Who is Ireland's biggest chancer?

Ash.J.Williams · 11-11-2021 11:13am

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Either have i to be honest, massive publicity drive and no music , I also missed their opening slot at AC/DC however the f they got that

mickdw · 11-11-2021 12:38pm

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I think she is in a whole other category far away from chancer.

bocaman · 11-11-2021 12:45pm

Johnny Ronan. A greasy creep.

Strumms · 12-11-2021 2:53am

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Look at the Wiki page for The blizzards...

they released two albums of which almost all reviews were average three stars about but the wiki page obviously put together by the management has them made out to be saviors of Irish rock ...

OneLungDavy · 12-11-2021 2:53pm

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I went to one of these people recently because my missus swears by them. After one of these sessions, she's certain she has spoken with her dead relatives. I was always very sceptical but I thought I'd give it a go. I actually went in with an open mind, hoping to speak with my deceased Dad.

The healer had this metal rod attached to a wooden base that she would pick up when "speaking" with the dead. When I asked a question she would tilt the device so the rod would spin around, implying the spirits were moving it. Absolute chancer is an understatement. She's making a fortune from it too.

whisky_galore · 12-11-2021 3:04pm

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That cheap parlour trick would hardly fool a child. I sincerely hope you didn't give this person any more money.

And another thing, no-one has ever been proven to have spoken to the dead. Complete hogwash.

Loafing Oaf · 12-11-2021 3:15pm

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Dara O'Briain has a routine about a item he saw on BBC consumer show Watchdog about a 'psychic' who could tell by looking at you if your aura was cracked and charge £680 to repair your aura.

"Now, that's not a 'consumer' issue, that's a 'f***king eejit' issue. If you're getting fooled by that you don't deserve the £680"

Walking_Wolf · 12-11-2021 3:27pm

Permabear.

OneLungDavy · 12-11-2021 4:29pm

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I paid €50, I knew going in how much it was and I'm not the confrontational type, so I just paid it. I remember the drive home telling the other half how ridiculous the whole thing was, she wasn't having it. Her sister is in the same boat and lots of her friends, they're all planning another session soon. It's crazy how the brain works, prowling on people's confirmation bias can be a lucrative skill.

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 12-11-2021 5:04pm

Lads who own pubs. Mewling to the media that they couldn’t sell their poison to people during the lockdowns, spilling crocodile tears about the “lonely auld fellas” in the community.

Of course these parasites couldn’t give a shite about the old people in their community, they just want to bleed the old fuckers dry in their final years.

Pubs are a blight on our society.

Pawwed Rig · 12-11-2021 6:05pm

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If my wife went to one of those charlatans for any other reason than to take the piss out of them I would be seriously questioning why tf did I marry this idiot.

I would honestly consider separating

Reminds me of the Pulp Fictuon scene where Vincent says to Jules

Jules, if you give that f***in' nimrod fifteen hundred dollars, I'm gonna shoot him on general principles.

silliussoddius · 12-11-2021 6:21pm

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Have the read The Secret, and are they into the positivity universe stuff?

milehip · 12-11-2021 8:09pm

Mick Wallace, almost bankrupt failed builder, ass kissing despots all over the world,pretending to be a socialist while downplaying China's labour camps, anyone who voted for him and would do so again would want their head examined.

MBE220d · 12-11-2021 8:17pm

Anyone mention Gino yet, Gino the politician not the D'Acampo lad before anyone asks.

12-11-2021 9:21pm

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Gino is alright. Dude just wants to see the weed legalised and to be allowed wear his Che Guevara tshirt in the Dáil.

MBE220d · 12-11-2021 9:25pm

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And a handy 100k plus expenses are thrown in for good measure.

blade1 · 12-11-2021 9:31pm

Any priests that call to old and vulnerable people collecting money in exchange for a safe passage to heaven.

Thankfully they seem to be a dying breed.

enricoh · 12-11-2021 9:46pm

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Business owners fighting their case to reopen- shocking carry on!

Bleed them dry? Any of the aul fellas in their final years in my local would tip down and have 3 pints tops.

Most alcos I know don't go near the pub whatsoever, e20 for a bottle of vodka n job done.

Angry man on the internet says close em all n they're all parasites.

EmmetSpiceland · 12-11-2021 9:56pm

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He’s got that ‘dying with dignity’ bill as well, long overdue at this stage. Hopefully we won’t be forced to endure the indignity, and suffering, of a long drawn out death by the time our generation reached its dotage.

Freddie Mcinerney · 12-11-2021 11:29pm

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Me been a regular practitioner of meditation, others thought I be ready for every ding dong.

Went to tarot card reader. She said paraphrasing 'I know you are into spirituality than organise religion.' Got me there. However, thinking back it must have been one of their hooks.

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 12-11-2021 11:32pm

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Tough **** for them, we were in the middle of a pandemic-induced lockdown and it was necessary for the pubs to be closed.

Those same “business owners” (who offer nothing to society) wouldn’t hesitate to step over the corpses of their customers for a euro, nor would they complain if they profited handsomely from the pandemic.

I won’t waste a second mourning after the market dictated that pubs should be closed during the pandemic.

RandomViewer · 12-11-2021 11:47pm

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My aunt cared for my Grandmother, priest used to visit once a month ,drink tea, few pleasantries with granny and £50 for his time (20 years ago), anyway granny died and at her funeral the useless bas$$$$ got her name wrong, Aunt didn't really bother with them after that

Freddie Mcinerney · 13-11-2021 1:50am

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Morph into Karl Spain?

whisky_galore · 13-11-2021 7:30am

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I have a bag of magic beans here if any one of them is interested.

blade1 · 13-11-2021 8:19am

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The magic beans actually worked!

celt262 · 13-11-2021 11:21am

Didn't read whole thread any mention of Rory?

Hangdogroad · 16-11-2021 10:24am

Ben Gilroy and any of those entitled "Freeman" gobshites.

Gemma O Doherty and John Waters. Nuff said.

Mick Wallace and Claire Daly. Hypocrites of the highest order.

Jeremy Sproket · 16-11-2021 11:17pm

Mary Mitchell O'Connor.

Freddie Mcinerney · 16-11-2021 11:35pm

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Dolores Cahill.

cnocbui · 16-11-2021 11:45pm

The guy with land in the south east who objected to Apple's data centre application in the hope it would be rejected so

they would then fall over themselves in their rush to buy his land for an inflated figure.

Snails pace · 17-11-2021 12:27am

Mattie McGrath, Danny and Michael Healy Rae. Pure parish pump politics on a national scale and then to add insult to injury they run plant hire businesses and they win big contracts off their local councils. No wonder the Healy Rae's promise new roads in Kerry when they win the contracts to do them.

tails_naf · 17-11-2021 2:10am

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He should be prosecuted, it sickens me how he got away with it. Like Michael lowry, he may be a crook but he's 'our crook' shite. He's his own crook, in it for himself and playing ye all.

tails_naf · 17-11-2021 2:17am

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Bertie rode and economic wave that was not of his doing, so sure he spent the cash on things like the arts, and was for fortunate that employment came with the economic boom. Did he create any of it though, or just profit off it?

Strumms · 17-11-2021 2:44am

Bertie gets a hall pass simply because like him or loathe him, he was one of the better Taoisigh as regards the day to day running of the country and overall economic and social progress attained under his tenure... people countrywide could relate to him and empathize towards those facts. He supported the arts, sports, health...

Celtic Tiger was from about 1995-2007/2008...

Bertie was in situ from 1997-2008... so both Reynolds and Bruton his predecessors deserve some recognition...

screamer · 17-11-2021 3:25am

twinytwo · 17-11-2021 7:18am

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He was only trotting after bertie

DopeTech · 17-11-2021 7:50am

Keith Duffy

Aska · 26-11-2021 5:31am

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Could throw John McGuinness in there too, all talk when it comes to contentious points but when the votes are required he sits by his masters leg in order to get his head patted.

Finty Lemon · 26-11-2021 7:55am

That Rory Hearne lad is some bluffer. A hard left wannabe politician masquerading as an academic.

He spouts awful populist nonsense about housing while insisting on using the 'assistant professor' title everywhere he appears. Must love the sound of the professor bit but its basically an entry level teaching job in a small university. Needs to get over himself.

How Maynooth university allow him to appear using their moniker for credibility I'll never know.

Hangdogroad · 26-11-2021 10:32am

House Of Prayer con artist Christina Gallagher.

HBC08 · 28-11-2021 12:25pm

https://m.independent.ie/life/food-drink/i-nearly-drank-myself-to-death-richard-corrigan-on-his-celtic-tiger-days-celebrity-fans-and-fighting-off-drug-dealers-41091374.html

Both of these two clowns.

I've had direct dealings with Barry Egan and he actually comes across sounder in his articles than he is in real life,quite the achievement.

silverharp · 28-11-2021 12:42pm

Mary Robinson , the grift is strong with that one

RandomViewer · 28-11-2021 4:23pm

Eamon Ryan by a country mile,

ButtersSuki · 28-11-2021 4:55pm

I'm not going to read 10 pages but it has to be Joe Duffy. A man who can barely speak English, who seems to adore butchering the language he does it so frequently and takes pride in his "unique" pronunciations, yet has written three "bukes". Styles himself as a man of the people, yet is as far from the salt of the earth “working class man with a working class work ethic" (a quote he trots out regularly) he portrays himself as as is possible in an Irish context. Cites Larkin as his hero yet is apparently ignorant of the fact that Larkin would turn in his grave were he to think of the hard shift Joe puts in a week/month/year. "Earns" more in 20 hours than a nurse does in a year yet tries to make out like he understands their plight, whilst also paying less tax in a year than a ward of those very same burses due to his bogus self-employment arrangement with RTE. Is as subtle as a brick in his own blatant self-promotion and the shameless shilling of his own wares, and is possibly the least modest public figure I've ever encountered (incl. McGregor). He's also recently laughably tried to climb on the woke bandwagon, but lacks the intellectual capacity to understand the subtlety and nuance of that movement and inevitably comes across as a blundering nincompoop when trying to be PC. He also frequently "loses the rag" on air when presented with an opinion he doesn't agree with or understand, further highlighting his unsuitably for the role he is in, and his sheer unprofessionalism. Promoted and rewarded far beyond any apparent talent or intellectual ability purely due to being in the right place at the right time and somewhat of a token appointment in the first place. And that's before I even talk of the misery, sickness, and death fetishes he indulges himself in on an almost daily basis (when he bothers to turn up of course) at the taxpayers expense. A truly sickening and embarrassing parasite of an individual.

28-11-2021 5:12pm

Lot of bile there, dude.

ButtersSuki · 28-11-2021 6:48pm

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Obviously you disagree? Fair enough, tell me why - I’ll happily listen to any defence you can mount.

28-11-2021 6:49pm

Dr. Marcus De Brun. The lad is touched. Hopefully he gets the help he needs.

28-11-2021 6:49pm

Mad_maxx · 28-11-2021 8:02pm

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close thread

chicorytip · 28-11-2021 8:55pm

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Jennings is a working, news gathering journalist as is Sharon Ni Bheolain and any other RTE newsreader you care to mention. Their news reading duties are in addition to their core newsroom duties. I presume they may receive a higher salary than their peers because of this nowadays. I know the likes of Anne Doyle and Emer O'Kelly did not back in their time. I happen to think both Jennings and Ni Bheolain are poor broadcasters.

Ireland's biggest chancers? All of Sinn Fein's elected representatives.

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