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by John
Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:14 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: The Aaron Brady, Garda killer case
Replies: 1
Views: 88

The Aaron Brady, Garda killer case

Apart from apparently going around boasting about killing a Garda killer , was there any actual hard evidence against him ? Like the Derek Bentley case many years ago in England, when a police officer is killed on duty, everyone from police colleagues to the general public want to see someone go dow...
by John
Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Topic: Vaccine megathread
Replies: 2606
Views: 568338

Re: Vaccine megathread

Will this exposure make much difference to all those who accepted the jabs? https://www.globalresearch.ca/german-government-admits-there-was-no-pandemic/5853916 As for as the general Irish public are concerned, unless RTE/Newstalk/Virgin Media/Today FM/The Irish times/Irish independent are reportin...
by John
Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: Radio
Topic: 60th Anniversary of Radio Caroline
Replies: 2
Views: 143

Re: 60th Anniversary of Radio Caroline

I remember John Clarke on 2fm celebrated it's 40th birthday on his jukebox show Easter Sunday 2004, didn't that 20 years fly 😲.
by John
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:07 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Luke Ming Flanagan
Replies: 3
Views: 189

Luke Ming Flanagan

I really hope this tosser losses his seat in Junes Euro elections, he is as useful as a tit on a bull and is no more anti establishment then Enda Kenny is.
by John
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Bambie Thug - - Ireland's Eurovision enty..
Replies: 78
Views: 3372

Re: Bambie Thug - - Ireland's Eurovision enty..

Just saw a promo vid of her ... 2 questions - What the hell is "non binary" ?? Seriously I'd love to know what that means ... - Why is society enabling and celebrating clear mental illness ?? "Non binary" apparently means that one doesn't feel either male or female. I think the ...
by John
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:02 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Simon Harris
Replies: 13
Views: 609

Re: Simon Harris

Nobody has mentioned the elephant in the room about the fact that he is only 37, next spring after he loses, he will still have 24/7 Garda protection for the rest of his life
by John
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Traditional forums that are still going in Ireland (excluding "planks")
Replies: 4
Views: 250

Re: Traditional forums that are still going in Ireland (excluding "planks")

Obviously you didnt know much about Askaboutmoney back during the construction bubble. Posts and posters questioning it very not welcome. Of course owner famously went on 61 news to tell people to go out and buy boot loads of Irish bank shares as the banks were going into liquidation. Can't remembe...
by John
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Traditional forums that are still going in Ireland (excluding "planks")
Replies: 4
Views: 250

Traditional forums that are still going in Ireland (excluding "planks")

Politics.ie and askaboutmoney are the only two that I'd know well, P.ie seems to be ticking over ok with posts all things considered but I've no idea who owns/runs it nowadays. I always found the askaboutmoney owner to be a bit of a jerk but I found the place ok until 20 when any posts quesioning go...
by John
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: 4yrs on : The "Ventilator shortage "
Replies: 10
Views: 400

Re: 4yrs on : The "Ventilator shortage "

Something that is not in dispute is that RTE devoted hundreds of hours of news coverage to Covid and Covid deaths - yet, earlier this year when the OECD research showed that there were zero excess deaths in Ireland during the pandemic, RTE gave that about 5 minutes, buried in the middle of couple o...
by John
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:13 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: 4yrs on : The "Ventilator shortage "
Replies: 10
Views: 400

4yrs on : The "Ventilator shortage "

A lot of people seem to have forgotten the Genesis of lockdowns in Europe, This time 4 years ago, we were being bombarded with daily death numbers from Italy and also bring told that Italy had run out of Ventilators and hospitals had to choose to let 50yos die to give 40yos a Ventilator. Funnily eno...
by John
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: Radio
Topic: Old Radio discussion website
Replies: 5
Views: 341

Re: Old Radio discussion website

What's the deal with the 3 or 4 posters in the "other place" who keep having the same conversation/debate about the DAB radio platform every few weeks??? And the main culprit for bringing up the topic gives me chatgbt vibes
by John
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: People who get caught by "paedophile hunters"
Replies: 4
Views: 214

People who get caught by "paedophile hunters"

Unless I'm missing something, I presume the way it works is that the "paedophile hunter" posing as an early -mid teens girl randomly messages a guy on social media? If so I'm amazed that anyone would still be falling for it, I mean it's right up there now with the Nigerian Prince and Ugand...
by John
Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:47 am
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: We didn't call the decade the "10S" when we were living through it
Replies: 5
Views: 216

Re: We didn't call the decade the "10S" when we were living through it

To be fair, the noughties had become common before the end of that decade, I remember using it in 2003, although it was the first time the people I was talking to had heard it
by John
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:01 am
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: We didn't call the decade the "10S" when we were living through it
Replies: 5
Views: 216

We didn't call the decade the "10S" when we were living through it

I notice that the years 2010 to 2019 are referred to widely now as the 10s, The BBC have recently launched a Sounds of the 10s hour on Radio 1 for example. Living through it though, it was completely nameless
by John
Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:56 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: African "Orphanages " The New Nigerian prince
Replies: 3
Views: 200

Re: African "Orphanages " The New Nigerian prince

Joe Duffffy would call them very very sophisticated scams
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by John
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:35 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: African "Orphanages " The New Nigerian prince
Replies: 3
Views: 200

African "Orphanages " The New Nigerian prince

There is this phenomena in parts of Africa of young single men running "orphanages" and using social media to beg for money with hard luck stories of one or more of the kids needing life saving treatment etc. The truth is that the kids usually aren't really orphans and the young man owner ...
by John
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:03 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: The covid scam saved the world
Replies: 4
Views: 239

The covid scam saved the world

Covid saved the world economy, even the biggest anti lockdown libertarian (hell that's exactly what Boris Johnson is) would have gone along with it if the alternative was a worldwide financial meltdown.
by John
Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: 2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?
Replies: 10
Views: 392

Re: 2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?

Not too mention the report by Peter Bacon that said we had far too many hotels: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/quarter-of-hotel-rooms-must-close-says-bacon-1.770198 Incidentally, he was right and if it wasn't for all the Direct Provision etc. the dire state of of our hotel sector would be more...
by John
Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:17 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: 2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?
Replies: 10
Views: 392

2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?

I remember during the crazy Celtic tiger days, you had Morgan Kelly and David McWilliams on TV predicting that it would end but I don't recall anyone saying in the early 10s that we should be building social housing, indeed the narrative was pretty much that we had enough houses until the end of tim...
by John
Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:26 pm
Forum: Radio
Topic: Old Radio discussion website
Replies: 5
Views: 341

Old Radio discussion website

Does anyone remember the name of the Irish radio forum in the late 90s in which many insiders used to post on ? It may have been a subforum of P45.net It definitely wasn't the boards.ie one, that one is still going and is full of idiots who listen to radio shows that they hate and people who think a...
by John
Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:42 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: IMMIGRATION OUT OF CONTROL
Replies: 820
Views: 1317854

Re: IMMIGRATION OUT OF CONTROL

The general public got fed up with the Ukrainians very quickly
by John
Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Nitrogen Execution
Replies: 16
Views: 1331

Re: Nitrogen Execution

The only person I've ever thought who should probably get the death penalty is Gerard Barry from Galway city but even then after thinking about it more, I reckon spending 65 years in prison is a better punishment
by John
Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Nitrogen Execution
Replies: 16
Views: 1331

Re: Nitrogen Execution

It's a strange world, isn't it ? If that guy had done that crime in Ireland or most other Westen countries, he'd have been released from prison about 20 years ago.
by John
Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: USA Election 2024
Replies: 7
Views: 566

Re: USA Election 2024

Imagine if in 2020, Hillary Clinton was POTUS and the UK had a Labour Party PM & Government , we'd have all said that covid lockdowns & all the other clown World covid polices would never have happened if Donald Trump & Boris Johnson were in office. It seriously doesn't matter what actor...
by John
Mon Jan 22, 2024 4:46 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: A pity that this place is so quiet
Replies: 89
Views: 5906

Re: A pity that this place is so quiet

Quato wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:32 pm Seriously- I don't have a clue what the "other place" is.
www.P45.net 😉