There's a post below entitled Kept Catholics - 50 Years of the Chieftains.
I posted it on Ireland's two biggest online political discussion forums a few days ago.
http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?t=12261
and
http://www.politics.ie/
You can read the thread on the first link.
I have no idea whether you still can on the second link.
Because after some 500 views, I was informed of the following:
You have been banned for the following reason:
This account has been suspended.
Contact <info@politics.ie> for more information.
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
So I was granted a lifelong ban for the above rather eloquent reason that I hope is is as comprehensible to you as it is to me.
So I can't see if the post is still there. Nor do I know what the problem with it was.
Given some of the extremist rants that appear on politics.ie, one would be forgiven for thinking that one had fucked with something really important.
But what?
Who knows?
But when one sees what all the idiots have to say on the thread "Dublinistan" on the site run by David Cochrane, a man with dubious morals best known for the abject services he provided to that shyster Delcan Ganley, it's a case of who the fuck cares.
On arriving on the Irish political scene, Ganley -without the deep pockets that shysters of his ilk such as Rpuert Murdoch and Denis O Brien had - needed cheap adulation.
So to whom did he turn?
Cochrane of course.
Not that David told us this.
No. no.
He kept it silent.
Shame or a condition of payment?
Kiss and can't tell?
Who knows.
But , in the end, I thought it only polite to express my feelings about the gift this enlightened site had bequeathed me.
So here's the letter I wrote:
I posted it on Ireland's two biggest online political discussion forums a few days ago.
http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?t=12261
and
http://www.politics.ie/
You can read the thread on the first link.
I have no idea whether you still can on the second link.
Because after some 500 views, I was informed of the following:
You have been banned for the following reason:
This account has been suspended.
Contact <info@politics.ie> for more information.
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
So I was granted a lifelong ban for the above rather eloquent reason that I hope is is as comprehensible to you as it is to me.
So I can't see if the post is still there. Nor do I know what the problem with it was.
Given some of the extremist rants that appear on politics.ie, one would be forgiven for thinking that one had fucked with something really important.
But what?
Who knows?
But when one sees what all the idiots have to say on the thread "Dublinistan" on the site run by David Cochrane, a man with dubious morals best known for the abject services he provided to that shyster Delcan Ganley, it's a case of who the fuck cares.
On arriving on the Irish political scene, Ganley -without the deep pockets that shysters of his ilk such as Rpuert Murdoch and Denis O Brien had - needed cheap adulation.
So to whom did he turn?
Cochrane of course.
Not that David told us this.
No. no.
He kept it silent.
Shame or a condition of payment?
Kiss and can't tell?
Who knows.
But , in the end, I thought it only polite to express my feelings about the gift this enlightened site had bequeathed me.
So here's the letter I wrote:
To the man with the ban.
We all know you are free to do with your (competing) site as you wish.
As you are free to sell your services to the highest bidder should you so choose.
There is nothing new about this.
Or your having done so.
You merely join in a long list of those who have debased journalism by using it to provide camouflage for public relations.
Prostitution,and its media equivalent, is a pretty straightforward affair.
It only becomes problematic when the issue of payment is not clearly outlined in advance.
And when there is ambiguity over the actual range of services on offer.
There is little point in me reiterating all the controversies aroused by your servicing of the needs of your once paymaster, Declan Ganley.
If memory serves it was only when caught in flagrante delicto, that public was told the money on your bed side table was indeed Ganley's.
(Correct me if I am wrong here)
Bar adding further to the corrosion of the perception of both media and politics, the only real problem I had with your site's your moral frivolity was on the odd occasion when your political street walking directly crossed the path of my beliefs.
And when your servicing of your client's needs created what many deemed an unsightly vista.
It is curious, though, how your own ethos seems to embody the moral degeneration that many of the posters on your site attribute - with all the certainty of the hysterical - to immigrants.
"Dublinistan" indeed.
But I digress.
The real purpose of my call is to get you to pass on my thanks to your man Sync.
The ire of fools and the strictures of the blinkered have always provided one of the finest promotional tools around.
Where a moral mini skirt serves your needs, the outrage of the idiot and the bullying of the buffoon serves mine.
And for this I wish to say thanks.
A lifetime ban for a concert review.
That's the sort of accolade most reviewers dream of.
So I just want to avail of the freedom of this civilised space, which curiously had not problem at all with the same words, to say thanks to you, your site and, above all, to Sync's limitations.
Hopefully I can find a way to sneak around your ban so I can avail of your kind services in the future.
We all know you are free to do with your (competing) site as you wish.
As you are free to sell your services to the highest bidder should you so choose.
There is nothing new about this.
Or your having done so.
You merely join in a long list of those who have debased journalism by using it to provide camouflage for public relations.
Prostitution,and its media equivalent, is a pretty straightforward affair.
It only becomes problematic when the issue of payment is not clearly outlined in advance.
And when there is ambiguity over the actual range of services on offer.
There is little point in me reiterating all the controversies aroused by your servicing of the needs of your once paymaster, Declan Ganley.
If memory serves it was only when caught in flagrante delicto, that public was told the money on your bed side table was indeed Ganley's.
(Correct me if I am wrong here)
Bar adding further to the corrosion of the perception of both media and politics, the only real problem I had with your site's your moral frivolity was on the odd occasion when your political street walking directly crossed the path of my beliefs.
And when your servicing of your client's needs created what many deemed an unsightly vista.
It is curious, though, how your own ethos seems to embody the moral degeneration that many of the posters on your site attribute - with all the certainty of the hysterical - to immigrants.
"Dublinistan" indeed.
But I digress.
The real purpose of my call is to get you to pass on my thanks to your man Sync.
The ire of fools and the strictures of the blinkered have always provided one of the finest promotional tools around.
Where a moral mini skirt serves your needs, the outrage of the idiot and the bullying of the buffoon serves mine.
And for this I wish to say thanks.
A lifetime ban for a concert review.
That's the sort of accolade most reviewers dream of.
So I just want to avail of the freedom of this civilised space, which curiously had not problem at all with the same words, to say thanks to you, your site and, above all, to Sync's limitations.
Hopefully I can find a way to sneak around your ban so I can avail of your kind services in the future.
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