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Aaa Jesus - we have upset poor Mr Ahern!

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  • #32
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    kraggy wrote: »
    Biggins, why don't you start a blog on your hatred for FF?

    It gets a bit tiring seeing threads created by you and posts in other threads by you that just have to include FF somehow.

    Actually if you had bothered to check, you might have noted that since the last general election, this is the first political related thread of any kind that I have started. So please show me where your "seeing threads created by you" are - because unless I am gone stupid and blind, I fail to see them in any numbers - if any!
    ...But don't let fact come in the way of your fiction!
    kraggy wrote: »
    I dislike Bertie Ahern as much as anyone else. I wish he was locked up in prison for the rest of his life. I really do. The cheek, audacity and delusional comments by him recently make me sick as a hospital, but there's no need to constantly go on about it.
    I agree with your feelings towards the man but "going on about it" ?
    Its in our complacency that others complain that we are doing nothing - yet when some others occasionally comment on such things that do indeed deserve comment, that for that too, for we speaking up, we the public just can't win with some it seems!

    Damned if we do - and damned if we don't!
    ...And the same people doing the damning are oft times the same people scratching their heads wondering why we are in the mess that we are in, in the first place!

    (Off-topic: Update: Our child (6y) just went under the gas at 11. Knocked out so she can get a full bodycast change for her Scoloises.
    Again, the staff up here in Crumlin are exceptional and great. They deserve every bit of support they get. We are now waiting around till they are finished in theatre and till she comes out and recovers.)


  • #33
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    It really is like something out of the emperor's new clothes. How does Byrne not expect people to be angry? Who's this 95% of people? Ahern is more delusional that Gaddafi, it really beggars belief so it does.


  • #34
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Nicky Byrne "You have my Sword!"
    95% of Ireland "...and you have my Bow!"
    5% of Ireland "...and my Tax!"


  • #35
    LeeHoffmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭LeeHoffmann


    Who's this 95% of people?
    I guess that means 95% of people that Nicki Byrne and Georgina (is that her name?) Ahern spend time with - i.e. the Ahern family, friends of the Ahern family, former popstars, Malahide residents maybe, Fianna Fail politicians, authors/people who are successful in publishing, and their friends. Not such a wonder that 95% agree in Nicki Byrne's eyes then


  • #36
    gazzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭gazzer


    I thought it was bad enough that Nicky Byrne has become a millionaire by being a backing singer in a mainly covers band but to come out defending Bertie like that (family or not) shows the guy is a gob****e who really doesnt get it that people are so angry at Ahern and what he and his party did to the country.


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  • #37
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    LeeHoffmann wrote: »
    I guess that means 95% of people that Nicki Byrne and Georgina (is that her name?) Ahern spend time with - i.e. the Ahern family, friends of the Ahern family, former popstars, Malahide residents maybe, Fianna Fail politicians, authors/people who are successful in publishing, and their friends. Not such a wonder that 95% agree in Nicki Byrne's eyes then
    That does make sense to be sure.
    The circles they would mix in I doubt myself, there would be many around (long enough allowed) to voice any opinion otherwise.


  • #38
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Croke Park is the spiritual home of the Ahern family

    Ahhhhhh!! THAT explains why he had to be given a house and sleep over in St Lukes!

    Bertie - for the last time - you can't stay overnight in Croke Park!


  • #39
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Biggins wrote: »
    Now boys and girls, we upset the man - should we apologise? LOL :pac:

    Dear Bertie,

    Please go take a long walk off a short pier, preferably today in the "stormy" weather.

    ATB,

    JG




    Biggins, did I get that apology craic right? :confused:


  • #40
    ronan45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭ronan45


    Would Yas all lay off Bertie, Judge Jury and executioners yas all are

    He won that Money fair and Square in some horse racing, and just cos he doesnt have any evidence of this winning bet doesnt mean it didnt happen. It was an unfortunate incident that his dog ate the winning ticket after he cashed it.

    As far the lodgements? You try juggle brown envelopes with differeing currencies and amounts in them With only the words "SWAG" "LOOT" & "HOT" written on them and you would be confused too!

    And as for the whip round and the free house. Well only last night i was offered the deeds of 3 properties in the city centre. Owner heading to oz. As he was running out of the pub he mentioned something about Jingling mail wasnt sure what that was in reference too.


  • #41
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Wait.....does Bertie's annoyance at our reactions to him make him a "cribber" ? And does the fact that it's Nicky speaking on Ahern's behalf mean that Ahern is actually a "cribber on the sidelines" ?

    Now if Ahern follows his own "advice" from a couple of years back.......


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  • #42
    JerryHandbag
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    johngalway wrote: »
    Dear Bertie,

    Please go take a long walk off a short pier, preferably today in the "stormy" weather.

    ATB,

    JG




    Biggins, did I get that apology craic right? :confused:

    Preferably with his son in law chained to him as he does.


  • #43
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,039 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Bertie should just be thankful he is still alive.

    EVENFLOW



  • #44
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Happy birthday Bertie.
    P.S I hate you.


  • #45
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    JerryHandbag wrote: »
    Preferably with his son in law chained to him as he does.

    Is he able to multitask? :confused:


  • #46
    Kensington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Kensington


    Oh diddums.


  • #47
    iMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    Worst thing about that is there was only one person protesting outside.

    We're both apathetic & pathetic all at once.


  • #48
    Joekers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Joekers


    I always carry an egg whenever I go to a match in Croke Park just incase I see him, he will be getting it right in his big fat deluded head of his !


  • #49
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    ‎.....the chart-topping music star said Mr Ahern had "enjoyed" the evening and that "95pc of the public" knew his father-in-law "was a good guy"

    Mr Byrne [later] got on stage to sing the Monkees' hit 'Daydream Believer' at the bash

    Apt song! Reeling in the Years would be proud!


  • #50
    gazzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭gazzer


    Poor oul Nicky must have been out of school the day they were teaching percentages if he thinks that 95% of the public love Bertie.


  • #51
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    He said the GAA headquarters was the "spiritual home" of the Ahern family.


    And I mistakenly thought it was the Galway tent.


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  • #52
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Biggins wrote: »
    Dublin taxi driver 20 minutes ago (wife, child and I going from Connelly station to the hospital) said exactly the same.
    He read the bit in Indo' and said "Christ, in that case I must always have the other 5% in the car all the time!"

    On the other hand, 41% of the country (probably including your taxi driver) voted for him just 4 years ago, so they share in the blame. They could see how FF worked, but didn't care.


  • #53
    FGR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭FGR


    Amidst the taunting of being called a blue shirt and (ironically) a commie during the last ten years it's great to see how two faced those bertie lovers have become.


  • #54
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    goose2005 wrote: »
    On the other hand, 41% of the country (probably including your taxi driver) voted for him just 4 years ago, so they share in the blame. They could see how FF worked, but didn't care.
    Thats 41% of the county not just Dublin you mean which I think had showed a lower than previous support for him and FF from prior years.
    Then again you must be physic too to know exactly how a Dublin taxi driver voted in the past.
    Also not forgetting that while you like to mention this lauded 41% - that leaves a majority of 59% that had the wisdom to see crap in its true colours - and they did care!


  • #55
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Biggins wrote: »
    Thats 41% of the county not just Dublin you mean which I think had showed a lower than previous support for him and FF from prior years.
    Then again you must be physic too to know exactly how a Dublin taxi driver voted in the past.
    Also not forgetting that while you like to mention this lauded 41% - that leaves a majority of 59% that had the wisdom to see crap in its true colours - and they did care!

    Very few taxi drivers vote for the left, as they are self-employed. So it was FF, fine Gael, or the PDS. And it is not clear that FG would have run the country differently. I am still unaware of a Lets Crash the Property Market Now Before It Gets Too Big party manifesto in 2006.

    There was small pockets of resistance to the crazy property boom- most online like in the threads here, and Property Pin. and some academics. 99% of people would have been happy with the situation.


  • #56
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    Biggins wrote: »
    Thats 41% of the county not just Dublin you mean which I think had showed a lower than previous support for him and FF from prior years.
    Then again you must be physic too to know exactly how a Dublin taxi driver voted in the past.
    Also not forgetting that while you like to mention this lauded 41% - that leaves a majority of 59% that had the wisdom to see crap in its true colours - and they did care!
    on the voting issues,its general accepted those consistency's least benefited from despite having a leader in their area,such as donegal and some parts of dub.

    Looking back on it,i think kerry+tipp did well out of the last gov with political clout that healy rae/lowry had.

    Don't some of ahern's children/friends benefit from artist tax exemption or am i mistaken?.


  • #57
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I dont really care if he had a party, its not like it was thousands all on the pitch or anything.
    The problem is this **** gets in the newspaper.
    We should be complaining about his pensions and cars and 2 secreteries the state are paying for.


  • #58
    LeeHoffmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭LeeHoffmann


    We should be complaining about his pensions and cars and 2 secreteries the state are paying for.


  • #59
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    I thought Old Trafford was Bertie's spiritual home.


  • #60
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    have ever noticed that the elder Ahern daughter has lizard eyes ?


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  • #61
    no1beemerfan
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    If I was to post what I think of the scumbag Bertie I'd be getting a lifetime ban, but sometimes I think it would be wort it.

    Charles Haughey once said of Bertie...."He is the most devious and cunning of them all". To me that says an awful lot.


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