Carysfort in Blackrock fits the bill. Heaney was there in the 1970s, before he went to Harvard.
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Heard a horrifying story today of suicide involving a young man. I donât want to go into details but it is clear his mental health was greatly damaged by Lockdown 1 and was not looking forward to the second one.
Perhaps, but unlikely in this instance
Iâm very sorry to hear this.
Iâm very anti-lockdown because of its effect on young people. Without disrespecting your story I believe it was that hero of the anti-lockdown movement @lazarus, or maybe @batigol who said that thereâs a lot going on with every suicide and you canât just blame them on âthe lockdownâ.
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I would like to add to the encouragement for @Malarkey to try his hand at prose fiction. Heâs a huge talent, the greatest English student that UCD had seen in 30 years, he canât waste himself thinking up 100 euphemisms for âTank is stupid and shitâ. I fear for Malarkey would be that he may have to spiritually cleanse himself of his more acute misanthropic tendencies before his writing becomes pleasant to read. Thereâs times when youâre reading the very talented Anne Enrightâs prose and you almost flinch because youâre seeing a troubled person really struggle. I fear that youâd read Malarkeyâs prose and you you might see him get stuck into the same struggle but fail to emerge on the other side. Itâs equally possible that writing might help him iron out some of his less appealing creases.
@Malarkey , you donât like Colm Toibin and you have a little cultural war going on against anyone who you perceive to sneer at rural Ireland. I was wondering about what your opinion is of FOTF and also EOTF John McGahern? Iâd say youâre probably sympathetic enough? Iâd imagine you accept that McGahern had his perspective coming from his background and it was legitimate as far as it went? Amongst Women isnât a sneery book, itâs ultimately an act of forgiveness. He had a play called The Power of Darkness thatâs very sneery however.
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No doubting at this point the paper of record have had enough
The effects of 2020 wonât be seen until 2021, 2021 and beyond. Itâs an experiment we have never tried before during pandemics. There will be a lot of books written about this period in human history.
What do you make of DRâs writing yourself?
It was me who said that. Suicide is s complex issue and there could be a myriad of issues at play
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Anyone who takes out a phone in a pub to watch anything off YouTube should be kicked out. Let alone three episodes of a thing. Christ.
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Thereâs no doubt but that it most certainly could have been a contributing factor, but like the difference between dying OF and dying WITH Covid it doesnât tell the true story, it sees to be a blame game thing âNPHET donât give a fuck about us, look at the suicidesâ
Thereâs suicides all over the country Iâm hearing. These nphet fucks donât give a shite about peopleâs health, theyâre killing us with these lockdowns. Bastards.
I guess we will see when the figures are finally available.
He said it was castoff youtube you gobshite. Lads watch endless amounts of horse racing and bollocks of that sort on day sessions around the country back in the good old days. Iâd have more respect for a lad watching genius like HPW to knock a bit of time down in a Monday Club and get a conversation going.
But hey, you be the arbiter of fun in a Monday Club, Iâd love to see what that would look like.
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9M. NINE FUCKING MILLION
Pocket change to these guys.
Domestic violence has rocketed again. Nphet are literally killing us all.
Sure thatâs nothing. Over here they bought face masks from a fella who was a buddy of the brother of the Minister for Health. They found out after that they were not up to quality standards.
And no bother coming home from a place that was riddled in February.
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