Haiti

Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

Yeah the devastation is unreal and it will probably knock their economy back years.

Former All-Ireland Offaly hurler Darren Hanniffy will lead Goal's operation in Haiti and has already travelled to the country. Darren is a civil engineer. Goal have set aside €250,000 for the relief project.

Utmost respect to Darren and all others who participate in this type of effort. When you think of the selflessness of these actions in comparison to sportstars in neighbouring countries, well ......

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

just heard a clergyman on the radio claim that the people of Haiti deserve all they got because they worship the devil !!!!!!

I do despair at times

bocerty wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

just heard a clergyman on the radio claim that the people of Haiti deserve all they got because they worship the devil !!!!!!

I do despair at times

Are ya sure Boc? I can't imagine anyone who would say a thing like that. If he did, he's going to be seriously pulled up on that by the media.

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

bocerty wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

just heard a clergyman on the radio claim that the people of Haiti deserve all they got because they worship the devil !!!!!!

I do despair at times

Are ya sure Boc? I can't imagine anyone who would say a thing like that. If he did, he's going to be seriously pulled up on that by the media.

100% sure - why would the media pull him up sure thats the sort of shite they love because they know if will get your attention - i didnt catch his name but i dont think he is a GAA man anyway if you catch my drift

bocerty wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

bocerty wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

just heard a clergyman on the radio claim that the people of Haiti deserve all they got because they worship the devil !!!!!!

I do despair at times

Are ya sure Boc? I can't imagine anyone who would say a thing like that. If he did, he's going to be seriously pulled up on that by the media.

100% sure - why would the media pull him up sure thats the sort of shite they love because they know if will get your attention - i didnt catch his name but i dont think he is a GAA man anyway if you catch my drift

Ah right. Well he has some serious issues so-how anybody could say that is beyond me.

Heard a piece on Radio 1 (possibly Whineline) Interview with an Haitian resident in Dublin..
Anyway, the eloquent lady said that while Haiti was a Catholic country, they were also into the old voodoo lark.

Somewhat difficult to reconcile the two isn't it ?

Boxtyeater wrote:Heard a piece on Radio 1 (possibly Whineline) Interview with an Haitian resident in Dublin..
Anyway, the eloquent lady said that while Haiti was a Catholic country, they were also into the old voodoo lark.

Somewhat difficult to reconcile the two isn't it ?

Look at the Dail and the church in this county and you can reconcile anything

JimWexford wrote:Look at the Dail and the church in this county and you can reconcile anything

Well, and a bit off topic, can we have an amicable reconciliation between Developer's debts, Bankers, NAMA and us fools at the bottom of the pile i.e. the Taxpayer. Not bloody likely....

Was it Iris saying that stuff???

I noted on another website earlier some clown asking how we found €2 million for Haiti with the roads and water in such a state. Wouldn't ye love to send a few thousand volts down the line at the guy posting that kind of s***e!

bocerty wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

bocerty wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

just heard a clergyman on the radio claim that the people of Haiti deserve all they got because they worship the devil !!!!!!

I do despair at times

Are ya sure Boc? I can't imagine anyone who would say a thing like that. If he did, he's going to be seriously pulled up on that by the media.

100% sure - why would the media pull him up sure thats the sort of shite they love because they know if will get your attention - i didnt catch his name but i dont think he is a GAA man anyway if you catch my drift

Is this for real? How the fcuk could someone come out with that?

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Was it Iris saying that stuff???

I noted on another website earlier some clown asking how we found €2 million for Haiti with the roads and water in such a state. Wouldn't ye love to send a few thousand volts down the line at the guy posting that kind of s***e!

a few hundred thousand volts you mean

bocerty wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Was it Iris saying that stuff???

I noted on another website earlier some clown asking how we found €2 million for Haiti with the roads and water in such a state. Wouldn't ye love to send a few thousand volts down the line at the guy posting that kind of s***e!

a few hundred thousand volts you mean

Yeah - whatever a fatal dose would be. I'd always back Boc to rustle up a spare few hundred thousand volts somewhere. No .... sorry - that was votes...

I hope ye have all dug deep to help these poor people. It is an awful tragedy and it seems like the relief teams just don't know where to begin.

RMDrive wrote:

bocerty wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

bocerty wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

just heard a clergyman on the radio claim that the people of Haiti deserve all they got because they worship the devil !!!!!!

I do despair at times

Are ya sure Boc? I can't imagine anyone who would say a thing like that. If he did, he's going to be seriously pulled up on that by the media.

100% sure - why would the media pull him up sure thats the sort of shite they love because they know if will get your attention - i didnt catch his name but i dont think he is a GAA man anyway if you catch my drift

Is this for real? How the fcuk could someone come out with that?

He was an American pastor I think not a priest. Pat Robertson a televangelist actually, here's his statement.

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Obviously a deluded t**. Eejits like this would drive ye mad.

trileacman wrote:

RMDrive wrote:

bocerty wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

bocerty wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Looks like a really bad situation in Haiti. Just recovering from 4 hurricanes, now one of the world's poorest countries is hit with a really strong earthquake with thousands dead and missing.

Kind of puts our 'problems' - floods, snow, salt, gritting, ice, NAMA, etc etc in perspective.

just heard a clergyman on the radio claim that the people of Haiti deserve all they got because they worship the devil !!!!!!

I do despair at times

Are ya sure Boc? I can't imagine anyone who would say a thing like that. If he did, he's going to be seriously pulled up on that by the media.

100% sure - why would the media pull him up sure thats the sort of shite they love because they know if will get your attention - i didnt catch his name but i dont think he is a GAA man anyway if you catch my drift

Is this for real? How the fcuk could someone come out with that?

He was an American pastor I think not a priest. Pat Robertson a televangelist actually, here's his statement.

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Obviously a deluded t**. Eejits like this would drive ye mad.

I worked for a while in North Carolina and the fanaticism is really something to behold. Thank God we don't have anything like that on our wee Island

the guy I was referring to actually was from Derry a place called Newbuildings - and if you know that place at all you'll know what sort of a clem he would be.

i know that this place is in the crapper , but to think what them poor haitis are going through is just heart breaking ,and to hear people say they had a pact with the devil is sickening

Pat Robertson is a very well known and well connected looper. A friend to the Bush family with immense political clout.

He was the one speaking on live TV who advocated shooting the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, because he was SELLING OIL TOO CHEAP.

Seriously, and they allow people like that to roam the streets unmolested in the states.

I am organising an Ann Summers right. Hoping to raise quite a bit.

A container carrying 250,000 Dublin jersies has been turned back from the docks in Port au Prince..
Government spokesperson said "We may have no money, food or houses but we still have our dignity".....

Boxtyeater wrote:A container carrying 250,000 Dublin jersies has been turned back from the docks in Port au Prince..
Government spokesperson said "We may have no money, food or houses but we still have our dignity".....

Goal have been on the ground in Haiti from the beginning and are doing trojan work with representatives from every county - except Leitrim. When asked why this is the case a spokesman said 'Its a well known fact that over the years Leitrim just do not know the way to Goal ...................'

lived with a few boys from Leitrim when in college a few moons ago and best one I will always rem was the turkey dustin on the den introducing a song, This is for all the people from Leitrim, "things can only get better"