Ian Paisley seriously ill !

[give her dixie]

While I was travelling in Southern Bolivia a few years ago, we passed through a very remote village and I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this statue!

[gerry]

Rangers on the brink of financial ruin, Thatcher on her last legs and now paisley has been rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack.. the treble is on!

[BennyCake]

Rangers on the brink of financial ruin, Thatcher on her last legs and now paisley has been rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack.. the treble is on!

Quote of the day there, Gerry 

[Tony Baloney]

While I was travelling in Southern Bolivia a few years ago, we passed through a very remote village and I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this statue!

You should have lassoed it and hitched the rope to the towbar!

[Orior]

While I was travelling in Southern Bolivia a few years ago, we passed through a very remote village and I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this statue!

Didnt Paisley poke fun at Biffo for having big lips? Pot, kettle...

[Oraisteach]

There might have been a time when I would have been jubilant at news of the impending demise of both Paisley and Thatcher, but no more.  And not out of any respect for their grieving loved ones.

No, the harm they've done is done, the damage irreparable. 

Paisley is the bogeyman of my childhood, whose hatred of Catholics did more than any individual to drive a wedge between two working class communities who had more to gain in solidarity than in animosity.

That Thatcher and Pinochet were buddies is all that needs to be said.

[ONeill]

We're been through this before with the Thatcher thread but I just cannot understand the jubilation at a retired pensioner's death. I'd understand it if they were in the peak of their powers, croaked it and could do no more damage. It's a false elation. If that's the line of thought you're taking, then they've won. They've (Thatcher and Paisley) achieved what they wanted to and successfully outlived the majority of those of their own generation and probably of most of us here.

It's like a dog that savages your family. You then watch it savage others. Then you watch it grow old from a distance, become useless and eventually die, naturally of old age. You're still left with the damage and hurt. You should hope society learns from its mistakes. To celebrate a tyrant's death celebrates and commemorates their long life.

(Unless you're a great believer in hell and think you'll not be there and they will)

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

You're right ONeill, I could take no succour from their passings, but hope that they live for many, many years to come yet... preferably in excruciating pain.

[Windmill abu]

We're been through this before with the Thatcher thread but I just cannot understand the jubilation at a retired pensioner's death. I'd understand it if they were in the peak of their powers, croaked it and could do no more damage. It's a false elation. If that's the line of thought you're taking, then they've won. They've (Thatcher and Paisley) achieved what they wanted to and successfully outlived the majority of those of their own generation and probably of most of us here.

forgive the crime they committed hie in poer, yu my  e frgive the ni fr the me

[ONeill]

forgive the crime they committed hie in poer, yu my  e frgive the ni fr the me

Assuming you didn't have a minor stroke towards the end there, who mentioned forgiveness?

[Windmill abu]

We're been through this before with the Thatcher thread but I just cannot understand the jubilation at a retired pensioner's death. I'd understand it if they were in the peak of their powers, croaked it and could do no more damage. It's a false elation. If that's the line of thought you're taking, then they've won. They've (Thatcher and Paisley) achieved what they wanted to and successfully outlived the majority of those of their own generation and probably of most of us here.

forgive the crimes they committed while in power, and you may  as well forgive the naZi for the crimes They committed

[Windmill abu]

Assuming you didn't have a minor stroke towards the end there, who mentioned forgiveness?

I don't stroke minors

[Maguire01]

Are we now so desensitised and dehumanised, that the death agony of a human being, and the suffering of his family is a matter for joviality and levity. Catch a grip on yourselves lads, your behaviour is worse than anything the man you are mocking ever did

I wouldn't be cheering myself, but you're clearly lacking perspective if you think a few mocking comments on an internet forum are worse than what he did in his life.

[seafoid]

Paisley was a disaster for working class Protestants.  He never took care of their economic interests.
Education education education and it was the catholics who took up the challenge.

Belfast was the economic powerhouse of Ireland for 150 years. Dublin is way more important now. 

AND the wee 6 needs £9bn a year in subventions .   

[HiMucker]

Are we now so desensitised and dehumanised, that the death agony of a human being, and the suffering of his family is a matter for joviality and levity. Catch a grip on yourselves lads, your behaviour is worse than anything the man you are mocking ever did

[/b]Surely your taking the piss??