Did Joseph O'Brien ever get a kiss?

The guy spooks me pa, but I'm not allowed say such a thing.

You can say what you want Silver,my perception of him is different to yours, i might be wrong and you might be right.Think myself he is well mannered and a very good jockey(cue nepotism).Still he is only a young fella and don,t think he warrants your criticism.

seems a nice mild mannered young fella,comes across as totally dedicated to his riding and constantly proving the doubters wrong..

Scrub first sentence above,obviously you aren,t allowed to say such a thing giving the removal of the opening post.

might as well get rid of the whole thread if the opening post was deemed for some reason offensive?

Silvergreaser tis you that's spooking people.

As someone who rates you as a poster could you not forget this obsession for a while,I have no problem with you criticising Aidan OBrien but these attacks on his family are unworthy of you.
You have children of your own so you must get that some things are just pure wrong.

Would you like it written on a public forum about you Silver?
To be fair Joe himself won,t rightly answer back.

Thats the thing wildman I've reared 3 children and have 2 grandchildren I'm 47. I gave my kids independence whether that was a good thing or not but I never forgot that my children were individuals and I encouraged that.

Basically I never pressured them into doing something they didn't want to do, but I'm fairly sure the O'Brien clan are blissfully happy when they don't even know what life is?

silver your being v disrespectful .many kids ear shades?so what?.you right and were all wrong?,,hardly

Fairly sad that a 47 year old man should start such a thread.
Aidan O'Brien by all accounts is a gentleman,to be personally insulting him and his family on an here is completely out of order (Whatever you think about Coolmore/ballydoyle,you're crossing a line here).
Bitterness,Begrudgery and hate are eating you up.

Its only natural for children to look up to their parents,they might have demanded shades.

You don't know whether they are being pressured or not.

I agree with you about giving your children independance,I would have been delighted if one of mine followed my line of work but they weren't having it,probably right as well.

anyone that ever met him has the height of praise or him..

Funny I'm sticking up for his children and I'm been castigated?, pot kettle, but the drama queens always pick the message up entirely the wrong way.

I will not for the world of me apologise!

Ask the O'Brien children, do they know what life is?

Funny I'm sticking up for his children and I'm been castigated?, pot kettle, but the drama queens always pick the message up entirely the wrong way.

I will not for the world of me apologise!

Ask the O'Brien children, do they know what life is?

Oh dj too be so pious?

Are you really sticking up for his children(not children now Silver,young adults)? It does seem to me you are prepared to stick the knife into young Joe at every opportunity you get.

What the hell is wrong with asking for the O'Brien children to live their lives like all the other children in the world, instead of been dictated by a child of god fearing Ireland.

But they are,they are working in the the best stable in the world.
It is their free choice,all probably love the thrill of race riding.

Silvergreaser,you're now blocked ,no interest in reading your bile and simplistic analysis regurgitated again and again.It's your rubbish that has driven all the decent posters off here.
I have never seen a losing punter so bitter and begrudging of anyone that is successful in the sport,give it a few weeks you will be ranting about Mullins drugging horses.
You keep stating that O'Brien would be a no mark(like you which is where all this anger and hatred stems from) without Galileo etc when the truth is he earned his place from the bottom up.

all I asked for was his children have some independence and I'm a devil

Whatever dj, your call, honesty doesn't seem fit in your world?.

bile???

Never can you accuse me of bile, forthright views but not bile.

Silver stay out of McDonalds someone is spiking your drink........

silver you a bit disturbed.im not blocking you cause i enjoy some of your idiotic ramblings.

here dj before you go point out the bile, can a person not have a view?.

All I ask is leave your children alone, let them be themselves, not groomed in the image of a god fearing product of rural Ireland

Thank god(pun)we have people who can see the world for what it is, and O'Brien keeps his children locked up in his own pious image?

What an effing wierdo?

thing is kavvie I'm not that idiotic, its the truth, so you watch the O'Brien clan walking down the straight at say Newmarket, crombie and dark glasses in tact is that right for a child, a kid been forced to wear shades?.

Ah but I'm a nut case far from it!

thing is kavvie I'm not that idiotic, its the truth, so you watch the O'Brien clan walking down the straight at say Newmarket, crombie and dark glasses in tact is that right for a child, a kid been forced to wear shades?.

Ah but I'm a nut case far from it!

kids mimic their parents all the time silver.did u not know that?

real life it seems is a million miles away?,

but a parent who is a dictator?

It really is a sad sight watching the O'Brien clan with their dark shades on walking up some racecourse and the proud nut case thinking every one loves him, am I the only one that finds that seriously uncomfortable?

a man obsessed with another man and his family and hes criticising them for not having a life!

A new low for the Irish Forum. Might have guessed the pits would be reached by Silvergreaser. Known looney.

Ah sure in our celebrity obsessed society or in this case a false deity, its me who is the looney not the looney himself!.

Imagine asking a simple question "did Joseph O'Brien ever get kissed?", and the drama queens go into meltdown mode.

He sent me a Christmas card last year.........nice lad.

It was more than asking a simple question Silver as you well know. Another attack on the O,Brien family in your paragraph that got removed,don,t be giving me you are hard done by with the drama queens going into meltdown at all,doesn,t wash.Honestly can,t fathom why you have such a preoccupation with them.
Nothing against you Silver,seen you help someone with their computer for a few hours on the HR forum and your hurling and general non O,brien/Mullins horse posts are good.

Lay off the sauce.

I have no doubt the vast majority of posters here are horrified by threads like this. No surprise there it just leaves a disgusting taste in the mouth and good quality opinion-formers leave in their droves. Its also a credit to BF that most free-speech is allowed and this brings more responsibility to individuals.

Something to balance the thread:

I was invited on a hillwalking tour of south tipp last month and among many memorable wooded walks I found myself scrambling through the brambles and bushes of Kilmacoliver Hill famous for a National Looped walk that originates in the beautiful co. kilkenny village of Tullahought. (The newly-refurbished pub in the village is a cracker and the locals have been on standby for the past five years ever since George Clooney traced his roots to a homestead close to the village). The brilliant Joe Crowley used to be based in Tullahought and led the way selling bumper winners to England when a hundred grand was money.

Kilmacoliver hill is also known locally as "Owning Hill" and the gallops of Aidan's satellite yard (formerly Joe's) are visible when you crest the hill and its beautiful landscape.

Anyhow, as I was pushing through some briars close to the hilltop thinking I would never see the light of day again the wood opened up unexpectedly to reveal a wide pathway between the trees and every 20yards or so there was a bundle of logs crossing the pathway to provide a jumping channel that was as intriguing as it was unexpected. I guess it hadnt been used for 10 years or more. I was wondering if I had discovered the training ground on which young Joseph O'Brien and his siblings honed their skills on their ponies?  (or possibly even Anne-Marie and her sisters?)

Look I just made an observation looking at the O'Brien clan on tv down the years, its not hard to come to the conclusion that they haven't been afforded any freedom to express themselves as individuals molded into their fathers image of piousness and sobriety when there is a real world out there, if that makes me a demon, well so be it.

You've deduced that they haven't been afforded any freedom by the fact that they wear sunglasses!....incredible imo......you should be on the telly......

by wearing sunglasses should set off many an alarm bell.

Kids don't wear sunglasses end of story.

Its spooky looking at kids wearing sunglasses and I'm the demon?

I never went anywhere without Sunglasses when i were a lad.

Jr the thing is I never said anything offensive on this thread.

Yet I have horns grown out of my head for wishing the O'Brien children can be themselves?.

I don't think you're being offensive tbf......maybe just a tad presumptive though.....

Well jr do you think a 20 year old ever got kissed?

Is that not spooky or what?

Normality would suggest that life begins at 13 but if your part of the sheltered O'Brien clan your not entitled to live?.

How dare my children absorb that big bad world out there?.

Whether he has or hasn't why should it be a concern of yours?

Fair point jr it really should'nt concern me, but maybe I feel a little sorry for children who cannot express themselves as individuals?

Presumption again Silver!....

I'm sure the O'Brien clan are happy in their own cocoon jr, but there is a real life out there somewhere?

A new low for the forum?

bloody hell is that a drama queen overreaction or what?

All I asked did Joseph O'Brien ever get kissed?, and thats a new forum low, heaven help us?

One poster thinks its spooky if a 20 year old has ever been kissed.Strange he asks this question of one twenty year old without any knowledge of whether he has or not.Interesting he doesn't ask the question about any other twenty year old jockey.Its just another example of the posters unhealthy obsession about starting threads concerning one racing family.

Personally I feel it far more spooky that the thought even crossed the mind of  a 47 year old man.

Personally I feel it far more spooky that the thought even crossed the mind of  a 47 year old man.

Maybe Joseph O'Brien is incredibly promiscuous and has had a hundred girlfriends, somehow I doubt it big time.

Something not quite healthy about a guy of 20 years not having a relationship with the opposite sex, but of course I'm the weirdo?.

What world are you guys living in, please tell me?

the thing is tolmi that the thought did actually cross my mind means I do actually live in the real world not a cocoon of a fathers pious vision.

A thread that pretty much sums up the depths to which the Irish Forum has now sunk. What a sorry trail of absolute bollox the above amounts to.

put up a bet soldier and lets see what yre made off or stfu,leave the sil alone hes the forum drunk!

fk hell silvergreaser , your comments are absolutely shocking , would u ever cop on !

totally out of order.really low.

This thread should be removed for the sake of Silvergreaser.
A prurient interest in a 20 year old jockey is just pure wrong,its driven by a hatred of the best trainer in the world.
Silvergreaser seems to hate the fact the family are close most see this as commendable,he seems to think his politeness is a bad thing again most think this is commendable.

Silvergreaser has fair points to make on other racing matters and i wish he could forget this OBrien vendetta and not comment on him for a few momths.

This thread should be removed for the sake of Silvergreaser.
A prurient interest in a 20 year old jockey is just pure wrong,its driven by a hatred of the best trainer in the world.
Silvergreaser seems to hate the fact the family are close most see this as commendable,he seems to think his politeness is a bad thing again most think this is commendable.

Spot on wildman. Really strange stuff from silver

Distubing thread . SG,you really could do with professional help with this AOB issue. Your thoughts on other issues are worthwhile but there is something not right when it comes to AOB and the family.

A fairly rotten thread by all accounts.

Ironically, if racecourse rumours are to be believed, Joseph is currently with a young lady that would be the envy of most people in or out of racing.

to call the thread disturbing means some people are very easily offended.

Anyway the public image is often just that a public image.

My last contribution to the thread.

people arnt easily offended at all sg.it just unhealthy for anyone to be saying what you say about a family you know nothing about except their public persona.

APOB should step up security, silvergreasers strange obsession is like mark chapman and john lennon.

He will be getting a smacker tonite......

Good picture with Aiden wearing the leger hat and both him and Joe bursting laughing and giving the thumbs up.

All Hats are ok PA but hopefully they weren't wearing any of those evil sunglasses.

Twas kind of a tinted lenses with Aiden(a honey colour), not sure what the official line with these tbh.

A solid young man, great breeding.

Silver is a sicko IMO

I wasn't going to reply again to this thread but I'll stick by what I think about the guy, you can have your opinion about what the public image serves but I'm entitled to mine, but don't call me a sicko as I'm a millions miles from a sicko!.

"I criticise a mans dress sense, his parenting skills, his family values, hi ethics and then try to open a debate about it by questioning his kids success with the opposite sex.....


...AND IM THE BAD GUY?????????"

Jesus what actually qualifies as offensive in your sheltered worlds?, this thread is my observation of a father who is a control freak behind the media front.

A 20 year old adult treated as if he was still 10 years of age and I'm the demon, go figure?

Oh their so polite, wow!!, my children are polite too, does that give them some sort of high moral ground?

A control freak of a father who gives off a false persona to the slurping media.

Dare we say anything as the O'Brien family walk up some racecourse or other shades and crombie intact and thats normal?

Look at me and my perfect family, I hope everyone is watching?

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