
Have a right story about him…
A friend of mine was coming across the bridge in Killaloe a few years ago when he saw Mr Grace pulled up at the lights…he knocked on his window and brendan rolled it down, to which my buddy asked him
" knock knock"
grace: " who’s there"
Friend: " Brendan Grace"
grace: " Brendan Grace who?"
Friend: " I never heard of the cunt either"
and walked off, Brendan had a face like thunder after it…
Classic[/quote]
Whats the story with your posts getting cut off at the bottom?
No farmer I have had many a dealing with him and have seen him plenty of times out and about in Killaloe…Walks around as if he is ten foot tall and wants to be the centre of attention, normally half pissed shouting " who said that"
Read up farmer, I already gave reasons…Dog ignorant walks around his pub looking down his nose at the locals and is normally pissed drunk and greasy looking…Goes to other pubs in the town and expects to be waited on hand and foot as if he is royalty…hated by most of the locals around Killaloe…
Just to defuse the argument puke, d’you reckon a few of the newmarket boys deserve a mention for their rolling around on the ground every time a clon lad touched them in the county final antics?
TBH the newmarket lads went up a lot in my estimations when pretty much all their panel arrived out in Clonlara for the piss up the day after the final…The majority of the players are sound…Shame about the fans…