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Tiger Mcilroy

Duffy really is a clown..how dare somebody criticize this eulogising of ian paisley after the event.

Robert2012

JM Skipton wrote: »

Remember the last time you started drinking this early;)

I remember it well, that was the time I attended the FF outside broadcast...I wasn't unconscious from drink though, I was asleep

CountyHurler

pc7 wrote: »

Was that a champagne cork popping?

Yeah but I think that's the Fair City crowd starting the celebration early..

Dan Jaman

Oops, that's her alarm for her pills.

NightOfTheHunt

Gerry Adams trying to call in there

Tiger Mcilroy

As if joe reading out these prepared statements of serving politicians is a true reflection of their reality.

Lenin Skynard

"But c'mon lads! Sinn Fein are saying nice things! Why can't ye say nice things too?!?!"

Robert2012

Ulster Says No, but The Man from Del Monte says YES!

constitutionus

Ha ha ha

Joe crest fallen the ol biddy doesn't give fk one about gerry Adams

JM Skipton

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Oops, that's her alarm for her pills.

No that's the alert Joe gets when he has topped the 5k mark for the week.

CountyHurler

There's no "Road To Damascus" moment here.. Ian Paisley chose to jump on the bandwagon when he found that nobody would listen to his diatribe any more..

furiousox

I was in a lift with him once in Stormont.
Just me, him and his bodyguard.
He spoke..I nodded, or smiled or shook my head....didn't open my mouth once!

sligojoek

CountyHurler wrote: »

There's no "Road To Damascus" moment here.. Ian Paisley chose to jump on the bandwagon when he found that nobody would listen to his diatribe any more..

Exactly

Tiger Mcilroy

here is a bit of balance, bertie and ian paisley on a junket to the boyne... ffs

Dan Jaman

It is a tough one, all right.
Should we remember him for the (relative) moderate he later became or for the vile loathsomeness of his earlier pronouncements?
It would be doing nobody any favours to forget the actuality of what happened.
I dunno. I would hope I'd be remembered for any good I did, but will anybody quietly sweep the nasty stuff under the carpet for me?

Tiger Mcilroy

Mandela....oh holy christ.

baldbear

Comparing Mandela and Paisley is so wrong.

signostic

comparing Paisley to Mandela...what a ... this guy is...

SEPT 23 1989

Mandela was a terrorist no comparison

baldbear

Brian is a idiot.

CountyHurler

That's a bigger slapdown than the one that Leo Varadkar got from Enda.. lol

pc7

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Mandela was a terrorist

So was Gerry Ad...... 'expunge expunge'

mickydoomsux

Dan Jaman wrote: »

It is a tough one, all right.
Should we remember him for the (relative) moderate he later became or for the vile loathsomeness of his earlier pronouncements?
It would be doing nobody any favours to forget the actuality of what happened.
I dunno. I would hope I'd be remembered for any good I did, but will anybody quietly sweep the nasty stuff under the carpet for me?

It's Ireland, death guarantees instant sainthood.

Dev gave official condolences when Adolf ****ing Hitler died.

Tiger Mcilroy

Get this guy off the air...i actually feel sorry for him.

baldbear

John Hume? Hellllo Brian are you touched?

Oops69

Joe quotes a warmonger eulogising another warmonger , deplorable

CountyHurler

Dan Jaman wrote: »

It is a tough one, all right.

Well I think you should think about it like this.. Would Paisley have changed his opinions if his political career had continued to be successful?

mickydoomsux

CountyHurler wrote: »

Well I think you should think about it like this.. Would Paisley have changed his opinions if his political career had continued to be successful?

Precisely. He was an old man trying to be down with the kids.

ThisRegard

Dan Jaman wrote: »

but will anybody quietly sweep the nasty stuff under the carpet for me?

No, we'll all ring Joe and have a show about how much of an abusive online bully you were.

Dan Jaman

CountyHurler wrote: »

Well I think you should think about it like this.. Would Paisley have changed his opinions if his political career had continued to be successful?

Probably right, there. As a political animal, he would have continued to fan the flames if there was fuel there.