Comment on What you want to say – 29th January 2014 by CMK
There a couple of relatively inoffensive, deeply dim but presentable, FG people who could have been a better. Little Paschal in Dublin wouldn’t get peoples’ backs up as much as Hayes, or Catherine...
View ArticleComment on During the mortgage arrears crisis by ejh
the troika’s concern with what it saw as abnormally low rate of repossessions Just an extraordinary line in itself, isn’t it? You think anybody in the troika has ever been made homeless?
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I can’t comment on the exact address, but the Socialist Party of Ireland was strong in Ballymun. A candidate of theirs, Eamonn O’Brien, got over 2,000 votes in the 1977 general election and he later...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 29th January 2014 by Jolly Red Giant
At this stage all that likely happened is that someone spotted Childers at 14/1 and put €50 on her – this dropped the odds to 9/1 and then someone put another €50 on her at 9/1 dropping the odds...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 29th January 2014 by CMK
Good to see former Irish Times columnist, Mark Steyn, going on to achieve great things:...
View ArticleComment on Sound of music… by EamonnCork
Actually his comment isn’t particularly to the point or interesting. For one thing ‘competition’ to classical music from pop music hasn’t lessened just because pop music isn’t as creatively interesting...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 29th January 2014 by With Teeth
Defamation is extremely hard to prove in the US, though some of Steyn’s antics, such as sacking his legal counsel definitely won’t help him. On one hand, I’m in favour of the unfettered free speech...
View ArticleComment on Sound of music… by ejh
I would genuinely be surprised if the state of popular music had much effect on classical music sales either way.
View ArticleComment on Sound of music… by Frankie Donnelly
In reply to EC above. What had the teachers and the Left to do with what Richotto had said. Why the immediate resort to childishness?
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CMK ,ah sure wasn’t the north a great wee place altogether until them fenians started giving bother.Brookeborough had them sussed when he said he wouldn’t have one about the place.Im sure your grannys...
View ArticleComment on You may have missed this earlier: From the selection in the Left...
And as on the other thread can people just calm it a bit.
View ArticleComment on You may have missed this earlier: From the selection in the Left...
WBS,remaining calm can be somewhat difficult when subjected to the almost racist tirade posted earlier by CMK.The references to his grannys sisters living “decent lives” in Down with only 2 children...
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Roddy, ah, poor you, subject to a ‘racist tirade’. My point, not that you’d grasp it in a million years is that for working class people, there was not much of a difference between the ‘Orange State,...
View ArticleComment on There’s Noel Limits by WorldbyStorm
I’m sure it’s everywhere at this stage but perhaps this should go up as an individual post.
View ArticleComment on There’s Noel Limits by WorldbyStorm
A large bespoke building down by the quays in Dublin. A foyer, glassed in. Lifts in the background. Significant security checks. A meeting room at the top of the building and beneath that the offices...
View ArticleComment on There’s Noel Limits by Tomboktu
In one of the blogs I read last week it was mentioned that in the UK, the companies office restricts the use of certain words in company names, and institute is one of those words.
View ArticleComment on There’s Noel Limits by Michael Carley
There are probably a few unused bank headquarters we could get cheap …
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