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    Mute Joe Phillips
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    Aug 10th 2019, 7:29 PM

    Sorry but how is this news here??

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    Mute Fr. Fintan Stack
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    Aug 10th 2019, 7:37 PM

    @Joe Phillips: Because it happened in the British Isles!

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    Aug 10th 2019, 7:49 PM

    @Joe Phillips: Maybe its because he was nearly killed

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    Aug 10th 2019, 7:51 PM

    @Joe Phillips: yeah, i only wanna know what’s happening in my village.

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    Aug 10th 2019, 7:52 PM

    @Joe Phillips: Because it’s not your site and the people who own it, and most of those who visit it, have broader interests than little parochials like yourself?

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    Aug 10th 2019, 8:00 PM

    @Joe Phillips: almost 2000 views at this stage, so people seem to be interested.

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    Aug 10th 2019, 8:13 PM

    @Joe Phillips: cos there’s a world outside the field…..ain’t that right Worzel

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    Aug 10th 2019, 8:52 PM

    @Joe Phillips: because as much as you all rant and rave about us, deep down you care :)

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    Aug 10th 2019, 9:09 PM

    @Joe Phillips: 911 didnt happen here either….

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    Aug 10th 2019, 9:20 PM

    @Joe Phillips: you’re the first – and in the first comment – to raise that predictable question. You win a prize.

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    Aug 10th 2019, 11:33 PM

    @Joe Phillips: you must be a little islander, nothing outside the country touches you…

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    Aug 10th 2019, 11:34 PM

    @paul: no, only in my own street in my village….

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    Aug 11th 2019, 2:52 AM

    Just to be clear… this kind of assault against law enforcement would be news anywhere in the world… hopefully the UK justice system sorts this out, if it was here the dude would get a suspended sentence and a free feckin house!

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    Aug 10th 2019, 8:34 PM

    Should change name here from journal.ie to journal.uk

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    Aug 10th 2019, 9:22 PM

    @Johnny Conway: no

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    Aug 10th 2019, 11:36 PM

    Tasered lucky he wasn’t living in the states he be shot on the spot.

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    Aug 10th 2019, 8:21 PM

    Sounds like the peaky blinders

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    Aug 10th 2019, 7:52 PM

    Up the Brummies

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    Aug 10th 2019, 9:26 PM

    Nothing got to do with us. It happens.

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    Aug 10th 2019, 9:23 PM

    Britain?

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