It would be one thing if they were sitting on their ass sulking over their bar, but they’re not. They are doing the typical Irish thing and doing the rounds helping out the neighbours. They are doing what they can for their area.

What are you doing?

Theres always always one

Article clearly states the guys are assisting in the relief and clear up. Nothing wrong with article.

#sheeple

I think you will find ‘sheeple’ is a term more associated with brainwashed clowns who digest everything they read and see on the media as the ‘truth’ ‘Sheeple’ will agree with everything a reporter tells them and is unable to come up with their own idea about anything.

Tell me all you’ve done to aid situation there Cecilia?

Right on tiger. Give credit where it’s due. Loads of overly falsely affected people in this country carrying on about a reality they don’t know. I helped evacuate the Philippines back in ’91 when Mt Pinatabo went off. My PA is based in Cebo and even she isn’t carrying on like these people.

What would you know about suffering you muppet? Go and have a drink

Cecilia, why are you still here? Thought you were deleting the app. Come on, let the adults talk. Go catch up on X factor or something.

And there in shows you the class of individual were dealing with, whose idea of helping someone is to preach from a far. Go on, you troll away like the others and get sheeple away thinking you’re doing your bit. Nothing wrong with these guys and credit to them for their efforts.

#dramaqueen

Well Cecilia, if we were in the photo, we would have more first hand knowledge and more perseverance than you, sitting in Ireland, moaning on The Journal. I’d have a pint to me too. And then, I would do as they did, help my bloody neighbours.

Hi all,

Clearly there’s been quite a bit of negative feedback here. I’d like to provide some context for the use of the picture, and the way the story is presented.

I was put in contact with David Joyce, who runs the Evolution resort, on Monday. The resort, along with the pictured bar and restaurant, were flattened in the storm.

David, along with other staff members at the dive school, has been raising thousands of euro, and taking the lead in getting aid and building supplies directly to the surrounding community over the past week or so.

I’ll have the full piece on their efforts up tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I’ve posted this photo, and a second picture taken before the storm hit, as a way of showing the immense structural damage caused by the typhoon.

As stated in the piece, holidaymakers who were at the resort have also stayed and helped out with the relief effort.

Those pictured in the photo had just spent several hours clearing debris from the area, in much the same manner as their neighbours in surrounding businesses and households.

There is no intention to portray anybody involved here as ignoring or making light of the disaster.

It’s my personal opinion that, no matter how stressed by the situation they were, the men were merely smiling because — well, that’s what you tend to do when someone points a camera at you.

Once again, the full piece with David will be up tomorrow morning, which includes much more detail about the staff members’ efforts.

Ways to donate to the Malapascau relief drive are outlined on the Evolution Facebook page — just follow the link above. Obviously, there are plenty of other ways to donate to the international relief effort.

Thanks for reading,

Daragh Brophy.

Spot on Daragh. Thanks for posting this.

Cecilia, your high horse is a circus pony.

Have the people who are giving out about this story actually read it? Basically it reads Irish bar owner business was badly damaged in Typhoon but he and holiday makers are doing all they can to help near by people. That’s all folks. A story about Irish people helping out in the disaster.

How would you know they are sitting there getting drunk? I doubt very seriously they are getting hammered when they look around and see their community devastated. You have obviously never been tested as a person in such circumstances. You have your whip around in the school and the local pub. Leave those guys alone to help pick up theirs and their neighbours lives. They don’t need the help of the likes of you as they’ll pull their own bootstraps up.

No you can’t be serious Cecilia? I cannot make out any of those advertisments. Therefore they are not “carefully” placed.

Talk about looking for something to give out about! You come on here and have an inbuilt mechanism to react in a certain common opinion, and are completely taking from whats actually going on here, trying to FUNDRAISE.

Get a grip of yourself, take a look at what you writing and think before you press the post comment button if you not adding anything positive.

Troll on leslie

Cecilia, you are so wrong in so many counts. You obviously have never been through an event even remotely similar to this, and hopefully never will. I have, hurricane Charley, Punta Gorda fl. Not even remotely the same in terms of loss of life but in terms of personal devastation….the same. These guys are doing exactly the same as we and many of our neighbors did….. Look on the bright side, “we have NOTHING, it can only get better”, they are helping themselves and their neighbors. By the way, when PG was devastated the first business to “reopen”, despite it too being trashed, was an Irish pub owned by Kevin Doyle it was important on two levels, one a place for people to connect and two to have a pint and pretend things were normal……..

Negative feedback, Daragh? More like rabid hysterics.
I can’t see anything wrong with the first photograph… apart from the obvious, the bar being destroyed. Good guys working to help people around them despite their business being in ruins. A couple of holiday makers staying on to help with the clean up when they could have been on the first plane out of there.
I will donate to their worthy effort.

Darragh deleted my comment because

A) I said the photo was distasteful
B) Because I said it showed Irish people drinking, smiling, in the middle of a natural disaster
C)Because I said that people think the leading photo is not tasteful now, and will not change their mind tomorrow
D) I said “End of…”

Yet, this guy deleted my comment! Now, albeit he might disagree with my comment which is fare enough, but why would he delete it?

This is the gutter journalism you are up against here folks. Granted, I may disagree with some of you guys and vice versa, but what kind of a ‘news’ website are we on that the author of a controversial article deletes at will any comment who disagrees with him? Seriously, think about that for a moment….this guy is so insecure in his journalism that he feels he can post something on a public forum and be God almighty when people disagree with him.

The last time I checked this is Ireland, not China…if you are going to be so naive as to lead a story with the photo you choose, expect people (your paymasters) to agree and disagree!

Just who or what do you think you are?

What is controversial about the article?

Your comments were vile and antagonistic, Cecilia.
You were so outraged by this article you were deleting the app.
So why are you still here?

Irish bar looking well

This is what’s wrong with the Internet,
People like you bathing in their own importance and think that people actually give a crap about their high horse opinion.
The story is about struggle in the face of adversity.
Fair play to the lads keep up the good work.

I thought you’ve deleted this app?

Hi Daragh,
It was obvious to any normal person who took the time to read your article what the context was..
I wouldn’t even bother to explain it to them…
If they are that stupid or just trigger happy thumbs down serial knockers then they are not worth it…

@Cecilia, I, Noel, and a few others have been in contact with Matt and David since the devastation happened, they are tired, homeless and working their bollix’s off helping others in the Island, they don’t give a Bollix about rebuilding the bar, they merely took a picture of themselves having a warm beer to let friends, family and others know that they are alive and fighting on.

I brought David’s plight to Daragh in order to generate much needed publicity about their ongoing efforts, AND YES, If they want a hard earned warm beer after what they have seen and lost, good for them. Meanwhile whilst you type crap, I will continue to generate funds, collect building equipment and send it directly to them. If you have anything that you want to send over please contact http://www.speedypinoy.com as they will send the box FOC to them. They need building equipment, vitamins, sanitary wear, everything that you can donate.

Thanks for that Paul. I’ll get a box of something sent over. I’m sure absolutely anything would help when you have nothing.

Thanks Jackass (best respect meant).
Everything can and will be used. From Davids last email, anything will help, he will distribute it, as he is sending goods continuously over to the worse effected areas. On the basis that the wet season is about to kick in, going to send some builders plastic (waterproof) along with vitamins and water purification tablets.

I dont know how to delete the bank details

can someone help please Thank You

The guys there are doing a fantastic job, goto https://www.facebook.com/evolutiondivingmalapascua to see more pictures and their ongoing activities to help others.

They are a credit and we should help them as much as possible, they are putting everything into helping others, from David “Tools for sure is great. We are managing to get materials onto the island but logistics is getting harder which is probably good. All trucks are booked up meaning stuff is now happening. We will get lots of wood and roofing there tomorrow. I will probably budget for a load of local workers to get involved. While in Ireland a carpenter might donate his time most people here cannot afford that so I will hire 20 guys and send them around.”

From diving instructors they are now humanitarian’s on the cold front of a disaster.

Such an irish thing. Not allowed to show any emotion but misery after a tragedy lest people would talk about you. On the contrary I think it’s good that they can smile after witnessing such horror. Keep up the armchair criticism though, well done.

If I have one criticism of the Journal is that most of the comments below have not just been deleted. Those guys are doing a job there that most of the plonkers who are posting could not do. Working with people who have lost everything and most likely helping them to collect the bodies of their dead families is not easy and having a pint or two afterwards is a damn sight better than whinging and ending up on valium or whatever.
The ability to keep smiling in the face of disaster is what helps those involved in all types of rescue work keep going and cope with the horror.
Well done those lads, give them your full and unqualified support and eff the begrudgers.

Let’s hope that the journalist, and I use that word very loosely, is sacked after this disgraceful piece of gutter journalism. Belittling a tragedy like this is the lowest of the low. Journal.ie is pure trash.

Who gives a damn about paddy and his pub, it’s a far more horrible tragedy for thousands of people dead, homeless and hungry. This muppet can rebuild the roof. I’m appalled by this article to be honest.

Did you even read the article? FFS! Off you both pop to the daily mail or the sun with ye.

Did you read the article?

I agree gary and I think it’s wonderful so many Irish want to help these poor people out it’s horrible what is going on there but I wonder why we are not as good at helping ourselves or other Irish , it alway’s takes a tragedy abroad to motivate us into action …as much as I applaud helping in anyway we can . we need to hang onto that energy and try to stop some of the awful thing’s going on at home …like children going hungry ect…aparently 20% , it’s not as desperste as what people over there are suffering and of course they need to be helped first , but would love to see Irish rally around each other as much

This app should delete you, considering you’ve missed the point of the article and have no clue what you are talking about.

The photo is enough, you media puppet

The ‘journalist’ has deleted every comment that has disagreed with his article….remember that the next time you guys have an opinion on anything here! Ok, fair enough you guys may differ in your opinion with me, but we are all still entitled to agree and disagree on a public forum.

Gutter journalism at its worst

Cecilia, depending on which type of phone you have:

1) Settings
2) App Management
3) Select offending App i.e. theJournal
4) Uninstall

If God is represented by someone who brings our attention to a disaster and how we can help a good cause, then let it be Daragh. He is paid to report, you on the other hand Cecilia has deleted comments as no one wants to know them.

@Kay, David has been buying building equipment, wood and more, and sending it directly to the areas worse effected, not to rebuild his own bar, put to build homes for others. He is now homeless himself, but they are safe. Everything that they are doing is to help others. Hopefully in the future funds will go toward rebuilding the school and feeding more, he is doing everything for others.

The above should highlight the dangers of being drunk on the Internet- you make a complete fool of yourself