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Wolfe Tones Number 1 in UK

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  • #32
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    This is better than Christmas ever was

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #33
    Plumbthedepths
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'd say Leo would hope some other FG TD will put in a claim for something such as walking into a door to take the attention off this!

    Could Leo or Charlie claim for putting their foot in their mouth?


  • #34
    LuasSimon
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    Fine Gael Candidate's in tight seats can’t be too impressed with Charlie Flanagan to put it mildly . If there’s a February election Fine Gael will lose out on a number of seats with this episode fresh in the public’s head .


  • #35
    Plumbthedepths
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    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Fine Gael Candidate's in tight seats can’t be too impressed with Charlie Flanagan to put it mildly . If there’s a February election Fine Gael will lose out on a number of seats with this episode fresh in the public’s head .

    Don't you know Charlie has been renamed Charlie Tanagan.


  • #36
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Fine Gael Candidate's in tight seats can’t be too impressed with Charlie Flanagan Tan-again to put it mildly . If there’s a February election Fine Gael will lose out on a number of seats with this episode fresh in the public’s head .

    Fyp.


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  • #37
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,451 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    SF should call a motion of no confidence in Charlie, it would really throw the flaming turf-sod
    in the RIC barracks.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #38
    LuasSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    MayoForSam wrote: »
    Good to see (King) Billy Hampton's money being spent well by the Shinners.

    Mayoforsam
    Can you answer me one thing if you are mayo?
    One of the biggest mysteries of Irish Politics is how Mayo keeps voting in huge numbers for Fine Gael , 4 out of 5 seats in 2011 no less .
    Mayo has been ravaged with emigration for years and of all the parties Fine Gael are not interested in rural Ireland , makes no sense from the outside how a county so ravaged by emigration could vote for whats now a Dublin Party .


  • #39
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Great


  • #40
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Mayoforsam
    Can you answer me one thing if you are mayo?
    One of the biggest mysteries of Irish Politics is how Mayo keeps voting in huge numbers for Fine Gael , 4 out of 5 seats in 2011 no less .
    Mayo has been ravaged with emigration for years and of all the parties Fine Gael are not interested in rural Ireland , makes no sense from the outside how a county so ravaged by emigration could vote for whats now a Dublin Party .

    Michael Ring goes to an AWFUL lot of funerals.


  • #41
    Plumbthedepths
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    MayoForSam wrote: »
    Michael Ring goes to an AWFUL lot of funerals.

    Will he go to this one do you think?

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/patient-found-with-broken-neck-after-fall-from-trolley-974460.html


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  • #42
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    MayoForSam wrote: »
    Michael Ring goes to an AWFUL lot of funerals.

    I hear he has people bumped off just so he can attend the funeral


  • #43
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    touts wrote: »
    Pity Top of the Pops isn't on any more. The Twitter reaction among the Brexit mob would be the internet highlight of the decade.

    Another break the internet moment


  • #44
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Mayoforsam
    Can you answer me one thing if you are mayo?
    One of the biggest mysteries of Irish Politics is how Mayo keeps voting in huge numbers for Fine Gael , 4 out of 5 seats in 2011 no less .
    Mayo has been ravaged with emigration for years and of all the parties Fine Gael are not interested in rural Ireland , makes no sense from the outside how a county so ravaged by emigration could vote for whats now a Dublin Party .

    Well considering FF have been in power for the vast majority of time since independent they've done little for Mayo either.


  • #45
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,041 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Mayoforsam
    Can you answer me one thing if you are mayo?
    One of the biggest mysteries of Irish Politics is how Mayo keeps voting in huge numbers for Fine Gael , 4 out of 5 seats in 2011 no less .
    Mayo has been ravaged with emigration for years and of all the parties Fine Gael are not interested in rural Ireland , makes no sense from the outside how a county so ravaged by emigration could vote for whats now a Dublin Party .
    Michael Ring walks in cause he works hard for all sides.
    Kenny was Taoiseach so guaranteed.
    That is all they have in mayo.


  • #46
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭Feisar


    First they came for the socialists...



  • #47
    NIMAN
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    I see they are to donate the proceeds to homeless charities.

    Anyone any idea what sort of money the WT will actually get from being No.1 for a week?

    I'm guessing it might be a very small amount.


  • #48
    Plumbthedepths
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    I see they are to donate the proceeds to homeless charities.

    Anyone any idea what sort of money the WT will actually get from being No.1 for a week?

    I'm guessing it might be a very small amount.

    No idea, but at least if charity gets some badly needed funds some good has come out of this clusterf**k by FG.


  • #49
    LuasSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    WesternZulu wrote: »
    Well considering FF have been in power for the vast majority of time since independent they've done little for Mayo either.

    Mayo must be ripe for Healy Rae type individuals . Come to think of it there’s the making of a party that looks out for rural Ireland , would win 15/20 seats along the west coast from Kerry to Donegal and the midlands


  • #50
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I see they are to donate the proceeds to homeless charities.

    Anyone any idea what sort of money the WT will actually get from being No.1 for a week?

    I'm guessing it might be a very small amount.

    Doing more to help the homeless than minister Murphy anyway.


  • #51
    ChikiChiki
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    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Mayoforsam
    Can you answer me one thing if you are mayo?
    One of the biggest mysteries of Irish Politics is how Mayo keeps voting in huge numbers for Fine Gael , 4 out of 5 seats in 2011 no less .
    Mayo has been ravaged with emigration for years and of all the parties Fine Gael are not interested in rural Ireland , makes no sense from the outside how a county so ravaged by emigration could vote for whats now a Dublin Party .

    They've just been promised a 241m euro dual carriageway between Westport and Castlebar. An absolutely pointless waste of money with no logic to it. That's enough to win FG 2 seats in Mayo.


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  • #52
    LuasSimon
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    I see they are to donate the proceeds to homeless charities.

    Anyone any idea what sort of money the WT will actually get from being No.1 for a week?

    I'm guessing it might be a very small amount.

    Fair play to them .
    Sales are in the thousands , if it outsold all the others( ed Sheehan , Michael buble etc ) it must surely be in the tens of thousands of sales


  • #53
    angel eyes 2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Charlie, Leo and mother Madigan.

    A complete bunch of fcuking numpties right in the mouth of an election, and straight after the Maria Bailey debacle, you couldn't have made it up:D

    The mind boggles, whatever their opinion on whether a commemoration was warranted or not, keep it to yourselves lads.

    During Maria Bailey gate, I was amazed at how collectively they were out of tune with the electorate. And again, this is your bread and butter Irish nationalist politics, simple stuff - no Charlie and Leo do not even consider holding such an event. Did any of their advisors not warn them of the risks involved, in that it would go down like a lead balloon. I must be very naive, but the poor judgement displayed on both occasions is very telling.


  • #54
    Still waters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Fianna fail would have to be caught running an underground magdalen laundry in kildare street with a child prostitution ring on the side to fcuk this election up, well done to pretty boy leo and his little bitch Charlie


  • #55
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,301 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Mayoforsam
    Can you answer me one thing if you are mayo?
    One of the biggest mysteries of Irish Politics is how Mayo keeps voting in huge numbers for Fine Gael , 4 out of 5 seats in 2011 no less .
    Mayo has been ravaged with emigration for years and of all the parties Fine Gael are not interested in rural Ireland , makes no sense from the outside how a county so ravaged by emigration could vote for whats now a Dublin Party .

    2011 was what it was. Usually the vote is fairly well divided between FG and FF.
    Dara Calleary and Lisa Chambers are both fairly big profiles too, you'd imagine the former in particular will almost certainly take a stab at the leadership at some stage.


  • #56
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Don't be fooled into thinking the Wolfe Tones make a single bob off this lads, the royalties on Spotify, iTunes etc are like .000000005 cents per play.

    Still, it was an okay gesture of theirs to say they would donate it to homeless charities but it will be a few hundred euro at best.

    As for how this will effect elections, swopping FG for FF doesn't really cut it for me. They are the exact same parties.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    Anyone else dying for a bit of ham?


  • #58
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    I don't know why you think British people will be frothing over this. Most of them won't have a clue what it's about and thus won't care. Sorry folks.


  • #59
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Lady Spangles wrote: »
    I don't know why you think British people will be frothing over this. Most of them won't have a clue what it's about and thus won't care. Sorry folks.

    They won't care for many reasons , but with all the IRA references in the song, they'll at least get the gist of it.

    But correct - they probably won't care and will see it as the piss take it was intended.


  • #60
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    McMurphy wrote: »
    They won't care for many reasons , but with all the IRA references in the song, they'll at least get the gist of it.

    But correct - they probably won't care and will see it as the piss take it was intended.

    If any of them remember it at all, it'll be from that Steve Coogan sketch earlier in the year and everyone thought that was hilarious.

    We used to hear a lot of these rebel ballads where I grew up in Liverpool but we have a huge Irish community. It really won't be an issue, I don't think.


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  • #61
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,798 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    can't believe its 17 years since this one:
    'A Nation Once Again' by the Wolfe Tones, has been voted the world's favourite song in a BBC poll.

    And 10 years since Rage Against the Machine had the Christmas number one, in a campaign to stop an X Factor type song getting it.

    People might think they are being anti establishment by jumping on these bandwagons. But they are just the other side of the same coin, joining in because others are joining in.


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