Things that make you go What the F**k?

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Max Payne

Quote from: Tony Baloney on September 07, 2015, 01:25:39 PM
The purple (think Barney the dinosaur) Range Rover Sport driving around Armagh. Truly awful.

Ive seen it on my travels. The driver is an absolute gobsh*** as well. Overtaking on corners etc.

Bingo

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-missing-postman-26713401.html

Great read at lunchtime this and something I never heard of. Maybe some of the Waterford posters would have heard of it.

Seems amazing that the truth never came out and how the Garda investigated the matter. Great reflection of Irish rural life at the time involving a lot of the main pillars of society at the time.

deiseach

Quote from: Bingo on September 17, 2015, 02:25:13 PM
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-missing-postman-26713401.html

Great read at lunchtime this and something I never heard of. Maybe some of the Waterford posters would have heard of it.

Seems amazing that the truth never came out and how the Garda investigated the matter. Great reflection of Irish rural life at the time involving a lot of the main pillars of society at the time.

Oh yes. It really is verboten to discuss it in Stradbally (home of Brick Walsh) to this day. You couldn't make it up.

mick999

Quote from: deiseach on September 17, 2015, 02:28:28 PM
Quote from: Bingo on September 17, 2015, 02:25:13 PM
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-missing-postman-26713401.html

Great read at lunchtime this and something I never heard of. Maybe some of the Waterford posters would have heard of it.

Seems amazing that the truth never came out and how the Garda investigated the matter. Great reflection of Irish rural life at the time involving a lot of the main pillars of society at the time.


Oh yes. It really is verboten to discuss it in Stradbally (home of Brick Walsh) to this day. You couldn't make it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbbHEnEEZI

AZOffaly

Did ye ever read of the Murder at Marlhill, New Inn in Tipp? Strange story as well, except a man hanged for it, Harry Gleeson. He was pardoned last year, but it's a fascinating story.

Bingo

Quote from: deiseach on September 17, 2015, 02:28:28 PM
Quote from: Bingo on September 17, 2015, 02:25:13 PM
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-missing-postman-26713401.html

Great read at lunchtime this and something I never heard of. Maybe some of the Waterford posters would have heard of it.

Seems amazing that the truth never came out and how the Garda investigated the matter. Great reflection of Irish rural life at the time involving a lot of the main pillars of society at the time.

Oh yes. It really is verboten to discuss it in Stradbally (home of Brick Walsh) to this day. You couldn't make it up.

Was thinking you'd have knowledge of this.

According to local whispers is it as happened in the story with the teacher and your other man committing the act but it never been proven and no one will ever talk of it. All alleged of course.

deiseach

The bottom line is that we have no way of knowing. It seems improbable, but the people who knew what happened kept schtum and they are all dead now. At this remove it may seem like a curiosity, but the misery for the Griffin family was all too real.

NAG1

Quote from: deiseach on September 17, 2015, 02:58:45 PM
The bottom line is that we have no way of knowing. It seems improbable, but the people who knew what happened kept schtum and they are all dead now. At this remove it may seem like a curiosity, but the misery for the Griffin family was all too real.

What was this then D?

StephenC

Quote from: Bingo on September 17, 2015, 02:25:13 PM
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-missing-postman-26713401.html

Great read at lunchtime this and something I never heard of. Maybe some of the Waterford posters would have heard of it.

Seems amazing that the truth never came out and how the Garda investigated the matter. Great reflection of Irish rural life at the time involving a lot of the main pillars of society at the time.

"O'Mara saw this as grotesque and unnecessary, but his protestations only enraged O'Duffy further and caused him to threaten O'Mara with a transfer to Donegal."

;D ;D

deiseach

Quote from: NAG1 on September 17, 2015, 03:00:42 PM
Quote from: deiseach on September 17, 2015, 02:58:45 PM
The bottom line is that we have no way of knowing. It seems improbable, but the people who knew what happened kept schtum and they are all dead now. At this remove it may seem like a curiosity, but the misery for the Griffin family was all too real.

What was this then D?

They had no body to bury and there were people in their midst who knew where it was. I wouldn't visit such a fate on my worst enemy.

NAG1

Quote from: deiseach on September 17, 2015, 03:08:35 PM
Quote from: NAG1 on September 17, 2015, 03:00:42 PM
Quote from: deiseach on September 17, 2015, 02:58:45 PM
The bottom line is that we have no way of knowing. It seems improbable, but the people who knew what happened kept schtum and they are all dead now. At this remove it may seem like a curiosity, but the misery for the Griffin family was all too real.

What was this then D?

They had no body to bury and there were people in their midst who knew where it was. I wouldn't visit such a fate on my worst enemy.

Apologies I thought you meant the owners of the bar and not the family of the man there, misread - couldnt agree more!

gallsman

Taffin. Anyone who's seen it will understand.