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Mickey Rourke's IRA tattoo

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  • #92
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    citytillidie wrote: »
    Hmm City of Derry Council, Derry City Football Club, City of Derry Airport, City of Derry Rugby Club and even wait for it City of Derry Apprentice boys.

    Isn't it county Londonderry & Derry City though.

    Funnily enough the shortened version of derry airport is LDY


  • #93
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    I used to deal with a sub contractor up there and we were under strict instructions not to call the place anything until the person we were talking to did. then we would just copy them. it got very confusing after a while.

    Don't the BBC alternate between Londonderry and Derry and if they start by calling it Derry one day, they start with Londonderry the next.

    Complicated stuff, why not just rename it Molotov city?


  • #94
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I used to deal with a sub contractor up there and we were under strict instructions not to call the place anything until the person we were talking to did. then we would just copy them. it got very confusing after a while.

    Don't the BBC alternate between Londonderry and Derry and if they start by calling it Derry one day, they start with Londonderry the next.

    Complicated stuff, why not just rename it Molotov city?
    The BBC have a policy on it. The first mention in a report is Londonderry and after that, they use Derry.


  • #95
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I used to deal with a sub contractor up there and we were under strict instructions not to call the place anything until the person we were talking to did. then we would just copy them. it got very confusing after a while.

    lol. thats what i do!


  • #96
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Maybe its an old flame "Ira Smith"... that he would rather forget about..


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  • #97
    K-9
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    Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »
    Isn't it county Londonderry & Derry City though.

    Funnily enough the shortened version of derry airport is LDY

    Not sure on the County part, the County Council is gone since 73, so hard to know what the official name is.

    The city id L'Derry, think it's something to do with the Royal Charter or something.

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  • #98
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Seanies32 wrote: »
    Not sure on the County part, the County Council is gone since 73, so hard to know what the official name is.

    The city id L'Derry, think it's something to do with the Royal Charter or something.

    Off the top of my head, when the British were trying to set up a town, they couldn't get any business people interested, so the city of London came along and built the city, set up business etc, and renamed it Londonderry.


  • #99
    AckwelFoley
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    Ah ye'olde Mickey rourke.

    The following apply

    He has a face like a Chernobyl Fireman's Head

    He has a face like a Par 3 Tee Box

    He has a face like a bucket of fire damaged lego


  • #100
    Hagar
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Off the top of my head, when the British were trying to set up a town, they couldn't get any business people interested, so the city of London came along and built the city, set up business etc, and renamed it Londonderry.
    Off with your head. :D


  • #101
    Standard Toaster
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    Mickey's Tattoo from "A Prayer For The Dying"

    State of it.


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  • #102
    McArmalite
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    ghostdancer wrote: »
    stop highlighting your ignorance of the situation.
    It's not ignorance, it's Paisleyism. When national unity comes about, the sooner they feck off back to the outer Hebrides, the better.


  • #103
    deadhead13
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    "Prayer for the dying" on MGM movies tonight 21:10

    Bit of a B movie but so are most films on this channel.


  • #104
    phasers
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    This thread is now about new names for County Derry:

    I suggest Pen Island


  • #105
    Nodin
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    Tibet--it would lure Chinese investment.


  • #106
    oisindoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭oisindoyle


    Mickey O Rourke,,,lol i rememeber hearing a story of his first visit to the North.He had this tattoo and this romantic view of the Irish rebels ect...then he was told about unionism and went "Unionism what the **** is that who are these people"...the fool hadnt a clue ,,,,,,like most "OIRISH" Americans.........


  • #107
    Auldloon
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Tibet--it would lure Chinese invasion.
    Fixed that for ya.


  • #108
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Read how and when the name of Derry was changed. I thought people knew, my bad, it mustn't have been shown on MTV or Mythbusters. Granted Wikipedia isn't exactly the Holy Grail of knowledge but in this august company it's better than the usual uninformed conjecture.



    If if missed insuting anyone, sorry, I'll try harder next time.:pac:


  • #109
    hot2def
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭hot2def


    Irlbo wrote: »
    just for record,I have republican,IRA and Celtic art tattoos on my upper body,Im proud of them and my beliefs,and I love the way when I show people it makes the WestBrits cringe


    Using tattoo's as a way to get in other people's faces *is* pretty cringeworthy....


  • #110
    chillywilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    is there actually a link to a picture of his tattoo in this thread?:(


  • #111
    K-9
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    Hagar wrote: »
    Read how and when the name of Derry was changed. I thought people knew, my bad, it mustn't have been shown on MTV or Mythbusters. Granted Wikipedia isn't exactly the Holy Grail of knowledge but in this august company it's better than the usual uninformed conjecture.



    If if missed insuting anyone, sorry, I'll try harder next time.:pac:

    In April 2006 Derry City Council applied to the High Court of Northern Ireland to obtain a ruling that the true name of the city was indeed Derry, or alternatively an order on the UK Government that it change the name.[6] The case opened in Belfast High Court on 6 December 2006 before Mr Justice Weatherup.[7][8] The council's case was that the 1613 charter naming the city "Londonderry" was subject to subsequent local government legislation, and that the renaming of the city council in 1984 amended the charter by altering the name.[9]
    Mr Justice Weatherup ruled on 25 January 2007 that the city officially remained Londonderry.
    “ In summary I reject the applicant’s contention that the change of name from Londonderry City Council to Derry City Council under the Change of District Name (Londonderry) Order (Northern Ireland) 1984 had the effect of changing the name of the city specified in the 1662 Charter from Londonderry to Derry. Further I reject the applicant’s argument that the Department is obliged to exercise powers under section 134(1) of the Local Government (Northern Ireland) Act 1972 to modify the 1662 Charter to change the name of the city from Londonderry to Derry or that the Department is otherwise obliged to effect that name change. To achieve the name change desired by the applicant it is necessary to alter the 1662 Charter by the further exercise of the Prerogative or by legislation.[10] ” In short, the decision was that just because the council had changed its title to Derry, this did not mean the name specified by the 17th century Royal Charter was changed. The decision contains a lengthy description of the history of the issue. [11]

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  • #112
    sligobhoy67
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    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    Or he could be one of those idiots who believes in the IRA's cause

    yes what an idiot for "believing" in a United Irish - sheesh!


  • #113
    Countermoon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Countermoon


    chillywilly wrote: »
    is there actually a link to a picture of his tattoo in this thread?:(
    No, because he doesn't have one. Some idiot just started a rumour, and other idiots hopped on the bandwagon with "I heard Mickey Rourke...."


  • #114
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    chillywilly wrote: »
    is there actually a link to a picture of his tattoo in this thread?:(
    Countermoon wrote: »
    No, because he doesn't have one. Some idiot just started a rumour, and other idiots hopped on the bandwagon with "I heard Mickey Rourke...."

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58731080&postcount=101

    http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4260/picvk8.jpg


  • #115
    Countermoon
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    The_Edge wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58731080&postcount=101

    http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4260/picvk8.jpg
    1) It's a movie, FFS! lol - it's a fake tattoo. Do you also think Schwarzenegger's skin comes off like in Terminator?
    2) It doesn't even show Mickey Rourke - how do we know it's his arm?
    3) It doesn't even say "IRA" anyway.


  • #116
    Standard Toaster
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    Countermoon wrote: »
    1) It's a movie, FFS! lol - it's a fake tattoo. Do you also think Schwarzenegger's skin comes off like in Terminator?
    2) It doesn't even show Mickey Rourke - how do we know it's his arm?
    3) It doesn't even say "IRA" anyway.

    :rolleyes:


    1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rourke
    Rourke's political views came under fire when he claimed to have donated part of his salary from the 1989 film Francesco to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He later retracted the statement, although he has an IRA symbol tattoo.
    2) I captured that from the DVD myself. Same Tattoo can be seen on his arm here. (Although, he may of had it altered since the film, same tattoo non the less)

    3) It says "Tiocfaidh ár lá".....it may as well say IRA.



    And yes, I do believe Arnold Schwarzenegger is an actual Cyberdyne Systems Model T-101


  • #117
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    im the only person in ireland with no I.R.A connections... and proud of it, sick to death of people bragging about IRA this and INLA that...


    its a tatoo, big whoop...


    ira killed... So do coconuts and pedophilies.



    can we get back to havin a laugh rather then getting serious as htis is the AH section after all lads/laddies.


  • #118
    darkdubh
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    petrochemical wrote: »
    The "lack of basic human rights" is a bullsht myth. The catholics and the protestants coexisted peacefully until Bernadette Devlin & co. started spouting hate and creating trouble out of thin air. There was some preference in housing and jobs and some gerrymandering in elections but nothing that couldn't have been resolved peacefully. The IRA are, and were, scumbag gangsters who brutally tortured and murdered countless innocent people, and ruined peoples lives, and all for nothing. And you dare to support them?

    Also most Irish were happy to consider themselves British until 1916. Many gladly went off and fought in WW1. Indeed many went in WW2 also, out of a retained loyalty. By 1916 the people of Ireland were considered part of the Empire, and were by no means "immorally enslaved".
    Eoghan Harris would be proud of your revisionist bull****.


  • #119
    Handsome Bob
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    *indifference overload*

    Rourke is, I believe half Irish due to his father. Maybe, just maybe, Rourke did a bit of digging into his roots and probably found he had relatives who suffered due to sectarianism. So he wanted to "fight the power" by getting a tattoo showing his, probably misguided, support to the group that fought back against their "oppressors".


  • #120
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    petrochemical wrote: »
    The "lack of basic human rights" is a bullsht myth. The catholics and the protestants coexisted peacefully until Bernadette Devlin & co. started spouting hate and creating trouble out of thin air. There was some preference in housing and jobs and some gerrymandering in elections but nothing that couldn't have been resolved peacefully. The IRA are, and were, scumbag gangsters who brutally tortured and murdered countless innocent people, and ruined peoples lives, and all for nothing. And you dare to support them?

    Also most Irish were happy to consider themselves British until 1916. Many gladly went off and fought in WW1. Indeed many went in WW2 also, out of a retained loyalty. By 1916 the people of Ireland were considered part of the Empire, and were by no means "immorally enslaved".


    This is hilarious...Mate..somebody somewhere has left you down very badly and has an awful lot to answer for.

    "Happy up to 1916"---Well Einstein what happened then? why did it change if everyone was so "happy"? You clearly have no knowledge of Irish history so I suggest you do yourself a favour and read some more..:rolleyes:


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  • #121
    Standard Toaster
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    Meh....lock in 3, 2, 1


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