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The price of fame ?

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    #2
    branie2
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    Very high


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    #3
    dudara
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    As I understand, offering to pay compensation or making Poor Box donations has been an accepted way to avoid convictions for many years.


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    dickangel
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭dickangel


    The judge seems very smitten with her.


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    #5
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,495 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    What would you deem an adequate sanction op?

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    I wonder will there be the same outrage over this as there was over Paddy Jackson & Co., I somehow doubt it.


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    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    I wonder will there be the same outrage over this as there was over Paddy Jackson & Co., I somehow doubt it.




    There's no fucking comparison between the two.


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    Hedgelayer
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    Obviously the judge doesn't take much of the cross bar to seriously...

    If you get my pun....


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    Mike9832
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Mike9832


    dickangel wrote: »
    The judge seems very smitten with her.

    He did

    Did she even apologise?

    She comes across as a right idiot in this article, made of steel.


    https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-features/cork-camogie-star-ashling-thompson-my-dark-places-35178200.html


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Odhinn wrote: »
    There's no fucking comparison between the two.

    True. One party was found not guilty, the other was guilty and the judge has offered a chance to buy their way out of a conviction.


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    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    True. One party was found not guilty, the other was guilty and the judge has offered a chance to buy their way out of a conviction.




    You're comparing a rape case with a number of accused with a woman throwing a dig or two in the pub?


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Judge O’Leary said: “If paid it will disappear. No convictions. It disappears into a fog. There is no Probation Act, no strike-out. It can only be re-entered if the money is not paid (by September 30).” Judge O’Leary said: “It is finished today as far as the court is concerned. It can only be re-entered if €6,000 is not paid.

    “It may appear that what I am doing is relatively lenient. I cannot understand the level of attention from the media in relation to this. Maybe I am out of touch. I cannot understand what the fascination is that brings so many of the media to court

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/this-is-a-regrettable-incident--camogie-star-ashling-thompson-ordered-to-pay-6k-for-assaulting-two-women-932897.html


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Odhinn wrote: »
    You're comparing a rape case with a number of accused with a woman throwing a dig or two in the pub?

    I’m comparing an alleged sexual assault case with a physical assault case where one of the victims received a fractured jaw.

    A ‘dig or two in the pub’? Jesus. I thought we’d moved past this LAD attitude to assault.

    I suppose you’ll tell me next that it’s okay to give your g/f or wife ‘a dig or two’


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    She obviously needs anger management.


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    [Deleted User]
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    She's fairly rough looking..


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    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    She's fairly rough looking..

    You’re no oil painting yourself, love.


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    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Well, maybe a Picasso.


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    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    I’m comparing an alleged sexual assault case with a physical assault case where one of the victims received a fractured jaw.

    A ‘dig or two in the pub’? Jesus. I thought we’d moved past this LAD attitude to assault.




    And you think this is as bad as a rape?


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    Blinky Plebum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭Blinky Plebum


    She's not really that famous.


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Blinky Plebum wrote: »
    She's not really that famous.


    She's ye know ...Ashling. From the thingy


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    Bobblehats
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    She's ye know ...Ashling. From the thingy

    Oh the camaugue roish yeh


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Odhinn wrote: »
    And you think this is as bad as a rape?

    You’ve already set your stall out by calling a physical assault against these women as a ‘throwing a dig or two’, you seem to think it’s okay carry out unprovoked attacks on women, I don’t.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Odhinn wrote:
    And you think this is as bad as a rape?

    No. He thinks being guilty of assault is worse than being not guilty of rape... Which it is.


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    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    You’ve already set your stall out by calling a physical assault against these women as a ‘throwing a dig or two’, you seem to think it’s okay carry out unprovoked attacks on women, I don’t.


    Bollocks, tbh.


    You're whinging about the two is if theres a comparison - there isn't.


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    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,369 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Whatever about jail time she should have it recorded as a conviction, she sounds like a right scobe.


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    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Odhinn wrote: »
    Bollocks, tbh.


    You're whinging about the two is if theres a comparison - there isn't.

    Let's start small on this

    https://youtu.be/MMiKyfd6hA0

    It's really not difficult


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    [Deleted User]
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Whatever about jail time she should have it recorded as a conviction, she sounds like a right scobe.

    There is one standard for those in the public eye, and another standard for the plebs.


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    #28
    [Deleted User]
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    Odhinn wrote:
    You're whinging about the two is if theres a comparison - there isn't.

    We are all in agreement. One case is guilty the other is not guilty. No comparison.

    The main difference is the person who was found not guilty of rape has their life ruined and the person found guilty of a vicious assault against women (or a few digs if you are that way inclined) gets a chance to pay their way out of it.


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    rob316
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    I'm from cork never even heard of her.


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Odhinn wrote: »
    Bollocks, tbh.


    You're whinging about the two is if theres a comparison - there isn't.

    Might I suggest that you visit a woman’s refuge, as your silly question there. See what kind of a response you get. What would you tell the victims of physical assault? ‘Ah sure it was only a dig or two, shur isn’t rape a lot worse’.

    Both are despicable crimes.

    I had expected a higher standard of posting from you, Odhinn.


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    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Might I suggest that you visit a woman’s refuge, as your silly question there. See what kind of a response you get. What would you tell the victims of physical assault? ‘Ah sure it was only a dig or two, shur isn’t rape a lot worse’.

    Both are despicable crimes.

    I had expected a higher standard of posting from you, Odhinn.




    There's nothing wrong with my posting, just your deliberate mischaracterisation of it.


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