08.01.07
Country life smugness
Breakfast:
Lifeforce muesli – made in Ireland
with blackcurrants – picked in parent’s RURAL FARMING ONE-OFF HOUSE BASED SUBSIDISED garden
Glenisk natural yoghurt – made in Tullamore.
No airmiles.
Latest GG good deed:
A local massive Meath fan (who was given to painting his car green and yellow for All-Irelands) got married. His thoughtful fiancee rang GG and asked him if he would make a guest appearance at the wedding. GG, though he did not know these people at all, happily obliged. Showed up, danced with principal female members of the family, congratulated all concerned and thrilled the natives.
This is the kind of thing other people do for either money or votes. He does it because he’s nice.
The pictures of the country market birthday party are in the local Topic. He looks happy.
EJP said,
August 1, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Mahatma Geraghty strikes again; wherever there is injustice, you will find him. Wherever there is suffering, he’ll be there. And god knows there’s usually injustice and suffering at a Meath wedding. He probably had designs on stealing the bride or, failing that, knew he’d at least get some free drink, wedding cake and, depending on the genetic or parochial closeness of the two protagonists, a chance of a good dust-up.
You’ve highlighted both these missions of mercy as potential vote-getting opportunities, how can you be sure he has no motive in that regard? Did he personally declare to you that he was only mixing with the hoi polloi out of niceness, or are you finally admitting the cause of getting him elected is hopeless..?
Sarah said,
August 1, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Actually I’ve never met him. I am simply ovewhelmed by the tales of his goodness which are carried to me by those who are mystified by the gap between his public image and his actual good deeds which were carried out prior to there being any notion of his running for office and after he was so categorically rejected by the electorate.
Of course, perhaps he did intend exercising his droit de seigneur….;-)
EJP said,
August 1, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I think he’d find that some insolent sharecropper had plundered the fair lady long beforehand.
On the plus side for the happy couple, the matrimonial car is likely to remain in its factory issued colour for the foreseeable future.
Darren said,
August 1, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I see your 100-mile diet smugness and raise you, from a tiny island in the Mediterranean:
http://tinyurl.com/22l5lj
Paul Newton said,
August 1, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I have no idea why this surprises anyone (the latest GG good deed)
What’s makes you think that people are either sweety nice or complete c*nts?
Is it you life experience?
Did you read it in the paper?
Is it a soap thing (that Bladwin fella is a baddie, but that Jack Duckworth is the innocent enjoyable fool)
Maybe it’s a Hollywood thing, you don’t see Meg Ryan as the axe murderer often.
So you can continue to rant about the GG good deeds forever, and i can give you six instances where he’s been a scumbag… do you know what that makes him?
It makes him a human being!
Are we that obsessed with putting people into boxes?
and the only reason we are having this conversation about GG is that he’s a decent ball player… he’s just like the rest of us… except neither our wonderful nor dastardly deeds are common knowledge
sean said,
August 1, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Sarah, GG is not “nice” or “good”
He’s simply a “thug” whose good at football
Paul Newton said,
August 1, 2007 at 6:28 pm
no he’s a complex individual like the rest of us!
nice label though “thug”
you could apply for a job with the Star.
Sarah said,
August 1, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I feel I need to over compensate on GG’s good deeds in order to counter the focus on his bad ones in the press. People are mixed, so its not fair that most people only hear about the bad side. So no balance here, but a teeny tiny attempt to balance out things generally.
Tom N said,
August 4, 2007 at 9:27 pm
OK GG had a good match, but for goodness sake Sarah, you remember what it was like growing up with the millstone of Haughey around our neck. And now we have the same with Ahern. No matter what bad he does, people are willing to turn a blind eye because they feel he is one of our own. He may be FG, but he should still face discipline for his dirty and vicious play. The kick to Cavanagh’s head was a disgrace. Don’t put him on a pedestal.