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Mary Robinson had the audience in the palm of her hand..

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  • #32
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Cesar Crooked Shotgun wrote: »
    How so?.

    I'd work with and know a lot of members of staff in the Aras and not a single one would have anything bad to say about her or her family.

    You said something completely contrary in the last post?


  • #33
    listermint
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    What has Mary ever done for Ireland?

    What have you


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
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    Cesar Crooked Shotgun wrote: »
    How so?.

    I'd work with and know a lot of members of staff in the Aras and not a single one would have anything bad to say about her or her family.

    Big bird refers to Robinson I believe


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    listermint wrote: »
    What have you

    You’re some Mary fan.


  • #36
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    You said something completely contrary in the last post?

    Which one is "Big bird"?

    Ok I may be getting mixed up, having a few O'Hara's IPA tonight..

    I'm saying McAleese was a lady and exceptionally easy to get on with.

    Robbo wasn't.

    Big Bird, wasn't that Robbo?.


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  • #37
    Realt Dearg Sec
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    bubblypop wrote: »
    Big bird refers to Robinson I believe

    If it's not even clear who it refers to then it's a ****e nickname.

    Which is apt, because this is a ****e thread about nothing.


  • #38
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Robbo is the high priestess of champagne socialism in this country, she wrote the book on virtue signalling decades before it was a mainstream pass time of those who make all the right earnest noises but sacrifice nothing personally.

    Without Mary, we would likely never have had una mulally, colette browne or aodhan o riordain

    She inspired a generation of morally superior secular clergy


  • #39
    Dakota Dan
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    Cesar Crooked Shotgun wrote: »
    Ok I may be getting mixed up, having a few O'Hara's IPA tonight..

    I'm saying McAleese was a lady and exceptionally easy to get on with.

    Robbo wasn't.

    Big Bird, wasn't that Robbo?.

    I thought Robinson was Noddy?


  • #40
    Beechwoodspark
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    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    If it's not even clear who it refers to then it's a ****e nickname.

    Which is apt, because this is a ****e thread about nothing.


    It originated soon after she was elected president when a soldier in the army guard of honour made a remark that “here comes big bird” due to her wearing a bright canary yellow hat.

    His remark was overheard and he was fined and reprimanded.


  • #41
    Beechwoodspark
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    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    I thought Robinson was Noddy?

    She is noddy also.

    That stems from her habit of nodding constantly when being interviewed etc.


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  • #42
    Wilfuler.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Wilfuler.


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    It originated soon after she was elected president when a soldier in the army guard of honour made a remark that “here comes big bird” due to her wearing a bright canary yellow hat.

    His remark was overheard and he was fined and reprimanded.

    I'm smelling horsesh1t here


  • #43
    Raconteuse
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    Cesar Crooked Shotgun wrote: »
    I've met both of them lots of times through the course of my work, and President Mary McAleese was an absolute lady. A pleasure to meet and chat with in the grounds of the Aras. A really nice person, I've the fondest memories of her.

    Robinson on the other hand, well she was a different kettle of fish altogether and I'll leave it at that.
    Stop ruining the "bitching about McAleese for no reason, just for the sake of it" buzz.


  • #44
    Odyssey 2005
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    Edgware wrote: »
    Ah Jay, would you look at Big Bird?

    I thought big bird was dead !;)


  • #45
    Beechwoodspark
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    Wilfuler. wrote: »
    I'm smelling horsesh1t here

    Google it


  • #46
    Odyssey 2005
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    Cesar Crooked Shotgun wrote: »
    Ok I may be getting mixed up, having a few O'Hara's IPA tonight..

    I'm saying McAleese was a lady and exceptionally easy to get on with.

    Robbo wasn't.

    Big Bird, wasn't that Robbo?.

    Indeed,christened by the army I believe. One of them was reprimanded for saying it out loud ,if I remember correctly


  • #47
    jippo nolan
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    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    Indeed,christened by the army I believe. One of them was reprimanded for saying it out loud ,if I remember correctly

    It happened on the apron in Dublin Airport many years ago, she was dressed like an oversized canary!


  • #48
    Jimmy Garlic
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    I think the Mary Robinson Museum in Ballina is only costing us taxpayers about three million(double that by the time it's finished), excluding the price paid for the run down old gaff in the first place. Dark days ahead for transition year students.


  • #49
    ILoveYourVibes
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    Millionaire only not wrote: »
    Mary Robinson was a pain and Mary McAlesse is that 10 times worse than her !

    Whatever bad they were as presidents , but there cocky busy body’s since they left office
    I think she was an excellent President.


  • #50
    Jimmy Garlic
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I think she was an excellent President.

    Aren't they all. Smile for the cameras, eat the free grub, rattle off platitude laden speech... rinse , repeat.


  • #51
    tayto lover
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    Cesar Crooked Shotgun wrote: »
    I've met both of them lots of times through the course of my work, and President Mary McAleese was an absolute lady. A pleasure to meet and chat with in the grounds of the Aras. A really nice person, I've the fondest memories of her.

    Robinson on the other hand, well she was a different kettle of fish altogether and I'll leave it at that.

    Was it you who called her “Big Bird”.?


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  • #52
    Dakota Dan
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    Robinson was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, never in her life experienced poverty, Mickey D on the other hand was born into poverty, his mother had to give him away to his uncle as she couldn’t afford to feed him.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    Cesar Crooked Shotgun wrote: »
    I've met both of them lots of times through the course of my work, and President Mary McAleese was an absolute lady. A pleasure to meet and chat with in the grounds of the Aras. A really nice person, I've the fondest memories of her.

    Robinson on the other hand, well she was a different kettle of fish altogether and I'll leave it at that.

    Hasn’t McAleese lost the plot since she found out her son was gay through? Couldn’t handle it at all and went nuts.


  • #54
    Mad_maxx
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    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Robinson was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, never in her life experienced poverty, Mickey D on the other hand was born into poverty, his mother had to give him away to his uncle as she couldn’t afford to feed him.

    He was handy enough to feed though


  • #55
    Mad_maxx
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Hasn’t McAleese lost the plot since she found out her son was gay through? Couldn’t handle it at all and went nuts.

    Yes, thinks she's the female Martin Luther these days


  • #56
    Millicently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭Millicently


    Mary's legacy will be throwing a young princess under the bus and condemning her to a life of hell and isolation. I wonder how many Riyals she got for that?


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