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Niall Quinn MBE!

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  • #2
    ciano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭ciano


    An MBE free with every six tokens of Kellogs Cornflakes! :D


  • #3
    UbahOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭UbahOne


    a load of bull****...


  • #4
    DundalkDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭DundalkDuffman


    I am disappointed that he took it. AFter all, he is a Dublin man and IMHO he has made the wrong choice.


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Well its more than he's got or ever likely to get by way of offical
    recognition in his own country.....I note you're from Dundalk! ;)

    Mike.


  • #6
    The Muppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,003 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    He made his reputation and money in the uK. Donated a reported 1m from his testimonial to chatity here and in the uk. He deserved his recognition and award. He is not the first Irishman to recieve it but i presume being irish you have to do something a bit special to get it. Congrats to Quinny.


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  • #7
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    I have sent his book back to him lol, but seriously i think it is a joke, he may have made his money in the UK, but we are talking about a Royal Family that has never been very good to his country. The fact that they have never made any attempt to address the issues indicates their ture feelings.
    I was a huge Quinn fan, but when I got his book it was plastered with pics of him in a Tip jersey, not a sign of the Dublin minor player that people were proud of, hes lost one fan anyway but I guess he gained alot more different fans in the process. Quinn was/is recognised here, people had alot of time for him.


  • #8
    The Muppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,003 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    we are talking about a Royal Family that has never been very good to his country.

    True but are we not trying to move on from there and IMO its time to start looking to the future instead of harking back to the bleak past all the time.

    I am no Quinn fan. I dont want to open up the saipan issue again but I consider his actions or inactions to have made a bad situation worse last summer.


  • #9
    harpsy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭harpsy


    I agree with DundalkDuffman.

    The government should introduce an award system.


  • #10
    Sposs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭Sposs


    Don't forget another dubliner Sir Bob Geldof

    hardly the greatest honour in the world but feck it, Ireland did nothing to recongnise his contribution to charity.


  • #11
    TetsuoHashimoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭TetsuoHashimoto


    I remember that old Buckingham palace giving out lots of those MBEs to the average British subject
    Notably some the soldiers that massacred people on Bloody Sunday


    Quinn is too polite, he should have told the boil family what to do with that MBE


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