The general news thread

I've been hearing a lot over the last few days about the leak of the mother and baby home report, all I've heard is how terrible the actual leak was. Maybe I'm way off the mark here but surely the editor of the Sunday independent and the journalist who wrote the story should be getting slaughtered, them pair of pricks knew the upset it was going to cause but still went with the story.

 

That is correct. All they care about is headlines and how many copies they sell

 

This is excruciating to watch, I honestly can't stop cringing thinking about it!

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pol...-was-urgently-seeking-copy-1.4462651?mode=amp
Surely needs sacked at this stage

 

The lads in RTE are still enjoying the good life.....

https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0120/1190981-rte-on-air-earners/

Great to see our hard earned licence fees are being well spent

 

Certainly seems to be more inconsistencies in what he's saying on this alright, general fatigue hearing about this might be the only thing that saves him at this point.

 

I see Nicky Byrne is on that gravy train. You have to laugh listening to him say he always wanted to be a DJ!

 

You'd laugh, until you think about the paycheck, and that we're ultimately the ones funding it.