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LOVE/HATE HAS attracted controversy for a scene that came just seconds into the new season.
Early in the first episode, a teenager is seen shooting a cat with a submachine gun. He then laughs about it with a friend.
Athough no actual animal was injured, the Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) has called for a boycott of the show.
A spokesperson for ARAN said the group is “incensed and angered”.
“This scene does irreparable damage to our work of curbing violent crimes towards animals and comes at a time of record reports of violence towards animals around the country. Already the group has been fielding dozens of complaints from viewers,” said John Carmody, the Director of ARAN.
“Violence towards animals is on the rise in Ireland and this violent and disgusting scene in Love Hate does huge damage to our work of creating kindness towards animals on the streets,” says ARAN Director John Carmody.
“We’re encouraging people to switch channels next time the programme airs.”
ARAN is also urging the producers of the show to make a generous donation to school educational programs in Ireland that would reach out to a younger generation about the importance of treating animals with kindness and respect.
A spokesperson for RTÉ had no returned a request for comment.
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Little Island should be also within the city boundary as it goes right up to the Tunnel and Dunkettle.A big mistake to leave it in the county.
@Padraig: What about Douglas, you can actually walk out to Douglas and yet it’s still in the county, madness! Little Island is not really part of the city imo.
@Padraig: What that county councillor is saying is absolutely hilarious. He’s complaining about development outside the city sucking the life out of the city! Sure twas the focking county council themselves who planned all that, is he soft in the head or what?
To sum up Cork city just look at the bus station 1950s
@number24eu: and that was only redone a few years ago!!!
@number24eu: do you honestly think they will spend the extra money on a bus station, most likely give themselves a raise first as they have a bigger area to represent ! Just take a look at the mess they have made of the whole conference hall developement, God alone knows what they will do with the extra areas the have…these boys/girls have a history of fcking things up.
@number24eu: Not just the bus station the whole city looks like it never moved on from the 1950s
@Dave O Keeffe: are you joking … no you are not are you
@zippo: it the same down in Bantry
@number24eu: I’m definitely not joking
@number24eu: to sum up Dublin just look at Bus Aras, 1950s… you didn’t think that one through did ya?!
@zippo: Perhaps they will flog off some of the extra land to the GAA just as they did with the old Cork Showgrounds, no doubt the grab all association are watching this very closely just to see what might be in it for them.
@Dave O Keeffe: What exactly is wrong with the bus station? It’s not the worst in the country by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s very centrally located, which is what you’d want.
@Alan Scott: says the man from Tipperary
Great for the city, not so great for the county, especially Ballincollig which is thriving on its own and has gone from village to one of the fastest growing towns outside Dublin and to the biggest town in Cork within a mere 25 years. Now sucked into city rates, diluted identity and bureaucratic outside administration. Its little wonder there’s a divide!
@The Dons: if anybody wants to look at a city councils total neglect of one section of the city, then look at the disaster that is Blackpool village.
@The Dons: This will do Ballinacollig no harm whatsoever. The city is the region’s entire engine driver. Ballinacollig and Glanmire would be absolutely nothing without the city down the road. There should be a light rail developed between Ballinacollig and City centre now – it’s flat and the critical mass is there to justify it.
do they do fly flags down there like the way DCC do.
Now if they could get their fingers out in Waterford and also get approved for the city boundary extension would be great for the future of the city to survive
Why was this so straight forward but Waterford city expansion was rebuffed. In fact both Waterford and limerick got a downgrade
@Alan Murphy: Alan let me assure you this was anything but straight forward. This has been rumbling on for many a year now.
A city population that has remained near on stagnant for 40 yrs, a terrible indictment on successive councils ! These boys couldn’t get a helium balloon off the ground in this city , pathetic.
Double the population overnight?
Eienstein!
@Eugene Walsh: time for the city council to encourage ridin’ then.
“We want the city to expand out.”
Why would want that? Why would you want more sprawl? Build up for jaysus sake. Bloody stupid. I’m from Glanmire and there are cows in the field next door to our garden. But you’re telling me this is part of the city? Nonsense.
@B Collins: But the optics of it isn’t a real excuse here. Whats in it for the likes of Glanmire and Ballincollig? Absolutely nothing! Whats in it for the city, higher and more rates and a land grab! Simples, city won and the county lost on all fronts.
@B Collins: the reason why there are cows is because the city has been restricted there’s plenty of room in cork county for the cows
Surely the only fair way would be to have a local referendum for the county area to see what the people want. That is democracy.
@John Hagin Meade: we live in a representative democracy. We vote for the people that we want to make the decisions
Most people in Ballincollig commute to the city to work you can’t have your cake and eat it )
@David MC: That would make sense only that the second biggest employers in Munster are in Ballincollig, Dell EMC and VM Ware, and they don’t all live in Ballincollig either.
@David MC: And most people in Naas commute to Dublin, is that a reason to change county lines? Naas, County Dublin. Doesn’t have the same ring to it
The infrastructure needs to be drastically improved before any further development occurs including North Link and Cork Limerick motorway.
All for development and progression but the infrastructure in the area is poor at best and needs to be drastically improved before any further development occurs including a North Ring and Cork Limerick motorway.
Badly managed city will become bigger badly managed city
The infrastructure in the ares is poor at best and needs to be drastically improved before any further development occurs including a North Ring and Cork/Limerick motorway.
is douglas included if not it should be
have your say