Which of the Presidential Candidates would you have a pint with?

Judgement Day

Of the five candidates for President which would you prefer to have a pint with and why. Here are mine in order and I'm a Unionist.

1. Martin McGuinness - seems human, affable and probably enjoys a joke.
2. Mary Davis - inoffensive.
3. Sean Gallagher - too boring.
4. Gay Mitchell - Fine Gael - say no more.
5. Michael D Higgins - pompous ass who bore the hind legs off a donkey.

problemchimp

Marty for me, some great stories from days of yore.

yeppydeppy

I'd have a pint with any of them, as long as they were buying, which they would, looking for my vote and all. I'm broke and can't afford a pint till I'm paid next bleedin' week.

JupiterKid

Probably Michael D.

I'd share a line of coke with Dana.

Blazer

My time is too precious to be wasted on these idiots...if they're going for the Presidency then obviously they've decided to hell with making changes and let's settle in for a cushy ride.

foxyboxer

I've already had a pint with Michael D*

Do I win?









* 12 years ago

4leto

Martin Mc Guinness he would have some interesting tales and he is meant to be great craic. He even got on with big Ian,

super_furry

Martin McGuinness is a tee-totaller. For that, if nothing else, no self-respecting Irishman should vote for him.

ejmaztec

You'd probably end up with a pint of gravy from the train that one of them's going to get a ride on.

SEPT 23 1989

None of the above

super_furry

With David Norris not running, Mary Davis is the only one you'd have even half a chance of getting the ride off, so her. Not going to waste my time with the others.

Simon Adebisi

Ill wait for Dana to get the sigs and then go for a scoop with her and tell loads of abortion jokes.

Cork boy 55

I voted for Mary davis cause she is so cute and pretty

In the election it's MMG all the way

:pac:


EDIT

MMG does not drink

uch

All them if they are buying

Bloody Nipples

I'll wait for Dana and try and drop the hand.

Judgement Day

Is Martin McGuinness really a teetotaller? Another black mark in my book so and he likes ****ing poetry - jeez he's turning out nearly as bad as Michael Twee.

KeithAFC

Mary Davis

--Kaiser--

I can't say I'd particularly like a pint with any of them but I wouldn't piss on Martin McGuinness if he was on fire

sdanseo

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

I voted for Mary davis cause she is so cute and pretty

That's your "should've gone to specsavers" moment right there. :rolleyes:

Wolfe Tone

Martin McGuinness, he can drive me home after seen as he doesn't drink and he wont tell me to shut up if I start singing "The Men behind the wire" after 10 pints.


EDIT: If I had a pint with Higgins I'd probably start slagging him for looking like a gnome after I've had a few, doubt that would go down too well.

filthymcnasty

Judgement Day wrote: »

Of the five candidates for President which would you prefer to have a pint with and why. Here are mine in order and I'm a Unionist.

1. Martin McGuinness - seems human, affable and probably enjoys a joke..

really? politics aside he comes across a bit miserable /dour

My name is URL

None of them seem like great drinking buddies. Mary Davis would blend in with the wallpaper in most pubs. Higgins would make a show of ya with his bad poetry. Mitchell would have you drinking pints of Holy Water, and McGuinness doesn't drink at all. I'd have to say Gallagher.. he seems like he'd be the best craic after a few jars.. and I could blag a free lift home with him since he lives only 2 miles away.

Ghost Buster

I wouldnt have a pint with Mc Guinness unless he held a gun to my head.
So I think its likely that i would have a pint with McGuinness.
If he becomes President will he be calling the shots?

Morlar

I'd love to see higgins roaring drunk on a whiskey binge. Big red eyes hair all up in the air and all over the place, pa-ra-lytic. It'd be hilarious.

charlemont

Mcguiness.

JerryHandbag

Michael Dee. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

LordSutch

McGuinness for a pint! we'd talk about many things including the brand of timer used in the Enniskillen bomb, then we'd chat about the ways he & his mates used to shoot off young fellas knee caps, I guess we wold also chat about the remaining disappeared and the possible financial reparations to IRA victims in wheelchairs, we could than talk about Ogla na hÉireann, and which one he supports

Lovely pint indeed, although I would probably be suffering from bouts of depression & fits of extreme anger for several months after the encounter.

My name is URL

It sounds like you need more than a pint to unwind =p

Evaex

LordSutch wrote: »

McGuinness for a pint! we'd talk about many things including the brand of timer used in the Enniskillen bomb, then we'd chat about the ways he & his mates used to shoot off young fellas knee caps, I guess we wold also chat about the remaining disappeared and the possible financial reparations to IRA victims in wheelchairs, we could than talk about Ogla na hÉireann, and which one he supports

Lovely pint indeed, although I would probably be suffering from bouts of depression & fits of extreme anger for several months after the encounter.

I'd probably ask McGuinness about the human proxy bomb, particularly that used against a cook Patrick Gillespie whose family were taken by the IRA. Patrick was then told to drive a truck loaded with explosives to a checkpoint at Coshquin on the border where the bomb was remotely detonated killing him and five soldiers.

Or maybe about Le Mon bombing where twelve people were killed and 30 were severely injured when a petrol bomb mixed with sugar (designed so the petrol would stick to whatever it hit) exploded in a packed restaurant. See an image of one of the charred victims here

Or maybe about the countless people tortured under his command who had finger nails ripped out, boiling water/tar poured on them, etc before being dumped in some bog.

Yes that would be an interesting pint.

Wolfe Tone

Evaex wrote: »

I'd probably ask McGuinness about the human proxy bomb, particularly that used against Patrick Gillespie whose family were taken by the IRA. Patrick was then told to drive a truck loaded with explosives to a checkpoint at Coshquin on the border where the bomb was remotely detonated killing him and five soldiers.

Or maybe about Le Mon bombing where twelve people were killed and 30 were severely injured when a petrol bomb mixed with sugar (designed so the petrol would stick to whatever it hit) exploded in a packed restaurant. See an image of one of the charred victims here

Or maybe about the countless people tortured under his command who had finger nails ripped out, boiling water/tar poured on them, etc

Yes that would be an interesting pint.

You're some craic

ejmaztec

LordSutch wrote: »

McGuinness for a pint! we'd talk about many things including the brand of timer used in the Enniskillen bomb, then we'd chat about the ways he & his mates used to shoot off young fellas knee caps, I guess we wold also chat about the remaining disappeared and the possible financial reparations to IRA victims in wheelchairs, we could than talk about Ogla na hÉireann, and which one he supports

Lovely pint indeed, although I would probably be suffering from bouts of depression & fits of extreme anger for several months after the encounter.

You'd probably only be suffering for about five minutes.:eek:

mikemac

Michael D

And we can discuss the laughing stock of the LOI, Galway United

Michael D is President, hope he has more success as President of the nation

Evaex

ejmaztec wrote: »

You'd probably only be suffering for about five minutes.:eek:

A bullet to the head is a swift remedy alright.

LordSutch

My name is URL wrote: »

It sounds like you need more than a pint to unwind =p

Well I probably would do if I really had that pint with cuddly old Martin.

Paparazzo

Evaex wrote: »

I'd probably ask McGuinness about the human proxy bomb, particularly that used against a cook Patrick Gillespie whose family were taken by the IRA. Patrick was then told to drive a truck loaded with explosives to a checkpoint at Coshquin on the border where the bomb was remotely detonated killing him and five soldiers.

Or maybe about Le Mon bombing where twelve people were killed and 30 were severely injured when a petrol bomb mixed with sugar (designed so the petrol would stick to whatever it hit) exploded in a packed restaurant. See an image of one of the charred victims here

Or maybe about the countless people tortured under his command who had finger nails ripped out, boiling water/tar poured on them, etc before being dumped in some unmarked grave.

Yes that would be an interesting pint.

That's all in the past. However, David Norris sending a letter 16 years ago makes him a child rapist

Evaex

Paparazzo wrote: »

That's all in the past.

Many in the present are still living with the consequences.

My name is URL

LordSutch wrote: »

Well I probably would do if I really had that pint with cuddly old Martin.

The thread isn't about him though. It's about who you would like to have a pint with. Are you going to go on a rant every time you see his name mentioned between now and election day? You could save a lot of people the hassle of reading your monotonous raving by saying so right now, they can stick you on ignore for the duration and have done with it.

Micky Dolenz

All of them.

You should see the people I normally drink with.

TheZohanS

A jaeger bomb and shots with McGuinness...

Judgement Day

LordSutch wrote: »

McGuinness for a pint! we'd talk about many things including the brand of timer used in the Enniskillen bomb, then we'd chat about the ways he & his mates used to shoot off young fellas knee caps, I guess we wold also chat about the remaining disappeared and the possible financial reparations to IRA victims in wheelchairs, we could than talk about Ogla na hÉireann, and which one he supports

Lovely pint indeed, although I would probably be suffering from bouts of depression & fits of extreme anger for several months after the encounter.

I have to agree with a lot of what you say and I only started this thread for a bit of light relief. Martin McGuinness and his ilk have a lot to answer for, as do many others, and as usual with these things it's the ordinary people who behave themselves and try and go about their lives in a civilised way that suffer.

It's a no win situation.

If Martin McGuinness were to be elected President what message does that send out to CIRA and other extremist groups - kill enough innocent people and then negotiate a truce, join the establishment and get your nose in the trough. Where does that leave parties like the SDLP who have been well and truly hung out to dry by the British and Irish establishments.

On the other hand you cannot ignore how MMG, Gerry Adams etc. have brought the hard men onboard the 'Peace Process' at some considerable personal risk. We cannot be forever looking backwards and yet it is all too easy to tell people to move on, especially if like me you're lucky enough never to have known anybody killed or injured in the Troubles.

Although I could never vote for McGuinness I like to think he is a reasonably honest man but if today's glimpse when the veil dropped with his comment about 'West Brits' is anything to go by....

What is Ireland's legacy from Martin McGuinness and the IRA stemming from the Troubles? The one I see every week is the army still guarding the money shipments and I think it's indisputable that is a symptom of how 30+ years of subversion has brought us to the appalling state of lawlessness which now pervades the country.

Sorry for going so far off topic. I wonder what McGuinness would drink if was a drinker - surely Guinness or would that be showing West Brit leanings?

LordSutch

My name is URL wrote: »

Are you going to go on a rant every time you see his name mentioned between now and election day? You could save a lot of people the hassle of reading your monotonous raving by saying so right now, they can stick you on ignore for the duration and have done with it.

Oh yes, I'm sure you qould love me to shut up about Marty's previous life in the Provisional IRA, but I won't keep quiet, I refuse to let his grisly past go unchallenged in this forum, we are after all talking about the Presedency of Ireland, and if any of the candidates have questions to be asked, then ask & highlight we will . . . .

Wolfe Tone

LordSutch wrote: »

Oh yes, I'm sure you qould love me to shut up about Marty's previous life in the Provisional IRA, but I won't keep quiet, I refuse to let his grisly past go unchallenged in this forum, we are after all talking about the Presedency of Ireland, and if any of the candidates have questions to be asked, then ask & highlight we will . . . .

Yeah but this thread supposed to be a bit of craic with some jokes and that, there are other threads for pontificating about his past.

My name is URL

LordSutch wrote: »

Oh yes, I'm sure you qould love me to shut up about Marty's previous life in the Provisional IRA, but I won't keep quiet, I refuse to let his grisly past go unchallenged in this forum, we are after all talking about the Presedency of Ireland, and if any of the candidates have questions to be asked, then ask & highlight we will . . . .

I never said you should shut up.. I just pointed out that this isn't the thread for it, as you are well aware. You already have a heap of posts in the thread about McGuinness and his bid to be president.. there's no need to cross post your opinions on every single thread which is slightly related to the election and/or candidates.

KnifeWRENCH

Probably Seán Gallagher. If I became a good friend of his I'd always have someone to turn to when I need money. :pac:

Wouldn't go near Mitchell because I find his views abhorrent. Higgins seems interesting but I reckon anything he'd talk about would go over my head. I don't particularly care about the Special Olympics tbh (it's nice that they're there but I don't pay attention to them) so I reckon Davis wouldn't be the best companion. And while I'm sure McGuinness is a decent enough fellow to talk to, I'd always be wondering if there's a sniper rifle pointing at me somewhere.

MetalDog

Where's the "Spike Dana's drink and leave her in a cage with a male Gorilla" option?

ejmaztec

MetalDog wrote: »

Where's the "Spike Dana's drink with Rohypnol and leave her in a cage with a male Gorilla" option?

The spike should be enough.

Scottysaoirse

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

I can't say I'd particularly like a pint with any of them but I wouldn't piss on Martin McGuinness if he was on fire

I'm not one for reading idiots posts but when I seen yours I thought I would make an exception .... Regardless of his past and what he says he did or did not do ...do you not think if we don't take terrorists along and at least listen to what they think we will end up back in the place ....oh encase you think I.beleive theses guys are terrorists I don't .... To me they are freedom frightens ... I don't whole heartily agree with an armed struggle but I can see there point Ireland unfree shall never be at peace every one needs to be heard or the unheard will be the guy with a gun ....Oglala na ehireann

orourkeda

I wouldnt mind partying with Martin McGuinness.

I wouldnt vote for him but I'd say he's quite the lad

Scottysaoirse

Judgement Day wrote: »

LordSutch wrote: »

McGuinness for a pint! we'd talk about many things including the brand of timer used in the Enniskillen bomb, then we'd chat about the ways he & his mates used to shoot off young fellas knee caps, I guess we wold also chat about the remaining disappeared and the possible financial reparations to IRA victims in wheelchairs, we could than talk about Ogla na hÉireann, and which one he supports

Lovely pint indeed, although I would probably be suffering from bouts of depression & fits of extreme anger for several months after the encounter.

I have to agree with a lot of what you say and I only started this thread for a bit of light relief. Martin McGuinness and his ilk have a lot to answer for, as do many others, and as usual with these things it's the ordinary people who behave themselves and try and go about their lives in a civilised way that suffer.

It's a no win situation.

If Martin McGuinness were to be elected President what message does that send out to CIRA and other extremist groups - kill enough innocent people and then negotiate a truce, join the establishment and get your nose in the trough. Where does that leave parties like the SDLP who have been well and truly hung out to dry by the British and Irish establishments.

On the other hand you cannot ignore how MMG, Gerry Adams etc. have brought the hard men onboard the 'Peace Process' at some considerable personal risk. We cannot be forever looking backwards and yet it is all too easy to tell people to move on, especially if like me you're lucky enough never to have known anybody killed or injured in the Troubles.

Although I could never vote for McGuinness I like to think he is a reasonably honest man but if today's glimpse when the veil dropped with his comment about 'West Brits' is anything to go by....

What is Ireland's legacy from Martin McGuinness and the IRA stemming from the Troubles? The one I see every week is the army still guarding the money shipments and I think it's indisputable that is a symptom of how 30+ years of subversion has brought us to the appalling state of lawlessness which now pervades the country.

Sorry for going so far off topic. I wonder what McGuinness would drink if was a drinker - surely Guinness or would that be showing West Brit leanings?

Fuk u talk some ****e fella. Britain out of the North it Ireland. Then wen we unite Ireland we can kick the ****e outta the dirty freestate traders. Oglaigh na eheirann, the peoples army.

policarp

Scottysaoirse wrote: »

Fuk u talk some ****e fella. Britain out of the North it Ireland. Then wen we unite Ireland we can kick the ****e outta the dirty freestate traders. Oglaigh na eheirann, the peoples army.

That's two fellows you're talking about.
MMG has over 50% of the poll so far, so why spoil it for him?
That is if you're on his side. . .

Scottysaoirse

orourkeda wrote: »

I wouldnt mind partying with Martin McGuinness.

I wouldnt vote for him but I'd say he's quite the lad

Aye Ur another freestate whoerbag away and take Ur bake for a lift. Seem to forget it was the I.r.a who freed the south and now u Walter middys think ya can acuse Marty of doin wrong u idiots any wonder Ur bankrupt Ur all daft as monkeys. Britain and freestaters out of Eire. Tiocfaidh ar la