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Today's Big News according to the Indo

  • 12-09-2013 11:12pm
    #1
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-irish-familys-shock-reaction-to-daughters-early-return-from-oz-29574182.html
    After graduating from university last year, Laura McConville left Ireland – and her family – behind for an adventure of travel and work in Australia.

    After a three month stint at farming in order gain a 2nd year visa, she booked a flight home for Christmas with the intention of heading back to Oz in January. Or so her family thought.

    She got in touch with her brother Mark to organise a surprise homecoming.

    After a lot of devious planning, they decided to tell their family that Mark was to bring up a new girlfriend for the family to meet. This meant the entire family would all be in the house at the same time.

    This YouTube clip shows how the scenario unfolded and the shocked reactions of all the family, including some mildly inappropriate language.

    Really? This is news now???


Comments

  • #2
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    The Indo is a rag, what do you expect?


  • #3
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Well, that was a load of bollox.


  • #4
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    It's a joke. Isn't it... :confused:


  • #5
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    How do they get away with this, and whats the reason, Is she Sir Anthony's niece?


  • #6
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    efb wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-irish-familys-shock-reaction-to-daughters-early-return-from-oz-29574182.html


    Really? This is news now???

    Somebody spare me, please. I came home last weekend and the dogs were delighted to see me. Did I run to the Indo? Did I fcuk.

    I suppose paper never refuses print. :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    like its not even in the trashy Women's section its in Irish News!


  • #8
    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    ...yet you're drawing even more attention to it by posting it here...


  • #9
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    What did you expect to read in the Indo? Proper news?

    The less attention we give it, the better.


  • #10
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Sauve wrote: »
    ...yet you're drawing even more attention to it by posting it here...

    For scorn and redicule


  • #11
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Most people who go over to Aus on a working visa should never be allowed to travel outside Ireland, i would imagine she spend most of her time in Irish pubs and hanging with Irish people over there.
    Gone for a over a year and coming back home to surprise her folks, god give me strength:rolleyes:


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  • #12
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Middle class child bottles making a go of Australia, comes home. News item.

    Next up, petulant teenager hates mother. Life ruined says Aoife.

    And now the weather.


  • #13
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    Ah shes not even a looker :(


  • #14
    Jhcx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    God help this country. :(


  • #15
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    she booked a flight home for Christmas with the intention of heading back to Oz in January

    Has someone been holding onto this story since 2012? :confused:

    Or she's back 4 months early for Christmas 2013

    It's not clear to me anyway.


  • #16
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    efb wrote: »
    [


    Really? This is news now???

    Didn't read the article just the headline.

    Maybe she was their son before, eh..... she left?


  • #17
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    You're not Tricking/forcing me to read the Indo, so I'll just add, Bollix

    21/25



  • #18
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Didn't read the article just the headline.

    Maybe she was a he before, eh..... she left?

    She didnt win the Eurovision or Big Brother even, so wgaf?


  • #19
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Where the hell is "Oz"? More evidence that the Indo is a tabloid.


  • #20
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Where the hell is "Oz"? More evidence that the Indo is a tabloid.

    I dunno. But apparently it has a wizard.


  • #21
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    efb wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-irish-familys-shock-reaction-to-daughters-early-return-from-oz-29574182.html


    Really? This is news now???

    From the article:
    A man has been jailed after he admitted having sex with a goat.

    Robert Newman, 23, assaulted the animal in a barn in Devizes, Wiltshire in April.

    Newman, of Potterne Road, Devizes, initially denied the charge but later changed his plea.

    Newman was jailed for six weeks for the attack, which North West Wiltshire Magistrates' Court heard had left the goat needing veterinary treatment.

    At the time of the assault Newman was the subject of an eight week suspended sentence for a burglary in August last year.


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  • #22
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Mickey H wrote: »
    I dunno. But apparently it has a wizard.

    ..and tigers..


  • #23
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    From the article:

    why do you lie...?


  • #24
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    efb wrote: »
    why do you lie...?

    Why don't you make a proper opening post...?


  • #25
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Why don't you make a proper opening post...?

    why do you answer a question with a question?


  • #26
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    efb wrote: »
    why do you answer a question with a question?

    Did I?


  • #27
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    TBH, it's no great step down from the latest non-event in the usual Z listers's lives they "report" on...

    This is a paper that made me know who Gerald Keane and Lisa Murphy are and I've never once bought the damn thing...


  • #28
    Jhcx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Why don't you make a proper opening post...?

    Now now. Keep calm and drink some tea!


  • #29
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    efb wrote: »
    Really? This is news now???

    And what qualifies you to decide what is and what is not news for anyone esle?


  • #30
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    And what qualifies you to decide what is and what is not news for anyone esle?

    Common sense and a general set of standards.


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  • #31
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    efb wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-irish-familys-shock-reaction-to-daughters-early-return-from-oz-29574182.html



    Really? This is news now???

    That's nothing compared to this FRONT PAGE news story from a UK local rag a few year back:

    http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/8116189.Dog_injures_nose/
    Dog injures nose

    9:00am Saturday 24th April 2010



    POLICE in Ringwood are investigating the circumstances surrounding an injury to a dog’s nose.



    A woman was walking her dog and puppy, when her puppy ran off.
    Her dog ran after the puppy but collided with a male dog walker and his dog.



    The woman's dog received an injury to his nose.


  • #32
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    April O Neill wrote: »
    That's nothing compared to this FRONT PAGE news story from a UK local rag a few year back:

    http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/8116189.Dog_injures_nose/

    That was a bit ruff.

    *Gets coat.*


  • #33
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Where the hell is "Oz"? More evidence that the Indo is a tabloid.

    Oz is the prison where Beecher had a woeful time


  • #34
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    efb wrote: »
    For scorn and redicule

    That's rediculous. :D


  • #35
    Clockwork Owl
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭Clockwork Owl


    April O Neill wrote: »
    That's nothing compared to this FRONT PAGE news story from a UK local rag a few year back:

    http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/8116189.Dog_injures_nose/
    Salisbury also had front page news about a woman tripping over a loose paving stone and getting a black eye. And a bag of gerbils 'left for dead' on the side of a motorway. And a shed break-in where the damnable deviant stole a strimmer, if memory serves.

    I grew up in Salisbury and the 'non-news' on the front page of our local paper was always kind of a running joke.


  • #36
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    efb wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-irish-familys-shock-reaction-to-daughters-early-return-from-oz-29574182.html



    Really? This is news now???

    You are disseminating it on the biggest forum in the country so are in fact, partaking in the devil's work.


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  • #37
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Clockwork Owl wrote: »
    Salisbury also had front page news about a woman tripping over a loose paving stone and getting a black eye. And a bag of gerbils 'left for dead' on the side of a motorway. And a shed break-in where the damnable deviant stole a strimmer, if memory serves..

    Ah, here. A man's strimmer is inviolable. Dirty scummer.


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I liked the bit when she returned home


  • #39
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    Whenever anyone laments us "losing our best minds" to the Colonies, point them towards this article.


  • #40
    A.Partridge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭A.Partridge


    efb wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-irish-familys-shock-reaction-to-daughters-early-return-from-oz-29574182.html



    Really? This is news now???



    Yes, it is news.

    You see she came back home early to be her brother's new girlfriend. ;)

    They do that sort of thing up north a lot ...keeps the money in the family.


  • #41
    pauliebdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭pauliebdub


    It's touchy feely so some people will like it.

    It's like those stories in US news outlets of soldiers making a surprise trip home to see wives/daughters/dogs etc. and recording the reactions


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  • #42
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    pauliebdub wrote: »
    It's touchy feely so some people will like it.

    It's like those stories in US news outlets of soldiers making a surprise trip home to see wives/daughters/dogs etc. and recording the reactions

    She wasn't exactly fighting a war though...


  • #43
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I don't see it displayed prominently on the front page www.independent.ie so probably not that big news.

    It does mention how British boxer Billy Isaac (45), now in Cork, got his girlfriend Siobhan Ginty (23) to beat on a waitress after Billy wasn't served quickly enough.


  • #44
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Syria? DMCA takedown ruling in Massachusetts? German Vodafone bank account info compromised? Abolition of the Seanad?

    Clearly the independent's view and my view of news greatly differ.


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