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SCRAMBLER BIKES ARE continuing to cause serious problems in many areas across the country.
Gardaí in Santry seized a bike which was racing with two others yesterday.
The driver was under 16 and had no driving licence or insurance. It’s understood that the bike in question was a Christmas present.
It comes after the death of 16-year-old Warren Kenny on Christmas morning.
The teenager from Ballyfermot died after crashing a scrambler-type bike he received as a Christmas present.
A garda spokesperson told TheJournal.ie that there is a problem with these bikes in certain areas around Dublin.
Dublin City Sinn Féin Councillor Noeleen Reilly has called on Dublin City Council to develop a more community led approach to scramblers and quads, saying:
This is obviously a very dangerous situation for all involved and in most cases these bikes are not insured.
“I have spoken to the Gardaí on many occasions and they will tell you that because of the fear of an accident they cannot chase after anyone on a scrambler of quad.”
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Wouldn’t be sorry to see the guardian to the wall. Nothing but a far left echo chamber.
@Adam Conroy: Prefer to see the Daily Heil close, but in the age of dumb click button information there’s less space for nuanced and intelligent reporting so that’s probably going to happen. Just so you know, the Daily Mail acquired the nickname in the 1930s for it’s support of fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts e.g.
@David Jordan: I’m not particularly fond of any British newspaper. They’re either too far right or left. There’s very little anymore that’s not pushing some view under the guise of journalism.
@David Jordan: That was really interesting. They never really changed their outlook did they
@Adam Conroy: However, I think, that right wing journalism attracts both people who like it and people who disagree, I found myself watching Fox News for the first time just over 10 years ago shaking my head watching Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, I just could not stop watching each morning until my holiday was over. And I sheepishly admit, read the Daily Mail now and then, and probably more then the Guardian, but I’m addictively gauping at the stupidity and getting an information fix.
Don’t think people on the conservative end of the political spectrum click on the Guardian website or if they’re American watch CNN the same way, they just ignore it.
Well that’s my anecdotal experience, and why I think liberal journalism faces a relative disadvantage, and that’s a worry as you need a balance.
@David Jordan: I prefer to call it The Daily Hate
The guardian is an excellent read, with some quality writing. It’s world affairs section is great as is its sports coverage.
@Diarmuid: Sports coverage is good. News coverage, particular on UK politics is extremely biased. They are still so butthurt and bitter about Brexit that it comes through in ANY reporting about ANY subject if it includes ANYONE who was even remotely pro-brexit.
@Tommy Roche: I actually saw an op-ed in the Guardian last week entitled “Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky – do cities have to be so sexist?”
It’s an absolute rag, sports aside.
@Diarmuid: the anti-working class rag, it’s mostly narrative driven journalism and opinion pieces. I don’t follow sports but the political stories are always shamefully biased.
@Edmund Spencer: lol I saw that as well it was insane
@Alan Currie: it would be very hard to find an unbiased newspaper article in fairness.
But I do think The Gaurdian/ Obsever represents my way of thinking… The Arts and Culture sections are excellent.
@Diarmuid: you trying to be sarcastic???…good paper if you are of the woke variety.
@Paul Buckley: as the poster before me said, it caters for the woke and those obsessed with identity politics. I find that to be disrespectful as instead of presenting you with all the facts and angles on a story, they want to tell you how to think, stories delivered through a narrow minded lens,so it’s more like indoctrination. It used to be decent though, before the internet started wiping out journalism and there is now a greater desperation for stories that sell. Am liking this one though :)
@Alan Currie: all newspapers do what you describe maybe you just think for yourself and be open minded ….
@Paul Buckley: I agree they mostly do have left/right goals, but The Guardian is at the extreme end of that scale, and unfortunately there are rather a lot of people who can’t differentiate between the factual and the narrative driven. It’s a shame that it appears that balance is not profitable.
@Alan Currie: same applies to BBC. Hardly a coincidence and rte going the same irrelevant way
@Diarmuid: Of course you would say that Best news this week
Not surprising, go to woke and you’ll go broke
Just because the lefties shout and scream the most doesn’t make them the majority.
People want balanced news reporting
@Greg Daniel:
No they don’t, People want free news sources and then complain about the lack of investigative journalism. Who is going to finance it if people want everything for free?
Bye bye real professional journalism hello noisy narcissists on twitter
@Wheresmyjumper: Real journalism has been dying a slow death over the last number of years. Bari Weiss’ resignation from the New York Times the other day is another nail in the coffin of real journalism. It’s mainly activism now.
@Wheresmyjumper: There’s real professional journalism in the UK media especially in the world affairs and politics section which is extremely biased as if the Brits are still the old masters of the colonial world.
@Seriousnojoke: There’s NO* real…
“sustainable or we won’t be here” words you’ll never hear from RTE!!
I bet Gary Lineker and Graham Norton will get to keep their ridiculous wages they are on.
@Just Some Guy: I’m sure Gary “man of the people” Lineker would happily take a pay cut to help his fellow BBC employees (insert rolling eyes emoji)
@Just Some Guy: ye Graham Norton won’t be going back to holidaying in a tiny caravan in county Clare anytime soon Ted
Maybe with these news people will start waking up from their lockdown , close everything , close the island daze .
The guardian is the most credible source of news out there and I’m happy to contribute to support it
Local newspapers are in fact more important to ordinary people than National ones. The less local newspapers you have the higher the corruption at a local level.
@Clurichaun: that’s a really good point, we are all at the mercy of the national press
I only watch top of the pops BBC four anyway on Friday nights “nostalgia”
@Gerard Heery: savage music documentaries on Friday nights, so they do get some things right.
Great news up the BBCs swiss liberal clowns
The thing is you have to use your own judgements while navigating a broadsheet newspaper and be fully aware of the writer of the piece you are reading. Good newspapers offer to the reader an opinion for the reader to consider to make a judgement you need to read an opposing view . Very few people do this. That is why most don’t know how to form a reasoned opinion and are influenced by anything and everything
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