Paric Colum’s Diary
The man himself
Racism, Money and the United States.
Tom Nee of the Immigration Resistance Movement has produced a charming manifesto outling his manifold objections to multiculturalism. He eschews much of a the genteel language on the subject, its fair to say. Tom’s manifesto is a gripping read, the reviewer hasn’t seen such raw, unfettered anger and breathless panic pouring off a page since he read Mein Kampf for the third time. Tom’s movement ( The IRM for short) have one confirmed member, a figure which includes Tom himself. Tom Nee, or someone of the same name, ran in the 2004 County Council elections in the Ballymahon electoral area, securing a (usually considered small, but in this case) dismayingly large tally of thirty-four votes.
Glum-ish times for Irish soccer as the World Cup Qualifiers began with something of a whimper with a hardly resounding win over the mighty Kazakhstan. Giovanni Trappatoni is losing players at a rate of knots and with each passing hour the situation in Irish football is beginning to resemble more and more the Cork hurling dressing room. All the while, John Delaney’s salary remains a point of contention. He defends his 375,000 on the grounds that he would make more elsewhere. He refuses to specify where it is he would make all this money. Presumably his role with the FAI is the only thing preventing John inventing the next Facebook and becoming a tech billionaire.
For some reason, what is now universally termed as Michael D’s ‘smackdown’ of a US Tea Partier on the George Hook show, has gone viral a full two years after the exchange occurred. Clearly there’s a decent sized lag in stuff happening here gaining traction elsewhere or perhaps maybe American news outlets are just beginning to trawl through the Irish archives. Either way, I confidently predict that in a years time Brian Lenihan Snr’s ‘On mature recollection’ interview will dominate the US airwaves. In two years time everyone will be up in arms over Albert Reynolds calling one of Dessie O’Malley’s statements ‘crap, total crap.’ By 2015 the phrase GUBU will have entered the American political lexicon. And in 2016, Aslan’s classic ‘This is’ will be the most downloaded song in America.
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Saturday 25 May 2013
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