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FF TD Jack Chambers announces he is gay

  • 14-01-2024 03:35PM
    #1
    dublincc2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭dublincc2


    I just got a notification on my phone from RTÉ News that Jack Chambers, a junior minister, is gay.

    Why is this considered an important enough story to send out a news alert? Why is it a story in the first place? I am struggling to describe just how little I care for the sexual preference of a government minister. I just don’t understand this at all. Who the **** cares?!

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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I got the notification as well. Heard the name before, but not idea who he is of what he is minister of. No interest and who cares. I am left wondering if this is from the government's spin machine, trying to take attention from real issues effecting people.



  • #3
    spakman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭spakman


    From his point of view, he probably wanted to be the one to bring it into the public domain rather than some tabloid publishing pics of him kissing someone with 'EXCLUSIVE' in huge writing across the page.

    But as to why RTE saw fit to send a push notification, god only knows.



  • #4
    thomas 123
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614695#Comment_121614695

    And run it as the second story on the website - best of luck Jack etc but not news imo.



  • #5
    nachouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭nachouser


    Equally, one could ask why is this a thread?



  • #6
    tomhammer..
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    Rte should have cop to leave it

    2024 peoples sexuality shouldn't be news



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  • #7
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    I'd now like to come out as...left-handed. My sexual orientation should be equally as irrelevant.

    It's a sign of how far we still have to evolve as a society when the media think a public servant's (minister or otherwise) sexual orientation is even newsworthy.

    Regressive journalism from The Irish Times. I'm disappointed with them to be honest.



  • #8
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614769#Comment_121614769

    Yeah. Why are people posting about it if they don't care.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #9
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614893#Comment_121614893

    People don't care. It's the idea of The Irish Times caring enough to run such a petty story that people here are posting about.



  • #10
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614906#Comment_121614906

    But they care enough to be posting they don't care 🤣. Like seriously announcing you don't care is actually stupid cause it shows you care enough to announce that.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #11
    _Kaiser_
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    It's a distraction from the actual issues, and an attempt to boost his popularity in probably an election year, and thus internal standing in the party.

    Same reason why Leo Varadkar came out on national radio during the SSM referendum. I don't think Jack will be succeeding Micheal though somehow.



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  • #12
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,139 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614906#Comment_121614906

    What I find odd is that it took two people to write the article, when it’s basically just a copy-and-paste of Chambers’ instagram post.

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  • #14
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    I'm with the OP, also I fail to understand why Mr Chambers feels it necessary to tell us that he is 'proud' to be gay. Am I entitled to be proud of being 5ft 11 or of having green eyes? Research has shown that sexuality is largely genetic so it seems silly to be proud of being gay, or straight, or tri-sexual.


    The West has become obsessed with LGBT rights to such an extent that it will inevitably prompt a backlash.



  • #15
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614941#Comment_121614941

    I don't find it odd, did you never hear the expression 'churnalist'? Most modern journalists seem to do little but repeat government propaganda, or opposition propaganda (yes, some journos favour SF).



  • #16
    Augme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭Augme


    In 2015, 38% of the population voted against gay people being given the same legal rights to marry as straight people.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614929#Comment_121614929

    Boost his internal standing in FF? I don't think you know FF. 😂

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  • #17
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614695#Comment_121614695

    If he were a UK politician, that would be legitimate, but the Irish media (even the tabloids) don't in general have a record of intruding into politicians' personal lives, unless they are doing something illegal. I know there was the case of Emmet Stagg, technically he wasn't doing anything illegal, but given the Labour party's uber-PC stance on prostitution, he was certainly hypocritical, so (arguably) deserved to be exposed.



  • #18
    bucketybuck
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    The real question is why the OP gets notifications from RTE. What sort of person signs up for that?



  • #19
    gmisk
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    Shouldn't really be news 99% of people probably don't care thankfully.

    Not a fan of him, useless at his job.



  • #20
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    What about all the straight people I say. They need to be recognised also surely.



  • #21
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,445 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I see he is minister for road safety.....mmmm.



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  • #22
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Lads, the answer is clicks, nothing more.

    Half the stuff on every the news site is nonsense.

    You're better off deleting news apps, or at least stopping push notifications. There's nothing reported that has an material impact on the lives of most people in Ireland.

    A quick look on the Journal shows the same Chambers story, a piece on Paul Mescal, two stories on the US election 10 months away, a volcano in Iceland and two stories about road traffic accidents. In short, the people who are actually affected, or even interested in this stuff are getting it from sources better than RTE and The journal



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  • #24
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,274 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615053#Comment_121615053

    How else would he know what to be outraged about.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615181#Comment_121615181

    Funny enough "a foot fetish" would probably be a big scandal. Really does freak people out 🤣



  • #25
    HBC08
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614695#Comment_121614695

    I imagine it would not have been a secret around Dail Eireann or amongst any of his friends.

    Honestly this sort of nonsense is seriously outdated,nobody cares.



  • #26
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615131#Comment_121615131

    Bit odd that you feel you need to know about paedophilia and beastiality

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #27
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615131#Comment_121615131

    Which animals are counted as vulnerable and which are not? Asking for a friend...



  • #28
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,378 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    This thread has gone down the usual route, disappointing but predictable.



  • #29
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,553 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    What route is the usual route?

    If it is cynical humorous mocking of everyone and everything... I gotta say I approve.



  • #30
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,190 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Just goes to show how pointless RTE are these days and how sh*te journalism is in general



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  • #31
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth 8-bit


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615367#Comment_121615367

    Media from hallowed Montrosia on high.



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