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Today's Big News according to the Indo

  • 12-09-2013 11:12PM
    #1
    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???


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,435 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    The Indo is a rag, what do you expect?


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


    Well, that was a load of bollox.


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


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


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


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


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


    efb wrote: »

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


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


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


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


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,409 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


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

    The less attention we give it, the better.


  • 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


  • 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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  • 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.


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


    Ah shes not even a looker :(


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


    God help this country. :(


  • 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭uch


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

    21/25



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


    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?


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


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


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


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

    I dunno. But apparently it has a wizard.


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


    efb wrote: »

    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


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

    ..and tigers..


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


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    From the article:

    why do you lie...?


  • 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...?


  • 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?


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


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

    Did I?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,612 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • 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!


  • 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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


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


    efb 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/
    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.


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