50 thoughts on “De Friday Papers

  1. Lilly

    Bono: ‘Would people prefer if I die broke?’ Mostly, they’d prefer if you put a sock in it and refrain from telling them how to spend their money. Some tax would be nice too.

    1. MaryLou's ArmaLite

      He still does not understand that it is his hypocrisy that has annoyed people.

    1. Yep

      I have never in my life bought the Daily Mail but I feel I must know more about that story before the film is released.

    2. Lilly

      Indeed. So badly paid it seems, she stole bikes to supplement her income. Although the teen lover bit suggests the bike theft might have been his gig and she was just along for the ride.

    3. Shayna

      I spotted that also – no chance. 3 years for a degree, 2 years for Articles, LLB, 5 years as junior solicitor, 2-3 years as a student barrister. Average 12/13 years of work needs to be demonstrated before being presented before the bar. A 25 year old – quickly doing the maths (yes, maths – I’m not American) would have need to have begun their law degree @age 11?
      There’s that scene in “Rake”, where Richard Roxburgh’s character – a barrister in Sydney, makes the paper and is quoted as being – a barrista?
      It does seem unlikely, is all. I seem to have taken the long-winded route to arrive at a point – welcome to my world.

          1. Listrade

            She’s listed as a Junior Counsel on the Four Courts website, so it checks out.

      1. Cian

        While ‘devilling’ are you considered a barrister? Have you already been called to the bar?

        1. Frilly Keane

          Yes.
          Shayna has plugged in about 15 yrs there
          Law Degree – doesn’t have to be tho
          Kings Inns
          Junior C
          Super Junior
          Senior C

          And lemme tell ye going from JC ta SC is no guarantee
          And is more about pals in high places than experience or skill

          1. Cian

            So is it doable in 4 years:
            3 years – Legal Studies degree
            +1 year “Degree of Barrister-at-Law ” (full time)
            + and then you start devilling?

            or is there apprenticeship first? another 4 years? = 8 total;
            leave school at 17 + 8 years = 25

          2. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

            Three years college, 4 if you go to Trinity. Then you go to King’s Inns to study (full-time for a year, or I think you can do it over two on a modular basis). Then you start to devil for another barrister. Sometimes for one year, sometimes two. Then you’re on your own.

      2. Sheik Yahbouti

        What are you talking about? Become ‘a Junior Solicitor ‘ and then progress to being ‘a Junior Barrister ‘?? Ah, I actually can’t be bothered.

  2. GiggidyGoo

    As the Bank Holiday weekend is upon us, I wonder what kind of government announcements will be made at 5pm this evening.

    1. Lilly

      I can tell you what it won’t be: ‘Dail to sit on Monday in urgent bid to address CervicalCheck crisis.’

      1. GiggidyGoo

        It’ll probably be the April homeless figures. Murphy likes long bank holiday weekends to try bury news.

      2. Cian

        What, exactly, could the Daíl do on Monday to address the CervicalCheck crisis? Is there some legislation that needs to be passed?

        1. Lilly

          Same as they do any other day, sit there and generate lots of hot air :) Don’t take everything so literally Cian.

        2. david

          A few days I posted about the screening and mentioned that same company had been awarded the contract for bowl screening
          Which prompted the usual abuse of me
          Even one said what’s a bowl screen
          I stated that it will not be just women now its anyone male or female that could of had a false negative
          I had the procedure done three years ago
          And Harris is still minister as all this very disturbing things are being drip
          Its time the whole lot of them are gone
          I reckon possibly the worst health scandal in the world is about to break

          1. david

            Sheik ya booties
            I stated days ago about the possible disaster of the same scandal from bowl screening as now we hear about the smear tests
            Imagine if the same horror story emerges as tests done three years ago read wrongly then covered up like the smear tests resulting in many just finding out they have cancer when they are screened again
            What then
            A good dose of smart bottom replies from the likes of ye Nigel starina soq papi
            And not forgetting Bertie
            As for what happened next
            Well what will happen next is I will go abroad and pay for one next year when I go on holiday
            And get the sample if positive dated

  3. Lilly

    ‘Rents rise by 70% and are now 23% above Celtic Tiger peak.’ Uh oh. Should we be selling, Marmaduke?

  4. filly buster

    i know for fact that that polish dude didn’t murder his wife. this is lazy from the guards, pinning it on the only guy they know was in the vacinity. which was their home.

      1. filly buster

        i tried, but ive no evidence so they dont wanna know. they have this guy and wanna get it done and outta the way. nothing changes in the force. this kind of stuff came to light already, but no change.

        1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

          Yeah. Having no evidence might be the issue there for them, I’d say.

          1. filly buster

            i know her husband and her a few years and there’s no way he did it. absolutely no way. she left a party and was killed at 6.30 am(ish) very near their home. He didn’t get up and murder her. someone from that party did, im sure of it. but the only person they can place in the area is her husband. but he was in bed asleep. its awful theyre blaming him. i cant beleive it, and they wont listen.

          2. david

            Some marriage then when he dose not go to a party with his wife
            Maybe filly buster might now be interview by the garda
            Remember anyone could of killed her and maybe it was someone who knows her( ish)

          3. Cian

            “i know for fact that that polish dude didn’t murder his wife”.
            Do you actually mean:
            “I’ve know her husband for a few years and I really don’t think he would do it.”

          4. ReproBertie (SCU)

            “Some marriage then when he dose not go to a party with his wife”
            What a stupid comment which says more about you than him. Perhaps he went home early to let the babysitter leave. Perhaps he had work the next morning. Perhaps he trusts his wife to be in the company of others when he is not around.

          5. Lilly

            Her family clearly don’t think the husband did it either.

            Remember Jill Meagher murdered in Australia. The police suspected the husband at first but at least they maintained an open mind and managed to nab the killer.

    1. david

      Wow bet you know who murdered that pint in bruxels last night
      Statistics prove the majority of murders of a spouse has impute from wife or husband
      Some people are just plain scumbags

  5. david

    Now we finally know the EU strategy regarding brexit
    Use the republic to do the dirty work
    Well its going to all end in tears
    The GFA finished
    A massive hard border
    Then the EU will use the new EU fleet to patrol our waters regarding fishery grounds
    Its going to get very dirty and nasty

    1. ReproBertie (SCU)

      Backwards as usual. We are the EU david and on our behalf the EU negotiators are pushing for no hard border as part of protecting the GFA.

      As the British Taoiseach’s Sasamach negotiators have not yet figured out what their plan is, the UK will probably be staying in the customs union until 2023. By then there’ll have been a general election and the DUP will no longer have any hold over the new British government. That will mean either the UK entirely stays within the EU, or within the EU Customs and Regulatory Union or the EU/UK border is in the Irish Sea with the entire island of Ireland in either the EU or the EU Customs and Regulatory Union.

      It must be very frustrating when the EU refuse to live up to your undemocratic fantasies.

      1. david

        No Bertie we are a little country that has 85%ofvthe EU fishing grounds and 5% of the quota
        We also were screwed for the debt run up by delinquent banks
        We have little say and do what we are told
        The British do not have a teashock
        So if you want to use Gaelic to post at lease post your whole post t in Irish
        A border is at the border of a nation and where the border between northern Ireland and the republic is two different jurisdiction’s
        Which is between the republic ,and the northern Irish member of the united kingdom
        Wishful thinking is not reality
        And if negotiations are built on wishful thinking there lies the problem and until varadka gets that into his thick head nothing will result but talk talk and the clock is ticking

        1. ReproBertie (SCU)

          Ceart go leor david.

          Cinnte níl muid ach tír beag ach is cuid den AE muid agus tá an AE ag obair ar son muintir na hÉireann agus ní mbeidh said sásta le teorainn tíre crua. Níl pleann réadúil ag an RA chun teorainn tíre bog a chuir in áit agus nil a lán am fágta acu. Ní feidir le taoiseach na Sasanaigh a rialtas a coimeád le chéile agus gan dabht ní feidir le a rialtas fuscailt a chur le chéile agus gan pleann beidh an teorainn san fharraige.

          Is iad rialtas na Sasanaigh atá ag dhéanamh comhairle in aice lena thoil agus tá sé in am dúiseacht.

          Anois, ar aghaidh leat go Google chun é seo a droch-aistrigh.

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