I knew it was bad ....

[Shallowhal]

Grand so.....was fed reading about Danny K!!

[john m]

There is Form with these boys from years ago a good few were shot . Fucking desperate shite .I know most of the people that have been named only kids .How the fuck can you live if you have to keep looking over your shoulder .

[Shallowhal]

There is Form with these boys from years ago a good few were shot . Fucking desperate shite .I know most of the people that have been named only kids .How the fuck can you live if you have to keep looking over your shoulder .

Probably none of them work so self preservation is akin to self employment for these wasters!!

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There is Form with these boys from years ago a good few were shot . Fucking desperate shite .I know most of the people that have been named only kids .How the fuck can you live if you have to keep looking over your shoulder .

Probably none of them work so self preservation is akin to self employment for these wasters!!

Run by a woman.  The Mother INLA!

[john m]

Hal I was involved in Youth work years ago .Looking through Videos I have there are kids that were murdered kids that killed kids that ODed .Its fucking depressing the waste of life .I genuinely fear for young peoples mental health after this Covid shite .Where are the jobs the opportunities ?Peddeling powder might look like a career .

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Hal I was involved in Youth work years ago .Looking through Videos I have there are kids that were murdered kids that killed kids that ODed .Its fucking depressing the waste of life .I genuinely fear for young peoples mental health after this Covid shite .Where are the jobs the opportunities ?Peddeling powder might look like a career .

D'ya ever think you're the reason they turned to drugs? A-ha!

[Shallowhal]

John....probably like yourself and plenty on here and out there,on paper i didn't have a lot goin for me in terms of third level education...didn't finish secondary but i didn't sit on me hole waiting for a knock on my door from companies begging for my skills...i really don't get these stories of hardship especially when they end up in court with 97 previous!!

[john m]

John....probably like yourself and plenty on here and out there,on paper i didn't have a lot goin for me in terms of third level education...didn't finish secondary but i didn't sit on me hole waiting for a knock on my door from companies begging for my skills...i really don't get these stories of hardship especially when they end up in court with 97 previous!!

Look at the Jobs that the IDA sponsor already billion dollar companies .We dont create many semi skilled or even skilled jobs .If you dont know Computers or Pharma our government dont seem to think you exist .In Inchicore before the EEC we built busses and trains .VW built cars so did Fiat on the Kylemore Road but as soon a the EEC came along and import duty was done away with or government subsidies were outlawed we lost all our manufacturing .Men have been emasculated over the past 50 years .The likes of my old man would never of considered working in a shop or waiting tables or selling sambos ,They saw a purpose in their labour a hard days work for a hard days pay was what they expected .I often wondered if the reason a lot of fellas end up in the drugs trade is because of the risk involved as well as reward as Males have evolved as hunter gatherers and have always faced risks .Not a lot of risk selling a pair of Dingo Jeans and a check shirt or a Bacon with Sweet Corn Bap .

[Shallowhal]

I saw an article online yesterday saying the government want to encourage apprenticeships,i know i commented on this before that it'll cost more to get a plumber or chippy or whatever cos the emphasis has been on students goin to college,often doing degrees and end up stacking shelves in Tesco(i'm being flippant but i'm sure there are cases) cos there's no demand for whatever they studied in,i'm glad my own yungfella has got an apprenticeship,it's deffo a life skill,he can always go backbto college later if he feels the need.
I see the govt are offering 3k to employers to take on an apprentice.

[Bob Shillin]

Yes Hal, later study is always an option. My own not so young young lad is a chippie by trade, but managed to get a masters in applied pyschology, when construction took a belt in the last recession, and is now studying for a degree in data analysis. He went back on his tools when marriage was on the horizon a few years back, and now is off them again, as he got a good job as a finishing foreman with one of the big outfits, and has had other good offers to move again. There is no doubt that the application to study etc, was of use during interviews.

[john m]

only problem with an apprenticeship is which one .I made my own kitchen a few years back bought the Chip cut it edged it made the carcasses .Mate had a Universal saw spindel and planer made furniture out of Palletts or any old packing crates we could get .Now all that sort of work is done by punching a code into a machine .Lads in Softline Panels on half a quid above minimum wage turning out hundreds of carcases a day while wood machinists drive forklifts .My mates cousin  went to the Apprentice Olympics years ago won a Gold as a Fitter turner now all that work is done with auto cad download the programme and insert it into the machine no skill needed .He runs the place and is the only tradesman in there .My first gig after I left school was as an apprentice Cutter in the Rag trade .The teacher told us we were wasting our time as there was no work to go to and anyway the whole thing would be lazer operated .We thought Lazers were what Spock anf Kirk had for shooting Aliens .

[Shallowhal]

Electrician would be a good trade,i still think chippying is a good trade also along with plumbing but you need to be able to work on boilers(gas and oil),still demand for mechanics but working with a main dealer selling hybrid/EV motors,that training will be invaluable into the future.

[Rat Catcher]

Hardly unexpected. Was Connolly not fucked of whatever republican group he was in? If memory serves he was running his own narcotics operation on the side or some such? The sister - who was shot - may still be an active member?

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Grand so.....was fed reading about Danny K!!

Reply #6277 taxi related.
https://www.boards.ie/mobile/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058103388&page=419

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Barbie from the flats:
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/young-mother-suffered-catastrophic-injuries-after-being-shot-in-front-of-daughter-7-court-told-40177264.html