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“….the thing I regret most is that this is going to be used in this dirty campaign as a diversion.”
You’re right there, Ted.
Incandescent me fanny…
If ever there was a half hearted apology. Disappointed by that. Thought Norris had more class than that. The record will show if its a dirty campaign he fired the first salvo.
The girl behind him looks terrified of him!
Thats actually Fanny. The personal spokesperson for Regina.
Ah now she doesn’t look terrified. Don’t be going on stupid.
It will of course be used, no one has to spin this. Add in Sen. Marc McSharry and his 5 minute Seanad Youtube rant about urinating on the house and that is just for starters.
The Senators are going to sicken us so much that we’ll que to bin them.
Is she a senator the girl behind him?
Sean hata old hat reform Ireland.
my neighbor’s aunt makes $64 every hour on the internet. She has been laid off for eight months but last month her income was $21689 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read more here… can99.ℂom
What exactly does the senate do? I know it’s a place for people who failed to get elected by the people, and its also a place for former TD’s to knock a few more years out of the travel expense schemes, it’s also a place to blood a young one in the art of politics. To get ready for the big stage . But what the fu#k do they do in there ? They debate, we also debate in the pub, but we don’t get no pay and have to pay top price for our drink plus we never got a lock in till 5am and was able to call it work !!!!!
if he had class
he wouldn’t have made that stomach turning comment in the first place
and he wouldn’t have seeked mercy for a peado
your neighbours aunt is talking out her fanny
Shes chevking hers.
Lauras aunt earns 64 dollars talking with her fanny
My banks boss pulled 7 billion from his drum.
“stomach turning comment” seriously Gerard?
Laura I know. Gerards being OTT there.
There you go! Story over. Now can the focus please be on the substantive arguments surrounding the referendum on the Seanad?
Thank you Ignoreland.
Like everyone did when the Dail was ground- breaking legislation last week? Or is it different when its not a Government TD? You’re right, but consistency would be nice.
Egg, congratulations; you’re the first person on this site to criticise me for being anti the Government, normally I’m accused of the opposite.
I said you were right!
Aras and country had narrow escape. Some President he’d have made! Senate his only job for years. No great advert for keeping Senate I’m afraid
Ok he said sorry, can we move on now?
You mean like we did when Tom Barry said sorry?
Actually he didn’t say sorry.
And I don’t blame him.
Damocles
You are correct. The Senator failed to say sorry for an abuse of privilege and vulgarisms publicly expressed on the floor of our Upper House. This over opinionated wind bag deliberately and purposely offered his typical little dig at a back bench Member of the Government because he thought he was being funny and wanted the attention. He is a vulgar man at the best of times and no conversation with this guy is without a sexual slur which merely proves he has his mind in the gutter. Thank God he didn’t become President because we would have diplomatic incidents daily. He is a classical example of why we need to rid ourselves of this undemocratic Chamber of horrors.
“vulgarisms”, What “vulgarisms”? Fanny is a perfectly acceptable polite American idiom for “bottom”.
If you’re suggesting that he was using a different idiom, and you’re interpreting it as being that other idiom then it is your mind that is in the gutter.
Damocles. You well know that we are living in Ireland and “fanny” is never interpreted in the context of bottom. Norris is around long enough to know that instinctively, particularly as he used it in conjunction with the “Regina Monologues”. Norris is a very clever wordsmith and knows exactly what words mean. He is vulgar and can often be funny. In this case he as just vulgar and very disrespectful to a colleague parliamentarian.
And where was all the OUTRAGE when he used the term (albeit not directed at any individual) 4 times previously in the Seanad? http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/political-effin-and-blindin-a-short-history-1.1465298
Ray- you’re spot on. There’s no-one in the Oireachtas as adept at using the English language. Norris knew exactly what he was saying & the inference. Even if you were tempted to give him the benefit of the doubt, again you’re right, the “monologues” reference closes the case. It was crude, personal and terribly sexist stuff.
Damocles
You’re either a dense or misleading. The Senator used the word together with the Regina Monologes. He knew what he was saying and he drafted the speech in written form before he entered the Chamber. He’s a vulgar little man with a private life we hope remains somewhat more private.
He left it open to interpretation, you chose your own interpretation.
Damocles if he went so far as to deliberately leave it open to interpretation it means that there was even more premeditation and that he too considered the possibility of more than one meaning
Everything anyone says or does is left open to interpretation, apart from in very specific cases.
The Regina Monologues is obviously a pun, not the greatest pun of all time. The Vagina Monologues being a series of orations about the Vagina, The Regina Monologues being a series of orations about herself.
Every single time he has used the word fanny in the past it has been in reference to the back bottom, this time everyone assumes it’s the front bottom.
Reading some of the reactions here it seems that people prefer to think the worst of people, and of this person in particular. Why would that be?
Damocles
The only matter open to interpretation is your support of the waster.
“the waster”
It’s almost as if you have something against him outside of this incident.
Damocles, it might be a perfectly acceptable polite American idiom, but we’re in Ireland, not America.
Verbal v physical.
They are not the same.
And different contexts.
Don’t be drawing comparisons where there are none.
People that can’t think for themselves might take ur opinion seriously.
The V. Monologues is actually in the context of empowerment. Ownership and power over ones body. Maybe some of you would wanna read it instead of using an internet explanation or description.
Comment is for Emily.
The language YOU use about Norris says more about you than him.
This one for Rick (re: language).
It was hilarious, got all your attention and places the debate on reform clearly In the publics mind, whether you agree with the senate being maintained or not. When did we all lose our sense of humour !
No, Stephen, he didn’t say he was sorry. He said he was sorry IF it caused offence, and that if he was in an academic context he’d be able to explain it…
Nonsense
“Deal with it” – Norris
Imagine if someone went on a similar rant about, let’s say, gay people…….
Mr. Norris is making a good argument to consign Seanad Eireann to the dustbin of history.
Keep up the good work, David.
Too late a big PR win handed to those who want to abolish the senate.
Any time he goes on about the high intellectual quality of senate debate this will come up.
At least he isn’t in the Aras.
I think the fact that some of them have been there for 20 or 30 years is reason enough for reform!
Axing the Seanad without reforming the Dáil misses the point which is no doubt why so much FG fuss was made of Norris’s jibe rather than their own TD’s grabbing a colleague for an enforced lap dance. The over claiming on how much the closure of the Seanad will save is straight from the Anglo play book and should give even the most avid axer cause for thought (I include myself).
Avoiding any meaningful reform of how Dáil and Govt. business is carried out suits both Coalition parties’ apparatchiks which means Norris’s contribution yesterday will be played for all it’s worth. We shouldn’t allow ourselves to be distracted from the need for wider reform of the Oireachtas.
1. There was a huge furore over “lapgate”. And FG condemned it and apologised immediately. Unlike Senator Norris. 2. Trying to equate the valuation of the Seanad with Anglo does suggest you’re just incredibly biased. By the way, different Government back then. It was on the news. 3. The Seanad. Retirement home for failed politicians, incubator for the next generation of them.
Different government, same play book. Happy to include that FF apparatchiks are equally happy with the status quo.
david norris is a disgusting joke
Can u imagine Michael D saying something like that…….as Gaeilge of course
Michael D. called a US chat show host a “w@nker” if I remember correctly.
In an incredibly power polemical against corruption and poverty. A speech that everyone should listen to.
Have u a link Josh?
And he was spot on, Dave…
Ta.
tú ag caint trí do fanny
Kind of a “Sorry, but but but …” apology.
It is still a reserved apology “if it caused offence”. He is more concerned with his own incandescence with rage and the fear that this will be used to undermine the need for the Seanad during the election campaign. Senator Norris should keep his mouth shut and listen more. Maybe if he listened he might find out what the ordinary voter thinks of the Seanad and whether they see it as relevant. They are not all graduates of Trinity.
Not sure an apology is required really, David. But you always were a true gent.
:-))
A true gent? You need to look up the word gent in the dictionary. He never was a gent only a self indulgent triple jobber who used ‘illness’ as an excuse to renege on his teaching position at Trinity College yet keep his post and ensure his pension. He took plenty of time off from the Seanad he says he loves and wants to protect in order to spin his amateur ass on Newstalk. He makes me sick. Not a single ounce of credibility.
Is this a gay thing Ferg?
No mention of homosexuality in Fergs comment. Making inferences?
I bet you wish it was Meeeeeeehawwwwwllllll cause you could apply for your ‘gay protection’ badge then. Sorry to disappoint you. It has nothing to do with his sexual orientation and everything to do with his increasing anger issues, his dishonesty and lack of credibility.
@ Ferg you are and anti – gay right wing catholic – you ain’t fooling anybody
Catholic Yes! Anti gay? No. Not so hot there Sherlock.
Really Ferg? On the thread – “the northern assembly has voted against calls to legalise civil marriage for same-sex couples in Northern Ireland” you said : “Thankfully one part of this island values tradition and has common sense” ah sure you have nothing against the gays but give them equality ..no way!
Pull the other
ha! you’ve been outed Ferg! the delicious irony :)
I state again I am not anti-gay but that does not mean I support everything with the word gay in it my friend. Gay marriage is a different matter and as I stated already I am a Catholic with (surprise, surprise) a Catholic vision of the world.
Ferg.
That is a disgusting comment about his illness. U should be ashamed of urself u horrible human being.
Backtracking there Ferg. Nasty piece of work.
Good for you Ferg….be proud and make sure no-one patronises you for your point of view….you are in the happy position of being correct.
No Mairead. That was an awful thing to say regarding using his illness. Deplorable. I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone, not even someone I wouldn’t like very much, irrespective of how I disagree with his or her opinion. Immature, tasteless and quite frankly rude. Just like Norris’s comment. However, its sickening so speak about someones illness in that manner. Shameful.
*to.
“A catholic vision of the world”. This is one where the world is disappearing somehow? I cannot think of any other vision connecting the fate of the world and that disgusting dying paedophile ring known as the catholic church. But sure….good luck to you anyway with all that.
I’m afraid your subtle, anti-gay comments are coming back to bite your fanny Ferg…
That’s what you call being caught by the boll1x.
Fanny slurs…. probably been around just as long
Ha
“A gentleman never gives offence unintentionally,” Oscar Wilde.
Norris is no gentleman. And he still hasn’t had the decency to apologise, even though he has subverted the debate on the Seanad and has happily destroyed the case for keeping it.
What an embarrassing little man he is. Imagine this gombeen wanted people to vote for him to be president. He is a disgrace as a politician and has disgraced himself in the seanad once again. The gig is up senator its time to go while you still have a pension.
Had a lot of time for David.Norris in the past. Sadly he has now shown himself as a bitchy old queen whose meal ticket is under threat and he has turned nasty.
I’d agree with you if you hadn’t have called him a Queen, one disparaging remark doesn’t deserve another
Offensive remark withdrawn, unreservedly.
On further reflection, I withdraw my withdrawal.
Drumm picked figures out of his arse and Doherty is talking through her f***y apparently.
So it’s ok to say “fanny” now? We are all grown-ups, you know.
As a tax payer its a disgrace we have to pay wages and expenses for the likes of David Norris,If that woman had insulted him for being gay he would have her banned from public life.
Best laugh I have had for years!
What an appalling man… Sick to death of people saying he does an awful lot for human rights… So would I if I had the time and money he gets .. But I wouldn’t write a reference on headed paper to try and free a convicted paedophile
Not sure what the fuss is about. I don’t take any offence at the word fanny it’s no worse than arse. If he had used the c word now that would be offensive. We are getting very precious. Anyway it gave me a little giggle at the link to her name. The outrage is just those who want to abolish seanad using the opportunity to take pot shots at those that want to reform. Nothing the government would like better than to get rid of any opposition
#fannygate was the funniest thing I saw all day. It was a bad day mind you, but funny nonetheless!
says fanny in a rage…if thats the best he can do ,he better not meet a wet paper bag…couldnt fight his way out of one!
Having now seen this footage it is clear he is not apologising and implies that the majority of us are not intelligent enough to understand someone with his vocabulary.
yes paul he is very arrogant and patronising and certainly overestimates the value of his own importance.
Mountain out of a tiny molehill.
Ms Doherty is more concerned about the perceived affront to her dignity instead of looking after the public interest.
TDs have a remarkable facility in making everything about them, how they feel, how their egos are affected.
I heard it on the radio, I thought he was talking out of his Willie, well I guess I was wrong.
Proper order he should apologise , how dare he mention her fanny . We all know she talks thru her arse .
Only shit talk allowed in the seannad
Actually, you can’t take back words that have been spoken and apologies mean nothing in Ireland, viz confession.
In all fairness has he ever seen a fanny ?
A non-apology. He was doing ok until this bit: “I don’t intend to give a lengthy linguistic explanation and try to defend what I said which I could if it was an academic discussion”…
The new phrase will be-”Stop digging a fanny for yourself!”
Regina Doherty should be more worried about doing her job!
Wasn’t the famous rear somewhere else last week?
Of course David was annoyed,how do you feel when someone says your not important,what you do is not important,you should be thrown on scrap heap!
Go David. . . Go David. . . Legend!
Of course it will be used in any campaign, dirty or otherwise. David Norris is well known as an eloquent speaker and one who chooses his words well, or even carefully. Outbursts such as we have seen will discredit the entire house and he as a seasoned politician should know that. He cannot turn around and blame others for using a weapon that he has forged.
I would prefer after having said I felt cold to be offered a warm lap than to be told I was talking through my fanny!!!
Half arsed apology, loving the #fannygate reference!! Lol!!
Norris talking out of his Micky … doesn’t have quite the same ring about it…ooops! see what I did I there? apologies if offence caused. Now, back to paying off the Germans.
If the senate was no more, then that would stop everybody talking out of any orifice!
Never taught i’d see a headline saying “Norris pulls back fanny”
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