Nicky Byrne - ignorant or just plain stupid?

Rogue-Trooper

Anybody spot Westlife 'Star' Nicky Byrne's major faux pas at the Paddy's Day Parade yesterday?

Nicky was sitting in the front row of the VIP grandstand outside the GPO on O'Connell Street and as the Presidential motorcade approached, everyone was asked by the MC to 'show respect and be upstanding for the guest of honour'. All 300 or so guests did stand up - EXCEPT Nicky Bleedin Byrne and his wife Georgina who remained seated with their kids on their laps! Even when the President approached him to greet him (shouldn't that really be the other way around?) he still remained seated and only managed to raise himself a couple of inches off his seat to 'allow' President McAleese to kiss him. To add insult to injury, he didn't even take off his sunglasses as she approached and the President almost knocked them off his face as she kissed him. How rude can one person be?!!

Do these so-called 'celebrities' think they are immune to the protocols of being in the presence our nation's President? Regardless of your opinion of Mary McAleese, do you not think this showed huge disrespect to the Office of the President? Is North County Dublin's answer to Posh 'n Becks completely ignorant or just plain thick? I imagine he didn't deliberately set out to snubb President McAleese, but do they really think they are 'above' having to stand up? Also, as a daughter of the former Taoiseach, you'd think that Georgina would be a little more savvy regarding the correct protocols surrounding these things. I don't accept the possible excuse either that they had the kids on their laps as lots of the people in the grandstand had small kids with them (Ray D'Arcy among them and he managed to stand up!).

If you missed it, the incident happened live on TV and the parade coverage is available on the RTE Player - the Presidential arrival is around 6 mins into it iirc.

hidinginthebush

He should be tried for treason and executed.

WindSock

Who gives a toss about the president or any other 'dignitary'. No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else.

sbsquarepants

You spend the past 10 years with people (kids are people too remember!) falling over themselves to catch a glimpse of you and you start to believe you must be something special i suppose. She's the f.ucking president, stand up you ill mannered little pox. What a muppet

Fizman

Isn't he tiny anyway. Kinda like a pixie. Maybe he was standing? :pac:

Bonito

WindSock wrote: »

Who gives a toss about the president or any other 'dignitary'. No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else.

+1.

There was me thinking we're all equal :rolleyes:

Quackles

WindSock wrote: »

Who gives a toss about the president or any other 'dignitary'. No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else.

Ah, but I'd make an effort to stand if I was being introduced to anyone who was already standing. Good manners is good manners, whether it's towards the president of Ireland or Mary from down the road.

Krusader

WindSock wrote: »

Who gives a toss about the president or any other 'dignitary'. No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else.

You are not showing respect to the person, you are showing respect to the office she holds and to the people who elected her to that office and to the many who died for her to be able to hold that office. :rolleyes:
Get a grip of yourself!

sbsquarepants

We are all equal, doesn't mean you shouldn't respect the president of your country. No one is asking him to donate his kidneys, just get off his disrepectfull idiot ass for a second. I bet the snivelling little s.hit stands to greet simon cowell!

Antbert

Maybe he disagreed with her about something and didn't stand on principle?

Maybe he... Who the **** cares?!

What a non-issue.

orourkeda

Who's Nicky Byrne

smokedeels

Was he the token celebrity? I didn't spot anyone else, you'd think they'd aim higher for such a big event.

Fago!

Nicky Byrne is a legend.

Seifer

Ignorant twat. With the amount of gardaí on bikes there, you'd think one of them would've smacked him with a leather glove at least.

On a side note: I'm amazed RTE's player actually managed to let me click on the 6 min point and play without imploding.

Bonito

sbsquarepants wrote: »

We are all equal, doesn't mean you shouldn't respect the president of your country. No one is asking him to donate his kidneys, just get off his disrepectfull idiot ass for a second. I bet the snivelling little s.hit stands to greet simon cowell!

When my country stops fúcking me over I'll respect it's representatives

Also, I didn't vote her in so, meh.

ejmaztec

Fago! wrote: »

Nicky Byrne is a bell-end.

fyp



Hang them all!

Tender Hoop

Nicky is a cuunt

Dennis the Stone

hidinginthebush wrote: »

He should be tried for treason and executed.

I agree. When I saw it I was so enraged I put my foot through the television and sent Nicky Byrne the bill.

Rogue-Trooper

Quackles wrote: »

Ah, but I'd make an effort to stand if I was being introduced to anyone who was already standing. Good manners is good manners, whether it's towards the president of Ireland or Mary from down the road.

Well said. There's always room for manners.

WindSock wrote: »

Who gives a toss about the president or any other 'dignitary'. No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else.

Don't tell me you are in a boyband too Windsock?

Go on, admit it - you were one half of The Carter Twins weren't you?!

Antbert

I am utterly amazed about the amount of feelings people have towards Nicky Byrne.

I hope you're just 'forum worked up' about it and not actually worked up.

MagicMarker

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

Anybody spot Westlife 'Star' Nicky Byrne's major faux pas at the Paddy's Day Parade yesterday?

Nicky was sitting in the front row of the VIP grandstand outside the GPO on O'Connell Street and as the Presidential motorcade approached, everyone was asked by the MC to 'show respect and be upstanding for the guest of honour'. All 300 or so guests did stand up - EXCEPT Nicky Bleedin Byrne and his wife Georgina who remained seated with their kids on their laps! Even when the President approached him to greet him (shouldn't that really be the other way around?) he still remained seated and only managed to raise himself a couple of inches off his seat to 'allow' President McAleese to kiss him. To add insult to injury, he didn't even take off his sunglasses as she approached and the President almost knocked them off his face as she kissed him. How rude can one person be?!!

Do these so-called 'celebrities' think they are immune to the protocols of being in the presence our nation's President? Regardless of your opinion of Mary McAleese, do you not think this showed huge disrespect to the Office of the President? Is North County Dublin's answer to Posh 'n Becks completely ignorant or just plain thick? I imagine he didn't deliberately set out to snubb President McAleese, but do they really think they are 'above' having to stand up? Also, as a daughter of the former Taoiseach, you'd think that Georgina would be a little more savvy regarding the correct protocols surrounding these things. I don't accept the possible excuse either that they had the kids on their laps as lots of the people in the grandstand had small kids with them (Ray D'Arcy among them and he managed to stand up!).

If you missed it, the incident happened live on TV and the parade coverage is available on the RTE Player - the Presidential arrival is around 6 mins into it iirc.

Like, OMG!!

Jimmy Bottlehead

He got outta his seat!! Jesus. Talk about a bloody over-reaction. He had a kid in his lap and got up as much as he could. Get over it.

Littleroo

He's an arsehole and he loves himself

Antbert

Littleroo wrote: »

He's an arsehole and he loves himself

Ah I didn't realise you knew him personally.

tech77

hidinginthebush wrote: »

He should be tried for treason and executed.

Well of course.

*goes back to OP and sees what the story is about.

fullstop

orourkeda wrote: »

Who's Nicky Byrne

Why does somebody always ask this when there is a thread about a 'celebrity' in AH?

If you really don't know, which I'm sure you probably do, then this would be a good place to look :rolleyes:

Grimreaper666

But are the Byrne/Aherne part of the Irish Royal family? Way above a mere President? The whole president thing should be scrapped anyway, complete waste of tax payers money tbh that we simply can't afford.

Rogue-Trooper

Antbert wrote: »

I am utterly amazed about the amount of feelings people have towards Nicky Byrne.

I hope you're just 'forum worked up' about it and not actually worked up.

Joe Duffy wrecks my head........I had nowhere else to go......

Be thankful I didn't start on Georgina's badly applied fake tan.....;)

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

He got outta his seat!! Jesus. Talk about a bloody over-reaction. He had a kid in his lap and got up as much as he could. Get over it.

Everyone else with kids stood up and held their kids in their arms. He was just to kool 4 skool I guess.....

Antbert

fullstop wrote: »

Why does somebody always ask this when there is a thread about a 'celebrity' in AH?

If you really don't know, which I'm sure you probably do, then this would be a good place to look :rolleyes:

Better yet: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=nicky+byrne

Cheap Thrills!

I'd say plain stupid at a guess.

He still hasn't realised the hoxton fin is so 2001.

ejmaztec

Antbert wrote: »

I am utterly amazed about the amount of feelings people have towards Nicky Byrne.

I hope you're just 'forum worked up' about it and not actually worked up.

He may have to go into the witness protection programme for his own safety.



rabble rabble

Bonito

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

He still hasn't realised the hoxton fin is so 2001.

Tomorrows Headlines

"Nicky Byrne trounced on popular online forum for not giving president a standing ovation. How did they get hold of this story before us?" :rolleyes:

ejmaztec

Bonito wrote: »

Tomorrows Headlines

"Nicky Byrne trounced on popular online forum for not giving president a standing ovation. How did they get hold of this story before us?" :rolleyes:

If it's the Indo, they'll invent a crowd of 30,000 demonstrators looking for blood.

OutlawPete

WindSock wrote: »

Who gives a toss about the president or any other 'dignitary'. No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else.

Couldn't disagree with this more.

No wonder today's society is so fucked.

We have kids smashing bricks into buses, Guards getting treated like shit, Fire and Ambulance men getting stoned trying to their job.

If kids are though that "No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else" then they grow up with a chip on their shoulder, reveling against authority, showing little or no respect for people in holding privileged positions in society.

It's called respect.

Bonito

ejmaztec wrote: »

If it's the Indo, they'll invent a crowd of 30,000 demonstrators looking for blood.

I actually originally was going to put "Tomorrows Indo headline" :pac:

krudler

sbsquarepants wrote: »

We are all equal, doesn't mean you shouldn't respect the president of your country. No one is asking him to donate his kidneys, just get off his disrepectfull idiot ass for a second. I bet the snivelling little s.hit stands to greet simon cowell!

Simon Cowell probably has more power than Mary McAleese to be fair, he could probably have you killed with one phone call

goat2

Crosáidí wrote: »

You are not showing respect to the person, you are showing respect to the office she holds and to the people who elected her to that office and to the many who died for her to be able to hold that office. :rolleyes:
Get a grip of yourself!

when bertie gets in
i bet he will stand

Biggins

goat2 wrote: »

when bertie gets in...

Don't even think that!
Heaven forbid!

Sprouts

Yes we are all equals in this country, we don't have a Monarchy as far as I know. People are getting their knickers in a twist over nothing.

ejmaztec

goat2 wrote: »

when bertie gets in
i bet he will stand

On the gallows, with any luck.

Pherekydes

WindSock wrote: »

Who gives a toss about the president or any other 'dignitary'. No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else.

Why have a VIP stand then?

Turtyturd

OutlawPete wrote: »

If kids are though that "No one is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else" then they grow up with a chip on their shoulder, reveling against authority, showing little or no respect for people in holding privileged positions in society.

It's called respect.

No they don't, that sounds like the kind of bullsh*t snobbish parents instill in their spoiled brats. If kids are taught that "someone is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else" they grow up with a sense of entitlement and a belief they should be treated a certain way.

People, not just kids should be taught to treat others as they treat you.

Biggins wrote: »

Don't even think that!
Heaven forbid!

Its going to happen.

OutlawPete

Turtyturd wrote: »

No they don't, that sounds like the kind of bullsh*t snobbish parents instill in their spoiled brats. If kids are taught that "someone is more deserving to be treated above or below anyone else" they grow up with a sense of entitlement and a belief they should be treated a certain way..

How has that got anything to do with my point exactly?

Posh kids, are you for real?

I am speaking of positions in society that should come with a level of respect.

I am the first one to say that some sections of society were wrongly treated like Gods in the past - Priests, Doctors etc.

However, to give a Soldier, Guard or the President of your Country a little respect is not too much ask now.

rednik

Normally anybody in the vicinity of a dignitary is made aware of the protocol which this dignitary is entitled to and everybody on the stand would have known. It is nothing to do with Mary McAleese but the office of President of Ireland. Says a lot about a person if you disrespect your own President.

bette

OutlawPete wrote: »

How has that got anything to do with my point exactly?

Posh kids, are you for real?

I am speaking of positions in society that should come with a level of respect.

I am the first one to say that some sections of society were wrongly treated like Gods - Priests, Doctors etc.

However, to give pay a Soldier, Guard or the President of the Country a little respect is not asking much.

If Ludwig van Beethoven was watching that he wouldn't have stood either. Respect for maestros!

Turtyturd

OutlawPete wrote: »

How has that got anything to do with my point exactly?

Posh kids, are you for real?

I am speaking of positions in society that should come with a level of respect.

I am the first one to say that some sections of society were wrongly treated like Gods - Priests, Doctors etc.

However, to give pay a Soldier, Guard or the President of the Country a little respect is not asking much.

The respect a person gets should not be in anyway deemed by their profession, more by their actions. A lot of doctors do good work and help people on a daily basis why are they wrongly treated with respect? On the opposite side of the coin a lot of guards feel as if they are in someway priviliged and treat people like sh*t, why do they deserve respect?

OutlawPete

Wow wow wow now, I take back my comments .. he does get up

As far as he could without totally losing control of the kid that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbQiJPyW7D0

TheInquisitor

Lads to be fair they both had their young kids on their laps. Did anyone actually watch the video???

Bonito

OutlawPete wrote: »

Wow wow wow now, I take back my comments .. he does get up

As far as he could without totally losing control of the kid that is.

Fail thread/rant for Op?

OutlawPete

Bonito wrote: »

Fail thread/rant for Op?

And Nicky Byrne is outside my gaff now ffs :mad:

What do I do??

Turtyturd

OutlawPete wrote: »

And Nicky Byrne is outside my gaff now ffs :mad:

What do I do??

Stand up, go outside and shake his hand. He deserves your respect.