General Current Affairs Chat - Global and Local

[isha]

Yeah someone made a point yesterday that if a competitor died at the Dublin city marathon it would not be cancelled. And tis true! I think!!
I just got a bit alarmed

[Beatty]

ye heard about that political song that went viral in the US? Tapped into an anger that seems to be widespread.
What is odd about it is the reaction from the media. Ive listend to the lyrics a few times carefully and cant finger it as far right. Maybe I`m the problem

[Beatty]

This is what goes for journalism. A pillar of democracy.

[DeletedUser]

This is what goes for journalism. A pillar of democracy.

I've listened to that song - he's right that the "right wing" love it, the left are too busy caring how he identifies and whether they can get graphic porn into school libraries in the guide of EDI.

Not my cuppa tbh musically but he cares about people, now wonder the Grauniad hate it. That rag stopped being linked to journalism the day that misogynistic rat Owen Jones blagged a job, bullied the female staff and got the great Suzanne Moore fired. Excellent article from her here:

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/opinion-left ... D3a6vR8uvl

[DeletedUser]

ye heard about that political song that went viral in the US? Tapped into an anger that seems to be widespread.
What is odd about it is the reaction from the media. Ive listend to the lyrics a few times carefully and cant finger it as far right. Maybe I`m the problem

I've just read the lyrics - it's not "fat-phobic" - as that (like non-binary) is NOT A REAL THING!!

Yeah if you are "300 lb and five feet 3" it is your own damn fault, and I was once 312lb and five feet one!!! I would die before I declared myself disabled just for being fat, good on him!!

[Setanta]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66565473


The British justice system is a joke....people getting hauled Infront of courts for possession of information that was made publicly available


How anyone can stand over this is beyond me

[Del.Monte]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66565473


The British justice system is a joke....people getting hauled Infront of courts for possession of information that was made publicly available


How anyone can stand over this is beyond me

Dickhead gets himself into trouble, I won't lose any sleep and he needs to find himself a more harmless hobby.

[isha]

This was the sea at the Iron Man event

[isha]

Triathlon Ireland would not sanction the swim segment of the iron man event on the day.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/08 ... k-ironman/

[isha]

Definition of nightmare. Woman in 40s assaulted by burglars who broke into her house at 3 am in Donegal.

https://www.donegaldaily.com/2023/08/22 ... n-milford/

[DeletedUser]

Definition of nightmare. Woman in 40s assaulted by burglars who broke into her house at 3 am in Donegal.

https://www.donegaldaily.com/2023/08/22 ... n-milford/

Christ, as a woman your mind goes to where that could have gone and it is fcking chilling.

[isha]

Christ, as a woman your mind goes to where that could have gone and it is fcking chilling.

Yeah, I'm happy to be home alone which happens from time to time, sometimes for extended periods. Very remote area. Usually I never have a second thought about it. In fact , I love it. But the very odd time I'd wake up hearing noises and the mind would go to the worst worry. Such a horrible thing to happen her.

[isha]

Jesus Christ another nightmare scenario. Seven children and teacher suspended in broken cable car over ravine in Pakistan. On their way to school

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/0822 ... chairlift/

[isha]

An account by a swimmer in the cork iron man. Absolutely horrendous.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0822/14010 ... t-account/

[Deleted]

F*cking EMBARRASSING ...

[The Kitchen Sink]

Jesus Christ another nightmare scenario. Seven children and teacher suspended in broken cable car over ravine in Pakistan. On their way to school

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/0822 ... chairlift/

I'm bored outta me hoop in work so I'm following this on Twitter. Two kids rescued so far, there is another cable thirty feet above the cable car which is making access via helicopter difficult. They are trying to figure out a way to get people out before it turns dark, they've been in there for thirteen hours now.

[The Kitchen Sink]

Four children rescued now.

[isha]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/you ... 56673.html

I know I keep returning to this story of the Cork iron man but the first hand accounts are just mad. It was not sanctioned. Loads of people in the water were screaming and crying and in shock. It's just crazy that it went ahead.

[Setanta]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/you ... 56673.html

I know I keep returning to this story of the Cork iron man but the first hand accounts are just mad. It was not sanctioned. Loads of people in the water were screaming and crying and in shock. It's just crazy that it went ahead.

They none of em must grown up around the sea.....once your on/in water,your grave is always open

And that Strom wasn't safe to enter water



The videos are lunacy,a trawler wouldnt hit out in that,but they let competitors dive in

[isha]

You could make a film about it. I don't know why it has possessed me.

[Deleted]

I've listened to that song - he's right that the "right wing" love it, the left are too busy caring how he identifies and whether they can get graphic porn into school libraries in the guide of EDI.

Not my cuppa tbh musically but he cares about people, now wonder the Grauniad hate it. That rag stopped being linked to journalism the day that misogynistic rat Owen Jones blagged a job, bullied the female staff and got the great Suzanne Moore fired. Excellent article from her here:

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/opinion-left ... D3a6vR8uvl

It is amazing, this is a song that only a few years ago would have been considered left wing, and for the people.

Never thought I'd see the day when the left were pro big tech, big pharma, big corp, big govt ...

[95438756]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/you ... 56673.html

I know I keep returning to this story of the Cork iron man but the first hand accounts are just mad. It was not sanctioned. Loads of people in the water were screaming and crying and in shock. It's just crazy that it went ahead.

Cork County Council doing a 'Pontius Pilate' on the fiasco.

https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/stateme ... onman-2023

[quodec]

Donald Trump's mugshot looks suspiciously like that infamous one of Fr Brendan Smyth's!!!!! Can anyone upload the two side by side (a real photo Luddite here!)

[95438756]

Donald Trump's mugshot looks suspiciously like that infamous one of Fr Brendan Smyth's!!!!! Can anyone upload the two side by side (a real photo Luddite here!)

Know the one you're talking about.
The last one of Brendan before he died.

[Setanta]

Specialized Garda units,with several years experience under their belt are being disbanded to harass inner city Dublin teenagers over petty crime



all because the PC brigade lost the plot over tourists being assulted and to placate them & the media....we really are ruled over by a shower of short-termism idiots


https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n ... e-30817077