Nial Quinn, drunk driver
Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on August 5th, 2005
Can you believe that Niall Quinn, got done for drink driving last Friday? I know, like most of you, I feel totally gutted and let down by a man who was, without question, perfect up to now.
He played for Dublin and had a long footballing life in the Premiership, donated all the money from his testimonial to dying children and didn’t even take the money back off them after they died, and was forging a nice career for himself on TV as an analyst on Sky Sports.
But now we hear he drank a quarter of a pint more than the legal limit. A quarter of a pint. What was he thinking? There’s really no option but to make an example of him. Ban him from driving for 10 years, chuck in a nice fine and public flogging and we’re getting about half-way to what he deserves.
What about all the young, lanky, semi-talented footballers that looked up to him. What are they going to think? Will they still believe they can forge a mediocre career playing for mid-table teams and be a hero because their country’s stock of strikers is lower than Paris Hilton’s knickers on a first date? Will they be able to marry pretty girls who can go on to do washing powder ads? Will this see the end of the mullet’s popularity?
What were you thinking, Quinner? Why didn’t you have a shandy or a Kaliber with its wonderfully authentic alcohol free beer taste? Didn’t you ever see the ad on the telly where the lads after the game are goading the other lad into having just one more pint and then he thinks his car can fly and it lands on some kids in a garden?
So many questions, Niall. The country awaits your answers with baited breath. Honest.
Sir Findo Gask says:
I met Nial at the Berkley Court in Dublin last year at a charity function for sick kids. http://moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=72802
He is an all round good guy, a real shame..
I shall be back there this year, if I see him again I will buy him more beer than I did last time because I know he won’t be driving..
August 4th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
Fiachra Davison says:
That ought to teach him to play football, croquet is the way to go.
August 5th, 2005 at 12:14 am
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Johnny5 says:
Believe it or believe it not but Quinny is my cousin.
He’s a fucking sound man, loves his gargle. It’s outrageous what happened him.
August 5th, 2005 at 10:10 am
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dickvandyke says:
Whatever next? Tony Cascarino sleeping with his French au pair?
August 5th, 2005 at 10:10 am
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fatmammycat says:
I’m curious as to how the paper work regarding his arrest has been ‘misplaced.’ I suspect shenanigans are a foot. J5, you’re family, tell us, is Don Quinn as capable at cop owning as he is at heading a long ball down into the right hand corner? The public must know.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:08 pm
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Johnny5 says:
I have no idea of the ins and outs, he’s my cousin which means I see him at weddings and funerals, nothing more.
I don;t know him very well but from the few times I have met and spoken to him, he’s a sound fucker.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:18 pm
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Twenty Major says:
It’s outrageously funny, Johnny5.
The man is a shameless lawbreaker.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
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PJ Carroll says:
I say adopt the Saddam Iraqi Model of justice
Take the lawbreaker out and shoot him, that way everyone gets the message.
A bit severe I know but Drunk Driving (hic) is a problem with a solution.
I also know a qtr pint is not enough to deserve the public flogging, a qtr barrell, then we are talking major crime and application of Saddams law..
August 5th, 2005 at 3:32 pm
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dickvandyke says:
Do to him what they are doing to the cunting Crazy Frog at
http://www.ringtones.co.uk/TortureToad.aspx
August 5th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
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Anonymous says:
what I want to know is how they know it was exactly a quarter of a pint? do they just take his word? in which case he sould have claimed he wasn’t over the limit and their machine must be faulty (hic)
August 5th, 2005 at 4:04 pm
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Johnny5 says:
Needless to say twenty, at the next family function he will be forced to sit in the corner with only a dry martini and old incontinent aunt Ellie for company.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
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jenE says:
what’s the legal limit in ireland? in the states its 0.08 that’s about three quarters of a pint per hour. who drinks at that snail’s pace?
August 5th, 2005 at 7:48 pm
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Mister Whiskers says:
I don’t know who the fuck this guy is! And furthermore I don’t care!
By the way, I know from experience that Paris Hilton doesn’t wear knickers. What looks like “knickers” is, in fact, a growth.
August 6th, 2005 at 12:55 am
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Anonymous says:
If it was a quarter pint we wouldn’t be reading about it. Face it, he was fucking pissed - otherwise, who in the gardai would bust him? He simply had to be bat-faced drunk.
August 6th, 2005 at 2:16 am
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Nosmo King says:
Yup gots to agree with last comment
My brother is big time Five-o in the big Baile and either he was well sozzed or a tad obnoxious, otherwise the good gaurdian of the pease would have exercised good judgement and told him to F off back to his palace and leave the merc at the side of the road to await its imminent theft whereby the boyz from the country would get to fly around the city sirens blazin,lights flashin and shouting I’m going to f that jackeen bastard up big time.
August 6th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
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Bane says:
Fuck, I drive plenty drunk. It just takes practice, is all. And if things get whirly, just put yer hand over one eye and it’ll all sort out, or drive with one leg dragging out the door, to keep the car from spinning so much.
It’s thems as don’t practice often enough what is the danger. Fucking amateur cunts.
August 6th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
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Anonymous says:
qtr pint of what???????if it was lager the fuccer should be shot, bleedin culchie bastard
August 7th, 2005 at 8:03 am
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Anonymous says:
i went to school with nial and he doesnt deserve all the bad publicity he gets
August 24th, 2005 at 4:48 am
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Anonymous says:
Please Quinny buy my football club and will not only forgive you but drive you the pub and back myself,but only if i can have tickets to the cup final next year when we reach it,save my club as my heart is dying with it at the momment.
A Sunderland AFC supporter living in hope.
April 20th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
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