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  • #1652
    gigantic09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123686105#Comment_123686105

    He's retired from rte but has a podcast which is available on Spotify. Next series of pods due in October but all episodes to date are there to listen to.



  • #1653
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,908 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123686208#Comment_123686208

    Does that justify censorship?

    Never agreed with blackouts when it involved travellers, "minors", friends of Joe Duffy and Peter McVerry (unwells), known criminals out on bail.

    Why, do so now?

    Media are supposed to be unbiased, RTÉ and the print media only have themselves to blame for BSing the population down the years.

    Ditto for the Gardaí - we owe them nothing.

    (For the record Dwyer et al ought to be sorted out good and proper, wait until Shinners get into government, then he and his British squaddies will learn some manners)

    Post edited by An Claidheamh on


  • #1654
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,908 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123686283#Comment_123686283

    What percentage of crimes go unreported?About 90% probably

    And if you report a crime and find yourself under interrogation, danger or simply having your time wasted, you don't ever report again.

    That would the first question any serious person would ask.

    RTÉ "journalists" are lackeys.



  • #1655
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,908 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123686463#Comment_123686463

    He came across as a decent guy, but, did he fall off the deep end though or something?

    Became a conspiracy theorist?

    Open to correction if wrong.



  • #1656
    gigantic09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123686592#Comment_123686592

    I dunno to be honest. He might over do the trans stuff but his interviews with the fringe members of society such as homeless,petty criminals,drug addicts ,travellers etc are still valuable .



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  • #1657
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,679 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123686319#Comment_123686319

    There is a convoy of food-laden trucks at border crossings awaiting entry



  • #1658
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123683021#Comment_123683021

    Ah sure look I gave up donating to any of them, take Paul connolly chairman of unicef Ireland, every day they're lookin for money on radio and TV, then he's also on the board of tetrarch capital who've made monstrous profits from city West and all that goes on there, and then here comes Paul again as chair of framespace solutions no doubt making a packet out of the modular homes and "homes down the garden" craic💶💶💶... It's all a friggin club high fiving each other in the boardrooms and the golf clubs



  • #1659
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687103#Comment_123687103

    All the big charities are like that. I have head several different stories from people inside different charities.



  • #1660
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    And some small charities. I was involved in the running of one. They were for the birds when it came to budgeting etc. At one stage a lad experienced in project management was in charge, he had them draw up budgets and keep to them etc. They were not happy this and would be complaining. Your man only stuck at the position for a couple of years. The last straw for me was when they spent thousands on a unnecessary item of equipment, without any thought on the extra costs of actually installing and using it. It may sound like the government, most of the people involved worked for the HSE :-)



  • #1661
    Jeff2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,577 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    .......

    Post edited by Jeff2 on


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  • #1662
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Colm,

    Who will look after my children when I die?Government doing nothing. My rights.

    Apprenticeship, lad cannot get hours on/off site. Below min wage.

    Honestly Box, is it living up to its name?



  • #1663
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    Homesty Bosx… is that a young wan who’ll tell you the truth afterwards whether you were a good or bad or atrocious shag?



  • #1664
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,049 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    why do we have a mammy on talking for her son in his 20's !!??!!



  • #1665
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,049 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    no he doesn't work 80 hrs a week, and if he does his employer is paying him cash.

    I am looking out the window at 2 apprentice plasterers, he is not the only one in the country



  • #1666
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,049 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    will mammy have to book the tickets for him for Australia ? How will he survive over there with out mammy ?



  • #1667
    Deeec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,012 ✭✭✭Deeec


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123689257#Comment_123689257

    Whoever employs him at the moment is rethinking if they want to keep him listening to this.

    Hes probably getting paid what he is worth given he is only an apprentice. It seems he was offered a place last January and rejected it 🤔



  • #1668
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Statement Reading Mode.



  • #1669
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭touts


    He is in his 20s and mammy is still looking after him and phoning solas etc for him. He also was offered a place on the course last January and rejected it because he couldn't get ready in time.

    Sounds like he is a waste of space mainly because mammy has spoiled him all his life.



  • #1670
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭touts


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123689280#Comment_123689280

    It's a 2 for 1. Hire him and also get his mammy in on top of you demanding everything for her precious son.



  • #1671
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,049 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    what 3 year degree course is this ?



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  • #1672
    Deeec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,012 ✭✭✭Deeec


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123689308#Comment_123689308

    I think the degree course is in mammy's head



  • #1673
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭touts


    Maybe he would be better off going to Australia to get away from mammy and learn to be an adult.



  • #1674
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,541 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    His friends are over there on Land Cruiser money so to speak.



  • #1675
    mumo3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭mumo3


    My daughters boyfriend is an apprentice plumber and let me tell you some employers do treat them like dirt, crappy hours, crappy sites, below minimum wage and no perks. And only certain ETB's do the different levels so he was in Dublin for year 1/2 and in West Meath for year 3. Its a ridiculous set up he should be a year or two ahead but due to covid there was no courses and the apprentices had to suck it up.



  • #1676
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,049 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    if you don't have money in Australia you can't do things either. Your son sounds like he is unable to do things by himself.



  • #1677
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭touts


    "His stress levels"

    If my mammy was smaking a show of me on national radio my stress levels would be through the roof also.



  • #1678
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭touts


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123689324#Comment_123689324

    Maybe mammy will move to Australia to look after him.



  • #1679
    mumo3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭mumo3


    To be a trainer in Solas is a nightmare… You need to have years of proven experience certificates in everything and then with all that experience you are working for way less wage you can earn on a site. And then some of them are classed as self employed and not receiving the semi state perks.

    You should see the forms, proper Irish government forms, pages and pages of useless information required.



  • #1680
    blackvalley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123689257#Comment_123689257

    Perhaps because he is actually working right now. I mean now as in actually at this moment. Obviously unlike all those people who have time to be slagging him off here.



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  • #1681
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123689308#Comment_123689308

    He will make more money if he finishes the course than whan the average person who does a degree.

    What these people don't seem to realise is the person doing a 4 year degree gets SFA money!



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