Today's Big News according to the Indo

efb

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???

HalloweenJack

The Indo is a rag, what do you expect?

Frosty McSnowballs

Well, that was a load of bollox.

TeddyTedson

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

efb

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

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:

efb

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

Sauve

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

Peregrine

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

The less attention we give it, the better.

efb

Sauve wrote: »

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

For scorn and redicule

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:

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.

KeithM89

Ah shes not even a looker

Jhcx

God help this country.

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?

Or she's back 4 months early for Christmas 2013

It's not clear to me anyway.

Banjo String

efb wrote: »

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Really? This is news now???

Didn't read the article just the headline.

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

uch

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

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?

Richard Hillman

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

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.

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.

wp_rathead

Mickey H wrote: »

I dunno. But apparently it has a wizard.

..and tigers..

efb

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

From the article:

why do you lie...?

Fr_Dougal

efb wrote: »

why do you lie...?

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

efb

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

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

why do you answer a question with a question?

Fr_Dougal

efb wrote: »

why do you answer a question with a question?

Did I?

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...

Jhcx

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

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

Now now. Keep calm and drink some tea!

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?

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.

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.

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.*

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

Pherekydes

efb wrote: »

For scorn and redicule

That's rediculous.

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.

anncoates

efb wrote: »

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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.

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.

I liked the bit when she returned home

Robbo

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

A.Partridge

efb wrote: »

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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.

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

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...

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.

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.