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TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to a teenager who died after allegedly taking a substance at a music festival in Cork.
19-year-old Jack Downey fell ill at the Indiependence festival on Friday and was taken to Cork University Hospital.
The festival promoters over the weekend issued a “welfare warning” advising attendees not to take any substance they were not sure about.
The teenager, who is from Tipperary, had been placed on life support on Sunday and died yesterday afternoon.
Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast this morning, local priest Fr Michael Twomey said “this is every parent’s worst nightmare”.
He said Jack’s parents have been telling his friends to “look after one another” and not to let any of their parents go through a similar tragedy.
Fr Twomey said the teen’s death was a “sad and realistic wake-up call” that there is a “massive problem” with drugs in Ireland.
He said he will be meeting today with some of Jack’s friends to offer them support.
“For many of them this is the first time they’ve had to deal with a death.”
Jack Downey was a member of the Clonmel Og hurling and football club, which is offering counselling to young people in the area who knew him.
“Our worst fears were realised this afternoon with the news that Jack Downey passed away in the company of his parents,” the club said yesterday ahead of a mass for the teen.
We are devastated and will have more to say in time.
In tributes on the club’s Facebook page, Jack was described as “an absolute gentleman”, a “lovely young boy”, and “a beautiful soul”.
“At a time like this we need to be strong and there for each other,” the club said.
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Why would we give two hoots?
@Wishywashy: The government is attempting to undermine the cause of the protests by linking them to outside agitators. It’s not true of course.
The Serb government eased the lockdown before the June 21st election in order to get a big turn out and win votes, after the votes were counted they re-imposed the knockdown after announcing a spike in COVID-19 cases. The protestors upset at this, are a mix of people upset at the bent election and conspiracy minded who think COVID dies not exist or was exaggerated as a political tool to stifle descent.
The reason why we should care is that there is now a rapidly worsening outbreak of COVID in Serbia, the government capitulated to the protestors demands, ended the lockdown a 2nd time, so Serbia is now faced with a worsening mishandled outbreak they cannot control. That outbreak could force border closures and cause problems/outbreaks elsewhere in Europe.
Mr Bald of the Bald and Bankrupt YouTube channel caught Coronavirus in Serbia and was in hospital for a month and the ICU for a week.
Here’s his video: https://youtu.be/clscC120ZQM
He didn’t realise how ill he was and was taken to hospital in taxi by a concerned friend. They found his oxygen levels were in “the low 70s”. He recons the low oxygen levels affected his judgment and that’s why he didn’t realise he was dying.
Also, Serbia was caught covering up the severity of the outbreak.
There was an election on June 21, some protestors were upset about the bent election, think the corrupt government eased the lockdown in order to win votes. There’s now a second wave of infections, that’s why the lockdown was re-imposed, or maybe the first never ended, or maybe it’s to stifle protests. One of the leaders of the protest was a 5G conspiracy theorist, but there’s various reasons why people were protesting.
@David Jordan: he is brilliant to watch !! Especially his south American travels
@Maalouf: you might want to do a bit of background research on him, you will think twice about watching his videos.
@David Jordan: oh a communist sympathizer who worked for MI5 probably still does by the look of his videos. Reserch who you watch
@Tiktok: Sources please. Have been following him for a good while and this is the first I’ve heard of that
@Alex Nevin: Used enjoys his videos until I found out he’s a d!rty little git
@Hup Abù: eh hem..I quite enjoyed his videos until I learned he’s a d!try little git
@Alex Nevin: he used to post under a pseudonym in a sex tourist forum and people have corroborated events he mentions in the pseudonym account with facts known about his life (where he has been, an unfounded rape accusation, ex wife from Belarus, tips for learning Russian). He posted despicable stories and totally denigrated all of the people he pretends to be friends with. https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/cz1sz4/the_x_files_of_bald_bankrupt_a_brief_summary_and/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body
@David Jordan: and that is hilarious because he was a denier until he got it
Sure or government used the pandemic to form a government nobody voted for!
@Aaron Jones: you got precisely what you voted for. No overall control….
@ℝ: yeah I never voted for mehole or Leotard!
@Aaron Jones: 76% didn’t vote for Mary Who either but sure that’s democracy for ye.
@GrumpyAulFella: I never voted for Mary Lou!
@GrumpyAulFella: Why can’t people understand how our voting system works!? What you mean to say is 76% didn’t give SF their no1 vote.
Probably the ringleader and a spy.
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They should protest at the Chinese embassy
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