Ditch the Tricolour !!



I need a translator.
 
I like the flag and even if it gets replaced its not like it cant and wont be reproduced - I dont know if the con[fed]derate flag has any status anymore but those that hold it dear still wave it.
I left out the "fed". Mea culpa.
It never had any official status according to this.
 
An Post tried this a few years ago. Put the flag of Ivory Coast on Paddys day cards.
 
He writes for a few publications as far as I know. Which one are you referring to?
 
Please no more Kevin Myers links, keep his poison to that bigoted rag he writes on.
It's that bigoted rag or the biased, hypocritical morally superior one? Not much of a choice of Irish broad sheet daily’s is there?
 
Well, when you have Eoghan Harris writing glorious stories about our glorious leader, and then is appointed a senator, and gets even more poetical in his praise of our glorious leader, you have to raise an eyebrow
 
The words of Bob Geldofs old song comes to mind "Banana Republic ..."
 
Well, when you have Eoghan Harris writing glorious stories about our glorious leader, and then is appointed a senator, and gets even more poetical in his praise of our glorious leader, you have to raise an eyebrow

I know, it is a bit like what Hugo Chavez does but I don't have a huge problem with people who declare their biases. What gets to me is journalists who try to maintain a pretense of balance while their writing is blatantly biased.
For example I don't have a problem with the pontifications of Fintan O'Toole as he is open about his socialism and his dislike (or perhaps hatred is a better word?) of Fianna Fail and everything it stands for. Therefore when he writes from his position of Buddha-like enlightened moral perfection we at least know that since he has transcended our realm of human imperfection and so is simply trying to show us the way to a state of socialist rapture. If only all higher beings were as interventionist.
 
The media there is either a mouth piece for Hugo or for, in the majority of cases, the opposition. There is very little real independent reporting. That's according to a mate of mine from Caracas. I'm no expert o the region so I am open to correction.