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  • #2792
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Sounds more like marketing spiel to me to try and "get with the times". Fact-checking is (/should be) a fundamental aspect of journalism. I never would have expected it to even be mentioned as something covered any more than a maths syllabus would mention they have numbers.

    That’s the exact analogy that came to my mind.
    Buer wrote: »
    I'd have thought any journalism degree has a module on ethics and something as simple as fact checking and how best to go about it would be covered very early as a fundamental element of the industry.

    You would think/hope that, but given the spiel clearly NUIG weren’t up till now.


  • #2793
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,199 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Buer wrote: »
    Minced meat is more liable to have bacteria. A steak is pretty much a closed shop, the outside is the outside and the meat inside is safe from external factors. That's not true with a burger necessarily as it has been minced. Whilst it would be rare for any issues, it is possible for bacteria to be present inside the burger which may not be killed off by cooking it rare.

    I'm not sure what the story is now but there were guidelines about serving of burgers and the internal temperature. Many places don't allow medium/rare orders for burgers because there's potential for issues.

    Nanny state nonsense. If you worry about bacteria you'll never eat or drink anything tasty in your life. Raw burgers, raw milk and maggoty cheese is the way to go.


  • #2794
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Nanny state nonsense. If you worry about bacteria you'll never eat or drink anything tasty in your life. Raw burgers, raw milk and maggoty cheese is the way to go.

    I've actually eaten my fair share of raw meat. But the standards for storing and prepping it are different.

    Mind you, you can get steak tartare in a self-service deli counter in the supermarket here. That I have no intention of touching.


  • #2795
    arsebiscuits1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭arsebiscuits1


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Big fan of BuJo.

    Anyone got any opinion on great pizza places in Dublin?

    Ive tried, Manifesto, Honest Pizza, Dublin Pizza Company, Basil, Skinflint, Platform and Boco - but I am yet to find somewhere that competes with Dough Bros in Galway.

    If you're looking for a better pizza than Dough Bros in Dublin you will sadly be found wanting.

    I love Dublin, but Dough Bros is head and shoulders above most of what is on offer.

    I do love a pizza and some of the better ones

    - Base - pricey but delicious. Comfortably the best take out for my money

    - Paulies Pizza in Beggars Bush - Simply outstanding pizza.


  • #2796
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    In Dublin I found Sano's pizza quite nice. Not badly priced either.

    I went to Dough Bros in Galway in last year and tbh I don't quite get the hype. It's fine.


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  • #2797
    arsebiscuits1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭arsebiscuits1


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Nanny state nonsense. If you worry about bacteria you'll never eat or drink anything tasty in your life. Raw burgers, raw milk and maggoty cheese is the way to go.

    It's not even that I worry about getting sick from a pink in the middle burger. I just don't like the texture.

    There are few finer things in life than a medium rare steak.

    But a medium rare burger is not a comparable experience. Cooked through is grand for me


  • #2798
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Lads its pre-season. Cut this ****ehawkery.


  • #2799
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,321 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Lads its pre-season. Cut this ****ehawkery.
    You can talk about your lovely tofu and other hipster food over here if you prefer.


  • #2800
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,751 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Firehouse in Ballymun is the best pizza I've had in Dublin.


  • #2801
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    Firehouse in Ballymun is the best pizza I've had in Dublin.

    This is an interesting development, tell me more.


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  • #2802
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,751 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    errlloyd wrote: »
    This is an interesting development, tell me more.

    Think they've one out in Booterstown as well, but yeah wood fire pizza, won best takeaway pizza last year from Just Eat.

    There's also Vincenzo's on the Malahide Road which is decent but not as good as Firehouse.


  • #2803
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,774 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    Firehouse in Ballymun is the best pizza I've had in Dublin.

    I tried that once. It was grand, but then I'm notoriously fussy about my pizzas.

    Best I ever had was a little place in Greystones called Beast. It was set up next to the Beach House pub and you could sit outside with a beer from next door while waiting for your pizza. They closed for the winter a few months before I moved out to Greystones. And then never reopened. I was heartbroken. :(


  • #2804
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    Think they've one out in Booterstown as well, but yeah wood fire pizza, won best takeaway pizza last year from Just Eat.

    There's also Vincenzo's on the Malahide Road which is decent but not as good as Firehouse.

    How long has Vincenzo's been there? Grew up just up the road though never noticed it, might give it a shot during some Christmas lethargy :D


  • #2805
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Are we talking North Italy (thin base) or Neapolitan (light spongey crust) style here?


  • #2806
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Lads what's your favourite place for chicken breasts and pasta?


  • #2807
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,035 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Lads its pre-season. Cut this ****ehawkery.

    I'm with IBF on this one. It's hard enough choosing a restaurant in the south of france here without all this talk of pizzas and burgers.

    *orders another round of beers*


  • #2808
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,751 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    How long has Vincenzo's been there? Grew up just up the road though never noticed it, might give it a shot during some Christmas lethargy :D

    Probably been there a couple years at this rate, it's in between Rocca's and Richard Gavin's old place I think.
    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Are we talking North Italy (thin base) or Neapolitan (light spongey crust) style here?

    We're talking about the roundy circle ones made out of dough


  • #2809
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    shootermacg wrote: »
    No not me, although I know the type. The house next to me is usually let out to Leinster players / staff. I've had Jimmy Goppert, Issac Boss, the new S&C coach and a few more as neighbors (all great neighbours).

    It must have been like that scene in the hobbit for them after a Munster game, what with me giving them the old stink eye!

    Yeah, I think the people who followed us were also Kiwis, and the man was one of the Leinster physios or something like that.

    We would have happily stayed there if issues with the landlord hadn't forced us to move on.

    That property itself is nice though, sun streaming through the windows on a Sunday afternoon often had me sound asleep on the sofa...:o


  • #2810
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,986 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    This is more than a bit shocking.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-VcErKk6Qs


    More details here.


  • #2811
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What a staggeringly massive asshole.


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  • #2812
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    prawnsambo wrote: »
    This is more than a bit shocking.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-VcErKk6Qs


    More details here.

    It seems that men being violent against women is something society doesn’t really take seriously, like this one, one month after pleading guilty to what would be GBH if he did it to a guy on the street.


  • #2813
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    stephen_n wrote: »
    It seems that men being violent against women is something society doesn’t really take seriously, like this one, one month after pleading guilty to what would be GBH if he did it to a guy on the street.

    Sentencing in this country leaves a lot to be desired.


  • #2814
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Sentencing in this country leaves a lot to be desired.

    Think it works somewhat along the lines of rugby disciplinary hearings. If you turn up in a nice suit and say you’re sorry you’ll get a light sentence. Seems to me as a father of two daughters, that women get little or no protection under the law. Something that irritates the hell out of me.


  • #2815
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Think it works somewhat along the lines of rugby disciplinary hearings. If you turn up in a nice suit and say you’re sorry you’ll get a light sentence. Seems to me as a father of two daughters, that women get little or no protection under the law. Something that irritates the hell out of me.

    Victims don't get justice is the way I look at it.

    Then again, iirc other countries with light sentencing tend to have low recidivism. That doesn't address the justice for the victim issue.

    Something for me to research further to avoid posting further gibberish!


  • #2816
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Victims don't get justice is the way I look at it.

    Then again, iirc other countries with light sentencing tend to have low recidivism. That doesn't address the justice for the victim issue.

    Something for me to research further to avoid posting further gibberish!

    I think the low recidivism is not related to light sentencing in the sense we talk about it. There is light sentencing in that they may not go to jail but that doesn't mean they just wander off with a suspended sentence - there is an entire system set up to deal with and rehabilitate them.

    The Nordic model works demonstrably better than ours but there is not a hope in hell of getting public support for it as people will denounce it as both weak and spending money on criminals. It is frustrating.


  • #2817
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Think it works somewhat along the lines of rugby disciplinary hearings. If you turn up in a nice suit and say you’re sorry you’ll get a light sentence. Seems to me as a father of two daughters, that women get little or no protection under the law. Something that irritates the hell out of me.

    If he did that to a guy on the street I don't think there is the slightest chance he would get a stronger sentence.


  • #2818
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    If he did that to a guy on the street I don't think there is the slightest chance he would get a stronger sentence.

    I've seen much harsher sentencing in assault cases, from fights outside pubs. Certainly if the offender has previous like in that case.


  • #2819
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,751 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Sentencing for anything in this country is a joke. You show up to court, get your lawyer to say you had a troubled upbringing and a past history of committing a crime so it should only be expected you'll do it again, and boom walk away with a suspended sentence.


  • #2820
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    I'd be interested to see if there is inconsistency in sentencing between judges. One in particular who I see in the news on a semi-regular basis loves his suspended sentences despite previous convictions.


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  • #2821
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    I'd be interested to see if there is inconsistency in sentencing between judges. One in particular loves his suspended sentences despite previous convictions.

    There is massive inconsistency between judges. One of the biggest injustices is actually at the lowest end of the spectrum. I've spent a lot of time observing the district court, and this **** is actually a joke.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/court-poor-box-3936377-Apr2018/


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