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Courage Under Fire

  • 24-08-2011 8:21pm
    #1
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭


    After watching the news on RTE1 here and I was taken back with the vivality and I suppose passion of Margaret Ward's report on Tripoli in Libya. She seemed very upbeat about the whole affair and spoke of rebels checking their vehicle as if it was an everyday thing. Not a flinch or flicker of fear did I see.

    I couldn't help but think if I was in her shoes I would be bricking it. When I hear one of those boy racer cars go 'bang' by the house I get a hop and don't get me started on the fireworks at Halloween.

    So Ah'ers - how do you think you would react if you had to report in a war torn country with the threat of gun fire mere meters away?


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  • #2
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    I've shot loads


  • #3
    Jess16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    EverEvolving wrote: »
    After watching the news on RTE1 here and I was taken back with the vivality and I suppose passion of Margaret Ward's report on Tripoli in Libya

    You forgot the 'E' ! :eek: -Margaret E Ward!


  • #4
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    immune to bullets and explosions now


  • #5
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Vivality - Jazz English?


  • #6
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I cant even play Resident Evil in the dark. Id be absolutely fcuked in that situation!


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  • #7
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Its a pretty mental job that nobody knows if they will be able to do it until they get out there. It takes a really instinctively ballsy person to do it.


  • #8
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    Badgermonkey wrote: »
    Vivality - Jazz English?
    Va Va Voom!


  • #9
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Every time I turn on the TV and see a Tripoli report I can't help but think of Damien Day.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #10
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Gear up! :cool:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWLV5Ad0vs


  • #11
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    EverEvolving wrote: »
    She seemed very upbeat about the whole affair and spoke of rebels checking their vehicle as if it was an everyday thing. Not a flinch or flicker of fear did I see.

    Why would she be fearful of a Libyan rebel checkpoint? Those guys love the western media.


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  • #12
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    EverEvolving wrote: »
    So Ah'ers - how do you think you would react if you had to report in a war torn country with the threat of gun fire mere meters away?

    I'd think the money was too good to turn down


  • #13
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    Why would she be fearful of a Libyan rebel checkpoint? Those guys love the western media.

    I'd be pretty fearful if I was passing an armed troupe that could be ambushed at any point. Maybe there is nothing to fear and it's safe there but I wouldn't like to find out.


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