Dan Boyle Farce!

[Indy-pendant]

Still clinging on for dear life.

or even just
"Still - life"

[Dodgy Bertie=Shady Mayor]

I'm not sure if other people noticed it but when Boyle was walking away, full of his own importance, with the camera and TV3 reporter following him, they were totally oblivious to the homeless guy shuffling in a sleeping bag in a doorway, on what was a bitter cold night. I just thought it was a poignant moment caught on camera. Same planet, different world...

There was a time not all that long ago, when a homeless person wasn't ignored, passers-by did not just casually pass by. In fairness to Desperate Dan he was being pursued by the media who could smell blood, but I just can't shake that image from my mind - less than 2/3 minutes from where our public "representatives" occasionally hang out with their obscene salaries, expenses, perks, pensions and Mercs. Isn't it time we stopped calling them Public Representatives and called them what they have degenerated into - Self Representatives?

[toxic avenger]

The posts making quips about him being overweight, really not necessary and hardly original. He posts occasionally to this site, and these are personal attacks on one of the site's users.

[Mosaic]

I'm not sure if other people noticed it but when Boyle was walking away, full of his own importance, with the camera and TV3 reporter following him, they were totally oblivious to the homeless guy shuffling in a sleeping bag in a doorway, on what was a bitter cold night. I just thought it was a poignant moment caught on camera. Same planet, different world...

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[turdsl]

I do not see any reason to make any personal comments about himself, none of us are perfect,

[Hound]

As far as I know that is the doorway of the Freemasons' Hall, home of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, accross the road form Buswells Hotel!

[martino]

I saw the attempted interview with Boyle last night and was struck by the arrogance of this unelected Billy Bunter - he waddled away from the cameras at a rate of knots all puffed up with self importance.

The guy is a coronary waiting to happen and should at once start himself on the muesli and asparagus diet so beloved by his fellow greens if he wants to save himself a trip to his local intensive care unit in the near future.

You'll often find him tucking in in Fitzer's on Dawson Street; loves his grub does Dan.

[martino]

The posts making quips about him being overweight, really not necessary and hardly original. He posts occasionally to this site, and these are personal attacks on one of the site's users.

There will be controversy about this everywhere. It cannot be stopped. Massive controversy.

[Malbekh]

There is a lot of political fun to be had with Dan Boyle without resorting to personal abuse.

[stripey cat]

There is a homeless man who spends a lot of time around Kildare Street/Molesworth Street who seems very troubled. A friend of mine wanted to give him a battery operated radio (because his had stopped working) but she was wary of approaching him because he can so scary. He is often to be seen shouting loudly at bemused French teenagers at the Alliance Francais on the corner. None of what he shouts seems to make much sense.

Usually the cops are pretty hot on any rough sleepers near the entrance to Leinster House and move them on, unless they are part of a protest or something, but this guy seems to left in peace.

I wonder what his story is...