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8-year-old boy drowns in swimming pool

  • 21-08-2009 06:24AM
    #1
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0820/meath.html

    It was mentioned on the 9 o'clock news there was lifeguards on duty.

    Very shocking news.

    RIP, and my condolances to his parents and family.

    An eight-year-old boy has drowned in a public swimming pool in Co Meath this evening.

    The young boy had been in the Aura swimming pool in Navan when he got into difficulties.

    The swimming pool is owned by Meath County Council and leased to Aura.
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    Elsewhere, in Co Antrim a search is under way in a river for a missing 14-year-old boy.

    The PSNI say that a man and another teenage boy have already been rescued from the River Bush, near the village of Stranocum.

    Emergency services including the Fire Service and a PSNI helicopter have been working in the area since the alarm was raised at 3pm today.


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  • #2
    brendansmith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭brendansmith


    RIP


  • #3
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    That's terrible..

    RIP.



    oh, and to all the AH users who want to make a joke about this in some way..piss off.


  • #4
    Katarn1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Katarn1


    I can only imagine how parents who suffer a loss like this feel.

    My heart goes out to them and the rest of his family.

    RIP


  • #5
    tommym037
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭tommym037


    Who would make a joke about something so sad? Thats sickening

    RIP
    SV wrote: »
    That's terrible..

    RIP.



    oh, and to all the AH users who want to make a joke about this in some way..piss off.


  • #6
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    SV wrote: »
    oh, and to all the AH users who want to make a joke about this in some way..piss off.

    I doubt many will so why don't you leave the modding to the mods?


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  • #7
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    tommym037 wrote: »
    Who would make a joke about something so sad? Thats sickening

    RIP

    We are talking after hours though - you do see some shocking stuff on here


  • #8
    tommym037
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭tommym037


    stovelid wrote: »
    I doubt many will so why don't you leave the modding to the mods?

    Why dont you mind your own business?


  • #9
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    SV wrote: »
    That's terrible..

    RIP.



    oh, and to all the AH users who want to make a joke about this in some way..piss off.

    Fair enough, but why do people post this kind of thread in AH? There's a News and Media forum whose charter covers serious topical news issues; they're not suitable for this forum IMO.


  • #10
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Feel sorry for the family, also feel sorry for the lifeguards!


  • #11
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I heard this earlier on the news. Terrible stuff.

    As a mark of respect I will withhold my witty remark.

    RIP little lad.


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  • #12
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    tommym037 wrote: »
    Why dont you mind your own business?

    Like you did?


  • #13
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,581 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    bit more info here,

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0821/breaking17.htm


  • #14
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,103 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Very sad, Was the boy a foreign national, as his name and the name of the parents
    seem to say so.?

    I heard there were six guards on duty, seems a lot, but that is what I heard...
    An investigation needs to be thoroughly carried out here if
    there were six on duty and this still happened...Strange


  • #15
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I'm getting a pain in my tits with this sanctimonious shit.

    I had zero intention of making a joke, but you can't open threads that involve any kind of gravitas in here and immediately weigh in and tell people to piss off or mind their own business if they make any comment other than sanctimonious RIP-flogging.

    Who do you think you are?


  • #16
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    stovelid wrote: »
    I'm getting a pain in my tits with this sanctimonious shit.

    I had zero intention of making a joke, but you can't open threads that involve any kind of gravitas in here and immediately weigh in and tell people to piss off or mind their own business if they make any comment other than sanctimonious RIP-flogging.

    Who do you think you are?

    Yes, this thread does not belong in After Hours


  • #17
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Fair enough, but why do people post this kind of thread in AH? There's a News and Media forum whose charter covers serious topical news issues; they're not suitable for this forum IMO.
    The stories are suitable for AH.
    Certain users are not suitable for AH though.
    I suggest those whose posts I deleted keep this in mind.


  • #18
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Terry wrote: »
    The stories are suitable for AH.
    Certain users are not suitable for AH though.
    I suggest those whose posts I deleted keep this in mind.

    Honest question: How are we know when we're allowed make jokes? Like, there's insensitive jokes about all manner of serious stuff here every day, what's special about this one?


  • #19
    tommym037
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭tommym037


    A pain in your tits? Dont be so disgusting.

    Have you even read this thread?

    Show some respect.


  • #20
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,103 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Zillah wrote: »
    Honest question: How are we know when we're allowed make jokes? Like, there's insensitive jokes about all manner of serious stuff here every day, what's special about this one?

    Though I wouldn't make a joke in this or other cases, I have seen jokes
    in many threads that were tragic, and nothing was ever said.

    Consistency is needed


  • #21
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    tommym037 wrote: »
    A pain in your tits? Dont be so disgusting.

    Have you even read this thread?

    Show some respect.

    I am showing respect.

    I do not, however, feel the need to be more respectful-than-thou.

    It's something I would never joke about, but you don't mod or own the thread. There are people here that can make that call.


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  • #22
    Mr.David
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭Mr.David


    This thread is drowning :(


  • #23
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    well at least the thread is evolving into some discussion and not every post is just someone posting RIP.


  • #24
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Zillah wrote: »
    Honest question: How are we know when we're allowed make jokes? Like, there's insensitive jokes about all manner of serious stuff here every day, what's special about this one?
    Hmm. Let me see.
    A thread about an 8 year old dying. Is it suitable for making jokes in?
    I'm going to have to say no.

    Use common sense.
    If you are lacking in that area, I'm sure we can come to some sort of arrangement.

    walshb wrote: »
    Though I wouldn't make a joke in this or other cases, I have seen jokes
    in many threads that were tragic, and nothing was ever said.

    Consistency is needed
    Report the posts.


  • #25
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Mr.David wrote: »
    This thread is drowning :(
    Why would you post that?
    It's not even mildly amusing.

    Seriously. Did you really think that was funny?
    That was just a really awful attempt at a pun.


  • #26
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Fair enough, but why do people post this kind of thread in AH? There's a News and Media forum whose charter covers serious topical news issues; they're not suitable for this forum IMO.
    First of all RIP to the child and condolences to the family.

    Who looks at the news & media forum?, the thread turnover is extremely slow, about a two weeks in the first page. :rolleyes:


  • #27
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    also feel sorry for the lifeguards!

    Have to say I agree.

    Assuming it was just an accident, and not negligence, the guilt would be awful.


  • #28
    Mr.David
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭Mr.David


    Terry wrote: »
    Why would you post that?
    It's not even mildly amusing.

    Seriously. Did you really think that was funny?
    That was just a really awful attempt at a pun.

    Its a difficult thread - AH is the place to vent, to hone wit and humour. This thread isn't really the place to do that I was being restrained. I agree this thread isnt really AH material.

    I'm glad you enjoyed it though :)


  • #29
    ceannair06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭ceannair06


    I think the point being made is that none of you knew the kid, and whilst it is sad, I am personally sick of all the "RIP little man, an angle (sic) in heaven" crap that gets posted.

    It's like the Diana/Jade funerals - mind your own family first, and your own community as they are the ones who need the support and care.


  • #30
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Who looks at the news & media forum?, the thread turnover is extremely slow, about a two weeks in the first page. :rolleyes:

    I would have thought it would be frowned upon to use After Hours as a catch-all just to gain an audience. It's quite tasteless making a spectacle of the death of an 8 year old boy.:pac:


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  • #31
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    ceannair06 wrote: »
    I think the point being made is that none of you knew the kid, and whilst it is sad, I am personally sick of all the "RIP little man, an angle (sic) in heaven" crap that gets posted.

    It's like the Diana/Jade funerals - mind your own family first, and your own community as they are the ones who need the support and care.

    Agreed the thread should move away from this angle .

    We should be looking at why it happened, could it have been avoided, is anyone to blame or is it just a tragic accident ? Will there be any consequences for Aura, either specifically in Navan or on a nationwide basis ?


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