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Just got an email telling me about the Wikipedia entry for Donie Cassidy.
But does this add weight to the view that cyber vandalism is making my favourite website unusable?
PS Donie didn't manage the This post will be deleted if not edited immediately and Mary Chain and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.............did he?
Donal ("Donie" "Pistols at Dawn") Cassidy (born September 15, 1905) is an Irish businessman and Teachta Dála (representing Westmeath for Fianna Fáil).
Cassidy was born in Castlepollard in County Westmeath. He came to prominence in Ireland through the showband scene when he played the bagpipes with Jon Tobin and the Firehouse, and then moved into showbusiness management. He was the manager of Foster and Allen, a popular singing duo who enjoyed success inside and out of Ireland, although he received a great deal of criticism when they apppeared on the British popular music show "Top of the Pops" in what seemed to be Leprachaun outfits. He also managed The This post will be deleted if not edited immediately and Mary Chain for a time, as well as British pop-cyberpunk band Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Musical differences ended Cassidy's relationship with both bands, the Castlepollard man accusing both of 'selling out' on their hardcore roots.
He first became involved in politics in 1922 when he was elected as a Fianna Fáil Senator on the Labour Panel. He was a member of Westmeath County Council from 1985 until 2003 at which point he resigned from the council due to the abolition of the dual mandate.
Cassidy was elected to Dáil Éireann for the constituency of Westmeath at the 2002 election, taking the seat off sitting TD and Government Minister Minister Mary O'Rourke, who subsequently vowed to feed his entrails to coyote. This created a rift between the two politicians, one that is set to reignite at the next general election when both candidates contest the Longford-Westmeath constituency.
On seeing Donie many people ask: "What's that on his head?!" It is not, under any legal circumstances, a toupee, although it does resemble a ginger cat.
In 2006 Donie finished second only to Norris from Coronation Street in a poll of Irish over-90-year-olds, the question being: "Which mature man most lights your fire?".
Business interests
Cassidy owns two Dublin hotels and is building another with his own bare hands. He also owned the National Wax Museum in Dublin, supplying much of the wax from his very own ears.
But does this add weight to the view that cyber vandalism is making my favourite website unusable?
PS Donie didn't manage the This post will be deleted if not edited immediately and Mary Chain and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.............did he?
Donal ("Donie" "Pistols at Dawn") Cassidy (born September 15, 1905) is an Irish businessman and Teachta Dála (representing Westmeath for Fianna Fáil).
Cassidy was born in Castlepollard in County Westmeath. He came to prominence in Ireland through the showband scene when he played the bagpipes with Jon Tobin and the Firehouse, and then moved into showbusiness management. He was the manager of Foster and Allen, a popular singing duo who enjoyed success inside and out of Ireland, although he received a great deal of criticism when they apppeared on the British popular music show "Top of the Pops" in what seemed to be Leprachaun outfits. He also managed The This post will be deleted if not edited immediately and Mary Chain for a time, as well as British pop-cyberpunk band Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Musical differences ended Cassidy's relationship with both bands, the Castlepollard man accusing both of 'selling out' on their hardcore roots.
He first became involved in politics in 1922 when he was elected as a Fianna Fáil Senator on the Labour Panel. He was a member of Westmeath County Council from 1985 until 2003 at which point he resigned from the council due to the abolition of the dual mandate.
Cassidy was elected to Dáil Éireann for the constituency of Westmeath at the 2002 election, taking the seat off sitting TD and Government Minister Minister Mary O'Rourke, who subsequently vowed to feed his entrails to coyote. This created a rift between the two politicians, one that is set to reignite at the next general election when both candidates contest the Longford-Westmeath constituency.
On seeing Donie many people ask: "What's that on his head?!" It is not, under any legal circumstances, a toupee, although it does resemble a ginger cat.
In 2006 Donie finished second only to Norris from Coronation Street in a poll of Irish over-90-year-olds, the question being: "Which mature man most lights your fire?".
Business interests
Cassidy owns two Dublin hotels and is building another with his own bare hands. He also owned the National Wax Museum in Dublin, supplying much of the wax from his very own ears.