As opposed a reputable mafia film?they sound like characters from a dodgy mafia film.
I find more annoying when the media especially the tabloids give nicknames to criminals...e.g. maradona, etc..etc
He used to go around with chickens up his jumper.Pat "The Coop" Gallagher is another title that stuck well.
Does it bother anyone else the way the media keeps referring to Paddy Reilly as also Paddy the Plasterer when discussing the Tribunal into the Taoiseach's finances?
It's a nickname. It really annoys me the way the press latches on to these things like Mr Fahy down in Galway, they kept reporting him as "also known as The Stroke Fahy". It's a nickname and has no place in the news, it just makes these guys sound like harmless popular types and it's totally irrelevant anyway what their nickname is.
you could be rightAs for an "anti FF bias" maybe if they weren't so hooky in the first place, the media would leave them alone.
As I recall, "Paddy the Plasterer" was how Bertie referred to him in the Bryan Dobson interview. It was distinguish him from another Paddy Reilly who also contributed to the dig-out.
No, the one from Ballyjamesduff (or whatever it's called).Not Paddy The fields of Athenry Reilly surely
akathe name is
Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahern
according to wikipedia
Pat "The Coop" Gallagher is another title that stuck well.
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