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

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  • #2
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Maybe he should wear some different socks. That seems to work for the media.


  • #3
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    OK, that's the Sun's editorial stance. More importantly though, what is Desperate Dan and The Dandy's opinion?


  • #4
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,228 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Oh wow, what a nasty piece.

    "He is too busy disrespecting 17.4million voters of a country whose billions stopped Ireland going bust as recently as 2010."

    Some angry people in the Sun!


  • #5
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Will this appear in the Irish version?


  • #6
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Australian Media Mogul Attacks Irish Premier
    The Full Shocking Story Inside
    Also Fit Birds Cor


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  • #7
    chatticusfinch
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭chatticusfinch


    Readers of the Sun aren't too bothered with the words, now the pictures, that's another story entirely.


  • #8
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    Are we sure someone didn't just fotoshop a sun banner onto a WaterfordWhispers article?


  • #9
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,305 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    It should be helping make Brexit work for millions of his citizens and ours, including by engaging constructively on a border solution.
    By boosting American trust and have them build a nice fence along the border?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Watch the British media get much, much, much more Europhobic and xenophobic in the next few years as they deflect blame for everything away from their Tory clowns on to various non-British institutions and people. Watch the 'poor Brits' victim culture surge amid lower corporate taxes and inferior working conditions. All blamed on the EU.

    That scapegoating is the one absolute certainty of Brexit. They're all out of step but our Johnny.


  • #11
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,068 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Watch the British media get much, much, much more Europhobic and xenophobic in the next few years as they deflect blame for everything away from their Tory clowns on to various non-British institutions and people. Watch the 'poor Brits' victim culture surge amid lower corporate taxes and inferior working conditions. All blamed on the EU.

    That scapegoating is the one absolute certainty of Brexit. They're all out of step but our Johnny.

    It's the right wing mainstream media your talking about here. You're right, they will use the tactics you describe, but there was a big percentage of people in the UK who didn't vote for brexit. There's plenty of media out there to read in the UK that doesn't toe the same line.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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  • #12
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,105 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    The sun is gutter rag. I wouldn't use it to wipe.


    Absolutely ****e paper


  • #13
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    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:

    classy as ever...

    That type of gutter press has its market though sadly


  • #14
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,946 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Ah The Sun. The moral bastion of phone hacking and invented stories of football fans pissing on the dead.


  • #15
    BillyBobBS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭BillyBobBS


    Varadkar is an absolute disaster. More concerned with his socks than solving the many issues we face as a nation.


  • #16
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #17
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Gay, "Arish" and a little bit brown. I'm surprised the super soaraway Sun's collective undies haven't exploded.


  • #18
    server down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,613 ✭✭✭server down


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    It's the right wing mainstream media your talking about here. You're right, they will use the tactics you describe, but there was a big percentage of people in the UK who didn't vote for brexit. There's plenty of media out there to read in the UK that doesn't toe the same line.

    The U.K. left wing papers won’t get more xenophobic but will get more russiaphobic


  • #19
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    It's a rubbish paper. They are going to get the shock of their lives when all is said and done. They've ****ed their economy by being easily lead by the national war spirit and deserve what they are going to get.

    I'm still staggered that they were enough of them stupid enough to do this to themselves.


  • #20
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Oldtree wrote: »
    It's a rubbish paper. They are going to get the shock of their lives when all is said and done. They've ****ed their economy by being easily lead by the national war spirit and deserve what they are going to get.

    I'm still staggered that they were enough of them stupid enough to do this to themselves.

    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


  • #21
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


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

    MrP

    Says a lot about its readers there! No wonder they were so easily lead.

    Do you know the circulation of it here?


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  • #22
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    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

    Why can't I say it? Is it not pc?


  • #23
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    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:

    You just never know when you're being trolled, do you?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #24
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    You just never know when you're being trolled, do you?

    Thank goodness Google is around to check on facts :p


  • #25
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Outrageous.


  • #26
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Oldtree wrote: »
    Thank goodness Google is around to check on facts :p

    The "facts" aren't really what the Sun is interested in, though.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #27
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭bloodless_coup


    JCX BXC wrote: »
    Oh wow, what a nasty piece.

    "He is too busy disrespecting 17.4million voters of a country whose billions stopped Ireland going bust as recently as 2010."

    Some angry people in the Sun!

    I know we got a loan from which they will make a tidy profit from, didn't realize anyone gave us free money!


  • #28
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    The "facts" aren't really what the Sun is interested in, though.

    Neither it would appear were the British people that voted for brexit. "Gung ho" dosn't even do them justice.


  • #29
    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Some of those words are a bit too big for the typical sun reader


  • #30
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    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
    I 'm far from socialist but British society works on us and them and on keeping "them" in the gutter. Unfortunately most of the gutter voted the same as some well off tories who still didn't come to terms with the loss of empire. UK is probably the most unequal society in Europe and Brexit is the result of it. Sun is just helping to cement that inequality with making sure they produce a newspaper that is as dumb as possible. It's a stupidity carefully cultivated through the history that brought on Brexit.


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  • #31
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Oldtree wrote: »
    Neither it would appear were the British people that voted for brexit. "Gung ho" dosn't even do them justice.

    True, but nothing to do with Kermit being trolled!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #32
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,561 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


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

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #33
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Lord Varadkar deserves respect on his demolishing of Sinn Fein every week.


  • #34
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Don't buy the sun.


  • #35
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,137 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    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"


  • #36
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    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
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    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.


  • #38
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    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...


  • #39
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    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.


  • #40
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    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.


  • #41
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    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
    [Deleted User]
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    Past colonialism makes hark back to the good old days of colonialism more difficult.

    Oh, no.


  • #43
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    I want my click back


  • #44
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


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

    I have never bought a copy of it


  • #45
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,395 ✭✭✭sjb25


    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


  • #46
    tooManyChoices
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭tooManyChoices


    Was there an article there?

    Pretty sure I was just reading the comments section.


  • #47
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    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


  • #48
    somefeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    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.


  • #49
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭trashcan


    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.


  • #50
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #51
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    It's a little ironic that the Tory wannabe is despised by the UK Tory press.


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