49 thoughts on “De Friday Papers

    1. Otis Blue

      As a constituent I can confirm this to be the case.

      In other FG news: Coveney continues to talk tosh. What ails him?

    1. Spud

      I missed all the kerfuffle.
      I presume all posts / threads have since been deleted?

      Probably a spike in activity on the site today.
      Hi newbies! Come in and make yourselves at home! The kettle is just on and the smart comments and puns will be along shortly…

        1. Frilly Keane

          ah yeah
          we’re going all out to impress the visitors

          I might even go out and get them shop bought Swiss Roll

          when it stops raining like

  1. qwerty123

    Will BS pay for any legal costs Shayna will incur I wonder? Those comments had trouble written all over them.

    1. Bonkers

      Tis hardly BS fault, the juror does have personal responsibility for what they wrote. Plus BS took the comments down when requested to by the juror.

    2. Lilly

      I couldn’t see anything wrong with her comments. They were helpful and offered her own perspective and not details of jury deliberations. Hope they are not taken out of context, and that she doesn’t get into trouble for making them.

      1. qwerty123

        She was told not to discuss the deliberations. It would be then therefore hard to discuss any part of the trial that might not be construed as jury deliberations. As one would imagine everything was considered as part of those discussions.
        Some of it was a little risky in my opinion, phrases such as “it was noted”, etc etc. It was a fine line, hopefully she will just get a warning.

        1. Lilly

          Her intentions were good. It’s so easy for members of the public (myself included) to get caught up in the Twitter furore, and forget that we were not there.

          1. qwerty123

            Her intentions were good, but very stupid. BS should have known it was not acceptable, or at least checked. Now she is in fear of being arrested and will need to engage a solicitor at a minimum.

          2. Frilly Keane

            arrested for wha?

            there was nothing she wasn’t entitled to say
            even if it did slip into hairdresser talk
            like about the complainants’ family home

            Like I dunno what yere giving out about here for
            here’s the real story

            The Irish TImes went and grassed up Broadsheet to the Brits

    3. GiggidyGoo

      If the case is over and decided upon, are jurors legally unable to discuss it.? The public were allowed in throughout the proceedings.

  2. Lilly

    “Yesterday, following a query from The Irish Times about the remarks…” Does that mean The Irish Times made a complaint about the remarks, bringing them to the attention of the Public Prosecution Service? Busy bodies. This is why we never read any actual ‘news’ in The Irish Times.

    1. qwerty123

      Do be honest, I think we are seeing journalism from a paper of record (i know, I know, its crap etc) versus an online blog pretend journalism. Nobody in their right mind would have allowed those comments, in fact BS staff were involved in reassuring people that she was an actual juror as people were doubting the validity of those comments!!

      I actually remember one BS commenter saying they would complain to the judge re comments on that post, forget who it was. Think it was over middle class background of complainant being relevant.

      1. Lilly

        Pretend journalism? Some of the best journalism in the country in the past few years has been produced by Broadsheet.

          1. mildred st. meadowlark

            I think you’re spouting poo there q.

            They’ve pushed stories that other bigger publications scorn (or fear) to report on. Look at the amazing work done by Olga on the McCabe story. Or their continued reporting on the Gibney story.

            You may not always agree with hoe they do things here but don’t try to denigrate the great journalism they produce, with only a fraction of the cost of the IT.

          2. qwerty123

            Great Journalism? Get outta here, you’d have to look further afield for great journalism in Ireland.
            Being able to sit in a tribunal and transcribe and publishing other journalists work (Irvin Muchnik) does not equal great journalism.

            Now where is that receipt of that expensive coffee I had….

            Also, kudos on being able to curse.

      2. siblingofdaedalus

        Just to be clear, I pointed out the comments were in breach of the apparent prohibition on online commenting in the UK juror guidelines.

        The juror responded saying they were never told of this. I didn’t make a complaint or say that I was going to make one.

        Disappointing that jurors were not properly informed as you can’t expect them to have legal knowledge.

        The guidelines are somewhat ambiguous as they say on the one hand the case can be discussed, though not the deliberations, but then say not online.

        I would appreciate if my comment were not used to put down Broadsheet which is an excellent site. I will never forget how the Kate Fitzgerald story exposed the Irish Times’ true journalistic integrity.

        1. rotide

          No, thats not what happened sibling.

          You pointed out that the comments were in breach of the UK juror guidelines and she responded that she had not talked about the things that she was not supposed to talk about.

          Ofc we can’t confirm this since the posts were deleted

          1. Nigel

            Well, she made her comments and Sibling expressed the need for caution, which were well founded. Even if she didn’t breach any guidelines it can’t be much fun to be natonal news like this and under investigation.

          2. siblingofdaedalus

            Rotide, thank you for your response. What I said was that although the guidelines say that a juror may talk about the case but not the deliberations, they also say that the juror must not comment on any social media site about the case. From the juror’s response, it was clear that he had not been informed of this part of the guidelines, so I left it at that. Happy my summary is accurate, sorry if you disagree.

          3. siblingofdaedalus

            “he or she had not been informed”.

            It seems like the courts need to keep up to date with social media!

    2. Frilly Keane

      Grassed them up to the Brits
      and not just the local Under cover lad
      they went straight to the Queen’s Judicary

      btw Qwert
      the Irish Times when whinging cause they didn’t get the foreperson of the Rugby Rape trial on their platform
      and they were fairly numb through out the whole thing
      I imagine if t’was boxers or jockies they’d have put a team up in that Belfast court house

      Shayna O’Neill came here
      and there is a reason for that

      and knowing that they had this access and sourse
      at NO STAGE did Broadsheet exploit that relationship
      or publish that relationship or even let hint of it

      Unlike what many others, most of them up there under mastheads, would’ah done

  3. Capitan Alatriste

    im surprised bs they werent deleted straightaway whenever I post anything a little bold its gone vamoose. perhaps as we are a different jurisdiction. the funny thing is this is a fact a rugby player who was found guilty of a sexual assault and received a suspended sentence is still playing for his club in dublin. the irfu had no problem with that. google it.

  4. Lilly

    Jaykers, you think Ryan Tubridy is hopeless and then you hear poor ole Dave Fanning filling in for him.

    1. Hank

      Wash your mouth out, I could listen to Dave all day. His naturally chaotic style only adds to the charm.

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