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Daily Mail headline sneers at Dublin hosting Olympic Flame

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


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    What the hell have Jedward got to do with sports?
    They gave England a run for their money twice in a singing contest and beat them?

    ..Besides, one can say the same thing about "Doctor Who" (LINK - Ooo, by the same paper! LOL)


    Ya gotta love The Mail!

    (Well not really!) :D


  • #33
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Bloody rag. I do love reading the comments section though, and thankfully the majority on this story are criticising the stupidity of the DM


  • #34
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Jedward say '''Thank you, guys, so much for all coming out and being so Jepic and so Jedicated to the Olympics.
    Last year we had Barack Obama and this year we have the Olympic Torch.'''


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  • #35
    facemelter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭facemelter


    DarkJager wrote: »
    I wouldn't wipe my arse with the daily mail for fear of offending my ****.

    besides its counter productive wiping with something that full off sh1te !!


  • #36
    Chevolution
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭Chevolution


    'I didn't know it would be a big thing with a fire on top, I thought it was a torch you would shine stuff on.'

    What do they teach kids in school?


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  • #37
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    What's the Daily Mail doing in Ireland?

    Aholes


  • #38
    Fussy Eater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Fussy Eater


    Daily Mail wrote:
    Immigrant bastards! Kill them all!

    What an appalling rag read by the interminably small-minded who labour under the misbelief that they're upstanding, intelligent and middle class.


  • #39
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    The local coffee shop were I have my break usually stocks the daily mail and the sindo. When Im finished reading the times and anything else (even hello once!) Ill read the sindo or the mail. Both of them read exaclty like political publications rather than an newspapers. I know that most if not all publications have some sort of bias but everything from those rags promotes an agenda from the letters page to the film reviews!

    The last few times I read the sindo every second letter that was published was lamenting the fact that Ireland wasnt part of britian. Contrast that we something like the Irish times which included letters from royalists, republicans and those inbetween.

    Regarding this latest hateful dribble its not surprising but its frankly one of the many attempts to disregard the progress the peace process has made between our two countries.


  • #40
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Fussy Eater wrote: »
    What an appalling rag read by the interminably small-minded who labour under the misbelief that they're upstanding, intelligent and middle class.

    RTE top-paid presenters?


  • #41
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Why people in this country buy that toilet paper is beyond me.


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  • #42
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    it may be fun to read newspapers.......but to believe them....well??????


  • #43
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Loads of people on Boards were doing the same thing ffs.


  • #44
    lac007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭lac007


    Do what I do dont buy the rag.Read it once few years ago and realised it was ****.Seems its still that way.


  • #45
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Ah the Daily Mail - the British newspaper that supported Hitler. It's like the diet BNP newsletter.


  • #46
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    LOL

    I read The Times (England) this evening...
    Jedward, the twin Irish singers, today became the only torchbearers to actually resemble the Olympic flame.

    See: http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/226/107692603torchjed302460.jpg

    You just got to laugh!
    ...Well they are - they are now multi-millionaires.
    They must be doing something right that some of us is doing wrong!

    It seems begrudgery is still around in Ireland, if not just in The Mail!


  • #47
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Henry Shefflin - eight All-Ireland medals. Highest scorer in championship hurling history.
    Paul McGrath- 86 caps for Ireland. Regarded as one of our greatest ever soccer players.
    Ronnie Delaney- gold medallist in 1956 Melbourne Games
    Sonia O'Sullivan- silver medallist at 2000 Syndey Games

    All sporting icons in one shape or another. Yet it's the appearance of those pesky Jedward twins that garners the attention. It sickens me to think that two lads who finished 6th on a TV "talent" show and represented Ireland twice at the Eurovision are not only invited to take part in the Olympic torch ceremony, but are probably more famous in today's social media obsessed world than the names mentioned above. Makes a mockery of what is essentially an unique occasion for Ireland.


  • #48
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    castletownman wrote: »
    Henry Shefflin - eight All-Ireland medals. Highest scorer in championship hurling history.
    Paul McGrath- 86 caps for Ireland. Regarded as one of our greatest ever soccer players.
    Ronnie Delaney- gold medallist in 1956 Melbourne Games
    Sonia O'Sullivan- silver medallist at 2000 Syndey Games

    All sporting icons in one shape or another. Yet it's the appearance of those pesky Jedward twins that garners the attention. It sickens me to think that two lads who finished 6th on a TV "talent" show and represented Ireland twice at the Eurovision are not only invited to take part in the Olympic torch ceremony, but are probably more famous in today's social media obsessed world than the names mentioned above. Makes a mockery of what is essentially an unique occasion for Ireland.

    Quote from The Times (England) again.
    It was the first time the torch has left Britain and Northern Ireland: the idea was to pay tribute to the peace process and to acknowledge that Northern Irish athletes also competed in Republic of Ireland squads.

    This two sickening lads by the way that with a modicum of talent that they have, has used it to become very successful.
    That means they are besides themselves, employing other Irish folk as they continue in their successful work, they are helping other theatre's around the country to stay open in this times by appearing there and creating more revenues for the owner and workers there too.
    They are also still Irish residents and are still paying huge taxes into the state (unlike U2 that are using every opportunity to use loops in Irish tax laws) which means they are contributing to the welfare of the state big time.

    What I find is a mockery is that we are willing (and disgustingly) going to knock these two successful lads for getting on so well, that we who think we have twice their brains, etc, have not done as well as them.

    Aaaa hell, its easier to knock these two lads isn't it!

    For the record, by ALL accounts of those that know them, they are two of the most likeable and harmless guys you will ever meet.
    They don't drink, don't smoke, never is caught using bad language, never sneer other celebs (in the papers or outside it) as far as I know and is very, very good to their fans.
    No wonder the papers and the begrudger's hate them!


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Biggins wrote: »
    Aaa come on... Its The Mail for crying out loud!
    What can anyone expect!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78982638&postcount=8


  • #50
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Deleted User wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78982638&postcount=8

    Which is why you have to take every article they post with a modicum of intelligent breakdown, a possible smattering of a quiet agenda and an acknowledgement that The Mail prints whatever it prints, just to in the long term, sell their paper.


  • #51
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    Deleted User wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78982638&postcount=8

    Using The Daily Mail as a source? Have I fallen into another dimension? :D


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Biggins wrote: »
    Which is why you have to take every article they post with a modicum of intelligent breakdown, a possible smattering of a quiet agenda and an acknowledgement that The Mail prints whatever it prints, just to in the long term, sell their paper.

    Pity, I asked for your breakdown back then and never got it. Ah well.


  • #53
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    They called Jedward "Z list" yet they publish countless articles about the TOWIE cast, people famous for sleeping with someone else and generally people who are famous for being famous.

    Not saying that Jedward are extremely talented or famous but I just thought it smacked of hypocrisy.


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


    lizt wrote: »
    They called Jedward "Z list" yet they publish countless articles about the TOWIE cast, people famous for sleeping with someone else and generally people who are famous for being famous.

    Not saying that Jedward are extremely talented or famous but I just thought it smacked of hypocrisy.

    Very big time!


  • #55
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Pity, I asked for your breakdown back then and never got it. Ah well.

    I provided a very explanatory number of replies to your demands for my position.
    Sadly none were adequate for you.
    However if other readers here care to read the full thread as linked (HERE), they will see this.

    Again, nice try!


  • #56
    dixiefly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭dixiefly


    MarkK wrote: »
    "... what is it doing in IRELAND?"

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155401/If-irritated-carried-torch-look-away-Z-listers-Jedward-run-Olympic-flame--doing-IRELAND.html

    I wonder will the headline make it into tomorrows Irish edition :rolleyes:
    I wont be buying it to find out!


  • #57
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    The story is now nowhere to be seen on the DM site, but can still be accessed through the link in the OP. Pure cretinous scum, and just like the spineless little ***** they are they wouldn't even put a name to the article, just "Daily Mail Reporter".


  • #58
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    DarkJager wrote: »
    The story is now nowhere to be seen on the DM site, but can still be accessed through the link in the OP. Pure cretinous scum, and just like the spineless little ***** they are they wouldn't even put a name to the article, just "Daily Mail Reporter".

    It's still on the front page of the site.


  • #59
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    lizt wrote: »
    It's still on the front page of the site.

    On second glance you're right, but it's now hidden among the stories in the sidebar than the main headlines.


  • #60
    Naomi00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Naomi00


    castletownman wrote: »
    Henry Shefflin - eight All-Ireland medals. Highest scorer in championship hurling history.
    Paul McGrath- 86 caps for Ireland. Regarded as one of our greatest ever soccer players.
    Ronnie Delaney- gold medallist in 1956 Melbourne Games
    Sonia O'Sullivan- silver medallist at 2000 Syndey Games

    All sporting icons in one shape or another. Yet it's the appearance of those pesky Jedward twins that garners the attention. It sickens me to think that two lads who finished 6th on a TV "talent" show and represented Ireland twice at the Eurovision are not only invited to take part in the Olympic torch ceremony, but are probably more famous in today's social media obsessed world than the names mentioned above. Makes a mockery of what is essentially an unique occasion for Ireland.

    Chris Moyles ran with it in London. He's hardly an olympic athlete, or even a good representative of London either, he's a príck. Same thing.


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  • #61
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Naomi00 wrote: »

    Chris Moyles ran with it in London. He's hardly an olympic athlete, or even a good representative of London either, he's a príck. Same thing.

    Dont forget will.i.am, who's an American and also the **** responsible for some of the most vomit inducing "music" ever released.


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