Sean O'Rourke Today Show

touts wrote: »

Compelling interview about the hardship of people in the socialist utopia of North Korea. But jasus could he not stop for a few minutes and give the poor girl a chance to compose herself.

it was dreadful
so what happened, you were sold to be married - yes
and how long was that for - one year
and were you raped in that time - yes
how many times????????????????

seriously, dense :mad::mad::mad:

zoobizoo wrote: »

Interesting read in the Guardian yesterday about North Korean Defectors...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apart

It's the Guardian. The paper of record for Socialism since Pravda went bust. You always know when they are on shaky ground when they resort to the "George W Bush met them so they must be wrong" argument.

Having listened to the lady being interviewed by Sean yesterday and read the article I'm fairly sure who I believe.

my friend wrote: »

Careful now, the Guardian is the go to copy and paste source for the Irish Times and RTE

As I said. Paper of Record :-)

serfboard wrote: »

Consider this - the media are paying for stories.



And finally, North Korea isn't going to sue anyone for defamation, so you could say whatever you like without fear of it being contradicted.

We all know that newspapers will print any old sh1te - the only thing that stops them is the fear of being sued. Take away that fear and ...

Does this mean that everything she said is wrong? No, but it does mean that in listening to her story, we should consider the points raised.

And North Korea is not a "socialist" country - it's a dictatorship.

Ah go away and listen to that poor woman when Sean foolishly asks her how often she was raped. She didn't sound to me like she was making it up.

Callan57 wrote: »

Personally I thought that question was necessary & prurient

prurient yes
necessary no - but ridiculous - was she supposed to have counted?? :rolleyes:

foxtrot101 wrote: »

.

And there is something wrong with that, is that your implication?

Jadaol wrote: »

prurient yes
necessary no - but ridiculous - was she supposed to have counted?? :rolleyes:

Of course I meant to say unnecessary

Christ, Paddy O'G really annoys me with this rubbish "he's such a pleasant fellow"
Yea, sure he is ... to quote Hamlet 'smile and smile and be a villain'

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

A litre of vodka two E and some sleeping tablets:eek:

and the ambulance guy didnt give him a smack for been a twat. so when your relative is very sick and in need of an ambulance thats delayed it could be coz of some idiot whos to thick to not know when to stop boozing or poping pills

neris wrote: »

and the ambulance guy didnt give him a smack for been a twat. so when your relative is very sick and in need of an ambulance thats delayed it could be coz of some idiot whos to thick to not know when to stop boozing or poping pills

Yea. Imagine you have an accident but instead of calling an ambulance and taking up their valuable time you manage to drag yourself to A&E, pay €100 to be left in the front door because you don't have a letter from your doctor giving you advance permission to have the accident. You then sit in appalling filth and overcrowded conditions for 12+ hours waiting to be seen by a doctor. And just as you are about to be seen this waste of space is swept straight in ahead of you via the VIP backdoor, is seen immediately, doesn't have to pay the $100 and still gets violent because he hasn't been brought to his preferred hospital. He'll probably arrive hours after you do but swagger out smirking and giving you the figure as he passes through the waiting room. Guys like that should be dumped in a holding cell in a drunk tank at a local Garda station.

It's true what a doctor once told me. You're better off to lie down on the road outside the hospital and call an ambulance than go into A&E.

neris wrote: »

oh gawd mlod drivel n fawning

Second Sean mention her I "move the dial" :mad:

What is a "handy sized" robbery?

is rte now the broadcaster & mouth piece for:

- The garda representative association
- gardai who feel hard done by with pay
- garda families who think their garda relative would be a better garda with a bigger pay packet
- bitter retired gardai who are so long retired their views have no relevance now a days
- any garda whos a problem with Noreen O'Sullivan or Frances Fitzgerald or Both

alaimacerc wrote: »

Pretty much, it seems. That'll teach a minister under time constraints to give a shortish, reasonably to-the-point interview, and then leave the field clear for a ranty "yes-but-no-but!" panel of givers-outters.

The VP AGSI, having just complained several that there wasn't enough Garda recruitment... eventually admittedly there wasn't the capacity for any more recruitment. Spoofer. Or as she's a GTC apparatchik herself, not wanting to sell the pass on "future productivity payments" if they are asked to train more, perhaps! Essentially ended up implying that the solution was to time-travel back five years, and not make any AGS cuts in the first place. Tell you what, Antoinette, travel back a little further and take out some key members of the previous government, save us all a good deal of trouble...

the other thing the gra shill came out with was a line about there being too much papaerwork to do. im sure if recruiting civilian/civil service people to do the paperwork in the stations while the lads go out on patrol and police theyd be up in arms about that too

Re never getting the fine by letter. Ye right.


Are they stupid or something? meaning the state.


Registered post would sort this out plus it would boost An Posts coffers.


Come on Pascal.