Katy French

BowSideChamp

What no Katy French thread?? She must be important if she still makes the front page of the national supermarket newsletter.

JohnCleary

BowSideChamp wrote: »

What no Katy French thread?? She must be important if she still makes the front page of the national supermarket newsletter.

Wut?

5rtytry56

OP

Dissappointed you have not referenced the subject's website

http://www.katyfrench.ie

YOU are no better than 'The Star' "newspaper" which had a front cover about her yesterday.

LewisR

Who's Katy French?

Haven't bought a newspaper in about 5 years. Overpriced garbage.

gerrybbadd

'When she wanted something she was gonna get it; she would never take no for an answer'

Aye, including a quarter stone of coke. Ate it and all

The_Valeyard

I thought she died from a drugs overdose or who am I mixing her up with?

5rtytry56

gerrybbadd wrote: »

'When she wanted something she was gonna get it; she would never take no for an answer'

Aye, including a quarter stone of coke. Ate it and all

There might be some substance to the fact just somewhere for that OP. Just sayin'.:(

The original Vogue Williams

Atoms for Peace

Jedidiah Salmon Lubricant wrote: »

The original Vogue Williams

What, was she a multiple grand slam winner or something?

Harry Palmr

The bogger Paris Hilton.

A candle still burns on the web for her http://www.katyfrench.ie/

Galwayguy35

I'm sure she was a very nice person but I didn't think she was that famous that she would still be talked about 10 years after her death.

She risked her life taking cocaine and paid the price.

ToddyDoody

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

She risked her life taking cocaine and paid the price.

The ultimate price, you could say.

Wanderer2010

She wanted drugs, she knew the risks. She died. End of story, shes not a martyr or a victim.

I'm also quite sure that thousands more people died of drug overdoses 10 years ago, cant seem to see the article about them though...

arayess

the wolf makes an appearance this morning

https://www.thesun.ie/news/1882410/tragic-katy-frenchs-drug-fixer-kieron-the-wolf-ducie-admits-he-still-indulges-in-hardcore-partying-ten-years-on-from-her-death/#

he really has no shame..sounds like a complete idiot too with his new tattoo

in the article he talks about losing weight and having a personal trainer. he looks fcuked though...really unhealthy.

Grayditch

Ireland hasn't been the same without her...

Galwayguy35

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

She wanted drugs, she knew the risks. She died. End of story, shes not a martyr or a victim.

I'm also quite sure that thousands more people died of drug overdoses 10 years ago, cant seem to see the article about them though...

Actually this post reminds me of an article I read at the time about 2 other people who died from drugs the same week as KF and barely a mention of it, only difference was they were poor people.

Galwayguy35

ToddyDoody wrote: »

The ultimate price, you could say.

Yes that's true.

Cocaine seems to have been the drug the people made rich during the celtic tiger days like to use, she was no different to other who gambled with their lives by putting it up their noses.

Wanderer2010

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Actually this post reminds me of an article I read at the time about 2 other people who died from drugs the same week as KF and barely a mention of it, only difference was they were poor people.

Exactly. The media control who we feel sorry for, who are victims etc when in reality she wanted drugs just like anyone who wanted drugs and died as a result. Shame that the media deemed her more important than any other soul. I don't even know what made her rich? Rich family?

As for that Ducie guy hes living in a bubble- working for his daddy his whole life, never had to make his own way in life, absolute nobody. The media should be ignoring him not giving him publicity.

Turtyturd

arayess wrote: »

the wolf makes an appearance this morning

https://www.thesun.ie/news/1882410/tragic-katy-frenchs-drug-fixer-kieron-the-wolf-ducie-admits-he-still-indulges-in-hardcore-partying-ten-years-on-from-her-death/#

he really has no shame..sounds like a complete idiot too with his new tattoo

in the article he talks about losing weight and having a personal trainer. he looks fcuked though...really unhealthy.

I doubt many people would look much better after being hounded by her family trying to pin her actions on them for the best part of a decade.

Autochange

What is drugs?

AMKC

Katy French was a young upcoming Irish model. Leave her alone. I felt like I knew her when she died and felt sad for her and her family. Yes she was very stupid to take drugs and she paid for it with her life. The reason the media cover her more than other people that died of drugs is because she was part of the media you could say and so lots of people who read or watch it got a little insight into her life. She would do photo shoots for papers and they would get to take pics and talk to her get interviews etc.
I don,t think the average family wants the media to be constantly on there backs. They want there loved ones to be able to rest in piece and too remember there family member as they knew them.

donegaLroad

I remember it like yesterday.. if that is how quickly 10 years goes, then life is very short!

Guy:Incognito

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Actually this post reminds me of an article I read at the time about 2 other people who died from drugs the same week as KF and barely a mention of it, only difference was they were poor people.

It wasn't the only differnece and you know it. Whether you like it or not, she was a well known person, possibly even a "celebrity" . Most non well known people don't get an article in the paper when they die so the fact you heard of it at all is fairly out of the ordinary.

Presumably when a member of your family die you bemoan the rest of the family for not thinking of all the people that died in Africa that day?

Odhinn

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Actually this post reminds me of an article I read at the time about 2 other people who died from drugs the same week as KF and barely a mention of it, only difference was they were poor people.

Two clueless young lads who ate a rake of coke and died at one of their own birthday party.

pablo128

2 young people in Waterford died in the same week as her, possibly from the same batch of coke. It was shortly after the big seizure in Dunlough Bay, and most likely a stray bale made its way to shore and was found. It wasn't mixed, or wasn't mixed enough before being sold on resulting in the deaths as it was so pure.

That's the long and short of it. She took the same risk as tens of thousands or young Irish people that weekend and unfortunately a few of them paid for it with their lives.

BillyBobBS

She took a product that is illegal and causes untold harm and grief to people worldwide be they users or those who are caught up in it's production and distribution. She took the risk and is a loss to nobody but her family and friends.

I don't do drugs as it's a question of morals for me but people who take it and those who are well off in particular are complete scum. You'll often hear toffs talk down about people who live in working class communities the same communities that have been ravaged by the effects of drugs and where people live in fear of the local drug runners but yet they are only to happy to get coked out of their mind when they please.

These are the worst kind of people, the Katie French's, the Gerry Ryan's of this this world and yes the others we all know about who virtue signal from their gated estates with 24/7 private security and instant reaction from the Gardai to any crime.

LuckyLloyd

AMKC wrote: »

Katy French was a young upcoming Irish model. Leave her alone. I felt like I knew her when she died...

How much did you or anyone else really know though? She seemed to have a knack for handling tabloid media and leveraging fame into more fame and opportunities for the limelight. But when you consider the grimy facts of her situation - a woman in her early twenties hanging out with men nearly twice her age coked out of her bin. How much of that came through into the tabloid domain?

A grim end to a grim story.

Odhinn

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

How much did you or anyone else really know though? She seemed to have a knack for handling tabloid media and leveraging fame into more fame and opportunities for the limelight. But when you consider the grimy facts of her situation - a woman in her early twenties hanging out with men nearly twice her age coked out of her bin. How much of that came through into the tabloid domain?

A grim end to a grim story.

The indo/sindo made her one of those "celebrities" they like to feature, other 'notables' including Gerald Keane.

Omackeral

Grayditch wrote: »

Ireland hasn't been the same without her...

Our Diana.

The Hill Billy

A little bit of respect for the dead would be nice. It's not like she was a mass-murderer or a paedophile or whatever.

droidman123

The Hill Billy wrote: »

A little bit of respect for the dead would be nice. It's not like she was a mass-murderer or a paedophile or whatever.

They are all different types of crimes,but one thing paedophiles,mass murderers and junkies have in common is they all cause untold misery for people

tomwaterford

The Hill Billy wrote: »

A little bit of respect for the dead would be nice. It's not like she was a mass-murderer or a paedophile or whatever.

A grade A hypocrite though....going off giving interviews to papers telling everyone to not take drugs coz they bad and she at them herself


I've no problem with anyone taking drugs/enjoying emselves (it's life,none of us getting our alive anywayz)...


.but to outright tell people not to do x when you do it yourself is wrong

XxMCRxBabyxX

Genuine question: was she really that big before she died or was it her death that gave her her "name"? I honestly had not heard of her before she died but maybe that was just me.

January

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Genuine question: was she really that big before she died or was it her death that gave her her "name"? I honestly had not heard of her before she died but maybe that was just me.

She was a socialite more than anything else really.

Katy French was a young woman who loved the limelight. That was her life it seemed and sure what of it. There is something about this thread that reminds me of the one asking us if we hate Conor Mcgregor. None of us are perfect and we all make choices which affect our lives and those around us. Why the scorn for these people? Live and let live.

Motivator

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Actually this post reminds me of an article I read at the time about 2 other people who died from drugs the same week as KF and barely a mention of it, only difference was they were poor people.

Yes I think it was the same night that Katy French took the cocaine. One of the lads that died lived in the same estate as me in Waterford, he was a couple of years younger than me and I didn’t know him at all but it was very sad.

The cocaine they took was from the same batch that Katy French took.

Amirani

droidman123 wrote: »

They are all different types of crimes,but one thing paedophiles,mass murderers and junkies have in common is they all cause untold misery for people

It takes a weird mindset to conflate that 3rd grouping with the first two. The vast majority of recreational drug users cause zero harm to others, something that could never be said for the former. They're vastly different crimes, and not really worthy of comparison.

Fr_Dougal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOhnrjdYOc

Gone but not forgotten.

Greybottle

Amirani wrote: »

The vast majority of recreational drug users cause zero harm to others,... .

All drug users who buy from dealers do immense damage to others caught up in the warfare around drugs. Thousands of innocents die every year from the fighting around it. Just look at the drug wars in Mexico.

In Ireland Shane Geoghan, Donna Cleary and that plumbers apprentice are 3 totally innocent people murdered around drugs here.

So yes, recreational drug users cause huge damage to others.

Arghus

Greybottle wrote: »

All drug users who buy from dealers do immense damage to others caught up in the warfare around drugs. Thousands of innocents die every year from the fighting around it. Just look at the drug wars in Mexico.

In Ireland Shane Geoghan, Donna Cleary and that plumbers apprentice are 3 totally innocent people murdered around drugs here.

So yes, recreational drug users cause huge damage to others.

Sounds like a good argument for legalisation.

Galwayguy35

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Presumably when a member of your family die you bemoan the rest of the family for not thinking of all the people that died in Africa that day?

Very strange thing to say to another poster.

Hector Bellend

Jedidiah Salmon Lubricant wrote: »

The original Vogue Williams

I thought that said vadge williams

Amirani

Greybottle wrote: »

All drug users who buy from dealers do immense damage to others caught up in the warfare around drugs. Thousands of innocents die every year from the fighting around it. Just look at the drug wars in Mexico.

In Ireland Shane Geoghan, Donna Cleary and that plumbers apprentice are 3 totally innocent people murdered around drugs here.

So yes, recreational drug users cause huge damage to others.

Very much indirectly. Do you not see the difference between actively causing harm via mass murder/pedophilia and potentially indirectly causing crime via recreational drug use?

Similar argument can be made against a lot of things. People buying diamond rings contributed to the illicit/blood diamond trade. Those who buy fast fashion have contributed to child slavery in South East Asia etc. Not saying there's no upstream impact, but the two are massively different.

Running Balance

Why are the paper even interviewing that toe rag..

Rag of a paper..

Ulysses Gaze

48 years old and he comes across as some immature clown.

The Wolf. FFS....

droidman123

Amirani wrote: »

It takes a weird mindset to conflate that 3rd grouping with the first two. The vast majority of recreational drug users cause zero harm to others, something that could never be said for the former. They're vastly different crimes, and not really worthy of comparison.

I wasnt comparing the actual crimes,i was comparing the impact they had

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

A lot of far less willing people have died due to the cocaine trade, most of whom don't get much attention.

mzungu

Greybottle wrote: »

So yes, recreational drug users cause huge damage to others.

Do you have a phone? If so you are contributing to untold misery in Congo where children are forced to dig for minerals used in the various gadgets on offer in the developed world.

The Hill Billy

droidman123 wrote: »

They are all different types of crimes,but one thing paedophiles,mass murderers and junkies have in common is they all cause untold misery for people

It is a huge leap to make a foolish young woman the Irish equivalent of Savile or Manson.

Everybody makes mistakes. Some make bigger mistakes than others & pay with their lives. It doesn't warrant the callousness & bile though.

Collie D

Running Balance wrote: »

Why are the paper even interviewing that toe rag..

Rag of a paper..

According to the article he called them. I mean..wtf?!

Whatever about people wanting to be in the limelight or a "celebrity", if you're a model or a reality TV "star" it's in your interests to stay in the public eye. But to be famous for having provided the coke that somebody ODed on and want to be known for that...the mind boggles.

droidman123

The Hill Billy wrote: »

It is a huge leap to make a foolish young woman the Irish equivalent of Savile or Manson.

Everybody makes mistakes. Some make bigger mistakes than others & pay with their lives. It doesn't warrant the callousness & bile though.

I repeat,i did NOT compare the sevarity.of the actual crimes,i compared the end results,they all cause misery somewhere along the line (no pun intended)