The Frontline: 19th Dec 2011

JonathanAnon · 19-12-2011 09:38PM #1

Sinead O'Connor to perform on The Frontline tonight... wtf??

tayto lover · 19-12-2011 09:40PM

Its about Emigration. There's probably not enough leaving.

MagicMarker · 19-12-2011 09:40PM

Sounds like it going to be a pretty **** episode tbh, a lot less people in the audience too.

artful_codger · 19-12-2011 09:43PM

in fairness, Cavan was always ****.

KerranJast · 19-12-2011 09:46PM

There's plenty of work in the country in certain industries if kids want to go for them. We're constantly short qualified people in IT.

tayto lover · 19-12-2011 09:48PM

Jaysus Sinead looks rough.

Teclo · 19-12-2011 09:48PM

The chat with moaners in the audience always comes close to killing this thing, it's only saved if there's someone good on the panel, tonight we have Mother Sinéad....

oh there she is, **** no :eek:

mal1 · 19-12-2011 09:51PM

Watching frontline makes me miss Questions and Answers. I'm sick of moaners. Just get on with it!

JonathanAnon · 19-12-2011 09:52PM

This would fkn cheer you up on Christmas week wouldnt it... Could we not have denial for this ONE show???

KerranJast · 19-12-2011 09:53PM

No offence to yer man but we're much better off than the 50s.

coxy14 · 19-12-2011 09:56PM

The Irish don't stick together when abroad?? Sinead obviously never ventured into Kilburn when she lived in London

rgunning · 19-12-2011 09:57PM

Jesus Christ, it's as if we didn't benefit in ANY way from emigration.

19-12-2011 09:58PM

Ah grand..
A few of the channels on my sky box have given up today, and i was pissed id miss it..

artful_codger · 19-12-2011 09:58PM

is this a discussion about emigration, or whose child is the bestest and smartest?

KerranJast · 19-12-2011 09:59PM

This guys kids left in the late 90s. Sad but they could have stayed and would have found work very easily.

AstridBean · 19-12-2011 10:00PM

KerranJast wrote: »

No offence to yer man but we're much better off than the 50s.

Actually I've heard some people who remember both say now is worse. Dunno how true that is.

KerranJast · 19-12-2011 10:02PM

AstridBean wrote: »

KerranJast wrote: »

No offence to yer man but we're much better off than the 50s.

Actually I've heard some people who remember both say now is worse. Dunno how true that is.

Do we have slums? Ate the church still running the country? Is going to America a one way trip? We're miles better off than the 80s not to mind the 50s.

JonathanAnon · 19-12-2011 10:02PM

artful_codger wrote: »

is this a discussion about emigration, or whose child is the bestest and smartest?

I dont understand his point at all.... His two daughters went to Australia 15 and 16 years ago, and the son went to the UK ... In the intervening years there was a boom here, so they would have had plenty of opportunity to come home if they'd wished to do so...

mal1 · 19-12-2011 10:02PM

AstridBean wrote: »

Actually I've heard some people who remember both say now is worse. Dunno how true that is.

It's not true.

baldbear · 19-12-2011 10:02PM

Damn you 9/11 for making it harder for us Paddys!!!

KerranJast · 19-12-2011 10:04PM

Am I supposed to feel sorry for her? She got deported back to Ireland. Imagine being chucked back to Mexico. Why should our lot get away with special treatment?

AstridBean · 19-12-2011 10:05PM

KerranJast wrote: »

Do we have slums? Ate the church still running the country? Is going to America a one way trip? We're miles better off than the 80s not to mind the 50s.

I'm talking employment-wise, for some industries there is nothing happening.

tayto lover · 19-12-2011 10:05PM

mal1 wrote: »

It's not true.

It is true.

mausrour · 19-12-2011 10:06PM

Sorry, but are we supposed to feel sorry for illegals. Most of us choose not to be illegal and fall in line with what is required to be documented n any state.

AstridBean · 19-12-2011 10:06PM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I dont understand his point at all.... His two daughters went to Australia 15 and 16 years ago, and the son went to the UK ... In the intervening years there was a boom here, so they would have had plenty of opportunity to come home if they'd wished to do so...

Me neither, he was very "woe is me".

artful_codger · 19-12-2011 10:08PM

Spain, with 45% youth unemployment.

hmm.

mollser · 19-12-2011 10:09PM

...we could get up on a saturday morning and go hiking... Wtf, like you can't do that here? Get off the stage. If your illegal in a country thats your tough ****. Should see how the aussies would treat you...

mal1 · 19-12-2011 10:09PM

tayto lover wrote: »

It is true.

The financial crisis is, our living standards aren't. The people moaning on the Frontline are talking about their personal experiences, the drop in their living standards and the impact this had on them. The aren't discussing the global and national banking crisis.

hotmail.com · 19-12-2011 10:11PM

Too close to xmas for all this depressing stuff. A year in review type programme would have been better.

tayto lover · 19-12-2011 10:15PM

mal1 wrote: »

The financial crisis is, our living standards aren't. The people moaning on the Frontline are talking about their personal experiences, the drop in their living standards and the impact this had on them. The aren't discussing the global and national banking crisis.

Regardless of the cause 1,000 young people are leaving every week. That means that very sad parents are waving goodbye to their children and wondering if they will see them alive again. A friend and neighbour of mine got that same bad news last Friday, his son was killed in Australia.

Charlie Haughy · 19-12-2011 10:16PM

Sinead o conner was right though, emigration is good for young people. Doesn't need to be permanent, but if you can afford to and cant get work here, moving to another country for a few months, be it England or Australia and looking for work, really broadens your horizon and makes you wiser. I feel sorry for the people who are afraid to leave/ dont want to leave the mammy and daddy or whatever. I dont regret leaving and cant wait to get back to Oz in a few weeks.

Obviously if money is tight or theres illness in the family or something then thats different, but if your young, and can afford it, and dont have any ties, then go for it I say! You wont regret it!

amacachi · 19-12-2011 10:18PM

Is there anywhere else that views the idea of living more than a few miles from where one was born as as big a tragedy and in Ireland?

hotmail.com · 19-12-2011 10:18PM

Are they for real with the priest? As if anyone can relate to him.

mal1 · 19-12-2011 10:19PM

tayto lover wrote: »

Regardless of the cause 1,000 young people are leaving every week. That means that very sad parents are waving goodbye to their children and wondering if they will see them alive again. A friend and neighbour of mine got that same bad news last Friday, his son was killed in Australia.

Ah come on, you make it sound like they are landing on the beaches in Normandy and not Tullamarine in Melbourne. People die in Ireland too, you know??

hotmail.com · 19-12-2011 10:25PM

tayto lover wrote: »

Regardless of the cause 1,000 young people are leaving every week. That means that very sad parents are waving goodbye to their children and wondering if they will see them alive again. A friend and neighbour of mine got that same bad news last Friday, his son was killed in Australia.

1,000 young people - what's this based on?

The last census showed a surprise increase in our population.

artful_codger · 19-12-2011 10:27PM

the candidate i voted for in the last Election emigrated too lol.

tayto lover · 19-12-2011 10:27PM

mal1 wrote: »

Ah come on, you make it sound like they are landing on the beaches in Normandy and not Tullamarine in Melbourne. People die in Ireland too, you know??

I agree but I know a man who has to go to Australia to bring home his dead son and I feel for him. I emigrated in the early 70's myself and enjoyed it but my parents did not and worried. I would not like to see my own leaving tbh.

AstridBean · 19-12-2011 10:29PM

Hello, Mr. Venezuela. Purr!

tayto lover · 19-12-2011 10:29PM

hotmail.com wrote: »

1,000 young people - what's this based on?

The last census showed a surprise increase in our population.

http://www.herald.ie/news/a-thousand-people-now-emigrating-every-week-2503997.html

hotmail.com · 19-12-2011 10:32PM

tayto lover wrote: »

http://www.herald.ie/news/a-thousand-people-now-emigrating-every-week-2503997.html

That doesn't specify if that includes foreign people returning home.

tayto lover · 19-12-2011 10:34PM

hotmail.com wrote: »

That doesn't specify if that includes foreign people returning home.

Or new ones arriving.

murphzor · 19-12-2011 10:34PM

Crazy old dingbat. :rolleyes:

vicwatson · 19-12-2011 10:34PM

SO'C really needs to cop the feck on. really. and the RTE/SO'C love-in has to stop, with my money.

Depressing RTE

Is there anything cheery and happy on RTE this Christmas? Bleedin gloomy bistirds

The Internet Explorer · 19-12-2011 10:35PM

Away.............away......t......****. Gwan............Awayoutrtrathat.................

coxy14 · 19-12-2011 10:35PM

It mightn't have been the intention but that actually made me happy about leaving:D

steelcityblues · 19-12-2011 10:35PM

Emotional enough night for the audience, without having to listen to Sinead. :rolleyes:

JonathanAnon · 19-12-2011 10:36PM

I'd say the therapist she married is at home thinking "What the fk have I done?"

The Internet Explorer · 19-12-2011 10:36PM

Gwan.......................Away..........

Charlie Haughy · 19-12-2011 10:37PM

Quite possibly the worst tattoos ive ever seen.

Teclo · 19-12-2011 10:39PM

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Quite possibly the worst tattoos ive ever seen.

well if you were the tattooist could you keep your eyes open?

coxy14 · 19-12-2011 10:41PM

They're not proper tatoos at all, it's like a bunch of kids were let loose on her with a bunch of markers

The Frontline: 19th Dec 2011

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