Claire Byrne Live (RTE1)

Atlantic Dawn

Treatment for self imposed issues like this should get financing when every other single issue in the health system is resolved and awash with money.

Gen.Zhukov

Claire, go off and swab the cistern lids around Montrosia there and get back to us eh.

BorneTobyWilde

Coke can affect all ages

Atlantic Dawn

Anyone bringing those debts back on their family deserves a proper kick up the hole.

Atlantic Dawn

Minimum pricing for the cocaine is the answer 🙄

BorneTobyWilde

Most Guards are on coke, that's why it will never stop.

Tomaldo

Typical anti-drugs rubbish, they always have the tiny minority of people who had a problem with coke. Why not have the majority who got enjoyment from it on such as Paul McCartney, Kate Moss, Ben Dunne etc.

BorneTobyWilde

I could walk into any City in Ireland and buy coke, yet the whole police force in that City can't find the dealer LOLz

yEA RIght !

alan partridge aha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242707#Comment_118242707

Waiting for the Gezza Price program to come on, and to see how Claire was looking which is the only reason to watch.

Pussyhands

That toy segment was a joke. Yer wan was called a "professional organiser".

And the whole organisation of the boxes isn't going to last long when they start fcuking everything into the one box and mixing everything up.

Pussyhands

Also lol at the covid props! Did we really need to see a real life model of covid? Couldnt they just have shown it on screen?

All this talk about waste and recycling and that thing will end up in a bin somewhere.

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118243637#Comment_118243637

The props dept went all out on it...golf tees and all...

RabbleRouser2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242774#Comment_118242774

Gerry Ryan, Katy French, Chris Farley, River Phoenix...

Some have fun doing it, some don't last long. I'm not a drug user (never was), but I've known plenty of people who do. All of em had one thing in common-they didn't touch cocaine. The risks were too great. They tended to research the stuff they did.

Plenty of other places won't hire anyone they suspect is using. Lots of them are burnt out from excessive drug use. A painter my mam hired last year couldn't take on any extra labourers. Not because he didn't want to hire em-many who applied were unreliable, using, or burnt out from using. So he left them. Not worth the potential insurance nightmare.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242581#Comment_118242581

There's an actual component shortage going on right now. Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch's are in high demand, but short supply. Sony have had to cut their planned console output for the second time this year (I think they're at least 2 million units short right now). Nintendo cut their planned console output by a million also.

Apple have had to cut the forecasted electronics output. Pretty much every device out there is gonna be in short supply because of this.

There's a legit story there. Console shortages, and consoles selling out as soon as they arrive... but do you think Claire Byrne's gonna talk about 'actual' news that affects a good chunk of the population?

Of course Not... it's not ridiculous enough.

Pussyhands

Yeah I'm not a drug user admittedly but don't act like there's no bad results.

We all know people who you can tell took drugs based on having the shakes etc.

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118248646#Comment_118248646

Prohibition didn't prevent Katy French's death, IMO it caused it, she got a bad batch, there's no quality control in the production of it. A small minority of people die from doing things they enjoy such as driving a motorbike, flying, mountain-climbing etc. Can you give me ONE good reason why cocaine is and should remain illegal? U say you've never taken drugs, how u have any opinion on it is beyond me. If this discussion was about childbirth, I wouldn't take part, 'cos like U and cocaine I have no experience or knowledge of that.

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118248800#Comment_118248800

The Rolling Stones took coke, they get decent well-paid earners called concerts, same with Noel/Liam Gallagher, Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart, Kate Moss was snapped taking a snort, she's not stuck for a few bob, nor is Nigella Lawson who admitted taking it. Ben Dunne was charged with it nearly 30 years ago, he's still alive and kicking.

BuildTheWall

Christ, cocaine in 5th year? I must say I was completely oblivious to the scale of the problem and how rampant it is in society until recently because I never hung around with people who took it.

RabbleRouser2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118248932#Comment_118248932

It depends the crowd you ran with. I knew some folks who did do the hard stuff in secondary school. It was risky. I think many dropped out. Sadly, many of them had troubled homes.

Substance use (and abuse) tends to come with pain. Trying to mask pain I mean. Known a few recovering addicts, in my time. Wouldn't wish that on any one. Addiction is a cruel mistress.

Pussyhands

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118248800#Comment_118248800

So all drugs should be legal? Even highly addictive ones?

Once you legalise it, you're telling everyone that it's acceptable to use.

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118249376#Comment_118249376

Yes they should, making them illegal is about as useful as making suicide illegal, pointless. Cocaine is not addictive, I've taken it many times over the years, have you? Yes it is acceptable, what a person puts in their body is their business, not yours.

landofthetree

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118249376#Comment_118249376

They should.

Too many innocent people die because of the drug trade.

Those who become cocaine addicts made a choice of their own accord. The innocent people killed didn't.

Plus absolutely zero state help for drug addicts. Alcohol and gambling at well.

Pussyhands

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118250614#Comment_118250614

Many things are made illegal to protect people from themselves and others.

Sure why not legalise hand guns!

Cocaine is not addictive, the same way sex is not addictive.

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118249376#Comment_118249376

You can make it legal and control the supply through a gp or whatever, dependent on health/mental health assessments. People are doing drugs anyway, at least this way it would bring people into a social safety net instead of stigmatising them and nip any abuse issues in the bud. Nobody wants to see hard drugs sold in the local spar

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118250739#Comment_118250739

hand guns are legal in the USA, I'm not saying I agree with that law. Is sex addictive, I know lots of people who lead celibate lives. Cocaine is NOT addictive, I know that from personal experience.

Quantum Erasure

Coke isn't addictive, I've given it up at least 10 times at this stage...

Pussyhands

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252637#Comment_118252637

Fast food isn't addictive, yet there's many many people who have incredible desire to eat it.

BuildTheWall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118250614#Comment_118250614

When someone says cocaine is not addictive their anti prohibition argument loses all weight.

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254128#Comment_118254128

I've taken it 3 times in 2021 and about the same in previous years. If that's addiction then I sarcastically agree with you. Have u ever taken it yourself?

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254249#Comment_118254249

I heard Claire interview a recently retired Garda Superintendent and asked him about legalizing the "scourge" of drugs. She's supposed to be impartial, why did she not just say "drugs". I don't know much about Sarah but she appears to be held in higher esteem.

Tomaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254401#Comment_118254401

Twitter loves Sarah but not Claire, I don't know what you can take from that.