As far as I can judge there have been ten fatal accidents in Ireland in the last two weeks. These include six road fatalities, three drownings and one involving a farm tractor. Each of these - with one exception - got just passing reference in the national media. 'Man killed in two-car collision has been named as.....'. That kind of thing. The exception relates to the drowning of young "Irish" boy Damola Adetosoye in the river Shannon, an event which attracted fevered coverage on national media, coast-to-coast TV and more. Locals were trotted out to deliver encomiums ('A Champion In Heaven': Tributes paid to teenage boy who drowned in River Shannon), the details of the accident were played out at length and the performance was repeated nation-wide when he was planted a few days later.
Clearly this was a nucular fizzizist or brain surjun in the making. Or maybe not. Because despite a plethora of signs warning of dangerous waters he nonetheless jumped in and sank like a stone. Yet Longford County Council were widely blamed. According to one local dog-collar 'the accident could and should have been avoided'. He was right. It would have been avoided had the knuckle-head taken notice of the multiple warning signs.
How cucked can a country get? What has rotten our souls to the point that we mourn the loss of a Nigerian ahead of our own people?
And today we learn that veteran gadfly journalist Kevin Myers has been fired from the Irish edition of the London Times (the Oirish Toimes) for an outlandish anti-Semitic attack on two BBC "journalists".
Sunday Times Ireland columnist Kevin Myers will not write again for the paper, a spokesman said. The newspaper said it abhorred anti-Semitism after Mr Myers noted that two of the best-paid female presenters at the BBC, Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, were Jewish in an article on the corporation's gender pay gap. Myers wrote: "Good for them. Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity."
Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens has apologised personally to the two women for these "unacceptable comments both to Jewish people and to women in the workplace". A spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Kevin Myers will not write again for The Sunday Times Ireland. "A printed apology will appear in next week's paper."
Yup, that's correct. He got fired for noting that the Jewish women were Jews. But the reaction isn't as crazy as it sounds. An old Russian proverb says something to the effect that you can deliver any insult to a Jew. Apart from calling him a Jew.
The Fighting Irish? Gone with the wind. A relic of our past. If you doubt me read the comments at the link above.
Clearly this was a nucular fizzizist or brain surjun in the making. Or maybe not. Because despite a plethora of signs warning of dangerous waters he nonetheless jumped in and sank like a stone. Yet Longford County Council were widely blamed. According to one local dog-collar 'the accident could and should have been avoided'. He was right. It would have been avoided had the knuckle-head taken notice of the multiple warning signs.
How cucked can a country get? What has rotten our souls to the point that we mourn the loss of a Nigerian ahead of our own people?
And today we learn that veteran gadfly journalist Kevin Myers has been fired from the Irish edition of the London Times (the Oirish Toimes) for an outlandish anti-Semitic attack on two BBC "journalists".
Sunday Times Ireland columnist Kevin Myers will not write again for the paper, a spokesman said. The newspaper said it abhorred anti-Semitism after Mr Myers noted that two of the best-paid female presenters at the BBC, Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, were Jewish in an article on the corporation's gender pay gap. Myers wrote: "Good for them. Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity."
Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens has apologised personally to the two women for these "unacceptable comments both to Jewish people and to women in the workplace". A spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Kevin Myers will not write again for The Sunday Times Ireland. "A printed apology will appear in next week's paper."
Yup, that's correct. He got fired for noting that the Jewish women were Jews. But the reaction isn't as crazy as it sounds. An old Russian proverb says something to the effect that you can deliver any insult to a Jew. Apart from calling him a Jew.
The Fighting Irish? Gone with the wind. A relic of our past. If you doubt me read the comments at the link above.