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[pete]

Investigation into incident at Dublin city schoolyard

A teenager was arrested and a garda investigation is under way after an incident in a schoolyard in Dublin's south inner city this week.

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[seanc]

In fluffier news, I just heard an ad for the McDonalds €8 meal deal. It sounds great, but I've tried it a couple of times and it is really just misery made flesh.

Thing is, in the UK it's known as the £5 meal deal. As of two minutes ago, €8 is 6.7570374 British Pounds.

Maybe you're all getting better McDonalds, or staff get paid better. It seems like a huge gap though.

The Big Mac Index doesn't account for it:

Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders

Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates

www.economist.com

Sorry, paywalled.

 

[seanc]

Sorry for dipping in here again but I didn't know where else to put this.

My client today, he had seen my name in an email (spelled without the fada), but never met me, and introduced himself. And then said "So um, seen, see-ann, s'yan..."
Seàn, as in Sean connory or Sean penn or Sean bean. It's not that unusual a spelling even if it is technically wrong.

This does happen from time to time like, but in this situation the guy was an English fella called John with an Irish surname. And he couldn't pronounce Seàn.

 

[ernesto]

Sorry for dipping in here again but I didn't know where else to put this.

My client today, he had seen my name in an email (spelled without the fada), but never met me, and introduced himself. And then said "So um, seen, see-ann, s'yan..."
Seàn, as in Sean connory or Sean penn or Sean bean. It's not that unusual a spelling even if it is technically wrong.

This does happen from time to time like, but in this situation the guy was an English fella called John with an Irish surname. And he couldn't pronounce Seàn.

istigh sa bosca brúsa leis é

 

[magicbastarder]

Serious care concerns found at leading private nursing home group

Staff shortages, unsafe care and undignified treatment has been uncovered in homes run by State's leading private care provider Emeis Ireland

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Our next door neighbour was approached be RTE and warned that footage of her dad is going to appear in that program. Suitably blurred out etc to protect his identity.

 

[ernesto]

It's almost as if farming out our health sector for a profit driven private company was a bad idea.

 

[magicbastarder]

blame the farmers, huh.

 

[ann post]

I see the left have decided to subdivide into a further granular nothing. FFG will be sleeping extra soundly tonight so.

 

[magicbastarder]

What's the context?

 

[ann post]

Socialist Red Network group quits People Before Profit over party's 'perfomative politics'

Red Network also said that PBP’s stance on “culture war” issues was a factor that led to the rift.

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[magicbastarder]

i've read that article and i can't say i'm much the wiser on what the actual issue is.
'they're just not as pure as us' would be a rough stab at it.

 

[pete]

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[nuke terrorist]

Timmy Mallet is cycling around Ireland at the moment. He's been in Wicklow and Dublin the last few days.

https://www.instagram.com/timmy.mallett?igsh=NGJtYWw3Z2Z1bHZ0

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[therealjohnny]

Timmy Mallet is cycling around Ireland at the moment. He's been in Wicklow and Dublin the last few days.

https://www.instagram.com/timmy.mallett?igsh=NGJtYWw3Z2Z1bHZ0

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He was in Donegal last year/ He seems a decent sort

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[pete]

O'Neill calls on minister to resign over Larne post

Stormont Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has been criticised for a social media post about the use of Larne Leisure Centre as a respite centre before it was attacked.

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[nuke terrorist]

Have the mobs attacked Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Conor McGregor's homes?

 

[Cormcolash]

Na, sure they're white

 

[seanc]

Bumped into a friend last night who'd recently been back home.
In a local pub there someone aggressively asked "are you English?" to which he replied in Irish that no, he's from around here.
"Fuck off and join Sinn Féin if you're going to talk like that".

You just can't win with some people.

 

[pete]

Judge dismisses former Cork hurler's drink driving case

The two-time All-Star hurler, Anthony Nash, asked a garda "do you know who I am?" when he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after his car was found mounted in a ditch with the back of the vehicle protruding onto the road, a court has heard.

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[Cormcolash]

I probably had a character reference from the local priest too