Ahern For Nobel Peace Prize?

[super pedestrian]

I'll gnaw my testicle off if that lowlife cretin wins it.

[rjh]

I'll gnaw my testicle off if that lowlife cretin wins it.

Charming, hope you enjoy yourself with that. What happened to your other testicle - did you eat that one when Ahern won the last election?

[KungFugazi]

I'll gnaw my testicle off if that lowlife cretin wins it.

If he does I am sure he will give all the prize money away to charity, it is an awful lot of money to be keepin in a biscuit tin under the bed .

[Barbarian]

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[CookieMonster]

Charming, hope you enjoy yourself with that. What happened to your other testicle - did you eat that one when Ahern won the last election?

Hasn't dropped yet.

[alonso]

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Just the facts lads.... try not to let your tribal "my grandaddy hated your grandaddy in 1922" angst get in the way of the bigger picture

Regards

R

Don't patronise us. This is about a man who besmirched his office and p1ssed on the Republic. Why can't he just fck off?

[Thranduil]

As I understand it the prize money is about a million euro (it was 750,000 approximately when Trimble/Hume split it a few years back)

(By the way - worst, most ungracious, most nauseating speech in history - David Trimble's Nobel acceptance - a red faced bigot and a coward.)

As for "president ahern" - if Bertie wins this I seriously doubt the blueshirts or labour will run anyone agaisnt him in 2011.....

However, the peace process in the north, the deal with paisley etc etc, that kind of thing will be long remembered, which is why Bertie is up for the award.......

Just the facts lads.... try not to let your tribal "my grandaddy hated your grandaddy in 1922" angst get in the way of the bigger picture

Regards

R

Well, if the bank guarantee gets called in and the country is stung for many billions, i don't think even Independent News and Media are going to be able to convince the public Ahern did nothing wrong while in power and deserves to be President - Nobel Prize or not.

Incidentally i seriously doubt the nobel committee gives a fiddlers f*** about paddy the plasterer, the manchester dig out or any of that sh**e.

No, it matters more how famous you are, how many influential friends you have - the work you did and who it worked for and who it worked against, you would never (for example) see someone who worked for peace and justice against the world's powerful getting the award.

Personally i suspect that the award could in theory serve as a kind of insurance policy against future prosecution, how is anyone going to ever get a conviction against a Nobel Prize winner? Even bringing up the accusation itself could be spun as 'outrageous'. I respect their science awards to a large extent (although i would suspect there is a lot of back-slapping going on in deciding those too) but the Peace Prize - not really.

[flavirostris]

any chance they had it wrong and its actually Cecilia Ahern thats in the running for the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Equally plausible perhaps..

[toxic avenger]

The Nobel Sleaze prize more like...

[Bobert]

Incidentally, Cecilia's new book is called "The Gift".