Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v 4.0 (08/07/14 to date)

Hitchens

Roger_007 wrote: »

I agree with Bruton about 1916 being unnecessary. The Irish, and particularly the 1916 leaders, seem to glorify the 'blood sacrifice'. This attitude was carried on by the IRA and resulted in 3000 unnecessary deaths during the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland. Nothing much has been achieved in Ireland by violence in the last 100 years that could not have been achieved by peaceful means. A lot of lives were wasted for no good reason.

for some reason I always hurled better when my jersey was soaked in blood :pac:

hotmail.com

Bruton also forgets that Redmond encouraged men to fight in the first World War, thereby sending many to their deaths.

mikeyjames9

what were they saying about household charge or what paper was it?

I just missed it

hotmail.com

They seem unable to deviate from the time schedule nowadays on this - I would much prefer a longer discussion on the main topic, than a review of the papers.

Lapin

Danielle Barron has lovely eyes.

Lapin

I want one !

coolhull

Lapin wrote: »

Danielle Barron has lovely eyes.

Lapin wrote: »

I want one !

One of Danielle's eyes?

Harry Angstrom

The show is completely disjointed these days. It's a total mess. I'd prefer to see the 11pm news brought back, followed by an interminable ad, if it meant that the rest of the programme had a proper flow to it.

mikeyjames9

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

The show is completely disjointed these days. It's a total mess. I'd prefer to see the 11pm news brought back, followed by an interminable ad, if it meant that the rest of the programme had a proper flow to it.

it's a shambles with the way the ads are structured

wtf is wrong with them that they can't see it

Harry Angstrom

It's "ESRI" Tom, you dolt.

Lady Chatterton

I'm struggling to stay awake and Tom isn't helping.

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I seen that Michael Lowry was in the front row of that drugs meeting in Tipperary.

Roger_007

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It's "ESRI" Tom, you dolt.

Don't be too hard on poor Mot......he could be dyslexic.;)

Harry Angstrom

Sure every town has a drug and drink problem. Have they never seen Pure Mule?

coolhull

hotmail.com wrote: »

I seen that Michael Lowry was in the front row of that drugs meeting in Tipperary.

No doubt he was there to see if there was anything in it for him

hotmail.com

John Waters will blame the drop in mass attendances for all this drug use.

Harry Angstrom

If there wasn't a big supermarket in the town, they'd be complaining as well.

hotmail.com

This guy is straight out of Father Ted.

hotmail.com

Everything was rosie in the past.

Lady Chatterton

Lowry is yesterday's man, it's all about Minister Alan Kelly these days in North Tipp

Harry Angstrom

Waters has a point. We're living in a very nihilistic society.

hotmail.com

John, what about all the alcoholics over the past century?

Lapin

Roscrea needs to reinvent itself. It has a bad brand name now.

They should shake that off by renaming the place with a name people will associate with less crime and hopelessness.



How about Soweto North.

Roger_007

What John is trying to say is that we have all these problems because we lost our holy and beautiful Catholic religion.:rolleyes:

vicwatson

That Siobhan girl is a Mental Health Science professor, I think she should take John Waters to one side

hotmail.com

John Waters got €40,000 off RTE earlier this year.

Harry Angstrom

hotmail.com wrote: »

John Waters got €40,000 off RTE earlier this year.

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Hitchens

Mannix Flynn said today that methodone hasn't worked

hotmail.com

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

John lamented the culture of money.

Lapin

hotmail.com wrote: »

John Waters got €40,000 off RTE earlier this year.

And ?

Roger_007

So Roscrea's problems stem from the fact that they stopped making drugs there.??

vicwatson

Ah local off FFS, the country is tiny FFS, a country of 4.5 million people and I don't remember a Government that could Govern the goddamn small outcrop on the western periphery of Europe.

Harry Angstrom

hotmail.com wrote: »

John lamented the culture of money.

More to do with lamenting the culture of greed. The man was libelled and he received a payment for it. Nothing earth-shattering in that.

Lapin

Between TV and radio, almost everytime there is a discussion about drugs or rundown town centres, sooner or later someone will mention Dun Laoighaire.

hotmail.com

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

More to do with lamenting the culture of greed. The man was libelled and he received a payment for it. Nothing earth-shattering in that.

Well I disagree that he was libeled, but not getting into that, you are entitled to believe that calling gay marriage a "satire" is not homophobic.

The irony of him bemoaning the culture of money and greed after he received an annual wage off RTE wasn't lost on many of us.

Hitchens

McGurk just doesn't measure up to Vinny

vicwatson

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Ah herreeeeeee

Harry Angstrom

hotmail.com wrote: »

Well I disagree that he was libeled, but not getting into that, you are entitled to believe that calling gay marriage a "satire" is not homophobic.

The irony of him bemoaning the culture of money and greed after he received an annual wage off RTE wasn't lost on many of us.

Being against gay marriage is not homophobic, but I'm not getting into that either. If I've been libelled I'd expect financial recompense by way of reparation.

Lapin

So this

hotmail.com wrote: »

John Waters got €40,000 off RTE earlier this year.

And this

hotmail.com wrote: »

John lamented the culture of money.

Was a hidden build up to introduce this into a discussion where it has no place.

hotmail.com wrote: »

Well I disagree that he was libeled, but not getting into that, you are entitled to believe that calling gay marriage a "satire" is not homophobic.

The irony of him bemoaning the culture of money and greed after he received an annual wage off RTE wasn't lost on many of us.

Give it a rest.

hotmail.com

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Being against gay marriage is not homophobic, but I'm not getting into that either. If I've been libelled I'd expect financial recompense by way of reparation.

I believe that it is.

hotmail.com

Lapin wrote: »

So this



And this



Was a hidden build up to introduce this into a discussion where it has no place.



Give it a rest.

You a mod now?

vicwatson

hotmail.com wrote: »

You a mod now?

No, he's a rocker !! :pac:

catallus

John Waters really raises the level of discussion I think, or it could just be down to McGurk's skilful compering.

I've said it before, VB is past it.

Lapin

hotmail.com wrote: »

You a mod now?

No, but you're clearly incabable of self moderating.

Give the gay agenda a rest. It has no place in tonight's topics.

Do you not think the rest of us might be sick of it.

hotmail.com

Lapin wrote: »

No, but you're clearly incabable of self moderating.

Give the gay agenda a rest. It has no place in tonight's topics.

Do you not think the rest of us might be sick of it.

I have no idea what other people think nor do you.

hotmail.com

I don't think I've heard one solution to the problem.

Hitchens

Derek is the kind of person we need more of in this country

Hitchens

are the panel members in their stockinged feet so that they can swap places without making any noise?

RayM

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Being against gay marriage is not homophobic,

In fairness, being actively opposed to same-sex marriage really is homophobic. Having said that, I wouldn't put John Waters on the same scale as the likes of Breda O'Brien or David Quinn. Yes, he used some particularly inflammatory and homophobic language when discussing gay marriage in the context of father's rights, but has never campaigned against it. He's a bit of an eejit sometimes, and gets a harder time than he deserves.

Lapin

hotmail.com wrote: »

I have no idea what other people think nor do you.

Well I know what I think and I'm sick of people trying to drag their own shít into places where it doesn't belong.

Just because John Waters is on the TV, you see it as an opportunity to drag everything off topic and start yapping on about gay marriage, homophobia and suggest that others are guilty of such nonsense.


As my old neighbour in Clapham used to say - Gordon Bennett.