Ben Bulben defaced by Referendum Campaigners

Coffee Fulled Runner · 17-05-2018 02:44PM

Good publicity stunt I guess as everyone is talking about but it's not going to change minds. It might even be counter productive for the no side in trying to sway anyone who hasn't there mind made up yet.

HydroTendonMan · 17-05-2018 02:55PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Wildcard: pink snack.

..some men just want to watch the world burn.

scooby77 · 17-05-2018 03:47PM

Caused some bad driving on my commute home this evening. Cars randomly/ suddenly pulling in to see/snap. Good few turning for Barna ribbon too. If it causes accident...

Defo yellow!

Mint Sauce · 17-05-2018 03:53PM

Liked Sligo Rovers tweet this morning. Who are the real Rovers...

https://twitter.com/sligorovers/status/997085960092385280

zom · 17-05-2018 05:06PM

Ben Bulben seems to be great advertising board - just install some hyper-strong laser at the bottom of the hill and you can display any message you want - or even images !!

hiphophead2003 · 17-05-2018 05:44PM

They're getting fierce desperate now, aren't they?

jajjay · 17-05-2018 07:11PM

I was 50/50 on how to go on this vote... but these muppets that defaced the mountain has made me decide to vote YES, together with with the crap their people who were on Ocean FM this morning were spouting. I hope there are no road accidents on that road in the next few weeks due to people looking at their NO ..... If there is any --- that's when the NO SLIGO people should be contacted for a radio interview!

REBELSAFC · 17-05-2018 07:24PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Wildcard: pink snack.

I'm for the purple snack.....but only if I can wash it down with nice cup of tea made by a wholesome Irish colleen

Hitman3000 · 17-05-2018 08:28PM

It was great that their employers gave them the day off to mount such an inspiring protest.....

sligo camper · 17-05-2018 09:25PM

I was a NO till I saw this vandalism... how dear they deface OUR iconic mountain.... SHAME ON YE...

Try_harder · 17-05-2018 09:30PM

scotchy wrote: »

The sheeting was put up by young men while the women made sandwiches, according to the spokesman on Newstalk:)

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That line is like something straight out of father ted

scotchy · 17-05-2018 10:00PM

Try_harder wrote: »

That line is like something straight out of father ted

As a yes voter, I think it’s all too easy to laugh at this, but there are a lot of people voting no because they have sincere beliefs about the unborn child.

The fact that Dennis O’Brian has this guy on as part of Newstalks balanced discussion, saying that the mountain is talking to the people, and the women making sandwiches while the men do the work should be questioned.

The next referendum could see DOB on the opposite side of the fence to any of one of us on a different issue, and he will have the Father Ted characters on air about something that is important to some of us.

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Hurrache · 17-05-2018 10:09PM

Ah for god's sake, you think DOB personally lines up the guests and interviewees on radio each day?

Try_harder · 17-05-2018 10:11PM

DOB didnt make those guys put the No there, and make the women make the tea...

Or did he???

sligojoek · 17-05-2018 10:21PM

Ridiculous carry on. Whether Yes or No. The mountain shouldn't be defaced.

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scotchy · 17-05-2018 10:24PM

Hurrache wrote: »

Ah for god's sake, you think DOB personally lines up the guests and interviewees on radio each day?

Im not saying that, but I was listening to it, and It made uncomfortable listening.
There was no comment after the piece and I thought it played to the stereotype of no voters as being backward religious country yocals.

Probably unfair to single out DOB as ive noticed similar with other media outlets.

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fergus1001 · 17-05-2018 10:25PM

scotchy wrote:

The next referendum could see DOB on the opposite side of the fence to any of one of us on a different issue, and he will have the Father Ted characters on air about something that is important to some of us.

nobody made those men get on newstalk only themselves

trust women, a no vote is for abortion in the bathroom/hotel and exporting the rest to Britain

Hurrache · 17-05-2018 10:28PM

Nobody put the words into that guys mouth but himself. He wasn't manipulated. Interviewees on news bulletins don't have a commentary on what they say afterwards, why should he have?

miamee · 18-05-2018 07:22AM

That was shortlived, most of it is gone now according to The Journal. Maybe it blew away in the night!
http://www.thejournal.ie/ben-bulben-no-4020029-May2018/

mcgiggles · 18-05-2018 09:28AM

What's the fine for littering? 3000? Seeing as they have admitted to it and they know who did it, they should be hit with that now!

18-05-2018 10:29AM

I remember the Brits Out sign up there,think it was back in the late 70s!

AllGunsBlazing · 18-05-2018 10:41AM

You could still make it out in the 80's. My Dad had me thoroughly convinced that the 'brits out' slogan was the work of specially trained sheep.....

mcgiggles · 18-05-2018 11:32AM

Ben is completely clear as of an hour or so ago!

El Weirdo · 18-05-2018 11:53AM

jajjay wrote: »

I was 50/50 on how to go on this vote... but these muppets that defaced the mountain has made me decide to vote YES, together with with the crap their people who were on Ocean FM this morning were spouting. I hope there are no road accidents on that road in the next few weeks due to people looking at their NO ..... If there is any --- that's when the NO SLIGO people should be contacted for a radio interview!

sligo camper wrote: »

I was a NO till I saw this vandalism... how dear they deface OUR iconic mountain.... SHAME ON YE...

Nice as it is to have more Yes voters, that really isn't how you should be deciding how to vote.

AllGunsBlazing · 18-05-2018 12:06PM

Call me a cynic, but I highly doubt either was veering towards "No" to begin with.

El Weirdo · 18-05-2018 02:48PM

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Call me a cynic, but I highly doubt either was veering towards "No" to begin with.

Have you not heard all the people saying that they were undecided, but they'll now vote a certain way due to how one side or another has behaved? It was the same during the marriage referendum.

sligojoek · 19-05-2018 12:14AM

zorro2566 wrote: »

I remember the Brits Out sign up there,think it was back in the late 70s!

I remember seeing it on television at a the time.

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

You could still make it out in the 80's. My Dad had me thoroughly convinced that the 'brits out' slogan was the work of specially trained sheep.....

Much more subtle.

taheen · 19-05-2018 12:22AM

lol people on that side of benBulben cant read anyways

Hitman3000 · 19-05-2018 12:25AM

taheen wrote:

lol people on that side of benBulben cant read anyways

They were wondering what was left ON probably the emersion.

smokingman · 19-05-2018 12:28AM

That mountain is pretry sacred to people in Sligo that I know and it's no surprise theres a backlash

Ben Bulben defaced by Referendum Campaigners

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