Slain Gangster Hailed as "Role Model"

starbelgrade · 05-05-2010 03:30PM #1

From the Sindo, full article here.... http://www.independent.ie/national-news/applause-fills-church-after-brother-hails-slain-gangster-as-role-model-2164630.html

A SLAIN gangster, suspected of ordering more than a dozen murders, was described as a great "role model" at his funeral yesterday.

More than 400 people turned out to mourn Eamonn Dunne (34), who was gunned down in a Dublin pub last Friday week.

The Finglas-based drug trafficker had been a major garda target and one of the most feared criminals in the State.

But no mention was made of his criminal activity or the manner of his death as he was laid to rest yesterday.

Instead, his brother David received a round of applause from mourners at the Church of the Holy Family on Aughrim Street in Stoneybatter, Dublin, after making a tearful tribute in which he lauded the gang boss as "a top skin".

"You couldn't ask for a better role model to be honest with you. Ever since I was a young fellow I just wanted to be like him," he said. "If I turn out to be half the man he did, I'll be doing alright."

The offertory was accompanied by a woman singing a version of Bryan Adams's 'Heaven'.

Roll on the vitriol...!

Bonito · 05-05-2010 03:32PM

Jaysus!

landsleaving · 05-05-2010 03:34PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

The offertory was accompanied by a woman singing a version of Bryan Adams's 'Heaven'.

I'd imagine they know it as DJ Sammy's 'Heaven'

Smart Bug · 05-05-2010 03:34PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

The offertory was accompanied by a woman singing a version of Bryan Adams's 'Heaven'.

should have been 'bullet in the head'...

toiletduck · 05-05-2010 03:35PM

In all fairness, the majority of what's said about a person at their funeral is bollocks.

Biggins · 05-05-2010 03:37PM

Aye, role model of a thug. Nothing more or less.

IvyTheTerrible · 05-05-2010 03:37PM

I don't know why the media go to funerals

stovelid · 05-05-2010 03:38PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Instead, his brother David received a round of applause from mourners at the Church of the Holy Family on Aughrim Street in Stoneybatter, Dublin, after making a tearful tribute in which he lauded the gang boss as "a top skin".

"You couldn't ask for a better role model to be honest with you. Ever since I was a young fellow I just wanted to be like him," he said. "If I turn out to be half the man he did, I'll be doing alright."

Translation:

Black sheep of the family.

Thank fuck he's kicked the bucket.

Had to show up and say something nice or his mates wil burn our house down.

bullpost · 05-05-2010 03:40PM

Leaves the Church in an awkward position as this was essentially a ritualised secular service to glorify the life of a crime boss with blood on his hands. I think even when the mafia are burying their dead there is a nod to the Church and an avoidance of the real career of the dead person.

The_Minister · 05-05-2010 03:42PM

They are his friends and family, they probably knew a completely different side of him.

Very few people are thoroughly unpleasant in every way, and those that are don't get to the top of anything, because everyone looks forward to pulling them down.

Most likely, if he did rise to the top, it was in part because he had friends who genuinely liked him and could be counted on.

Just because someone may have killed people, and may be a drug dealer, doesn't mean that they aren't a likable guy.

Just look at George Bush - horrible president, but a great man to have a drink with by all accounts.

MagicMarker · 05-05-2010 03:45PM

If only these guys turned up at the church.

i71jskz5xu42pb · 05-05-2010 03:47PM

toiletduck wrote: »

In all fairness, the majority of what's said about a person at their funeral is bollocks.

So much so there's an excellent song about it - Top blokes after death

MagicMarker · 05-05-2010 03:47PM

The_Minister wrote: »

They are his friends and family, they probably knew a completely different side of him.

Very few people are thoroughly unpleasant in every way, and those that are don't get to the top of anything, because everyone looks forward to pulling them down.

Most likely, if he did rise to the top, it was in part because he had friends who genuinely liked him and could be counted on.

Just because someone may have killed people, and may be a drug dealer, doesn't mean that they aren't a likable guy.

Just look at George Bush - horrible president, but a great man to have a drink with by all accounts.

I heard that even his own people were suspected of killing him, because he had become such a paranoid cúnt.

I also heard that he told a guy to kill someone, and that if he didn't, he'd be killed.

Oh yeah, a delightful fella.

ibarelycare · 05-05-2010 03:52PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I heard that even his own people were suspected of killing him, because he had become such a paranoid cúnt.

I also heard that he told a guy to kill someone, and that if he didn't, he'd be killed.

Oh yeah, a delightful fella.

Well I heard he threw sand in Mother Teresa's eyes and faked the moonlanding.

Sanjuro · 05-05-2010 03:53PM

The_Minister wrote: »

They are his friends and family, they probably knew a completely different side of him.

Very few people are thoroughly unpleasant in every way, and those that are don't get to the top of anything, because everyone looks forward to pulling them down.

Most likely, if he did rise to the top, it was in part because he had friends who genuinely liked him and could be counted on.

Just because someone may have killed people, and may be a drug dealer, doesn't mean that they aren't a likable guy.

Just look at George Bush - horrible president, but a great man to have a drink with by all accounts.

What a load of crap. Doesn't matter how much of a 'nice guy' a person is to their family and friends. It's how you treat strangers that says what type of person you are. You maim, hurt, kill, steal, start an unjustified war against a country for no reason other than spite, you're an arsehole.

Abrasax · 05-05-2010 03:53PM

The same guy was caught red-handed with drugs, in 2002, and managed to avoid sentencing for 8 years, which probably makes him an informant and goes some way to explaining how he came to be at the top.
Typical of the how the police work in Ireland, as long as they're getting the info to make the scores that justify their budgets etc., they'll allow certain criminlas to act with impunity.

The_Minister · 05-05-2010 03:59PM

Sanjuro wrote: »

What a load of crap. Doesn't matter how much of a 'nice guy' a person is to their family and friends. It's how you treat strangers that says what type of person you are. You maim, hurt, kill, steal, start an unjustified war against a country for no reason other than spite, you're an arsehole.

I never said he wasn't.

I said his friends and family might know him as a nice guy, a good friend, father, brother etc.

Objectively he probably wasn't a nice guy.

Sanjuro · 05-05-2010 04:01PM

The_Minister wrote: »

I never said he wasn't.

I said his friends and family might know him as a nice guy, a good friend, father, brother etc.

Objectively he probably wasn't a nice guy.

Apologies. In my haste to spew vitriol in reply to your post, I misread. You're right. His family and friends probably did like him. Doesn't make him any less of a horrible human being.

thetonynator · 05-05-2010 04:01PM

The_Minister wrote: »

Just look at George Bush - horrible president, but a great man to have a drink with by all accounts.

I thought Bush didn't drink???

The_Minister · 05-05-2010 04:03PM

thetonynator wrote: »

I thought Bush didn't drink???

I would be drinking - he would have fruit juice.

With a lemon.

And custard creams.

A Primal Nut · 05-05-2010 04:03PM

thetonynator wrote: »

I thought Bush didn't drink???

Well you have to drink something to stay alive - doesn't have to be alcohol!

ejmaztec · 05-05-2010 04:04PM

More than 400 people turned out to mourn Eamonn Dunne (34), who was gunned down in a Dublin pub last Friday week

There must have been confusion in the pub about getting the next round in.

starbelgrade · 05-05-2010 04:10PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

There must have been confusion in the pub about getting the next round in.

I think he got the round in - just not the type of round that he was expecting!!

Ash.J.Williams · 05-05-2010 04:12PM

Sanjuro wrote: »

What a load of crap. Doesn't matter how much of a 'nice guy' a person is to their family and friends. It's how you treat strangers that says what type of person you are. You maim, hurt, kill, steal, start an unjustified war against a country for no reason other than spite, you're an arsehole.

could be entering hearsay now with this, but it was runmoured by the media that he tried to sheild himself behind one of his own gang as he was being shot! Sound bloke!

SeaFields · 05-05-2010 04:16PM

and does anyone else think that the finding of the car that was used in the shooting wreaks of trying to frame somebody??

They didnt bother burning it out and it was found complete with bullets and rubber gloves?

conorhal · 05-05-2010 04:16PM

The church used to bury suicides and still born babies on unconsecrated ground because they were 'beyond the grace of God', it would be nice to see such 'moral authority' exercised in this case.
The Don should have been 'read from the pulpit' and then tipped into the bin.

starbelgrade · 05-05-2010 04:18PM

The_Minister wrote: »

I would be drinking - he would have fruit juice.

With a lemon.

And custard creams.

That's not George Bush - it's Jose Mourinho of which you speak!

charlemont · 05-05-2010 04:24PM

yes he was an informer , he knew too much, but a role model, no way, it always ends in tears...

take everything · 05-05-2010 04:57PM

landsleaving wrote: »

I'd imagine they know it as DJ Sammy's 'Heaven'

I love that version.

Little D · 05-05-2010 05:22PM

He was a total scum bag yes however if he was my brother or my brother did the things he did i would still love him? Certain types of love are unconditional i no i would love any member of my family no matter what they had done

seamus · 05-05-2010 05:28PM

Little D wrote: »

He was a total scum bag yes however if he was my brother or my brother did the things he did i would still love him? Certain types of love are unconditional i no i would love any member of my family no matter what they had done

Yes, but would you stand up in public and declare that this man was a role model and a fine upstanding man, knowing that he was in fact a murdering, thieving, torturing, drug dealing scumbag in reality?

He's family, you would have loved him, and you would talk about what a great brother or father he was, but would you have the gall to claim that he took a path in life worth following and that he was a great man? Of course you wouldn't.

It goes to show the kind of fantasy land crap that these scum are involved in and how they don't see anything past their petty little gangs and their own self-interest.

They should have bombed that funeral tbh, do us all a favour.

Slain Gangster Hailed as "Role Model"

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