Connacht v Harlequins

Just back from watching my local rugby team beat Harlequins. It was backs to the wall stuff towards the end but I think we deserved it overall. That ended a 14 match losing streak. Connacht is the weakest province in Irish rugby and gets feck all financial support from the IRFU. We lost 13 players before the season started so hats off to them regarding this result..

3rdforum wrote:Just back from watching my local rugby team beat Harlequins. It was backs to the wall stuff towards the end but I think we deserved it overall. That ended a 14 match losing streak. Connacht is the weakest province in Irish rugby and gets feck all financial support from the IRFU. We lost 13 players before the season started so hats off to them regarding this result..

Connaught: “to have not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, nor earth enough to bury him.” Remember that fecker D?

I take it it was Cromwell. When he was ethnically cleansing the rest of the country, he is reputed to have said to the native people "To hell or to Connacht". In Cromwell's time, the land was so bad, he didn't think any settlers would live there. Its still thought of that way, something like the way the north of England and Scotland used to be, feck all investment for years.

3rdforum wrote:I take it it was Cromwell. When he was ethnically cleansing the rest of the country, he is reputed to have said to the native people "To hell or to Connacht". In Cromwell's time, the land was so bad, he didn't think any settlers would live there. Its still thought of that way, something like the way the north of England and Scotland used to be, feck all investment for years.

The very man. Bet you don't have any streets named after him in Ireland...

Originally they were going to call the park in Galway city centre after him, Motherfucker Plaza, but they went with Eyre Square instead

I read somewhere that when Bertie Ahern was over in England having talks with Blair over the Peace Process he and his Fianna Fail cronies got in to a little pickle over Cromwell.
When New Labour got in into Downing Street,to show their revolutionary credentials,they hung a picture of Cromwell up in some room and low and behold Bertie is sitting there and spots it and goes spare...left the room and refused to enter the room until it was removed and Mr Blair happily obliged and took it down.
Sure did Bertie not know big Oliver was a Republican like himself

CaribeCelt wrote:I read somewhere that when Bertie Ahern was over in England having talks with Blair over the Peace Process he and his Fianna Fail cronies got in to a little pickle over Cromwell.
When New Labour got in into Downing Street,to show their revolutionary credentials,they hung a picture of Cromwell up in some room and low and behold Bertie is sitting there and spots it and goes spare...left the room and refused to enter the room until it was removed and Mr Blair happily obliged and took it down.
Sure did Bertie not know big Oliver was a Republican like himself

Wasn't he just!

Here is a link to an article which mentions the Bertie Ahern incident...also a little background on why us Irish despise the very name of the man.
http://thecnj.myzen.co.uk/review/2009/062509/books062509_01.html

CaribeCelt wrote:Here is a link to an article which mentions the Bertie Ahern incident...also a little background on why us Irish despise the very name of the man.
http://thecnj.myzen.co.uk/review/2009/062509/books062509_01.html

I've read the book "To Hell Or Connaught". The English actually dug him up after he was dead for a few years to hang him, after the monarchy was restored again. As if he cared...

I have a pile of book's here ready to read and Hell or Connacht is one of them...I'll get reading it sometime.
I would highly recommend "God's Executioner",a very good read.
I am hijacking this thread I should be on the book thread.lol.

CaribeCelt wrote:Here is a link to an article which mentions the Bertie Ahern incident...also a little background on why us Irish despise the very name of the man.
http://thecnj.myzen.co.uk/review/2009/062509/books062509_01.html

They've mixed up the banks of the Shannon. They say the Irish were forcibly removed to inhospitable lands EAST of the Shannon. Any one found WEST of the Shannon after a certain date would be executed or deported to the plantations.

CaribeCelt wrote:I read somewhere that when Bertie Ahern was over in England having talks with Blair over the Peace Process he and his Fianna Fail cronies got in to a little pickle over Cromwell.
When New Labour got in into Downing Street,to show their revolutionary credentials,they hung a picture of Cromwell up in some room and low and behold Bertie is sitting there and spots it and goes spare...left the room and refused to enter the room until it was removed and Mr Blair happily obliged and took it down.
Sure did Bertie not know big Oliver was a Republican like himself

The story I read was that it was Albert Reynolds and John Major. Major had no idea of Irish history ( and had the decency to admit same to Reynolds ). Reynolds gave him a brief synopsis and Major had the painting taken down.

There is also the extract below from an piece in the Indo mentioning that it was indeed Bertie.

Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú is the man behind Cromwell’s conquest of the
airwaves, the co-creator of the TV series and writer of the book upon
which it is based. I meet Dr Ó Siochrú, who is also a lecturer in
Trinity’s History department, to discuss the leader’s legacy, the
problems of history and Bertie’s spontaneous attack of militancy. “Well
he said it might not have happened exactly as I recorded,” Ó Siochru
laughs. “Bertie explained that, while there was no walkout from Robin
Cook’s office, there was an ‘exchange’ over the portrait, during which
he made his views known in a forceful manner.” What exactly that
entailed we can only imagine, but Bertie seems eager to endorse
Cromwellian debate. Most recently, he presided over the Book launch of
God’s Executioner, held in the Long Room last month.

We've gone from a feckin rugby match to Cromwell and the peace process!

Why would you want to change things,

It's like having a normal conversation innit?

Thats it Cam, Normal, Can you imagine in real life staying on topic, Never get anywhere, What would you like for tea ? Err Il have Chic Ken, Ok, Oh by the way so and so called today, Really what did he want, Excuse me can we change topic to Surprise caller, Oh, Ok, Well he called to tell me aww feck off, It would never work, I wouldnt bother speaking,

I used to Live in Cromwell road :Not me Guv: also took a barge out of Rugby on the canals around that area.
Is this the barge holiday topic?

Topdog wrote:I used to Live in Cromwell road also took a barge out of Rugby on the canals around that area.
Is this the barge holiday topic?

You're name isn't Fred West is it????

No Rose.

Didnt they recover that ship from the deep, I remember watching that on tv, Babcock engineering built a frame to lift it out of the water, Just as it was coming out something snapped and made a right arse of it, I thought i bet they wish there name wasnt on that fiasco,

The Mary Rose

BRILLIANT REGINAL(D)

I was crying typing that,

Actually good on D for grabbing it, not many would, even on here.

Yeh, He's sharp, For an irish man, He should move down south with you lot, I mean if you can earn a living he should breeze it,