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Angela can keep her ashes, elsewhere it was all cosy coddle
Miriam Lord
November 28 2001 12:11 AM
AS THE cognoscenti will tell you, a coddle is a boiled fry.
It is a true sign of maturity when you can eat one without making a distasteful remark about the colour of the sausages.
Honest to goodness coddle was on the menu in the Fado Restaurant in Dublin's Mansion House last night, and the huge and well-heeled attendance tucked in with gusto.
Probably thought they were eating a French cassoulet without the beans - so it was acceptable.
Bill Cullen is a living testament to the benefits of coddle. A strapping man, he grew up in working class Dublin in a bijou apartment. Only then they were known as tenements.
Many years on, a successful and rich man, he read Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and got very annoyed.
As he said at the packed launch of his book about his childhood, "the county I had been raised in had been insulted. We were all very happy in the inner city, we had nothing - but so had everybody else. We didn't know any better." So Bill, while not minimising the material hardships he experienced during his upbringing in a family of 14 during the 1940s, decided to write his own memoirs - It's a Long Way from Penny Apples.
It's a rags to Renault story - Bill is now chairman and owner of the French car distributors in Ireland. Bertie Ahern was enchanted by the book, so he came along to give it his official blessing.
"A very funny book, a great read and a wonderful chronicle of times past," said the Taoiseach, coming over all nostalgic in front of a packed audience of Bill's friends and supporters.
All royalties from sales are going to the Irish Youth Council. After three days, the book had to go into a reprint, and copies are flying out of the shops. Bertie, described by the night's master of ceremonies, David Norris, as "a great Northsider and a great Taoiseach" waxed lyrical about the Dubs being a courageous, fair-minded and determined people" and then he lapsed into reminiscing about the great characters of a bygone city. "I had the great pleasure to meet Bang Bang before he passed away," he sighed.
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And then, copping onto the fact that his audience were not all north inner city stock, he sniffed: "for those of you who are more blessed to live in the more affluent parts of Dublin, I think you should read it".
Bill's Ma was a fruit dealer, his Da worked on the docks. The title of the book comes from the time his late Ma Mary - a central figure in his memoirs and a rock in his life - read in the newspapers about her son borrowing £18,000 to buy the Renault dealership. "God bless you, son, now that's a long way from penny apples," sez she.
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And der wasn't a girly muscley leg in sight or a dry eye in the house.....no...indeedin der wasn't!!
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And der wasn't a girly muscley leg in sight or a dry eye in the house.....no...indeedin der wasn't!!
Beertie Aheern is the kiss of death for business. Fadó restaurant = gone. Le Bill's Jam jars = gone. That cab company...I can't remember the name off hand... 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vMgU23qFA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vMgU23qFA) 8)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiDy2sk-gqc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiDy2sk-gqc)
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Shite n' Onions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh_luDBeQiE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh_luDBeQiE) rofl
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And poor ould Doctor Bill lost his bollo on Renault then a Hotel in Kerry and then a car dealership on the Naas Rd,muscly thighs and all...
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Last o de Sang Yongs.....get yer Sang Yongs......tree for turty grand!!
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Last o de Sang Yongs.....get yer Sang Yongs......tree for turty grand!!
It's a long way from Renault apples! 8)
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Or Dr Bill might do ye a deal....9 grand each....or tree for turty!!
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Or Dr Bill might do ye a deal....9 grand each....or tree for turty!!
As Ermy might say: Time to get Megane. 8)
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Even his hen getting a hard time of it..
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finance-firm-drives-jackie-lavin-to-high-court-over-dublin-car-business-fwgrk9222 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finance-firm-drives-jackie-lavin-to-high-court-over-dublin-car-business-fwgrk9222)
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Even his hen getting a hard time of it..
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finance-firm-drives-jackie-lavin-to-high-court-over-dublin-car-business-fwgrk9222 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finance-firm-drives-jackie-lavin-to-high-court-over-dublin-car-business-fwgrk9222)
It's De Beertie Factor!
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Even his hen getting a hard time of it..
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finance-firm-drives-jackie-lavin-to-high-court-over-dublin-car-business-fwgrk9222 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finance-firm-drives-jackie-lavin-to-high-court-over-dublin-car-business-fwgrk9222)
https://extra.ie/2021/10/28/property/bill-cullen-jackie-lavin-kerry-home (https://extra.ie/2021/10/28/property/bill-cullen-jackie-lavin-kerry-home)
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Just can't catch a break..
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ)
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Just can't catch a break..
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ)
The Judge was very generous seeing as the two wing mirrors collided.
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Not that long since Mr. Cullen was taking investment advice from the erm... ah well!
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Just can't catch a break..
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ)
NOT Lavin all de way to de bank..an' dash! 8)
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Just can't catch a break..
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-and-used-abusive-language-towards-driver-of-van-her-car-collided-with-court-told-41021939.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3dVMni4HWKCZ7w4_ijTW2gtpVk3LIgR0XcsWK_bGrPcFl15IsP9mhxOiQ)
The Judge was very generous seeing as the two wing mirrors collided.
Two wing mirrors and a girl in hospital (https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/van-drivers-child-12-was-in-vehicle-while-businesswoman-jackie-lavin-swore-after-crash-court-told-41021303.html)... but, yeah, it was generous.
He and his daughter had attended the accident and emergency department of Tallaght Hospital where Alannah’s leg had been put in a tubi-grip with a recommendation to take pain killers.
Mr Graham said he had injured his shoulder, neck and lower back in the accident and suffered symptoms for four years afterwards. He was now fully recovered. His daughter had sued Lavin, Cullen and Warrior Actions through her mother Charlene Gunning who gave evidence of the effects of the accident on her daughter.
Judge Berkeley said Alannah had been involved in a very nasty accident and had developed travel anxiety and other complaints that had affected her education and were ongoing. She had unfortunately, as a six-year-old, witnessed the swearing incident with her father immediately after the collision.
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It says that Jackie Lavin is (75)….Jeys she is the best lookin 75 year old I ever saw, ::fuck
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Maybe praise the plastic surgeon.....no amount of vitalift facial kit could keep a face as smooth as a baby's arse.....maybe it is a baby's arse!!
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Whoops!…I saw a close up!
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It says that Jackie Lavin is (75)….Jeys she is the best lookin 75 year old I ever saw, ::fuck
IT'S ALL A LOADA BOTOX 8)
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An Bill is 80 now
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An Bill is 80 now
Indeedin he is.....but with a lad of a 18yr old!!!
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an JACKI Lappin it up