It’s funny because it’s in true
Spotted today at a Dublin airport bookshop. Click for big.
Oh really?
Brian Cowen speaking about how the Irish economy has turned the corner. The Irish people stood up and backed the banks of Ireland in their hour of greatest need. Now it is time for the banks to stand with the Irish people, to do their job responsibly, and to provide credit to viable Irish businesses [...]
The answer is simple : be a cunt
Crime doesn’t pay. Cheaters and thieves never prosper. My hoop. If you have a neck like a jockey’s bollocks and no compunction about creating eight different kinds of truth then you’re all set. Bertie Ahern, we know what he’s done, what he’s gotten away with, what he’s failed to explain, what he did with his [...]
Most holy Bertie on the bishops
Here’s former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern talking in the Irish Examiner about the criticisms levelled at the bishops in the light of the Murphy Report: I mean it’s difficult for them all. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I mean they are all saying different things as far as I can see. Some of them [...]
This man is a legend
Spotted earlier on Lexia’s Twitter, this upstanding gentleman was still outside Dubray Books when I passed by this afternoon. Legend. The faces of the two cops looking on as nobody queued to see the scuttery little shop-steward of a cunt of a former Taoiseach were funny too. Click for big. And Bertie’s book is available [...]
Crossness
I was listening to Brian Lenihan on the radio this morning talking about politician’s expenses. “This country”, he says, “is in a serious financial crisis and doing away with Oireachtas expenses won’t change that. We have to see the bigger picture”. Something similar to that anyway. I was driving at the time and I could [...]
The words of Bertie Ahern
One of things overlooked yesterday when the report came out was the recommendation of the commission. The report calls for a memorial to be built and inscribed with the words of Bertie Ahern, who apologised in 1999 to victims of the abuse. While the survivors of the abuse have been vindicated there is to be [...]
