The proprietor has just put up an advert with the times and venues of all this week’s U-16 camogie matches - that is sick
thraween sounds like a man whos fucked a 14 year old the way hes goin on here
While I wouldn’t like to speculate myself wrt Thrawneen, who while obviously a sexual deviant, always struck me as a decent skin and someone who has his head screwed on, I must admit the thought did cross my mind.
Youngest I’ve ridden is 18, rest assured. (It’s worth noting that I’ve met 14 year old who were as mature as the 18 year old was though)
I’m not trying to excuse Tom here at all. It’s wrong, illegal and he shouldn’t have done it. I’m just trying to understand how a family man in his 40s who has everything going for him can find himself in a relationship with a 14 year old girl. If everyone here just wants to shout “Hang him!” “Castrate him!”, that’s fine, but I don’t agree that he deserves that.
The reason why he found himself in a relationship with a 14 year old is because he wanted to be in a relationship with a 14 year old, simple as that, the guy could have walked away but didn’t his just ploughed in.
Hang him
Casatrate him
Thawneen your watching too many French movies mate 
Did I hear somewhere (might even have been here tbh) that the marriage was over for a few years?
yeah he was seperated as he had an affair
Come on Kev, with a bit more gusto please.
he did it because he could do it, and because he thought he could get away with it
Yeah, but what I want to know is how a man finds himself thinking it’s ok to start a relationship with a 14 year old. As far as we know, Tom was fairly much a model citizen up until a couple of years ago. Good friends with Paul Kimmage, a man who seems to me to be credibility incarnate. I see it as a breakdown, some kind of mental illness. Maybe that’s way off the mark. But maybe it’s not.
Its like you’re actually trying to justify it.
STOP.
So does that mean that the girl was just over 12 when this started or is she now approaching 16?
Now approaching 16
How is it? Do you read what I am posting or just make accusations to suit yourself?
Again, you’re assuming in his favour regarding his life up to now, Thrawneen. Which is fair enough because I don’t believe he’s been in trouble with the law prior to this incident. But he could equally have been living a lie, covering his tracks, manipulating people etc.
We’re too removed at this point in time to say it was an incredibly foolish mistake that he should be punished for on the one hand or something far more sinister that should see him locked up for years on the other. It should come out in time as part of the garda investigation.
This is true.
For all we know this could be the first of a string of young girls.
This is my take. I’ve read the article and while it looks very bad for him he must be presumed innocent until it has been proven otherwise. If he’s guilty then by all means he must be locked up for a long time but it’s dangerous to be speculating wildly until then…
I’ve already said that if it emerges that he’s a sinister individual who has been exploiting young women for many years then I will be the first person to call for him to go to prison for a long time. But I don’t think that’ll be the case. I mean, Keith Duggan got him to write the foreword for one of his books. He is/was quite obviously sound. We could discuss what leads a man from being a decent character to being an alleged sex criminal, weighing up the many facts that we know about Tom. We could discuss the possible ins and outs of the particular situation. Or we could just shout for his testicles to be chopped off or some such like Kev and RTT. :rolleyes: