This is on tonight, sickening to see the cute hoorism that people engage in. No doubt the cost of paying these bungs to make planning objections "disappear" is passed on to property buyers. https://www.rte.ie/news/investigations-unit/2023/1203/1419888-the-self-styled-ngo-withdrawing-planni...

I watched Plague of the Zombies (1966) on Legend, one of the best Hammer productions and still enjoyable if you accept the fact that it is a near 60 year old British film

Ireland is not a rigorous country - much of what we do is sloppy and half arsed. We fly by the seat of our pants and react rather than plan. We have numerous issues with record keeping and "IT issues". So it is not surprising at all that dealing with immigration and the consequences of sam...

If you take out the cover and leave it somewhere well ventilated for a few days, would the petrol not just evaporate?

Paul Reynolds on this evening's Six One reported that the rioters were volatile and unstable men and that they didn't loot books or workwear. Now these statements may well be factually correct and people online are making similar comments (which is probably where Reynolds got this idea from) But for...

As bad as this was, in terms of emergency response it could hardly have happened in a better location. Emergency services were on the scene very quickly and the location is within running distance of some major hospitals. Different story if it happened in many other parts of the country. I won't com...

At least Aoife and her reindeer haven't appeared yet.

I dread Christmas and this time of year, if I could go into hibernation about now and wake up at the start of February, I would.

If it had been part of their 1960s catalogue and I heard it for the first time today I'd probably be "meh". But given the circumstances, a wave of nostalgia and emotion came over me today. That included the realisation that it is now 28 years since Free as a Bird was released which was 25 ...

Given the serious subject matter, I shouldn't have broken my hole laughing at the language used by the UK government during Covid. But I did.

Sky news has been covering the release of British government Covid emails and messages all morning and is constantly apologising for the language used as they are read out. A message has just been read out that described someone as a "useless fcukpig" and a "cnut". All of this we...

Everyone should visit a municipal waste water plant at some point. You might start having deep thoughts about life and human existence as you watch the sewage flow by, knowing that it contains thousands of people's sh*t, piss, blood, cum, vomit etc. that they discharged from their orifices. Still, n...

Had the septic tank emptied earlier in the year, walked over to the two lads doing the work who were in hysterics laughing at the amount of used, tied condoms that had swollen-up like little balloons and were floating along the top of my tank. There seemed to be hundreds of em, the lads were joking...

Appears to have been a very successful operation and there are skilled and good people in our farcically under resourced defence forces. There was a lot of PR type language in the reporting though, We've seen this before when the ARW was deployed to Afghanistan after the US withdrawal. According to ...

Big piece on RTE Six One this evening about the rape of "Emily" and possibly other elderly patients with dementia in a HSE nursing home. Surprise surprise, RTE has again failed to name the perpetrator, Emmanuel Adenjii who was convicted of rape and sentenced to 11 years in 2020. https://ww...

As usual, RTE are unbelievable, referring to what happened in Dublin airport as a "public order incident" and providing very few details. Anyone reading this story might well think that it was some drunken fistfight https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2023/0917/1405769-dublin-airport/ Other m...

I don't like the current Rockshore ad with groups of twats "slagging" and making a show of their "friends". Well it's not the ad itself that annoys me but that type of behaviour.

The 1983 Reeling In The Years has a great distillation of the All Ireland football final - the fouls & the drama all condensed into around a minute or two of footage. All to the sound of Michael Jackson - Beat It. With some great editing. I think RITY is better than the BBC's Rock N'Roll years....

After my father passed away I was expecting a bill of perhaps 3,000 euro as there was a delay setting up the Fair Deal scheme and some payments were missed. I received a bill of nearly 16,000 euro! They had billed 80 euro for Chiropodist services, 50 for a haircut every two weeks; a full day’s staf...

Whenever I hear about abuse in nursing homes, I look at the HSE's Fair Deal documents to see how much people who were abused would have been paying. https://www2.hse.ie/services/schemes-allowances/fair-deal-scheme/financial-assessment/ I find it interesting that the link to see the costs for public ...

Institutional abuse - we have a "proud" history of it in this country, Problem is, it's far from historical. It's still there, bubbling away under the surface. The nursing home sector is regulated by HIQA and receives a huge amount of public funding yet we have all manner of problems, some...

Like everything it is the usual knee jerk reaction to make it look like our legislators are actually doing something. Bunch of clowns and ar**holes. Someone could use the song "clowns to right of me, clowns to the left of me" to describe the Dail. Only the other day I used example of how ...

jmayo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:40 pm Are you telling us you got all of those without googling

Ha, I did indeed, I've been collecting this morbid information in my head for years, mainly from news reports and Wikipedia's daily Deaths page. The latter is how I heard about Jack Sonni.

How could I have forgotten Tina Turner though.

Forgot one - Alan Lancaster from Status Quo

With the news today that Jack Sonni from Dire Straits has died, anyone up for a morbid exercise (no googling) of listing out those who performed or were associated with Live Aid in 1985 who have died. Freddie Mercury David Bowie Levi Stubbs Obie Benson Lawrence Payton Rick Parfitt Benjamin Orr Ric O...

Cashel collision deaths were apparently rear seat passengers, two adults and infant. In a situation like this you'd have to question whether they were wearing seatbelts and was the infant in a child seat. Clonmel collision seems like a case of utter stupidity - narrow road on outskirts of a town, pr...