Ou est Kevin Myers, I say Ou est Kevin Myers?

Snickers Man

What's the Jackanory with Kevin Myers? He hasn't graced the 'Irishman's Diary' section of the Times for a couple of weeks now.

Has he just been sent on gardening leave for the Easter period so that he couldn't trash the 1916 commemorations while they were going on or has he been given the thumb tack once and for all?

damien

Gone to the Indo according to the Business Post.

is_that_so

Might suit him better if true. While I enjoyed some of his stuff over the years and he is a good writer, he is immensely arrogant he can be a very loose cannon.

patzer117

Good Spot Snickers Man! I loved Kevin Myers, it's a shame to see him go to the rag that is the indo. Though I'm not surprised, how anyone could put up with Geraldine Kennedy is beyond me.

monument

damien.m wrote:

Gone to the Indo according to the Business Post.

Correction, "in advanced talks to join The Irish Independent"... "The Independent looks likely to sign Myers".

Snickers Man

Good riddance. It's where he belongs.

Sure he has a nice style of writing but most of his ideas are loony.

IMHO.

ferdi

will he have to dumb down for the indo? that paper is a bloody rag.

Heinrich

Il est parti et TANT MIEUX,TANT:D MIEUX

simu

What? I mean, he annoyed me a lot but I'll miss him! :eek:

There I was thinking he'd gone off to the Gaeltacht to brush up on his Irish or gone to help his single mother pals out with babysitting for a few weeks!

r3nu4l

Not living in Ireland anymore I only heard about this yesterday! Okay, I wouldn't agree with a lot of Myers comments but at least he inspired debate!

I think a similar comparison here in the UK would be Jeremy Clarkson! i.e. knows his stuff and is entertaining if taken with a pinch of salt.

Can't believe Myers is gone to the Indo!!! That is so tragic...going to that wonderful piece of toilet paper!

Does anyone know what actually happened to make him leave??

DublinWriter

I cannot believe he earns €200K for a his daily 500-word rant in the Irish Times. WTF?!

And that ad on the radio he does "Many have called my writing pugnatious, revaltory, abrasive"...

...no Kevin, that's your face they're describing.

Basically, like a Terry Keane, Mary Ellon-Sinon or Woodrow Wyatt, he's a just rent-a-job, employed to say a few 'controversial' things every now and again just to get the name of the paper he works for in the press. Any publicity is good publicity.

Unlike Clarkson or even P.J.Rourke, he's not tounge-in-cheek and his writing comes off sour, mealy-mouthed, sloppy and poorly researched.

dermo88

Good riddance to him, and to Mary Ellen Synon.

FlutterinBantam

I read his piece in todays Indo and one comment is worth the 200k

"Talbot St,once populated by wizened whey-skinned jailbirds with soggy cigarettes drooping out of their mouths"

Vintage Myers..... not afraid to say it as it is,blow the sacred cows out of the water....why can't other people be as direct and fearless?

Snickers Man

FlutterinBantam wrote:

"Talbot St,once populated by wizened whey-skinned jailbirds with soggy cigarettes drooping out of their mouths"

....not afraid to say it as it is,blow the sacred cows out of the water....why can't other people be as direct and fearless?

OK. I'l try:

Pompous pheasant-fed flatulents fawning after the faded legacy of an ascendancy whose heyday was more than two centuries ago have taken control of the opinion pages of the Irish Independent.

Once the paper of the sober Catholic citizen, modest in his outlook, chaste in his conduct and fiercely proud of his country's newly won independence the Independent is now a revisionist rag hankering after the baubles that were sacrificed to bring about that independence.

Peerages. Pimms. An aristocratic honours system. Fox-hunting followed by fondling fine young fillies. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Colonial governors. Massive hats with ridiculous plumages. The British Lions. The Ryder Cup (before they let those awful garlic-scoffing continentals on the team) Cannon fodder for the Empire. Bombing Iraqi mountain villages to practise for Dresden. Tying revolting natives to cannons. Shooting into peaceful demonstrations (Ah that's when our lads could really sock it to the great unwashed)

Bring it all back!!

DublinWriter

FlutterinBantam wrote:

Vintage Myers..... not afraid to say it as it is,blow the sacred cows out of the water....why can't other people be as direct and fearless?

Not only are you wrong, you are giving him the oxygen of publicity, whereas I wouldn't even give him the oxygen of oxygen.

zuma

Snickers Man wrote:

OK. I'l try:

Pompous pheasant-fed flatulents fawning after the faded legacy of an ascendancy whose heyday was more than two centuries ago have taken control of the opinion pages of the Irish Independent.

Once the paper of the sober Catholic citizen, modest in his outlook, chaste in his conduct and fiercely proud of his country's newly won independence the Independent is now a revisionist rag hankering after the baubles that were sacrificed to bring about that independence.

Peerages. Pimms. An aristocratic honours system. Fox-hunting followed by fondling fine young fillies. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Colonial governors. Massive hats with ridiculous plumages. The British Lions. The Ryder Cup (before they let those awful garlic-scoffing continentals on the team) Cannon fodder for the Empire. Bombing Iraqi mountain villages to practise for Dresden. Tying revolting natives to cannons. Shooting into peaceful demonstrations (Ah that's when our lads could really sock it to the great unwashed)

Bring it all back!!

Thats pretty damn impressive.....you should €250K a year for that

Snickers Man

zuma wrote:

Thats pretty damn impressive.....you should €250K a year for that

From whom? The Village? An Phoblacht? The Socialist Worker?

I don't think so.

Would be good though.

ODS

Snickers Man wrote:

From whom? The Village? An Phoblacht? The Socialist Worker?

I don't think so.

Would be good though.

Spot on. Try Phoenix:D

BTW Did you see this, from the Indo website, undeer "editorial":

Indo Website wrote:

PUNCHESTOWN is over, the flat season is upon us, and the most mysterious creatures in all creation now disappear into whatever place of aestivation God created for them. Or maybe jump-jockeys don't actually go anywhere in the summer, but metamorphose into something else entirely indeed, much as kingfishers were once believed to change into oysters every winter. So at this time of year, perhaps jump-jockeys become greenfly or cough linctus or lawn-mowers.

...more.

To read the full story by Kevin Myers, get your copy of the Irish Independent Today.

IRELAND'S BEST-SELLING NEWSPAPER

:eek:

Cheapskates! No I'll never buy the Indo. Good luck to all concerned; I'll stick with my Times, for all its faults. And as for Kevin Myarse's radio ad... "Some call me ...I can describe myself in one word - W@nk€r"

FlutterinBantam

Joe Higgins might throw you a few shillins for that stuff.... reads like the auld Socialist Party handouts I line the cats litter tray with.... Sh@gger loves to dump his messiest load on them for some reason...