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"Dr" John O'Conor - pianist uses tax payers money for his own parties!

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  • #32
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Morlar wrote: »
    Why not just call it 'Irish Academy of Music' ?
    markpb wrote: »
    It's been the RIAM since 1871

    Having been, ironically for your argument, renamed from its original name, The Irish Academy of Music.
    markpb wrote: »
    can you give a valid reason for changing it?

    How about precisely the same reason, funding, why the prefix 'royal' was added to its name? It was renamed the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 1872 in order to secure funding from the British state. It's now funded by the Irish state, which is a democratic republic; ergo its name should be changed back to reflect that reality.


  • #33
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,649 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    they're named royal because these are types of institutions that that appeals too, including the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.


  • #34
    bc dub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭bc dub


    i once heard of a CEO, that was also an artist, and wasn't paid an annual salary by the company, but was instead paid for his "art" that was magically used in offices of his company under the tax free artist status our government created. shirley that's wrong, both morally and legally?


  • #35
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    bnt wrote: »
    Changing the names of things, just because you don't like the origins of those names, is the kind of thing you see in Banana Republics. Rhodesia was named after a Brit (C.J. Rhodes), so they changed it to Zimbabwe. The biggest airport in South Africa, near Johannesburg, was originally named Jan Smuts International, after the former Prime Minister who founded the Royal Air Force during WW1 - but now it's called OR Tambo International, after a former ANC leader. I know that folks here don't like to be reminded of who built this country's institutions, but it's the truth. It's either that or we start looking for a new name for Dublin's Georgian Architecture. :o

    I guess that by your logic; Dún Laoghaire would still be called Kingstown, O'Connell Street would still be Sackville Street, Cobh would still be Queenstown, Co. Laois would still be Queen's County and Co. Offaly still be known as King's County.


  • #36
    Blobby George
    Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭Blobby George


    He also used his penis at his own parties. The swine.


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  • #37
    alphabeat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭alphabeat


    http://www.johnoconor.com/photos.php


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