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Varadkar told to "shut his gob" by the UK Sun

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    #32
    ancapailldorcha
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    It's the sun. It's got about as much journalistic merit as a KFC menu.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #33
    A Little Pony
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    Lord Varadkar deserves respect on his demolishing of Sinn Fein every week.


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    #34
    Atoms for Peace
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    Don't buy the sun.


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    #35
    Odhinn
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4940971/irelands-naive-young-prime-minister-should-shut-his-gob-on-brexit-and-grow-up/

    I vote no.

    :pac:

    Time was that would have been a lot worse - I'm somewhat amazed they haven't called him a leprachaun. Even the Sun has gone "PC"


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    #36
    Avatar MIA
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    Specialun wrote: »
    Some of those words are a bit too big for the typical sun reader

    Was thinking the same. 'Puerile' Well, lah de dah.

    A word that neatly sums up the paper itself.


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    #37
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
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    I truly hope Ireland makes every effort to avoid a hard border (including vetoes and anything else that is within our power). Dividing this island will hurt us way too much. The 'funny' thing is that the south of Ireland cares a million times more about the north of Ireland than England, Scotland and Wales combined. If only people in the north could see that.

    The UK shot itself in the genitals by voting yes to Brexit. They still have the old colonial mindset that they are a global power. Truth is, they are nothing more than one of the bigger European countries on the global stage. Voting out of Europe will come back to bite them in the ass so hard. But it will take 10/20 years for that reality to set in with enough of them.

    In the mean time, Ireland has to advocate for what is best for us. And I support the rhetoric that Leo has come out with so far regarding this.


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    #38
    exaisle
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4940971/irelands-naive-young-prime-minister-should-shut-his-gob-on-brexit-and-grow-up/

    I vote no.

    :pac:

    It's a wonder they included Leo Varadkar's name...they usually don't go beyond one or two syllables...and that's only the editorial staff.

    The readers get confused if there's anything more than one...."tits" or "arse" to be specific. In fact, it's lucky that women only have two breasts...any more would confuse them...


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    #39
    Oldtree
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    True, but nothing to do with Kermit being trolled!

    They trolled kermit, that's a disgrace! I hope they leave miss piggy alone.


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    #40
    Agricola
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    All jokes aside, isn't it shocking that odious cúnts like Murdoch use their bogroll papers to further their own agenda, whipping up all sorts of negative sentiment in people who for whatever reason* don't know any better.






    *mainly being very stupid and easily lead I'd guess.


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    #41
    spurious
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    exaisle wrote: »
    It's a wonder they included Leo Varadkar's name...they usually don't go beyond one or two syllables...and that's only the editorial staff.

    The readers get confused if there's anything more than one...."tits" or "arse" to be specific. In fact, it's lucky that women only have two breasts...any more would confuse them...

    "The Sun" requires a reading age of 8, which is just about functionally literate. Not too many abstract ideas. Short sentences. PICTURES!!!!


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    #42
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    Past colonialism makes hark back to the good old days of colonialism more difficult.

    Oh, no.


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    #43
    theteal
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    I want my click back


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    #44
    nice_guy80
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    this is the same paper who blamed the football fans for causing the Hillsborough disaster

    I have never bought a copy of it


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    #45
    sjb25
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4940971/irelands-naive-young-prime-minister-should-shut-his-gob-on-brexit-and-grow-up/

    I vote no.

    :pac:

    Hey UK sun


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    #46
    tooManyChoices
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    Was there an article there?

    Pretty sure I was just reading the comments section.


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    #47
    MrPudding
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    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Don't buy the sun.

    Yeah, great idea. Issue is something like 1.5m people in the UK buy it every day and believe everything it prints, assuming they actually read it, of course.

    MrP


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    #48
    somefeen
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    I'd love to be Leo now. It would be very satisfying to respond to every point they've made seeing as half of it is nonsense. Completely fruitless though, probably better to just formally respond with "LOL!" and start winding them up.


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    #49
    trashcan
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    MrPudding wrote: »
    Yep. A rubbish paper. But a rubbish paper with the highest circulation of any paper in the UK.

    Also, you aren't allowed to say people that voted for brexit are stupid. Clearly they were, but you can't say it. That is why they voted to leave, because people said they were stupid.

    MrP

    Yeah, same as Trump voters. But you can't call them stupid, cos, you know, then they'll just keep voting stupid out of spite.


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    #50
    Permabear
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    #51
    trashcan
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    Permabear wrote: »
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    It's a little ironic that the Tory wannabe is despised by the UK Tory press.


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    #52
    mad muffin
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    I wonder if it dawned on them that 17.4 million people decided the destiny of the other 50 million?


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    Permabear
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    #54
    splinter65
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    Is anyone else reading this headline as “shaaat your gobbb!”


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    #55
    arayess
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    chatticusfinch wrote: »
    Readers of the Sun aren't too bothered with the words, now the pictures, that's another story entirely.

    fcuk you. dear deirdre is a quality piece.
    has more in common with people lives than the LON or Fintan O'Toole guff you read in the IT


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    #56
    mad muffin
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    splinter65 wrote: »
    Is anyone else reading this headline as “shaaat your gobbb!”

    Innit…


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    #57
    AnGaelach
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    I absolutely love the Little Englander rhetoric, maybe now we'll stop having Irish people calling for closer ties with the British since "we're like so similar culturally anyway like".


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    #58
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm not a fan of Varadkar in general but his stance on this issue is spot on so far.
    A hard border should absolutely not be an option under any circumstances and Varadkar is completely justified in his insistence that the British government submit this in writing before any further talks progress.
    The Brexit debacle is Britain's own goal, it's their mess to clean up and not Ireland's or the EU's. They repeatedly insist they don't want a hard border but those words are meaningless when they have come up with no concrete solution whatsoever in avoiding this.

    Also anyone who willingly reads the Sun, or writes for it, has failed at life and should go fúck themselves off the nearest cliff edge.


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    #59
    seamus
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.
    As far as Murdoch is concerned, anyone who is not in favour of Brexit and allowing him to have a media monopoly, is a disgusting leftie treacherous socialist.


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    #60
    end of the road
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    I wonder if it dawned on them that 17.4 million people decided the destiny of the other 50 million?

    ha!!!
    that would require brain power, something brexiters don't have.

    there won't be a hard border. the EU won't allow it, and the EU have the upper hand in the negotiations.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #61
    Agricola
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The Brexit debacle is Britain's own goal, it's their mess to clean up and not Ireland's or the EU's. They repeatedly insist they don't want a hard border but those words are meaningless when they have come up with no concrete solution whatsoever in avoiding this.

    Judging by Borris Johnson's display yesterday, it's obvious they don't give a fraction of a shít about NI or about what happens to the border region. I suppose that was obvious during the campaign when almost no politician brought up the NI issue but to see it coming from Johnson, while in Dublin, 18 months later is pretty shocking. He really just wants to move things along so the Tories can keep the 2 year timeframe promise. His only REAL concern is what this divorce is going to cost Britain.


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