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  • #3752
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    memorystick wrote: »
    Is it safe to give copper injection to cattle at turnout or should I leave a week between? I was told that copper can stress the animal for the first few days. I don’t know if it’s true. Thanks

    Don't have an answer, but would a bolus be an option?


  • #3753
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Water John wrote: »
    Don't have an answer, but would a bolus be an option?

    I have the bottles bought and will inject at weekend. Bolus not an option as I’m on my own and too many to do. Lazy as well.


  • #3754
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭White Clover


    memorystick wrote: »
    I have the bottles bought and will inject at weekend. Bolus not an option as I’m on my own and too many to do. Lazy as well.

    Do you inject into the top of the neck using a long needle? I always found that tricky enough.


  • #3755
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,925 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    I see there is another video now of jockey Rob James on a dead horse.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgPgMo1vd-k

    'Mobile phones, but men in mobile homes.'

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • #3756
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭Odelay


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I see there is another video now of jockey Rob James on a dead horse.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgPgMo1vd-k

    'Mobile phones, but men in mobile homes.'

    What is all the fuss about?? He put one leg over, most of his weight was on the left leg on the ground and the horse was dead?? Five seconds of a mistake In 20+ years of life and the lad is all over the news.
    I’ve made plenty of five second poor taste decisions. Remember laughing about something at my dads funeral with my sisters but thankfully no cameras there. There was no disrespect, just one of those things in a time of grief.
    If the horse was dragged about, hit or left out in the open for days, then yes that would be disrespectful but not this. Just five seconds of silliness.


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  • #3757
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭memorystick


    White Clover wrote: »
    Do you inject into the top of the neck using a long needle? I always found that tricky enough.

    Deep into neck. Not too many lumps.


  • #3758
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Odelay wrote: »
    What is all the fuss about?? He put one leg over, most of his weight was on the left leg on the ground and the horse was dead?? Five seconds of a mistake In 20+ years of life and the lad is all over the news.
    I’ve made plenty of five second poor taste decisions. Remember laughing about something at my dads funeral with my sisters but thankfully no cameras there. There was no disrespect, just one of those things in a time of grief.
    If the horse was dragged about, hit or left out in the open for days, then yes that would be disrespectful but not this. Just five seconds of silliness.

    It's gone beyond stupid at this stage.
    Total witchhunt.

    You could see what Rob was at there. He'd have massive experience with machinery and loaders so was probably just watching the loader man that he was doing everything ok.
    Then when he wasn't making much progress with the dead horse. Larked that he'd be quicker riding the horse out himself. That's the way I took it and you could see it in his face when he did it that he thought better of it with those around him.


    All these snowflakes will have a total meltdown when they see the next video of the body being skinned.. :pac:


  • #3759
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,483 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Thing is people have nothing better to be doing at the minute only criticising the slightest thing


  • #3760
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,852 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Thing is people have nothing better to be doing at the minute only criticising the slightest thing

    Any update on who reported you?


  • #3761
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Thing is people have nothing better to be doing at the minute only criticising the slightest thing

    The people who are offended the most are also the ones who would have campaigned vigorously for abortion. The mind is a very fickle thing.


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  • #3762
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,483 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Any update on who reported you?

    Nah I'll hold fire till next winter as I'm guessed it will be business as usual then again


  • #3763
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,483 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    memorystick wrote: »
    The people who are offended the most are also the ones who would have campaigned vigorously for abortion. The mind is a very fickle thing.

    Or the ones hoping for a dump of snow so it's pretty to look out at it not having to fight through it to feed animals even tho they would be the first to cast a stone at farmers for abusing thier animals


  • #3764
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    memorystick wrote: »
    The people who are offended the most are also the ones who would have campaigned vigorously for abortion. The mind is a very fickle thing.




    ah now what wrong with abortion?


  • #3765
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    laoch na mona wrote: »
    ah now what wrong with abortion?

    People have strong opinions on the matter as we found out the last time the matter was raised here. The Constitution and Law on the matter in Ireland is now settled and no politiican will look at the issue again for a generation. So no point in a discussion here. Move on.


  • #3766
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,852 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Brought youngest for his dental check up. He missed out in sixth class and they are now doing them as first years. He has to go back to get a filling. I stupidly said will it be the same drill next time,meaning the same protocol. The dentist started going on we don't use drills anymore.. .


  • #3767
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    I feel the people shouting the loudest are the same keyboard warriors that would be sharing mental health and anti bullying statuses online. Or would have said how terrible Caroline flack was treated online.
    If the owners of the horse moved on from it I don’t really see it being anyone else’s business. Different story of the horse was mistreated while alive
    Edit: or another thing, these same people would be disgusted at the thought of skinning a dead calf or lamb for fostering it on to a cow/ewe. Can’t see the greater good


  • #3768
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    farawaygrass wrote: »
    I feel the people shouting the loudest are the same keyboard warriors that would be sharing mental health and anti bullying statuses online. Or would have said how terrible Caroline flack was treated online.
    If the owners of the horse moved on from it I don’t really see it being anyone else’s business. Different story of the horse was mistreated while alive

    I think it was a massive lapse in judgement on elliots part and something he will/should be banned for. I dont necessarily see whats being gained by the witch hunt at this stage... but i think whoever is releasing the pic and threatening to release videos is obviously disgruntled at something.


  • #3769
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    I think it was a massive lapse in judgement on elliots part and something he will/should be banned for. I dont necessarily see whats being gained by the witch hunt at this stage... but i think whoever is releasing the pic and threatening to release videos is obviously disgruntled at something.

    Would agree Kev.

    But the fact he waved at the camera wouldn't make me have any sympathy for him...


  • #3770
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    Would agree Kev.

    But the fact he waved at the camera wouldn't make me have any sympathy for him...

    Not necessarily sympathy but i think its up to the racing authorities to decide the ban. What he did was wrong and reflects badly but its going to impact a large number of people if the yard closes.


  • #3771
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Missed the start of it but looks like Sandra and friends are off again on Liveline about "murdering children" :eek:

    Doesn't look like she's getting much traction...

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116465592


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  • #3772
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    I think that has been running on and off since Monday. A caller rang in complaining about a Go vegan poster about murdering children which meant that he was going to have to make a detour going to school to avoid it. He found the language used offensive.


  • #3773
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,483 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    I think it was a massive lapse in judgement on elliots part and something he will/should be banned for. I dont necessarily see whats being gained by the witch hunt at this stage... but i think whoever is releasing the pic and threatening to release videos is obviously disgruntled at something.

    Word is that its an ex employee


  • #3774
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Word is that its an ex employee

    Word I heard is that he was caught with a young one, by his girlfriend.
    Fight between the women ensued, with the girlfriend coming off the worst.
    "Hell hath no fury, like a woman scorned"

    Allegedly...


  • #3775
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Word is that its an ex employee

    I wonder is he/she behind the other stuff coming out on social media - makes those stables sound like the last days of Soddom and Gomorah!!:confused:


  • #3776
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Sodom and Begorragh!


  • #3777
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Horsey people were always a bit gamey!!





    Sure wasn't Ted Walsh caught riding some mother in a bumper in Tramore.


  • #3778
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Say my name wrote: »
    Horsey people were always a bit gamey!!





    Sure wasn't Ted Walsh caught riding some mother in a bumper in Tramore.


    Used to be big into horses in my teens, wanted to be a jockey until I had a growth spurt. Was out hunting once and there was a girl a few years older than me on a horse who was absolutely exhausted after a hard day. I said to her "jasus he looks tired" and she replied "if you were between my legs for 4 hours you'd be tired too" 😂😂😂😂😂


  • #3779
    148multi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭148multi


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Word I heard is that he was caught with a young one, by his girlfriend.
    Fight between the women ensued, with the girlfriend coming off the worst.
    "Hell hath no fury, like a woman scorned"

    Allegedly...

    From what I hear there is a few disgruntled ex employees, the word strong was used.
    Sound's like he's a hard man for the ladies to work for.


  • #3780
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    I wonder is he/she behind the other stuff coming out on social media - makes those stables sound like the last days of Soddom and Gomorah!!:confused:




    Horsey people have always had a bit of that in them, probably the bit of old ascendancy genetics in them driving them mad


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  • #3781
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    148multi wrote: »
    From what I hear there is a few disgruntled ex employees, the word strong was used.
    Sound's like he's a hard man for the ladies to work for.

    Local girl to here worked for him and said it was a great place and a great setup.


  • #3782
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,899 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Used to be big into horses in my teens, wanted to be a jockey until I had a growth spurt. Was out hunting once and there was a girl a few years older than me on a horse who was absolutely exhausted after a hard day. I said to her "jasus he looks tired" and she replied "if you were between my legs for 4 hours you'd be tired too" 😂😂😂😂😂

    That's sounds like a typical horsey woman to me, there a different breed. I've came across a few like that down through the year's and have forgotten half of what used to go on. I've seen rolls of money produced out of bra's and between cash and the other contents it would take good elastic to keep all together. There was a good proportion of what we used to call "relieving officer's" among them although you'd meet the best of people as well.


  • #3783
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Used to be big into horses in my teens, wanted to be a jockey until I had a growth spurt. Was out hunting once and there was a girl a few years older than me on a horse who was absolutely exhausted after a hard day. I said to her "jasus he looks tired" and she replied "if you were between my legs for 4 hours you'd be tired too" ����������

    I went to Writtle Ag College in Essex in the 90's. It had a very big equine focus and there were lots and lots and lots of the horsey set from Essex and the home counties there. It wasn't hard to understand why it was so popular with Irish lads doing Ag. Ahh the good old days of a misspent youth.


  • #3784
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,357 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    DAFM have extended the TB testing requirement for calves over 42 days old to 120 days old until 1st of June for herd to herd movements from non restricted herds. Calves going for export still need a test if they go over 42 days.

    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/calf-tb-testing-flexibilities-extended-into-june-606342


  • #3785
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,852 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    AntrimGlens wrote: »
    I went to Writtle Ag College in Essex in the 90's. It had a very big equine focus and there were lots and lots and lots of the horsey set from Essex and the home counties there. It wasn't hard to understand why it was so popular with Irish lads doing Ag. Ahh the good old days of a misspent youth.

    You'd feel sorry for those at college at the moment, missing out on the fun


  • #3786
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    You'd feel sorry for those at college at the moment, missing out on the fun

    Everyones in the one boat these days, were all missing out on the fun.
    I suppose im lucky enough to be working away from home and with a fairly mixed bunch but i definitely wouldnt like to be fulltime on a farm these days during the lockdown.

    Better living everyone



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  • #3787
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    carrollsno1 wrote: »
    Everyones in the one boat these days, were all missing out on the fun.
    I suppose im lucky enough to be working away from home and with a fairly mixed bunch but i definitely wouldnt like to be fulltime on a farm these days during the lockdown.


    It’s the hypocrisy that drives me nuts, Leo meeting all his mates in templebar knowing it would be a last hooray before **** down of pubs. Telling us not to meet up in parks etc but meeting his mates in the Phoenix park. Telling us classrooms are safe yet renting a massive convention centre with nobody in it to protect themselves. (I totally believe they are safe- I just don’t know why they can’t use the dail)

    BLM protest ok even with the violence in Blanchardstown and not reported on yet the antics at the weekend all over the radios etc (both were wrong but some elements of society let off with it)

    What they are spending daily for that place could have many a place protected or it would pay for a few more checkpoints. The back road to the beaches of west Clare runs by our farm and it hasn’t been as busy since the main road was closed for 6 months. I was running on it on Sunday probably 25 minutes on that stretch and had to pull in around 15 times for cars and groups of cars.

    I’d hate to be a college student now or a single person on the lookout for a partner while watching the clock.


  • #3788
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    ...............

    I’d hate to be a college student now or a single person on the lookout for a partner while watching the clock.

    There's always Tinder, to pass the time while you keep one eye on the calving camera.

    https://swipelife.tinder.com/post/pick-up-lines-for-guys


  • #3789
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    It’s the hypocrisy that drives me nuts, Leo meeting all his mates in templebar knowing it would be a last hooray before **** down of pubs. Telling us not to meet up in parks etc but meeting his mates in the Phoenix park. Telling us classrooms are safe yet renting a massive convention centre with nobody in it to protect themselves. (I totally believe they are safe- I just don’t know why they can’t use the dail)

    BLM protest ok even with the violence in Blanchardstown and not reported on yet the antics at the weekend all over the radios etc (both were wrong but some elements of society let off with it)

    What they are spending daily for that place could have many a place protected or it would pay for a few more checkpoints. The back road to the beaches of west Clare runs by our farm and it hasn’t been as busy since the main road was closed for 6 months. I was running on it on Sunday probably 25 minutes on that stretch and had to pull in around 15 times for cars and groups of cars.

    I’d hate to be a college student now or a single person on the lookout for a partner while watching the clock.

    Id agree with you 100%, once ive my papers got im off to Oz permenently all going well because of what you described above. Its the same with Gordon Elliot at the moment its all about him while there was an allegation made against an RTE presenter lately who stepped down this week but there hasnt been a whisper about that on the mainstream media.

    Better living everyone



  • #3790
    DBK1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭DBK1


    carrollsno1 wrote: »
    Id agree with you 100%, once ive my papers got im off to Oz permenently all going well because of what you described above. Its the same with Gordon Elliot at the moment its all about him while there was an allegation made against an RTE presenter lately who stepped down this week but there hasnt been a whisper about that on the mainstream media.
    That’s one thing that’s really irritating me at the minute too. There’s so many programmes on RTE over the past few week/months about the horrendous way so many unfortunate women and children were treated in Ireland over the years. It is 100% right for RTE to be telling these stories so that hopefully nothing like that can ever be allowed to happened again.

    But then they just completely ignore the accusations being made by numerous women as regards what happened them at the hands of that RTE presenter when they were all still juveniles and there’s not a peep about it anywhere.

    I’m not advocating for trial by media but the very least they should do is come out with a statement to say he has been suspended pending an investigation or something to that effect. Instead they just erased his name from any show he was involved in, he’s gone into hiding and they’re completely ignoring it all in the hope that it’ll blow over.

    Compare that then to the hours of coverage given to a man who sat on a dead horse for half a minute and it’s hard to understand what their agenda is.


  • #3791
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    DBK1 wrote: »
    That’s one thing that’s really irritating me at the minute too. There’s so many programmes on RTE over the past few week/months about the horrendous way so many unfortunate women and children were treated in Ireland over the years. It is 100% right for RTE to be telling these stories so that hopefully nothing like that can ever be allowed to happened again.

    But then they just completely ignore the accusations being made by numerous women as regards what happened them at the hands of that RTE presenter when they were all still juveniles and there’s not a peep about it anywhere.

    I’m not advocating for trial by media but the very least they should do is come out with a statement to say he has been suspended pending an investigation or something to that effect. Instead they just erased his name from any show he was involved in, he’s gone into hiding and they’re completely ignoring it all in the hope that it’ll blow over.

    Compare that then to the hours of coverage given to a man who sat on a dead horse for half a minute and it’s hard to understand what their agenda is.

    It’s not just RTE, I find certain Newstalk reported jumping to defend the government at any chance they can get. That’s what happens when the ministers start hiring reporters as advisors- there is no accountability at all.


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  • #3792
    Tileman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭Tileman


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    . Telling us not to meet up in parks etc but meeting his mates in the Phoenix park.

    Ah to be fair now that was when we were not in level 5 . It was permitted to meet up with people in an open space. He did it the same as everybody else. Nothing wrong with that.

    “Telling us classrooms are safe yet renting a massive convention centre with nobody in it to protect themselves.”

    They are not renting it. It is provided free of charge. If they were all in the dail the same people giving out about not social distancing and not leading by example.



    “What they are spending daily for that place could have many a place protected or it would pay for a few more checkpoints. The back road to the beaches of west Clare runs by our farm and it hasn’t been as busy since the main road was closed for 6 months. I was running on it on Sunday probably 25 minutes on that stretch and had to pull in around 15 times for cars and groups of cars.”

    It is frustrating. Have similar myself and our quite road is destroyed but if you were living in a semi d you would go insane. People have to get out too.


    I am not aligned to any party but hate the constant bickering of public servants. It’s there for anybody to stand as a politician. Most do not get any respect but rather are constantly harassed and thrilled online. Why anybody does it I don’t know.


  • #3793
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    carrollsno1 wrote: »
    Id agree with you 100%, once ive my papers got im off to Oz permenently all going well because of what you described above. Its the same with Gordon Elliot at the moment its all about him while there was an allegation made against an RTE presenter lately who stepped down this week but there hasnt been a whisper about that on the mainstream media.

    I agree with you, but can understand it to a certain extent, with Gordon Elliot it isn't a criminal issue and if the horse owners stand by him he will be back in the winners enclosure soon.
    With the RTE presenter he will stand a criminal trial and hopefully do some time in jail so until he is charged it cant be reported encase it effects the trial, we all seen the circus that was the Paddy Jackson trial. Must admit I could never warm to that RTE presenter and I found him to be a pr*1k similar to a former Today FM DJ who had similar allegation against him.


  • #3794
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Tileman wrote: »
    kollegeknight wrote: »
    . Telling us not to meet up in parks etc but meeting his mates in the Phoenix park.

    Ah to be fair now that was when we were not in level 5 . It was permitted to meet up with people in an open space. He did it the same as everybody else. Nothing wrong with that.

    “Telling us classrooms are safe yet renting a massive convention centre with nobody in it to protect themselves.”

    They are not renting it. It is provided free of charge. If they were all in the dail the same people giving out about not social distancing and not leading by example.



    “What they are spending daily for that place could have many a place protected or it would pay for a few more checkpoints. The back road to the beaches of west Clare runs by our farm and it hasn’t been as busy since the main road was closed for 6 months. I was running on it on Sunday probably 25 minutes on that stretch and had to pull in around 15 times for cars and groups of cars.”

    It is frustrating. Have similar myself and our quite road is destroyed but if you were living in a semi d you would go insane. People have to get out too.


    I am not aligned to any party but hate the constant bickering of public servants. It’s there for anybody to stand as a politician. Most do not get any respect but rather are constantly harassed and thrilled online. Why anybody does it I don’t know.

    I can’t get to the beach as it’s outside my 5km but the registration numbers were L,D and KE for a lot of them. Not even Clare regs.


    They are not doing it for nothing. I wouldn’t call it bickering when someone is called out for something. I couldn’t get a defibrillator installed in a public building recently because it was not deemed essential work, yet the decision maker appeared at a photo shoot with multiple others form different locations no bother. Yes they had masks etc but it two rules and standards.


  • #3795
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Tileman wrote: »

    I can’t get to the beach as it’s outside my 5km but the registration numbers were L,D and KE for a lot of them. Not even Clare regs.


    They are not doing it for nothing. I wouldn’t call it bickering when someone is called out for something. I couldn’t get a defibrillator installed in a public building recently because it was not deemed essential work, yet the decision maker appeared at a photo shoot with multiple others form different locations no bother. Yes they had masks etc but it two rules and standards.

    A registration isnt necessarily a pointer to where they are from if over a year old. Theres 4 cars in the yard here and only one of them is a KE reg.


  • #3796
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    kollegeknight wrote: »

    A registration isnt necessarily a pointer to where they are from if over a year old. Theres 4 cars in the yard here and only one of them is a KE reg.

    Oh yeah I know that. But not one local person even and it The middle of nowhere.


  • #3797
    DBK1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭DBK1


    Anto_Meath wrote: »
    I agree with you, but can understand it to a certain extent, with Gordon Elliot it isn't a criminal issue and if the horse owners stand by him he will be back in the winners enclosure soon.
    With the RTE presenter he will stand a criminal trial and hopefully do some time in jail so until he is charged it cant be reported encase it effects the trial, we all seen the circus that was the Paddy Jackson trial. Must admit I could never warm to that RTE presenter and I found him to be a pr*1k similar to a former Today FM DJ who had similar allegation against him.
    You’re right in saying that due to what should be an upcoming criminal investigation that they can’t report on it, but to completely ignore it is wrong too. As I said earlier I think they should just give a short statement to say that he is suspended pending an investigation or something to that effect and at least they are acknowledging then that there is an issue and it’s not just being ignored.

    I’d have the same opinion as you about him as well. There was just something about him that you couldn’t warm too. A sort of an arrogance about him. There has to be something off about any man heading for near 40 years of age and still trying to act and dress like a teenager.


  • #3798
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    But you see Tileman you are been responsible and doing the right thing, other aren't, I don't blame government for that. It like lads not obeying the speed limit, it frustrating to see but it isn't up to us to police the roads.
    We have a nose bag of a neighbour, she was calling around to the neighboring house to visit them and wish them Happy Christmas, we met her in the yard as we were getting into the car to head to the lake to feed the ducks, but she spent the 5 minutes on about how others were do this and that wrong yet no mention of her visiting people. Then in mid January I heard her and her family all had Covid but they we telling everyone they only went to the shop of the groceries.
    It like the government are telling people not to fly away on holidays yet people were organising fake dental appointments so they could get their week in the sun. Some people only ever think of themselves unfortunately and the rest of us have to suffer the consequences.


  • #3799
    DBK1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭DBK1


    Tileman wrote: »
    kollegeknight wrote: »
    . Telling us not to meet up in parks etc but meeting his mates in the Phoenix park.

    Ah to be fair now that was when we were not in level 5 . It was permitted to meet up with people in an open space. He did it the same as everybody else. Nothing wrong with that.

    “Telling us classrooms are safe yet renting a massive convention centre with nobody in it to protect themselves.”

    They are not renting it. It is provided free of charge. If they were all in the dail the same people giving out about not social distancing and not leading by example.



    “What they are spending daily for that place could have many a place protected or it would pay for a few more checkpoints. The back road to the beaches of west Clare runs by our farm and it hasn’t been as busy since the main road was closed for 6 months. I was running on it on Sunday probably 25 minutes on that stretch and had to pull in around 15 times for cars and groups of cars.”

    It is frustrating. Have similar myself and our quite road is destroyed but if you were living in a semi d you would go insane. People have to get out too.


    I am not aligned to any party but hate the constant bickering of public servants. It’s there for anybody to stand as a politician. Most do not get any respect but rather are constantly harassed and thrilled online. Why anybody does it I don’t know.
    I wouldn’t wish being a politician on my worst enemy to be honest! You’re damned if you do and damned of you don’t. It has to be one of the most thankless jobs there is but they all know what they’re signing up for day 1 so I suppose they have to be expecting some of the grief.

    There was definitely mistakes made but to be fair to them it’s a completely new scenario for any government to be in so it just had to be figured out as they went along.

    On the 5km thing, I get what you’re saying about going insane if you were stuck in a semi-d. Thankfully as the majority of us on here own land we don’t have that issue. But equally the people in the semi-d’s don’t have that issue either. They’re not locked into the houses like the lockdowns in Australia and New Zealand, they are allowed out as often as they like in the day, just stay within 5km of your house. It’s not that hard. I’d safely say the majority of the cars heading to the beaches and up the mountains and all during these restrictions will have never travelled to them places at this time of the year in any year before this.


  • #3800
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    Anto_Meath wrote: »
    I agree with you, but can understand it to a certain extent, with Gordon Elliot it isn't a criminal issue and if the horse owners stand by him he will be back in the winners enclosure soon.
    With the RTE presenter he will stand a criminal trial and hopefully do some time in jail so until he is charged it cant be reported encase it effects the trial, we all seen the circus that was the Paddy Jackson trial. Must admit I could never warm to that RTE presenter and I found him to be a pr*1k similar to a former Today FM DJ who had similar allegation against him.

    I honestly thought he must have had dirt on someone in RTE or someone in RTE did something to him as a kid because he was a shocking broadcaster IMHO and couldnt understand how he was kept on.

    Better living everyone



  • #3801
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,925 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    When I lived in Dublin, I shared a house with a guy who told me how he was in a Hotel lobby one night and a well known RTE presenter had to me manhandled out the door by the bouncers. He was high on cocaine and harassing women.
    I wonder is it the same guy ??

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



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