The Irish

I take it back, this was of course superb and would have been so in any decade

2005 pic.twitter.com/80yei9QEzz

— No Context Reeling In The Years (@ReelingDotJPG) November 1, 2019

ah can we not with the 96 final lads pls

Too soon?

until we fuckin win one*

*ive won one but god bless mayo i am a strong ally and their lot is mine

Ye know you can’t win one til the curse is lifted

that last bugger died before last year's exit fyi

i mean to whom do we appeal

is this contingent on us taking 13 asylum seekers because ive taken the temperature down home and its shaky enough lookin

Don’t ye have to wait for the whole 51 team to die?

ya i think they're all gone now

uh rip like

Paddy Prendergast still going?

look if im honest it looks dodge when our lot track them like that dyhear what im sayin

Nadine Coyle and Andrew Maxwell both on I’m A Celebrity..., what a time to be alive.

Had to Google Andrew Maxwell, still none the wiser.

He's the wtf guy sitting beside Brendan O'Neill when Big Bren is going on about being from Irish peasant stock.

Ah right, good lad, hope he likes kangaroo balls

i can support him when the stage is us vs tories

otherwise, he had a wonderful mother id say

Andrew Maxwell used to be on The Panel and had the rare quality of resembling both Haughey and Bosco

https://youtu.be/4Xlo_IU2gcI

He supports Scottish football team Hibernian F.C..[3]

Poseur.

Are you suggesting he’s overcompensating?

paddying the cv

returning the soup

Not sure why anyone outside of Leith would support Hibs tbh.

Not sure why anyone outside of Leith would support Hibs tbh.

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Tuesday, November 12, 2019 11:06 AM (twelve seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

other than pat niven and this fella it seems like nobody does

James Connolly is a long time dead.

Another worry for Andrew is the plight of Hibernian football club, who are currently struggling near the bottom of the Scottish Premiership league table.

“Although I’m from Ireland, my family were originally from Edinburgh. My dad was a trade union organiser and so was my granddad. They lived close to Easter Road, so I was always going to gravitate towards Hibs. There are some great people at the club, with some very good players, but it doesn’t seem to be coming together for us at the moment.

“Because the Scottish football season starts in August, I always take in a game when I’m in Edinburgh at the Fringe. I did a couple of gigs at Easter Road Stadium last year, I love to do those. And they let me on the pitch at half time during the match to do the raffle!

“I hate the sectarianism of Scottish football though. Celtic and Rangers need to do more to challenge the bigots in my view. Hibs is a club that is proud of its Irish routes, but is non-sectarian.

“People in Scotland assume I’m from Edinburgh because of my name… I always get a laugh out of that.”

Absolved.

plastic jock

He also doesn’t think Scotland should be independent

Yep.

The ‘Corbyn befriended the IRA’ thing is the haute-couture of British egotism. Never mind that Thatcher spoke to them first, or it led to the GFA - the spectre of the Paddywack Bogeyman has been conjured and that’s enough to frighten some people into the folds of Boris’s belly.

— Philly Byrne (@PhilipNByrne) November 13, 2019

I mean, the third one isn't a problem for a lot of the UK.

(autocorrect adding confusion to the second one?)

Paddywack Bogeyman?

I think these cunts need reminding that Martin McGuinness was deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland for 10 years. Hello?

https://cdn-02.independent.ie/incoming/article35355312.ece/6c932/AUTOCROP/w620/Martin%20Mc%2031%202%20INT_ED5_S01%20INT_ED6_S01%20Read-Only.jpg

They don't need reminding really, they just choose to ignore it.

I picked a random book on my kindle last night to cure my insomnia and it turned out to be Eamon Dunphy's The Rocky Road, not the football memoir mentioned upthread but his autobiography. I was quite struck by how perceptive and interesting, politically aware, cliche free etc.. his writing was - no typical footballer is this guy.

If we ever had a c/d thread Dunphy is classic all the way, his Rod Liddle bit is a meme in itself

https://youtu.be/EqjQSk1PQ4o

I'm aware this is not technically the "Ex-pats bristling at the British" thread, but still and all.

“Bó.....a word we can own” according to @NatWest_Help.

Brits....never not at it. pic.twitter.com/PpLGx2xpjB

— Stiabhaí Nics (@stephie08) November 28, 2019

the fuck

xp if it’s not it should be

fucking state of the explanation about the fada as well

Is it worth catching up on the Toy Show?

No

Toy show is horrible. Who is it now anyway that Tubridy creep, makes you nostalgic for even pat Kenny. Toy show has always been fascist spectacle. Seal Donnybrook in a big Ziploc.

Nobody did the Toy Show better than Gay, with his open contempt for the children.

otm.

the fuckin idea that its ever been about the kids, starting at nine pm and running until the drink runs out

it needs a bad santa reset sharpish, some real nasty scummer just going through the billy barry crew for shortcuts

Aren’t like 70% of viewers adults? You’re not getting children doing that application essay for tickets like.

100% of ppl under 30 doing *anything* are there because they were told to be

xp That reads slightly like you need tickets to watch the show.

Adults are in it for the swag, and that includes viewers spitting over what the undeserving audience get

the irish!

It's one of those Irish cultural touchstones that makes me absolutely ill. Sort of downwind of comely maidens. It's state TV that suggests corruption.