Heroin found in RTÉ, claims The Sun

x in the city

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1221/irish_sun_rte.html


gotta love the state of the country right now..

chin_grin

I opened that link for nothing. NAAAAAAAAATHING!

Ha, "claims The Sun". Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft.

Heroin found in RTÉ, claims The Sun

Updated: 06:33, Tuesday, 21 December 2010

The Irish Sun newspaper claims in a report today that traces of heroin were found on the RTÉ campus in Donnybrook.
1 of 1 RTÉ - says newspaper should make information available to gardaí
RTÉ - says newspaper should make information available to gardaí

The Irish Sun newspaper claims in a report today that traces of heroin were found on the RTÉ campus in Donnybrook.

The newspaper says that the finding was made after one of its reporters took swabs in the toilet of the main canteen yesterday.

RTÉ has urged the newspaper to make all the information and materials in its possession available to the Gardaí without delay.

RTÉ noted that the traces as described were found in a part of RTÉ's premises most frequently used by staff and by visitors to RTÉ including the general public.

The national broadcaster said it would await further information and advice and that its security staff would continue to carry out ongoing checks and tests of the RTÉ workplace.

Rabies

do a test in any building around the city and you'll find traces of coke and more.

The Sun are only helping people getting on the back of RTE and feeding the hatred of the Irish people for state owed organisations.

chin_grin

Rabies wrote: »

do a test in any building around the city and you'll find traces of coke and more.

First place to check would be their vending machines. Chock full of it!

Yakult

Working there must be so bad that employees need to do heroin just to get through the day.

Wouldnt suprise me.

FatherLen

wasnt cocaine found on nearly every toilet seat in dublin city?

FearDark

Slow news day...

Another G.Ryan related story...
I dont care.
Does anyone care?

chin_grin

FatherLen wrote: »

wasnt cocaine found on nearly every toilet seat in dublin city?

Nearly. But that's just hearsay.

jimthemental

FatherLen wrote: »

wasnt cocaine found on nearly every toilet seat in dublin city?

Who puts it on the toilet seat, surely the cistern would be more stable?

Owen

Glad to know the 160 Euro I'm forced to pay for my TV License even though I purposefully don't watch any of our useless National Stations, is being used for good in the world and not lining the pockets of Heroin abusers, and digustingly overpaid 'celebrities'.

Oh ... wait ...

Jet Black

FatherLen wrote: »

wasnt cocaine found on nearly every toilet seat in dublin city?

Think it was only pubs they tested

PCPhoto

Rabies wrote: »

do a test in any building around the city and you'll find traces of coke and more.

The Sun are only helping people getting on the back of RTE and feeding the justifiablehatred of the Irish people for state owed organisations.

FYP

state owned organisations have been abusing public money for decades - all that the Sun are doing is reminding people that they "should" dislike the current government and state owned organisations.

ilovesleep

rte probably gives heroin away as xmas bonuses to their employees. rte is something else thats needs removing from power. but first we have bigger problems to remove - FiannaFcukers

Rabies

PCPhoto wrote: »

FYP

state owned organisations have been abusing public money for decades - all that the Sun are doing is reminding people that they "should" dislike the current government and state owned organisations.

The licence fee has always been an issue, don't doubt that.

When the OPs opening post was this

gotta love the state of the country right now..

You can see how the media help push the mind set of the country.
Not about RTE, but about the country.

myflipflops

They should target Ronald McDonald next.

Find a sh*t load of heroin traces in his toilets all over the country.

Monty Burnz

PCPhoto wrote: »

FYP

state owned organisations have been abusing public money for decades - all that the Sun are doing is reminding people that they "should" dislike the current government and state owned organisations.

Yup. FAS and a hundred quangos have been taking the piss for years, just for starters. Then there's the crazy pay for RTE presenters - what competition is driving Joe Duffy's annual contract pay over half a million? It's not like the BBC are hovering, or CBS are about to swoop...

ClutchIt

The rubberbandits work for RTÉ, case closed.

Rabies

myflipflops wrote: »

They should target Ronald McDonald next.

Find a sh*t load of heroin traces in his toilets all over the country.

True
Or any cafe, bar, take away place with easy access to their public toilets.

chin_grin

Rabies wrote: »

True
Or any cafe, bar, take away place with easy access to their public toilets.

The public toilets Joe, it's a disgrace Joe. Can't even to my business without sittin' on a needle or wipin' white powder from me hole Joe.

AdMMM

I always knew something wasn't quite right about Miriam O'Callaghan.

Rabies

chin_grin wrote: »

The public toilets Joe, it's a disgrace Joe. Can't even to my business without sittin' on a needle or wipin' white powder from me hole Joe.

I miss Joe



No here like that.
The grannies have no champion like that in Aucks

Adyx

PCPhoto wrote: »

FYP

state owned organisations have been abusing public money for decades - all that the Sun are doing is reminding people that they "should" dislike the current government and state owned organisations.

While I wouldn't necessarily disagree with your point, do you really think The Sun gives a fcuk about the public's opinion except to jump on the bandwagon. If the country decided tomorrow that the government were actually a great bunch of lads, the Sun and its ilk would be the first to sing their praises even if nothing had actually changed.

Considering the standard of people working for the Sun, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the "journalist's" own heroin he found in the toilet.

Dravokivich

Love the way it says...

RTÉ noted that the traces as described were found in a part of RTÉ's premises most frequently used by staff and by visitors to RTÉ including the general public.

so... basically anyone could of walked in and left whatever lying around...

big whoop de do.

Ash.J.Williams

Our media is in a sad state of affairs...they just find a topic on the nations mind and exploit it to the max, until someone loses their job over something mundane that generally nobody cares about.

Ferguso

The standard of people working the Sun??? What sort of thing is that to say? Slanderous I'd say.
Story is legit enough as far as I can tell. After everything that has happened in the past couple of weeks and the stories in the Sunday newspapers, it was only a matter of time before a paper did drug test swabs in RTE. The only surprise is that heroin was found and not cocaine.

senordingdong

Where do the whores come into it?

D'Agger

x in the city wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1221/irish_sun_rte.html


gotta love the state of the country right now..

The biggest junkie of them all:

http://assets1.ratemyarea.com/assets/0266/0648/Band_-_Derek_Mooney_medium.jpg?1288287919

chin_grin

senordingdong wrote: »

Where do the whores come into it?

When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?!

I think it's just so we'd click in to the thread. It worked.

baalthor

senordingdong wrote: »

Where do the whores come into it?

They used to write for the Sun ...

Cuddlesworth

Not going to believe this till I read it from a reliable source.

Adyx

Ferguso wrote: »

The standard of people working the Sun??? What sort of thing is that to say? Slanderous I'd say.
Story is legit enough as far as I can tell. After everything that has happened in the past couple of weeks and the stories in the Sunday newspapers, it was only a matter of time before a paper did drug test swabs in RTE. The only surprise is that heroin was found and not cocaine.

I never said it wasn't legit, I just said I wouldn't be surprised. It's not like they've never "exaggerated" a story before. How is it slanderous to say the journalists working for the Sun are crap? You'd get better news coverage from a drunk 2 year old.

Ferguso

If they made something like this up they would leave themselves wide open for litigation. RTE could sue the pants off them. I try to read all the papers and I've never seen the paper as anything but reliable. Alos, RTE are covering it, so that should be good enough.

ghostdancer

Dravokivich wrote: »

Love the way it says...



so... basically anyone could of walked in and left whatever lying around...

big whoop de do.

exactly.

all we need now is someone from the Sun/Sunday Indo/other rag to leave some scat porn magazines in the carpark and do an exclusive on the disgusting perverts at RTE, for the knuckle-dragging masses that read those "papers".

Ferguso

You didn't say crap, you said it was probably heroin belonging to the journalist. That is slanderous.
The amount of newspaper snobs on this forum is incredible.

orourkeda

FearDark wrote: »

Slow news day...

Another G.Ryan related story...
I dont care.
Does anyone care?

Considering it's your money perhaps you should care

Jesus Wept

Ferguso wrote: »

If they made something like this up they would leave themselves wide open for litigation. RTE could sue the pants off them. I try to read all the papers and I've never seen the paper as anything but reliable. Alos, RTE are covering it, so that should be good enough.

The Sun, reliable? lol.

Anyhow, as much as I loathe RTE, you could probably find traces of drugs/heroin in most places. Without details it is meaningless.

Any link to the sun story itself?

Wertz

senordingdong wrote: »

Where do the whores come into it?

QFE. I come in here for some salacious gossip and all I get is smack talk.

AntiMatter

There's even a photo in the Sun of the suspected heroin addict.

baalthor

Ferguso wrote: »

I try to read all the papers and I've never seen the paper as anything but reliable.

So their description of events during the Hillsborough disaster was 'reliable' ?

Ferguso

You mean that tragedy happened way back in 1989 and was covered by the English Sun, not the Irish Sun. You must be a Liverpool fan. The story the Sun wrote back then was actually in about four or five papers. Each of the papers got their info from the chief superintendent investigating and a politician. Can't think of any news organistation that wouldn't run a story with those sources.

Adyx

Ferguso wrote: »

You didn't say crap, you said it was probably heroin belonging to the journalist. That is slanderous.
The amount of newspaper snobs on this forum is incredible.

I did not say it was probably heroin belonging to the journalist. Nor did I say the journalist was a heroin user. When I posted about standards I was referring to the quality of their writing.

Again, I never said the story wasn't true. I do think they sensationalise their headlines though.

There is nothing wrong with being a newspaper snob. If I buy a newspaper I want actual news. I don't want to read about who Jordan is riding now. It's all gutter reporting.

Edit: I'm not wasting my 1000th post on the Sun so I'm out.

CorkMan

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Glad to know the 160 Euro I'm forced to pay for my TV License even though I purposefully don't watch any of our useless National Stations, is being used for good in the world and not lining the pockets of Heroin abusers, and digustingly overpaid 'celebrities'.

Oh ... wait ...

Pat Kenny wants a word with you....he needs to come down from the heroin first though.

jimthemental

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Not going to believe this till I read it from a reliable source.

As we speak Alison O' Riordan is probably scouring the scour bowls in RTE for more proof so the Indo can reliably publish this:pac:

Gyalist

Today's story of faux-outrage reminds me of this one from a few years back:

Cocaine found on all Irish bank notes

12 January 2007

Low levels of cocaine have been found on all the Irish bank notes tested in a recent survey.

As part of a major study into illicit drug use within Ireland, Brett Paull and colleagues at Dublin City University have taken advantage of recent developments in liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to detect contamination on Irish euro notes. Traces of cocaine were found on every one of the 45 used notes analysed, and traces of heroin were found on three notes.

Higher levels of cocaine were found on the higher denomination notes, and of the 45 used bank notes, two showed levels that would suggest direct contact with the drug, probably from being used to inhale the cocaine, Paull suggested. The team suspects that the cocaine found on the other bank notes is due to cross-contamination between notes in the counting processes in financial institutions.

LINK

The story ended up being reported in newspapers all around the world.

wyndham

Whats with the thread title?

I thought the Finucane/O'Callaghan Nazi bondage orgy ring had finally been exposed.

Wertz

Gyalist wrote: »

Cocaine found on all Irish banknotes.

Bloody junkies in the ECB.

CorkMan

Gyalist wrote: »

Today's story of faux-outrage reminds me of this one from a few years back:



LINK

The story ended up being reported in newspapers all around the world.

If you are going to Qatar you could legally get arrested for having notes with traces of cocaine on it. Unreal stuff.

Even if you took some prescription meds in Ireland and arrived there with some in your blood they can take you in. People better be caution when flaunting their bobs when in Qatar!!!

Sir Gallagher

Ferguso wrote: »

You mean that tragedy happened way back in 1989 and was covered by the English Sun, not the Irish Sun. You must be a Liverpool fan. The story the Sun wrote back then was actually in about four or five papers. Each of the papers got their info from the chief superintendent investigating and a politician. Can't think of any news organistation that wouldn't run a story with those sources.

The Sun was, is and will for the forseeable future be the epitome of gutter journalism. Written for and read by the plebbs of this world.

Ferguso

Yawn...it would be nice to have an intelligent discussion about this, but it seems to be beyond some people. Even those brazen enough to call themselves "Sir". The epitome of populist one tripe you might say.

chin_grin

Ferguso wrote: »

Yawn...it would be nice to have an intelligent discussion about this, but it seems to be beyond some people. Even those brazen enough to call themselves "Sir". The epitome of populist one tripe you might say.

Yawn. Your comment bores me.

<clap clap>

SERVANTS!

D'Agger

Ferguso wrote: »

Even those brazen enough to call themselves "Sir".

Oh this made me laugh, How "Brazen" of somebody to use Sir as an internet alias...what kind of place is this internet turning into!