Sunday Indo are Cunts Thread

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Marc Coleman - Sunday September 23 2007

Far from an economic storm – or a property shock – Ireland’s economy is set to rock and roll into the century. Ireland is not, as David suggests in his latest book The Generation Game, like Uruguay. Our Latino-like passion for property aside, Ireland and Uruguay couldn’t be more different. Uruguay is isolated in a corrupt and politically chaotic continent. Where ours is imperfect, its public institutions are dysfunctional and its educational system far behind ours.

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By ALISON O’RIORDAN

Sunday October 31 2010

Free samples of a dangerous ecstasy-like drug known as “snow blow” are being left at people’s front doors as banned head shops go underground due to a crackdown on their business.

The illegal high (real name mephedrone) is being sold in Dublin for three times its original price.

Street-level dealers are strategically placing free samples of this psychoactive drug at front doors of private apartments and doorsteps belonging to houses of young professionals to entice a new type of addict fanbase.

Proven to cause acute health problems and lead to dependency, “snow blow” now has the same illegal status as cocaine, hash and heroine.

Mel MacGiobun, co-ordinator of the North Dublin Inner City Drugs Task Force, has warned that if “a suspicious psychoactive substance like this” is left at your door, it should be reported to the gardai.

He said: “It is a very worrying trend that inner city residents in private apartment complexes are being targeted with suspicious samples of so called ‘snow’, left outside the doors of their homes. There is no way of knowing what a small mound of white powder left on a piece of paper might be, it could be anything – arsenic, mephedrone or some other synthetic drug.”

These synthetic drugs are completely illegal since May when Health Minister Mary Harney outlawed 200 of these substances.

Named substances like mephedrone are banned through the Misuse of Drugs Act, and the European Commission is now seeking to ban mephedrone, which is described as having “acute and chronic toxicity”, right across the EU.

"At the height of it there were 14 head shops in the north inner city and the majority of these are now closed. We have heard reports that drug dealers have now gone into this kind of illicit drug dealing market now, so in a sense they are under ground.

“There is availability on the internet with these drugs even though they are forbidden to be sold on the web but dealers are finding ways around this,” said Mr MacGiobun.

Apartment owners in the Hanover Street area in the Dublin Docklands were the target of “snow blow” drug dealers last week who strategically placed a free sample of the drug at front doors late one night to attract a new breed of addicts.

Already linked to at least 37 deaths in the UK and Ireland alone, Mr MacGiobun said: “It [snow] has got more expensive since the closure of the head shops, it was being sold for between €15 and €20 a gram in the head shop and now it has almost trebled in price.”

The North Inner City Drugs Task Force has advised anyone to report such a suspicious discovery to their local garda station or to contact Dial To Stop Drug Dealing and Threats on Freephone 1800 220 220.

  • ALISON O’RIORDAN

Sunday Independent

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Reading Matt Coopers book there at the moment, he really has a cut off his former employers in it.

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The journo is some tool for believing this.

Has anyone here ever in their lives been offered drugs for free? it was one of the greatest old wives stories ever. “The dealers give away the drugs for free to get the young ones hooked”

I’ve never heard of it actually happening anyway.

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This is my favourite bit

We have heard reports that drug dealers have now gone into this kind of illicit drug dealing market now, so in a sense they are under ground.

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She mentions dealers targeting Hanover St, which is where she bought her lovely apartment. I can imagine her excitement when she happened upon the sample left outside her apartment block - she must have realised it was her golden opportunity to branch out from constantly rehashing the same article on the property bubble. It’s probably made up though.

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She’s probably trying to get artist’s tax exemption for her articles as they would probably be classed as “fiction”.

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http://www.independent.ie/travel/winter-holidays/us-slopes-do-skiers-a-powder-of-good-2410854.html
:rolleyes:

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Forum favourite Niamh Horan had an exclusive interview with Gareth O Callaghan yesterday blowing the whistle on Gerry and his dealer, our girl is going to the top.

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I can exclusively reveal that at least six prominent Sunday Independent “journalists” are devils for Coke - allegedly

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More insightful cutting edge journalism from Alison:

By ALISON O’RIORDAN

Sunday January 23 2011

An inquiry is underway at Ireland’s most prestigious university, Trinity College Dublin, after a series of “outrageous” incidents at a popular French ski resort.

Among the events under investigation is a sexual incident involving a female student being woken up to find three naked male students in her room, €50 notes being burned and smoked and swastikas sprayed by Irish students on to walls of chalets.

More than 300 students from Dublin – a majority believed to be from Trinity – were holidaying in Les Deux Alpes, a popular French Alpine ski resort, from January 8 to 15. To keep costs down, the students travelled by bus for a trip that cost €462 per head.

Tales of daddy’s credit card being used to buy massive rounds of drinks are only the minor details to have filtered back to Ireland.

According to sources from the respective colleges, students “burned and smoked €50 notes” in and outside one of the town’s Alpine nightclubs to demonstrate their wealth.

“Swastikas being spray-painted by the Irish students on to walls of the accommodation ensured the gendarmes were called,” said another source.

Another girl woke up to three male students masturbating in her room.

“Trinity College is currently investigating a series of alleged incidents which took place at Les Deux Alpes,” the college confirmed last week.

“In the event that Trinity students perpetrated certain alleged acts, they will be duly disciplined, and sanctions will be imposed. The college is unable to comment further on the matter while its inquiry is underway.”

Wasteland Ski, which organised the trip, said they were aware of trouble with “more excessive noise and complaints than usual”.

They had no comment to make about the alleged incidents.

  • ALISON O’RIORDAN
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I see Tipptops is up in arms over this piece over on premierview

The party’s over Una… sober up and start getting some sense
Pop starlet and party girl Una Healy has climbed the ladder of fame, only to let herself down badly, writes Niamh Horan

Sunday January 23 2011

IT sure is a long way from Tipperary. And the sweetest girl we – used to – know. Plonked on her rear end in front of the baying British paparazzi, after a night celebrating her bandmate Frankie Sandford’s birthday at China White, Una Healy cut a painful sight.

Skirt up to her backside, six-inch heels in the air, she giggled childishly with glee as the flashbulbs exploded.

Once again Ireland’s latest pop princess had toppled from her showbiz throne and stumbled out on to the dirty pavement of a London sidestreet.

It may be an old-fashioned attitude, but you’ve got to wonder what her parents must think. Not to mention her reserved country and Irish musician uncle Declan Nerney.

Is this the same dream they had for their promising young starlet when she took off to the bright lights in her quest for fame?

A beautiful young girl, Bambi-eyed, flowing locks, statuesque figure and the voice of an angel would be a sure-fire bet to make it to the top of the cut-throat music industry. So now she’s reached the dizzying heights, why is she so quick to let herself down?

In recent weeks, some of the paparazzi shots have been revealing to say the least.

In the run-up to Christmas, she was snapped looking worse for wear after a night in another top London nightclub, Aura.

By the end of the evening she could barely keep her eyes open, and unwittingly flashed her crotch in the full glare of the cameras as she tried to clamber into her cab home, legs spread-eagled.

Perhaps the saddest aspect of all is that she seems oblivious to the spectacle she’s making of herself.

At the beginning of 2010 she told FHM magazine that she planned not to give up her drunken antics, but to stop being photographed in the throes of inebriation.

Beside sultry air-brushed snaps, she announced: “My new year’s resolution is to not get papped while I’m p***ed, like I did on my birthday. Everyone does it, but we have to be a bit careful now.”

No such fear of simply cutting back on the sauce instead then, Una?

She started the new year by blaming her latest round of embarrassing pics and late-night tumble on her sky-high footwear.

Funnily enough, no reason was given for the fact that she looked like a bleary-eyed mess.

It seems the saccharine-sweet smile, perfectly groomed hair and wholesome bubblegum pop image has rapidly disappeared as she instead becomes one of Ireland’s cringiest exports.

Where once self-confessed binge drinker Michelle Heaton, Girls Aloud beauty Sarah Harding, and topless model Jordan vied for the tabloid front pages with their unsightly exits, now Una is making shockwaves all of her own.

And she’s losing her once proud army of Irish followers in the process, as well as setting a puzzling example to her fan base of impressionable young girls and reinforcing the image of the Irish as a nation of men and women who can’t handle their drink.

You’ve got to wonder what her friends, well-paid entourage or rugby-hunk boyfriend think when they pick up the paper the following day.

So rather than holding our breath and waiting for another misplaced new year’s resolution, it’s best to tell it straight to the faltering pop singer now.

You don’t have to have flaming red cheeks, cauliflower nose and a beer gut to know when to stay away from the nightclub scene.

She has had her embarrassing moments in the form of hi-res glossy tabloidesque pictures – and right now Una is in serious danger of affecting her well-honed image as a beautiful young girl, and replacing it with something that’s hard to stomach.

So, Una, get up off the pavement, dust yourself off and think twice next time you go on a night out --before your fan base deserts you.

You’re on the public stage now. Think twice about your behaviour. If not for yourself, then for your family who have to see the papers back home.

By Niamh Horan - Sunday Independent.

If it was written about glenda gilson or rosanna davison I doubt he would have batted an eyelid over it

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They’re some pack of inbred retards.

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Is that the woman who had her face bitten off by the monkey?

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good grief

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What a pair of cunts

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He makes a good point here. Daft really should be made into a website.

“The Daft business model is stale and it’s a library of properties. People don’t go to libraries any more, they go to internet cafes. We want quick easy access”

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I was just about to copy and paste that to make the same point. What the fuck is he talking about?