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Wish Bertie well with his new allotment

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  • #32
    Honk_If_You Hate Dubs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Honk_If_You Hate Dubs


    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    No fan of Bertie, but I found that article distasteful and lacking in journalistic ethics.


    What a surprise -- the Dubs pile in to defend their man.

    So typical.:rolleyes:


  • #33
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Lol Paul Williams sounds like a wannabe try-hard 12 year old who has threatened to take Bertie's Lunch money

    Except he's not, he has purportedly trained to be qualified to make a career out of Journalism... I just hope the course he did has improved since then...
    Honk_If_You Hate Dubs wrote: »
    What a surprise -- the Dubs pile in to defend their man.

    So typical.:rolleyes:


    It's just calling a spade a spade...

    No you're right, Dubliners adore Bertie, those be the days, give us back our Taoiseach!!!


  • #34
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    He'll have no trouble getting a bumper crop with all the sh1t he comes out with.


  • #35
    Mickey Dazzler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Mickey Dazzler


    Paul Williams is a cunt and his breath smells of farts.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7IygPb6QE


  • #36
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    That article actually made me feel a level of sympathy for Bertie Ahern that he really doesn't deserve.

    Completely un-necessary intrusion of space. We may hate the guy, but he is entitled to a private life like everybody else.

    Sometimes I think their privacy laws are one thing the French have actually gotten right.


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  • #37
    Mountainlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    "The baggy jumper, grubby donkey jacket and gnomish woolly hat were in stark contrast to the designer threads he once donned for his finest hour as peace-broker in the North"

    Why would he be wearing designer clothing while gardening? :confused: Harsh on gardiners I feel, making it out as though the fact that he was gardening was a blemish on his character. Terrible article.


  • #38
    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    And is this what Paul Williams is reduced to nowadays?
    The once self appointed fearless journalist who faced down and investigated John Gilligan and co.
    Claimed his life was threatened, he needed garda protection and someone tried to rig a bomb to his car.

    Once he went after gangs, now he doorstops retired pensioners out gardening
    Brave man

    And this has me wondering.
    Did he realy investigate John Gilligan or were his books a pack of lies?

    Paul Williams, the Walter Mitty of Irish Crime.


  • #39
    MagicSean
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    If it helps to keep him out of politics then I'm all for it


  • #40
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    The article is typical tabloid rubbish but as regards sympathy for Bertie I have none. I dont blame him for all our economic woes but he is a gangster and a tax fraud and a criminal. If the gaurda in our country had any sense of duty intrusion of space would be the least of Bertie's worries. The man should be in a cell. So until then anyone who intrudes that mans space, beats him up, runs him over or any of the rest is ok in my book.


  • #41
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Is there anyway someone can quote the article. Not having the embarrisment or shame of having the s*n website in my internet history.


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  • #42
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    MagicSean wrote: »
    If it helps to keep him out of politics then I'm all for it

    He lost the plot in politics, so he'll probably lose this one as well.


  • #43
    Honk_If_You Hate Dubs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Honk_If_You Hate Dubs


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Lol Paul Williams sounds like a wannabe try-hard 12 year old who has threatened to take Bertie's Lunch money

    Except he's not, he has purportedly trained to be qualified to make a career out of Journalism... I just hope the course he did has improved since then...




    It's just calling a spade a spade...

    No you're right, Dubliners adore Bertie, those be the days, give us back our Taoiseach!!!

    You never stopped voting the **** in, even when he was clearly a tainted entity.

    Dubs have ruined the country. :mad:


  • #44
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    I'm no fan of Bertie but that article is just pure intrusion. Leave him alone with his spuds.


  • #45
    Statistician
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Statistician


    ceegee wrote: »
    Regardless of my feelings about Ahern, this was a nasty, spiteful article only interested in taking cheap digs at the man.

    Well I wasn't going to click on the link and read the article for two reasons:
    1. I didn't want to promote the bertie brand.
    2. For me reading about bertie is a bit like clicking on that hammers in the forest violence vid that was going around a while ago. It's just not something I want to see.

    However, if it is a nasty, spiteful article, I'm very tempted. I love all that.


  • #46
    previous user
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    What a conniving,
    this smacks of PR spin even now... he's trying to make
    himself look like the ordinary man, trying to deflect the attention off the Mahon Tribunal..
    what is he after public sympathy? whats his angle this time?


  • #47
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    the groutch wrote: »
    complete non-event. every citizen of this country is legally entitled to an allotment if they are prepared to properly maintain it.

    Yeah ? Where can I get one ? I thought ones in Dublin were hard to get.


    I doubt this article wasnt' stage managed to make Bartholomew look like hes not ''living it up''
    I can picture once the photos are taken it's all ''get these filthy rags off me now go write your story making me out to be 'ordinary' like a good lackey'' and straight back to the Garda driven Merc then off to a villa of one of his wealthy mates in the South of France. (villas which for example Harney and McCreevey stayed in for free while coincidentally legislation was being prepared by government which had the potential to enrich said Villa donor quite coincidentally of course).


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