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The Daily PollIRELAND HAS A pretty high number of Mensa members per capita.
Mensans are not all well-paid high-flyers, in fact, some are unemployed, so your job and social standing don’t matter, only your IQ.
Membership of Mensa is open to people who have attained “a score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test”.
But, what do you think? Could you make it in? Would you be running the place in a week? What’s your own view of your IQ?
To test yourself, here’s a workout.
We’re asking: Could you make it in to Mensa?
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I don’t understand why having images is treated so lightly by some if the courts. Some poor child is in each and every one of those images and those images are out there forever in that sick community. If there wasn’t a market for the images no one would take them and maybe some poor child might escape that horror. Regardless that sentence is a joke !!!!
@Catherine Sims: couldn’t have put it better.
@Catherine Sims: It was long established at Nuremberg that there is no qualitative difference between active and passive participants in atrocity.
What a joke. Should be in jail.
I just don’t understand the criteria for such a serious criminal activity, is it because he is a college professor that he is allowed walk free?
@brian; libel much?
@Michael O’Riordan: Maybe he’s a Freemason and in the same lodge as the judge.
@Michael O’Riordan: Unlikely, these sort of cases normally get sentences that are way too light.
What do you expect, he’s one of elite type who can do what they like. A lesser being would have got at least 3/4 years. He was in an internet club of sickles, Lawlords can have very bad judgement at times.
@Eileen Roche: I don’t think there’s and evidence for that. I fear that anyone would have gotten the same sentence.
@Eileen Roche: Really? If that was the case how come so many offenders from underprivileged backgrounds have hundreds of convictions and yet only get a few weeks in jail?
He should be castrated!
Wtf he should be in prison
@bmul: For the first time the British our learning from us…Suspended sentence for such people is unbelievable.!!
I’m enraged to the point of being depressed, but not in the least bit surprised. This country really is a fuçking joke at times.
@John Shea Hen: do you realise this happened in a different country?
@John Shea Hen: is this journal.co.uk?
@Jumperoo: he wasn’t commenting on the story. He just lost his remote down the side of the couch and fair city is on RTÉ +1.
@John Shea Hen: idiot.
@John Shea Hen: Ok, Ok. I read “indecent images of children” and “suspended sentence” in he same heading and immediately thought Ireland. Forgive me.
@John Shea Hen: easy enough mistake to make, your forgiven!!
@Kate Flaherty: Thank you Kate for understanding my idiotic mistake.
@John Shea Hen: and fair play to you for replying ‘idiot’ to your own message. Gave me a laugh.
@Jumperoo: Ireland had its own scandal involving a poetry fellow and young boys in Thailand a few years back.
@John Shea Hen: so you didnt even read the story before feeling the need to comment, you must be great fun in the pub (yawwwn)
@Zx5vZulB: How did you come to that conclusion? You sound like a delightful chap to have a drink with yourself. Yawn!
Lock the bollox up
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Those specialists who have to screen such Enormities must have incredible training and stomachs. Saw a senior investigation branch officer with HM C&E back in the Eighties reduced to a total wreck one day at reception being comforted by another ex-serviceman. Consignment of Betamaxes seized at LHR featured a master tape from MX involving a young girl and a powertool and it was a snuff movie I will not say more but my own stomach just flipped thinking about what he told me was on it. And the worst fine the absolute degenerate who imported it could get was around £4,500 under the Illegal and Obscene Video Recordings Act 1978 or 6 it’s that long ago forget.
It’s all on a spectrum, from ”indecent images of children” to that. Well anyway his punishment is now his face name and lifelong unemployability we must be content with that. Some poor fractured child somewhere has no idea that at least for one brief moment justice was done in her or his cause.
@John O’Driscoll: afaik a lot of snuff movies were fake.
Just for a moment I misread that and thought it was by his privates with a rope!
He definitely should be in jail but even worse imagine being related to him ! It’s not just his life he’s ruined and don’t get me started on his perversion vile man may he never know peace again
@Anne Honer: You’re related to him? So sorry! :(
That sentence would not be out of place here! Joke! Pure joke!
Wish I could bookmark your comment for future reference. Oh, I’ll just wait until someone else posts it on every article ever involving a sentencing. Ever.
“Humps for 500 yards”
Is that why he is working at a college?
A decent question to ask???
@Alois Irlmaier: Most people in college are 18 or over, why on earth would a paedophile be interested in them?
Holy shit….he’s an adult, attracted to younger but why younger when being a Professor, he was supposed to know what he was doing…..
What sort of message does this useless sentence send??? Sickening
Another source: “The judge said he went outside the sentencing guidelines to suspend Jarvis’s jail term for two years as “there’s a sufficient prospect of rehabilitation”.
He said: “I see from all that I’ve read in this case that you have made real steps to address this addiction and therefore to prevent further offending in the future.”
He’s a provider of child porno graphic images he should be locked up, dirty b@$t@rd he’ll get his some day
Dirty ba$t@rd
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