Irish Festival 2012 ????

[dulwichgirl2]

I really want to know the councillors who voted for it....

[Dougal Mulldoon]

Irish festival! It?s always been dreadful, all the worst things from Ireland. Why can?t we have a Scottish festival? This is blatant racism disguised as pseudo culture. What have the Irish given us? Potatoes, Guinness and terror, Catholicism, Paisley. Look at Scotland by comparison; TV, golf, haggis, great music from the likes of Shooglenifty & Pipe dreams, the Panama canal, the telephone & Celticism and last but not least caber tossing. Scotland the brave any day.

[borderpaul]

Are you the Scottish equivalent of Father Dougal from Craggy Island?

Must be annoying that Scotland the brave as featured in Braveheart was mainly played by the Irish Army with most of the battle scenes filmed in Ireland.

[Take Note]

and the lead part played by an Aussie

[Alan Medic]

At least you didn't mention the dreadful bag pipes Dougal. You know we gave you those as a joke.......which you took seriously. You also stole whiskey from us and now pretend you invented it.

[the-e-dealer]

Sinead occonner

Bonio

Flank O'Brian

Joyce

That's just a start of the Irish good list.

[taper]

If 52k is right, that's a staggering waste of cash for a rather ropey festival. If the 'offer' is good enough, you work hard for sponsorship, charge stallholders and get good volunteers on board, you can do a pretty good festival with a modest subsidy or with no subsidy at all. I bet the Peckham Rye Garden f?te the Friends run in September gets by on very little.

[RosieH]

And stole the telephone from the Italians.

[katesonic]

RosieH

Brilliant:)

Kx

[Chick]

RosieH Wrote:

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> And stole the telephone from the Italians.

How did Bell steal the telephone from the Italians?? Bell was in a race with Edison and hadn?t anything other than an idea for the telephone and he got to the patent office first.

The only good thing I remember about the Irish festival is how much it peed off Peter & Frances when they ran the Clockhouse. He admitted to me that he hated the Irish but they spent a lot of money that weekend so he was stuck between a rock & a hard place.

[tallulah71]

The only good thing I remember about the Irish festival is how much it peed off Peter & Frances when they ran the Clockhouse. He admitted to me that he hated the Irish but they spent a lot of money that weekend so he was stuck between a rock & a hard place.

Well said....And I'm Irish (and couldn't stand Frances)

[dulwichgirl2]

Dougal, Scotland does have a good eduction system largely, I gather, because it is always at least ten years behind new fangled and invariably politically driven idiotic developments.

[borderpaul]

And free University tuition as we pay the fees through our taxes.