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FORMER ENGLAND AND Manchester United star Wayne Rooney was arrested last month for being drunk and swearing in public and paid a $25 fine Friday, according to multiple reports today.
Court records obtained by Washington ABC 7 News and The Athletic showed that Rooney was arrested in Loudoun County, Virginia, on 16 December for cursing and intoxication, a misdemeanour for which he was released from custody on his own recognisance before paying the fine and court costs on Friday.
Rooney was arrested by the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority at Dulles International Airport, which is located in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington.
The former England captain apparently was at the airport after a trip back from Saudi Arabia. He posted a photo of himself on 14 December from Riyadh at an event.
Rooney is serving a two-year UK drink driving ban stemming from a September 2017 arrest in England.
The 33-year-old forward came to the US capital last July, signing with DC United and taking the last-place Major League Soccer club into the playoffs in his first half-season with the squad.
Rooney was the centerpiece of United’s marketing campaign as the team opened a new stadium, the English star saying upon his arrival he looked forward to the challenge and enjoyed the relative anonymity afforded by suburban life in America.
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Even if they did stop screwing up, which they wont, they’ve made such a mess of their time in government so far, it’s hard to see any way back for them. We’ll be better-off once they’re gone.
How?
Fianna Fail will come back in and be no different.
Because all they have done is continue the god-awful policies of the previous government. They show no sign of changing course. We need something different in this country, so the sooner they’re not part of the equation, the better. They’re smug, arrogant, subservient to special interests and the useless overlords in Europe, they ignore the will of the electorate, refuse to engage with the public… do you need more, or is that enough?
Could tgey stop screwing the public maybe? Blueshirts attention! Red thumbs ready…
The Adams/Boyd-Barrett utopia.
The bliss of socialist isolationism awaits!
@Peter how will any of that change with the next government? Now let the delusional red thumb brigade go nuts but we’ll all be here in 5 years time saying the same things. A general election will return a center right party who will do exactly what FG are doing now and what FF did before them
well hopefully a centre right party comes in again
What on earth are those ‘think-ins’?
Some sort of brain-storming session?
They couldn’t manage a light drizzle.
Exactly John and there lies the problem with a small island nation on the periphery of a huge economic hub. Our labour, medical and social needs outweigh what we can produce. At least at the moment that is the case. Any and all parties have limited choices. They can tax the general population in various areas to make the taxes seem tolerable. Tax the wealthy to a level they can easily afford. Or increase taxes on multinational businesses to a level that may force them to move elsewhere. Simple mathematics will tell us what taxes bring in against the outlay required to run the various government departments. A realistic mixture of all three above, would be fair but impossible. No rich man wants to pay for free healthcare or education for the less well off. No multinational cares about the problems of it’s host country. Solution? Always take increasing amounts from many…it’s the capitalist way. Socialism is no longer viable. We don’t have enough resources. The Shinners are deluded. Fianna Fail are impotent. Fine Gael/Labour are dead but won’t lie down. We might have to import a government.
There are serious repercussions ahead on the political horizon for Ireland, the next generation are not going to accept a legacy debt because of the incompetence of today’s politicians. This financial ruin that the up coming workers and students will inherit will cause a huge backlash for the architects of this crisis.
John:
there won’t be enough center right votes to form a comfortable government. There will be a stronger opposition ready to vote down any bill that the center right tries to pass. You will need independents (and even they will lose their seats if they back a center right government).
like?
Take your pick Donie, Literally look out of your window and focus on the first thing you see and this will improve by at least 30% after these muck savages are gone.
They would not be as stupid but they would do whatever Berlin, Brussels and Frankfurt tells them, like this puppet government.
I’m voting for the fox – way smarter than the rest of them.
Why , what did the fox say?.
Ring ding ding ding dingeringeding gering ding ding ding dingeringeding gering ding ding ding dingeringeding
ahhh here, he’s just repeating what the frog said.
NO
Was looking forward to a sing song but someone had to ruin it
FG are getting very good at screwing and cockups
Cockpit
When Greece gets a second writedown on their debt, it will hasten FG’s downfall. A new Leftist Gov’t in Greece will play hardball with the ECB unlike Fine Gael/Fianna Fail.
FINE gael ….the party of the con and the lies
Harry Price, this is the first time I have ever seen a post of yours that did not have a red thumb (don’t spoil it spoilers) Is this a new years resolution my friend lol?
Just wish Fine Gael would stop screwing us…..
Ends Kenny is the most inept, inarticulate, in our pockets, clown for a National leader anywhere ever, so no they wont stop screwing up
Any Taoiseach that went through the sheer incompetence of the McNulty affair – campaigning against his nominee is just ridiculous -It makes it look like Basil Fawlty should be President of Mensa.
Why is Ireland in such a poor position internationally again ?
Surely in the 4 million of us there is one with a little bit more cop-on than Enda and his compliant Rump !
Screwing up or screwing us? FG are doing the job they always intended to do, screw the people so that massive salaries and pensions continue to be paid to politicians, civil servants, banks and legal/accountants. In an age of austerity, low oil prices and zero inflation they have managed to ensure that the price of everything keeps rising. Some feat!
Fina Gael screwed up 2014
Fianna Fail screwed up until 2008
That’s a strange type of comment. Ask all who were gainfully employed in the “boom” years would they have stopped the good times they had then if they had known the effect of the “crash” of the following years they would say no way. The biggest contributory factors for the end of the boom years were external to the country. Cheaper loan rates of that time can be traced directly to money being made available from German and French banks lending to Irish banks who then lent it on. This could not be stopped by Government in the free market economy that is the EU. Earned money by its nature tends to be spent rather than saved. Hence rising prices hoovered up the purchasing benefit of wage increases. Those who were clever enough to save in the good times could spend more effectively in the bad times. If the banking regulators were blissfully unaware of the impending disaster and governments depended on these regulators for reliable advice then the ordinary person was completely misled.
Stopped should read “swopped” oops!!!!!!!!
If you went to protest outside hotel all you would get is abuse and one finger salute. It’s all about power how to keep it nothing that’s actually useful!
Enda and FG the gift that keeps on giving.
Like chlamydia…
Nice link.
Questions over FG leadership and a sword.Are you man enough, Leo?
What possible difference could changing the leader of FG make? From evidence so far, Enda is among equals in the leadership stakes.
Can bears stop sh*tting in woods?
In short no.
They seem to have a genuine aversion to PR.
They are doing OK in government, but have an allergic reaction to promoting that.
While at the same time a pathological determination to have egg on their face.
They need to fire their PR.
Why change the norm for this bunch of screw ups
Can Enda Kenny meet the Stardust families, he has to now given the five dead boys before the seat fire. It is so sad Frances Fitzgerald turned out to be a turn coat on this issue. My friend is so sad today and heart broken that one of those five boys could have been her brother.
Kenny meet these families and set up a two day court to place truth on public record. Fitzgerald told them Keane and Coffey were wrong at a meeting in Justice in July last year. She told the Dail Coffey report is to remain on public record. What an insult and abuse towards those five boys and all the stardust families.
Nope
This should have been a poll.
In my opinion I don’t think they can. Them lads in FG couldn’t clean their arse without dirtying the tail of their shirts
A FG-FF coalition government should be our biggest concern. If we think things have been bad, it is almost unimaginable to contemplate what things would be like with the two partied united as one in their endeavour to finish us off altogether.
i think its obvious by now then next government will be FG/FF/Lab/SF/Greens/AAA with independent support.
Concerned Citizen , This is exactly what will happen after the next election ,In spite of all the so called differences these parties are the two heads of the one beast Namely right wing parties, And they will do anything that is deemed necessary to prevent anything but a right wing party from holding office.
Simple answer no, too many mistakes already, they have lost all trust,call an election before its too late.
in 1997 when they called an early election and they lost! It’s likely they will run until 2016 but by then, the broadcasting tax, the UHI tax, pension tax will be impending. Either way, there’s no way out for FG!
Can’t see FG breaking the mould. They have never been re-elected
Can Fine Gael stop screwing up in 2015? Not with Enda Kenny in charge. When you place a vacuous, empty-shell, anti-statesman at the head of your party this is what you get.
No. Next question!
FG like to screw down….on the citizens.
Highly unlikely that FG won’t continue to shoot themselves in the foot as they have already been talking about Frank Flannery rejoining them – without seeming to realise is that he is the cause of some of their problems – not the answer to them.
Is thus the Frank Flannery that took money from The Central Remedial Clinic for lobbying the FG led Government?
Double Standards!
F.G. talks about jobs and they have ones today putting in the Irish Water meters today and they are from England, then I saw ones doing the main roads here and they are from near Belfast…
And all this government says is jobs but all the contractor jobs are going to everyone except the ones who live here?
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