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by Calahonda52
Fri Jun 07, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Thank you Nigel
Replies: 1
Views: 744

Thank you Nigel

From another forum: please add any other positives of Brexit I would like to thank Nigel Farage. Thanks Nigel for fighting so hard for Brexit. Thank you for preventing me from travelling freely across Europe. I am grateful that I can no longer simply work and live across the continent, buy a house, ...
by Calahonda52
Sun Sep 17, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Russell Brand
Replies: 89
Views: 118467

Re: Russell Brand

I remember years ago when he was constantly in the news and something seemed very off with him. Hadn't heard of him in years though. Wasn't it him and Johnathon Ross made the call to Manuel from Fawlty Towers about his granddaughter. If I remember that correctly he is a c*nt. 100% https://www.thesu...
by Calahonda52
Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Concern raised over finances of nursing home residents
Replies: 10
Views: 11155

Re: Concern raised over finances of nursing home residents

The staffing model is not the issue here, its not respecting the assets of the residents. This BS is on their website Our Approach Our commitment is to ensure that all our Aperee homes operate under the four pillars of Respect Trust Excellence Compassion These four pillars guide us in our day-to-day...
by Calahonda52
Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:45 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Concern raised over finances of nursing home residents
Replies: 10
Views: 11155

Concern raised over finances of nursing home residents

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0907/1403931-hiqa-nursing-homes/ Concern is far too weak a word for this the reports are here https://www.hiqa.ie/reports-and-publications/inspection-reports an example "In Aperee Living Tralee, the April inspection found the home did not have a separate res...
by Calahonda52
Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:31 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Jet skiers killed by Algeria coast guard after losing way
Replies: 5
Views: 3514

Jet skiers killed by Algeria coast guard after losing way

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/0901 ... et-skiers/
Two holidaymakers jet skiing in Morocco were shot dead by the Algerian coast guard when they strayed across the maritime border between two Mediterranean countries, Moroccan media reported.
by Calahonda52
Tue Aug 29, 2023 10:01 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Time to end the Notting Hill Carnival???
Replies: 18
Views: 6163

Re: Time to end the Notting Hill Carnival???

No way, attend every year since my first one in 1975
by Calahonda52
Tue Aug 29, 2023 9:40 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Australian doctors find live parasitic worm in woman's brain
Replies: 3
Views: 3573

Australian doctors find live parasitic worm in woman's brain

Must say I enjoyed reading this earlier while nibbling on a salad straight, and unwashed, from the garden https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/0829/1402191-worm-australia/ Researchers believe the woman was infected after foraging for edible shrubs near her house, which were likely contaminated with pa...
by Calahonda52
Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:31 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: UK Post Office scandal
Replies: 0
Views: 58713

UK Post Office scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... up-justice
Worth a read idk you are not aware of it, makes you wonder what cluster fcuk AI will bring in this sort of area
by Calahonda52
Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:04 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Ramp worker killed again by ingestion into Jet Engine, in US
Replies: 5
Views: 4079

Re: Ramp worker killed again by ingestion into Jet Engine, in US

How did the worker survive the first time: "Ramp worker killed again...
by Calahonda52
Tue Jun 13, 2023 7:27 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Silvio Berlusconi dies
Replies: 9
Views: 2889

Re: Silvio Berlusconi dies

He learned the basics from our own CJH
by Calahonda52
Fri May 26, 2023 7:32 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Will South Africa become a failed state?
Replies: 22
Views: 4490

Re: Will South Africa become a failed state?

Good post CW:
This article gives a useful perspective
Kissinger at 100: how his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... ack-africa
by Calahonda52
Wed May 24, 2023 8:56 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Will South Africa become a failed state?
Replies: 22
Views: 4490

Will South Africa become a failed state?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65671718
is a good starting point
South Africa is heading into the southern hemisphere winter with the prospect of the country's worst-ever power cuts - up to 16 hours a day. The roots of the problem lie in poor management, corruption and sabotage.
by Calahonda52
Sat May 20, 2023 12:00 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: El Salvador's crackdown on gangs
Replies: 32
Views: 4724

Re: El Salvador's crackdown on gangs

At best it would remove the more visible aspect of drug taking and abuse. But people would still be taking them in their own homes. Few if any countries have successfully stemmed the flow of drugs into their countries. Their is no reason to think ireland would be different. Singapore has done it pr...
by Calahonda52
Wed May 17, 2023 11:36 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Intimate partner violence.
Replies: 24
Views: 5051

Re: Intimate partner violence.

GAA couldn't care less.
Regular on-field brawls, assaults on players, referees and other officials are ignored, so some ***** getting a few slaps at home wont bother them on bit
GAAGO
by Calahonda52
Tue May 16, 2023 10:24 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Intimate partner violence.
Replies: 24
Views: 5051

Re: Intimate partner violence.

I worked in Raharney, westmeath in the mid 70's in the precast concrete plant. After every local GAA match, when they came out of the pub, the women were " bet" home along the roads, especially with hurleys. I went, as a 20 year old to the garda station, the next day they were down checkin...
by Calahonda52
Sun May 14, 2023 11:23 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Another Crypto collapse: Irish this time
Replies: 0
Views: 56036

Another Crypto collapse: Irish this time

https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/this-has-ripped-apart-my-familys-future-investors-count-the-cost-as-james-kellys-crypto-venture-gigabyte-collapses/a1791421992.html A major row has erupted between the shareholders of now collapsed Gigabyte Investments, a crypto-focused trading platform founde...
by Calahonda52
Wed May 10, 2023 12:36 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Join the Mile high club in comfort
Replies: 2
Views: 673

Join the Mile high club in comfort

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... in-the-sky

its a 6 person pod so all possibilities catered for: front or and back, top bottom etc, may even have non binary options
by Calahonda52
Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:09 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: What is a suitable custodial sentence for this impersonation
Replies: 8
Views: 1438

What is a suitable custodial sentence for this impersonation

Five held in investigation into criminal gangs pretending to be gardaí
https://www.rte.ie/news/crime/2023/0425 ... i-arrests/

I would think 40 years, with no parole, good behaviour bullshit, given that execution is off the menu
by Calahonda52
Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:58 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: The Hutch trial
Replies: 57
Views: 17191

Re: The Hutch trial

maybe dowdall used it as a way to get witness protection, if his evidence stuck fine, if not, he was still getting WP it looks if he fcuked them over re the WP
by Calahonda52
Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:23 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Far Right loon gets 10 years for planning attack in Ireland
Replies: 7
Views: 1932

Re: Far Right loon gets 10 years for planning attack in Ireland

The UK will get him next
Mark Wolf, 37, who is from the UK, is also wanted there to face terrorist and child abuse offences.
by Calahonda52
Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:25 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: PwC warns clients to sell assets before Sinn Féin gets into power
Replies: 20
Views: 3284

PwC warns clients to sell assets before Sinn Féin gets into power

https://www.businesspost.ie/article/pwc-warns-clients-to-sell-assets-before-sinn-fein-gets-into-power/ A draft PwC report to their clients has advised them to accelerate their asset sales and boost their pension contributions in order to protect their wealth before Sinn Féin gets into power. The Big...
by Calahonda52
Fri Apr 07, 2023 3:24 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Did we learn nothing from the English view of Education
Replies: 2
Views: 690

Did we learn nothing from the English view of Education

https://www.independent.ie/business/iri ... 23385.html
Dublin’s Institute of Education sold to UK group
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This should have been blocked on National security grounds
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by Calahonda52
Tue Apr 04, 2023 6:15 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Swedish police moving ahead with plan to deport UK woman with Alzheimer’s
Replies: 12
Views: 5070

Re: Swedish police moving ahead with plan to deport UK woman with Alzheimer’s

knownunknown wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 5:42 pm Its 2,200 people from all of Europe being sent back to the UK. It’s spiteful and petty.
Not at all, why should these EU countries subsidise the Brits, who contribute SFA to EU coffers now.
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