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Man Knighted for riding a bike - should we have an Irish Honours system?

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  • #32
    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    Dayana Easy Plan wrote: »
    Have some respect you guttersnipe, he has contributed more to Ireland than you ever will.
    Yeah I dont think I could possibly make a worse contribution than he has


  • #33
    Eve Grumpy Surname
    Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭ Eve Grumpy Surname


    Nodin wrote: »
    ....he did? when did that happen?

    Through his many sporting and charitable endeavours to name a few.


  • #34
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Dayana Easy Plan wrote: »
    Have some respect you guttersnipe, he has contributed more to Ireland than you ever will.


    ....would ye like him to tug his forelock to the Great One, or will a quick doff of the cap do?


  • #35
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Thank fúck we don't have an honours system. After Hours would explode when they're handed out for one thing. Imagine Sir Ryan Tubridy. Jesus wept, thank fúck we don't have it.


  • #36
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Dayana Easy Plan wrote: »
    Through his many sporting and charitable endeavours to name a few.


    And that cancels out the vile influence hes had through the indo, does it?


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  • #37
    Eve Grumpy Surname
    Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭ Eve Grumpy Surname


    Nodin wrote: »
    ....would ye like him to tug his forelock to the Great One, or will a quick doff of the cap do?

    You quoted and replied to that comment already, should I type in txt speak for you? you might react quicker.


  • #38
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Dayana Easy Plan wrote: »
    You already quoted and replied to that comment already, should I type in txt speak for you? you might react quicker.

    Tony O’Reilly, used his position to interfere directly with editorial policy. Prior to the 2007 general election, the Sunday Independent pursued a relentless campaign against the then taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, then immediately following a private meeting between Tony O’Reilly and Bertie Ahern, the line changed direction 180 degrees. The claims by the Sunday Independent now that such interference never occurred are plainly false.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0815/1224322198397.html

    A former advisor to the Rainbow Government of the 1990s has told the Mahon Tribunal he was told that the chairman of Independent News and Media, Tony O'Reilly, was unhappy about not winning the State's second mobile phone licence.
    Sean Donlon told the Tribunal that Dr O'Reilly expressed his disappointment during a meeting with the then Taoiseach, John Bruton, in July 1996.
    Mr Donlon also gave evidence of a meeting with Independent News executives later that year. Mr Donlon said that at that meeting, he was left in no doubt about Independent Newspapers' hostility towards the Government parties if outstanding issues were not resolved.
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0330/moriarty.html
    (my bold)
    The chairman of Independent News & Media (IN&M), Sir Anthony O'Reilly, said the Rainbow Coalition was not given hostile coverage in Independent titles because of disputes he had with it over a number of commercial matters.
    He said he had no foreknowledge of the editorial carried on the front page of the Irish Independent at the time of the 1997 general election. The editorial was headlined "Payback Time" and called on voters not to vote for the parties that comprised the then Rainbow Coalition.
    Sir Anthony said it was the policy of IN&M that its editors were not interfered with by members of the board. He said that if the tribunal wanted verification of this it …
    http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24731349.html

    What a saint......


  • #39
    Eve Grumpy Surname
    Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭ Eve Grumpy Surname


    Nodin wrote: »
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0815/1224322198397.html



    http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0330/moriarty.html
    (my bold)


    http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24731349.html

    What a saint......

    All mere conjecture.


  • #40
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    Dayana Easy Plan wrote: »
    All mere conjecture.
    Conjecture me bollix!


  • #41
    martic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    Everyone in Donegal must have been knighted at some stage 'what's the craic sir?' 'that's some yok yer drivin sir'


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  • #42
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    "would you step out of the vekhile please, sir?"


  • #43
    Eve Grumpy Surname
    Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭ Eve Grumpy Surname


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    Conjecture me bollix!
    No, it's speculation bollix period.


  • #44
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    In years gone by, only really rich people or leaders of large trade unions would get British knighthoods, so in an Irish context, that would have given you:

    Lord O'Reilly of Beanz
    Lord O'Brien of Voicemail
    Lord Desmond of Studfarm
    Lord Quinn of InDaWifesName
    Lord Begg of OneOutAllOut

    Knighthoods used to go to faceless civil servants, but now the preference is for sportsmen, TV personalities and musicians who've been at it for a while. So we'd expect to have had by now:

    Sir Larry Mullen
    Sir Gay Byrne
    Dame Sonia O'Sullivan
    Dame Twink
    Dame Daniel O'Donnell
    Sir Brendan Grace
    Sir Paul McGrath
    Sir Brendan O'Carroll


  • #45
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    We couldnt use it as we would give it to every flash in the pan. Big Brother contestants, Gaa players, The Carter Twins, Samantha Mumba and the likes


  • #46
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Get rid of Higgins and pick out an ancestor of Rory O'Connor to become High King.


  • #47
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Get rid of Higgins and pick out an ancestor of Rory O'Connor to become High King.

    Ah feck off, not another civil war!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_O'Connor_(Irish_republican)


  • #48
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Duck Soup wrote: »
    Dame Twink
    ba-dum tish!


  • #49
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Irish Honours? i nearly failed the foundation level...


  • #50
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    im invisible wrote: »
    ba-dum tish!



    Ireland most obscene voicemails!!!
    Dame cnutychops herself!:D


  • #51
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Misleading thread title.

    Could say the same for anyone that wins anything. Man knighted for talking. Man knighted for writing. Man knighted for driving a car.


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  • #52
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Dayana Easy Plan wrote: »
    No, it's speculation bollix period.

    You are an employee of the man in question and I claim my prize.


  • #53
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Get rid of Higgins and pick out an ancestor of Rory O'Connor to become High King.

    It should go to Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von , duke of Bavaria.

    'Franz is also the current senior co-heir-general of King Charles I of England and Scotland, and thus is considered by Jacobites to be the legitimate heir of the House of Stuart as king of England, France, Scotland, and Ireland as Francis II.'


  • #54
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Imagine the number of awards they'd be giving out to RTE presenters. We'd never hear the end of it.


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    At least he was only riding his bike rather that roiding his bike! :pac:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7095134.stm


    A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.     Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.
    Sheriff Colin Miller also placed Stewart on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
    Mr Stewart was caught in the act with his bicycle by cleaners in his bedroom at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr.
    Gail Davidson, prosecuting, told Ayr Sheriff Court: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.


  • #56
    Malibu Sunshine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭Malibu Sunshine


    Duck Soup wrote: »
    Sir Brendan O'Carroll

    Would you kindly fcuk off.


  • #57
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Lukebray wrote: »
    On a serious note, I can't think of any Irish people I'd bother giving a knighthood to...

    John Hume?


  • #58
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Get rid of Higgins and pick out an ancestor of Rory O'Connor to become High King.

    Not even a century old and we're already throwing out the republic?


  • #59
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Sir John Bruton.

    *you know he says this to himself in the mirror*


  • #60
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Should we have an Irish Honours system ?

    It's called getting elected. Never have to work again ever.
    Retire after 6 years and go to Miami and drink rum&cokes with Mary Harney on the beach.


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  • #61
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    As long as Brian 'Pigs Lips' Cowen doesn't get one...


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