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The Grand Canal, near Harcourt Terrace. Google Streetview

Man's body found by Garda divers in Grand Canal

The man has not been identified. It is believed he died as a result of drowning.

THE BODY OF a man has been found in the Grand Canal, close to Harcourt Terrace in Dublin city centre.

The discovery was made by Garda divers carrying out a search for a missing man.

“The search of the canal was carried out by Garda Water Unit who located the body of the man at about 12.30pm,” a statement said.

The area is sealed off pending a technical examination.

The man has not been identified as yet, said gardaí. It is believed he died as a result of drowning.

The man’s body has been removed to the City Morgue where a post-mortem examination will take place tomorrow.

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    Mute Awkward Seal
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:00 PM

    But how can they be racist? They’re not “white”.

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    Mute The spokesman
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:30 PM

    They only talk to you if your buying something off them. They should be drove out.

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    Mute Gunnarsahn
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:46 PM

    along with people who can’t drove english

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    Mute The spokesman
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:49 PM

    ” drove English” what are you talking about you clown.

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    Mute Shawn O'Ceallaghan
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    Sep 8th 2016, 6:47 PM

    Yep…The Black Lives movement would claim you must be white male to ne racist and to check your privillage..

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    Mute #Tag
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    Sep 8th 2016, 8:55 PM

    Cultural Marxism with the fear of nazism has brainwashed generations.

    Hopefully one day you’ll be able to be white and have pride in your community and cultural. The biggest group discriminated against in the western world is the white working class christian.

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    Mute The spokesman
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    Sep 8th 2016, 10:31 PM

    @ John Bennet. Iv been saying it for a long time, we are coming back and we will defeat communism and liberalism and bring proper values and conservatism to our country.

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    Mute JayK
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    Sep 9th 2016, 2:30 AM

    Sounds like you’re a bunch if simpletons to me.

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    Mute Joey_Westland
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:46 PM

    “So go die, all you politically correct people”
    The ‘pussy generation’ won’t like that.

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    Mute Joey_Westland
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:51 PM

    Sits back, opens popcorn and waits for Fintan and Michael to arrive.

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    Mute Patrick Watson
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:51 PM

    You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Can never win with the Pussy Generation.

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:55 PM

    I felt a great disturbance on the internet, as if millions of people were suddenly triggered.

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    Mute Joey_Westland
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:56 PM

    Big storm blowing in from Asia i believe.

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:57 PM

    They’ll be along shortly. They need to collect themselves first after their attack of the vapours.

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    Mute Bigus Diccus
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:58 PM

    In years gone by, each new generation was seen as wild, almost degenerate, by their elders. This new generation, not so much. Shower of wet dishcloths.

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    Mute Joey_Westland
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:58 PM

    @Patrick.
    Ain’t that the truth.
    No matter how the deck stacks up they’ll find an opportunity for outrage.

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:00 PM

    Yup. The first Generation ever who tell their parents to behave.

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    Mute Joey_Westland
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:14 PM

    @Clever.
    I’m staying on the right side of the Chinese. They own the world.

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    Mute Eyepopper
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:17 PM

    … and a great bunch of lads too Joey.

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:18 PM

    @clever make. Looks like you also got an attack of the vapours. You’ll be fine once you come down of that high horse.

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    Mute Bigus Diccus
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:20 PM

    @Jake

    I’m an atheist, and I’m not a homophobe. I don’t support Trump, per se, but I would like to see the apple cart turned upside down. I think it has to be done, let the chips fall where they may.

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:27 PM

    @biccus discus. I’m not a Trump fan either but I would like to see an end to the Soros/Goldman Sachs/Peter Sutherland/Obama/Clinton/Merkel/junker axis/cabal call it what you will, but if trump is the man to end this disastrous (for Europe) consensus, then hopefully he will win.

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    Mute Bigus Diccus
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:45 PM

    We disagree on many issues, but I stand with them, Jake.

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    Mute Gunnarsahn
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:51 PM

    that isn’t the vernacular Margaret

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Sep 8th 2016, 8:18 PM

    @ margie How dare you talk to him like that? This is really really really not nice at all. You resort to insult when somebody disagrees with you. *sobs* You are not mentally ill. I take it back. You’re just an idiot.

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Sep 8th 2016, 8:23 PM

    ……and I two words for you Prouesse. Pot and kettle.

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    Mute Patrick J O'CONNOR
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    Sep 8th 2016, 9:13 PM

    @Clever Jake
    Speaking of Donald Trump’s legions might as well include the Chinese Social Media Legion which is Gung Ho for Donald Trump and getting bigger and better. You”ll like the one saying Donald Trump displayed a ‘Majestic Demeanour’ on stage ,day 1 RNC.
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    In a late March poll of 3,330 Global Times readers, 54 percent of respondents said they supported a Trump presidency—well above the 36 percent of Americans who currently do. On Weibo, China’s Twitter-like micro-blogging website, there are at least 10 Trump fan groups with over a thousand followers—these include “Trump Fan Club”(1,667 followers), “Trump: Light of the World” (3,445 followers), and “Trump Commentary” (2,706 followers). One fan tweeted that Trump displayed a “majestic demeanor” when he took the stage the first day of the Republican National Convention.
    https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/07/22/what-do-chinese-people-have-to-say-about-donald-trump/
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    Wan Shang Hao

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Sep 8th 2016, 10:11 PM

    @ margie Poor poor Margie. You’re so stupid that you have to rely on me, a “Muslim foreigner” according to your words, to learn idioms in your own language. Lol That must hurt you badly.

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Sep 8th 2016, 10:14 PM

    Never called you a foreigner. Ever. Now I wish you would take your unhealthy sick little obsession with me and jog on.

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Sep 8th 2016, 10:52 PM

    @ margie I’m not obsessed by you. I’m sick of your stupid comments. I understand you agree you’re an idiot since you didn’t contradict that part of my comment. Good! That’s step 1 achieved. Now step 2 is to help you understand being is not cool. (I wish myself good luck! )

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    Mute gus sheridan
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    Sep 9th 2016, 7:45 AM

    Clever Jake, my dog is named Jake and he is smarter than you!

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    Mute Margie Murph
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    Sep 9th 2016, 7:46 AM

    @clever jake. I know the difference. Doesn’t change the fact that you have a massive stick up your
    a$$!

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    Mute Jan Sobeiski
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    Sep 9th 2016, 10:48 AM

    Clever.

    Safe space time for I think

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    Mute Jan Sobeiski
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    Sep 9th 2016, 10:52 AM

    Here’s Trump the racist as you say receiving an immigration award along side Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali.. How racist of him eh.. not so clever? — https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrWXsdpUAAEl4r1.jpg

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    Mute Eyepopper
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:47 PM

    That is weally weally waysist!

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    Mute Sean
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:20 PM

    And also weally weally funny!

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    Mute Val Rossi
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:28 PM

    Wong on so many levels

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    Mute Eyepopper
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:42 PM

    And they’ve been working on improving their international reputation.

    This could be a real chink in their armour

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    Mute Patrick Watson
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:54 PM

    Areas like Newham and Hamlet Towers are considerably more dangerous than the likes of Hornchurch or Upminster.

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    Mute the phantom
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:57 PM

    These places sound made up

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    Mute Aisling Ní Bhróithe
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    Sep 8th 2016, 7:27 PM

    Tower Hamlets even?

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    Mute the phantom
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    Sep 8th 2016, 7:31 PM

    Speak English! We ain’t scientists doc!

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    Mute Gerard McAuliffe
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    Sep 8th 2016, 8:00 PM

    Hamlet Towers? C’mon now – did you just start Googling places in London?

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    Mute Slim Browne
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:15 PM

    Sound advice

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    Mute BlueSkyThinking
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:00 PM

    So I hear your a racist now father?

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    Mute Karol Doran
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:30 PM

    Zzzz

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    Mute George Brown
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:40 PM

    If Zimbabwe had a sizeable white population, and the areas where they predominately lived were more criminal and violent on average…

    Would it be racist for the Chinese to suggest that passengers be cautious of white areas in Zimbabwe?

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    Mute Karol Doran
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:06 PM

    Yes

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    Mute John Moylan
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:43 PM

    …sure we all look the same to the Chinese I’m sure …lols….

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    Mute John Ward
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:41 PM

    Certain areas of London are a bit risky and at night all cats are black!

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    Mute Peter Buchanan
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:06 PM

    If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck……

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    Mute Joey_Westland
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    Sep 8th 2016, 6:54 PM

    It’ll be on the menu.

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    Mute Niall Martin
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    Sep 8th 2016, 3:48 PM

    ‘Allegedly racist’ you say?

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    Mute Chris lynch
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:37 PM

    Not as bad as the ad where they put a black man in the washing machine and he came out white.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc7Rd4JOKZk

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    Mute John Ward
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:47 PM

    @Chris lynch: Nah, he’s not white!

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:21 PM

    Disappointed….I was expecting a bluier white.

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    Mute Cathal O'Hagan
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    Sep 8th 2016, 8:01 PM

    How ironic for the subject…Thats actually korean

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    Mute Greg Blake
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:04 PM

    Definitely racist.
    As travel advice, it may be accurate and fair enough to tell people to avoid certain crime ridden areas regardless of who has been ghettoised there.
    It’s not their concern if the residents are offended, provided the crime figures back it up. But the wording of this is crazy, it implies that these races are automatically criminal.
    I have a daughter working in China, there’s a black English guy in her job who can only get a taxi when the others are with him because the taxis just won’t stop if he’s on his own. Insular thinking I suppose.

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    Mute Shane Walsh
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    Sep 8th 2016, 4:09 PM

    They are a gas bunch over there..

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    Mute Gerard McAuliffe
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    Sep 8th 2016, 8:05 PM

    I wonder what they’d say about Dublin? “The majority of the population is White but a large proportion of those are involved in criminality, drugs and gangs. Avoid the Northside at all costs.”

    It’s OK to ‘call it like it is’ about race but I wonder if people would be so open to looking at their own city and being honest about the fact that the crime and murder rates are higher than London?

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    Mute Joe Hill
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    Sep 8th 2016, 6:55 PM

    No dogs or Irish are of any concern anymore it seems. There are always one or more groups treated as untouchables all through history. We are a conflicted species!

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Sep 8th 2016, 8:47 PM

    @joe hill,
    “No blacks, no dogs, no Irish” is just an urban myth.

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    Mute Robert Preston
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    Sep 9th 2016, 8:52 AM

    It is an urban myth . Couple of years ago an irish journalist into this and it did not exist .

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    Mute Harry Whitehead
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:49 PM

    First off, anyone who is actually a Londoner will laugh – Indians, Pakistanis and black people live all over the place. How much of the city are they warning people to steer clear from? Secondly, it clearly IS racist – it’s telling people to avoid areas based on the ethnic origin of those who live there. Nothing to do with crime stats. This isn’t just hysteria on the part of Generation Safe-Space. And that response from the Weibo user is barrel-scraping at its lowest – presumably I’m entitled to advocate avoiding Jewish areas on the grounds that the UK wasn’t involved in the Holocaust? Pathetic stuff.

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    Mute Kev Creed
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    Sep 8th 2016, 9:15 PM

    Advertising…Michael O’Leary style…

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    Mute Fintan Oflaois
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    Sep 9th 2016, 5:36 AM

    Very perceptive point, Kev.

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    Sep 9th 2016, 5:35 AM

    Even if only one Chinese in a thousand were an ignorant and malicious racist, that’s a lot of people like our Joey. Except the Chinese are generally also hard-working and nowadays affluent enough to travel as well. And of course women there can have an abortion if they believe it is the best course for them in their circumstances.

    A top Chinese official was being interviewed and, as is often the case, had smooth answers to every question.

    The reporter became frustrated and said: “I suppose the next thing you’ll try to tell me is that you have elections in China.

    The official replied: “But we celtainly have. In fact it’s a vely big ploblem; too many elections evely night.”

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    Mute Kevin Geoghegan
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    Sep 8th 2016, 5:53 PM

    very true

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    Mute Pat Stapleton
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    Sep 8th 2016, 10:22 PM

    They actually meant Ireland.

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    Mute Seán O'Fearain
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    Sep 9th 2016, 7:39 AM

    Oh

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    Mute Brian McMahon
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    Sep 9th 2016, 3:22 AM

    Yawn…

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