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

[Milltown Row2]

https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2025/0612/1518088-revenue-weight-loss/

Obesity must be bad in the south















Runs away

[Baile Brigín 2]

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/monaghan/news/buck-mad-monaghan-mechanic-rammed-garda-car-inside-gaa-grounds-after-high-speed-chase/a491355105.html

What exactly do you need to do to be jailed? Even had the audacity to ask for his licence back.

[LC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg1v8ngevo

What an absolute mess.

[Tony Baloney]

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg1v8ngevo

What an absolute mess.

Do we simply not have contractors capable of building complex facilities on time and in budget?

[marty34]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg1v8ngevo

What an absolute mess.

Do we simply not have contractors capable of building complex facilities on time and in budget?

At this rate Casement won't be build until 2040. 

[PadraicHenryPearse]

irish winner of euro millions, 250m

[LC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg1v8ngevo

What an absolute mess.

Do we simply not have contractors capable of building complex facilities on time and in budget?

At this rate Casement won't be build until 2040. 

The problem is usually incompetent Clients and their incompetent Design Teams who when it comes to contentious issues on construction projects usually end up getting their eye wiped or are left holding the baby.  Casement 2040 is a fair, if not generous, prediction.

[Capt Pat]

irish winner of euro millions, 250m

I won 4 euro.

[Tony Baloney]

irish winner of euro millions, 250m

Silly amount of money for 1 person. Although if it's my ticket I won't complain!

[Armagh18]

irish winner of euro millions, 250m

Maybe they'll give half up to Casement

[trileacman]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg1v8ngevo

What an absolute mess.

Do we simply not have contractors capable of building complex facilities on time and in budget?

No harm but that's not the contractors fault, they're just doing what some knob in an office decided looked nice on paper but is actually horseshit in reality.

For efficiency, speed and savings the hospital should have been built on a green field site where they could have demolished any old shite in the way and ripped it out. Instead they'd to build in between old c***ts of buildings, tie in to several existing buildings and tap into a sewage and water network that was built when Queen Victoria was alive. Of course you're going to get Pseudomonas in the water system when tapping into a Victorian network.

Obviously hospitals aren't like normal buildings where you can close the old one, knock it and build the replacement as normal. So many brainless assholes are involved in building hospitals, much more so than any other type of infrastructure project. The Childrens Hospital in Dublin was the same story. Any foreman in Ireland could have told you it was a pure cnut of a site that would run into overspends. Then Varadker, who wouldn't know which end of a shovel to hold, had the balls to blame the contractors for it.

[Baile Brigín 2]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg1v8ngevo

What an absolute mess.

Do we simply not have contractors capable of building complex facilities on time and in budget?

The problem with the NCH in Dublin is half greasy contractors, half bureaucrats changing specs mid stream.

[Puckoon]

My American wife just told me that young Seamus Heaney was a heartthrob. I'll be in my room.

[Never beat the deeler]

My American wife just told me that young Seamus Heaney was a heartthrob. I'll be in my room.

well it presumably isn't news to you that she has peculiar taste in men?!

[LC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg1v8ngevo

What an absolute mess.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce830rpgrpyo

Another one to add to the list over £1m+ spent and not a shovel in the ground.

Would love to know what the equivalent expenditure on Casement is at this point.