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  • 11-07-2009 10:28pm
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    Kev_ps3
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0711/oxegen.html

    Just checked the RTE website and this was one of their headline news storys. How can an assault be news worthy material? There is so much going on in the world that isnt covered and this is. I think its a joke personally.


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    Overheal
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    Thread Worthy?!?


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    My name is URL
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    It was obviously a serious assault if he was transfered to St James'.

    Why is it not news worthy?


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    Kev_ps3
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Thread Worthy?!?

    Yeah dont see why not, half the threads on this board are nonsence.


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    mike65
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    Any criminal incident at a huge festival event will get extra coverage just like the traffic around the venue.


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    Kev_ps3
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    It was obviously a serious assault if he was transfered to St James'.

    Why is it not news worthy?

    Assaults and worse happin every day, should not make national news imo.


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    copacetic
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    how is a serious assault, not newsworthy? They should keep it quiet?

    it also made the news on all the papers sites.


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    deadhead13
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    He was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle.


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    mike65
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    That wouldn't happen at the Electric Picnic.


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    Thoie
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    What's even better is that the headline "Oxegen assaulted investigated" implies that the boy who was assaulted is the subject of the investigation :rolleyes:


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    Iang87
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    i'm certainly happy i know about it.

    also its RTE what else are they goin to report on there's only so much Dublin for Sam this year that the rest ofthe country can take


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    Max Power1
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    Kev_ps3 wrote: »
    Assaults and worse happin every day, should not make national news imo.
    Well if that shouldnt be newsworthy then what should? lol


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    shenanigans1982
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    mike65 wrote: »
    That wouldn't happen at the Electric Picnic.

    Or it does and aint reported.


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    Sharpshooter
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    Kev_ps3 wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0711/oxegen.html

    Just checked the RTE website and this was one of their headline news storys. How can an assault be news worthy material? There is so much going on in the world that isnt covered and this is. I think its a joke personally.

    Yet you thought it was thread worthy?

    I'm closing this for now OP, until I'm told otherwise.


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