UPDATE: The Limerick Leader has revised its story and now calls Linehan merely ONE of Boston's top politicians. You know what this calls for, of course:
There once was a paper in Hibernia
That seemed to confuse Boston with Serbia
A man named Linehan
They called the top strongman
Gave local writers a hernia
Bah, you think Bill Linehan is running away from a stupid breakfast? What need does Boston's most powerful politician have of a roast when he can spread his graciousness to the auld sod? Or so we gather from reading a paean to Linehan in the Limerick Leader, the newspaper in the Irish metropolis where Linehan will be spending St. Patrick's Day.
BOSTON’s top politician will be the guest of honour at Limerick’s St Patrick’s Day parade this year. ...
Meanwhile, Boston’s second most powerful politician, Mayor Marty Walsh says the start of a new daily service between Shannon and Logan Airport will aid business opportunities between the two cities.
H/t Gin Dumcius, who keeps up with the Irish press like nobody's business.
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Linehan may be the #1 in
By Lmo
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 9:13pm
Linehan may be the #1 in "Stab city", Marty is #1 in Galway.
Stab is the word
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 10:18am
So LInehan is going to the Stab City parade, and Mayor Marty is from a part of the Dot called Stab & Kill. Nice.
Our greatest shame
By WorldClassCity
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 9:40pm
Why can't this city elect better politicians? World class leadership in science, innovation, industry, healthcare, education, finance, art, media, and sport, yet we consistently have throwbacks and holdovers from the 1970s in office.
Who's Better
By BostonDog
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 11:01pm
Not that I disagree that our elected officials suck but can you name any US city with a really smart leadership who deliver good services without corruption?
Local politics has always been the most slimy and likely always will -- little oversight, lots of authority, easy elections.
right, the federal government is sooo great
By deselby
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 6:49am
Local government is most slimy? What country have you been you living in the last ten years?
Compared to the large-scale institutional corruption of federal prosecutors exempting the strong and hammering the weak, pork and waste in federal procurement, including military purchases unwanted by the military itself, intelligence agencies which break the law, spy on Americans, and lie about it, a foreign policy that seeks to manipulate the government of the Ukraine and gets lots of people killed in many countries, among other faults, local government is pristine.
I'd rather have Marty Walsh and the Boston City Council, including that fool Linehan, running the country than Obama and the Congress right now.
That's not how human nature works
By Nicholas LeCompte
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 8:44am
"Sure, they're jerks at a local level, probably bigger jerks than Obama was at a local level, and oversee a blatantly authoritarian local police department, but I'm sure that if local politicians had access to more powerful levers of power, the power would be used responsibly. After all, look at classic local politician Ronald Reagan."
Nicholas, who said this? Or
By bibliotequetress
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 7:14pm
Nicholas, who said this? Or is it your own quote?
A race to the bottom, eh?
By BostonDog
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 9:59am
I don't disagree with you but the city council has access to relatively small sums of money so the corruption appears to be relatively small in comparison with the upper branches of government. To become an elected official with any authority on any level you need the backing of special interests (such as Marty Walsh to unions, many US Senators to the Tea Party, etc) and these groups don't lend their support for free. That's what you get when you have a city/state/nation of apathetic, misinformed voters.
Thank heavens for blogs and the internet
By sad truth
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 10:23am
And who informs most of the voters? Media outlets (public & private) with incestuous ties to political parties and self interested corporations or unions.
well, we're trying to keep up with the big kids...
By aging cynic
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 9:07am
http://www.examiner.com/article/top-ten-most-dange...
Oh please
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 10:18am
Since when is "the Examiner" actual reputable journalism?
And you want violent? Try much of the rural South.
"Reputable Journalism" is an oxymoron.
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 12:11pm
The murder capitols of the US are almost exclusively rust belt cities and a few Californian nightmares.
The FBI recommends ...
By Patrick
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 1:56pm
"The FBI web site recommends against using its data for ranking because these rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents." From Wikipedia.
=)
By Cambridge, MA
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 10:24am
OH HAI!
sorry
By JohnAKeith
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 9:45pm
don't hate on me, I retweeted w/out crediting him.
Malarky? Or Blarney?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 9:45pm
Which is it?
Blarney, of course
By anon
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 11:03pm
Malarkey is of American origin. Nothing Irish about it.
There is a great new tunnel under the Shannon
By John Costello
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 10:00pm
Which means you don't have to have to see Very Important Bill or Stab City when driving from West Cork to Galway. Win Win.
Funny, they seem to have omitted the part about
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 10:15pm
him not being around for the parade and how he doesn't want to hear any shit from the old townies about Linda Forry.
Limerick Parade
By Lmo
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 10:31pm
I wouldn't be surprised if Bill turns this into an annual trip.
Linehan
By anon
Mon, 02/17/2014 - 11:13pm
I am disappointed. That is all I will say.
There once was a bhoy named Bill
By deselby
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 12:41am
There once was a bhoy named Bill
A Haitian girl thwarted his will
He was cut to the quick
And flew off to Limerick
Where he ended up drinking his fill.
Linehan is a clown. The sad thing is that the Leader story is probably based on quotes from him. He probably believes he's Boston's most powerful politician.
No class. When Linda does well, or at least OK, he'll look even smaller.
who's paying for the trip?
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 5:18am
he could be walking into an ethics violation.
Begging for it
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 6:36am
C'mon folks, this is required of us.
Unhappy with breakfast selection,
Bill Linehan fled in dejection.
Said Dorcena Mc Forry,
"Oh Billy, don't worry!
You just have to win an election."
I posted mine in the previous thread
By Kaz
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 10:31am
Southie pols usually do the booking
For the Patty Day breakfast cooking
But Bill Linehan
Is not much of a man
If he can't try some Irish Black pudding
Another Limerick attempt
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 11:13am
Linehan was vexed about breakfast
Got his shamrock knickers in a twist
So he crossed the ocean
To become the top man
Where they let folks march with a limp wrist
Move aside
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 2:29pm
In flight from a putdown domestical
To green isles he went on a questical.
The Cowardly Linehan
Will just lose his mind again
When the Wizard cannot find his testicles
Is he taking Michelle Wu with
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 8:30am
Is he taking Michelle Wu with him, she must be so proud of her mentor.
"ONE of Boston's top politicians"
By anon
Tue, 02/18/2014 - 10:15am
Assuming the original reporting was correct, the Limerick website has now changed their headline, with the word "ONE" capitalized. Linehan is a sore loser and a coward. Good choice for Council President you losers, and that means you, Michelle.