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here's my little contribution to your cultural genocide of the feathered bird

IRISH QUOTES

man has been found dead stuffed into a briefcase floating on the Grand Canal
- Gardai are treating it as suspicious [RTE Radio 1 News July 2001]

"When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one."
[RTE Commentator George Hamilton]

"The referendum went as most people hoped it would." [Irish Times editorial]

"Clap your feet!"
[Bernie of the Nolan Sisters]

"He's pulling him off. The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!"
[George Hamilton as Butregueno comes off against Ireland]

"The idea is well and good in theory, but tell me this, who is going to feed
them?"
[Wicklow Councillor objects to a proposal to boost tourism by putting
gondolas on Blessington Lake]

"We are not prepared to stand idly by and be murdered in our beds." [Rev.
Ian Paisley]

"What we are doing is in the interest of everybody, bar possibly the
consumer."
[Aer Lingus spokesman]

"Deep down I'm a very shallow person." [Charles Haughey]

"I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it.
[Jack Charlton on hurling]

"Outside HIV in Grafton Street."
[Gay Byrne plugging Hothouse Flowers appearance]

CONCERNED RAPIST WORE A CONDOM [Evdning Herald]

SHARING THE BURDEN OF SCHIZOPHRENIA [Irish Tirnes]

DEAD MAN INJURED IN CRASH [Irish Times]


"A top level Garda internal inquiry is being held in Connemara into an
allegation that a local garda shot a cow  .... There has been no statement
from the cow."
[The Irish Press]

"I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out
now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And
they deserve it." [John B. Keanel

111 was called out to a non-existent phone call. When I returned 1 lifted my
glass, smelled and said 'My God, this is foul, it smells like piss'.
voice from the back called 'but whose?'"
[Wine connoisseur T. P. Whelehan at a tasting in Trinity College]

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"Ludicrous. Ridiculous."
[1989 edition of Collins Concise Dictionary defines the word 'Irish']

"Get married again."
[Charles Haughey to women asking for an increase in the widowslpension]

"I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough."
[Keith Duffy of Boyzone

"Bosco is a Bollox! Bosco is a Bollox!"
[What Zig and Zag were caught---shouting (with lan Dempsey laughing in
the background) when the cameras returned prematurely from a commercial
break during 'Dempsey's Den'. Zag was tossing the Bosco puppet around.

Larry Gogan: "With what town in Britain is Shakespeare associated?"
Contestant: "Hamlet"

Larry Gogan: "Name the BBC's Grand Prix commentator? hint. It's something
you suck" Contestant: "Oh, Dickie Davies"

Larry Gogan: "What was Jeeves' occupation?" Contestant: "He was a
carpenter."

Larry Gogan.. "Complete this well known phrase. - 'As happy as ...... hint
think of me."
Contestant: "A pig in shite."

Larry Gogan: (after a caller got none of 18 questions right on the Just a
Minute quiz) - "Ah sure the questions didn't really suit you did they?"
Caller: "Ah go fu*k off Larry you're only an old bollox."

Larry Gogan: "And who would you like to play the request for?" Caller:
"Meself"
Larry Gogan: "Any particular reason?"
Caller: "I got me first job yesterday"
Larry Gogan: "Oh, that's@nice, what was the job?" Caller. "A blow job!"
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a truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent
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