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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Neil Tobin (Irish comedian) once said, "An Irishman is a complicated mechanism for turning Guinness into piss."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sergei Krikalev was stuck on the Mir space station for 311 days after the Soviet Union broke up.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (4 children)

No, you are mistaken, 1994 was, at most, 15 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Find out what it means to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What have the Romans ever done for us?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Belfast was an awfully precarious location when this was taken in 1987.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Colman Doyle's 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Colin Furze has done the same thing in the UK on YouTube. I haven't heard any criticism of him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, I don't think anyone had moved in there yet.

There is nothing new here. There has always been a vocal, violent, right leaning minority in Irish society. There have been two instances that have made headlines around the world in the past few weeks that may make it seem like Irish society in general is leaning further to the right. I hope this isn't true.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It didn't work 23 years ago in Tipperary, it won't work now. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/fire-at-hotel-for-asylum-seekers-1.264123

They'll claim the insurance, rebuild the hotel and refugees will move in anyway.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (28 children)

So burn the hotel down?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Heart attack or stroke are usually described by the media as "died suddenly".

 

If you are old enought to remember this show, you now make noises when you sit down. As a ten year old, this was the coolest truck on TV, the trailer would split open from the top and there was a helicopter hidden inside.

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