39 Comments

• seanomelbourne | Oct 07, 2010, 12:39 AM EDT

  Your a card Maloney where should we post you?

• maloney | Oct 06, 2010, 09:12 PM EDT

  navy lol You navy gays or guys are known for your manlyness. US Army honorable discharge after doing my time overseas. Not being thrown out for drinking brasso like I've heard about you aussies. Business PERSON, nice liberal political correctness. sweet you might say. sweeeet

• seanomelbourne | Oct 06, 2010, 06:56 PM EDT

  Union rep,navy and retired business person. If joining the military requires balls where are yours? obviously in your mouth alongside your foot.

• maloney | Oct 06, 2010, 04:53 PM EDT

  Not that it matters, but you proved my point in that you wouldn't look into or admit that you had found out what I said was the truth. Just like the half assed libs here you would say the moon was blue before you would admit to the truth. Progressive liberals tend to lie. You've probably been on the dole, along with screwing over the Aboriginals & screwing roos. If you ever were a union rep. everybody knows they are crooks. Ex military I doubt as that requires balls. Once again, not that it matters, but my sources are ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, HLN, WSJ and yes FOX. Keep your friends close & your enemies closer. I used to be a Teamster myself, working for Tropicana Products & in the union at Jefferson Smurfit.

• seanomelbourne | Oct 05, 2010, 08:07 PM EDT

  Maloney!You are making idle chatter, where did you get your facts from the "three stooges" on the Fox morning show?how about Beck the b/s artist or the liar-in-chief Hannity or maybe "the no spin twilight zone" or you mate Christine who wouldn't know if her ar-se was on fire

• maloney | Oct 04, 2010, 09:10 PM EDT

  seano...sorry you don't like facts but your no different than the liberals in the states. Rather than deal with the truth or find the facts for yourself, just say what you don't like to hear isn't the truth. You tell me what I said that wasn't fact? You can't & won't. Just like a little kid, nanana can't hear you. Like it or not, Canadians ARE coming to America for healthcare. Hospitals on the So. border ARE closing due to illegals. Obama DID cut medicare by 500 billion. Welfare & foodstamps & medicaide enrollment & cost ARE at the highest level in history. All facts. Look it up, but of course you won't.

• seanomelbourne | Oct 04, 2010, 06:10 PM EDT

  Maloney your blog lacks credibility and full of unsubstantiated jargon.

• maloney | Oct 04, 2010, 11:25 AM EDT

  seano...Don't forget about all the hospitals on our southern border going bankrupt & closing do to socialist agenda, letting illegals have free healthcare. Medicare has cut 500 billion from the seniors healthcare plans to take care of illegals. Kill off the elderly to pay for peaple who don't belong here. Welfare has hit an all time high under obama's rule.

• maloney | Oct 04, 2010, 11:19 AM EDT

  Can't speak on the Aussies or Norwegians. The Canadians health care system is a mess under your type of govt. They come to America for healthcare. They all get healthcare provided you can wait a year or three. Then to find out doctors ar few & far between. Under the current liberal govt. America is heading in the same direction. Where will the Canucs or USA go? Mexico? Sounds like you are having a ball watching the USA fall apart under socialism.

• seanomelbourne | Oct 03, 2010, 06:46 PM EDT

  maloney!! As a retired businessman and in the past a union representative and an ex serviceman I have tried a few ways of making a living. Trust me a liberal democracy will enrich your life ask the Canadians/Aussies/Norwegians and the other countries who did not fall apart during the GFC. Do you not find it strange that not one neo-conservative country survived unscathed.

• maloney | Oct 03, 2010, 06:31 PM EDT

  seano...I enjoyed working for a living, not leaching off the working. I still do more than sponge off the honest. Try it you'll like it doesn't work when trash is all you'll amount to.

• seanomelbourne | Oct 02, 2010, 11:46 PM EDT

  How do you know Maloney you never tried it.

• maloney | Oct 02, 2010, 04:56 PM EDT

  Left wing socialism doesn't work, as America is rapidly finding out. You would think we would pay attention to the rest of the world where it has failed already.

• kell7757 | Oct 01, 2010, 02:23 PM EDT

  Because we can see how well it worked out for the UK.

• kell7757 | Oct 01, 2010, 02:22 PM EDT

  I think this a Niall O'Dowd fantasy.

• hancock | Sep 28, 2010, 12:06 AM EDT

  Paddy I thought Dennis was the biggest nut. Nicely done .

• seanomelbourne | Sep 27, 2010, 07:33 PM EDT

  How the right have fallen,they are paying the price for aping their masters in London and Washington.The old mantra power corrupts is alive and well.

• paddypower | Sep 27, 2010, 04:36 PM EDT

  "In America government is seen as the problem, in Ireland, not enough government especially in the oversight department, is the mantra." This in the land where the homeland GESTAPO now can poke its nose into everything and everyone's business as the economy sinks into the septic tank dug by our bankster class. This cliche will keep me laughing for at least a week, though there are some other meaningless gems here well worth a chuckle. Imagine anything as real as the concept of opposition politics in the US with its burger king pepsi cola same agenda mikey mouse Siamese twin party political farce that passes for "democracy". The only twits still capable of mustering faith in the US corpocracy twin brand are the terminally evil tea baggers up next and the permanently mind blown optimists that bought into Jolson O Bama's plugged nickel spare change jingle that you can believe in. Can ya spare a dime, buddy?

• katiedarling | Sep 27, 2010, 04:13 PM EDT

  No kidding, James! I'd love to see a Labor Party (or a Labour Party) in the US with a real shot at political power. I don't think it's likely, though. I think this country is too distrusting of government on the whole, and we're much more likely to see the Tea Party take power. God help us all...

• JamesMurphy | Sep 27, 2010, 09:52 AM EDT

  Now, if we could just transport that sort of political sanity across the Atlantic we would all be better off.

• Watchman | Sep 26, 2010, 10:50 AM EDT

  George: What a strange man you are. Whatever the next step down from short shrift is, that's what you give to everyone around you in these pages. I tell you what: I'll stop commenting about you and you stop commenting about me. Then we can each put forward our opinions and just leave it at that. Life, after all, is too short for meaningless feuds. To answer your specific point, I think Ireland is an excellent place for the Irish to live – though you'd have to say that over the centuries millions of us have opted to live elsewhere. Similarly, France seems to suit the French and Germany the Germans, and the Spanish seem very fond of Spain. But we live in a changing world, in which population shifts are inevitable and – let's face it – unstoppable. Fifty years from now, I would guess, the population of the island of Ireland will be 25-30 per cent non-native. In one respect this is sad. I agree with you that Ireland – Celtic Ireland – is a special place. But we have to come to terms with change in the world and do what we can to turn them to our advantage. Who knows? With a rebounding economy and active participation in the affairs of the EU, Ireland might even end up a better place than ever before. Let's hope so. In the meantime, I'll leave you to have the last word. I look forward to it.

• GeorgeDillon | Sep 26, 2010, 05:37 AM EDT

  watchman: "your point was that we (the Irish) need to be rid of immigrants so that Ireland can be the "unique homeland of the Irish people"." That most certainly was NOT my point. Kindly refrain from attempting to paraphrase my opinions when it is clear you are quite unequipped to do so. Improve your literacy before you attempt to tell others what I think. In my case, I would never attempt to tell others what your postings mean. In fact, I find it impossible to find any meaning in your moronic messages.

• GeorgeDillon | Sep 26, 2010, 05:31 AM EDT

  Watchman: There you go again, pushing your stupid nazi slur. What a mediocrity you are, no ideas, no insights, just badly written obsessive garbage about Nazis. In short, you're an empty bore. And you never told me yet where you want the Irish to live. You apparently managed to escape to the US, but the mass of the Irish have nowhere to go except Ireland. That's the meaning of "unique homeland", you illiterate, there is no other national homeland for the Irish on earth, and there never will be. You are unable to answer my question, if Ireland is not the unique homeland of the Irish people where do you want them to claim as their homeland? Tierra del Fuego? Greenland? Biafra? The West Bank? Give us some proof that you think before you toss off your inane and insulting postings. And if all you can muster in response to this is more slur and slime, don't bother--you're wasting our time. You have nothing to offer except bunk.

• McNamara31 | Sep 25, 2010, 10:11 PM EDT

  Watchman, jacersagain....Next time you’re in Brooklyn, count me in.

• jacersagain | Sep 25, 2010, 09:16 PM EDT

  Pardon me - "deight" shud have been "delight".

• jacersagain | Sep 25, 2010, 09:07 PM EDT

  Whoo-hoo, wow, Watchman! GeorgeDillon is definitely not a ‘my boy’ of yours. I think you’ve been not a little hard on GeorgeD. Some might say that that’s deserved of GeorgeD but, erm, include me out on that. George is one tough guy and we all hafta meet his tough honest opinions on the pages of ICentral, as he will hafta meet all who contribute posts to ICentral. Thank you for the invite for a pint in Brooklyn, I would love that and a chat w/ you but I graciously decline. Instead, may I invite you, with your ability to travel, to visit the tomb of Apostle Matthew, he of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, in the silence of the crypt in the Duomo of Salerno, Italy? (When you enter the Church from the back end, go to the left and look for the big gate with stair steps going downwards). You’ll be in for a treat beyond imagination. I aver this promise to you and to everybody else, including GeorgeDillon and Niall O’Dowd. Do it on yr own, for the deight of extra discoveries.

• Monsoonman | Sep 25, 2010, 08:50 PM EDT

  What a tainted piece, tainting those associated with the Tea party Movement, "enraged" according to the resident spin doctor. But if they were gay rights activists, seiu goons, ACORN thugs picketing and heckling a private citizens home, they would be called "peaceful activists" by this same editor. bizarro.

• Watchman | Sep 25, 2010, 06:21 PM EDT

  George, my boy: You really do have difficulty with complexity, don't you? I am Irish, but these days I live for eight months of the year in New York. Last week I was in Ireland. This week I am in America. Do you see how this works? Would it boggle your mind even further to learn that I spent the summer in France? As for the Irish homeland thing, your point was that we (the Irish) need to be rid of immigrants so that Ireland can be the "unique homeland of the Irish people". Ein Reich, ein Volk ... let's hope we don't end up with ein Führer. And one last thing: I like the way you dealt with Trelawney. He made a simple point, you called him a half-wit, and puerile into the bargain. That certainly settled his hash. I, meanwhile, am "inane". Have you never heard of give and take? Thanks, Jacer. That was generous of you. You're right. We don't always agree. But there have to be standards. Next time you're in Brooklyn we should meet up for a pint.

• jacersagain | Sep 25, 2010, 05:07 PM EDT

  Sure you’re dead right DrT and not a bit puerile in mentioning the mistake. Labour was the original English European word for work – a man might have once been sentenced to a year’s hard work for an offence but the official term was hard ‘labour’. Many of today’s Irish-Americans are living with their names misspelt or wrongly allocated by sounds rather than originals. Example: Ryan used as a first name, where it is actually an Irish family name; same for Kelly. Look at American words for defence (defense) and offence (offense). But Americans & Europeans agree with the spelling of sense (you never see ‘sence’). I can’t understand the phrase ‘left of centre’ ascribed to the Labour Party in the article above; one is either left or right. ‘Middling’ is definitive of ‘undecided’, which the Labour Party of Ireland seems to be heading. It was once fiercely left-sided – i.e. Communist-leaning, tempered down to Socialist these days. No wonder its present leader Eamon Gilmore, is laughably called Aimin’ Nowhere Gilmore in Ireland.

• DrTrelawney | Sep 25, 2010, 03:55 PM EDT

  It may be puerile, but the point made is still correct. Whether writing in an American or Irish publication, the name of the party is the "Labour Party". It works both ways. When reporting on Australian politics, British and Irish newspapers will, of course, refer to the "Labor Party". A mistake's a mistake.

• jacersagain | Sep 25, 2010, 03:46 PM EDT

  GeorgeD, you and I often read off the same page on ICentral’s topics, although I think your utterances carry less dignity sometimes. On yr rants against Watchman below, I have to say you are out of line and off my page. Watchman’s posts are those of a highly experienced writer, journalist, traveller and enquirer, worthy of proper consideration, even if we don’t always agree with them.

• jacersagain | Sep 25, 2010, 03:36 PM EDT

  Just a few days after the poll that Niall writes about above, another poll out today puts Labour (yes, with ‘u’ in it) in third place, after Fine Gael, the Rich Farmers’ and Businessmen’s party. Fianna Fail is holding its own in 2nd place. Just goes to show how fickle the Irish voting public can be. Eamon Gilmore does have a great public presence but he hasn’t a whit of sense. He’s called Aimin’ nowhere-except-below-the-belt Gilmore in Ireland. He hasn’t a single positive thing to say, his party has no national or international policies (any at all?) and he expects to lead Ireland on the World Stage of country leaders??? Gimme a break, pullleeease!

• GeorgeDillon | Sep 25, 2010, 02:50 PM EDT

  Watchman: You object to ireland being the homeland of the Irish people. Where else do you suggest? Tierra del Fuego? Greenland? Biafra? The West Bank? What an inane posting by you.

• GeorgeDillon | Sep 25, 2010, 02:48 PM EDT

  Trelawney: What a puerile posting by you. Grow up. We in the US will spell as we see fit, and no half-witted criticism from you will change us.

• GeorgeDillon | Sep 25, 2010, 02:46 PM EDT

  Wachman: Now you're claiming to live in Ireland but a day or two ago you were saying that you have a Green Card and live in the US. Get your story straight. Which is it? And knock off the stupid "Nazi" slur. Did you ever hear of Godwin's Law? It's to the effect that dopes like you will always sooner or later introduce the Nazi slur into a discussion because they have no original ideas to offer. Sounds about right in your case.

• DrTrelawney | Sep 25, 2010, 02:31 PM EDT

  It's not the "Labor Party"; it's the "Labour Party". If you look, for example, at the New York Times' coverage of Ed Milliband's ascent you will see that all respectable American publications spell political parties as they are spelled in the country of origin. L.A.B.O.U.R.

• Watchman | Sep 25, 2010, 12:54 PM EDT

  The Irish Labour Party is a moderate, left-of-centre, party that deserves its chance after the see-saw horrors of recent years. Ireland, it needs to be stressed, is a European country, not an ethnic or ideological adjunct of the United States. We believe in government and we believe in a welfare state, with free, high-quality education for all, universal health care and support, where possible, for the poor and disadvantaged in society. America takes its own stand on these issues. Its history and traditions are different. The Irish who come to America tend to realise this and change their tune fairly quickly when they come to live here – sometimes alarmingly so. But at home they are social democrats. It's just a fact. As for immigration, restraint is certainly needed. Too much has happened too fast. But the idea that Ireland should be seen as a "unique homeland" for a single race is one that would appeal most obviously to ... Adolf Hitler.

• Monsoonman | Sep 25, 2010, 11:12 AM EDT

  Te establishment politicians (many blood sucking parasites) have awoken the people by going a bridge too far. In America with the Tea Party movement, we are no longer going to tolerate the status quo by having our borders be a joke, have run away spending and corruption in our leaders. The time for change is now.

• GeorgeDillon | Sep 25, 2010, 03:32 AM EDT

  I'd normally be well disposed to Labor, but I fear how a Labor Party government in Ireland would open the doors even further to Mass Immigration. A lot of the Labor big-wigs appear not to want Ireland to remain as the unique homeland of the Irish people.