Christian Dior lace-top hold-ups, which cost a fortune

SleepDoc

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/cycling-thugs-belong-on-a-chain-gang-not-the-streets-2382901.html

I echo the cyclists sentiment, although not their pavement hopping.

niceonetom

Please don't post drivel in the cycling forum.

Thank you.

Beasty

5 weeks since her last rant.

She must be one of the unluckiest drivers/pedestrians in Dublin (her and Tim/Fencer I guess - maybe they are the same person?). I think we should have a whip round to get her some new tights.

Signal_ rabbit

I don't the cyclists was replying to Emer shouting at him, I suspect it was in response to her last article!

Incidentally I have not bought that paper since.

Lumen

Beasty wrote: »

I think we should have a whip round to get her some new tights.

That would only serve to reinforce her wrong (but common) idea that cyclists are a homogeneous body.

I don't disagree with her rant, only with the generalisations. I posted something much the same here the other day.

People who cycle the wrong way up one way streets and on the footpad are <insert appropriately offensive mental inadequacy term here>.

Lumen

Signal_ rabbit wrote: »

Incidentally I have not bought that paper since.

Go girl!

ajk24

Beasty wrote: »

5 weeks since her last rant.

She must be one of the unluckiest drivers/pedestrians in Dublin (her and Tim/Fencer I guess - maybe they are the same person?). I think we should have a whip round to get her some new tights.

by her reasoning if i'm clipped by a car wing mirror while carrying my priceless collection of fabergé eggs I should write to the minister to have them replaced.

like others I agree with her with regard to that particular cyclist but not the generalisations.

531

So who is Emer O'Kelly if not a pseudoname for an Indeoendent journalist, assigned to cause a row about cycling? We all must knoe that the majority of letters are not genuine and are designed to encourage controversy and sell papers.

I have no connection to the Greens or any party, by the way.

At least the Sun, Mirror, Star, NOTW etc are honest about being tabloid nonsense. The Independent still portrays itself as a serious 'paper. Oh, the fools who buy it.

thebouldwhacker

just another reason to see the paper for the rag that it is. She again is making the news not reporting it.

rp

SleepDoc wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/cycling-thugs-belong-on-a-chain-gang-not-the-streets-2382901.html

Three people killed on the roads in the last 24 hours, dead forever, and she is blathering on about her tights, something must be done about the danger!

ThisRegard

Where does that rag get its so called journalists, she sounds like the same idiot who constantly whinges about her being in negative equity. Staff night outs must be great fun in that place.

mloc123

niceonetom wrote: »

Please don't post drivel in the cycling forum.

Thank you.

But what would the cycling forum be without drivel?

madred006

"So who is Emer O'Kelly "
Firstly I believe she is a failed newscaster and someone who has at her disposal a national media source to highlight her misfortunes ,(im not condoning the cyclist who was on the path)but there are much more important issues going on in this country and indeed happening to ordinary people on a daily basis who just get up and get on with it ,and have no voice to have their much more serious issues heard .I find it strange that the editor would give such space on a so called leading Sunday paper to such drivil.

DirkVoodoo

Shut up Emer, please just shut up.

I think that she either makes some of this stuff up, or just puts herself deliberately in harms way to back-up her prejudice.

I was annoyed to have some dublin bike users swerving past me as I was walking along the stephen's green footpath near the docking station. If I was drunk and wandering unpredictably across the pavement they might have hit me. Still they shouldn't be doing it and I would like to see it clamped down on, more so because it reinforces prejudice like Emer's than it being illegal.

If everyone obeyed the law on a bike, or at least didn't break the laws with such reckless abandon, everyone would think she is a moany crank and not just the folks on here.

mloc123

Could be worse, she could be like poor ALISON O’RIORDAN

Seriously, do these people think we give a **** about their lives.

poochiem

I just emailed the Sindo - sunday.letters@independent.ie



Dear Sir,

Emer O'Kelly - this drivel is losin you thousands of readers. I'm just back from a cycle, happened on a couple of hundred other riders between Dublin and Blessington, individuals and clubs/social groups. This awful tripe has been linked in forums many or most of them read such as Boards.ie. It's her second childish, badly-written piece of recent times. This time she seems to be endorsing driving into people if they are, in her view, contravening rules of the road. Three people died on our roads in the last 24 hours. Have a little decency. I haven't bought your paper since her last piece.

Yours Sincerely,

Paul


-- I suggest you do the same.

oflahero

Sent. Maybe a bit pompous but I don't care:

Sir/Madam,

I have just returned from a pleasant bike spin this morning in which all participants followed the rules of the road, encountering many motorists along the way who also followed the rules of the road. A minority of these motorists however, did not. This is expected. As both a cyclist and a motorist myself, I have long ago understood that there is always a small minority in any road-using group who will try to spoil it for the rest of us. Your correspondent has clearly not yet grasped this basic concept. Instead, she spouts a scattergun blast of ill-informed tripe resulting from one unfortunate personal incident, the kind of incident that I am well used to observing, both from other cyclists and motorists almost every day. How she has not ever encountered a smilar kind of aggressive idiot behind the wheel of car before is beyond me. The trouble here is enforcement across *all* transgressors of the rules of the road, and attempting to stoke up old, hoary well-worn anti-cyclist sentiment is boring, tiresome and predictable, not to mention highly dangerous.

Yours etc

bob123456

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/cycling-thugs-belong-on-a-chain-gang-not-the-streets-2382901.html

Best laugh I've had in ages.

No, I don't condone this kind of behavior, but for Emer O kelly, I'll make an exception.

Dear Minister,

I will be sending you a bill arising out of an incident which seems to fit within your responsibility. This morning (Friday, October 8), I walked round the corner from Duke Street on to Dawson Street in Dublin 2. I was, of course, walking on the pavement. As I did so, a cyclist who had been cycling fast up Dawson Street (on the right hand side, which is illegal, not that it mattered as he was going the wrong way up a one-way street in the first place), swerved his bike onto the pavement and into me, catching my leg quite painfully.

I snarled out: "You shouldn't be on the bloody pavement." His answer was a bellowed "Shut up, you ****ing c**t!" And he went on his way.

copacetic

he must have recognised her and swerved toward her on purpose...

ThisRegard

Dear Sir/Madam,

Your paper is awful, just bloody awful.

Regards.

kincsem

My understanding of one of her paragraphs is she will not brake to avoid a collision if the other road user is not observing the Rules Of The Road.

Junior

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056063135

kincsem

The Free Library > General Interest/Informational > General interest > The Mirror (London, England) > May 28, 2002
The Free Library > Date > 2002 > May > 28 > The Mirror (London, England)


RTE Emer email hell; PORN SHOCK 2.

Link to this page
Byline: DECLAN FAHY

FORMER RTE newsreader Emer O'Kelly is the victim of an email stalker who bombards her with porn, it was revealed yesterday.

Ms O'Kelly said she had been sent hundreds of images but Gardai couldn't act unless the material was child porn.

She added: "There is nothing Gardai can do. When I first got them I duly deleted them but then they started coming daily.

"Finally, I went to the Gardai but they could not help because it's not actually illegal.

"What I was told is most of the images come from South America and there are literally hundreds and hundreds of addresses from which they could be sent."

Ms O'Kelly told RTE Radio's Pat Kenny: "I opened a couple of them because Gardai asked if I could tell them if it was child porn. I came home and opened up a couple of them and to my great relief they weren't child pornography."

Ms O'Kelly, who is in her 50s, left RTE four years ago after 18 years at the station.

CAPTION(S):

VICTIM: Emer O'Kelly

kincsem

Emer O'Kelly was a news reader with RTÉ from 1980 until December 1998. Although her news reading role covered television and radio initially, from 1990, Emer worked on radio only, making few television appearances in the early-1990s.

She has worked extensively for newspapers, including the Sunday Press, The Farmers' Journal and the Sunday Independent. Emer has produced a weekly column for the Sunday Independent since 1992 and also writes literary reviews for the paper.

Emer is a member of the Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and is also a member of the Board of the newly formed Ireland Romania Cultural Foundation. She served as a member of the Arts Council from 1998 until 2003.

bob123456

kincsem wrote: »

My understanding of one of her paragraphs is she will not brake to avoid a collision if the other road user is not observing the Rules Of The Road.

That's what I infer as well.

Very angry woman.

I would also like you to reassure me that should I encounter a speeding cyclist going the wrong direction through the one-way traffic (a frequent occurrence) while I am driving entirely legally in the correct direction,
observing the speed limit and in the correct lane,
if that cyclist wallops into my car and suffers injury
(which he or she will richly deserve)
neither I nor my insurance company will be held in any way responsible for the moronic idiot's fate, or his or her family's subsequent destitution

thebouldwhacker

kincsem wrote: »

FORMER RTE newsreader Emer O'Kelly is the victim of an email stalker who bombards her with porn, it was revealed yesterday.

Kincsem, you seem to know a lot about Emer.... are you reaching out to us? is there something you want to tell us about this????
You know what is said on boards is private so please feel safe......:p

ashleey

I was interested in her lace hold ups until someone spoiled it and described her in more detail.

kincsem

My guess is she is in her 60s. She was a newsreader on RTE, long gone. Afair she is very big on her rights, opinions, and does not suffer fools.

kincsem

http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/20060317.html

Our friend makes her appearance at 7:00

Lumen

mloc123 wrote: »

Could be worse, she could be like poor ALISON O’RIORDAN

Seriously, do these people think we give a **** about their lives.

Hey, you linked to the Irish Times! This is an Indo-bashing thread.

mloc123

Lumen wrote: »

Hey, you linked to the Irish Times! This is an Indo-bashing thread.

Indo, times its all the same ****... print media will be dead and buried soon anyway

Jawgap

Dear Minister,
I will be sending you a bill arising out of an incident which seems to fit within your responsibility. This morning (Sunday, October 17), I opened my Sunday Independent. I was, of course, having breakfast - free range eggs, cooked genetly in truffle scented virgin olive oil served with acetio balsamico.

As I did so, a "journalist" who had been walking up Dawson Street (on the right hand side, which is legal, not that it mattered because she was going to write sh1te anyway) was hit by a "cyclist" going the wrong way up a one-way street in the first place). He apparently swerved his bike onto the pavement and into her, catching my leg quite painfully.

She snarled out: "You shouldn't be on the bloody pavement." The cyclists answer was a bellowed "Shut up, you ****ing c**t!" And he went on his way.

Now, minister, I know you can't do anything about journalistic standards, the base practice of which increasingly seems to be the argot soon-to-be unemployed INM journos, but given her blatant and aggressive flouting of the rules of the English language (such as starting a sentence with a conjunction) I think I should be able to hold you responsible for the cost of my ruined cycling tights, and the packet of chamois cream required to deal with the nasty graze on my arse (Just count the department lucky that it was tights, not Speedplay Nanogram Zero Titanium Pedals
, which cost a fortune).

I would also like you to reassure me that should I encounter a speeding cyclist going the wrong direction through the one-way traffic (a frequent occurrence) while I am driving entirely legally in the correct direction, observing the speed limit and in the correct lane, if that cyclist is shot be me and suffers injury (which he or she will richly deserve) neither I nor my insurance company will be held in any way responsible for my moronic behaviour, or his or her family's subsequent destitution.

Or is that the responsibility of the Minister for Justice, since the cyclist is a criminal up there with Seanie Fitz, paedo priests and Jack-the-Ripper? If so, please inform me, and I will seek clarification from your colleague Mr Ahern.

With all personal good wishes,

Wishing I was your constituent so we didn't have to put up with an incinerator being built,

Jawgap

ThisRegard

Lumen wrote: »

Hey, you linked to the Irish Times! This is an Indo-bashing thread.

She had two identical articles to the one in the Times this week previously published in the sindo.

dubmess

Mailed to Indo:
This woman and this paper have a complete nerve and cheek to write and publish this "article"/"editorial"/"propaganda"/whatever you'd like to call it.

She is wholly justified in being annoyed that a cyclist flagrantly breaking the law caused a ladder in her cheap tights. I'd be pissed off too! I, however, do not have the luxury of having a massively circulated national newspaper within which I can, at the cost to the owners of said paper, air whatever angry, subjective nonsense comes into my head!

I would love Independent Newspapers to produce a broadsheet where members of the god-fearing, tax-paying public were given free reign and column inches to bitch and bemoan every sordid, foul and downright petty thing that occurs to them in their largely obscure and uneventful daily lives... but guess what??? We have Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo and countless other social networks where the collective dross of the world can pool their collective grievances against a world that by all account should treat each and every one of them significantly better, because, guess what... they don't deserve it...

News Flash!!! The world is a subjective playground! Full of individuals with egos, much like our bike rider and our journalist, who are each striving to peek their heads above the parapet of mediocrity, scream their worth and differentiate themselves from those around them. Maybe our bike rider was a paramedic on his way to save the next great world leader, maybe he was a drug dealer helping some poor junkie to his next fix... maybe he was another nobody on his way to nothing much, the details are all insignificant.

My issue with this piece is that it's intentionally politicised and divisive. If the Indo want to be the Daily Mail they should be more forthright about it; This issue is too easy. It's John Gormley's fault? Really? Reeeeaaalllllyyyy??? What sub-editor read this sentence and thought that it didn't merit any changes, or maybe chatting to the author about it; perhaps waiting until her adrenaline levels had dropped( I'd love to see how many spelling errors were in the first draft of this hate letter...).

Car drivers get cut off by trucks and vans...

Cyclists get cut off by cars, trucks and vans...

Pedestrians get mown down and killed by... cars, trucks and vans.

Somehow our press, even considering the above statistics, which will be borne out by any google search you choose, deem editorial invective against cyclists to be good copy.

Does this woman really think she wouldn't care a whim about a cyclist she'd killed, regardless of the fault? Does she think a family's destitution is really a case for a flippant, throwaway comment in a national newspaper? If This is the case then journalistic integrity(?) is sorely lacking in this country.

To recap...
cyclist in this case=moron
journalist=abusing her position of trust and integrity
Indo=should call themselves the Daily Independent Mail.

CramCycle

kincsem wrote: »

Emer O'Kelly was a news reader with RTÉ from 1980 until December 1998. Although her news reading role covered television and radio initially, from 1990, Emer worked on radio only, making few television appearances in the early-1990s.

Translate: Emer O'Kelly is no longer attractive

She has worked extensively for newspapers, including the Sunday Press, The Farmers' Journal and the Sunday Independent. Emer has produced a weekly column for the Sunday Independent since 1992 and also writes literary reviews for the paper.

Translate: Emer O'Kelly will write/do for anyone for a quick buck since the beginning of her career as she clearly has no journalistic talent, skill or morals.

ednwireland

CramCycle wrote: »

Translate: Emer O'Kelly is no longer attractive

Translate: Emer O'Kelly will write/do for anyone for a quick buck since the beginning of her career as she clearly has no journalistic talent, skill or morals.

i was going to say pics or gtfo (for the headline lace stocking tops got my attention) but after your post i think i'll pass

mitresize5

its the editorial staff I would blame - how that passed for a news worthy story I dont know

poochiem

tbf The Independent is almost ironic in it's title. Rather like Pravda (Truth!) in the good ol' USSR. Sir Anthony OTaxExile has fingers in so many pies that the editorial staff have all their time taken up toeing his lines...anti-environment, pro-Shell, anti-society, pro-Israeli, anti-reform, pro-developer etc etc They have enough on their plates without checking that the obligatory anti-green column has overstepped the mark by condoning crimes against the person.

Writing to them to accuse them of aping the Daily Heil will only please them .. they share a lot more than you'd think

CramCycle

ednwireland wrote: »

i was going to say pics or gtfo (for the headline lace stocking tops got my attention) but after your post i think i'll pass

FYP:

ten speed racer

I often enjoy the Cedar Lounge Revolution's Sunday Independent Stupid Comment of Week. This week's isn't one of the best, but it's still interesting.

However, I do think it's unfair to criticize Emer O'Kelly for her looks. Keep the criticism about her innane article and her ignorance of fallacy

ednwireland

CramCycle wrote: »

FYP:

my eyes, my eyes

kumate_champ07

CramCycle wrote: »

FYP:

it's an elderly woman, what has her appearance got to do with anything?

ThisRegard

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

it's an elderly woman, what has her appearance got to do with anything?

Nothing, but the idea of lace-top hold ups raised more than eye brows around here and gave the impression of a sexy little vixen.

Idleater

ThisRegard wrote: »

Nothing, but the idea of lace-top hold ups raised more than eye brows around here and gave the impression of a sexy little vixen.

Quite right. Imagination fail.

petethedrummer

Are these compression lace hold ups?

CramCycle

ten speed racer wrote: »

However, I do think it's unfair to criticize Emer O'Kelly for her looks. Keep the criticism about her innane article and her ignorance of fallacy

The looks bit was just a joke, I actually had never seen her before until I had to go look her up to prove my theoretical point.

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

it's an elderly woman, what has her appearance got to do with anything?

Nothing at all, it was a joke about one of the previous posts and how someone might interpret it. Apologies for forgetting that joking is banned on t'internet.

On the other hand she has put herself up for ridicule with her style of reporting lack of reporting etchics. Obviously not about her looks but like I said, just a joke, pry should have left the photo, too late now though.

Also since you mentioned elderly, I didn't find her visually pleasing when she was younger either in case anyone thinks I'm trying to insinuate that old people are unattractive, I have no idea what age she is. If she reads this she may get offended at the fact that you are insinuating she is elderly :pac:

Jawgap

I DIDN'T HAVE A LOVE CHILD BY HAUGHEY; Critic O'Kelly sickened and angry at `slur'.(News)

kumate_champ07

CramCycle wrote: »

The looks bit was just a joke, I actually had never seen her before until I had to go look her up to prove my theoretical point.



Nothing at all, it was a joke about one of the previous posts and how someone might interpret it. Apologies for forgetting that joking is banned on t'internet.

On the other hand she has put herself up for ridicule with her style of reporting lack of reporting etchics. Obviously not about her looks but like I said, just a joke, pry should have left the photo, too late now though.

Also since you mentioned elderly, I didn't find her visually pleasing when she was younger either in case anyone thinks I'm trying to insinuate that old people are unattractive, I have no idea what age she is. If she reads this she may get offended at the fact that you are insinuating she is elderly :pac:

but she is elderly

this particuar article is rubbish and full of ignorance, thats my opinion on the matter.

fenris

The sad thing is that this probably explains why there was a few Gardai pulling evil cyclists at the top of Dawson street today at lunchtime - it was obviously the Geriatric Hack Apeasement Unit