Who thinks Sean Quinn is a great businessman now?

As bad as the Healy Raes are, they've never came out with something as strartlingly crass and dunderheaded as "There's violence in the blood of Dubliners". And if they did, all hell would rightly break loose.

What Dukes said was straight out of the Lega Nord / Berlusconi playbook. Utterly shambolic and not worth defending. Yet we have the usual suspects lining up to make baboons of themselves doing it.

I'm sure it's a coincidence that Dukes and Berlusconi appear to visit the same tanning salon.

What outrage?

Posters have called it what it was, a cack-handed, unbecoming and insulting commentary on a region of the country from a man oozing arrogance.

The back and forth is stems from brittle-hearted posters that are consistent defenders of FG manning the barricades from dawn to defend Dukes when it was always obvious he'd have to eat crow and apologise.

I know they were looking forward to a day of trying to pin the goings on with Quinn on SF or something (despite there being zero evidence of it), and they ended having boils on their ar*e because Dukes took the headlines of the day.

It's rather humourous if anything.

Post away about Quinn dude. No one is stopping you homeslice.

My opinion on Quinn is there only a few pages back if you want to inspect it and there's no deflection, Broseph.

I know yesterday was a tough one for ye seeing a grandee making baboons of the FG online defence front scrambling to defend something that was always going to result in an apology.

And you wonder why Dukes got himself into bother.

Like I said, walk into an office in any border town and repeat what you just posted, jot down the response and report back to us.

Sub-Lega Nord sh*te.

Genuine question, when can we expect to see "Border county Ireland is a criminal region" on a FG manifesto? Because under the cover of anonymity and in the privacy of their own skulls, many apparent supporters are holding firm to that sentiment.

Doesn't matter what part of the country you said that about in public, you'd be taking the risk of getting lamped from Malin Head to Mizen Head and everywhere inbetween if you gathered a crowd and uttered that scutter about them truth be told.

And that's rather the point, which you will of course miss.

You're a sheltered individual indeed if you think you could enter any pub in the land, call for attention, and repeat what you said about the town/region/county and not run the risk of getting duffed in the head. That's life I'm afraid. And it holds true in every townland in the country.

Most civilised people don't paint broad strokes about regions and try to pin a culture of criminality on a swathe of the population. Again, a point that will be lost on you.