Is Paddy Cosgrove the biggest wanker in Ireland?

I can't stand "dead nurse" Paddy, he just acts like a spoiled child when he doesn't get his way 99% of the time. regarding his comments on Israel, I agree with what he said, its probably the only time I agree with him. Its really annoying that THIS is the reason he was forced to step down as CEO.

Yes she did, she said "Israel believes it has the right to bomb hospitals"

Even when evidence emerged the fire bomb in the car park of the hospital could not have "killed hundreds" as she claimed and did not come from Israel, she has not apologised or corrected her post on facebook. However, her facebook page has been abnormally quiet since the bombing in the hospital car park, which according to her "decimated Gaza's medical infrastructure, crippling the ability of Palestinians to help the injured, the sick and the dying". 

If you do her facebook page, maybe you could put up something?

Hamas did not people or media in for days to see the scorch marks / some burnt car where they claimed ( like Mary Lou who swallowed their propaganda) there were hundreds dead. Nobody believes that now. Do your due diligence and research.

When you are in hole, stop digging. She mentioned it ( the bombing of part of the hospital car park) as the main example in her speech / lecture on "carpet bombing" in which he also said in relation to it "Israel's carpet bombing decimated Gaza's medical infrastructure, crippling the ability of Palestinians to help the injured, the sick and the dying. The destruction of hospitals is a direct violation of international law, a war crime, yet Israel believes it has the right to bomb hospitals. 

From Wiki:

"The cause of the explosion is contested. Israel, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy said that their intelligence sources indicate the cause of the explosion was a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) from within Gaza, while the PIJ has denied any involvement. Hamas said that Israel carried out an airstrike on the hospital. Experts largely agreed that a misfired rocket launched from within Gaza was the likely cause of the explosion based on video analysis and the limited extent of the damage caused by the impact."

Have a look at the photos. Do you really think the scorch mark on the tarmac and half a dozen burnt out cars is where hundreds were killed, despite the fact Hamas would not let anyone near the scene for days afterwards?

Would Mary Lou not know more about bombing, given she had the audacity to lecture the rest of us on "carpet bombing" last week, and given the fact the military wing of SF carried out enough bombing in its day ( 16,000 bombs )?

"...the latest bombing which she did NOT attribute to any side"????

Stop making stuff up yourself. When you are in a hole, stop digging. She insinuated it.

Yes, Mary Lou said " Israel's carpet bombing decimated Gaza's medical infrastructure, crippling the ability of Palestinians to help the injured, the sick and the dying. The destruction of hospitals is a direct violation of international law, a war crime, yet Israel believes it has the right to bomb hospitals. "

She was not blaming Hamas for the destruction. She was blaming Israel. She did not address or mention the rockets being fired in to Israel from Gaza, the 222 Israelis kidnapped from Israel and being held in Gaza etc.

Wonder if she still has a soft spot for those who kidnap / abduct / disappear? Or if she ever had?

If only that were remotely true about what the Ditch has uncovered.

It is one paragraph making one point.

From the Cambridge Dictionary, ( which Sinn Fein probably refuses to recognize)

Grammar

Paragraphs

We organise what we write into sentences and paragraphs. A paragraph begins on a new line within the text and there is often a blank line between paragraphs. A paragraph usually contains more than one sentence and it is usually about one topic. …

It has to be. And I for one ( and I know I am not the only one ) would fear that Ireland would also be toxic for some American multinationals soon ( among western countries ) if the likes of certain politicians here continue sniping against Israel.

Paddy Cosgrove was surprised at the reaction from multi-nationals to his comments, the likes of Michael D and Mary Lou may also find in time their comments had an adverse effect with some.

Like Leo Varadkar?

Defence Forces who have carried out many atrocities as has Hamas and Islamic Jihad?

Yes, he is comparing them, based on what we know for a fact they have all done.

Hamas is a fundamentalist militia that both the United States and the European Union consider a terrorist organization. It has beheaded, raped minors in front of their parents, murdered, kidnapped 222 innocent Israelis back to Gaza, set babies on fire etc....and you think that is comparable to Israel, the only / most democratic country in the middle East? Does the USA and the EU consider Israel to be a terrorist organization? No it does not.

Neither Israel nor the IDF have ever been formally charged with committing war crimes. I think that shows considerable restraint, considering many of their neighbours want them wiped off the map.

You are making assumptions.

Generally in conflict/war situations I would use the word ‘alleged’ until it is proven.

i.e. the British ‘allegedly’ colluded in the Dublin/Monaghan bombing.

Same as the specific hospital bombing. I don’t know who did it.

To jump to conclusions either way is wrong given what know about what both sides have done on the past.

Always question.

You are a great man at derailing a thread, I'll give you that.

Hamas are a terrorist organization and as such are not the forces of a democratic state. The fact is they have fired hundreds of indiscriminate rockets in to Israel over the years, they have even made and openly brag about making the water pipes Israel was supplying them with water in to rockets.

Not for the first time, they kidnapped Israelis 10 days ago and took them back to Gaza. That is why the EU and USA call Hamas terrorists, and not Israel.

As regards passports, I said on another thread there were over a million Irish passports sold last year alone. I am sure some Americans in the middle East would travel with them, why would they not? I am not interested in who bought the million plus Irish passports or for what purposes a small number of them may have been put to - set up another thread on that if you so wish.

Back to the point, do you not think Mary Lou McD should put her hands up and apologise for accusing Israel carpet bombing Gaza's medical infrastructure etc when it turned out there were not hundreds dead (as she claimed) and it was not a Israeli missile ( or it would have left a crater )? Most of us thought it was Israel who had bombed the hospital based on initial reports, but Mary Lou McD of all people gave us the lecture on carpet bombing and she has not clarified or apologised for remarks / mistakes she made in her speech.

At least Paddy Cosgrove gave some sort of an apology for remarks he made, and resigned. So the title of this thread, the biggest w*nker in Ireland, has to be one of our Irish politicians who have equated Hamas, a terrorist organization according to both the EU and USA) with Israel, the only democratic country in the region.

Paddy Cosgrave got some shock when he realised the effect his comments had on his business and workers.

Wonder will our workers will get the same shock if our politicians ( already looked on in Israel as the most hostile in the western world) continue to make the same comments?