Mural of Joe Biden unveiled in Ballina

AllForIt

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/

I find this completely bizarre.

Was this commissioned by the council or what?

Have we got a budding Banksy in our midst?

This is just so beyond ridiculous on so many levels I don't need to explain.



mod: please correct typo spelling of Joe in title, thanks.

Atlantic Dawn

Does it have planning permission or is it Democratic Party exempt?

AllForIt

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Does it have planning permission or is it Democratic Party exempt?

Good question lol

con747

Aul Joe has links to Mayo so I see no problem, https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2020/0904/1163269-biden-mural/
Better than the other feckin oompa loompa nut job.

AllForIt

It is hoped Mr. Biden will be able to return to see the painting after November’s presidential election.

Hopefully because he's got noting better to do.


I'm sorry but if the excuse for this is because of his historical family lineage connection to Mayo it's still beyond contemptible, given he's an active candidate for the presidency.

AllForIt

con747 wrote: »

Aul Joe has links to Mayo so I see no problem, https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2020/0904/1163269-biden-mural/
Better than the other feckin oompa loompa nut job.

Well, what if the oompa loompa nut job had links to Mayo? Would the mural be commissioned then.


I wouldn't mind so much if they did this after the election. Then again, if Biden looses, they might not have bothered.

Nearly as bad as that one of yer man with the bag on his head..

con747

AllForIt wrote: »

Hopefully because he's got noting better to do.


I'm sorry but if the excuse for this is because of his historical family lineage connection to Mayo it's still beyond contemptible, given he's an active candidate for the presidency.

Of Ballina??

Quantum Erasure

When are they going to finish it?

con747

AllForIt wrote: »

Well, what if the oompa loompa nut job had links to Mayo? Would the mural be commissioned then.


I wouldn't mind so much if they did this after the election. Then again, if Biden looses, they might not have bothered.

I'm quite sure it would.

you seem, from where i sit, to have failed to have spelled out a coherent objection to this OP

An Ri rua

Strange Jeo location alright.

Atlantic Dawn

Mayo County Council will likely see it as fun times but if someone placed a Trump sticker on a bus shelter they would find themselves in a white mans jail.

I tried to create a competing mural of Trump in Castlebar but all the walls were taken. Hopefully you can right this wrong OP, one must stamp out the sneaky liberal agenda before it spreads into Leitrim.

con747

The bottom line is if Biden wins it gives a massive boost to Ballina in the future if travel gets anyway back to normality in the next year or two. Trump has his golf course in Clare. How many towns or villages in Ireland have benefited from a remote connection to a US president?

Disclaimer, I do have family connections in Ballina who did NOT draw the mural.:)

Quantum Erasure

Don't know about trump, but VP Mike Pence's grandparents came from Clare and Sligo

Atlantic Dawn

con747 wrote: »

The bottom line is if Biden wins it gives a massive boost to Ballina in the future if travel gets anyway back to normality in the next year or two. Trump has his golf course in Clare. How many towns or villages in Ireland have benefited from a remote connection to a US president?

Disclaimer, I do have family connections in Ballina who did NOT draw the mural.:)

Biden has no chance whatsover of winning.

con747

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Biden has no chance whatsover of winning.

If that pans out then god help us.

NIMAN

con747 wrote: »

If that pans out then god help us.

Has your life been dramatically affected by Trump being in power?

I know mine hasn't. And can't think of why another Trump term should fill anyone in Ireland with dread. Your life will go on as normal.

kowloonkev

Embarrassing. Why don't the people of Ballina just bring their begging cup to the US Embassy? It would be more subtle and classy.

con747

NIMAN wrote: »

Has your life been dramatically affected by Trump being in power?

I know mine hasn't. And can't think of why another Trump term should fill anyone in Ireland with dread. Your life will go on as normal.

Did I say it was? Did I say I was filled with dread? Did I say my life would not go on as normal? No, I did say god help us.

NIMAN

con747 wrote: »

Did I say it was? Did I say I was filled with dread? Did I say my life would not go on as normal? No, I did say god help us.

Whatever, you may not have said it, but you implied it.

Coillte_Bhoy

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Biden has no chance whatsover of winning.

Thats just blinkered bull****, all the polls show him with a comfortable lead and even the polls in some swing states, now he may not win but to say at this stage that he has no chanced flies in the face of all logic. And sorry but what exactly is your objection to this and why is it 'contemptible'? Personally i think its crass but hey

jackboy

The only issue with the mural is it looks crap. What did they do with his teeth?

Mongfinder General

Surely there'll be some protest from #metoo #ibelieveher mob? Maybe the people of Ballina believe that Tara Reade has been lying this whole time so are therefore ok with Joe just being the Democrats leading anti-busing campaigner in the 1970's.

lawrencesummers

Always found it telling that no town in Ireland ever attempted to claim Trump as one of their own.

lawrencesummers

jackboy wrote: »

The only issue with the mural is it looks crap. What did they do with his teeth?

Left them in a glass of water at the side, just like real life.

Coillte_Bhoy

jackboy wrote: »

The only issue with the mural is it looks crap. What did they do with his teeth?

It's awful and so is the of Michael Gaughan unveiled a few weeks ago, Ballina and murals eh?

Coillte_Bhoy

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Always found it telling that no town in Ireland ever attempted to claim Trump as one of their own.

Doonbeg seems happy enough to take that mantle

biko

Title fixed, Jeo -> Joe

biko

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2020/0904/1163269-biden-mural/

The painting was completed by local artists Padraig 'Smiler' Mitchell and Leslie Lackey

Mr Biden has links to Co Mayo and has visited the area on a number of occasions in recent years.

He travelled to Mayo in 2016, in his capacity as US Vice President. In 2017, he returned to turn the sod on a new hospice building outside Castlebar.

landofthetree

Typical Irish lick arses.

Water John

A thread for, the Irish Right to be offended.

whisky_galore

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Doonbeg seems happy enough to take that mantle

They're happy to take the money anyhow. If there was a Trump Hotel anywhere else in the country, they'd take it too.

lawrencesummers

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Doonbeg seems happy enough to take that mantle

They are profiting on him, he’s bringing jobs, money and tourists to the area. They were never trying to claim him before that happened.

Atlantic Dawn

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Thats just blinkered bull****, all the polls show him with a comfortable lead and even the polls in some swing states, now he may not win but to say at this stage that he has no chanced flies in the face of all logic. And sorry but what exactly is your objection to this and why is it 'contemptible'? Personally i think its crass but hey

It was the same with President Hillary last time around she couldn't be beaten, even on election night, then look what happened. Bernie Sanders would have won against him back then.



The economy was flying up until Covid, the stock market at the moment is at record figures, Trump is not involved in drone strikes every 2nd day like his predecessor.

con747

NIMAN wrote: »

Whatever, you may not have said it, but you implied it.

Thank you for telling me what I meant to say:rolleyes:

An Ri rua

biko wrote: »

Title fixed, Jeo -> Joe

Hold on a second?? Is that the US Democrat candidate??
In Ballina??

I'm outraged ?!?!!?!??!??!???

1st Cromwell, then the West doesn't get a Minister, then they do and don't again, and now this?!?!

I'm outraged on behalf of Mayo people and I publicly declare no attempts at cultural appropriation.

Water John

Next thing, they'll put Mary Robinson up alongside him.

Water John

Water John wrote: »

A thread for, the Irish Right to be offended.

I'm offended by your inappropriate use of a comma.

theguzman

I would find it hilarious is some woke moron individual graffiti tagged it with #BLM

Carol25

It’s very strange considering the election is ongoing & Biden may or may not get elected...

Westernyelp

Carol25 wrote:

It’s very strange considering the election is ongoing & Biden may or may not get elected...

More genuine in that case. No?

Westernyelp

Westernyelp wrote: »

More genuine in that case. No?

He is an inspirational figure I suppose..

kowloon

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Don't know about trump, but VP Mike Pence's grandparents came from Clare and Sligo

We could curry his favour by banishing the gays.

lawrencesummers

kowloon wrote: »

We could curry his favour by banishing the gays.

To ballina presumably?

marcusgunn

Bootlicking Irish at their cringworthy worst

AllForIt

jackboy wrote: »

The only issue with the mural is it looks crap. What did they do with his teeth?

He didn't have them in when he posed for it perhaps?

Water John

marcusgunn wrote: »

Bootlicking Irish at their cringworthy worst

Goodness, we aren't that insecure. It really works both ways. Almost all well known people like to have contact with their roots.

AllForIt

Water John wrote: »

Goodness, we aren't that insecure. It really works both ways. Almost all well known people like to have contact with their roots.

Actually, in this case it's working the other way around. It's Ballina having 'contact' with is diaspora, is you could call a great great great grandchild diaspora.

Water John

That's 3rd cousins, not sure how far out was Henry Healy from Barack Obama.