A NORTH Clare resident who admitted to masturbating while following young women around Galway City may be stripped of his crown as Ireland’s Most Romantic Man.
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Speaking to The Clare People, one resident described the situation as “a total disgrace”. “My own grandchildren play down in Ballyvaughan all the time. It’s bad enough to think that this man [Clifford] is around, never mind putting him up on a pedestal like this,” he said.
The couple beat off stiff competition from dozens of other entries from the whole island of Ireland to win the prize. The couple met on a skiing trip in Italy in January of 2007.Spence, who is from Lurgan in Northern Ireland, moved to Kinvara last year to be closer to her partner.Their €46,000 prize includes a wedding reception in the renowned Parknasilla Resort in Kerry, a designer wedding dress from either Kathy de Stafford in Dublin or Blush Bridal in Belfast and a luxury Sandals honeymoon from Tropical Places."
http://www.clarepeople.com/index.php/This-Weeks-News/romantic-man-awaits-sentencing-for-indecency.html
― jed_, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:39 (seventeen years ago)
the major LOL is the list of prizes at the end.
― jed_, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)
sometimes you can be guilty of loving too much
― Local Garda, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:45 (seventeen years ago)
eejit, so he is
― warmsherry, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:47 (seventeen years ago)
great story this.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:48 (seventeen years ago)
Oh he's a terrible man for the romantic wanking.
― Dom P's Rusty Nuts (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:53 (seventeen years ago)
"Get your mickey back in your trousers now, you'll get us all into trouble!!!"
― Local Garda, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:55 (seventeen years ago)
"Who do you think you are, the parish priest?"
― Local Garda, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:56 (seventeen years ago)
"Those northerners have an odd manner"
More like County Clugggggghhhhh.
― Dom P's Rusty Nuts (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:59 (seventeen years ago)
For all the average Irish citizen knows, romance may well now entail following a woman around while feverishly masturbating.
― Local Garda, Friday, 15 May 2009 01:00 (seventeen years ago)
"aaah, I was thinking of you"
― Mark G, Friday, 15 May 2009 06:53 (seventeen years ago)
Is that a Most Romantic Man award in your pocket or are you ...
― StanM, Friday, 15 May 2009 07:20 (seventeen years ago)
uptown top wanking
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 15 May 2009 07:53 (seventeen years ago)
beat off stiff
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:02 (seventeen years ago)
O'Nanist
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:07 (seventeen years ago)
Mickey O'Toole
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:13 (seventeen years ago)
this man must never be left in a room with a baby
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:16 (seventeen years ago)
Driving and wanking, i'm impressed.
― not_goodwin, Friday, 15 May 2009 13:16 (seventeen years ago)
5 points on your licence for that now, under these crazy new rules.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:18 (seventeen years ago)
loss of prize, 5 points, poor guy :(
― not_goodwin, Friday, 15 May 2009 13:24 (seventeen years ago)
Guy needs to control his clutch, and go a bit easy on the choke.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:27 (seventeen years ago)
Surely the authorities should have been alerted sooner by the wipers on the inside of the windscreen?
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:29 (seventeen years ago)
probably not that unusual, given the typical standard of irish rural mechanic.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:36 (seventeen years ago)
where the rubber meets the road
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 May 2009 13:50 (seventeen years ago)
go n-éirí an cnámhair leat
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:54 (seventeen years ago)
Love the "may be" in the report's first sentence, like the jury are still mulling it over.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:05 (seventeen years ago)
"well, on the one hand he follows woment around whilst jacking off, but on the other he is such a romantic soul"
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:12 (seventeen years ago)
Just goes to show, you can never out-run your past. There will always be those points on his licence, and a stain against his name.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:15 (seventeen years ago)
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, May 15, 2009 9:02 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Bwahahahahahahaha.
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:26 (seventeen years ago)
totally deliberate tho
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:31 (seventeen years ago)
gotta be
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:32 (seventeen years ago)
ok yeah but i have the sense of humor of a teenage boy so it's still pretty funny to me
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:33 (seventeen years ago)
oh i agree
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:34 (seventeen years ago)
his whole persona was a damp tissue of lies
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 May 2009 14:34 (seventeen years ago)
i mean, if i were the irish wedding journal i'd chafe at these revelations
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 May 2009 14:36 (seventeen years ago)
really tho, what a jerk
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:37 (seventeen years ago)
It wasn't the masturbating so much as his craic that was the problem...
― snoball, Friday, 15 May 2009 14:38 (seventeen years ago)
that's just pub talk now
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
more like pube talk (oh dear)
― snoball, Friday, 15 May 2009 14:40 (seventeen years ago)
ok yeah enough now folks
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:41 (seventeen years ago)
i hear the bishop of Galway himself has been criticised for allowing standards to slip
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:42 (seventeen years ago)
had to take a break from polishing his staff to respond
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:43 (seventeen years ago)
There's no need to bash the Bishop...
― snoball, Friday, 15 May 2009 14:43 (seventeen years ago)
ffs anoball
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:45 (seventeen years ago)
anoball
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
LOL my typo has wound up like a cross between anus and ball! omg!
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
you're just miffed that I reached that open goal before you!
― snoball, Friday, 15 May 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
the bishop of galway's staff :
http://hingos.com/images/choirboys.png
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
snoball, just sayin', the ball was about 3 feet over the line by the time you reached it, i.e. let's give blueski some credit here
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:47 (seventeen years ago)
trying to think of some kind of ulysses joke
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
just write out to all of your friends claiming you've made a brilliant one, and let it grow from there.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 15 May 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
he was trying to see eye to eye with the Cyclops...
― snoball, Friday, 15 May 2009 14:51 (seventeen years ago)
Leopold Bloom won Ireland’s Most Romantic Man in 1904... as his behaviour at the fireworks display demonstrated
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Friday, 15 May 2009 15:04 (seventeen years ago)
i'm amazed you pulled this off
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 15 May 2009 15:05 (seventeen years ago)
so what makes him so romantic?
Was he singing "O Sole Mio" during?
― Mark G, Friday, 15 May 2009 18:20 (seventeen years ago)
step 3. make her open the box
― StanM, Friday, 15 May 2009 19:35 (seventeen years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/mayoadvertiser.jpg
― jed_, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:58 (sixteen years ago)
photoshop
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:25 (sixteen years ago)
damn.
― jed_, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)
Very badly photoshopped too!
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:34 (sixteen years ago)
sorry to brake hart. i was reading it this morning!
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:34 (sixteen years ago)
A town named after a condiment? You'll have to try harder than that
― Real Men Play On Words (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:46 (sixteen years ago)
It's actually named after ex Radio 1 DJ Simon Mayo POP FACT!
― snoball, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:50 (sixteen years ago)
The town is also twinned with Hellemans in Derbyshire
― snoball, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:52 (sixteen years ago)
Point of order: there is a village called Mayo, but the Mayo Advertiser refers to County Mayo.
― Venga, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:56 (sixteen years ago)
i have never heard of this 'belmullet' condiment, but am more than happy to be enlightened.
'Béal an Muirthead' means mouth of the mullet, (the fish not the haircut)
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:01 (sixteen years ago)
napoleon's chef was from county mayo, apparently. that's where 'mayonnaise' comes from. my father is an inveterate liar, so take a pinch of salt with that, blood pressure allowing.
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:02 (sixteen years ago)
I think it's named after Mahon in Menorca where it was meant to be invented (the Spanish word is mahonesa), but then we used the French word instead because all fancy foreign food must be French.
― 88, Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:55 (sixteen years ago)
huh, that's all your dad knows
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)
I actually found this out the other day; apparently it is after Mahon, but the French came up with the name as a constant reminder to the British that they (the Brits) lost a battle to them during the Seige of Menorca there.
Otoh, Larousse reckons it's from an Old French word for the yolk of an egg.
― If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate (aldo), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)
o those crazy french
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)
Well they don't have many military victories to celebrate, do they.
― If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate (aldo), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:45 (sixteen years ago)
everybody knows that WW1 was won for once and for all at the battle of vittorio veneto
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)
Mayonnaise might also be a corruption of bayonnaise, from Bayonne, where they make a mayonnaise with chilis with that name.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)
Michael White, you are a classy guy
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)
I'd always heard the story of the duc de Richelieu making it (little toady) to celebrate his victory at Port Mahon in 1756 but the first attestation of the name is pretty late afterwards and the stuff as aioli (or any variant there of) has certainly been around since before the 18th century.
That duc de Richelieu, btw, is said to be one of the sources for Laclos's character Valmont. In 1739, the same year he started an affair with Voltaire's later main squeeze, Émilie du Châtelet, Mme de Polignac and the Marquise de Nesle fought a duel over him!
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:11 (sixteen years ago)
Oops, I meant the duc de Richelieu's chef.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)
this is some father ted stuff.....
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0709/1224250319175.html
― Michael B, Friday, 10 July 2009 12:50 (sixteen years ago)
Fr Willie Russell gets the level headed Ted role... "There’s nothing there... it's just a tree... you can't worship a tree."
You can't worship a tree, Dougal.
― snoball, Friday, 10 July 2009 12:52 (sixteen years ago)
i was gonna start a thread on this yesterday. tragic stuff.
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Friday, 10 July 2009 13:55 (sixteen years ago)