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So you meet Bertie Ahern in the Local

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  • #32
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Well, "meeting" could also mean wearing the face off him...



    Sick man!

    stop that. stop that now! not funny :(


  • #33
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Honestly? I've a terrible temper and I'd lose it completely, particularly after having a drink or two myself. I'd lose it so much I'd probably end up looking like a bit of a gobshiite so knowing myself very well, I hope our paths don't cross.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Re the idea of approaching him in a pub, do you have any idea the amount of nut jobs/stalkers/political groupies that people in public life attract, he has heard it all a billion time already although if it make you feel better!


  • #35
    gregers85
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    :D


  • #36
    Bobby Baccala
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    Smash a pint over his head
    That'll learn him.


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  • #37
    KeithAFC
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    I would say job well done and say he was an underrated Taoiseach. He did well in the peace process. Big credit must be given for that.


  • #38
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    I'd express my vitriol for his toxic legacy through the medium of modern contemorpary dance. The nuances of my bold and abstract body work may be lost on the man, but I'd also be sure to nip into St. Lukes on the way home for a cathartic widdle through his letter box.


  • #39
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I would say job well done and say he was an underrated Taoiseach. He did well in the peace process. Big credit must be given for that.

    Meh!
    John Hume and many others in the background did a HELL of a lot more.


  • #40
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I would say job well done and say he was an underrated Taoiseach. He did well in the peace process. Big credit must be given for that.
    Mentality behind that post and near every other post you make in this forum:

    Filthy taigs say x about y, I must say the exact opposite! /troll


  • #41
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I would say to him '' Ahh....I know who you are , your the fellow that looks like and does impersonation of Bertie '' ...har har


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  • #42
    KeithAFC
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Meh!
    John Hume and many others in the background did a HELL of a lot more.
    It was important some one spoke from the Irish state though and he did just that. Very underrated by some when you consider the GFA was one of the biggest moments in a century on the island.


  • #43
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    The man should be handcuffed naked in a currach and pushed in the general direction of england... or whatever the old law is for treason.


  • #44
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    It was important some one spoke from the Irish state though and he did just that. Very underrated by some when you consider the GFA was one of the biggest moments in a century on the island.
    Prior to Mr Ahern, many were speaking for the state in the background.
    Politicians, priests, and others.
    Ahern came along in the latter stages frankly to partly hog the camera I feel.

    If anyone says the peace agreements was on the whole down to him, is being non-accepting of a fuller truth and is doing those that have toiled long and hard for years quietly, a dis-service.


  • #45
    Latchy
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    Peetrik wrote: »
    The man should be handcuffed naked in a currach and pushed in the general direction of england... or whatever the old law is for treason.
    LOL


  • #46
    Quandary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,454 ✭✭✭Quandary


    Here's what you could do...

    Go up to the bar beside him, order your drink and using ninja-esque subtlety you could spike his drink with the most powerful laxative available.

    then wait 10 minutes, and head into the jacks and fcuk all the toilet paper out the window.

    Finally, sit back and wait to see how full of ****e he really is :)


  • #47
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    msg11 wrote: »
    So you meet Bertie Ahern in the Local What do you do ?

    I'd punch him, scream, shout, kick him in the face and destroy him in so many ways it would become a creative science....


    Alternatively....


  • #48
    Deise 2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Deise 2012


    Have met Bertie. He is a nice fellow. Came across so anyway. Was in Croke Park. Crossed under the old Hogan Stand and shuck my hand and wanted to know where i was from, how i went to Croke Park, did it take long to get there and said it was nice to meet you.

    Was in Cork a few weeks back. Dr James Reilly was about five feet from me and someone else. Compleatly ignored me and the person i was with. He was only interested in meeting big s***s in suits. The lot of them, the minister included all had false laughs. His driver was even parked in a no parking area. Was going to go and tell him to go and f***ing move as the minister no longer had the privilage of a GArda driving a state car and therefore no longer should have the perks he would have if he was in a state car.

    The minster came across as stuck up, where as Bertie for all his faults had the manners to go and meet the ordionary people and have some few words with them, even if it was only chit chat.


  • #49
    Biggins
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    Deise 2012 wrote: »
    Have met Bertie. He is a nice fellow. Came across so anyway. Was in Croke Park. Crossed under the old Hogan Stand and shuck my hand and wanted to know where i was from, how i went to Croke Park, did it take long to get there and said it was nice to meet you.

    Was in Cork a few weeks back. Dr James Reilly was about five feet from me and someone else. Compleatly ignored me and the person i was with. He was only interested in meeting big s***s in suits. The lot of them, the minister included all had false laughs. His driver was even parked in a no parking area. Was going to go and tell him to go and f***ing move as the minister no longer had the privilage of a GArda driving a state car and therefore no longer should have the perks he would have if he was in a state car.

    The minster came across as stuck up, where as Bertie for all his faults had the manners to go and meet the ordionary people and have some few words with them, even if it was only chit chat.

    Short version and moral: Don't judge a book by its cover.

    I, too have met and spoken to both.
    Reilly (Crumlin Hospital protests and at the Dail) came across to me as professional and very knowledgeable by his area of stuff he was assigned to.
    Ahern (meetings in Dublin) came across as too friendly. Like a sweet that is TOO sugary to be true! I got the impression every time, that one should not turn ones back on him.


  • #50
    Deise 2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Deise 2012


    Biggins wrote: »
    Short version and moral: Don't judge a book by its cover.

    I, too have met and spoken to both.
    Reilly (Crumlin Hospital protests and at the Dail) came across to me as professional and very knowledgeable by his area of stuff he was assigned to.
    Ahern (meetings in Dublin) came across as too friendly. Like a sweet that is TOO sugary to be true! I got the impression every time, that one should not turn ones back on him.


    Reilly has changed so, as it was Cork University Hospital's main entrance that i met him. He just did not give one f*** about the people that were going in and out to clincs etc.


  • #51
    Biggins
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    Deise 2012 wrote: »
    Reilly has changed so, as it was Cork University Hospital's main entrance that i met him. He just did not give one f*** about the people that were going in and out to clincs etc.

    Possible you seen him on a bad day or when he was just busy?
    He does come across as cold and clinical at times I will admit.
    If you actually get to talk to him though, you will quickly realise that "by god, he knows his stuff" - and I can say that as a clear critic of him sometimes.

    He is what he is, very professional, he has NO time for bullschite, wafflers, idle useless chit-chat and if thats what its takes to get our governmental systems sorted and our departments, then I've no problem with he spending less time in kissing babies and turning out the charm just for PR offensives occasionally.

    If Mr Ahern was only so or even just as professional, this country would be so far better off - but he was too busy applying the charm offensive to the masses and allegedly lining his pockets in the background!

    I prefer the former and despise the latter.


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  • #52
    CongoPowers
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    Haha, as if anyone here would actually speak a bad word to him.


  • #53
    Biggins
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    CongoPowers wrote: »
    Haha, as if anyone here would actually speak a bad word to him.

    Hello.


  • #54
    CongoPowers
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Hello.

    Saying you would or have online really means nothing, does it?


  • #55
    Biggins
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    CongoPowers wrote: »
    Saying you would or have online really means nothing, does it?

    As does you taking my word or not.
    I would and have tackled him before.
    A few here know of my speaking on TV, radio and at numerous protests.
    Started off primarily with Crumlin Hospital (see here) and moved on from there to HERE (and the FF Fails section) even - my own site.

    If you think for one second after all that, I'm now going to hold my tongue on facing him once more, you would be wrong.


  • #56
    kenco
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    I would do the obvious and take pity on the poor creatur with the separation and all, head over to me mates, explain the situation and get them to fill the brown envelope I was keeping for such on occasion with all the 50s and 100s they have on them and only when it was bulging with same, drop over - and discretely - slip him the envelope from the 'lads'.

    Sure its only money and lets face it hes hard up


  • #57
    orourkeda
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    Ask him who is going to win the 2.20 at doncaster


  • #58
    FloatingVoter
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    Ignore him.


  • #59
    CongoPowers
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    Biggins wrote: »
    I would and have tackled him before.

    Oh, okay. I believe you now for realsies.


  • #60
    Biggins
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    CongoPowers wrote: »
    Oh, okay. I believe you now for realsies.

    I believe you. :D
    (As I suspect you do I - but such is life...)


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  • #61
    the groutch
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    I'd give him a five second head start


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