Liveline Thread 27/03/14 to date

An Claidheamh

It seems always that the foster families receive a lot of accusations of cruelty and distance from their orphans.

Mike Guide 69

Oh here we go, Joe trying to extract more misery from the poor bloke with his Mother on her death bed ffs!!!

AK333

An Claidheamh wrote: »

It seems always that the foster families receive a lot of accusations of cruelty and distance from their orphans.

In those days the children were farmed out to whoever the local priest/nun picked. There were no social workers. The children were used as cheap labour and always singled out as different. Incredibly sad

sudzs

Cancer - BINGO! :rolleyes:

CarrickMcJoe

Business as usual. Cancer

Roger_007

Cancer?.......Joe gets it hard to go through a show without it?

An Claidheamh

AK333 wrote: »

In those days the children were farmed out to whoever the local priest/nun picked. There were no social workers. The children were used as cheap labour and always singled out as different. Incredibly sad

Sure, it seems to be a recurring theme.

neris

reading to your pets and a woman who hasnt taken her xmas tree down in 20 years. im stunned

constitutionus

wahay !

it actually was the truck in maynooth.

least someone got something out of todays show.

constitutionus

"a disabled person, or the corporation would use"

sorry but i just fell about at that for some reason.

bottlebrush

People ringing up tomorrow complaining that they didn't get the free gripper they should have been entitled to

Dan Jaman

mike65 wrote: »

Go Safe me arse!

You can see the bend in the road left, blind overtaking.

So what? The van driver could have had a perfect view of the empty road and miserable bollox in the car just felt like a moan.

vicwatson

Dan Jaman wrote: »

So what? The van driver could have had a perfect view of the empty road and miserable bollox in the car just felt like a moan.

Still overtaking on a continuous white line, is this allowed?

sligojoek

Single continuous white line = No overtaking at all
Double continuous white line = No overtaking at all, at all.

Dan Jaman

sligojoek wrote: »

Single continuous white line = No overtaking at all
Double continuous white line = No overtaking at all, at all.

Pah; over-cautious nonsense by safety nazis.
On a bike, do what you like.

megapixel

Had to start work so didn't hear if they found the scafold and its truck?

Hitchens

Circus today, one of JD's favourites

neris

Hitchens wrote: »

Circus today, one of JD's favourites

every days a duffy circus day;)

ThisRegard

Was Joe born with a beard ?


edit: A google of when he was in TCD brought me to his wikipedia page, it reads like he wrote it himself in parts, and this made me laugh

Duffy retraced his Christian roots in 2010 by hosting an RTÉ One TV show called Joe Duffy's Spirit Level. The show discussed the great faith of the Irish people and various religions present in the country, and also queried whether David McSavage's satirical portrayal of Duffy could be considered blasphemous

and this gem

Mr Duffy is famous for taking up the causes of the downtrodden on Liveline, and examples of this include Berry Fleming who lost her job in 2010, [14] and Aubrey McCarthy, who was trying desperately to get his removal business off the ground in 2012/2013

Dan Jaman

ThisRegard wrote: »

queried whether David McSavage's satirical portrayal of Duffy could be considered blasphemous

LOL! Utterly priceless.

Ah; back to gloom, death and misery, with auld wans at the doorway of the next world... Just like slipping on a comfy old pair of shoes ( typed shows there, what a slip).

signostic

I wonder how Brush is these days?

Dan Jaman

I think everyone's been stunned into indifference.

AK333

Not more of this. OMG. Can the religious orders just get together, list all the unnamed graves, put their hands up and say, we were wrong and then we can all move on. They're a disgrace

NIMAN

Hard to make smart arsed comments about these initial callers, very sad stories. Genuine sad stories not the usual aul nonsense.

Listening to this, its hard to understand why the Catholic Church can have any supporters left at all. Such an evil evil organisation.

Joe said it was 'dark times' - it was the 1950s not the 1650s ffs. Evil.

jetfiremuck

So whos to blame here!!!!!

Roger_007

jetfiremuck wrote: »

So whos to blame here!!!!!

The families of the women who went to these homes. But, of course, nobody will say that because there may be "redress" in the pipeline.

AK333

Roger_007 wrote: »

The families of the women who went to these homes. But, of course, nobody will say that because there may be "redress" in the pipeline.

Not just them. When they got to the homes the so called Christian people (priests and nuns) treated them like cr*p, beat them, abused them. And the people who were supposed to supervise them, the government and Rome, didn't give a cr*p either. I can't believe the general society didn't know what was going on either - I wouldn't treat a dog the way these people were treated

An Claidheamh

NIMAN wrote: »

Hard to make smart arsed comments about these initial callers, very sad stories. Genuine sad stories not the usual aul nonsense.

Listening to this, its hard to understand why the Catholic Church can have any supporters left at all. Such an evil evil organisation.

Joe said it was 'dark times' - it was the 1950s not the 1650s ffs. Evil.

Problem with that is that you could say the same in relation to Protestant churches and Islam.

Really, fanaticism was the problem.

NIMAN

The families only treated these people this way due to the influence of the Church, so thats why I put most of the blame on them.

signostic

NIMAN wrote: »

The families only treated these people this way due to the influence of the Church, so thats why I put most of the blame on them.

This was one of the lads who was head of the RC church in Ireland and many of the bishops/priest/nuns strove to be like him...

An Claidheamh

NIMAN wrote: »

The families only treated these people this way due to the influence of the Church, so thats why I put most of the blame on them.

They would say that though wouldn't they.

If they were so influenced by the Church, why were men impregnating women outside marriage in the first place?

Why did they drink alcohol excessively, like the Church was against?

Did they take Holy Orders aswell?

They were apparently only influenced by the Church, and some people, not all, when they could take a problem off their hands.

HeidiHeidi

That last caller's story was very hard listening.

"Loaned out". That was slave labour, pure and simple.

At least he had some sense of closure in finding some family before they all died.

Yakuza

Joe is well-versed at sticking "ín" onto words to denote the diminutive...

Mike Guide 69

Dont mean to be smart, but this "orator" seems to be giving a local morbid history tour of his vicinity!!!!!!!

signostic

=There were warnings at the time but claims of abuse were dismissed...

Father Edward Flanagan, founder of “Boys Town” made famous by the Spencer Tracy movie, was a lone voice in condemning Ireland’s industrial schools back in the 1940s –and he was viciously castigated by church and government for doing so.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/boys-town-founder-fr-flanagan-warned-irish-church-about-abuse-in-1940s-104356519-237719981.html

vicwatson

signostic wrote: »

This was one of the lads who was head of the RC church in Ireland and many of the bishops/priest/nuns strove to be like him...

Shudders :mad:

HeidiHeidi

"You're a beautiful man."

Right, Joe.

vicwatson

How do Samantha and Joe know each other, she said at the out that "we'll have to stop meeting like this" but Duffy being Duffy ignored her/didn't entertain the comment and moved on?

Meathlass

That Harrington ad is just cringe!

Mike Guide 69

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

"You're a beautiful man."

Right, Joe.

Yeah after all that the poor bloke went through, he gets that from our Joe, makes me wonder

HeidiHeidi

Mike Guide 69 wrote: »

Yeah after all that the boor bloke went through, he gets that from our Joe, makes me wonder

Put you over the edge, it would.

jetfiremuck

And this lad wants proceeds from Philomena for compo........does it ever end...the compo culture

signostic

Padraig Harrington golf wear at Dunnes Stores, a cut above Kartel i`d say..

signostic

vicwatson wrote: »

How do Samantha and Joe know each other, she said at the out that "we'll have to stop meeting like this" but Duffy being Duffy ignored her/didn't entertain the comment and moved on?

I remember her on the lavlahn a few weeks ago about the same thing...

dvcireland

signostic wrote: »

This was one of the lads who was head of the RC church in Ireland and many of the bishops/priest/nuns strove to be like him...

over the past 2 weeks Bowman's Sunday has been looking back on the Anti-Jazz campaign of 1934:

A Catholic priest in Longford led a campaign through the Gaelic league against jazz music

http://www.politics.ie/forum/history/164264-anti-jazz-campaign-1934-a.html

jetfiremuck

I call b****hit on all the fathers wanting to be part of the babys life. Ffs. Still goes on today.

An Claidheamh

They want to be known now!

Why didn't they stand up and and be counted years ago?

Why do they wait until they're tracked down?

Meathlass

Looks like the Celtic Tiger's back.

Ads for
1. 142 Seat cars
2. Home extensions/improvements

AK333

Joe is just dying to know what happened to the girl/sister

jetfiremuck

You only have to look at film The Playboys to get a glimpse of Irish life. Lads got their hole.... girls pregnant and the fallout,castigation that resulted from the pregnancy that destroyed families.