JFK flame returning.

Hondo75 · 20-06-2013 12:31PM #1

A splendid piece of Paddywackery!
How did it get through homeland security,and was it stored in the overhead locker?:D

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kennedy-flame-arrives-in-dublin-29360150.html

Anyone · 20-06-2013 12:33PM

Hondo75 wrote: »

A splendid piece of Paddywackery!
How did it get through homeland security,and was it stored in the overhead locker?:D

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kennedy-flame-arrives-in-dublin-29360150.html

Its having lunch with Bono tomorrow.

The Backwards Man · 20-06-2013 12:34PM

I bloody hate the Kennedys. My great granny had three pictures on the wall, the Queen Of England, God, and JFK.

Hard pushed to know which one is worse.

Kylo Ren · 20-06-2013 12:35PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I bloody hate the Kennedys. My great granny had three pictures on the wall, the Queen Of England, God, and JFK.

Hard pushed to know which one is worse.

God created the Kardashians.

Wacker The Attacker · 20-06-2013 12:36PM

JFK.

Another bollocks

McDermotX · 20-06-2013 12:36PM

This country.

dan1895 · 20-06-2013 12:36PM

I don't understand this nation's obsession with the man.

SEPT 23 1989 · 20-06-2013 12:37PM

How much did this charade cost?

Fukuyama · 20-06-2013 12:37PM

I went to New York last year.

When we were all boarding the plane I noticed Aer Lingus had called the 747 St. Patrick.

So I said "Hey the plane's called Saint Patrick..... I guess *removes sunglasses*...there'll be no snakes on this plane!!!"

And everyone around us laughed.

True story.

THE END.

gobnaitolunacy · 20-06-2013 12:37PM

One of the best bedhopping presidents the US of A ever had.

If only holy Catholic Ireland knew that back then in '63.

My name is URL · 20-06-2013 12:39PM

More than 30 members of the Kennedy family will be in the country over the next few days for a series of engagements to commemorate the June 1963 trip.

This is just madness. His visit should be commemorated but c'mon like.

mike65 · 20-06-2013 12:39PM

50 years ago Ireland was priest ridden and you couldn't get a legal abortion.

mike65 · 20-06-2013 12:40PM

My name is URL wrote: »

This is just madness. His visit should be commemorated but c'mon like.

Hope its not a fly/drive visit.

Wacker The Attacker · 20-06-2013 12:41PM

mike65 wrote: »

50 years ago Ireland was priest ridden and you couldn't get a legal abortion.

The JFK flame will change all that

RikkFlair · 20-06-2013 12:45PM

Anyone wrote: »

Its having lunch with Bono tomorrow.

The Unforgettable Fire

lertsnim · 20-06-2013 12:45PM

Is the tax payer paying for all of these visits?

mike65 · 20-06-2013 12:47PM

RikkFlair wrote: »

The Unforgettable Bonfire of the Vanities

castletownman · 20-06-2013 12:51PM

At least his links to Ireland are genuine.

Unlike the tedium around Obama and his Irish heritage.

I don't see people's gripe with the man. And I definitely can see why a generation of Irish people still revere him.

fishy fishy · 20-06-2013 12:51PM

it gets worse.

this county is a shambles.

but I'm sure tubridy is jumping up and down with excitement. :roll eyes:

we really need to get a grip on ourselves. I think at this stage I'd take a few moving statues - would make us look more normal.

:o

fishy fishy · 20-06-2013 12:52PM

Hondo75 wrote: »

A splendid piece of Paddywackery!
How did it get through homeland security,and was it stored in the overhead locker?:D

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kennedy-flame-arrives-in-dublin-29360150.html

can somebody just blow the thing out and be done with it.

fryup · 20-06-2013 12:53PM

i'm sick of all this reminiscing about JFK's visit

the guy was a sex mad philanderer who only became president cause his gangster father "fixed" the election

fishy fishy · 20-06-2013 12:54PM

fryup wrote: »

i'm sick of all this reminiscing about JFK's visit

the guy was a sex mad philanderer who only became president cause his gangster father "fixed" the election

ya but ryan tubridy likes him.

ballsymchugh · 20-06-2013 12:55PM

they're making quite a big deal about him in germany this week, with it being 50 years since his visit there, hence obama giving a speech at the brandenburgh gate yesterday. it's not just ireland.

Rasheed · 20-06-2013 12:56PM

fishy fishy wrote: »

can somebody just blow the thing out and be done with it.

Ha! Imagine if some eeijit let it go out. *fumbling for the matches*

Oh god I'd laugh.

errlloyd · 20-06-2013 12:57PM

JFK popularised Ireland in America. Before him we were a second class immigrant race. So I'm ok with celebrating this.

Rented Mule · 20-06-2013 01:27PM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

One of the best bedhopping presidents the US of A ever had.

If only holy Catholic Ireland knew that back then in '63.

Sure....they would have made him Bishop !!

TheSB · 20-06-2013 01:40PM

errlloyd wrote: »

JFK popularised Ireland in America. Before him we were a second class immigrant race. So I'm ok with celebrating this.

Bull****. The Irish controlled many cities and towns around the time of JFK including Boston and Chicago.

gobnaitolunacy · 20-06-2013 01:43PM

fishy fishy wrote: »

ya but ryan tubridy likes him.

Tubbers will shoot his load with a Kennedy Gathering on the cards.

fryup · 20-06-2013 01:43PM

errlloyd wrote: »

JFK popularised Ireland in America. Before him we were a second class immigrant race. So I'm ok with celebrating this.

TheSB wrote: »

Bull****. The Irish controlled many cities and towns around the time of JFK including Boston and Chicago.

yep, and if anything old Joe Kennedy tried to play down the kennedy's irishness during the election as the boston irish at the time had a reputation of being racist

Jimoslimos · 20-06-2013 02:01PM

TheSB wrote: »

Bull****. The Irish controlled many cities and towns around the time of JFK including Boston and Chicago.

They didn't really, that's like saying Pakistanis control many cities and towns in the UK. They may have had a sizeable influence but they in no way controlled these cities.

It was a big deal at the time because he was the first (and to date the only) Catholic president of the US. At the time there was not a small amount of prejudice from WASPs, fearful that he would somehow deliver the US to Rome rule (seeing any parallels here). He even had to go so far as to stress this whilst campaigning.

JFK wrote:

"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party candidate for President who also happens to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my Church on public matters – and the Church does not speak for me."

So in the context of highly Catholic Ireland at the time, an Irish-American Catholic president was a big deal, in the same way that Obama is to many African-Americans and even Africans, especially Kenyans.

Dyr · 20-06-2013 02:04PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I bloody hate the Kennedys. My great granny had three pictures on the wall, the Queen Of England, God, and JFK.

Hard pushed to know which one is worse.

She had a picture of the queen?

Actually never mind that, She had a picture of God?

Your granny was a head banger

JFK flame returning.

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