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Áine's avatar

I see so many political leaders who are clearly on cocaine. It is absolutely mental. I tend to think it’s to escape from the wrongs they have done and continue to perpetuate..

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Stephen J. Delaney's avatar

It’s to cover up the self perceived lack of personality. The longer they cement over it the less personality they are left with when they sober up.

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Áine's avatar

That too!

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T Ryan's avatar

Excellent article Stephen as always. This hits home. You have nailed the true ugliness of a parasitic cocaine addiction better than anything I've read before. This horrific drug has seeped into our homes and stripped away people's souls. It has robbed us of our young men 😞 the destruction it causes is beyond what most people realise. Another actual pandemic covered up and not spoken about.

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Stephen J. Delaney's avatar

I focus a lot on how things affect our attempts to better a Ireland and cocaine is a direct enemy of the recruitment process

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Ciaran Cosgrave's avatar

I'm a longtime MMA fan and someone who had great admiration for Mcgregor as a fighter and an exemplary acheiver. I never much liked his persona though. I much prefer the way GSP carried himself. People used to say that his apparent obnoxiousness was "just an act". I was never convinced. Neither was Jose Aldo's wife who, in an interview which I'll never forget, seemed genuinely frightened for her husband in advance of their fight. She said that she thought that Mcgregor was a psychopath. Well, he has clearly become more and more unhinged. I don't see him as any sort of leader for our young men. Him telling them to make honest women of their childhood sweethearts would be ridiculous and hypocritical, given the fact that, at 37 YOA, he still hasn't done that with his own beautiful lady. He does seem to be in throws of some kind of drug-fueled implosion and it's sad to see. I hope he does manage heal himself and get himself on track. Do I see him as a leader? A good leader? Absolutely not.

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Stephen J. Delaney's avatar

If he redeemed himself he could be. You have to remember the lions share of the lemmings who put their hair into a man bun are still hanging on his every word. That’s the effect that counts. He is clearly a bollox.

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Roy0501's avatar

Cocaine is a complete fucking scourge. It's pathetic when you see my age bracket (Gen-Xers) who can't even go for a few pints without making a phone call first to get some sneachta. The whole culture amongst men has become a mix of faggotry and niggerisation.

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Stephen J. Delaney's avatar

Only people who worship themselves take Cocaine.

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