the poor old man

booboo88 · 04-08-2011 06:28PM #1

eamon horan who was attacked in tralee by thugs, and then to have the ordeal of not being admitted to hospital for 6DAYS.
75years of age, broken jaw, fractured nose,
he had to hire a taxi to cork university hospital to see a jaw specialist.
this country is a joke, not only do we treat our elders like crap and then we dont treat him for his injuries

http://www.kerryman.ie/news/brutal-attack-on-pensioner-in-tralee-2838161.html

FunkZ · 04-08-2011 06:32PM

C'mon man, this is After Hours... You're putting me in a delicate situation here, I'm a prick if I make a funny joke, and if I don't make a joke I won't fit in with the crowd.

C'mon man

booboo88 · 04-08-2011 06:33PM

FunkZ wrote: »

C'mon man, this is After Hours... You're putting me in a delicate situation here, I'm a prick if I make a funny joke, and if I don't make a joke I won't fit in with the crowd.

C'mon man

man huh? :P

drunkmonkey · 04-08-2011 06:37PM

Poor Pensioner my arse, there bleedin the feckin country dry!!

joshrogan · 04-08-2011 06:39PM

Attacked by no good scumbags.

booboo88 · 04-08-2011 06:39PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Poor Pensioner my arse, there bleedin the feckin country dry!!

i hope you are taking the piss, cuz if your not, wait til your a pensioner.
Its absolutely disgusting how this man was treated, thank god for the taxi driver who stopped to help him,

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 04-08-2011 06:41PM

booboo88 wrote: »

i hope you are taking the piss, cuz if your not, wait til your a pensioner.
Its absolutely disgusting how this man was treated, thank god for the taxi driver who stopped to help him,

i hate to say this,but he's right in one way,bertie/cowen/rody molloy/bank managers are "pensioners"!.

mackg · 04-08-2011 06:44PM

booboo88 wrote: »

eamon horan who was attacked in tralee by thugs, and then to have the ordeal of not being admitted to hospital for 6DAYS.
75years of age, broken jaw, fractured nose,
he had to hire a taxi to cork university hospital to see a jaw specialist.
this country is a joke, not only do we treat our elders like crap and then we dont treat him for his injuries

It's not even funny the state Tralee is in these days, every time I go home it's worse and worse. 0 jobs and over run with complete and utter scumbags. hey remember <insert name> from school, yeah I do, he's hooked on heroin now. For a small town I don't know how the fcuk it got this bad in such a short time.

booboo88 · 04-08-2011 06:45PM

Delilah Stale Bassoon wrote: »

i hate to say this,but he's right in one way,bertie/cowen/rody molloy/bank managers are "pensioners"!.

in one way maybe, but this is man isnt a banker, politican he's a retired journo ffs.

ILikeBananas · 04-08-2011 06:46PM

I was reading about this today. Three 'heroes' approached him and asked him for money outside a pub and then beat the ****e out of him for fifty euro.

If they catch them I'd be happy to see them thrown in the sea with weights ties to them.

Temptamperu · 04-08-2011 06:46PM

booboo88 wrote: »

i hope you are taking the piss, cuz if your not, wait til your a pensioner.
Its absolutely disgusting how this man was treated, thank god for the taxi driver who stopped to help him,

really?

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 04-08-2011 06:47PM

Even more sickening the yobs if they are caught for this act will get either-

A-year in prison.
B-Month in prison.
C-Suspended sentence.

booboo88 · 04-08-2011 06:47PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

really?

words fail me,
speaking figuratively as I dont believe in god :rolleyes:

Kidchameleon · 04-08-2011 06:56PM

My jaw dropped when I heard about this

PseudoFamous · 04-08-2011 06:59PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Poor Pensioner my arse, there bleedin the feckin country dry!!

You're due a hole kicking, you know that?

My name is URL · 04-08-2011 07:06PM

There should be mandatory and harsh sentencing for anyone convicted of attacking a pensioner. It's a fcuking low thing to do.. even by scumbag standards.

im invisible · 04-08-2011 07:11PM

he won't like that...

starbelgrade · 04-08-2011 07:15PM

Who the fuck is Eamon Horan?

Thatnastyboy · 04-08-2011 07:19PM

The man was 75 years of age, he'll probably be terrified for the rest of his 'golden' years.

I think that any cunt (3 of them :mad:) that is sick enough to attack a defenseless old man who was on his way home from having a few pints deserves to have their head danced on.

Beatings, battery and vigilante justice are not common enough entities in this country, seeing stories like this fairly boils the blood.

I mean the man who was attacked handed them the 50 euro, and begged them to stop beating him, but they just kept at it. Scum of the earth.

If a regular junkie scummer knew that there was a good possibility he would have the absolute shite kicked outta him for his crime it might deter them from picking on societies weakest.

Not a fucking 3 week holiday courtesy of the state.

*and this keyboard warrier returns to his hermitage after his mighty rant

Micky Dolenz · 04-08-2011 07:22PM

There was no need for the violence. He was one guy against three.

Scumbags are scum.

xoxyx · 04-08-2011 07:23PM

I was just talking about this. During lunch, I listened to the radio where callers were in tears over what seems like the collapse of Home Payments.

Then, when I came home, I switched on the news and saw this poor guy talking about what happened to him. He looks like a strong man - you would think he was in his 50s, rather than 75 - but to hear him talking about how these guys rained punches on him and he was trying to understand whether it was actually happening or if it was just an awful dream - it was so upsetting.

These are only two sad events in the litany of disasters that is current affairs. I'm wondering should I stop following the news. Does anything good happen anymore???

Absurdum · 04-08-2011 07:24PM

has anyone been caught or charged for this?

I propose we e-harass them forever

mikom · 04-08-2011 07:25PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Who the fuck is Eamon Horan?

RTE sports presenter.

Son Of A Vidic · 04-08-2011 07:31PM

FunkZ wrote: »

C'mon man, this is After Hours... You're putting me in a delicate situation here, I'm a prick if I make a funny joke, and if I don't make a joke I won't fit in with the crowd.

C'mon man

There's also the simple option of not posting in this thread, that will solve you dilemma.

policarp · 04-08-2011 07:32PM

These low lives would beat up their own grandparents for a few quid and think nothing of it. . .

mackg · 04-08-2011 07:35PM

Any chance of a link?

xoxyx · 04-08-2011 07:35PM

mackg wrote: »

It's not even funny the state Tralee is in these days, every time I go home it's worse and worse. 0 jobs and over run with complete and utter scumbags. hey remember <insert name> from school, yeah I do, he's hooked on heroin now. For a small town I don't know how the fcuk it got this bad in such a short time.

I'm with you 100% on this. My mum grew up in Tralee, as did her mother, and her mother's mother. I lived there myself for a year about 13 years' ago.

I used to love hearing her stories about growing up in Tralee. Things weren't perfect. A lot of people had very little money. But, Jesus Christ, if there was one murder a year, it would have been the headline in the local paper for about 11 months!!!

The speed at which things suddenly went downhill in Tralee is absolutely terrifying, and the changes between one generation and another are just wrong. I'm not an alarmist, but something's got to give. Where the hell is this going to end?

My granny lived in her house in Tralee until she was about the same age as the guy who was attacked. No doubt about it, if it had been her who was attacked, and if I got so much as a hint of who did it, they wouldn't be around to see their jail sentence.

How the fuck have things gone so wrong???

Absurdum · 04-08-2011 07:40PM

mackg wrote: »

Any chance of a link?

here

now move to a country that doesn't block google plz

mackg · 04-08-2011 07:47PM

Absurdum wrote: »

here

now move to a country that doesn't block google plz

Was meant for OP, if there was even a link I would have quoted the article when i saw it.

like so...

THUGS viciously attacked a 75-year-old man in Tralee on Wednesday, breaking his jaw in two places and fracturing his nose as they punched and kicked him to the ground in an assault that lasted over two minutes.

The incident has led to massive outrage in Tralee. Gardaí say they are now following a number of lines of inquiry in their hunt for the vicious scumbags responsible for the shocking attack.

Former Kerryman sports journalist Eamon Horan — who suffers from a mild heart condition — was jumped by three thugs as he was walking home from the Munster Bar in Ballymullen late on Wednesday night.

Seconds after he exited the bar, Mr Horan heard a voice from behind ordering him to hand over money. Before he had a chance to respond he was jumped by the three scumbags and subjected to a brutal assault that lasted over two minutes. He was knocked to the ground, punched and kicked and his attackers continued their violent assault even as he pleaded with them to take a €50 note he had.

The scumbags fled as a passing taxi driver pulled up and ran to the aid of the stricken pensioner. Mr Horan suffered a fractured nose, a jawbone broken in two places as well as extensive bruising and some bleeding.

He is being treated in Cork University Hospital at present after he suffered a heavy nose bleed on Monday night — six days after the attack.

"How could anyone do this to a 75-year-old man?" daughter Carla asked. "He was minding his own business on his way home when he had the living daylights beaten out of him. It was pure GBH."

Ms Horan said the attackers didn't even stop when he told them he had €50 in his inside pocket. "They weren't even interested in the money, they just kept punching and kicking him."

Ms Horan was also very critical of the health system. Her father was treated in A and E on Wednesday night, but as no beds were available was kept on a trolley. He then had to be rushed to Cork University Hospital on Thursday morning, but could not get an ambulance under the VHI as he had not been admitted.

Cork University Hospital could not admit him either as no beds were available there. He was treated and returned home by train. Mr Horan was finally admitted to CUH on Tuesday morning.

His attackers are described as wearing dark clothes with white runners. "This was a particularly nasty attack on one of our senior citizens as they were going about their own business. We are taking this very seriously and the investigation is progressing with a number of leads being followed," a spokesperson for gardaí in Tralee told The Kerryman.

pragmatic1 · 04-08-2011 08:38PM

Wheres the ra when you need them. Scum should be disciplined.

drunkmonkey · 04-08-2011 08:39PM

PseudoFamous wrote: »

You're due a hole kicking, you know that?

Me and you the back of Sally's Saturday night, bring your friends tough guy:P

Last man standing gets to keep the funny hat!!

the poor old man

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