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Two men accused of raping woman in Galway train station car park

A 27-year-old man and his 25-year-old co-accused appeared via video-link at Galway District Court and proceedings were explained with the help of an Arabic interpreter
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"Two men accused of raping woman in Galway train station car park"

"A 27-year-old man and his 25-year-old co-accused appeared via video-link at Galway District Court and proceedings were explained with the help of an Arabic interpreter"
 
eaglesdare said:
A little bit off topic...I just seen shamrock rovers are playing tonight in Europa league qualifiers with a 3-1 lead. If they go through and win the next game there's a possibility of another away day in Dublin 😀
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5-1 down 🤣 loosing 6-4 on aggregate. Oh well 🤣
 
My favorite fact about Ireland is that there are five times more Irish in the United States then there are in Ireland. There are also more Irish in the UK even if you don't include Northern Ireland.
 
Mark B said:
My favorite fact about Ireland is that there are five times more Irish in the United States then there are in Ireland. There are also more Irish in the UK even if you don't include Northern Ireland.
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Nice place to come from so to speak.

Are you including all the plastic paddys in the US or just Irish passport holders, albeit there are a number of US citizens who applied for and got Irish passports as they had a great grandparent who once had a pint of guiness in Boston and therefore qualified.

"120,000 to 140,000 Irish-born citizens (foreign-born individuals from Ireland) reside in the United States. However, over 31 to 33 million U.S. citizens—roughly 10% of the American population—self-identify as having Irish ancestry or descent. [1, 2, 3]" per Gemini AI
 
In my late teens and very early twenties I worked in and partly ran my old man's pub in London.....it did very well but that's another story. Anyway above the pub were a couple of floors that had rooms that were rented/given out both to staff and lodgers.

One of the lodgers was this cool Irish guy in his early thirties, he worked in an office but was also a musician and all the rest of it.....liked his drink, which was his Achilles heel and often got him into trouble. I could write a book about what he got up to even though I only knew him for a couple of years.

The point is he couldn't abide by all of that 'I love Ireland and sod the English' stuff that you'd occasionally get from drunk Irish punters. He'd say, 'if you loved it so much you'd still be there'.

He came from Dublin and certainly had affection for Ireland and if I remember correctly (it's a long time ago) said he'd end up going back as an old man, but that he was born to travel and experience the world....and he certainly did while I knew him.

I sometimes wonder if he went back.
 
Stirlingsays said:
In my late teens and very early twenties I worked in and partly ran my old man's pub in London.....it did very well but that's another story. Anyway above the pub were a couple of floors that had rooms that were rented/given out both to staff and lodgers.

One of the lodgers was this cool Irish guy in his early thirties, he worked in an office but was also a musician and all the rest of it.....liked his drink, which was his Achilles heel and often got him into trouble. I could write a book about what he got up to even though I only knew him for a couple of years.

The point is he couldn't abide by all of that 'I love Ireland and sod the English' stuff that you'd occasionally get from drunk Irish punters. He'd say, 'if you loved it so much you'd still be there'.

He came from Dublin and certainly had affection for Ireland and if I remember correctly (it's a long time ago) said he'd end up going back as an old man, but that he was born to travel and experience the world....and he certainly did while I knew him.

I sometimes wonder if he went back.
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I lived for a year next to Highbury, Blackstock Road and around there had a number of Irish pubs that were always passing collecting tins around for " the cause ".

We drank elsewhere once we had identified them.
 
HKOwen said:
I lived for a year next to Highbury, Blackstock Road and around there had a number of Irish pubs that were always passing collecting tins around for " the cause ".

We drank elsewhere once we had identified them.
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Yeah I remember that, you'd be sitting in an Irish pub and then you'd spot some t*** collecting.
 
Stirlingsays said:
In my late teens and very early twenties I worked in and partly ran my old man's pub in London.....it did very well but that's another story. Anyway above the pub were a couple of floors that had rooms that were rented/given out both to staff and lodgers.

One of the lodgers was this cool Irish guy in his early thirties, he worked in an office but was also a musician and all the rest of it.....liked his drink, which was his Achilles heel and often got him into trouble. I could write a book about what he got up to even though I only knew him for a couple of years.

The point is he couldn't abide by all of that 'I love Ireland and sod the English' stuff that you'd occasionally get from drunk Irish punters. He'd say, 'if you loved it so much you'd still be there'.

He came from Dublin and certainly had affection for Ireland and if I remember correctly (it's a long time ago) said he'd end up going back as an old man, but that he was born to travel and experience the world....and he certainly did while I knew him.

I sometimes wonder if he went back.
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Yup it's the Irish equivalent of the whinging pom. We had a lot of Irish in Lewisham (mainly dead now) and you would get this in the pub from them and the Scots. If the Auld country is soo great why leave there we'd ask. Because there are no jobs, Ah so not so great then.

In fairness two of my closest friends are Scots and Irish and never say that. They are proud of their ancestry but wise enough not to go down that road.
 
PalazioVecchio said:
As previously discussed. Road accident statistics gone bonkers. Tons of feckers driving down the wrong side of the road. Its the second such crash this week.

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Number of deaths after collision involving car driving wrong way on M9 motorway in Kildare

Vehicle was travelling southbound on the northbound carriageway when crash occurred
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It’s probably the minority Irish that are driving on the wrong side of the road ! All the new folks driving on the side they’re used to 😱🤪
 
Runningman said:
It’s probably the minority Irish that are driving on the wrong side of the road ! All the new folks driving on the side they’re used to 😱🤪
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Could be. It's usually a mixture of new Irish and Irish skangers nicking cars and basically trying to get killed. However, just listened to the news report on this one and the police are refusing to give any details. Reading between the lines, it sounded like a young family. I'm just guessing. There have been many deaths unfortunately.
 
ASCPFC said:
It's usually a mixture of new Irish and Irish skangers nicking cars and basically trying to get killed.
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5 dead lads wearing balaclavas. And also many injured people in the other car - including a girl aged 7.

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Occupants of vehicle involved in horror M9 road smash wore balaclavas or masks

The vehicle in which five teenagers died this morning was being driven on the wrong side of the motorway twice in a matter of minutes, the Irish Mirror understands
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the cops have blamed 'dangerous and reckless driving'........wow, must be some kind of a road-safety genius. The rest of us would have never figured out that one. He probably has a pHd in criminology.

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Garda Commissioner denounces 'reckless and dangerous driving' after five dead in M9 crash | BreakingNews

Five people have died in the crash near Moone, which has been referred to Fiosrú.
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