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TWO AUSTRALIAN BREWERIES have apologised and withdrawn a beer named which depicted a scene from the Irish Famine on its label.
Famine and The Crown caramel chocolate ale was brewed specially for St Patrick’s Day by Willie The Boatman and Shark Island breweries.
However, the name and the label caused anger among Irish people at home and abroad, forcing the companies to withdraw the beer and apologise for the offense.
Criticism had called the beer “disgusting and offensive” and “an absolute disgrace”.
A statement signed from the company’s team and owner Dion Dickinson said:
“Firstly, we would like to humbly apologise for the obvious offense it has caused. This truly was not our intention.
When we decided to collaborate with Willie The Boatman on a Saint Patrick’s release we were conscious of not delivering a cliché Irish themed beer but wished to express something a little more genuine.
“The inspiration for the beer came from the classic Irish song- the Fields Of Athenry, a song that gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
The second verse in particular resonates strongly the strength of the Irish people under extreme adversity, and as an Australian the mention of Botany Bay has always drawn me to the song. It was never our intention to trivialise this terrible piece of history for the sale of a few kegs, but to acknowledge the resilience of the people.
“The artwork depicts the scene from the song.
“There was no disrespect intended and as soon as we awoke to the legitimately angry, hurt comments we removed the offending title and artwork.
“Once again we apologise for the obvious offense and insult we have caused and we hope you can forgive the error and understand it was not made with malice.”
The statement was welcomed by the Committee for Commemoration of Irish Famine Victims, who told Irish Central that “anything that educates people on the Great Hunger is to be welcomed, but no-one should attempt to make commercial gain from the suffering of the victims”.
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Absolutely bonkers
@Lovely Lizzy: in order to keep guns out of the classroom we must put a gun in the classroom. This is the ultimate in stupidity
@Lovely Lizzy: totally. Idiots running the asylum.
@Lovely Lizzy: Child will now say well if the teachers carry guns so will we……
@Peter Hughes:
It’s illegal for children to carry guns so how it that gonna work?
@Candace: yet they seem to do it far too often with tragic results. There should be charges brought against the gun owner in those cases.
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Agreed. Charges should be brought against irresponsible gun owners.
@Candace: tell that to all the kids who have shot people.
I don’t use the word “stupid” very often but the gun laws in America are extremely stupid. Totally nonsensical.
@Candace: Only a hundred millions guns out there in the US i am sure they could get one easy enough in fairness
Sometimes reality really is stranger than fiction!
Make sure your homework is done in Florida !!
@James Delaney: 100% of homework will be completed from now on.
@Seamus Mac: … or else …!
Lisa: But isn’t that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we’re overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They’ll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren’t the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we’re stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
@This Guy: So… that’s a plan. Cool.
@This Guy: hahaha that’s basically it in a nutshell
Omg, next thing we’ll have a depressed teacher lose their mind and shoot up a classroom full of students.
@Anthony:
Arm the kids, simple
@Anthony: it will happen ….
This is gonna go well
This is going to end badly
The wealthy gun lobbyists win. America is broken
This is genuinely terrifying.
Let students carry them as well why dont ye
@John Kelly: they do
May work as a deterrent but someone going rogue would likely target the teacher first
@Paul: and if they time it right they could collect more weapons and amo as they go
@Paul: and what if the teacher goes rogue….??
@windbag: a teacher might go rogue, but that’s the price that has to be paid to make schools safer….
God they’re idiots.
@windbag:
Thoughts and prayers will get them
@Karen Wellington: Jesus it’s not a computer game. Ammo doesn’t fit each gun.
@Stephen Coughlan: excellent contribution.
I’m moving to America next year and will be much more likely to choose Florida now. Finally some lawmakers willing to be brave and make some courageous decisions. Nothing and I mean NOTHING is more important than knowing my children will be protected.
@thephantomshit: fishing trip???
@thephantomshit: …except your desire to live in the US.
@thephantomshit: that’s what a good parent does……brings their children to a place where they’re more likely to be shot dead.
…..you’ll fit right in in America
@Paul Lanigan: he’s trolling
@Charles McDuck: it’s very easy to just dismiss people who have different opinions.
@Colm.Hennebry:
No – trolling trip!
@thephantomshit: the only place you are going is down the hall for more electro shock therapy. You’re gas craic though.
@thephantomshit: and so you choose FLORIDA? Are you on meds?
@thephantomshit: thought they werd trying to stop allowing more crazy people into America according to trump……guess those controls aren’t as good since you are moving there
@Martin Meyler: are you serious? Florida is a fantastic place. Super weather and very friendly people. 1 hour drive from universal studios. Not to mention the keys.
Or just because the state is “right wing” it’s horrible?
@Martin Meyler:
Democrat & left wing California has had more of these public mass shootings than any other state, with 25.
@thephantomshit: https://images.app.goo.gl/EXQvxJvXxcN8jE4X8
@thephantomshit: https://images.app.goo.gl/KFqAVYqujrEsCHFX6
@thephantomshit: https://images.app.goo.gl/77it3L29LpFG2viZA
@Candace: and Florida, whose population is just over half that of California, comes in a close second. Let’s see how the statistics change when this bonkers legislation is implemented.
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Someone hack your account? You’re posting some weird s&it memes lol
@Dave O’Keeffe: I’ve changed my mind! Based on your research where should I move to? The
@thephantomshit: somewhere that doesn’t have a very deserved reputation for weid sh!t happening all the time
If I had to live in America there’s almost no way I would be sending my kids to school. How could any parent knowingly send their children into what is essentially a locked building they know has guns in it?? America is so fcked. They even sell special bulletproof blankets that children can turtle under in case there’s a shooter.
Like how can any of that make sense to the people over there. They want guns so they can raise up against the government if needs be, but said government doesn’t care that so many of its populace are killing their own, and yet nobody is rising up against that. Ffs.
@Veronica: Guns are for three things; family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the king of England out of your face!
@Veronica: actually the founding fathers wanted them to have guns cos they had the foresight to know the first thing a tyrannical government does before taking over is take away the guns. Just cos we live in the best time to be alive doesn’t mean it always will be and with the resurgence of socialism, disarming America is a terrible idea.
@Stephen Coughlan: and yet so many countries with way less guns don’t have tyrannical governments. Its ok, white nationalists can always defend themselves with their cars. Tell us what you’d do to solve the problem. I think minimum training requirements and thorough background checks should be mandatory for all gun purchases.
And if the teacher decides to go on shooting spree?
Be needed here soon
@mr magoo: Don’t be silly
@mr magoo: for edgits on boards probably.
@JustOneScoop: all boards have edges…some have eejits.
Since the majority of these mass shootings are in gun free zones this is a good move.
The children need protection from criminals who do not care for gun laws.
@Candace: lets just hope that the teachers have a better aim with the guns than they did with the dusters..#savinglives #prolife
@Candace: how did you work that out when the majority occur in homes?
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Mass shootings in a public place i.e Schools, Colleges, places of worship. Get the Coffee into you Dave
@Candace: if only you had said that initially, it’s easy to make statistics say what you want when you exclude over half of the incidents. What you meant was when you exclude over 60% of mass shootings most mass shooting happen in gun free zones. What’s your definition of a gun free zone?
@Dave O’Keeffe:
My definition would be Schools(Public & Private), Colleges, Places of worship, Shopping Centers/ Malls, Festivals and so on, but my definition doesn’t matter.
See the US, Gun Free Zone Act.
@Candace: so is your unsourced statistic based on your definition or on the actual definition? The actual definition being ‘within 1,000ft of a school unless legally entitled to carry’
@Candace: by the way, you’ve mentioned private properties in your definition.
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Yeah, But no private homes, try harder lad.
@Candace: well you said public places not public and private places except homes. Still no source for your gerrymandered statistic? I’m starting to think you’d consider the white house a gun free zone. But the fact remains that most places you mentioned are not gun free zones by federal law.
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Dave, Dive right in and look up the various US Gun Free Zone Acts over the years, plenty of reading to keep your pompus little self entertained.
@Candace: it’s common knowledge the majority of these mass shootings happen in gun free zones. And mass shootings are a small percentage of shootings in America, school shootings being even smaller. Having teachers armed is a terrible idea but we will see, hopefully it will act as a deterrent. The real common denominator in these shootings is psych meds, maybe not putting every child who is a little different on medication is the way to go.
aw, hims doesn’t want to show his NRA backed study that deliberately excludes the majority of mass shootings because they don’t suit the narrative they want to push. Poor wittle guy, hims throwing a stwop!
@Stephen Coughlan: actually you have overlooked one major contributing factor. Irresponsible gun ownership. The meds don’t put a gun in their hand, irresponsible gun owners do. Yes the meds issue also needs to be addressed. I hear Jared is on it.
“How can I protect you in this……….CRAZY WORLD!”
You know your gun laws have gone too far, when you decide to arm teachers in classrooms!
Was talking to my cousin the other day. Asked her how school had been that day she said it was just a normal day. Her mother afterwards told me there was an active shooter lock down in the school that day. It’s becoming part of the routine.
@Dave O’Keeffe: sure
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Then you woke up and had your porridge and soy mackie lattie.
Lock and load
all it would take is a couple of delinquint middle schoolers to over power a 5ft 5 small woman, take her gun and shoot up the classroom.
You’re asking teachers to assess an active school shooting in mere seconds, to go from teaching math to combat in seconds is ridiculous, law enforcement and military are trained extensively to deal with these situations, teachers civilians not so much.
@Charles McGuire: in fairness not all teachers will be armed. It will be voluntary & each volunteer will receive training.
@Seamus Mac: Then they are the people a teen shooter would kill first.
@Do the Bort man: true, i don’t think this is a good idea by the way.
@Seamus Mac: lol, it’ll just be the cracked ones walking around with open carry. (Any teacher whose nickname is Ron Burgundy should definitely not be allowed to carry.)
So now, if you want to be a teacher in Florida, you now must be willing to carry a gun and be willing to shoot someone. (Who knows if you should have shot them, your murder trial will decide that) On top of teaching. All for about 30k a year.
Not mandatory Peter, as far as I can see. Permitted on a voluntary basis once you have completed the training. Hard to know what way this will go!
@Willie Murphy: we will see cos this ban all the guns is a joke, will never happen and is impossible anyway. At least something is being tried instead of the screaming do nothing in the left who think guns are the problem. A terror plot was foiled in California recently, he wanted to use a bomb. Where was the screaming to ban all bomb making ingredients.
They will be giving guns to all the kids next when a teacher inevitably kills a child in the classroom.
@Aisling: that’s what’ll happen. Either during an actual active shooter situation they will panic and shoot an innocent child or some other scenario where it’s a false alarm.
@Aisling: no they won’t be.
Yeeehawwwww
Beginning not to like this country
The next school shooting will be by teacher who hasn’t had the proper checks before being allowed teach or else just snaps…well done America
What a f upped country, like giving more booze to an alcoholic or more drugs to a addict.
When I read this I immediately thought it’d be only fair for students to carry guns too. What if a teacher decides to go nutty and start shooting kids? They I thought no, that’s just silly. But it’s going to be a future headline surely?
@Madra: designated students will have to carry them in case the teacher goes rogue.
All I can say is WOW , there I was thinking it was some crazy Trump rationale appealing to the gun nuts.
I do feel sorry for them , and people who carry guns are far more likely to die from that gun than someone else.
@keyboardwarrior: nothing to do with Trump. It’s the states decision.
Guaranteed you will read about some student with”problems” overpowering a teacher and taking a gun and killing someone.but it’s the problem kid and not the guns in schools to blame.
In an ” active shooter situation ” just imagine American police seeing a black teacher holding a gun inside the school.
Tell me why I don’t like Monday’s
Sofa king more on ic.
Ohh Jezz…
In most cases the troubles in schools has been cause by security not doing there job correctly.
Maybe we would have the same issues here if we had the same laws.
But it should be asked why aren’t our students using knifes , petrol, or other easily gotten items to cause harm.
What makes these students flip would be the best place to put their engery.
@Life is short enjoy it: psych meds.
Jesus wept, for one of the great nations of the World, their utter stupidity when it comes to guns is mind boggling.
@Aging Lothario: one state decides to try something to deter mass shootings and that makes the whole country stupid. I think the people screaming to ban all the guns are stupid and do nothing to advance the conversation.
Solve scool massacres by giving people more guns.???????
Love it Trump. MUPPET.
@Eddie Mc Keown: again. This is Florida states decision. Nothing to do with Trump
In my day it was the leather the teachers had. I’m glad I’m not in school today!
Ffs. Has common sense completely deserted America? Barking mad.
Tá sé feichte agam anois…
We put armed guards everywhere; banks, airports, borders etc.
But not to protect our children; that is the real madness…
@Evert Bopp: yup. Exactly right. Should try more armed guards but you’ll have people calling America stupid for that too. Ban all the guns, that’s what they want.
You know what this needs…….
More Cowbell……….
Rather than jumping on your hobby horse actually listen to one of the parents on this issue: https://youtu.be/isbHzIqu620
I bet they’ll shut up talking in class from now on though
@Marcus Eugene: Talking in class? Is that all you think they do these days?!
yep that’s school shootings sorted not !
What a crazy country
mother of god
What a sad country.
Go Florida
Arm the kids to!!!
Four official gun deaths and 1 injury in that state yesterday alone. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/query/b0205015-eb5f-4567-9a41-0b4acf6d7f80
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