Whatever you do don't wear them when you go to a shoe shop, take off the shoes you're wearing and then the shop-assistent sees them! The embarrassment!
Not always, two guys (Shaw and Evans) have been in jail here since 1976, Irelands first serial killers, So they can keep people in longer if they want to.
Most states in the U.S. are much safer than they used to be since they started to crack down on crime. I agree it's not the death penalty that has done this but just long sentences for violent crime. Sentences in this country are a joke. In some states in the U.S. they have '3 strikes and your out' policies, if you commit 3 serious crimes you are locked up for life. The people in this country have 20,30 or more previous convictions and then they get a few months for their next crime, crazy, in America they would be in jail.
Yeah, I heard that as well but like anywhere just excercise common sense and you should be fine. I'd say Dublin is more dangerous than anywhere in Ireland
A few year's ago in Galway city I was walking past the Homeless shelter when I saw a drunk guy lying on the ground, I helped him to his feet but he was enourmously fat and heavy and he started to sway. I struggled to keep him upright, a woman walked by and looked at us - I was wearing rough gardening clothes - two 'drunks' holding each other up! the look she gave us was priceless.
Hey JH, my folks treated me the same way, very irritating! the thing is though that they are flawed in the sense that we all are as humans
If you don't fulfil your obligations to them while they're alive you will bitterly regret that, believe me that's not something you want to have to deal with. No matter how bad or good they were those obligations exist.
Sunday dinner doesn't sound too bad, it could well mean a lot to them even if they don't show it. I'd say keep going there but it's ok to tell them the odd time that you can't make it, that way they wont' take you for granted and you'll have the odd Sunday off!
The hunger strikers went through hell of their own choosing, their victims had no such choice. I've no problem with people dying for their beliefs but I have with killing for their beliefs. The hunger strikers were terrorists, they used terror to get what they couldn't get democratically.
No gov is going to be totally clean in dealing with a terrorist threat, the Brits behaved - overall - very well in my opinion. The Dub/Monaghan bombing is very murky. Was there collusion? yes, no doubt, it's a surprise there wasn't more.
As for internment, it was badly done and counter-productive but no gov would have stood idly by. The US or France, or Spain would have been much more forceful in my opinion.
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The embarrassment!
RE: People you consider attractive who typically wouldn't be.
Susan Jackson, (newsreader on RTE,) damn fine woman.