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AN IRISHMAN HAS appealed for people to reconsider their relationship with alcohol in a powerful post about his brother’s death.
Patrick Mungovan (20) from Quilty in Clare shared a post on his Facebook page about the dangers of drinking too much.
His twin brother Stephen died after he fell from a cliff near Spanish Point in October 2015 while on a night out. Patrick said alcohol played a role in his death.
The post reads:
“I am a normal 20-year-old who has often gone out for days in a row, got sick, not remembered getting home, the usual story with all young people in our generation. I live in the countryside of county Clare and the drinking habits here are quickly becoming a problem. It’s totally fine to go for a few pints on a Saturday night with friends or family or whatever, we just need to control how much we are consuming. Everyone thinks a full day on the beer is great fun and great craic.
You don’t realise the dangers of alcohol until it comes knocking on your door! I unfortunately lost my twin brother last October and it’s about time people need to know the effects that alcohol has on families. Alcohol is the most dangerous drug that we have and nobody realises that. Drinking excess alcohol does such damage that it causes all sorts of problems like fighting and sometimes can be fatal.
“…We live in a country where drinking to a stage that we don’t know where we are has become the normal thing to do and it is getting out of hand. I have seen various photos and statuses praising the Irish for their drinking, I think that should shame us as a country.
“We all need to realise how dangerous alcohol is and it is the ones younger than my age who need to be advised and taught about it before they get into the real world and see what it’s like. They need to hear stories and see the lasting damages that alcohol causes people. It’s secondary school students who need to learn about it. Something needs to change before it’s too late.”
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Incredible in this day and age people still fall for the ‘African Prince with lotsa money but needs funds to release said money’ scam…come on folks….
maybe loneliness was a factor, this lady seems to have wanted it to real so much
It’s in the nature of the beast !!!
I know it’s tempting to laugh at others’ naïvety, but when you think about the outcome it’s little different to all those pensioners who get duped by fake bank employees, rogue property dealers and cowboy tradesmen. Another lonely, emotionally vulnerable person has been left in financial ruin while some keyboard-savvy lowlife is laughing as he wallows in his loot.
Some very clever scammers out there.
A friend of mine met an American woman online who spun a terrific yarn about wanting to come to Ireland to study Irish folklore. Really convincing. Communicated with her for ages, she was tying up loose ends and moving lock, stock and barrel to Dublin where she was enrolled in UCD.
Three times I had to stop him from forwarding money to her, we almost fell out over this fictitious person.
My argument:
‘If as you say she ‘Truly loves you’ then she will find a way to make it here’
Eventually the penny dropped when she contacted him from Amsterdam airport asking him to forward a few thousand euros to facilitate her claim that she was financially self sufficient entering the EU.
She is a fool & a gold digger – No sympathy 4 her at all. HA HA HA.
Iv a friend feel for someone living here with friends .. Went home to visit and have medical checks eat as cheaper at home ! She said she had cancer ! .. Needed thousands for treatment .. We convinced him eventually .. Turned out one of her friends was her husband !
Wha?????
Loneliness leaves people very vulnerable
Yeah so does ger wish 4 a ‘luxury’ life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3887493.stm getting revenge on the scammers
That’s brilliant Peter!
A real pity,but hard to believe ppl fall for this carry on now a days!
People over 60 wouldn’t be as Internet savy as younger people add loneliness to that and you have the perfect victim.
Why does this seem to happen a bit more in the UK. My working theory is that British women are a bit more soppy romantics compared to savvy sceptical and can’t take a complement Irish women.
i know some irish women who’d bite the head off you for complementing them
Fred it happens here too. The victims keep it quiet. wouldn’t you?
I do NOT look lovely today!!!!!
haha thats it Deborah on the button!
Mark Hamilton…better known as Luke Skywalkerton
Poor silly woman
Literally!
It’s the lowest of the low.Preying on that poor woman’s emotions.
I’ve got 20 million resting in my account but I need 50 grand to release it, can anyone help me? I’m also a prince, good looking and single…
I hope that isn’t her profile picture on the dating site.
Yes, I see the Met Police caption perfectly clear now.
A prominent Irish businessman, highly experienced, was defrauded or scammed of almost 750k sterling to get the ex Emperor of Angola’s uncut diamonds worth 400 million sterling from a Safe Deposit box in Amsterdam.
People can be conned by greed, by pretend romance , by the need or want to help and due to vulnerabilities.
These romance scams are supposedly very prevalent but rarely surface due to acute embarrassment.
Who was that Michael?
‘£4 million in gold deposits in Ghana he was trying to have released from the bank. He claimed that after he had recovered his wealth from the bank he would come to Foster and they would spend their retirement together in luxury. He just needed some additional funds in order to complete the deal.’
With collateral like that I could afford to live in Dublin.
just about
It has become a major industry in Ghana and Nigeria High quality internet access in Ghana to facilitate the scammers
Sort of revenge for all the bad colonial experience
No fool like an old fool,
As they say… there’s one born every minute…
….and two to take ‘em.
Hard to feel sorry for her even after being arrested for money laundering and this chap even had her allow other women to use her account to send him money, how would they have fitted into their supposed future together?? Flipping hell after being arrested and giving her story to police she was obviously informed of that this was a clearly a scammer preying on her and these other women yet she continued to send her savings and even go into debt for him. Nah, there’s desperate, gullible and lonely and there’s this, being arrested and landing in a world of legal trouble yet continues to just give away her savings to a charming stranger in Africa of all places. Plain stupidity.
One born every minute..
wow some people are so stupid
Stupid is as stupid does….
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