Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on June 14, 2020, 08:14:08 am
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Big Dommo .Tommy Two Fingers ,Billy The Bastard ,Meself and Sharon Muddyman were having a few cans last night in the Playground in the Flats now that the Corpo reopened them .A few youngfellas came over to join us as they like to learn stuff from us oldtimers .Larry Byrnes youngfella ,the one with the tattoo on his neck was wondering what would some of the Statues around Dublin be worth for scrap .He is a real deep thinker because he then says I wonder would you get more in scrap value for a statue or would you of gotten more for a slave .What im saying really is a statue worth more than a life .So I said to him .You are attending Trinity College .It was built by the British to spread Britains version of Education and History it was a Bastion of British oppression educating Protestants to oppress Irish Catholics .Is its value today to Irish Society effected by its past and as it is a Monument to that past should we tear it down or do you limit your disgust of the past to just a few statues for effect .Reflecting Deeply on the Substance of my argument he asks How much is lead a Kilo now in the scrap yard .
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I wonder was it Dommo and the crew who keep vandalizing Lukes statue ?
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To much class for that Dollyer .Luke is vandalised as that Statue represents the States Failure to protect Life .Read Leo in the Paper complaining about Danny the Boxer and how he is responsible for Multi Murders .There is a Man who when he looks out his front Window has a clear view of the Statue .There have been multiple attempts to kill this man and people have been Jailed for his Attempted Murder .The State have a responsibility to Protect life .How are they Protecting the Number one target in the Country from an assassins Bullett when they cant even mind a Statue in his front Garden .
The defacing of that Statue is a Protest to Garda and State indifference to protection of life .All Irish Government Ministers have a Protection Detail yet Michael Collins is probably the Last Government Minister clipped in Ireland .There is more to the Defacing of Luke than the fact it is a shite statue .
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Yes it is obviously politically motivated.it is suspected by a few locals who is doing it,but certain people are afraid to become involved because they are on TR themselves
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A can of spray keeps the Gunmen away .Gards drive by more regularly to catch the painter so certain bogies avoid the area .Cause and effect Dalymount .
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Not a big fan of the statue removal frenzy
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Not a big fan of the statue removal frenzy
Its all bollox somebody always offends somebody .James Joyce is now a great Writer he use to be a Pornographer .
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He used to be a prick with a stick
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Not a big fan of the statue removal frenzy
Its all bollox somebody always offends somebody .James Joyce is now a great Writer he use to be a Pornographer .
"The Pornographer" by John Mc Gahern, a great read. The best man to come out of Leitrim.
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Not a big fan of the statue removal frenzy
Its all bollox somebody always offends somebody .James Joyce is now a great Writer he use to be a Pornographer .
"The Pornographer" by John Mc Gahern, a great read. The best man to come out of Leitrim.
The Dark ..
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Not a big fan of the statue removal frenzy
Its all bollox somebody always offends somebody .James Joyce is now a great Writer he use to be a Pornographer .
"The Pornographer" by John Mc Gahern, a great read. The best man to come out of Leitrim.
The Dark .., The Barracks, Amongst Women, That they may face the rising sun.. He has some wonderful turns of phrase within his books, and without them.
"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not."
John McGahern
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Not a big fan of the statue removal frenzy
We removed all the empire statues back in devs day
A huge statue of queen Victoria in trinity but we didn't wreck it we gave it to Scotland
The only 2 we wrecked was Nelson's pillar and a statue of a lord on a horse in Phoenix park
Most other s were graciously repatriated
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Most other s were graciously repatriated
And we probably paid for the shipping aswell!!
"C'mon..one more time.....Come out ye black n tans..."
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Not a big fan of the statue removal frenzy
We removed all the empire statues back in devs day
A huge statue of queen Victoria in trinity but we didn't wreck it we gave it to Scotland
The only 2 we wrecked was Nelson's pillar and a statue of a lord on a horse in Phoenix park
Most other s were graciously repatriated
A taxi union rep was associated with Nelson's pillar bombing.
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The guy who pressed the contact button ...was from Crumblin,His swan song afer a few pints was interesting...R.I.P.
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The guy who pressed the contact button ...was from Crumblin,His swan song afer a few pints was interesting...R.I.P.
Allegedly....................(Dont quote me)
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Yes it is obviously politically motivated.it is suspected by a few locals who is doing it,but certain people are afraid to become involved because they are on TR themselves
Immigrants? The way things are going a white man with an afro could be racist?
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I guess so,Luke had an afro,only it was red
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I guess so,Luke had an afro,only it was red
Was ahead of his time and didn't even know it!! lol
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The guy who pressed the contact button ...was from Crumblin,His swan song afer a few pints was interesting...R.I.P.
Allegedly....................(Dont quote me)
Never knew that
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The guy who pressed the contact button ...was from Crumblin,His swan song afer a few pints was interesting...R.I.P.
Allegedly....................(Dont quote me)
Man who claims responsibility for blowing up Nelson's Pillar tells Liveline he only succeeded in doing it on his second attempt
Nelson's Pillar after the explosion, March 1966
Nelson's Pillar after the explosion, March 1966
John Brennan
March 08 2016 06:01 PM
Liam Sutcliffe, the man who claims responsibility for blowing up Nelson’s Pillar only succeeded in doing so on his second attempt.
Mr Sutcliffe claimed to have tried to blow it up for the first time on February 28, 1966.
“First time we tried it was the 28 February – it didn’t work and we went back the next morning and replaced it the following Monday… inside on the top of the pillar,” he said.
He explained that there were “six or seven people on the viewing platform” when he placed the bomb “inside on the top of the pillar”.
However, Richard Behal also claimed to have wanted to blow up the pillar before Mr Sutcliffe got there first.
“I had sussed it out… I had the plans for it,” he explained.
“I was on the run at the time from having escaped from Limerick prison,” he told RTE Radio One's Liveline.
Richard Behal claimed to have been in prison after been “accused of having used an anti-tank gun to attack a British warship in Waterford harbour”.
On the night the pillar was blown up, he claims to have been in a house in Ballyfermot – “I did not know that it was going to be bombed or that it had been bombed until my hostess came in and said ‘Oh my god Richard Nelson’s Pillar has been blown up’.
“I was elated, it was a job I had planned to do, I had actually taken engineering calculations – I wouldn’t have blown it exactly as it was blown – I had planned to do an upward blast at the feet of Nelson,” he explained.
Mr Behal was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the 1916 rising which he said was of “immense importance”.
Gerard Griffin who was a night porter in the Anchor Hotel on O’Connell street at the time remembered the night the pillar was blown up.
“There was a bang and a flash and you couldn’t see up or down North Frederick Street for smoke and dust.
“It was in the air for a couple of hours and when it cleared all you could see was people arriving on push bikes looking for bits of souvenirs.”
He added that he thought it was very lucky that no one had been hurt, “it was probably a miracle that no on was hurt,” Mr Griffin said.
Stephen Maughan was a taxi driver the night the pillar was blown up and was directly next to it when it detonated.
Now living in North Carolina, in the United States he told Liveline that he had been described as the “luckiest man to be alive in Dublin, in the Irish Independent the next morning”.
“The explosion went off above me, it blew a circle of flame around the pillar it started raining down pieces of the pillar and I got thrown around I drove over the pieces of granite.
“It was a carpet of one tonne or more rocks that came down – I was very lucky I got through,” he explained.
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Shower of bragging liars....... the lot of them?