Depressing
The last 48 hours have been depressing.
Despite huge disaffection with the government, the disgrace that is NAMA, the bankers riding roughshod over the rules now that they’ve got their bailout, the public and private sector workers being set against each other, strikes and a nasty budget on the horizon, politicians that continue to steal our money with their expenses and get away with, a rotten economy, high unemployment, lack of opportunity in the jobs market, a property market still on the slide, sweeping corruption throughout state bodies with more revelations about FÁS, increases in crime levels, a public health service being destroyed slowly but surely by Mary Harney to bring about a two-tier system to make money for her friends in high places, a pathetic Green party helping to prop up FF to maintain their little bit of power and the basic fact that everyone in this country is going to suffer for years of a small minority swilling at the trough, the only thing that has sparked widespread public reaction of anger and outrage is a fucking football match.
How sad.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Yea but we’re not seeing too many marching on the streets ‘against Thierry Henry’.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Fuelled by the media. It’s fucking embarrassing now.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Its just jealousy. The French have a Republic whereas ours is revealed to be something of a fake;)
Perhaps FIFA should have just got Bertie Aherne to announce that Ireland couldn’t afford to enter the World Cup Finals anyway so ‘we are where we are’.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:36 am
People are too easily distr… hey, is that a squirrel?
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Yup. It sure is.
You forgot to mention a new report on child abuse to be published next week which is expected to be disturbing.
But everyone is more concerned with soccer and x-factor.
Fools.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am
it is depressing.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am
And what are the pathetically small percentage of the people who are marching, marching for anyway? It’s certainly not for the overall good of the country. Your bang on Mr Twenty.
How very, very sad.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:46 am
The Cap’n is sooo right. It’s all down to being jealous of their republic.
Fuckin’ hell.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Sometimes I wonder are we living a “matrix” type existence. We`re all like puppets where the powers that be are only telling us what they want us to know…
Alternate reality theory
November 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Ah yes, the country is fucked. What to do, what to do? Engage with what is going on and get ground down by the hopelessness of it all, or just switch off and focus on the positive aspects of your life.
The latter I think, it is the only reasonable option.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:57 am
And a partridge in a pear tree.
But, should we pull or ambassador back from Paris ? ( like the Egyptians did with their Algerian diplomat)
It’s not a matter of life or death …
November 20th, 2009 at 11:59 am
FAS, AIB, NAMA, the HSE – meh
A bad football decision – OUTRAGE!
And it gets worse, have a look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9fx4ipF4Q
November 20th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Tis a gas laugh is what it is!
False indignation is great…
November 20th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
It’s like Roy Keane and Twenty have one mind….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8370327.stm
quality press conference….
November 20th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Morgor, there’s a lot going to be withheld on that report too. Chapter 20 is sealed now.
Newstalk are STILL wittering on about the match. It’s done. No replay.
Let’s instead garner some interest in the creative accounting of FAS and instead of questioning FIFA and their rules, let’s wonder why the blasted payment cap has been blown out of the water for bankers.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
It was a very simple and quick division of the country.. The prolies jumped up and down and shouted and screamed whilst the bourgeoisie (like Ivan Yates) spoke of a moral victory!
I have booked my ticket and hotel for the Moral World cup next year!
November 20th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
And the government are fucking loving having the spotlight off them, what a gift. Did they pay Henry off I wonder? Watch the news, as in good New Labour style they’ll be slipping some distasteful bits out there in the hopes that they’ll be missed in the hype-storm of handball-gate.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Yeah, maybe Bock is right, it was fixed. But not by FIFA but by our own government. They probably arranged all this wind, rain and flooding as well. Good man Bock
November 20th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
not everyone marching is a dick, over 7000 people marched in dundalk to try and keep the hospital open, this is while they were transferring people down to dundalk from lourdes because of the overcrowding and filth induced bug epidemic. centre of excellence.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
As Roy Keane pointed out in the IT
Keane pointed out that controversial decisions also went Ireland’s way in the qualifying campaign, not least a harsh penalty award against Georgia which helped them to claim a 2-1 qualifying win in February.
He added: “Ireland had their chances in the two games (against France), and they never took them. But it’s the usual FAI reaction — ‘we’ve been robbed, the honesty of the game…’
“There was one match against Georgia where Ireland got a penalty and it was one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen which changed the whole course of the game.
“I don’t remember the FAI after the game saying we should give them a replay.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soccer/2009/1120/1224259198858.html
November 20th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
tomato/tomahto
we voted these cunts inn, most depressing indeed!
November 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Depressing & disproportionate yes. But isn’t it natural when surrounded by bad news to pin your hopes on something that will make you feel good? When that good thing appears eminently achievable but your hopes are dashed it probably seems worse when it was the only thing potentially to cheer about.
And maybe it’s easier to accept if you have a scapegoat to blame?
Maybe it was the very fact of all those things you listed that made the public’s reaction so exaggerated?
The Govt’s reaction however did have the whiff of the good day for bad news mentality.
I’m probably talking rubbish though! Could just be sheer idiocy.
Any chance of a good pun to help with the depression?
November 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Yeah Maggot but Keanes a world-beating Cunt too..
November 20th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
yeah but roy keane is a traitorous cowardly turncoat fuck, who cares what he thinks?
November 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
As he’s a cunt of the first order then he knows what he is talking about surely ?
November 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I like Roy Keane. I’d rather listen to him than most other people, including myself.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Anybody with a Labrador cannot be all bad.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
WE were in on the whole thing.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/early-doors/article/213171/
November 20th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
He’s right. Shit defending, we should burn Paul McShane alive.
On another note, just heard that there are people demonstrating outside the French embassy. And apparently there’s a march tomorrow from Lansdowne Rd to the Embassy.
Jesus wept
November 20th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Keane’s press conference – check out when the journo’s mobile goes off, haha
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8370327.stm
November 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I could listen to Roy Keane if he didn’t insist on speaking in a Cork accent. Could he not do the decent thing and pretend he’s Italian like Trappatoni or God like Thierry Henry?
Or a big-lipped toilet plunger like Brian Cowen?
November 20th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Actually, I take it back. That was a truly wonderful press conference from Roy Keane. He’s wasted in football. Give him his own country. Actually, he can have this one. Everyone else is making a bollix of it.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Roy Keane is correct, the defending was a shambles, McSahne is a young lad, probably a nice young lad but he is not up to this level and certainly cannot be trusted to mark players of the calibre of Henry, cheating cunt or not.
Also our senior players, Keane, Duff, Doyle & O’Shea, all playing in the premiership, all with 50+ caps each, all missed sitters that would have secured victory regardless of this handball.
This is where the blame lies and the FAI and all the daft cunts with no life who can’t let this go need to grasp this.
It’ll be fucking brilliant if France go on to win the tournament and Henry accepts the cup (Trophy really) with the same golden hand.
See this for a laugh http://www.jeu-de-main.com
November 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Nothing about this on the SF website, it’s a disgrace.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Don’t forget about the flooding. That’s more misery.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Don’t forget about the flooding. That’s more misery.
Cork city centre
November 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
We deserve all this depressing shit for foisting those toxic twins on the world.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Someone please get me rope!
Can we have some jokes about farts to lighten the mood… would hate to disappoint Eoin from earlier this week.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Brilliant game Lafs!
November 20th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Why worry about someone who cannot spell Owen properly Damien ?
November 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
This is brilliant, and if it’s in wikipedia then it must be right…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thierry_Henry&oldid=326715091
November 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Just saw that Keane press conference in its entirey..He is a complete cunt,but very entertaining..
If he had the Jedi skills of Darth Vader,that Journalist with the mobile would be splattered all over that room.. or is it Scanners im thinking of?
November 20th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Everyone just loves sport in Ireland. Just ask Bertie The Cunt. It’s the only thing us muck savages give a fuck about. The fucking GAA, soccer, fucking horses, hare coursing, golf and rugby. We just love it all. Fuck art. Fuck economics. Why the fuck is there a daily news section in my fucking sports newspaper? Travel? Fuck off! I’d only ever travel to see Ireland play. You know it.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I dunno. I think the qualifcation would have been the perfect panacea for all the badness. I was so looking forward to sitting on my couch singing medleys of ‘ole, ole ole ….. here come the good times’. As for Mary Harney, its doubtful we’ll see her fat arse again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8369709.stm
November 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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November 20th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Keane is a total fucking cunt and the flooding in cork is all his fault. He knew about the flooding in cork before it happened. How? Because he arranged it. And if you looked at his laptop you would find the times and dates for all the floods for next year, probably even the final height of the flood waters.
Hopefully cork will be washed away so we won’t end up with any more Roy Keanes or Stephen “granny murdering loony toon” Irelands
November 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Dear Jim will fix it
Can Keane arrange a good drowning for Louth , Limerick and Louth next ?
November 20th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
And Larne
November 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Leave Limerick out of it you wriggly cunt..
Peadar:Have you ever thought about starting a Blog?
November 20th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Stop taking the piss. How’s the quickpick going?
I rarely remember to check it out cause you post fuck all
November 20th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Its just to annoy a couple of people that i leave it up..
November 20th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Limerick we’ll set aside and return later, but we are all agreed with Louth and Larne for a good drowning?
November 20th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Bring on the muthafuckin flood….
November 20th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Is Larne not one of those “dry” towns you like up there?
If so, a good drowning is due. I will need to get the ferry to Troon from somewhere though.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Larne is the arsehole of the world. A horrible place.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
65-1 @ http://www.jeu-de-main.com
yeah!
November 20th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
72-1 Mike !
November 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
This cheered me up immensely, Take that dagos!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8371305.stm
November 20th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Maggot, I see your Mars and and raise you a Mars Duo.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
It is Cadbury Mini Rolls tonight HM, the Gary Glitter special
November 20th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
roy keane faked an injury to get out of playing against iran in the 2002 play-off, and missed shitloads of other qualifiers in the 1990s so he would be nice and fresh for man utd the following weekend. who gives a shit what he thinks about ireland?
shouldn’t he be spending his time in a more constructive manner, such as trying not to get ipswich relegated?
he’s a sad embittered arsehole.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:37 am
Ipswich boss Keane said: “They can complain all they want but France are going to the World Cup – get over it…
“John Delaney? I wouldn’t take any notice of that man. People seem to forget what was going on in that World Cup (2002), and that man is on about honesty. He didn’t have the courtesy to ring me. He said he didn’t know where I was but try the hotel room. I’d been involved with Ireland since I was 15 years of age and that man didn’t have the decency to make a phone call.”
Roy ‘cunt’ Keane in a fine example of getting over it right there.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Tragically, this is the truest thing I have read about the country in a long time, the fact that it got picked up by Dermot Ahern and Cowen shows how cynical the situation with them has become and just goes to show their whole “look over there” approach to governing.