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But "pouring hot sauce in their own eye" sounds like the start of a highly plausible anecdote about any number of my old flatmates and friends.

My op-ed in today's "Irish Examiner" The report on the Russian alumina plant in Aughinish allows Irish ministers to claim they examined the issue while sidestepping the harder question of how governments should respond when the evidence is incomplete but the potential consequences are profound.

You trimmed off the top of my post. I think right now it’s abundantly clear that what people need is a grounding in a broad education in the humanities. Setting kids up to go on apprenticeships (particularly before you’ve established if there’s space in the jobs market) is IMO a bad idea

Didn't say that construction, machinists, etc aren't good jobs & a smart career choice; more of a comment that we shouldn't be sending 14/15 year olds en masse to be apprentices instead of staying in school. A well-rounded education is valuable to management (and workers) in many different ways.

Think of the entertainment value…

Fundamentally vocational education is grounded in a “job for life” mentality, leave school early get the skills to be a machinist, mechanic or plumber, & that’s now your job until you die. The economy doesn’t work like that any more. Most people will retrain and reskill at least once in their life.

It’s becoming abundantly clear that a broad education rooted in the humanities provides people with the skillsets desperately needed to navigate our fragmented & polarised information environment. The last thing the UK should be doing is sending kids on vocational pathways at aged 14/15.

Which means he’s now technically worth $1,750,000, however, unfortunately his mum threw out the USB key with the wallet code when doing his laundry (the poor child is only 35)

I’d say the producers took one look at his audition tape, and fell to their knees crying, while thanking god for delivering onto them his most perfect idiot.

People in the comments think a producer put him up to it and MySweetSummerChild.gif you are crediting the producers of a reality tv show with too much imagination and wildly underestimating how stupid Irish men are.

Honestly? Every Irish person knows at least one of these guys. They're all called Cormac or Ross or Ivor, and they're the self-proclaimed "mad yoke" of the group, or as we like to call him, "that fucking dose". It will later transpire that their dad is a High Court judge & they become a barrister

god, remember when we were normal about films? Remember when you didn't have to have an opinion about every single thing? I went to the local cinema almost every week in the late 90s, had virtually zero opinions. Knew nothing going in, nothing coming out. A peaceful age.

Across 26 countries analysed, avg of 30.1% of land burned by wildfires overlapped with Natura 2000 sites. In Ireland, equivalent figure was substantially higher, at almost 54% ... majority of fires occurring on protected sites from human activity, including illegal burning & recreational activities

#Speirgorm, be honest, the line "I'm feeling randy now, what about you?", is about as seductive and smooth as most Irish men get. We are a Rizzless people.

Used to work with a guy whose "thing" was to make silly bets for money (which he would always lose). This culminated in a chili eating competition at a work-do in a Thai restaurant where he ended up running away being violently sick (I should add his wife was at the meal).

"I'm feeling randy, how about you?" is immediately a S-tier piece of Irish pillow talk, right up there next with, "I suppose a ride is out of the question?"

Can’t believe I’m out here catching strays for something a Ross has done. Foul play, lad. Foul play.

He's nature's purest idiot. Let him run free!

You mean it's a devastingly accurate critique of Irish men, or are we talking about the fact that he covered his entire forehead in Tabasco?

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