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thinks it's all over!
It isn't...................!
It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings
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| Exclusive
to Mad-as-Hell.Com, by Abigail Pope |
 We at Mad-as-Hell.Com,
rarely have any sympathy with those who
drink and drive, as regular readers know
well; even when those concerned aren't
necessarily over the legal limit.
Generally, we'd have even less sympathy
for such drivers if they're members of
the Garda Siochana (the Irish police
farce), and less again if they've
previously been in a serious accident,
resulting in a loss of limb. But, in the
case of Garda David Charlton, husband of
Mary 'the babe' Coughlan, Ireland's
Minister for Social Welfare, we're going
to make a rare exception.
Spotting him taking a couple of jars
before driving to his local supermarket
for a couple of bottles of wine and some
groceries, presumably in preparation for
a night alone, while his wife was hard at
work in Dublin, attending to her
political duties, was more than enough to
melt the heart of your humble
co-columnist.
You'd think on that big salary, she'd
employ a housekeeper to look after his
needs while she's away..
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afraid....... be very afraid |
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 One of the regular
advertisments that appear in the local
Donegal press, for cures for anything
from angina, asthma, internal bleeding
and deppression. They claim to be able to
stop bleeding, or remove particles from
your eyes, by you just making a phone
call. As you can see, they also claim
good results.... on sheep.
On a lighter note, Mad-as-Hell.Com has
learned that it's localy believed that at
least two public health nurses in Donegal
are involved in similar activities... |
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 A
slap in the face
For those of you interested in the 'punch
in the face' article, in our last edition, where
we told you about a 6 year old girl being verbaly
abused, and her father being threatened with a
punch in the face by her school bus driver, get a
load of this...
"We won't be apologising .... if you want an
apology, take it up with the driver
yourself" .... "We won't be sacking or
disciplining the driver in any way"
Sligo Area Manager, Bus Eireann, via telephone.
"If
a Hair on the Head of one Iraqi Child is
Harmed - Bush and Blair Must Be Indicted
for crimes against humanity"
© Donegal Times See www.donegaltimes.com for full text |
That's
what the Donegal's 'community newspaper'
and mutual masturbation aid for Donegal
Town area businesses and personalities,
the Donegal Times, said about the war on
Iraq on its front page, recently.
You'd think they'd have more sense, what
with Donegal Town in serious economic
decline at the moment, with shop after
shop, closing, one local factory already
forced to lay off staff and the other
major (US owned) factory, by no means
safe, due to it being said by some to
have threatened to close if its workforce
didn't stop complaining about the 30%
difference in pay between it and its
sister factory, in Sligo. Are they really
so arrogant that they can afford to risk
upsetting one of their main economic
neccesities; the American tourist?
Donegal's association with terrorists has
long been embarrassment enough, without
further risking one of our main economic
mainstays. Editors note: Whatever you do,
don't mention the serial killer
suspicions |
Dana insults her
supporters
 Donegal's
member of the European Parliament,
Catholic fundamentalist fanatic, Dana,
has got her knickers in a knot again. This
time, she's annoyed about what Ocean FM,
the consortium attempting to take over
the local radio franchise for Donegal,
Sligo and Leitrim, from the dire North
West Radio, had to say about their
listeners. Ocean had described NWR
listeners as "old, lacking
aspiration, conservative, retired,
unemployed, and coming from a lower
social class". Cunningly leaving
Donegal out of her statement, she said,
that the comments in relation to the
people who listen to North West Radio was
"arrogance in the extreme and a
major insult to many people in Sligo and
Leitrim."
What we at Mad-as-Hell.Com would like to
know is, why is she insulting the very
people who elected her as their MEP?
What's wrong with being old, lacking
aspiration, conservative, retired,
unemployed, and coming from a lower
social class?
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You couldn't make this
up
Ireland's Freedom of Information
Act is under attack from the government, which
intends to limit its scope, and
dramatically raise the the cost of access
to what remains of publicly available
information.
What are they trying to hide?
Perhaps things like the 60 euro a day,
Bertie Ahern, our Prime Minister spends
on make up, which was exposed by an FOI
request.
Hear the
one.....
......About the drunken Donegal
vandal who broke into premises, but
after doing the business, couldn't find
their way out, and telephoned the gardai
for help?
.....Or the Donegal garda's son who got
caught on camera with a stolen car?
.....Or the one about the Donegal
politician, allegedly stabbed by one of
his 'stray boys' in a Savident type
incident?
Didn't think so, and you probably won't.
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Devine intervention
 The peace and
tranquility of Dunfanaghy, County
Donegal, a popular holiday
destination, has been shattered after an
angry Catholic businessman, claimed the
town had been invaded by Northern Irish
protestants.
Publican Daniel Devine was so pissed at
this invasion, that he painted a Union
Jack accross the front of his pub (piss
poor effort, as you can see from the
picture) and erected a sign which says:
'A Protestant town for a Protestant
people.'
The protest apparently springs from a
planning decision, that he says went
against him, due to his religion, and he
says it's not a sectarian protest.
Mr Devine is also a property developer,
responsable for building lots of holiday
homes for Northern Irish protestants. I
suppose he thinks he isn't a hypocrite,
either.
What a wanker
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Irish airline exposed
promoting terrorism
The Irish national airline, Aer Lingus,
has been exposed as having an in flight
radio channel devoted to
terrorist hate anthems, sung by Wolfe
Tones hate band's Derek Warfield, such
as, 'Remember Bobby Sands', 'Ten Dead
Men,' 'Volunteers of Ireland' and
'Fighting Irish', on one of their
transatlantic flights. This was
discovered by Northern Irish Unionist
politician, Roy Beggs, who immediately
made a complaint, which resulted in the
channel being removed from all flights.
We'd like to know why it took the
intervention of a foreign politician to
remove such unsuitable material, and why
apparently no-one else had complained
previously.
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 Naked justice
A Dublin lap dancing club has had its
licence withdrawn after a court
was told that illegal sexual activity had
taken place there. In the Dublin District
Court, Judge Michael 'alley cat'
Connellan found that this went beyond any
definition of dancing, when gardai gave
evidence that a man had groped a
lap-dancer. The distinguished justice who
once was reported as saying, during a
judgement in a public disorder case, that
he did not blame the defendant for
hitting a woman, and went on to complain
about women "acting like alley cats
and fighting like savages".
Interestingly, a couple of years ago, he
allowed a Donegal night club to remain
open, despite convicitions for
overcrowding.
Looks like nude women are a bigger danger
to the public than illegal overcrowding.
Ireland's
economic collapse put into perspective
 A Waterford County
Councillor has called on the
government to introduce an outright ban
on chewing gum before "our country
is destroyed with it".
Fianna Fail cllr, Geoff Power went on to
say, "It is scandalous, our country
is destroyed with it"'
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 Bastard does it again!
Jim 'bastard' McDaid, the Donegal
minister, who called for an amnesty
for welfare fraudsters, but condemned
those who had committed suicide as
"selfish bastards" has done it
again, by stating in a local radio
interview, that he would have no problem
in refueling Iraqi aircraft in Ireland,
if they were en-route to attack the USA.
"So long as they are part of the
United Nations, we would refuel
them".
Let's all hope he was just taking the
piss, like his son was, when he was
sentenced to 3 months in a British jail,
for a hoax terrorist bomb scare.
 Sorry justice
Judge John Neilan has had to appologise
for remarks he made during a shoplifting
case involving two foreign women, when he
said, the majority of shopping centres in
his District Court area would be putting
a ban of access to what he described as
coloured people "if this type of
behaviour did not stop"......
"There are people in this State who
have worked all of their lives and they
don't, in their old-age pension, have the
benefits these ladies have" ....
"The majority of shopping centres in
this District Court area will be putting
a ban of access to coloured people if
this type of behaviour does not stop...
"We give them dignity and respect,
and the first thing they do is engage in
criminal activity..... "All you are
asked to do is conduct yourselves as any
other citizen in this state. You have let
your countrymen and women down, and it's
just a pity that a few like you can
malign so many."
Strange then that the judge didn't have
similar comments when sitting in Donegal,
and heard much evidence regarding
defendants who were up on motoring
offences, who claimed to be 'unemployed'
and on means tested state benefits.
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| No room at
Ireland's inn? |
| Bollocks! |
We've got
thousands of homeless, living on the
streets, in Ireland. Some are forecasting
that it will take 30 years, at the
present rate of building, before our
waiting lists for social housing
are dealt with. And yet, people are able
to come over to Ireland, from places like
England, after selling their own homes,
living the high life on the proceeds,
while applying for SI council houses to
be built on plots of land that they
purchase.
We aren't saying it's illegal, although
if it isn't, it should be.
Sharp practices have been traditional in
Ireland's social housing system. Most
notably, during the time our economy was
in an abyss, with cut-backs here, there
and everywhere (even worse than the
situation, now) it was apparently as easy
as accidentally meeting a TD's secretary
on the ferry, while returning home after
a holiday in Ireland, to be told that all
you needed was an Irish address, and a
plot of land, to be able to have a
council house built for you here. Being
resident in the country didn't matter,
and some, we've been told, continued to
work and live in Britain, before getting
the call that their houses were
completed, and making the move to their
new country, and a life of unemployed
prosperity.
Of course, such things don't happen now
(well, we hope they don't) but having
thousands of your own citizens living on
the streets, while providing brand new
homes for those not in any need, is bad
enough.
You won't hear of many complaining about
this, but you will hear plenty of
complaints about asylum seekers sponging
off the system. Or to describe them more
accurately, poor black buggers, running
for their lives, willing to work and
actually contribute to the country, but
who aren't allowed to.
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Could this be true? And
if so, why?
Sources have told Mad-as-Hell.Com
that the Donegal County Council
offices car park in Lifford, is full of
Northern Ireland registered cars.
Asylum seekers
profit from Ireland's rising unemployment
Ireland's rising unemployment
figures have led to the
government reducing the admission of
legal foreign workers. Unfortunately, in
Donegal, where there's still a need for
such workers, despite it being the county
with the highest unemployment in the
country, some employers have had to take
matters into their own hands and are said
to be illegaly employing asylum seekers. [Ed
note: we at Mad-as-.Hell.Com strongly
believe that asylum seekers should have
the legal right to work]
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 From the ridiculous, to
the clinicaly insane
Donegal's 'community' newspaper,
the Donegal Times, has run a
front page article requesting that
the Irish and British Prime Ministers
tell US president, George W Bush, to end
his plans to invade Iraq. If you're
against the war, reading this from the
US, and intend to visit our country and
stay in a Donegal Town hotel, you should
know that the two main hotels in the town
are owned by the proprietor of the
newspaper in question. While we ourselves
can see the wisdom of both sides, we
don't bite the hand that feeds us. (other
than the Dept of Social Welfare)
Also worth a mention, is our most popular
member of parliament in the Donegal SW
constituency, Pat 'idiot name' Gallagher,
who wrote a hillarious letter to the
newspaper's letter page, saying that he'd
brought the matter of this article to the
attention of the Irish Prime Minister.
Pat's credentials for supporting the
peaceful resolution of conflict, were
established when he married his wife, a
convicted terrorist.
Meanwhile, airline security
inconveniences appear to have been
relaxed, as a reliable source has told
Mad-as-Hell.Com, that a passenger on an
Aer Lingus flight from New York to
Ireland, was allowed to carry a largish
pane of glass on board the plane, as
cabin baggage.
Sickening story
One out of every five members of the
Gardai (the Irish police farce) are suing
for compensation for injuries
received while carrying out their duties.
Serious injuries have been reported by
the press, such as the trauma of being
vomited over, while making an arrest.
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 New
Irish political site, with info on
political parties and politicians. All
you need to know to get you started on
the road to being as mad as hell. |
If it walks like a duck?
Galway
County Council has announced that from
now on, planning permission in
an Irish speaking part of the county,
will now only be granted to speakers of
the Irish language. They say it isn't a
racist move, because anyone can learn to
speak Irish.
Well, if it walks like a duck, quacks
like a duck, smells like a duck, looks
like a duck and craps like a duck, it is
a bloody duck.... and a racist one at
that. |
Taxpayer's money well
spent?
Good to see our public
representitives have tightened their
financial belts in this time of national
financial crisis. During the
recent publicity stunt, which saw the
Irish cabinet meeting in Glenveigh Castle
in Donegal, the ministers travelled by
air, to Donegal (OK, now, don't laugh)
'International' Airport. No doubt, to
save the expense of hireing chauffer
driven limos to the castle, the
ministers' ministerial cars were driven
all the way from Dublin to pick them up
from, and then return them to the
airport, before being driven back, empty,
to Dublin.
Then, of course, there was the small
matter of the table.
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Poor judgement?
A 27-year-old woman who threw a
cream pie at the Taoiseach before
the General Election has agreed to do
community service rather than go to jail.
Bairbre Flood, of Ballinacarrow, County
Sligo, pleaded guilty to a public order
offence after she struck our Bertie with
a pie in Sligo, in April.
Judge Oliver McGuinness said this was no
run of the mill public order offence, and
that it was premeditated and an attack on
democracy and society.
What we at Mad-as-Hell.Com would like to
know, is what does this judge call the
lies and deceipt, used by Ahern and his
cronies, in order to win the election?
Lies, such as saying that the economy was
sound. So sound, that effective drugs for
cancer patients are now being withheld,
in health service cutbacks.
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 Bugger the little
children to come unto me
The news that the ex-chaplain from a
Donegal school, was a paedophile, came as
no surprise to us, when he was
recently named in the national press.
Sentenced to 3 years for serious sexual
offences, committed over 20 years ago,
back in 2000, his victims wanted him
named and shamed, and the gardai have now
asked for anyone who was abused by him,
to now come forward. Shame that they
didn't have the same attitude, well over
20 years ago, when it was well known that
something was amiss. Shame the school in
question didn't do something, despite the
talk circulating of certain
irregularities concerning Doherty in the
classroom. But then, at the time, as well
as some dedicated teachers, the school
staff included a motley crew of ******, terrorist sympathisers and a
senior member of staff who allegedly
continued to physically abuse pupils
almost (if not until) his recent
retirement.
As for the local Catholic hierachy,
little seems to have changed, with the
news that the Bishop of Raphoe, Philip
Boyce, was allowing priests to continue
their work, despite claims of abuse being
lodged. Boyce, you may recall, from
previous editions, was the bishop who
called for a no vote in the first Treaty
of Nice referendum, on the grounds that
it would introduce abortion into Ireland.
Do we have to wait for the time when
clerical paedophiles figure out a way to
roger un-born foetuses up the arse, while
still in the womb, before the Church in
Ireland and elsewhere starts taking the
whole thing seriously?
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 A punch in the face
An anti-bullying programme piloted among
800 children at primary schools in
Donegal has resulted in a drop of a
quarter in the incidence of bullying at
the schools. Excellent news, but one
concerned Donegal parent of young
children thinks the campaign didn't go
far enough. When interviewed by
Mad-as-Hell.Com, he told us about his 6
year old girl, being subjected to verbal
abuse when on the school bus. He told us
that complaints were made last year, to
the company which ran the service, that
his daughter had been given the same
abuse, and that he, a parent, himself had
even been told to stay away from the bus.
As recently as last month, he complained
that he'd been threatened with a punch in
the face, and was again told to stay away
from the bus (and this time, by the
company running the service).
We can't help wondering, if such things
occured on regular bus services, to both
children and their parents, if such
complaints of bullying by the drivers
would be taken more seriously by the
company concerned.
This one's still playing out, we'll be
back with more.
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