Liveline Thread 27/03/14 to date

bottlebrush

Is that you Mrs. Ryan?

Roger_007

Neighbour of Michael O'Leary there.......well done!

Hitchens

they say that Naas is a terrible place
Mullingar is just as bad
Longford town would get you down
But fúck me........Kinnegad :pac:

signostic

"Bad elements going to OZ"
Heard Eugene McGee on SOR yesterday describing a piece in the local Longford newspaper in the 60`s under the headline of Town Improvements which listed the names of people who had emigrated to the England the previous week.

Going Strong

signostic wrote: »

"Bad elements going to OZ"
Heard Eugene McGee on SOR yesterday describing a piece in the local Longford newspaper in the 60`s under the headline of Town Improvements which listed the names of people who had emigrated to the England the previous week.

When I was on the building sites in London back in the 1980's an awful lot of my colleagues had skipped out of Ireland barely one step ahead of the Guards. Nothing major - joy riding, burglary and drug dealing from what I remember. A few from Belfast as well with "anti-social activities" warnings from paramilitaries.

brooke 2

AK333 wrote: »

Ah, that's why you ring Joe and not the Insurance Ombudsman

Believe me, even mentioning Joe's name to them gets results! I had been trying
for four months to get my insurance company to pony up after a house break-in,
all to no avail. Finally, in desperation, I suggested that I might have to ring Joe Duffy
to highlight my problem. Fifteen minutes later, I kid you not, I received a phone call
from them in which I was informed that all was sorted and they were mailing my
cheque to me that very day!!!

Dan Jaman

brooke 2 wrote: »

Believe me, even mentioning Joe's name to them gets results! I had been trying
for four months to get my insurance company to pony up after a house break-in,
all to no avail. Finally, in desperation, I suggested that I might have to ring Joe Duffy
to highlight my problem. Fifteen minutes later, I kid you not, I received a phone call
from them in which I was informed that all was sorted and they were mailing my
cheque to me that very day!!!

The man truly is a saint.
Why, even mention of his name wroughts miracles.
I invoke the name of Joe at my router, and holy bee, it works again.

michael999999

Bargaintown are now advertising there 'fiver Friday' on Newstalk!

Brilliant.

Roger_007

michael999999 wrote: »

Bargaintown are now advertising there 'fiver Friday' on Newstalk!

Brilliant.

They should have a "fiver Friday" in the 2Euro shop!..........They'd make a fortune!

CountyHurler

That was all a bit tabloid from Tony O'Donoghue wasnt it.

Harry Angstrom

"Holidays" mar dhea.

Hitchens

this guy didn't ring liveline, no way

Roger_007

Fcuk me! 1000 Irish a week going to Thailand on holliers......yesterday we had women going on €3000 cruises.......

what'll it be like when the "austerity" ends?

CountyHurler

So there's no drama then... Joe wont like this..

Hitchens

Joe very disappointed the blood is not flowing down the main street in Bangcock :pac:

Lapin

Right?

CountyHurler

I cant be sure but I presume Joe is murdering the names of those Thai towns?

Oops69

Roger_007 wrote: »

Fcuk me! 1000 Irish a week going to Thailand on holliers......yesterday we had women going on €3000 cruises.......

what'll it be like when the "austerity" ends?

How many of those were pervs on "golfing holidays "?

Lapin

Right ?

Possedion

wonder has Joe ever been to Thailand....

Lapin

Ok?

Lapin

Right ??

Hitchens

Possedion wrote: »

wonder has Joe ever been to Thailand....

Toyland.............maybe?

SEPT 23 1989

this child is really getting a lot of attention from RTE

Lapin

Sound bloke that God fella.

Roger_007

Hitchens wrote: »

Toyland.............maybe?

Does the model railway 'muzeem' count.:P

Dan Jaman

"Has he outgrown his current...?"

"Yes Joe, he's now raisin' up."

Kolido

Lapin wrote: »

Right ??

Oops69

Anybody else on her e get a sudden dreadful thought on Fridays like this 'oh my god , it's not a funny Friday , is it ?', ......then go either " phew" or " ****e"!

CountyHurler

"It'd cost an arm and a leg, Joe"

mrsdewinter

Gotta lol at that pub owner in Thailand, whose livelihood depends on peeps being out and about, getting on the phone to Joe to say, Nothing to see here...:rolleyes:

my friend

For a growing child, Can they simply put silicone at the stump and a screw jack for lengthening?

No, it's all hyper expensive overly customised stuff that the taxpayer is billed mega euros for

Oops69

Does poor little Liam have any medical confidentiality at all ??

Dan Jaman

De Leg is something close to Joe's heart. Strangely-shaped.

Big C

CountyHurler wrote: »

"It'd cost an arm and a leg, Joe"

u just soo so funny

ThisRegard

my friend wrote: »

No, it's all hyper expensive overly customised stuff that the taxpayer is billed mega euros for

And so it should too. It's kids like this where the states money should be going to, not to people who couldn't be arsed renting a room for themselves and want the state to give them a house.

And Joe gets in the unrelated topic of Shatter and puts words into Shatters mouth.

my friend

Ultimate passive aggressive

jetfiremuck

The casualness with which the words ' the Taxpayer paying for that' really irks me. Its bizarre. Whats the outstanding bill so far. Ffs her demands blw my mind.

Dan Jaman

my friend wrote: »

For a growing child, Can they simply put silicone at the stump and a screw jack for lengthening?

No, it's all hyper expensive overly customised stuff that the taxpayer is billed mega euros for

Just what I was thinking; maybe not the one universal leg, but a series of adjustable ones, each of which could last the lad a couple of years.

my friend

ThisRegard wrote: »

And so it should too. It's kids like that were the states money should be going to, not to people who couldn't be arsed renting a room for themselves and want the state to give them a house.

No, cost effective solutions should apply in ALL areas

Roger_007

This woman is never going to satisfied.......?

CountyHurler

"this wonderful country"...

Have I switched on a different program?

Hitchens

Roger_007 wrote: »

This woman is never going to satisfied.......?

she seems to have a direct line to God Joe anyway!

ThisRegard

my friend wrote: »

No, cost effective solutions should apply in ALL areas

When it comes to kids and healthcare, I'm of the belief they should be afforded the best of care that can be given.

It's not issues like this that are running the HSE into the ground.

Lenin Skynard

Next caller please.

Dan Jaman

I'll believe the HSE is interested in efficiency and cost-saving when they gather up the thousands of crutches and wheelchairs given out over the years and put them back into use - after an inspection, naturally. I've still got a pair and I was going to hand them back in when my knee recovered, but I was told by an employee of the HSE they'd be scrapped. I know of a couple of wheelchairs mouldering in garden sheds because the HSE didn't want them back.
Crazy stuff.
But no, they'd rather spend millions on buying in new ones and then whinge about the cost of them.

CountyHurler

jetfiremuck wrote: »

The casualness with which the words ' the Taxpayer paying for that' really irks me. Its bizarre. Whats the outstanding bill so far. Ffs her demands blw my mind.

One thing that I find as a sort of dichotomy is the way that the progress in modern medicine allows sick kids to survive when they would have died years ago, but this also increases the financial liability on the state to provide for that child for the rest of their life... so you have the situation that parents come on Joe Duffy saying "the state wont give him this, the state wont give him that" when in reality the child would not be alive without the funding of the state.

my friend

Joe the idiot interrupted her just as she was about to claim that the HSE should also provide her with a free car

Enough

Hitchens

weels

Oops69

Joe got a thanks so she'll be gone now in 2 secs