Idiot vandals wreck 5,500-year-old Meath monument

I Heart Internet

fenris wrote: »

And there is so much else that those sweet old chaps and ladies etc. did and hid that nobody belives that they were capable of. - blinkered much

Yes. Your hatred of catholicism has blinkered you so much that you are actually blaming the church for damaging national monuments.

There are plenty of threads on here about hating the catholic church.....knock yourself out.

AudreyHepburn

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

surely monument is a bit much for a big bloody rock in the ground with some scratches on it

its not like they dynamited newgrange

My name is URL wrote: »

Sure nobody cares about heritage these days

My name is URL wrote: »

Heritage is yesterday's news, man. get with the times.. invest in markets and speculation like.. lets get Ireland working.

Comments like these make me worry for this country. Is nothing sacred or to be protected anymore?

The disrespect shown towards our heritage, both natural and historical, in this country is nothing short of shocking at times.

If it's not fishermen decapitating seals or turf cutters illegally destroying protected bogs it's vandals wrecking our momuments.

But with attitudes like those above I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

AudreyHepburn

fenris wrote: »

12,000 suspects in the RDS at the moment.

And, apart from being an extremely bigotted and totally unfair remark, this has what do with the topic?

fenris

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Yes. Your hatred of catholicism has blinkered you so much that you are actually blaming the church for damaging national monuments.

There are plenty of threads on here about hating the catholic church.....knock yourself out.

Hatred is a strong, emotive and inappropriate word, I merely pointed out that there is a large gathering of a group of people associated with the fanatical support of an organisation that has a documented strong track record of destroying objects and persons who do not fit with their view of the world.

Why is is so unthinkable that followers of that organisation may be responsible for damage to an artifact associated with another belief system?

Why do you feel that they could not possibly have any involvement and that even raising the question leads to rabid ranting about hatred of a particular club?

AudreyHepburn

gavinbell wrote: »

how many people are unemployed in this country? how many people have to leave this county every day through no fault of their own, leaving their families through necessity to havea standard of living, a sense of pride, a roof over their head.......and you are talking **** about some poxy stone in smelly meath....is that stone going to put food on somebodys table. get a life or crawl back in your hole.

Sweet Jesus.

Why oh why does everything have to come back to this?

Perhaps you ought to take your own advise.

fenris

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

And, apart from being an extremely bigotted and totally unfair remark, this has what do with the topic?

Biggotted - how, do you have definite information that the vandalism wasn't carried out by members of that organisation, or are you just trying for the old attack the poster because the argument makes your brain hurt tactic?

Unfair - how? - did the vandalism happen during the day when everybody was at the RDS?

Topic - AH, Friday, build a bridge

AudreyHepburn

fenris wrote: »

Biggotted - how, do you have definite information that the vandalism wasn't carried out by members of that organisation, or are you just trying for the old attack the poster because the argument makes your brain hurt tactic?

Unfair - how? - did the vandalism happen during the day when everybody was at the RDS?

Topic - AH, Friday, build a bridge

Your post had nothing to with the topic at hand and it displayed unfair bitterness and bigotry towards those involved in the Eucharistic Congress. There is nothing to suggest any involvement by anyone related to the EC. Your post was silly and childish imo.

I simply responded to that. Nothing to do with attacking you.

I Heart Internet

Fenris, you should go to the Gardai if you believe you have information about who committed this awful act of vandalism.

Anything else is just surmising. I'm surmising the folk at the RDS didn't do it. You're surmising they did. I'm happy to leave it at that and let everyone decide for themselves who's being reasonable or unreasonable.

Haters gonna hate and all that.

(They clearly didn't though.........:eek:)

Crann na Beatha

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fenris

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Fenris, you should go to the Gardai if you believe you have information about who committed this awful act of vandalism.

Anything else is just surmising. I'm surmising the folk at the RDS didn't do it. You're surmising they did. I'm happy to leave it at that and let everyone decide for themselves who's being reasonable or unreasonable.


(They clearly didn't though.........:eek:)

I am suggesting that the persons who did this are potentially affiliated with the organisation represented by those in the RDS and not excluding the possibility that persons attending the RDS may have carried out the vandalism.

On the balance of probability my suggestion is more probable than yours

Ash.J.Williams

The person that did the damage is a dick...end of story. No amount of security can protect anything from a d*ick on a mission...same kind of d*ick that smashed up the mummified tombs in St. Michans church..

fenris

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Your post had nothing to with the topic at hand and it displayed unfair bitterness and bigotry towards those involved in the Eucharistic Congress. There is nothing to suggest any involvement by anyone related to the EC. Your post was silly and childish imo.

I simply responded to that. Nothing to do with attacking you.

The topic is the vandalism of an item with religious and historical significance.



bigot n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

- don't see how that could be applied to MY posts, it is not as if my posts are intolerant of those whose views differ to mine or are aligned with a particular group etc.

I am a bit bemused that people get so irate about the suggestion that persons belonging to an organisation with a track record of actively destroying artefacts belonging to other organisations could possibly be involved - particularly when some of those persons choose to take their lords name in vain on this very thread! - I am looking at you AudreyHepburn