42 Comments

• seanomelb | Dec 06, 2012, 05:44 PM EST

  Got tickets on yourself and couldn't sell any!!!

• GavinE | Dec 06, 2012, 07:05 AM EST

  Not sour grapes at all, Peaches Melba! I never really wanted to be president anyway. That's why I didn't enter the race. Do you need a tissue, for the other end?

• seanomelb | Dec 05, 2012, 05:35 PM EST

  Sour grapes Gavin,need a tissue???

• anglo-norman | Dec 05, 2012, 04:07 PM EST

  No wonder Obama is treated as a God in Ireland

• Smyrnian | Dec 05, 2012, 09:41 AM EST

  Gavin - Very well said, indeed. Thank you!

• GavinE | Dec 05, 2012, 09:02 AM EST

  Ironic to see Captain Mick being embarrassed at the behaviour of his Irish kinfolk. I can tell you, Captain Mick, many of we Irish are mortified at the fact that you are the President. And if it were not for the dirty trick played by Sinn Féin on the RTE "Frontline" programme, two days before the election, you were a well beaten candidate. A little reflection might serve you well, instead of pomposity, arrogance, pontifications and belttling your countrymen and countrywomen who were trying to do their best. As it has transpired, they were sold a pup by politicians like YOU. Off with you now, with your shillelagh under your arm.

• IrelandNorth | Dec 05, 2012, 08:48 AM EST

  Some posters are very fertile, with such bountiful offspring. They'll have one hulluva a will to make when it comes to popping their clogs. Also, references to "banksters" (sic) is to the Maple 10 boys who were lending each other phantom €160m to buy phantom shares in phantom banks. Point taken about their largely uninformed and unresponsible underlings at the coalface.

• anglo-norman | Dec 04, 2012, 09:53 PM EST

  Eamonn- don't be silly

• Smyrnian | Dec 04, 2012, 07:28 PM EST

  Come on guys. All this 'son' stuff us making us sick. We get it.

• EamonnDublin | Dec 04, 2012, 06:32 PM EST

  Feeling sad, Anglo? Read a few of your posts, son, they will soon have you laughing!

• seanomelb | Dec 04, 2012, 05:45 PM EST

  750 is not enough to soothe that twisted brain

• anglo-norman | Dec 04, 2012, 04:23 PM EST

  SAD

• GavinE | Dec 04, 2012, 01:15 AM EST

  Now, Son, isn't that much better - you are even giving signs of possibly having a sense of humour, Son! I am delighted with your progress thus far, Son. Come back again in, shall we say, thee months this time, Son? Keep taking the medication - oh, and that will just be another €750 for now please, Son.

• anglo-norman | Dec 03, 2012, 08:20 PM EST

  GavinE- Seems like you are too fond of your E's son..

• GavinE | Dec 03, 2012, 06:57 PM EST

  Anglo-norman, continue with the meditation treatment and plenty of sleep, Son. It appears to be beginning to work, Son. Just somewhat deluded alright, but the hatred appears to be retreating a little, Son. Now, son, again, apple blossom, falling petals, raindrops lightly falling, sleep, son, sleep .................

• anglo-norman | Dec 03, 2012, 04:56 PM EST

  GavinE- Just being honest & telling it as it is...Sadly in Irish Society that is not practiced as well you know son.

• anglo-norman | Dec 03, 2012, 04:44 PM EST

  TayandCake- Finn McCool was another myth.

• anglo-norman | Dec 03, 2012, 04:41 PM EST

  seanomelb- Chill out son.

• TayandCake | Dec 03, 2012, 04:08 PM EST

  anglo-norman, there are those who never experienced the celtic tiger or took part in the greed bonanza but today are expected to foot the bill for those that did. Not everyone took the jet to NY to buy handbags and Ray Bans or took part in dodgy property deals. These decent people in Ireland have to live with the constant pain of sharing society with these pigs and thats what makes the day so long and frustrating. A savior is needed here, RISE Finn McCool your land calls for you

• seanomelb | Dec 03, 2012, 04:00 PM EST

  What anger stupid!! you and your pathetic wee willy hamilton are more to be pitied than laughed at.

• ancavker | Dec 03, 2012, 01:42 PM EST

  Lots of Irish had that attitude during the boom times. We Irish over here saw it all the time. Everything was better, their houses, jobs, and on and on. Still amazed at all the everyday Irish who would hop on a plane to come to NYC to go Christmas shopping.

• Smyrnian | Dec 03, 2012, 12:14 PM EST

  Which bankers should they start with? The clerks? The tellers? Assistant Managers perhaps? Don't forget those terrible branch office managers who brought down the world economy or maybe start with all the middle managers who have no policy making ability and line them up? Thoughtless comments and finger pointing that includes an awful lot of hard working people who had no ability to impact the issues one way or the other. Stupid.

• IrelandNorth | Dec 03, 2012, 07:36 AM EST

  Úachtarán Ó h'Úigínn/President Higgins was actually born in Limerick (in Munster/southern Ireland). Grew up and was educated in Galway, (in Connacht/western Ireland), and like many others settled in the capitol Dublin (Leinster/eastern Ireland). But just like BBCTVs Jeremy Paxman criticised Tony Blair for apologising for the orchestrated Famine of a previous British administration for which he was personally not responsible, why should His Excellency MDH be ashamed of other people's behaviour? How clinically efficacious is shame about anything or anyone - anyway? I'm glad he qualifies his comments with "some". Here's one "Irish" (sic) who wears the same sized boots for the past 35 years. So include me out! And surely it's not good to loose contact with emigrants - whether they left this year of last century. Or the diaspora for that matter. As president, he's Chief-of-Staff of a standing army of c 14,000 men-at-arms (plus approx 3 times that in reserve). Why not send the Army Ranger Wing (ARW) after the banksters who broke Ireland. No point in having a whip if you don't crack once in a while.

• GavinE | Dec 03, 2012, 02:53 AM EST

  Anglo-norman - Time for a break, Sonny Jim, Son. Before you explode of bitter, septic hatred. Don't be angry, Son, contemplate. Feel the glow. Feel the peace rippling over you, as you dream of tranquility and apple blossom floating in the air. Then wake up and realise you were only having a nightmare. Time to HATE again. Time to REALLY hate. Time to have another geek at Irish Central and try to annoy those stupid Paddies. Go to it, Son.

• anglo-norman | Dec 02, 2012, 09:15 PM EST

  seanomelb- Keep it intellectual & it will make you less angry son.

• anglo-norman | Dec 02, 2012, 09:12 PM EST

  Will Hamilton- Great post, Ireland is a shambles & a pathetic joke. Paying this man for a needless office is so stupid.

• seanomelb | Dec 02, 2012, 06:04 PM EST

  I'm not your son boyo and I certainly not a victim. I referred only to your mothers milk and its contents which made you bitter and twisted.

• GavinE | Dec 02, 2012, 04:49 PM EST

  No need for Mick to be "embarrassed". If he wants to be embarrassed, he should reflect on his live on air exhibition of shouting at an American guest on Irish radio, that the guest and people like him are "w*nkers". Now, Mick, why would you feel "embarrassed" about the rest of us? We are well embarrassed having YOU for a president.

• Smyrnian | Dec 02, 2012, 11:48 AM EST

  This website seems to be hosting and ever increasing number of angry, anti-Irish, anti-Catholic people with an agenda. Some apparently have psychological issues with no restraint on their hatred and invective. The level of discourse has declined to the point where rationality, logic and the treatment of facts (if any are presented at all) is an embarrassment.

• Will Hamilton | Dec 02, 2012, 08:32 AM EST

  President Neckless the two faced hypocrite. He should look at his own wages and the fact he occupies a completely useless office. Anyone with any sense is getting off this shambles of an island as soon as they can. The leader of this banana republic gets paid nine times more than the leader of Australia. It's very easy for Hop-Along Higgins to waffle about "the past" but he made sure not to say anything about his own gang running the country now.

• anglo-norman | Dec 02, 2012, 02:05 AM EST

  angrypaddy- spot on..The sight of McCreavy boasting was pathetic. Why do the Irish in Ireland vote these imbeciles into power over & over?

• anglo-norman | Dec 02, 2012, 02:02 AM EST

  seanomelb- Stop with the 'everyone hates us" victimhood son...

• seanomelb | Dec 02, 2012, 01:46 AM EST

  The invectives of the Anti-Irish on this site amuses me. I wondfer what was in their mothers milk to make them so hateful and bitter

• angrypaddy | Dec 02, 2012, 12:53 AM EST

  Never a truer word spoken what a bunch of morans espically Charlie Mc Crevy He didn't notice the real force behind the arrogance (cocaine)The paddys took to it like the pigs they are

• anglo-norman | Dec 01, 2012, 08:33 PM EST

  Patrick- It will be the best thing you can do for yourself..Ireland will never change. They have their chance with the Celtic Tiger but blew it in typical Irish fashion. You deserve a better life.

• anglo-norman | Dec 01, 2012, 08:26 PM EST

  Will the Irish in Ireland ever grow up & stand up for themselves. It's easy to see how they have been invaded & ruled by other nations so easily. The Vatican & Europe now runs the place. The Irish are sadly a servile people & as long as they have enough for a few pints they don't care otherwise until it's too late.

• seanomelb | Dec 01, 2012, 05:10 PM EST

  Patrick!! I"ll donate a euro to your travel plans. There's a modicum of truth in the presidents piece and I'm sure O'Higgins sypathises with the loss of educated young Irish people.

• WoundedKnee | Dec 01, 2012, 04:12 PM EST

  "Can't wait to leave this rain soaked island once and for all in a few years time". So what's keeping you, Pat?

• greensod | Dec 01, 2012, 12:08 PM EST

  Thomas84:Well said and very true.

• Thomas84 | Dec 01, 2012, 09:37 AM EST

  It wasnt Irish people , it was the people WHO ARE STILL DOING THE SAME THING NOW. Thats Irelands political elite and their army of morons who keep voting the same people back into the dail to do it again.

• Seanmor | Dec 01, 2012, 09:29 AM EST

  It is high time that a high ranking political figure of the Irish state utters words of sympathy for that state's young people who are forced to emigrate.

• Patrick Devaney | Dec 01, 2012, 05:50 AM EST

  What an embarrassment to have as president. Then again, most things my country does is embarrassing. He's just full of populist, self-righteous garbage. Can't wait to leave this rain soaked island once and for all in a few years time.