tragedy
Burma is a poor country and will need a lot of help to cope with a disaster of this scale
Am I the only person who is a little disturbed at how little coverage the Burma cyclone is getting? I mean I remember the huge coverage the tsunami in Indonesia got, blanket coverage almost every where. People out with buckets on every street corner. So why aren’t we out collecting for Burma?
I’d hate to think [...]
Lusk shooting.
This morning, as I walked to work, I happened to glance at the headline of my Metro Family anger at killings verdict. And I thought to myself, this couldn’t be the family of the armed raiders shot while robbing a post office, could it?
Of course it was.
This sort of shite annoys the fuck out of [...]
Tagged: armed robbers, Colm Griffin, crime, crime in Ireland, death, GardaÃ, Lusk shooting, post office robbery, responsibility, tragedy
The blame game
Those of who in Ireland will have heard about the Dunne family tragedy. Others among you probably haven’t.
It has emerged that when the dead couple, Adrian and Ciara Dunne, visited an undertaker in New Ross last Friday, they ordered four coffins, headstones and a burial plot, for themselves and their daughters, Shania (3) and [...]
Tagged: death, depression, Dunne family, GardaÃ, HSE, murder, suicide, tragedy
Seriously
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Of course bloggers are blogging about it, but I’m not going to. It’d be pointless.
Instead let us turn to a more light and frothy part of life. An antidote if you will. You know, like the story that Galway’s water is still pretty poisonous or the one about the UN workers killed in a bomb [...]
Tagged: Galway, mass shootings, murder, tragedy, Virginia tech
I just wish I had a blanket to wrap around him’
Following the trial of Wayne O’Donoghue, the papers today are full of coverage of the verdict. Cleared of murder, guilty of manslaughter. And from what I’ve read and heard that seems fair. If anything can be said to be fair about the death of 11 year old Robert Holohan.
There are never any winners in a [...]
Tagged: crime in Ireland, manslaughter, no right answers, RIP, Robert Holohan, tragedy, Wayne O'Donoghue
Question
In the modern world are women’s lives valued more than men’s?
I ask this because I have noticed that whenever an explosion kills people (be it terrorist related, or done by some country’s army) those giving out about it state that it was terrible because women and children were among the dead or injured. And [...]
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