big news storys we dont hear about anymore

the_pen_turner

a few years ago it was all about imegrants going across borders and seas to get into europe , and all that business at callais with the trucks. we never hear about that any more

ebola was another.

what news stories from the last few years just stopped being reported and forgotten about.

baylah17

Bertie Ahern and his corruption

Panthro

The Masked Man of Tullyallen

Water John

Follow up on stories is quite interesting, when they go off the front pages.
I think Ebola reemerged in the last few weeks.
Bertie's 'problems' re-emerged on German TV, a few days ago. He walked out of the interview, definitely putting himself, in the news.

The disaster of the hurricane in Haiti is waht I would nominate.

GarIT

Paedophile priests. A few years back there was a new one discovered every week. I haven’t heard of any in a good while now.

Acid rain

super_furry

Moving statues.

Jimmy Dags

People getting erections at mass during the offering.

Don't you keep in touch with reality on After Hours at all at all? There's something infinitely more threatening to the human race today: the rise of women and all their evil talk of equal rights while men are being victimised everywhere. EVERYWHERE! This is the new conspiracy, the new Third Reich - they're not called FemiNAZIS (oh, the wit!) for nothing!

Be afraid. Very, very afraid.

...

ChunkyLover54

The Beef Tribunal.

Tuco88

SARS Virus.
Bird Flu.
Charity scams in Ireland.
Ukraine. Did they forget about Crimea?

the_pen_turner

horse meat scandle. did any one ever get punished for that

siblers

South Sudan/Darfur

donegaLroad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YgJx8VGRA

Peatys

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Don't you keep in touch with reality on After Hours at all at all? There's something infinitely more threatening to the human race today: the rise of women and all their evil talk of equal rights while men are being victimised everywhere. EVERYWHERE! This is the new conspiracy, the new Third Reich - they're not called FemiNAZIS (oh, the wit!) for nothing!

Be afraid. Very, very afraid.

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Did you read the thread title?

Peatys

WMD's.

donegaLroad

Peatys wrote: »

WMD's.

see post #14 for details

Peatys

donegaLroad wrote: »

see post #14 for details

See Bush, think wmd's..
Didn't have to click the link.

Kony 2012. Is that like all gone? Did we do it? Cos I shared the video and all.

Skylinehead

Omackeral wrote: »

Kony 2012. Is that like all gone? Did we do it? Cos I shared the video and all.

https://soundcloud.com/viperhiggins/bigtalk-with-viper-kony

Where the kids at Kony?

donegaLroad

Omackeral wrote: »

Kony 2012. Is that like all gone? Did we do it? Cos I shared the video and all.

I was going to mention this Kony malarkey, and also the girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram

Franz Von Peppercorn

A lot of stuff mentioned is not ongoing.

Here’s one that’s rarely mentioned - Yemen.

Also the Russian poisoning story seems to have been quashed.

Corbyn being an anti Semite. That’s died off for now until the local elections get closer.

Atlantic Dawn

Acid rain.

donegaLroad

donegaLroad wrote: »

I was going to mention this Kony malarkey, and also the girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram

The Ireland fans from Euro 2016 saved them after changing everyone’s flat tyres in France and serenading their women.

AMKC

Catalonia and its silly idea of Independence. Why when they were/are part of a great and beautiful country.

AllForIt

AMKC wrote: »

Catalonia and its silly idea of Independence. Why when they were/are part of a great and beautiful country.

Where've you been?

Arghus

Brexit seems to have fallen out of view again while everyone has been talking about chemical weapon attacks and missile strikes.

Funny how it seemed to be the only news story that mattered for ages, until something else came along: Arsene Wenger got at least twenty times the news coverage instead of it over the past week. But isn't that always the way.

diomed

Mary got a job in the bank.

M.T. Cranium

We never seem to get the snow ...

Peatys

AllForIt wrote: »

Where've you been?

Where you weely been?

lmimmfn

Kony 2012

LirW

Aspartame

RhubarbCrumble

The ozone layer.

yabbav

the_pen_turner wrote: »

a few years ago it was all about imegrants going across borders and seas to get into europe , and all that business at callais with the trucks. we never hear about that any more

ebola was another.

what news stories from the last few years just stopped being reported and forgotten about.

This was taken off the media yet it’s still an issue. It’s a new tactic buy the socialists in Brussels. Any terror related stuff is mental illness only now too.

Ipso

Ice water curing ALS.

johnnyyesno

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

A lot of stuff mentioned is not ongoing.

Here’s one that’s rarely mentioned - Yemen.

Also the Russian poisoning story seems to have been quashed.

Corbyn being an anti Semite. That’s died off for now until the local elections get closer.

It's more some of his supporters rather than Corbyn that were being suggested as anti Semitic. There was another story about it in the Sunday Times this weekend.

garbo speaks

The New Year's Eve sexual assaults and rapes in Germany in 2015 by Muslim asylum seekers. I am still stunned to this day how such a brutal, large-scale attack on a western democracy was effectively silenced by the liberal media.

jamesbere

Y2K, don't hear about that anymore

padd b1975

Ash clouds.

mikemac2

Ozone layer

Ulysses Gaze

mikemac2 wrote: »

Ozone layer

Apparently, it has almost completely regenerated itself.

DellyBelly

Acid rain

SCOOP 64

Brexit, sorry no, thats still talk about.

Harry Palmr

You don't hear about acid rain and the ozone layer due to remedial action taken making a difference for the better. These things are no longer in the news as they are no longer a news matter ( updates about things only make news if something has got worse not better).

Donald Trump

diomed wrote: »

Mary got a job in the bank.

Making lots of money
and giving Frank a ****

Something like that?

Richard Hillman

Famine/Starvation in Africa. Used to be a major news puller. I reckon the news companies and the NGOs have tried shock value far too much that people have become desensitized to images of starved children with swollen bellies or kids that look like Skeltons.

It's difficult to know if there is less famine or that the news media just don't think it's sexy anymore

Donald Trump

Me becoming POTUS

People seem to have forgotten about that already

Richard Hillman

Another one is China and human rights abuses and censorship. Seems like the journos see China as a land of personal opportunity and are now willing to turn a blind eye. It was big news 5-10 years ago, nothing much has changed apart from the fact they know which side of the bread is buttered.

Agent Coulson

Homelessness and rough sleepers.

baylah17

Fukushima.

Just over 7 years on, and they are still trying to figure out how to best deal with it. Only last year, robots finally found the reactor's melted core.

baylah17 wrote: »

Bertie Ahern and his corruption

This, this, this.

Look, he can live out his days smiling away in private for all I care. But the sight/sounds of him trying to worm his way back into Irish Politics makes my skin crawl. The neck on him for one, like the Khaleesi's bollix, and the utter stupidity of some of our electorate for even considering entertaining the notion.

Fair play to that German TV interviewer who attempted to ask Bertie about the Mahon Tribunal over the weekend. It forced Bertie to leave the interview saying "I'm here to talk about Good Friday Agreement and I've done that, goodbye".

Not one of the mainstream Irish stations would write that question and allow their interviewer to ask it. They will happily allow Bertie to sleep walk into the office of President if they have their way, while asking him about his celebrity links or his favourite colour for a Chihuahua sweater.

That's why I feel 'Bertie Ahern' is an important answer to the OP's question, even if not the best one. Be it here on Boards, there on r/ireland, on your personal social media, people need to be reminded of the history of Bertie if the man is considering reentering Irish Politics. RTE certainly won't do it for us.

Grayson

The Mayalasian airline flight. It was 24/7 and petered out. Occasionally a lump of plastic washes up somewhere and it's a small column on page 7.