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IT’S A WET start to the weekend with outbreaks of rain in most areas today, however it will become drier later this afternoon and tonight will be mild.
Tomorrow will also be mild and mostly cloudy, but dry, apart from a little drizzle in hilly and coastal areas.
Sunday will stay mild and mainly dry. There will be a mix of bright spells and a few spots of rain or drizzle.
Sunday night will be windy, with a band of rain moving down from the northwest to all areas. It will stay very windy for Monday morning.
Met Éireann is warning that the weather will become windy and very changeable from Sunday night onwards, turning bitterly cold after midweek, with frost at night and wintry showers.
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‘They told me it was heroin… I went home and smoked it. Then the lads were saying to stick a needle in my arm, so I did.’
Ah well, count your blessings, you might have found an explosive belt that day and the lads would have told you to head off to Fallujah.
ps
Christy Dunne wants his gear back.
Very Christian attitude of you Joey, seems your deep Christianity only covers certain topics.
I’m a Christian realist.
Joey – no, typically, you are a hypocrite.
“Christian realist.”
Brilliant :-)
He didn’t know what it was but went home and knew how to smoke it !
Ok
I was walking home when I ‘found’ a slab of beer. I was washing my face with it but then my pals came around with a funnel and filled me up to the top. Now I’m a raging alcoholic.
I found the comments section on the Journal and didn`t know what to do. Then a friend told me to empty the prejudice, arrogance, superiority and condescension from my brain. Since then I`ve never looked back.
‘I went home and smoked it’ yeah right got addicted by mistake… would ya feck off
@ Joey_Westland “Christian realist” must be the ultimate oxymoron.
Ahhh jayyysus..
Can you repeat that in English?
Is there such a thing as a Roman Catholic Christian? Surely not
its a bit of a mouthful, why still have the ‘Roman’ there, everyone knows where the pope hangs his hat
“He didn’t know what it was but went home and knew how to smoke it !
Ok”
Just as well it wasn’t cat shit.
Never understood why they placed a bus stop right at the centre, scariest place to wait for a bus ever!!!
Very worth while centre though, I’d donate no problem.
The bus stop was there first. The centre was relocated when the church decided to remove the project out of their main building because they wanted to go back to proving pastoral care.
Jesus!! What FAS course were you on??
It must have been a FAS course for journalists….what a pathetic story, gave up reading it after the second paragraph.
bit harsh there Chris, try being a little more supportive and encouraging, it will improve the world and increase your chances of getting into any afterlife you choose
Injection centres yes but not in underpriviledged areas or in fact not in any residential areas. City centre where it wont interfere with normal everyday people who havent fked up their lives and dont want to be surrounded by the walking dead set.
Put them out in industrial estates
You wont find industrial estates in D4 ;) At least in city centres the problem is shared by everyone. This wont happen though and “medical centres” in rundown areas will get the nod despite this poison effecting all walks of life. If one is planned near my family there will be a blockade. Noone should have to look out their window and see zombies off their head and dealers picking new kids off one by one.
I would still rather give any spare cash, which is hard to come by, to a small charity working for disabled or sick people. Those who need help through not sticking a needle filled with drugs in their own arm.
Well said.
But they are sick people carol! Addiction is classified as a mental illness, so your against support for all forms of mental health?
I smoke so do I have a mental illness? No, didn’t think so!
possibly James
Jonny, self inflicted. There are far too many out there in desperate need of services through no fault of their own. They should be priority. Someone who sticks a needle in their own arm doesn’t come in under ‘through no fault of their own’. They are willingly throwing away a life with potential. Even those coming from the worst background can pull themselves up. Broken homes and poor education are not an excuse. In this day and age even a 15 year old knows what heroin does to a person.
Carol what about someone who develops heart disease through poor diet? or asbestosis through exposure to asbestos? or liver disease through alcohol? or cancer through smoking?
Having a poor diet is not even vaguely the same a sticking needles in your arm. Who intentionally exposes themselves to asbestos knowing how dangerous it is? Heroin is not the same as alcohol or smoking. Alcohol carries risk but most people go through life without having their lives destroyed by indulging. Any idiot knows what happens if you start shooting up heroin. As for smokers, I believe insurance is loaded for those who smoke. And for those with no insurance, they pay tax on every packet anyway, essentially paying at least something toward the cost of treatment should the worst happen. You don’t see many people mugging some unfortunate on the street because they can’t afford their next hit of John Player Blue.
The point about safe injection centers is they stave off some of the other problems caused by intravenous drug use and that in turn saves the state money and saved the non-drug using public from being exposed to the dangers which doing it on the street cause.
The drugs don’t work
They do for Michaela
No sympathy for junkies, no high horse or anything, it’s their choice not like having cancer or a disability
What about those who get lung cancer from smoking? Smoking was their choice.
but it makes you look like a big man…
I pity the user And believe we should help them.
I am totally against the dealer and importer of this filth. Why oh why does our government and justice system allow these people to profit from the misery they cause to these people.
Any importing or profiting from the sale of smack should get locked up and the cell welded shut.
Yes it’s from the Huffington Post but I think this article is well worth reading:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html
Is he Brendan Dassey by any chance. sure stick I needle in your arm you’ll be grand, Say no more boss
Drugs are bad mmmmmmm k
Martin is a bullshitter , anyone who believes this b)llocks is a bigger simpleton than Martin.
He should be hung and leave it at that , amount of victims and carnage tossers like this leave behind , the only thing worse are the clowns stating all he needs is a hug and he is in someway a victim. Excusing this guy’s activities is no different than excusing rape.
I’ll Refer you to comments that Clint Eastwood said recently
Angry by name…
The problem is not the drink, drugs, its people, and how people accept each other,
Back in day all the guys would head to the pub after work and drive home, it was acceptably. Now people would look down at you.
In every day circles drugs is not acceptably, but sweets, caffeine is, when we all at work some will nibble sweets drink coffee together, drinking red-bull etc… these are all forms of addiction some can eat and drink in moderation others cant.
But in this circle some may take drugs when off work but cause the circle is usually from the same kind of back ground it rarely takes controlled and their back to work with no issues.
The problem is when someone comes from a troubled back ground or gets involved with people who just don’t care or with people who have a troubled background and in this circle its ok to become completely wasted, it in these circles it becomes a problem , when we really look pass this the problem is people,
This why drug problems will never end , some people are just wasters and will drag others down, and people who
have suffer will not all ways get the help they want and if the do that help some times this can abuse to. Which all ways lead to the strongest mind blockers been used.
Like in that movie boost.
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