NIMAN wrote: » This isn't even a story. I'm sure there are loads of people disappointed that they returned, but we heard nothing about them. Unknown individual is disappointed. Who the feck cares. I refuse to read the piece, but why can she not just head back to her beloved New York?
I met celebrities, diplomats, poets, artists, wealthy publishers, all-round interesting human beings, and worked in areas including journalism, music, fashion and publishing. “A mixed bag” I suppose you could say.
I started to consider returning to university to pursue a masters. This was not an option for me in the US because, well, I liked having money and not being in debt.
ThunbergsAreGo wrote: » What an absolute tool, as many have said, the notions....
JupiterKid wrote: » It’s a real shame how the IT, our alleged “paper of record” has gone so so downhill in the past 15 or so years. I suppose pretty much all print media has gone this way. This “piece” is lazy clickbait, pure and simple. That young woman is an interminable whinging, entitled and self-absorbed spoiled brat who is seriously deluded if she expects Belfast to be exactly like New York.
Woke Hogan wrote: » Check out the big men slagging off her appearance.
Don't Chute! wrote: » “But what am I here?” A kunt?
patmac wrote: » Jaysus the Irish Times has gone to fcuk altogether.
milehip wrote: » What do you expect when you call a child Nollaig? Notions from the offset!
Better Than Christ wrote: » "I’m ashamed of sounding culturally insensitive about my own country..." If I was ashamed of sounding a certain way, I'd avoid sounding that way in a national newspaper.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » Who was the one who bought a flat in the boom then whined about her mortgage and the devaluation of the place in the Indo a few times?
JupiterKid wrote: » That would be Alison O’Riordan. She bought her Dublin Docklands apartment in 2008, when everyone knew the housing market collapse was well underway. Then spent two years writing a piece in the Indo about how her dreams of living the uber-hip and trendy city slicker life turned into a negative equity nightmare. We don’t hear from Alison much these days.
Bellbottoms wrote: » Ah ok, it looks like she was trying to make it as a musician in the US. I can see why that didn't work out. She has a pleasant voice. But nothing remarkable. hv=NGeMnwlLwJM A bit mediocre really I am guessing she was on a O-1B visa. Which is supposed to be reserved for individuals with extra ordinary ability in the arts. Its a little hard to see how she qualified given that performance and the quality of her writing. With that said, it seems that there is a lot of abuse with this visa. I believe its the same visa Meave Higgins has. Make of that what you will.
Idbatterim wrote: » From New York back to this backward banana republic , with less than the population of New York living on it , possibly half the population! Leave and you will know not to look back the next time !
larchielads wrote: » She'll be on the Late Late with Tubs next and he'll be all about her
nthclare wrote: » Just because she's mildly pretty they decide to give her a platform.
BENDYBINN wrote: » Fair play to her,she had the balls to get up and go Lot of bitterness on here from people who were too afraid to let go of mommy’s apron strings Good on her..
Stevieluvsye wrote: » I can envisage this muppett came home with some stupid put on New York accent also
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