The John Delaney Thread

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Originally Posted by Gather round

For me, McDonnell and any gobsh*te lauding him are fair game from a different point of view: they intimidated me out of home and primary school while habitually murdering Irish people.

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You've got a point, fair enough, but do you really think Delaney is advocating sectarianism/intimidation or lauding militant republicanism by singing a rebel ballad in the pub of a leafy Dublin suburb? I think he's just trying to be "one of the lads", and not doing a very good job of that either.

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Originally Posted by DeLorean

I just pictured Johnny Giles as an X Factor judge.

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Something for after the RTÉ gig is up, without doubt.

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

You've got a point, fair enough, but do you really think Delaney is advocating sectarianism/intimidation or lauding militant republicanism by singing a rebel ballad in the pub of a leafy Dublin suburb? I think he's just trying to be "one of the lads", and not doing a very good job of that either

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I imagine his interest in/ knowledge of McDonnell's career is roughly the same of the England fans at Celtic Park the other day, ie fcuk all. But he's not a dumb teenager, so aye to the latter at least.

What has suburban leafiness got to do with it. Are you an Irishtown estate agent?

Given what he'd probably been indulging in, we should be grateful for small mercies...

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Originally Posted by Gather round

What has suburban leafiness got to do with it. Are you an Irishtown estate agent?

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Come on GR, you know it paints a more harmless picture. If he had been singing in a run down alleyway in an unnamed part of town, broken glass on the ground, graffiti on the walls and a flagon of Linden Village in his hand, he'd clearly be a more hardcore sympathiser. The logic is flawed, however, as this time of year leaves are fairly scarce. :)

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Lads, there's a current affairs forum if you want to discuss the affiliation of various Irish folk songs, let's keep the discussion on Delaney here, ok?

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To clarify this, I'm not taking potshots at anyone in particular. The discusson on Joe McDonnell as sung by Delaney is fine, if you want to debate The Sash VS The Fields (or whatever tune) please move it to the current affairs forum

Yeah, but we can't all go on there...

Plus at least one person is exaggerating a good bit in this thread for 'effect'.

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Originally Posted by Gather round

What has suburban leafiness got to do with it. Are you an Irishtown estate agent?

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Haha, I mean it was bluster. Dublin 4 isn't the hardest of militant republican heartlands now. If he'd been stirring up emotions in the Felons in west Belfast, the context would be very different.

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Originally Posted by Gather round

What has suburban leafiness got to do with it. Are you an Irishtown estate agent?

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The area around Aviva stadium is usually referred to euphemistically as "leafy suburbs" by various broadsheets. Knowing Danny, it was probably tongue in cheek.

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Yeah, but we can't all go on there...

Plus at least one person is exaggerating a good bit in this thread for 'effect'.

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PM sent

Replied...

Meanwhile, back in the surreal world...
http://www.wsc.co.uk/forum-index/27-...rism-sinn-fein

I've been looking through a few John Delaney (drunk) videos on YouTube. Many of them are comical (strictly in a "laughing at" rather than a "laughing with" sense), but I still think this is my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_pMX_MvGM

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Meanwhile, back in the surreal world...
http://www.wsc.co.uk/forum-index/27-...rism-sinn-fein

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I'll just pluck this comment out of the pack there and post it here:

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I think the Freestaters are over-reacting a little. Is singing a Daniel O'Donnell cover really that bad?

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You have to guess who... :p

Don't encourage him...

Plus there's more than a whiff of hypocrisy about the whole thing.

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Wasn't it just a few posters in a John Delaney thread on YBIG? I'm not sure what its nature was exactly, but the whole thread was promptly deleted and a number of posters decided to make a donation to a charity of Emma English's choosing as a means of apology, as far as I know. The Irish Mirror (I think) was reporting there was abuse directed towards her on Twitter and Facebook, but I'm not even sure that was the case. Unpalatable stuff from a few pseudonymous unsavouries, certainly, but it's so obviously being slyly exploited by Delaney as a means to distract from genuine criticism. It's completely irrelevant to the clumsy sing-song matter and other concerns arising or outstanding regarding Delaney's fitness to run and represent the FAI in a professional and discerning manner, so it's frustrating to see it being used to help sweep genuine questions and potential ammunition for change under the carpet.

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I dont mind admitting i sent her a few tweets, not anything nasty, but from her page its obvious John the Baptist uses it as a defacto twitter account for himself, since he has no account or fbook page, and with the constant barrage in the Indo I think its fair game tbh

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The wolves gather around the victim. Will it escape?

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Originally Posted by GypsyBlackCat

The CEO of the Spanish FA and the Italian FA get €150,000 each. That's €250,000 extra a year Delaney gets! Why?

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Because this is Ireland. Duh!

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

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The wolves gather around the victim.

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The victim? That buffalo has a considerable amount of power. What was he doing anyway to get himself into such a precarious situation? Advertising himself to the pack in broad daylight on a snowy white plain? You'd have to think of him as rather foolish. He'd have been better searching for a drink in a more secluded spot.

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Will it escape?

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Probably. He'll live on another few years yet.

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

I dont mind admitting i sent her a few tweets, not anything nasty, but from her page its obvious John the Baptist uses it as a defacto twitter account for himself, since he has no account or fbook page, and with the constant barrage in the Indo I think its fair game tbh

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Nasty or not, are you proud of that? Whatever about Delaney, the woman has done nothing wrong yet she's being judged as culpable as her partner for what's gone on over the last few weeks
Have a look down through the list of messages she's received over the last few days here: https://twitter.com/search?q=to%3AEmmaKEnglish
Again, this woman has done nothing wrong, and certainly nothing that deserves some of those comments