Mad woman outside Logues Shoe shop

gent9662

Did anyone come across that mad white haired crazy woman? She is carrying a banner for republican sinn fein wanting the Queens visit stopped.

I was surprised to see so many people confronting her and arguing with her. She looked like she was going to hit somebody!

mikom

A woman outside a shoe shop!
Nothing to see here... move along

c_man

Yeah she's usual down outside the entrance to the shopping centre harping on about abortion, the Brits etc. I dunno how her throat isn't killing her after all the shouting.

grainnereills

nothing like an 85 year old greatgrandmother to draw the ire of the loony left in Ireland!

if she's still there when I'm in town later, she'll also get a piece of my mind!

snubbleste

It's great to see someone so passionate about an issue that they are willing to go out there and air their views.
If more people were, the country would'nt be in the mess we are now.

Long may she live.

grainnereills

snubbleste wrote: »

It's great to see someone so passionate about an issue that they are willing to go out there and air their views.
If more people were, the country would'nt be in the mess we are now.

Long may she live.

and when her views are outlandish, outmoded and offensive...

snubbleste

grainnereills wrote: »

and when her views are outlandish, outmoded and offensive...

in your opinion..

Chicken1

Agree completely she is totally offensive, how would a tourist from the UK feel today seeing this idiot ranting and raving about the Queens visit, there is currently 1 million Irish working in the UK and over a thousand students arriving every month looking for work (source BBC TV recently)

Galway depends on tourists and its time we put the past behind us and moved on, I am sick listening to all of the arguements about the past.

strewthelvis

grainnereills wrote: »

and when her views are outlandish, outmoded and offensive...

ooh hate her, when i was expecting my second child and was in town with my mother for the day that wagon was at the door of the shopping centre and started shouting at me that i would go to hell and my baby would go to hell she said because i had a child outside wedlock, my mother was mortified when she realised it was at me she was roaring -i'm married, but thats neither here nor there, how bloody dare she speak of heaven or hell what gives her the right to be gods judge? i think the likes of her should be locked up and just throw away the key, she is not a harmless old woman "if more people acted like her" as a previous poster suggested i for one would be the one clobbering them.

A bloody nuisance is what she is

grainnereills

snubbleste wrote: »

in your opinion..

in the opinion of most progressive and liberal people out there...see the reaction above.

strange to see someone of the views you have previously expressed rushing to the defence of a right-wing ultra catholic like the lady described...

Pinturicchio

Is she the "woe betide women in trousers" woman?

snubbleste

grainnereills wrote: »

in the opinion of most progressive and liberal people out there...see the reaction above.
strange to see someone of the views you have previously expressed rushing to the defence of a right-wing ultra catholic like the lady described...

I've not said I support her views or what she says or even how she goes about physically expressing them. Where do you get this from?

I'm saying it is great she lives in a tolerant country where you can go out and express your views in public.
If more Irish people expressed their views rather than complaining to themselves about things, then we would all be better off as a society. Think of church abuse scandals, of substandard services, the use of our taxes etc..

ourtrail

I seen that all right, She's always outside that area ranting and raving about something, often waving the bible around, I thought it was entertaining at first but now I find myself using the Dunnes Stores entrance to the shopping centre to avoid her.

Simarillion

That's Rita alright. She usually rants about God and screams at the girls from the Mercy for wearing trousers and telling them that they're doomed on Judgement Day.

But she picks up on random other causes that people are protesting on Shop St. So far I've seen her helping (or not) people from the Galway Gospel Church, the anti-fox hunting crowd, the Socialist Workers Party, that Free Palestine bunch, and now she's clearly taken a shine to Sinn Fein.
Apart from the gospel chuch I'm noticing a trend....but anyway, she's harmless, quite nice when she's not shouting, I worked in a shop that was the only one left on the street that hadn't barred her. She used to be exceptionally polite and quiet when she came in to us, in case she got thrown out of there too.

the_syco

Simarillion wrote: »

She used to be exceptionally polite and quiet when she came in to us, in case she got thrown out of there too.

This shows she's of sane mind when she wants to be.

TheCosmicFrog

I once heard her talk about the "900 Billion Catholic women beaten by their husbands every year in Ireland". I was intrigued.

gent9662

snubbleste wrote: »

I've not said I support her views or what she says or even how she goes about physically expressing them. Where do you get this from?

I'm saying it is great she lives in a tolerant country where you can go out and express your views in public.
If more Irish people expressed their views rather than complaining to themselves about things, then we would all be better off as a society. Think of church abuse scandals, of substandard services, the use of our taxes etc..

I think you may need a shovel to help dig yourself out dude!

Backtracking is your strong point.

Gingganggooley

I have known her ( from a distance) for 30 years. Nutjob, to be ignored and avoided.

emptybladder

Ah, Rita. Take your pick:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/evil-woman-ordered-not-to-interfere-with-family-359989.html
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/judge-urges-warring-locals-to-back-off-363461.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0522/01052200014.html
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NEIGHBOUR+FROM+HELL+HAS+MADE+OUR+LIVES+MISERY+SAY+TERRIFIED...-a060444902
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60819590.html

snubbleste

dclane wrote: »

I think you may need a shovel to help dig yourself out dude!
Backtracking is your strong point.

You may want to read my post again.

strewthelvis

thanks for those links, such a sweet harmless old lady.....CRAP!!

gent9662

snubbleste wrote: »

You may want to read my post again.

your first one says it all!

gent9662

snubbleste wrote: »

It's great to see someone so passionate about an issue that they are willing to go out there and air their views.
If more people were, the country would'nt be in the mess we are now.

Long may she live.

So you are condoning a woman who has a violent history and who bullies women that are pregnant and shouts at tourists because they are English?

Lockstep

Is she the same one who sleeps in the doorway opposite Dignity and hurls abuse at anyone who goes in?

PomBear

Simarillion wrote: »

That's Rita alright. She usually rants about God and screams at the girls from the Mercy for wearing trousers and telling them that they're doomed on Judgement Day.

But she picks up on random other causes that people are protesting on Shop St. So far I've seen her helping (or not) people from the Galway Gospel Church, the anti-fox hunting crowd, the Socialist Workers Party, that Free Palestine bunch, and now she's clearly taken a shine to Sinn Fein.
Apart from the gospel chuch I'm noticing a trend....but anyway, she's harmless, quite nice when she's not shouting, I worked in a shop that was the only one left on the street that hadn't barred her. She used to be exceptionally polite and quiet when she came in to us, in case she got thrown out of there too.

Republican Sinn Féin...... big difference.

WallyGUFC

She's always outside the entrance to Corbettcourt holding a picture of "Jesus" and roaring out a load of mumbo-jumbo. The only place that'd suit her is Ballinasloe. She once said that 25 years ago she predicted 9/11 would happen. And she called me a monkey for telling her she was talking s**te!

Its amazing people will actually go up and tackle her on the relatively meaningless issue of the queen visiting Ireland. You go to any city in London you'll see someone ranting against the Irish or whoever. Its the same wherever you go.

However when the FF leader comes to town they are queueing up to shake his hand and the likes of Bertine Ahern, Sean Fitzpatrick and Michael Fingleton etc. are allowed brazenly walk around having brough the country to its knees with very little being said to them.

If people were half as willing to make a stand against the people who lead this country into a mess as they are to tackle a woman who everyone knows has serious issues we might be able to move forward.

Watch Ryder

Chicken1 wrote: »

Agree completely she is totally offensive, how would a tourist from the UK feel today seeing this idiot ranting and raving about the Queens visit, there is currently 1 million Irish working in the UK and over a thousand students arriving every month looking for work (source BBC TV recently)

Ireland need's to stop being so soft, this women is just summing up the case that the Queen of England is reckoned by some to be still influencing the country by proxy (puppet government).

Abortion, like it or not is baby-killing / life-killing. It is what it is.
For all that I am pro-choice as a libertarian

Aiel

Slightly stalkerish having a thread about what one woman does.If it was a group of them or something then maybe but i think ye should leave her off.

gaeilgegrinds1

To be honest was tackled recently by an anti-abortionist, seemingly I looked at her funnily! Seriously though, I hate that kinda thing, leave people in peace when they're in town. I don't mind people having a view but don't tackle innocent people!

galwayrush

That silly bitch, she tried to hit my then 9 year old daughter for wearing trousers, told her i'd bash her head in if she touched her.

magentas

I've often seen her hurl abuse at women walking past, always spouting the same oul crap, women in trousers...burn in hell...yadayadayada

I've heard her comment on a case about a man that beat his wife to death, she named names but I didn't recognise them, she said "and now that poor man in in jail because of that harlot"

She IS highly insulting and offensive and singles out people to roar abuse at them as they try to pass her, it's awful when parents have to try to explain to their child why some "lady" says they're going to hell!!!

I have never confronted her because she has never said anything aimed directly at me but I have seen other people genuinely upset because of this woman. She isn't mentally stable IMO and I don't think she should be out hurling abuse on the streets of Galway...for the sake of innocent people going about their business (especially where kids are involved) and for her own safety...a lot of people here sound pretty p!ssed off with the treatment of their girlfriends/mothers/daughters by this woman

Karona

Saw her call some guy a paedophile because his girlfriend was shorter than him.

I really dislike people like her. They scare me.

ErnieBert

She (allegedly) glued the lock on the shutter of the sex shop beside the Augustinian Church and the staff couldn't get in. She also (allegedly) painted over the window of O'Brien's when they had a poster in the shop window which advertised magazines for gay people. She also (allegedly) throw a can of white paint over magazines with scantly clad women on the covers, in News At Ten.

I remember her shouting at a nun outside Faller's calling her a slut and a whore.





I wonder where she buys her Crocs from?

Lapin

Borders no.2 wrote: »

You go to any city in London you'll see someone ranting against the Irish or whoever. Its the same wherever you go.

Any city in London ? - City of Westminster, The Square Mile, White City.

I take it you mean the UK.

Anyway, just because there are nutters elsewhere doesn't mean we have to tolerate the vitriolic and evidently hurtful tirades from this woman in our own city.

Even in that great meeting place in the heart of London renowned for such nuisances, Speakers Corner, people like Rita Leonard would be told to button it.

And if she tried her preaching elsewhere in the British capital, she would soon find herself sitting in the back of a silver Vauxhall Astra with blue lights on top, heading in the direction of Vine St nick.

The Metropolitan Police have cracked down on people like her in recent years because they now realise that the rest of us just want to go about our business without being harassed by such cretins.

I suggest the Gardaí in Galway do the same and get this woman off the streets once and for all.

Mrs OBumble

Chicken1 wrote: »

Agree completely she is totally offensive, how would a tourist from the UK feel today seeing this idiot ranting and raving about the Queens visit, there is currently 1 million Irish working in the UK and over a thousand students arriving every month looking for work (source BBC TV recently)

This is perhaps the only issue where Rita's opinion is in line with that of a surprising number of other Irish people. Agreed, most of the others won't be telling the Brit tourists what they think - but I'm not sure that passive-aggressive submission is actually a good thing.

Apart from that, she's just another of the mentally-ill people who live in our city. She's a pain, or cheap entertainment depending on your perspective - yes, sometimes a crowd does gather to watch her show. I don't think her freedom should be curtailed though, unless she's actually endangering anyone (clearly it has been in the past, hopefully she's over that now).

And yes, she is the woman who was sleeping in the doorway opposite Dignity last summer.

It'd be great if it was possible for her to receive treatment that enabled her to contribute more positively to society, but somehow I suspect it's too late in her life for that. My hunch is that she's probably the product of one of Ireland's wonderful "care" institutions.

Das Kitty

JustMary wrote:

My hunch is that she's probably the product of one of Ireland's wonderful "care" institutions.

Your hunch is off. One of the linked articles says she was a nurse in England and moved in with a man in Corofin after a relationship ended over there.

biko

I have removed some less than nice stuff.
Discussing an private individual like this isn't really on but if discussion is civil I'll leave it for now.

Jamey

Terrible woman. Heard her suggesting that Manuela Riedo 'deserved it' before.

pseudonym1

Where have I been? I have never seen ..or heard her.. :eek:

strewthelvis

pseudonym1 wrote: »

Where have I been? I have never seen ..or heard her.. :eek:

count yourself lucky!

Madame Razz

Das Kitty wrote: »

Your hunch is off. One of the linked articles says she was a nurse in England and moved in with a man in Corofin after a relationship ended over there.

For a one so high in her morals it seems ironic that she has 'lived in sin'. Maybe somebody should shout that at her when she goes on her next tirade:p

Das Kitty

Madame Razz wrote: »

For a one so high in her morals it seems ironic that she has 'lived in sin'. Maybe somebody should shout that at her when she goes on her next tirade:p

I'd be afraid I'd get a smack!

Madame Razz

She might throw her holy picture at you:pac:

pleasant Co.

Madame Razz wrote: »

For a one so high in her morals it seems ironic that she has 'lived in sin'. Maybe somebody should shout that at her when she goes on her next tirade:p

Print off this thread...read extracts as she hurls abuse [lets be real here, that's all she really does] at passers-by

TheRealSquishy

She 's the one who sleeps with a picture of holy mary opposite dignity! Was going into the shopping center one day with my OH and she grabbed me and told me she saw him going into dignity the night before and tried to spit on him. Poor OH was mortofied so I took over! I turned around and said no he was in my house all night having sex with me, out of wedlock, like my trousers? Crazy b**ch! She got so insulted that it flustered her and we made a quick getaway! Yeah she seems to jump on the bandwagon of anything that can cause controversy! Its usually Gay people and women with trousers and her being best friends with the pope. The shopping center security just stand at the door and makes sure she doesn't come in but they can't make her go away, poor crathurs.

Redhairedguy

JustMary wrote: »

It'd be great if it was possible for her to receive treatment that enabled her to contribute more positively to society

Like a laryngectomy.

This woman is a complete nuisance and a bully. Her aggressive fundamentalist verbal diarrhea has been directed at and deeply offended many people I know including my own mother who works in the Galway Family Planning Clinic as a sexual health nurse.

On one of this old bat's crazier days, she informed me that I was destined to go to hell unless I moved to Spain and indulged in self-flagellation (cue the dirty jokes )

The only place for this barmy ol' broad is a one way trip into space Superman style.....



Phantom Z'owned!

ilovesleep

Heard that bint rant about husbands beating and battering their wifes before. Hilarious

Seriously, you are all very sensitive in here. Why would you or anyone for that matter take her rantings on board and be offended? She is not well in the head. Also you all need ipods if you dont want to listen to her.

She is actually very scary

Redhairedguy

BURN THE WITCH!!!!

mrsdewinter

I've only seen her in action a couple of times but I know that her crazy antics made life hell for her neighbours when she lived in a village in rural Galway. She's obviously quite mentally ill. I'd no idea she was sleeping rough. Not the kind of conditions that would help stabilise her condition, in fairness...

barryd09

i wonder has she ever considered valium?