John Connors is a bit of a wanker

w.b. yokes · 13-08-2018 2:53am

He’s obviously not that intelligent and I get the feeling he’s only where’s he’s at because RTÉ decided they needed a token traveller for representation and he’s the only literate one they could find who isn’t an active criminal, though his acting really isn’t that bad. I have a lot of respect for his based pro-life positions too

professore · 13-08-2018 4:07am

I thought it hilarious the lefties were all behind him as he ticked all their boxes until he committed the ultimate blasphemy of being pro life. Personally I think he's not a bad auld ****er - at least he has a set of principles.and sticks to them.

AndyBoBandy · 14-09-2018 3:42pm

John will be on the Late Late Show tonight.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 14-09-2018 3:48pm

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

John will be on the Late Late Show tonight.

Crying about discrimination no doubt

Deebles McBeebles · 14-09-2018 3:57pm

The Crowman wrote: »

His twitter page seems to be taken down.

Twitter being all racist probably.

Feisar · 14-09-2018 4:02pm

Wibbs wrote: »

God forbid actual facts and statistics get in the way of being Right On. Travellers aren't Black. They look like any other White Irish person. They're not singled out by an obvious visual difference, so there's that. Ask a Black person who is living in a racist society what the difference would mean if they didn't stand out. As for "Jews"? Well let's go back to Nazi Germany, as you seem hellbent on conflating the Irish experience with that. Nice and emotive BTW *slow handclap*. In Nazi Germany and the lead up to it Jewish people were not over represented among the criminal class or prisoners. Indeed they were so integrated into German society that the Nazis had to invent blood laws among other nonsense to tease out who was a "Jew" and who wasn't. If Jews had been only 1% of the population but 11% of the prison population their propaganda would have written itself. But they weren't and it didn't.

So yeah, try again. Try and explain the disparity between the background Irish population, try to explain why so many Travellers availed of the various leg ups down the years and became, well... contributing Irish people, yet a percentage didn't and perverted their own culture into what we all too often see today as anti social and criminal behaviour.

Have to disagree here, nearly all Irish people can spot a member of the travelling community a mile away.

duffysfarm · 14-09-2018 4:19pm

another good reason not to watch it or pay the tv licence fee!

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

John will be on the Late Late Show tonight.

Loves_lorries · 14-09-2018 4:25pm

John is actually very good at what he does, by playing the discrimination drum constantly, he ensures a narrative of travellers needing cradle to grave assistance continues and this policies of all carrot and no stick prevail.

Travellers do very well out of being "officially vulnerable"

No reason why they would want any change.

DavidLyons_ · 14-09-2018 4:38pm

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

John will be on the Late Late Show tonight.

Jaysus. A conversation between two utter cnut sounds like what we’d all like to watch on a Friday night. No doubt John “Marlon Brando Malcolm X” Connors will be whinging about being discriminated against by people he personally hates anyway.

Will Tubridy challenge the fcuking b*llox on the drivel he tweeted regarding the looting of Lidl in Tallaght that time?

And we pay a license fee (Tax) under threat of jail for this scutter.

suicide_circus · 14-09-2018 4:47pm

Loves_lorries wrote: »

John is actually very good at what he does, by playing the discrimination drum constantly, he ensures a narrative of travellers needing cradle to grave assistance continues and this policies of all carrot and no stick prevail.

Travellers do very well out of being "officially vulnerable"

No reason why they would want any change.

it's a short term win.

dubstepper · 14-09-2018 4:49pm

The range here is amazing:

Hoboo · 14-09-2018 4:51pm

I love dogs

punisher5112 · 14-09-2018 4:55pm

How did that gobsh1te get on tv......

Another reason why I wouldn't watch that absolute rubbish.

Will the presenter be asking any hard or genuine questions...... Hell no.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-09-2018 4:57pm

Hoboo wrote: »

I love dogs

I know a chap who could get ya a dag if ye want.

AndyBoBandy · 14-09-2018 4:58pm

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

Will Tubridy challenge the fcuking b*llox on the drivel he tweeted regarding the looting of Lidl in Tallaght that time?

Tubridy will certainly mention it, and tomorrow Joe.dot.nothanks will have one of their 3-4 weekly Saturday Late Late show articles* mentioning how Tubbers broke ranks from the comfort zone to ask Conners the "questions that matter"

*another of which will be "did you see that mad lad in the audience, he looked straight at the camera!! mad craic altogether"

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-09-2018 5:00pm

I say he'll focus heavily on the Margaret Cash story. It will be interested to see how Tubbs handles him, I presume his views won't be challenged in any shape of form.

14-09-2018 5:01pm

Margaret Cash is a saint boss

DavidLyons_ · 14-09-2018 5:11pm

Tucker Big Rugby wrote: »

Margaret Cash is a saint boss

Patron Saint of Work-Shy Layabout Good-For-Nothing Exploitative Manipulative Self-Absorbed Selfish Deluded Lacking In Self-Awareness Horrible Cnuts!!!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-09-2018 5:18pm

Tucker Big Rugby wrote: »

Margaret Cash is a saint boss

He'll probably start petitioning the Vatican to begin the beautification process early.

Edgware · 14-09-2018 5:57pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I say he'll focus heavily on the Margaret Cash story. It will be interested to see how Tubbs handles him, I presume his views won't be challenged in any shape of form.

Probably typical Dublin 4 liberal guilt ****e trying to be cool chatting with the pavees.
Of course first sign of a Hiace in their estate and they ring the Gords+

Amirani · 14-09-2018 6:04pm

Feisar wrote: »

Have to disagree here, nearly all Irish people can spot a member of the travelling community a mile away.

Not based on any physical trait.

stratowide · 14-09-2018 6:06pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He'll probably start petitioning the Vatican to begin the beautification process early.

In fairness she's not a bad looking bird to start with...;)

EICVD · 14-09-2018 6:06pm

A bit?

Loves_lorries · 14-09-2018 6:23pm

Amirani wrote: »

Not based on any physical trait.

In most cases, its easy to identify a traveller, especially traveller women.

Loves_lorries · 14-09-2018 6:25pm

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Tubridy will certainly mention it, and tomorrow Joe.dot.nothanks will have one of their 3-4 weekly Saturday Late Late show articles* mentioning how Tubbers broke ranks from the comfort zone to ask Conners the "questions that matter"

*another of which will be "did you see that mad lad in the audience, he looked straight at the camera!! mad craic altogether"

In fairness to tubs, the last time he interviewed Connors, he was roasted on twitter for being disrespectful, the interview was tough by PC rte standards but nothing out of order.

mloc123 · 14-09-2018 6:30pm

Amirani wrote: »

Not based on any physical trait.

I can't put it into words but travellers do have a certain look. Pretty easy to spot in a lineup.

Roger Hassenforder · 14-09-2018 6:32pm

mloc123 wrote: »

I can't put it into words but travellers do have a certain look. Pretty easy to spot in a lineup.

Ah that's not fair...

Amirani · 14-09-2018 6:33pm

mloc123 wrote: »

I can't put it into words but travellers do have a certain look. Pretty easy to spot in a lineup.

I think I'd struggle, but I haven't had a tonne of direct interaction.

Throw in clothing, demeanor and accents and it becomes clearer, but I'm not sure I'd easily identify a traveller purely based on their physical/racial features.

stratowide · 14-09-2018 6:39pm

Amirani wrote: »

I think I'd struggle, but I haven't had a tonne of direct interaction.

Throw in clothing, demeanor and accents and it becomes clearer, but I'm not sure I'd easily identify a traveller purely based on their physical/racial features.

Read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

Your subconscious mind makes the link.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-09-2018 6:40pm

Now ladies and gentlemen John and old friend of the show Big Joe Joyce will perform My heart will go on accompanied by Frank McNamara on piano

Eggs For Dinner · 14-09-2018 6:42pm

Feisar wrote: »

Have to disagree here, nearly all Irish people can spot a member of the travelling community a mile away.

Because they're in your shed

suicide_circus · 14-09-2018 7:38pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Now ladies and gentlemen John and old friend of the show Big Joe Joyce will perform My heart will go on accompanied by Frank McNamara on piano

And then Nevin Maguire will launch his new book, Shite in a Bucket

BBFAN · 14-09-2018 7:42pm

I did have some respect for John Connors right up until that Lidl tweet. He blew it then and I'd love to see him defend that.

Homer · 14-09-2018 7:43pm

Loves_lorries wrote: »

In most cases, its easy to identify a traveller, especially traveller women.

Yep.. huge bangers. Must be something in the water. That or the inbreeding.

Richard Hillman · 14-09-2018 10:22pm

He's been dead to Official Ireland when he advocated voting no to the 8th referendum. He's probably on to fill the quota. There's nobody else from the "traveller community" to bump the token

The Crowman · 14-09-2018 10:28pm

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Tubridy will certainly mention it, and tomorrow Joe.dot.nothanks will have one of their 3-4 weekly Saturday Late Late show articles* mentioning how Tubbers broke ranks from the comfort zone to ask Conners the "questions that matter"

*another of which will be "did you see that mad lad in the audience, he looked straight at the camera!! mad craic altogether"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAIV40eKms

Gimme A Pound · 14-09-2018 10:32pm

The Crowman wrote: »

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAIV40eKms

The poor lad - how the heck is he creepy?! (Saying that about the person who titled the vid).

Sassygirl1999 · 14-09-2018 10:33pm

genocidal thread

Omackeral · 14-09-2018 10:46pm

The Crowman wrote: »

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAIV40eKms

Not the Late Late but this guy was the smoothest of them all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzuh4xRdc8g

...and the inevitable remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urgWjaIbB1k

guylikeme · 16-09-2018 2:15pm

Late late show, he didnt exactly cover himself in glory. Referred to Gardai as scum and then critical of those who call him a knacker. The lad-ee doth protest too much methinks.

punisher5112 · 16-09-2018 2:19pm

guylikeme wrote: »

Late late show, he didnt exactly cover himself in glory. Referred to Gardai as scum and then critical of those who call him a knacker. The lad-ee doth protest too much methinks.

Thanks for the update as I couldn't watch that sh1te and especially couldn't watch that sh1te with a tool like him on being given any air time to spout such pure Sh1te

mfceiling · 16-09-2018 2:23pm

guylikeme wrote: »

Late late show, he didnt exactly cover himself in glory. Referred to Gardai as scum and then critical of those who call him a knacker. The lad-ee doth protest too much methinks.

Disgusted by this tbh.
Garda are front of line keeping the rule of law and order in our society. To be labelled as "scum" by Connors is a horrible term.
This week some family will answer the door to a garda who will have to break the news to them that a family member has died in an accident.
This week at least one member will be attacked trying to keep the peace.
This week a garda will be spat at or verbally abused.
This week at least one member will have to perform CPR on someone.
This week at least one member will be st the scene of a car accident and witness some horrific scene.

What will Connors or his like do this week?

guylikeme · 16-09-2018 2:27pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Thanks for the update as I couldn't watch that sh1te and especially couldn't watch that sh1te with a tool like him on being given any air time to spout such pure Sh1te

They edited it out on the player. Id say he mighty be invited back again, though they continue to give bigger tools airtime(think that right whinger woman who i wont name).

Yes i spelled that correct.

jake is right · 16-09-2018 2:29pm

See thread title. It says it all !

Tell me why is he now a "celebrity" ?

timthumbni · 16-09-2018 2:48pm

I don’t know why people skirt around this issue. In NI I have had thankfully little contact with travellers as they tend to stay around the nationalist side up here. The few encounters I have had and talking with others who have had have been entirely negative.

Endless anti social behaviour and stealing. No one wants that carry on as neighbours.

jay0109 · 16-09-2018 3:09pm

They may have taken it off the rte player but the Indo is reporting he reiterated it on his twitter a/c. Though it could be construed he's calling RTE scum also.

That should be the end of him on the telly, box ticking or not.

Gimme A Pound · 16-09-2018 3:21pm

Calling the guards scum - how unpredictable. Yeah they're like the secret police... whom you could call scum no problem.

He really is despicable.

jake is right wrote: »

See thread title. It says it all !

Tell me why is he now a "celebrity" ?

Because well heeled idiots feel good about themselves for championing him.

The Crowman · 16-09-2018 3:23pm

timthumbni wrote: »

I don’t know why people skirt around this issue. In NI I have had thankfully little contact with travellers as they tend to stay around the nationalist side up here. The few encounters I have had and talking with others who have had have been entirely negative.

Endless anti social behaviour and stealing. No one wants that carry on as neighbours.

Are you one of those ex Loyalist Paramilitaries he was referring to?

The_Kew_Tour · 16-09-2018 3:24pm

I would not like be person who took a pint of his by accident in the pub I will put it that way.

Really wanted to like him as I admire where he has come from but still.

Loves_lorries · 16-09-2018 3:26pm

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

I would not like be person who took a pint of his by accident in the pub I will put it that way.

Really wanted to like him as I admire where he has come from but still.

What's to admire?

His profile is completely down to the uber political correctness of rte, they can't get enough of minority profiles.

John Connors is a bit of a wanker

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