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

[Denn Forever]

The Magdelene Laundies.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/key-magdalene-laundry-files-went-missing-says-mcaleese-3377112.html

[muppet]

The Magdelene Laundies.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/key-magdalene-laundry-files-went-missing-says-mcaleese-3377112.html

It really is incredible to think that there was still one operational on Sean McDermott Street as late as 1996.

[seafoid]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/beyond-the-battlefield-afghanistan-genital-injuries_n_1335356.html

[tbrick18]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/girl-nine-gives-birth-in-mexico-29054072.html

[Puckoon]

Anyone for a Horse burger?

Food safety chiefs probe horse meat in supermarket burgers


HEALTH authorities have launched an investigation after traces of horse meat were found in own-brand burgers sold by some of the country's biggest supermarkets. In a major blow to the reputation of the food industry, the meat is understood to have originated at two meat processing plants in Ireland.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has launched a major probe after horse DNA was found in beef samples. The two plants under investigation in Ireland are Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods. A third company based in the UK, Dalepak Hambleton, is also to be examined.

The meat had been sold to some of the country's leading supermarkets including Tesco, Dunnes , Aldi, Lidl and Iceland.

The FSAI confirmed that the investigation centres on how horsemeat entered the food chain.

But it stressed there was no risk to human health.

"It's not a food safety issue," a spokeswoman said. "There's no risk to human health but it is concerning. We're not a nation that eats horsemeat unlike the Netherlands and France."

Professor Alan Reilly, chief executive of FSAI, said: "Consumers who have purchased any of the implicated products can return them to their retailer.

"Whilst there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same meat plants, there is no clear explanation at this time for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horsemeat in their production process.

"In Ireland, it is not in our culture to eat horsemeat and therefore, we do not expect to find it in a burger. Likewise, for some religious groups or people who abstain from eating pig meat, the presence of traces of pig DNA is unacceptable.

"We are working with the meat processing plants the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Marine to find out how horse DNA could have found its way into these products."

The FSAI analysed 27 beef burger products with best before dates from last June to March 2014 with 10 of the 27 products - 37% - testing positive for horse DNA and 85% testing positive for pig DNA.

Some 31 beef meal products such as cottage pie, beef curry pie and lasagne were tested with 21 found to be positive for pig DNA. All tested negative for horse meat.

Another 19 salami products were tested but showed no signs of horse DNA.

The FSAI analysis also found traces of horse DNA in batches of raw ingredients, including some imported from the Netherlands and Spain.

The DNA tests found horse in the following products: Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers 29.1%; Tesco Beef Quarter Pounders 0.1%; Oakhurst Beef Burgers in Aldi 0.3%; Moordale Quarter Pounders in Lidl 0.1%; Flamehouse Chargrilled Quarter Pounders in Dunnes Stores 0.1%; two varieties of Iceland Quarter Pounders 0.1%.

Even lower levels were recorded in Moordale Beef Burgers in Lidl and St Bernard Beef Burgers in Dunnes Stores.

The FSAI said its officials were working with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the processing plants and retailers involved.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/food-safety-chiefs-probe-horse-meat-in-supermarket-burgers-3354449.html

Findus Lasagne 100% horsemeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21375594

[DrinkingHarp]

Accused witch burned alive........is this 2013 or 1513?


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Accused witch burned alive in Papua New Guinea
Associated Press – 25 mins ago.. .


PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Assailants stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday after one of the highest profile sorcery-related murders in this South Pacific island nation.

Some of the hundreds of bystanders took photographs of Wednesday's brutal slaying. Grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country's biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier. The prime minister, police and diplomats condemned the killing

Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old who had a child, had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before, police spokesman Dominic Kakas said.

She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, Kakas said.

Deputy Police Commissioner Simon Kauba on Friday blasted Mount Hagen investigators by phone for failing to make a single arrest, Kakas said.

The public were apparently not cooperating with police and police carrying out the investigation were not working hard enough, Kakas said.

"He was very, very disappointed that there's been no arrest made as yet," Kakas said.

"The incident happened in broad daylight in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses and yet we haven't picked up any suspects yet. He was very, very curious about that and he blasted the investigators on the phone," Kakas added.

Kakas described the victim's husband as the "prime suspect." The husband had fled the province, Kakas said. Kakas said he did not know if there were a relationship between the husband and the dead boy's family.

Sorcery has traditionally been countered by sorcery in Papuan New Guinean culture. But responses to sorcery allegations have become increasingly violent in recent years.

Kakas said the death was the first sorcery-related murder in Papua New Guinea in a year.

Police Commissioner Tom Kulunga described the murder as "shocking and devilish."

"We are in the 21st century and this is totally unacceptable," Commissioner Kulunga said in a statement.

He suggested courts be established to deal with sorcery allegations, as an alternative to villagers dispensing justice.

Prime Minister Pete O'Neill said he had instructed police to use all available manpower to bring the killers to justice.

"It is reprehensible that women, the old and the weak in our society should be targeted for alleged sorcery or wrongs that they actually have nothing to do with," O'Neill said.

The U.S. Embassy in the national capital Port Moresby issued a statement calling for a sustained international partnership to enhance anti-gender-based violence laws throughout the Pacific.

The embassy of Australia, Papua New Guinea's colonial ruler until independence in 1975 and now its biggest foreign aid donor, said "We join ... all reasonable Papua New Guineans in looking forward to the perpetrators being brought to justice."
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[sheamy]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/students-create-a-stir-to-set-first-irish-spooning-record-222064.html

You could have cut the tension with a knife at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) as organisers of the "spoonathon" set out to break the world record for the most people spooning simultaneously.

[Asal Mor]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/beyond-the-battlefield-afghanistan-genital-injuries_n_1335356.html

Wow that's rough. Brave fella and a great girl to stick with him through it all. Hope they get all the help they deserve.

[seafoid]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/beyond-the-battlefield-afghanistan-genital-injuries_n_1335356.html

Wow that's rough. Brave fella and a great girl to stick with him through it all. Hope they get all the help they deserve.

The US Army doesn't cover fertility treatment and his wife is going to need IVF.
I watched the video on the link yesterday - it is very sad .

1600 American soldiers have been left with genital injuries since the war on terror started.
Awful stuff.

[Asal Mor]

Yeah I was reading that and it's terrible. It would be such a relatively tiny expense for the US government to cover the costs of alternative family planning for all the victims. Psychologically it must be the worst injury for any man to have to deal with.

There was an ad during the Superbowl about wounded soldiers "Remember our wounded heroes without whom there wouldn't be any Superbowl". Apart from the fact that it seems like a wild exaggeration I was wondering if the Government paid for it ($4 million per 30 seconds is the rate) and wouldn't they be better off spending their money on welfare for the wounded instead. Either way paying for these treatments is the least they could do.

[stew]

Yeah I was reading that and it's terrible. It would be such a relatively tiny expense for the US government to cover the costs of alternative family planning for all the victims. Psychologically it must be the worst injury for any man to have to deal with.

There was an ad during the Superbowl about wounded soldiers "Remember our wounded heroes without whom there wouldn't be any Superbowl". Apart from the fact that it seems like a wild exaggeration I was wondering if the Government paid for it ($4 million per 30 seconds is the rate) and wouldn't they be better off spending their money on welfare for the wounded instead. Either way paying for these treatments is the least they could do.

The government don't pay the same as other entities, they pay  the lowest rate offered for the event throughout the year for the superbowl.

The same in politics, the system in the states is mad altogether, TV stations jack the rates up when they know there are going to be elections and what happens is that the local business that is with the station all year gets preempted and priced out of it, the politicians then come in at the lowest offered rate and they hijack the airwaves, in fact all aspects of the media.

The media have, by law to take political money first, it would sicken you the amount of campaign ads that run for month after month, it is a disgrace what they spend.

[Asal Mor]

Strange and unfair system alright stew. I was very impressed at the inventivess and entertainment-value of the ads during the Superbowl. They were in a different league to what you see on Irish or English stations.

[muppet]

Strange and unfair system alright stew. I was very impressed at the inventivess and entertainment-value of the ads during the Superbowl. They were in a different league to what you see on Irish or English stations.

Surely we are the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6z8pfTYXg8

[theticklemister]

Strange and unfair system alright stew. I was very impressed at the inventivess and entertainment-value of the ads during the Superbowl. They were in a different league to what you see on Irish or English stations.

Surely we are the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6z8pfTYXg8

That Dennis Hickey man can play anywhere. Rumour has it he got paid 40 euro and the diesel money to and from recording studio

[Denn Forever]

Pope Benidict to resign?  Did not know that could happen.