It is our new tradition, our top ten heroes and goats which we will announce at the end of every week. Here are this week’s lucky winners --and losers
1. Goat: Irish idiot who robbed a cannoli from a pastry shop at knifepoint in Boston soon after he got off the plane from home. A real genius.
2. Hero: Ronan Thompson, little boy who died and Taylor Swift wrote a best selling song about him leading to massive awareness of childhood cancer.
3. Goat: Rory McIlroy – for shooting himself in the foot about his plans to play for Britain in Olympics. They are in 2016 Rory, not 2012.
4. Hero: Ambassador Stevens in Libya who gave his life to further democracy in that country.
5. Goats: The militant fanatics who gunned him down.
6. Hero: Irish weather—finally made a late summer dash and saved the farmers who were looking at crops rotting in the field.
7. Goats: Real IRA “volunteers” who wore masks and fired shots over the grave of their departed leader Alan Ryan, a well-known local thug.
8. Hero: Irish Justice Minister Alan Shatter for pointing out how Ireland ignored the Holocaust and refused Jewish émigrés afterwards.
9. Goat: Kate Middleton –what could she have been thinking stripping off in France where the Paparazzi eat celebrities for lunch?
10. Hero: Archie from Armagh, smallest bull ever who has made Guinness Book of Records.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Brolaur | Sep 19, 2012, 03:30 PM EDT
Why is Shatter a hero? He doesn't know Irish History. I'm with you Pazuzu!
michaelidaho | Sep 17, 2012, 01:39 PM EDT
Are there any qualifications to write articles for IC? So according to this author, Kate Middleton is a goat because some loser violated her privacy? What about the guy who took the pictures? He's not a goat? Oh yeah, don't tell me, he's the hero.
IrelandNorth | Sep 17, 2012, 06:18 AM EDT
(1) Whatever nationality Roman Catholic Rúadhrí declares for in 2016, (an a certain centenary is imperative!), he's undoubtedly a petit-bourgeois lad playing a middle-class sport for a largely bourgeois audience of well-to-do merchants. (2) Referring to someone as a "thug" is hardly conducive to ongoing peace processes. A case of IrishCentral doing an Irish Star tabloidesque impersonation? (3) Shame transferring onto a given nationality for non-ideal behaviour during WWII to compromise it into involvement in WWIII is hardly heroic. If so, then such candidates should be entered for the King Puck festival in Kilorglin, Co Kerry, Munster/southern Ireland. (4) And one man's democratisation is another man's neo-colonialism. Oh what wicked webs we weave, when we practice to deceive!
angrypaddy | Sep 17, 2012, 12:27 AM EDT
Rory is a hero !!What Irishman North or south would want to represent the corrupt crooks in government who fleeced its people in broad day light and put on the green shirt when it suits them
Searlit | Sep 17, 2012, 12:17 AM EDT
What we don't need is more judges. Please spare us IC.
Pazuzu | Sep 16, 2012, 09:30 PM EDT
It's obvious to me now that IrishCentral trembles with fear of the despicable Alan Shatter and the other Elders of Zion when they disallow one pertinent comment and allow all sorts of calumny and invective against Irish Americans by everybody every day. COWARDS!!
Pazuzu | Sep 16, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT
I see I've been censored. So much for freedom of speech!
seanomelb | Sep 16, 2012, 07:08 PM EDT
I think I'll return to my "fromage chevre" and leave the stupidity to O'Shea.
WoundedKnee | Sep 16, 2012, 05:00 PM EDT
I'd say the author of the above nonsensical article is something of a goat himself, a caprone, as the Italians might say.
WoundedKnee | Sep 16, 2012, 04:59 PM EDT
O'Shea: For your information, a person who robs only one of those desserts grabs a CANNOLO, not what you said. As regards most of your other "judgments", such as Hero for Shatter's hysterical and ahistorical outburst and "Goat" for Ms Midleton for trying to get a sun tan in privacy--they're utter nonsense, and slightly offensive.
Happyhippo | Sep 16, 2012, 02:46 PM EDT
Hey,goats ain't so bad.
Clancey | Sep 16, 2012, 12:11 PM EDT
I'm with you, willieric - except you're giving disrespect to goats.
willieric | Sep 16, 2012, 11:48 AM EDT
my nomination for top goat on your next list.....JAMES O'SHEA, IRISH CENTRAL COLUMNIST.........anyone agree?
Clancey | Sep 16, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT
Re: #5. Could you not do a little fact-checking? Ambassador Stevens was not "gunned ... down." Although the sequence of events isn't fully clear, he died as a result of smoke inhalation, apparently in the embassy building, which was burned. This was a front-page story; you didn't have to look too far to get this information. To misstate it is egregious, and only incites people who are as casually acquainted with current events as you are.
jamthecat | Sep 16, 2012, 10:26 AM EDT
Obviously, Irish Central needs to have its writers read "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White. It's not a perfect book, but it's slim enough to read quickly and will correct 95% of the grammatical errors that keep popping up on this site. As for their choices of heroes and goats -- insipid comes to mind. A bull is a hero? Seriously?
citizen69 | Sep 16, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
So Rory's a "goat" because as a man from Northern Ireland he decides to declare for Northern Ireland?? He remains a Hero in my book.
DrTrelawney | Sep 16, 2012, 09:51 AM EDT
"There in 2016 Rory, not 2012." Dear God. Even by the standards of this publication, this is... Well, I'm lost for words.