Jun 29 2007

In this country of the cute hoor, misleading the Dáil or Seanad is considered little more than a minor stroke

Published by Fence under Current Affairs

An asylum seeker who came to Ireland in 2000, Mr Adebari mused that while he was now Portlaoise’s first citizen, he was not yet an Irish citizen.

“Are you telling us you’re not legal,” Mr Aird interrupted, at which the whole public gallery erupted in laughter.

Okay, so on one hand this is good news. But is it really such good news that we have to point it out as though saying see, look, no racism here?

Bloody[1] asylum seekers, coming here, bewitching our electorate, getting voted into office, and where are the brown envelopes huh? Where is the corruption? What, no money for favours? What sort of Irish politician is he? Or maybe he is just too much of a cute hoor to be caught out yet.

And also, a voting pact between Fine Gael and Sinn Fein?

Title nicked from a HIBERNO-ENGLISH archive
Linknotes:
  1. I dont NEED the disclaimer that this sentence is not meant seriously, do I? ↩

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Nov 10 2006

Gipsy! Give me your tears! If you will not give them to me, I will take them from you!

Published by Fence under Ramblings

  1. Point the first:
    Conferring was yesterday, so that meant a half-day off work. And I’ve another half day today. Yay for half days. Plus I’ll be taking the 23rd off, and maybe the 24th, so November is a great day for its lack of work. Plus Christmas holidays start on the 20th of Dec till Jan 3rd. Which is nice.
  2. Uimhir a dó:
    Went to see Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan last night. That is some pretty fucked up shit and no mistakes. Hilarious, but fucked up. And in case you’ve seen it and are wondering what is real and what isn’t Salon have a guide so you don’t have to do any work of your own.
  3. 3:
    I’m turning into a racist, or maybe just a poster-racist. Honestly. Seeing all those Polish ads up with no word of English is starting to bug me. Not as much as the dud who scribbled “Write in fucking English” on the Polish note[1] in out apartment block.
  4. Point the 4th:
    It felt really Christmassy yesterday. But I still haven’t bought any presents yet.
  5. FIVE:
    Those Brian O’Driscoll posters[2] on the sides of Dublin Bus look shockingly bad.
  6. Point the 6th:
    The end.

Linknotes:
  1. despite the fact that the English version was next to it ↩
  2. google is no help to me today so I can’t post an example ↩

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Jan 12 2006

I said the honourable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

Published by Fence under Irishify, Musing

Edited to add my opinion at the end of the post

Mary O’Rourke is a Fianna Fáil politician in her 70’s. She has served as Minister for Education in the past and is currently the leader of the Seanad(Senate). Recently she received the party nomination to run in the next election, this after losing her seat last time around.

When she won this right she made a comment that has gotten her in a bit of trouble, so I’ve decided to ask my international readers what they make of it. Obviously I’m not stopping any Irish people from commenting, I’m just curious is all.

In praising her team that help her win the FF nomination to run she complimented them by saying “They were there for me, and they worked like blacks.”

Discuss.

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