Haha Berteh, ya got boooed!

oneweb

Watchin the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics (fantastic job indeed! ) after the Riverdance performance (oh the memories of the first ever performance all those years ago )

Bertie Aherne got BOOED when he was introduced! You could make it out pretty easy. Oh the embarrassement in front of the whole world

Dempsey

Ahhhhh:D , bertie.

P.S. Samatha Mumba, Shwingg!!

PhilipMarlowe

I thought they were a bit slow in turning on her mike after she had finished 'singing'...

BoobeR

lmao @ bertie indeed he was just being a big dork.. she looked fine indeed mmm

Dempsey

And the three girls in the Corr's, worth looking at them with the volume muted.

mavedic

couldn't believe samantha mumba wasn't singing during her performance (at least it didn't look like she was). shame on her!
The whole ceremony was very well done! It was funny to see how little enthusiasm bertie got when he first came out!

PiE

Just caught the end of the ceremony on the TV, gotta say I was impressed with the fireworks display and the lighting. Looked very professional, nothing like the usual Irish crap.

Hire that team for next years Paddy's Day tbh.

Mossy Monk

i was half expecting Bertie to get booed. it's the least he deserves. it was a fantastic show though. the end of it was fantastic

Samantha Mumba ain't a good looking girl BTW

ozt9vdujny3srf

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
i was half expecting Bertie to get booed. it's the least he deserves. it was a fantastic show though. the end of it was fantastic

Samantha Mumba ain't a good looking girl BTW

And YOU my friend, have RIDICULOUSLY high standards.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Truckle
And YOU my friend, have RIDICULOUSLY high standards.

far from it. she has a very nice body but her head is not so nice

Mr E

Samantha Mumba was DEFINTITELY miming...... I have my suspicions about the Corrs too...

Good ceremony overall, though.... Paddy Kielty did a good job.

I was hoping for a f**king Colin Farrell f**k up, though.... "Good luck to all of you.... I know you'll try your f**king best!" (Didn't happen, though.... shame!)

Don't remember seeing Muhammed Ali, though.... was he at the start? And what was Eunice Kennedy Shriver fighting about after her speech?

- Dave.

Karl Hungus

Samantha Mumba is definetly not all that she's cracked up to be. Looks wise, that is.

And I've met Andrea Corr, and she's rather good, but she's ****ing TINY! Honestly, she's about 2 foot or something! I could just pick her up and put her in my pocket...






...just great for those long bus journeys.

NeoSlicerZ

rofl angelwhore

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by TmB
Don't remember seeing Muhammed Ali, though.... was he at the start?

he led out the American team in what looked like a golf cart. he got a huge cheer from the crowd too

l3rian

boo bertie everytime you see him, proper order

did you see when the presenter went to talk to damien duff as he lead a group of athletes out?

his fcuking bodyguard told her to "shove off luv" or something, I couldnt believe it, so funny

Pigman II

Saw a bit of it on Sky News and it sure looked impressive! I was fearing that we'd do our usual half assed job and have westlife playing a two hour set in front of a crowd of 6 people followed by a firework display courtesy of Moore St. But from I could tell Croker looked completly packed and a bevy of A-list celebs were there too boot!

Glad to hear Bertie got booed btw. It's all he deserves.

Just one final thought. After seeing Croke Park the track athletes are gonna get a bit of a shock when they see Morton Stadium (the venue where they will actually be competing)

Dustaz

I was there and no-one in the cusack was boo-ing him, didnt realise anyone was untill i read this. Oh well, no more than he deserves.

Sambo was definitly miming as were the corrs, but i dont think anyone was too worried about what they sounded like....

The best thing about the cermony was that as soon as the athletes were seated it became clear that they had no intention of keeping their seats and when the music started they were up and about generally having a right good knees up. Every so often 5 bulgarians or Uraguyans would wander over to our section and wave madly and we would wave madly back with our flags. Sounds a bit wet, but it really was a seriously good vibe all night.

Colin Farrel was LAMPED. He'd hit the bottle or had a good go of the columbian marching powder, but either way he made a tit of himself by proclaiming the event "like, totally, you know ... REAL man....real". gob****e.

Another great swordsman moment was Eddie "wanna see me yacht?" Irvine totally abandoning Azerbaijan or whoever he came out with to run off to Italy cos Jean Butler was there. Arnie also marched twice, with Austria and the USA but this was more motivated by his inevitable congress bid than an attempt to get into Jeans knickers.

Did the Macnas thing look any good on tv? It looked like amateur shìte from where i was sitting, but i have a low tolerance for them as it is.

Big cheers went to the Sars countries and Iraq , Ali and the Irish team and of course U2 (pride was amazing, altho the sound for One was desperate)

Oh and Heather Locklear TOTALLY checked me out.......

KdjaCL

I flicked on after it started and was very impressed with the whole thing.
Looked very good Arnie even said "ill be back" how sweet.

Will net 2 show blanket coverage or is that it ??

kdjac

oneweb

couldn't believe samantha mumba wasn't singing during her performance

:eek: OMG!

she has a very nice body but her head is not so nice

rofl. Half true (second bit).

Don't remember seeing Muhammed Ali, though.... was he at the start?

Yep, he was in a golf-cart-type-thing. It was very enclosed tho. They coulda put a clear roof on it on something.

And what was Eunice Kennedy Shriver fighting about after her speech?

I think she wanted the bloke beside her to sign off her speech. But he kept saying 'I don't wanna'.

I could just pick her up and put her in my pocket...

lmao

did you see when the presenter went to talk to damien duff as he lead a group of athletes out? his fcuking bodyguard told her to "shove off luv" or something, I couldnt believe it, so funny

Yeah, that was really mean. Same thing happened when she (in all her excitedness) went to say hi to Arnold Swawhatever.

Another great swordsman moment was Eddie "wanna see me yacht?" Irvine totally abandoning Azerbaijan or whoever he came out with to run off to Italy cos Jean Butler was there.

So that's why there were two celebs for that delegation. Muppet.

Oh and Heather Locklear TOTALLY checked me out.......

Go you!

Will net 2 show blanket coverage or is that it ??

There doesn't seem to be any substantial amount of TV coverage scheduled for the games themselves.


It was, to be honest, a fantastic show yesterday - even though I just saw it on telly.

byte

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Samantha Mumba is definetly not all that she's cracked up to be. Looks wise, that is.

And I've met Andrea Corr, and she's rather good, but she's ****ing TINY! Honestly, she's about 2 foot or something! I could just pick her up and put her in my pocket...






...just great for those long bus journeys.

ROFL! That was so funneh it nearly cured me hangover! Nearly!

Lemming

My older sister is quite involved in the Order of Malta, who are doing first-aid duties througout the competition.

The point, according to what she was told, about the security guys telling the media to leave the celebs alone was that this was about the athletes and NOT because some rather cute female presenter wanted to get her arms around Damien Duff.

Ronan|Raven

I was up at the Ireland -Albania a few weeks ago and when they asked everyone to rise for the "Taoiseachs Anthem" everyone did and the noise of Booing and whistles was hilarious, there was no way on earth he could have missed it.

Mossy Monk

RTÉ's coverage is pretty much non existant. they have an hour long highlights programmes every day at 7pm

Originally posted by Lemming
My older sister is quite involved in the Order of Malta, who are doing first-aid duties througout the competition.

The point, according to what she was told, about the security guys telling the media to leave the celebs alone was that this was about the athletes and NOT because some rather cute female presenter wanted to get her arms around Damien Duff.

I agree, I thought, the presenters going up to interview the celebs was BAD and a distraction from the real stars of the event.
It should not have been done and looked tacky and was rather embarrassing to watch.
mm

po0k

I thought bringing out Riverdance smacked horribly of Paddywhackery.
I didn't like it when i first saw it and i like it even less a few years later.

Like being culturally raped.

Lemming

Originally posted by Ronan|Raven
they asked everyone to rise for the "Taoiseachs Anthem"

WTF??

the "taoiseach's anthem"?? Since when the f*ck did this country have a "taoiseach's anthem".

Or does that f*ck-wit bertie bassett want his ego stroked & massaged every 5 seconds.

FFS :rolleyes:

everyone did and the noise of Booing and whistles was hilarious, there was no way on earth he could have missed it.

Proper order :ninja:

Bosh

Wonder how the GAA felt about having the PSNI in uniform in their sacred stadium

innisfree

Yeh I was to the left of the stage and didn't hear any booing for Bertie (though not much cheering). Really enjoyable night, full of delays and mistakes though with it being Irish I expected it It didn't detract from the whole night though and I thought a lot of people put in a fantastic amount of effort. The athletes seemed to have a blast too which is what was aimed for most of all.
My bro said it looked very half-arsed on tv though?

oneweb

Naw, the only way it was half-assed on tv was all the ad breaks they took :rolleyes: And the microphones cutting out a bit.

Other than that everyone involved deserves a great amount of recognition for the job they did

Stephen

Is it gonna be repeated on TV any time? I was at work the night it was on.

de5p0i1er

Always love to see the ppl tell Fat Head what they think of him and his lies.

suppafly

Originally posted by de5p0i1er
Always love to see the ppl tell Fat Head what they think of him and his lies.

lol!


Yeah i thought it was great too, very enjoyable.

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by oneweb

Bertie Aherne got BOOED when he was introduced! You could make it out pretty easy. Oh the embarrassement in front of the whole world

i dont want to rain on anyones parade, but instead of childish bboing, has anyone thought of actually using the power of voting to get someone else in?

or is it just a whole lot easier to do the booing thing than to think up alternatives etc?

btw, mumba is a hound.

DMC

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
i dont want to rain on anyones parade, but instead of childish bboing, has anyone thought of actually using the power of voting to get someone else in?

The chance for doing that is 4 years away.
The alternative last year was Michael Noonan.... nuff said

lemondrop

I only saw some of it btu i thought the Riverdance was good except for the lighting during it. It male lead was in a black shirt and the backgroung lighting was dark green and black..... The camera work was really bad, it was as if it was being hand held or somthing...it kept wobbling. Good 'ol Bertie came on and then i promptly switched it off.......glad to hear he got booed...he deserves every bit of it!!!!
Samatha miming is typical of that type of popstar.....they are all manufactured and dont have any real talent that theyve had to work for with dedication and a lot of dingy little pubs b4 they get noticed.

sceptre

Originally posted by Pigman II
Just one final thought. After seeing Croke Park the track athletes are gonna get a bit of a shock when they see Morton Stadium (the venue where they will actually be competing)

Hope they fixed that awful stand they had there (it's been a few years since I competed there (or was even vaguely fit) but I'm sure that thing had a "condemned" sign hanging from it.

Originally posted by Dustaz
The best thing about the cermony was that as soon as the athletes were seated it became clear that they had no intention of keeping their seats and when the music started they were up and about generally having a right good knees up. Every so often 5 bulgarians or Uraguyans would wander over to our section and wave madly and we would wave madly back with our flags. Sounds a bit wet, but it really was a seriously good vibe all night.

Looked pretty good on TV - people getting into the occasion rather than just sitting there and being bored.

Did the Macnas thing look any good on tv? It looked like amateur shìte from where i was sitting, but i have a low tolerance for them as it is.

Ack, it looked like Macnas. Overstaged fancy dress.

Oh and Heather Locklear TOTALLY checked me out.......

Humpf. I want a Heather Locklear.

Originally posted by Dempsey
And the three girls in the Corr's, worth looking at them with the volume muted.

Hmmm, I dunno. I was pretty sure they were miming at the start (I've a pretty good ear and the drumming sounded exactly like the record (normally I find it easy to hear the difference between any two performances so I was sure it was mimed). Vocals sounded different though (could hear a voice strain). May have just been piss-poor sound but I suspect there was a backing track with live vocals. Or re-recorded vocals.

de5p0i1er

Originally posted by Lemming
My older sister is quite involved in the Order of Malta, who are doing first-aid duties througout the competition.

The point, according to what she was told, about the security guys telling the media to leave the celebs alone was that this was about the athletes and NOT because some rather cute female presenter wanted to get her arms around Damien Duff.

I was disapointed that they focused on the clebs while saying its all about the athletes, I didn't see our towns team Venezuela as they were talking to Jon Bon Jovi & Heather Lockler.

Sposs

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan

btw, mumba is a hound.

Dont tell me you wouldn't?

gazzer

I am absolutely delighted that Bertie got booed. I think it is a disgrace what the government is doing to the handicapped people of Ireland.

My brother goes to St. Vincents on the Navan Road. For the last couple of months all the families of the kids who go to that school have been protesting about what is happening.

Basically in a nutsell our lovely government has decided in their wisdom to cut funding to all the respite centres. These respite centres are a lifeline to famillies because it means that for a couple of days (hours) a week the kids can go to one of these centres to be looked after whilst the parents can have a bit of a break.

There is one woman down the road from me who has a 29 year old severely mentally and physically handicapped child. He goes to respite every weekend. THe poor chap has to wear nappies and requires constant care.

However from the end of this month the funding is to be cut by 30% so it means that a lot of these kids will no longer be able to go to respite and will have to stay at home.n This woman will have to look after her son 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Thankfully my brother does not need to go to Respite as he has Ausbergers syndrome (which is a type of autism) However because he is 18 he will have to finish up in the school at the end of this week. He was due to go to a sheltered workshop type of place in September so that he could be trained in office skills and hopfully after a year he would be able to enter the workforce at some basic level but once again because of these cutbacks he (and many other teenagers) cant go to this workshop because funding is being cut and they have to reduce the amount of people that they take on.

Come September he will have to sit and home and basically not have anywhere to go and be trained.

I wish i could do something more but at the moment the protests are all we can do. We marched down to Berties office once. We have tried to march a few more times but the police are never able to supply any gardai to walk alongside us. I didnt vote for Bertie. I cant believe the man had the cheek to show up on Saturday.

Jim

bloody fireworks display kept me awake [i live in the general vicintiy] bloody stupid smeggin special olympics:mad:


its all a big mafioso money making ploy by the kennedys anyway.

BigEejit

Originally posted by Jimeatsmenu
bloody fireworks display kept me awake [i live in the general vicintiy] bloody stupid smeggin special olympics:mad:

Ahhh ... I knew the good vibe wouldnt last too long without someone raining on the parade (so to speak) ...

its all a big mafioso money making ploy by the kennedys anyway.

Heh .. don't leave it at that, come on man, lets hear your bonkers conspiracy theory

Jim

helping the needy.....and whats all this crap about feeding the homeless :mad:

de5p0i1er

Originally posted by Jimeatsmenu
bloody fireworks display kept me awake [i live in the general vicintiy] bloody stupid smeggin special olympics:mad:


its all a big mafioso money making ploy by the kennedys anyway.

The kennedys don't make money from the games, The Shrivers run the games, get your facts right.

neohoki

btw heather locklear is old!!! did anyone see her??It aint the days of that car ad anymore...

Dustaz

Originally posted by Dustaz

Oh and Heather Locklear TOTALLY checked me out.......

shes still hot

vibe666

YES
The Corrs mimed.
The Mumba bird mimed.
Everyone else bothered to do it live thank god.
The Mumba bird is a hound.
The celebs were supposed to play down their parts in favour of the athletes.
Berteh got booed (I was at the stage end of Cusack, and we were all Booing, and he definately heard us doing it:D)

It was a great night all round, and was done a lot better than I was expecting, with the majority of the attention focusing on the athletes as it should have been.

sceptre

Originally posted by de5p0i1er
The kennedys don't make money from the games, The Shrivers run the games, get your facts right.

Special Olympics were founded by Eunice Kennedy-Shriver. Kept her maiden name as part of her surname you see.

He's right, you're right, everyone's happy.

Technically, the games are "run" by the Shriver-Kennedys and the wife of the terminator (who's obviously a Shriver but not a Kennedy-Shriver). Maria Shriver-Schwarzenegger is the niece of JFK and the daughter of Robert Sargent Shriver Jr (who ran for vice-president in 1972 on the McGovern ticket while everyone was off voting for Nixon and Agnew) & Eunice

Call 'em whatever you feel like tbh - he's making the connection and trying to be funny about it.

Jim

how do you like them facts

Monty - the one and only

What has any of that got to do with berti being booed

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