Take a bullet

Hagar

I was watching a movie last night and during an assassination attempt on the US President a security guard jumped in front of him and took the bullet.

Have we ever had a leader in Ireland that you would consider taking a bullet for?

Flying Abruptly

Michael Collins?

KTRIC

Mary Harney




You did say shoot, didn't you ?

TheInquisitor

I'd take a bullet for my family and my good friends.

Smcgie

I couldnt, but my friends below could prob take one for biffo:

Caoimhín

No.

There are quite a few I would happily fire a bullet at.

trout

Taking the bullet might be the smart option. You'd die with your illusions intact.

At least you'd get it all over and done with in one fell swoop ... rather than slowly having the life drained out of you with government "policies" that seem destined to grind everyday people into tiny chunks of sausage-meat.

Mmmm ... sausages.

KTRIC

I don't think there is anyone apart from family members I'd take a bullet for.

Blazer

trout wrote: »

Mmmm ... sausages.

excellent...it's brekkie time..:D

humanji

Bertie, only if it meant he'd live long enough to stand trial.

Long Onion

Hagar wrote: »

Have we ever had a leader in Ireland that you would consider taking a bullet for?

Ian Paisley;)

pwd

Ian Paisley

If Paisley was killed it could lead to lots and lots of killing so that answer makes a lot of sense!

I'd have given Haughey a bullet if I had one since he seemed to give good money for them.

mercuroman

Keith Wood

El Siglo

Smcgie wrote: »

I couldnt, but my friends below could prob take one for biffo:

<snip>

Wrong, that's just wrong! My eyes, they bleed!!!:eek::eek::eek:

meditraitor

Family and friends, Maybe lemass would be worth saving

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I most certainly would take a bullet for Harney or Cowen or any of the others. Then I would put it into a gun and shoot them with it.

mikom

To be honest, I'd take a bullet (train) to get away from most of them.

Turd Ferguson

Friends and family? WTF? There is nobody I would take a bullet for. If someone is shooting at someone I know then there is a good chance that they deserve it.

Fratton Fred

I think Biffo is taking a bullet for Bertie at the moment TBH.

Long Onion

mercuroman wrote: »

Keith Wood

But would you take a Mullet for Shane Byrne?

funk-you

Hagar wrote: »

I was watching a movie last night and during an assassination attempt on the US President a security guard jumped in front of him and took the bullet.

Have we ever had a leader in Ireland that you would consider taking a bullet for?

AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Good one Hagar, good one.

-Funk

Coriolanus

I'd have to go with Michael Collins.

SV

I'd rather take a bullet for Mugabe than any leader in Ireland.

Pal

Nevore wrote: »

I'd have to go with Michael Collins.

Why ?
He's dead already.

geeky

Hmmm.. good question..

No-one springs to mind today, but many would have taken a bullet for Jim Larkin in his pomp.

Coriolanus

The question was "Have we ever had ... etc"

TheZohanS

Our President.

Terry

Off the top of my head, I'd have to say no.
They all had their own agendas.

biko

Michael Collins

gazzer

Judging from some of the callers on Liveline the other day there are plenty of people that would take a bullet for Bertie 'Cnut' Ahern. There are some delusional people out there.

My name is URL

I'd take one for Mary Robinson, in theory

She's an Elder now ya know

Biggins

Magnus wrote: »

Michael Collins

For him, yes.

Any other modern Irish politician? No.

Edgedinblue

No, and as a few people have said here already, id happily shoot them all!

G_R

just outta curiosity, is there actually an Irish Secret Service type force that would have to take a bullet for Pres. McAleese or Cowen and Co.

mathie

Was it this film?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Game_(2006_film)

Where he took the bullet in the finger and actually ended up killing the President and then mopped around like a gob****e for an hour and a half.

He should have taken the bullet like a GAA player.
Catch it in the mouth, spit it out, kill the assassin with a scowl and then carry on like nothings happened.

chillywilly

Michael Collins is the only one that comes to mind

SeaFields

All of the present ministerial cabinet....

and with my final dying words "ye are not getting off the hook that lightly ye b@stards"


(definitely Michael Collins)

Biggins

dannym08 wrote: »

just outta curiosity, is there actually an Irish Secret Service type force that would have to take a bullet for Pres. McAleese or Cowen and Co.

There is a protection force but they do not have (by policy or job requirement) to take a bullet for anyone.
Their job is preventative measures beforehand and during an incident when they keep the level of possible damage done to the principle down to a minimum as possible.
Then they withdraw from an ongoing situation as soon as its viable to do so under the circumstances of the minimum amount of risk to the principle.

Capt'n Midnight

a high powered bullet will go through you , so not much point in stopping it

This from 1764
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/ancr/aleut/culturalchange/chap.6-11.html

One Russian, Ivan Soloviev, tied twelve Aleuts together in a line, faced them, and shot a musket ball at the first. He wanted to learn how many people the bullet would go through. It stopped in the ninth man's body.