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EVERY SATURDAY MORNING we take a look at all the best comments left on the site by our readers over the past seven days.
The sad passing of TV presenter Bill O’Herlihy and the success of the same-sex marriage referendum got a lot of you talking.
So here are the standout comments from the week that was.
The 5 most popular comments this week
1. Arthur Pewty paid a simple tribute to Bill O’Herlihy:
“Okey Doke, we’ll leave it there so” RIP Bill. :(
5,477 of you approved.
2. A lot of you - 5119- green-thumbed P O Leary.‘s comment, where he shared his negative experience at a recent communion.
Was at a communion two weeks ago and the local travellers ruined it for most people. Blocked the car park with the limos and filled half the seats in the church that was reserved for families(they refused to move)
The small traveller kids ran around the church screaming all during the service and the priest had to stop mass twice. They are a bloody disgrace. Sick of them.
Their response to everything is “that’s discrimination boss” as evident in that video.
3. The passing of the same-sex marriage referendum led Beano to ask an insightful question:
Does this mean we’re all gay now?
Well, does it? 3,636 of you want to know.
4. Roscommon/South Leitrim got a lot of slack for being the only constituency to vote down the marriage referendum. Here’s what Thenaked Goose made of the whole situation:
Because that’s how democracy works? Some agree, some disagree. There is such a thing as over analysing.
3,581 people agreed.
5. Plenty of you commented on an article about Guido Nasi, an Italian man paralysed after being attacked in Dublin. Some 2,490 of you liked danielplainview‘s two cents.
Words cant describe how much of a s(umbag his attacker is. Hes out now living his life while this poor soul is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Tragic.
The top 5 articles which received the most comments this week
1. Ireland has voted Yes to same-sex marriage (358 comments)
2. Poll: What issue would you like to see a referendum on next? (350 comments)
3. LIVE: Ireland is the talk of the world as voters decide on same-sex marriage (323 comments)
4. How did your constituency vote in the marriage referendum? (312 comments)
5. All the colours of the rainbow: The day Ireland made history (287 comments)
Standout comments of the week
There were some lovely offers of support for Sebastian’s family, who want to give the four-year-old one last Christmas:
Mack John had this idea:
What date are they going to pick for Christmas day? Lets try to get every radio station to play a Christmas song for him, money won’t make him better so lets give him the best Christmas that the rest of Ireland can celebrate with him. What does his family need us to do.
Cora O Riordan wanted to help out too:
Hi Connor I’m really sad to hear about your little Sebastian. My heart is with you and your family x x I’m just wondering if you could tell me what Sebastian’s favourite cake flavour is please I would like to make a cake for him for his special day x x sending lots of love your way x x
Sebastian’s dad Conor was touched by the responses:
Thanks everyone for your kind comments. Seb is asleep on his mum’s lap. :)
In another emotional thread, catherine shared her thoughts on Bill O’Herlihy’s passing:
I actually can’t believe he is gone. He was there so many important sporting events. He was always there in our living rooms. Sharing the joy of the win and the despair of defeat. I had hoped he would make it back to our screens in some way after his retirement. It’s like loosing an old friend almost.
On a lighter note, people had a lot to say about the most popular baby names in Ireland. Jack and Emily remained the most popular monikers in 2014, but some new names also made it onto the list – including Miley. This led Derry Seery to do some pondering.
Just for the Glenroe reference I’m surprised Miley is getting popular here! I only just remeber Glenroe, must be younger mothers than me picking those names!!
Meanwhile, Jonny Cantwell added:
Jesus, we’ve become very exotic with our names!
On a political note, Michele Savage had a simple response to Senator Averil Power’s shock resignation from Fianna Fáil:
FF’s sake!
We’ll leave the final word to Caoimhe Hogan, who had this to say about uniquely Irish flirting techniques:
Once on a night out a fella asked me if we went to the same mass…worse still I actually shifted him
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I’ll buy the pints next week, if it’s a DOB one.
I’ve a strange feeling you’ll be keeping your money CitizenSmith…
Or at least only using 1.5% of it..
Thejournal should hire some of the many legal experts hanging around the comments section.
Onepz they don’t need a legal expert to tell them that they could under constitutional protection report on some of the events of the last few days, they chose to gag their readers instead.
nah the journals owners have enough hired hands
They just need to come out with a statement saying they can’t make any statement.
CS, they do need to take a position on this, they seem oblivious to the fact that their readers are in open revolt that their credibility and integrity are been questioned, every article is been hijacked and rightly so as our constitutional freedoms are been eroded yet the journal sees fit to offer protection to a corrupt entity that has declared war on their rights as journalists to report the news.
The journal has correctly determined that they can not print complete lies about a private citizen, lies which are currently the subject of a court injunction.
Riddle me this, if a bank is bailed out with money loaned to it at 5-6% and the taxpayer handed the bill, then one of its customers is allowed service a loan at 1.25% instead of 7%+, who has to cover the difference? Would it be the taxpayer?
Onepz, are you suggesting that CM deliberately misled the Dail with her findings or that her source is a DOB stooge who is feeding a hardworking TD lies in a deliberate attempt to mislead the country as the reasons for the journals silence.
It doesn’t matter what the issue is, Dail privilege which was backed up by the Oireachtas yesterday can’t be subject to a gagging order, this is the fundamental issue here.
I notice that broadsheet.ie editors have not been jailed for contempt of court, so I think their legal advice looks sound.
Lets work on a new “we didn’t start the fire”. I’ll go first.
96′, Fine Gael, Big Jim Mitch and Michael L…..
Article 15.12 “All official reports and publications of the Oireachtas or of either House thereof and utterances made in either House wherever published shall be privileged”
CM might be wrong. It doesn’t matter. Everything said in the Dail is privileged, wherever published. This has been the law in these islands since the Battle of the Boyne, and it is enshrined in the constitution, quoted above. It is not controversial. It is a fundamental principle of parliamentary democracy.
No comments on [redacted] ?
Shame on you Journal editor , at least Broadsheet.ie has a backbone.
No comments on {REDACTED} made the cut ?
That’s strange. There were plenty of them about & a lot of green thumbs given to them. Are you now starting to manipulate your reports & become untrustworthy?
Deleted comments aren’t counted.
Does DOB own the J.ie
It does seem he can assert some influence over the decision making when the journal ignores its constitutional right to report on Dail proceedings and continues to protect the interests of a known corrupt business man ahead of the publics interests.
Glen, censorship is wrong but you supported the Chinese govt’s move when they censored the BBC.
You are a contrary little fellow.
So it’s safe to say that the J are supporting an agenda that protects the rich and powerful from being exposed as the corrupt elite controllers that they are.
Say what you want about infowars and similar news sites but they wouldn’t protect the likes of DOB if their life’s depended on it, literally as many REAL journalists associated with them sites have received death threats over the years.
Declan Noonan/ dublinlad
Whatever you shagging name is
Nobody cares what you say
You come on here to ridicule and bully others and as a result of that you had your FB account banned from the journal after Frank reported you.
Do you ever learn lad, silly silly boy.
Glen, you support Putin! Putin has cracked down on the media in Russia. How many journalists have been murdered in Russia? You have made excuses for Putin!
Btw, I don’t support DOB! I want to know what’s going on as well.
I’m just pointing out your hypocrisy!
Glen, stop exaggerating with your claims against me.
Declan
In your mind I support Putin.
There is a difference between supporting someone and playing devils advocate to get a good debate going.
You read way to much into my comments, that’s your problem.
There is a stark contrast between the analytical dissection of sporting events compared to some of the lazy typo ridden copy and paste articles that appears in the news section.
Exaggerating?
Log on from FB then. Plenty of regulars know that Frank got the last laugh over you and then disappeared into journal history.
Think the two are connected ?
I do.
Glen I truly believe that Frank is still here with us and always will be!!!
An Observer
He probably is lad. Commenting under the name Dublinlad.
yes
I can’t wait to see next weeks comment of the week…
Redacted will have 50000 green thumbs .
The journal has no balls, won’t open a comment section on the important news. Shame on you journal.
I here Malta is nice this time of year
*yere
shelters the lawless superbly
Hey! There’s an innocent comment that’s just been deleted!
Shocking carry on.
Best comment of the week…..The one your boss won’t allow printed
Should be called comments of the meek.
Funny you should mention enda. Faced with a possible constitutional crisis the apparent leader of the country , and burton, haven’t broken their silence on the matter. The chief whip spoke to the press about the request to recall the Dail, but nothing from the top brass.
pathetic
I told you she was ugly and that that was just her politics Enda is in Malta having briefing session while enjoying a gay old time.
A negative experience with travelers. Call it like it is
Racist.
Its not racist at all .
Travellers aren’t a race.
Exactly.
Wasn’t Bill O’Herlihy not a lobbyist for the tobacco industry and yet Bill gets more attention than Derek Davis and Derek did a lot of work for charity…
He was in his seventies when he died. For much of his adult life people were still in love with tobacco. Having a go at him for that is a bit like complaining about granny still going to mass.
Malta? Devil’s Island, Ryker Island, Spike Island, Alcatraz Island. Now THESE are the islands where You-know-who’brien should be living.
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