53 Comments

• joanxis | Jul 13, 2011, 08:24 AM EDT

  :)

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 13, 2011, 03:10 AM EDT

  There was a lesson to be learned, joanxis, even if you are too rude and dumb to learn it. The lesson is not to throw disgusting racial slurs around without thinking. And the other lesson is that if you throw mud you'll get it back. Right in Your Face. Have some respect for others--you obviously have no respect for yourself. I truly doubt your fitness to teach and serve as a role model for our young people. Then again your kind of racist stupidity is the norm at KKK JHS.

• joanxis | Jul 12, 2011, 09:57 PM EDT

  Oh, Woundedknee, you are trying to bait me aren't you? Nothing you say will influence my comments. I stand by my comments. Don't know why you think I've learned a lesson, as there was no lesson to be learned. You must agree totally with GD in his racist rants. I hope you both live happily ever after. Buh bye.

• WoundedKnee | Jul 12, 2011, 02:40 PM EDT

  George D, please don't add any more posts here. I think Joan has learned her lesson and will be much slower in future to use such offensive speech. She won't admit it publicly, but deep down she must realize she did wrong.

• joanxis | Jul 12, 2011, 12:27 PM EDT

  Georgie, Sounds like you've been keeping up with my previous comments, what with your observations that I was a teacher. Get it out of your system, dear.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 12, 2011, 10:04 AM EDT

  joanxis is not just a bigot, she's a coward. I understand she has claimed to be a teacher. Where does this piece of white trash work? KKK Junior High? Listen joanxis, please keep to your pledge not to air your ignorant bigotry on this site again. And use this as a learning experience. Learn never to throw slurs and vile insults if you are afraid to get them thrown right back at you. I pity your students, how could they respect a teacher like you?

• joanxis | Jul 12, 2011, 09:12 AM EDT

  Woundedknee. I've tried twice to show you why I called GD a racist, but I guess the posts were too long. All I can say is - go back to the beginning of this thread and read what GD wrote in response to Cillowen. You don't have to agree with me that I felt his remarks were racist, but I did thlnk his remarks were very insulting, not only to Pakistanies and Polish people, but the Irish, as well. Now you tell me what I said in my responses to GD that would prompt him to call me and others, "a racist roach,a KKK university graduate ,bigoted, ignorant, racist white trash,a racist imbecile, a racist goon, coward, liar, slimy racist" and on and on. I do agree with you that this whole back and forth is a "pointless encounter", but I'll be damned if I'm going to let GD get away with his vulgar tirade against people who dislike his vicious name calling.

• joanxis | Jul 12, 2011, 08:32 AM EDT

  Georgie Boy, sorry if I offended you by giving you a nickname, but I'm not the only one, as in momma ginty and momma. Go ahead and call me any name you want. I know that it gives you such pleasure. Now, as Woundedknee said, I'm backing out of this conversation "this pointless encounter". You are a sad person.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 12, 2011, 01:20 AM EDT

  joanxis: You truly are an uncouth and ill-mannered person. "Georgie Boy"--what's with that? Is it an attempt to demean another person? That's the tactic of a child, grow up. And you're a coward, too, because you started silly name-calling and then had a hissy fit when someone had the temerity to throw your own turds back in your face. Where they belong.

• WoundedKnee | Jul 11, 2011, 12:56 PM EDT

  @joanxis, you say to George Dillon :"Who could possibly have an intelligent discussion with someone who uses ugly name calling when people don't agree with you?" But it was you who started the name calling, when you called Dillon a racist. Wouldn't it be a good lesson for you to take out of this pointless encounter that you shouldn't go around throwing insults like "racist" and expect that people won't react?

• joanxis | Jul 11, 2011, 10:40 AM EDT

  You got me there, Georgie Boy. I did call you a racist. So we're 7 to 2 in my favor, but now you've just added racist(again), liar, slimy racist. Oh yuh there is also racist hatespeaker, hate and bile, and ugly bigotry. So even tho' I'm having a little fun with you, I'm now going to call you delusional. Who is using all of the hate speech? You. Who could possibly have an intelligent discussion with someone who uses ugly name calling when people don't agree with you? No one. Good luck to you, Georgie - and good luck finding "someone who can take part in a rational discussion". I'm sure I'll see you on this board again. Now I'm on to more serious and meaningful thought.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 11, 2011, 03:02 AM EDT

  momma Ginnty: I'm a Catholic. Please refrain from using the name "Jesus" (and misspelling it) as a curse. I know the Irish curse in every sentence, but remember, you have an international audience here. Don't demean Ireland even more. You and your fellow racist hatespeakers (joanxis etc.)--what's with you? You can't debate anything without hate and bile. I'm still looking for someone who can take part in a rational discussion on Irish employment and training policy. All we get is ugly bigotry from Momma and joanxis, but I remain open to intelligent discussion from some other quarter.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 11, 2011, 02:57 AM EDT

  joanxis: You're not just a racist, you're a liar also, because you neglect to cite the following you wrote about me "not to mention being a racist as well." You racists probably often recognize each other, but since I an not a slimy racist like you, please leave me out of your slurs.

• joanxis | Jul 10, 2011, 10:18 PM EDT

  Jaysus, Georgieboy, how old are you? I called you a pompous ass and you called me - a racist roach, a KKK University graduate, bigoted, ignorant, racist white trash, a racist imbecile, and a racist goon. Aren't you over reacting just a tad. You sound like your a 10 year old kid on a playground. You know, I actually think your whole purpose on here is to rile people up and the more you get reactions from us, the more you get off on it. Your name calling sounds like a desperate reaction to the fact that most people on this board think you're a nut and no one takes what you say seriously. Just my opinion. I'm so sorry that you are so filled with hate.

• mamaginnty | Jul 10, 2011, 04:52 PM EDT

  Goergefriggindillon, how dare you call me a liar, you sick frigger, you say you would like people to have a cordial discussion with you, you have to be joking, people have tried and if they disagree in any with your comments , you blow your bloody top, just like the language you use below, calling them liars etc, thats why most wont even entertain you, you are one crazed sicko, the story above was about house prices, but no..GoergefrigginDillon has to run down Ireland...has to mention differant nationalities..has to abuse people who make a comment that bullyboy does not agree with. He expects people to have to have a cordial chat wit him.....jasus ....

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 10, 2011, 12:17 PM EDT

  Oh look, another racist roach has creeped out of the pantry! Joanxis--did you recently graduate from KKK University? Is your first assignment to attack posters whose arguments you are too bigoted and ignorant to defeat rationally? For your information, though racist white trash like you don't deserve any answer from me, I hold Irish citizenship. I have as much right to tell the truth about Ireland as liars like Momma Ginnty have to tell lies about it. And far more right to talk about Ireland than a racist imbecile like you. Creep back to the KKK, they'll appreciate another racist goon.

• joanxis | Jul 10, 2011, 05:51 AM EDT

  George Dillon - what a pompous ass you are, If you're an American, it's people like you who give Americans a bad name. Imagine the audacity of telling another country how much better Americans would be at running their country - Ireland. What an inflated ego you have, not to mention being a racist as well. I am a proud American who loves my country, but we aren't perfect, nor do we have all the answers. And who asked you anyway?

• jacersagain | Jul 10, 2011, 02:29 AM EDT

  If, like JBRAFTREE insinuates, he and his kind havenunlimited cash to spend on properties that Irish people themselves have abandoned for obvious reasons, then by all means come and buy them: spend more money restoring them under the rules, regulations and lots of your private time, costs, charges and.. errm , especially years of paperwork, money, more money and arguments with the local authorities and then go and live in them for the while it takes you to wake up to the fact that they are not “liveable-in” for the rest of your or your family’s lifetime. During the Celtic Bear boom (I always prefer to call it that, in its proper sense, as it really was, rather than the term that some stupid Irish media person borrowed off the back of the then-called Chinese Tiger boom), I once professionally advised an elderly retired Danish couple against buying a lovely pub in a beautiful Irish rural area, a place that they had fell in love with after they had been scouting other pub properties around Ireland. They ignored my balanced “Buy” and “Don’t Buy” reasons, bought the pub anyway w/ lotsa dosh, and hugely lost out financially on their dream pub, when, only 9 months later, they found their dream wasn’t financially viable at all and had to sell it at any price they could find. When jacers speaks in truth and not banter, you’d want to listen to him. Don’t fall for these so-called fire-sale properties. They are called by that name for a sensible reason.

• jacersagain | Jul 10, 2011, 02:22 AM EDT

  *Yawn* - You woke me up JBRAFTREE... but I stick w/ my advice to non-residents of Ireland on this topic of Dara Kelly’s above... I don’t have to advise Irish residents, we all already have common sense. We already know the greedy Irish Real Estate agents’ spiel and their scoring of us Irish (did’ya get that bit? No normal person likes to be “scored”; ask any financially raped person to tell you of that). DON’T buy what Irish Real Estate Agents or their foreign collegiate agents are trying to sell to (pardon the expression) Irish-enamoured people. These low-priced properties are those that will need an awful lot of money, beyond the buying price, to restore them to proper, present-day regulated standards of living. Forget them as fast as your sensible mind will allow you.

• JBRAFTREE | Jul 10, 2011, 12:31 AM EDT

  It appears that these places are still over-priced. If the owners really want to sell, they should make their prices reasonable. It looks like they won't take a hit, unless they are willing to still take a 30 per cent profit on what they want to sell.

• JBRAFTREE | Jul 09, 2011, 11:20 PM EDT

  Talk about pubs in Ireland, I was there, in Galway, (East), and I could't find a pub that opened b-4 my bedtime ,around 8PM.

• JBRAFTREE | Jul 09, 2011, 10:18 PM EDT

  These are homes that people that can afford to pay cash for them. Too many get caught in the web of not being able to pay after a while. All of us over the age of reason remember the days when there was no easy credit. When looking at these homes, one needs to figure, either, I'll rent it out, or live in it, and no massive monthly payments.

• jacersagain | Jul 09, 2011, 10:01 PM EDT

  On the topic of Dara Kelly’s article above, may I dissuade well-meaning Americans and Irish-Americans and others from buying properties that Irish people themselves are sensible enough not to buy, whatever about the glorious locations, pictures and sales-speak? By the time you go through the sales process (lotsa more money) and the brilliantly-designed local authority regulations stuff (costing lotsa, lotsa and more lotsa of yr dosh), you’ll know that it won’t have been worth it. Trust jacers’ bit o’ advice on that.

• jacersagain | Jul 09, 2011, 09:45 PM EDT

  Will youze all pls leave my pal GeorgiebitBoycieD alone pls? He’s as entitled to give a bit of humour on this site as I am. In different ways, like, if ya know what I mean.

• jacersagain | Jul 09, 2011, 09:43 PM EDT

  Ah! Ah! Ah! – So at last LilPaddy splurts out that all his anger against the anger that he had against the Daingean School for incorrigibles like him is all about money... just so as once he’s screwed the system an’ got his money then he can buy up cheap properties that he can sell to others at bigger profits thereby screwing up the system further??? Eh? Eh? Eh? Tell us, LilPaddy... how much of a cut are you giving to your Daingean teachers? It’s all been a conspiracy after all, hasn’t it been, after all... sadly, so sadly, after all. Eh? No wonder Niall O’Dowd rejected all your presentations to him. And yet you still pine, wine and laugh all the way to the bank w/ just a sore diseased arse and wads of useless money in yr back pocket.

• LilPaddy | Jul 09, 2011, 07:26 PM EDT

  Sure prices are lower in Ireland... BUT NOT SO WHEN REALITY IS FACTORED IN!! Then they are still above what the working class can pay (especially when they are not sure of staying employed). And for those of you here in U.S. Be careful about buying in Ireland; just last month I bought (and paid for in full June/7) a property, and dedicated it to the 9-11 Heroes & Victims and of course our own Institutional ones including The Maggies on June/8. Then on June/9 the former owner decides she wants to sell to a brother in-law....and won't complete transfer Doc's.. Which means another $25 to $40,000 (estimated) legal cost to drag her ass through the courts... WHICH, IF NEED BE? I WILL PAY.... I love our 9-11 guys, and I nearly "Bought The Farm" in Daingean, at the hands of a Sweet Old Bird (or S.O.B. if you like) named Brother "The Bull" Cummins in 1960... p.s. On Jan 23, 11 at about 3:30pm I visited the s.o.b's space# 47 in Inchicore Dublin, and "shed" every drop I had. I did for myself and all those other kids that fn B assulted (as I had promised I would!!).

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 09, 2011, 04:17 PM EDT

  butlerreport: Careful! You sound like a wacist. You'll make Momma Ginnty angry again.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 09, 2011, 04:15 PM EDT

  Now isn't that weird? Re my previous post, Irish Central won't let me give the name of the site "politics" foolowed by a dot and then ie. See if I can get thru the censor this time. Very petty.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 09, 2011, 04:13 PM EDT

  I'm tempted to give up waiting for someone to have a cordial discussion on this matter with me, rather than throw senseless slurs as several posters do. It's a bad habit they have acquired, they should quit. But I will still try to foster debate on the topic of Irish medical education and physician provision. Here's a few lines from an Irish poster on the site , a site I would recommend to folks who may wish to listen in on the expressions of white hot anger of many Irish people in the face of continued settlement of their country by foreigners. Momma Ginny and her Fianna Fail buddies from Cork won't tell Americans about this. I will. Here's just one poster on that site. Wouldn't be as well expressed as my posts, but the idea's the same: ---"Keep hammering away because there is something wrong with this country when we, for example, cannot get Irish doctors to fill vacancies in our hospitals. Now, apparently, 'hospital doctor' may be added to the list of "work that the Irish will not do". Its not acceptable that we have to hire doctors from the Indian sub-continent while there are medical graduates who have been educated in the main at the Irish taxpayers expense, and refuse to recognise their responsibilities to the people of this country."---- Sounds like just about what I was saying, doesn't it?

• Snowdrop | Jul 09, 2011, 02:58 PM EDT

  IRISH PASSPORTS. Offer to people with documented IRISH GREAT,GRANDPARENTS. Ireland was considering this before. This would surely boost Irish finances! It's so obvious, it's pitiful. No one with half a brain will purchase those meaningless "Irish Certificates" based on the payer's say so.

• Silling | Jul 09, 2011, 01:48 PM EDT

  I still think that Ireland could get out of this situation by selling Roscommon to New Zealand.

• | Jul 09, 2011, 12:39 PM EDT

  If there is one thing I can say about us Irish, this is not the first time we failed and we've had to say good bye to our own as they left the green shores for a life elsewhere. You may take an Irishman/woman out of Ireland but you'll never take Ireland out of them. We will do what we did in years gone past and send money home to our families so that they can live there, it will help in years to come to bring our economy back. Read the book on how the Irish Save Civilization and you will come to understand that we have been here before and we will fight back, we have a culture that has been near non-existing many times and we've always come back. As the old saying goes in Ireland you can't put a good thing down and thats true for the good people of Ireland, whether home or abroad.

• antoman | Jul 09, 2011, 12:23 PM EDT

  There's a Cork man either side of you Mamaginnty.Sirpeter and I.

• butlerreport | Jul 09, 2011, 12:18 PM EDT

  Ireland is indeed beautiful. Many of our people however, while giving the impression of friendliness, are far from it. They're bitter, jealous and narcissistic begrudgers. Why? Because while the brains of the country emigrated to better lives they stayed behind. Great scenery though.

• mamaginnty | Jul 09, 2011, 11:17 AM EDT

  Forgot to mention if he really offends you there is always the "report abuse" on each comment, 3 or 4 of them and he would vanish, but I think we will allow him a little longer on the site, see if he can actually behave normally.

• mamaginnty | Jul 09, 2011, 09:22 AM EDT

  Louthetoe, oh jasus...do not mention gas ( petrol ) prices or eejitGoerge will be on our irish necks again about prices here in Ireland...plus as always the hatred he shows for other people when they try to stand up to his bully boy tactics. KerryLKing I am well used to this eegitGoerge. Take him with a pinch of salt then spit him out. SirPETER, don't leave us in the lurch here, you are good with words that really get up his no it all nose. Same goes for Automan, we are the irish IN Ireland.

• louthetoe | Jul 09, 2011, 07:36 AM EDT

  As an American, I just want to say thank you for the comments posted here as I needed a good laugh!! God Bless all!! Gas prices are way to high here also!!

• sirpeter | Jul 09, 2011, 06:28 AM EDT

  Georgie boy making new friends I see lol.

• citizen69 | Jul 09, 2011, 04:40 AM EDT

  I didn't see much evidence of crumbling house prices when i was walking in Dalkey, south Dublin last week. A small 3 bedroom bungalow selling at almost €800,000! As usual houses for the rich are holding their own while those of the working & middle classes collapse. And of course it will be the rich who buy up those foreclosed houses at rock bottom prices and sell them back to the struggling population at twice the price in a few years.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 09, 2011, 02:36 AM EDT

  Yet another racist--Kerry King (is that your real name?) creeps out of the woodwork. It seems that some of Momma Ginnty's racist buddies have left the field, but now we have the Little League team running out. Go back to whatever racist sites you normally frequent, kerry king. You are totally inept as regards rebutting my arguments. Isn't it weird how racists like kerry king issue stupid slurs instead of dealing with data and logic? In this case, I posted a critique of an aspect of Irish state policy, namely the fact that it wastes tens of millions on educating fine medical graduates, who promptly leave the country, never to practice in Ireland. They are replaced by people who know nothing about the people and culture of Ireland and whose English is often barely intelligible to the Irish poor whom they will be dealing with. Of course there is no attempt by the Dopey Duo Ginnty and "Kerry King" to engage in debate and justify this policy. That would require some intelligence, rather than the ability to throw slurs. I sometimes wonder whether these people are even Irish, since they appear to have no facts about even the most prominent issues of the day over there, and understand none of the concerns I am hearing every day of the week from relatives and friends in Ireland. All these two serve up is ignorant racist swill. Now, having dismissed this pair of goons, is there no supporter of the weird Irish government medical training policy who can defend it cogently here?

• KerryLKing | Jul 08, 2011, 11:52 PM EDT

  Thank you MamaG.....yes, it is a "beautiful country"!!! I've visited many, many times & if funds were in better shape I would be buying something over there for sure. Isn't there anyway to get RID OF GEORGE DILLON??? All he ever spouts out are racist slurs. Are the administrators of this site not aware of this?? Time to banish him to some other place.....

• Freeman | Jul 08, 2011, 07:39 PM EDT

  Love to buy one of those houses and turn it in to a wicked cool grow house like, and invite all my American buddies and cuties over for an awesome snorting and smokin vacation in the emerald isle.An all American vacation like, awesome.

• JBRAFTREE | Jul 08, 2011, 05:05 PM EDT

  MamaG, Not afraid of GeorgeD, Keep on keepin' on. In an adverse way, it's OK to have his diatribe on this site. Keeps us all in line!!!!

• mamaginnty | Jul 08, 2011, 03:53 PM EDT

  I thank the lord that G.D. does not live amongst the decent irish people here.

• mamaginnty | Jul 08, 2011, 03:42 PM EDT

  You are either a NAZI or Kuu Klus Klan, GoergeD, A very sick individual full of hate. Who actually said he knows it all. Mc Dowd should notice that people are not coming back on this site because of G.Ds bigotry and hatred.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 08, 2011, 02:38 PM EDT

  Well said, Cillowen. The Irish are well on the way to having a totally mongrel culture, basically a nothing culture. See how many tourists will go to Ireland to chat with Pakistanis and Poles. As to our regular racist correspondent kinvara, maybe he can tell us when he last heard of lines (queues) outside the Irish Embassy in DC, of Americans looking to emigrate to Ireland. Because there are long lines outside the US Embassy in Dublin every morning. We have our problems, but we're not doing stupid things like the Irish do. I could fill a book with Irish stupidity, but I'll give just one example: Ireland is currently importing huge numbers of "doctors" from India and Pakistan. I put it in inverted commas because I sure wouldn't like to be treated by a graduate of Bangla Desh Polytechnic Institute. That's because Ireland doesn't produce enough doctors of its own, you might say. But you'd be wrong. Irish medical schools every year produce more than enough doctors but guess what. They all emigrate, some of them going directly to the airport from their graduation ceremony! (True, I heard of such a case). Now there's a nation of imbeciles--the Irish taxpayer pays many thousands of dollars/euros for the education of a doctor (I'd guess between 50k and 100k) yet that doctor hops on the plane to London, Melbourne etc. and usually never practices a day in Ireland. And then Ireland has to recruit Third World medical graduates with the not surprising result, as they have seen in Ireland, of many cases of gross incompetence. Or of cultural incompatibility, such as the Pak doctor who tried to operate a dating agency, trying to get his female Irish patients to marry Paks so that they could get residence in Ireland! Ireland--it should be made a ward of the United Nations for its own good--a UN Protectorate.

• cillowen | Jul 08, 2011, 01:36 PM EDT

  sinn fein is what maintains language and culture. a mongrel culture does little for the cead mile failte claim.

• kinvara7 | Jul 08, 2011, 01:20 PM EDT

  Thanks George, we Irish would be interested in finding out how America has such a low national debt...oh what’s that? It’s almost 14 Trillion! Well maybe you could instruct us on lowering the unemployment rate...what’s that? You mean America's is rising. Right, well we'd ask about banking but considering Lehman Brothers etc., that clearly isn't your specialty either. To other Americans out there, you have a great country and I wish you all the best getting your economy back on track. I just enjoy shoving George's condescending rubbish in his face.

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 08, 2011, 12:59 PM EDT

  pndirishandprou: You're a stupid racist. Go away and post on some of those neo-Nazi sites you love. Your kind of smelly garbage will go down well there.

• pndirishandprou | Jul 08, 2011, 12:52 PM EDT

  @GeorgeDillon: For you most importantly the village must be pure-bred white Irish. No foreigners, particularly dark-skinned, with non-Irish blood. Racial purity is key! Right George Dillon??

• GeorgeDillon | Jul 08, 2011, 12:30 PM EDT

  There are whole villages in the MidWest of Ireland which are pretty much deserted. Wouldn't it be great to found an Irish-American town in Ireland? All it would need would be maybe 100 Irish-Americans to buy property in somewhere like Longford. We'd show the Irish where they've gone wrong! They could come and speak to the Irish-Americans and maybe get some good ideas on business expansion as well as how to promote Irish language and culture. A guy like Chuck Feeney, the billionaire, should be promoting this instead of sticking his nose into Irish politics by funding weird pressure groups that are accountable to no one.

• mamaginnty | Jul 08, 2011, 08:45 AM EDT

  No way are they going for that, I'd be buying 2 or 3 meself. There is definitly bargains but the prices are near to what they should be before the contract builders and banks got greedy, but I do hope the irish americans start buying homes here again, and that people here do not believe GoergeDillons comments. He does not live in Ireland yet every comment he makes involves running down the irish and you will note he will have named...Paki-Chinese-African-Polish etc in every comment. It is not half as bad as he would like you believe, I live here and love my beautiful country.

• Towngate | Jul 08, 2011, 08:18 AM EDT

  Cathal: you must know the results of th Allsop Auctionin Dublin yesterday - lets have that as an indicator of Irelands property health rather than regurgitate somone else's article. What!? - 80% discount on a Certified Valuation? I don't think so!