Kathy Griffin booed by Irish crowd, passes out during “craziest ever” Dublin show

Irish Central ^ | November 10, 2017 04:44 AM | Irish Central Staff

[Olog-hai]

Kathy Griffin was booed by the crowd at her Dublin performance on Wednesday, November 8 after she mistakenly included Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.

She stated it was nice “being in the United Kingdom,” and seemed genuinely shocked when the friendly crowd suddenly turned to her booing and catcalling.

Griffin became so startled she had difficulty continuing with her routine, The New York Times reported.

Most of the Irish people at the show in Vicar Street clearly believed Griffin, an Irish American, should have known better. She has been a frequent visitor there and visited her grandmother’s hometown of Drogheda in Co. Louth in 2007 with a TV camera in tow. Her Irish escapades were filmed for her Bravo series “My Life on the D List.” She was given a civic reception. …

[TheShaz]

She really is as dumb as she is ugly.

[Tennessee Nana]

or to New Zealand and Australia...

[jmaroneps37]

As I said before this sick woman needs to get a better smarter writer. She clearly can’t say two words of her own.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai. And thanks to whomever put in my old " fartyshadesofgreen" keyword.

[Olog-hai]

Not quite. De facto independence happened in 1937 when the monarch relinquished all governmental ties (then George VI) and turned everything over to the Irish president. De jure independence happened when the 1948 legislation that officially had Ireland rename itself a republic was passed.

However, joining the EEC in 1972 was an act of Ireland throwing away its independence. The Third Amendment declared that laws out of Brussels would “have the force of law in the state”, thus putting a foreign government’s laws supreme over any law coming out of Dublin.

And the Treaty of Maastricht, which renamed the EEC to the EU, was an act of reunifying Ireland and Britain, albeit both under the rule of a foreign government. Even worse, it saw Ireland throw away its own currency.

[polymuser]

Hey, she was probly tired from her trip to the Austrian outback.

[polymuser]

The female Bill Maher. Ugly inside and out. Pity her.

[Vaduz]

Somebody’s corn field is missing something.

[Bon mots]

[Kudsman]

Goodness that is one very homely woman.

[Olog-hai]

Did she get to learn any of the Austrian language? Her hero Obama could have tutored her.

[sparklite2]

I find it actually rather boorish to ask a total stranger such a personal question

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Well, I’ve never been known as politically correct.

[alexander_busek]

Well, I’ve never been known as politically correct.

Has nothing to do with being P.C.

Has everything to do with not being an a**-hole.

Regards,

[sparklite2]

Good
For
You

[Olog-hai]

Good manners ≠ political correctness; quite the opposite. In fact, boorish manners are a characteristic of the left.

[sparklite2]

When I lived in Canada people were always asking where I was from. Never occurred to me to be offended. So I don’t really care what you think.

[higgmeister]

Not quite. De facto independence happened in 1937 when the monarch relinquished all governmental ties (then George VI) and turned everything over to the Irish president. De jure independence happened when the 1948 legislation that officially had Ireland rename itself a republic was passed.

We measure our independence from 1776 in spite of the fighting lasting until the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The British continued to keep fortifications on the Canadian border and even built an additional fort in present day Ohio in 1794. After that, the British invaded the United States and burned Washington DC during the War of 1812 with belligerence continuing until the Treaty of Ghent in 1815. Even after that, disagreements with the United Kingdom along the Continental Divide lasted until the Oregon Treaty was finalized by arbitration in 1872.

So, I suppose it all depends on who is telling the story.

[Albion Wilde]

And the irony is that they were “united” with Britain again under the EU.

That's like saying that Finland and Spain are somehow one nation because they are both in the EU.

The point is, a bloody war was fought for Republic of Ireland's freedom from UK, harking back to the horrors of the potato famine and the political oppression of Irish Catholics, and they felt justifiably disrespected.

[Albion Wilde]

I once heard President Obama give an address in Honolulu in which he described being "here in Asia."

The press probably clasped its hands in adoration. And started a Twitter campaign to "free Hawaii from colonialist white America."

[COBOL2Java]

BLANKET EXCUSE

Connecticut residents Anne and Paul Rapo love visiting New Mexico, but they have to board their cat, Pangea, before leaving. On their most recent trip, they were greeted by a new kennel manager, who reviewed Pangea’s prior record from their earlier trip to New Mexico. “Will you be leaving the country again?” the manager asked. “We quickly answered that we were going to New Mexico again and not Mexico,”Anne says.

The manager and her assistant stared quietly at each other, then changed the subject to feeding instructions for the cat. Upon returning, the Rapos realized that they had failed to leave their kitty with his favorite Mexican blankets to sleep on.

Anne wonders if that made the staff think they had left the country on their last visit. But Pangea, named for the globe’s onetime supercontinent, might say it’s really all one country anyway.