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Re: Glasgow News

Postby Govangirl » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:35 pm

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Re: Glasgow News

Postby ionnsaigh » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:07 pm

Excellent - :lol: - :lol: - :lol:
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby petewick » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:38 pm

Aye, well good :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Death In Glasgow

Postby ionnsaigh » Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:54 pm

ionnsaigh wrote:I had the misfortune of having to visit a close in the Maryhill area of Glasgow - Two days before a man had died in a house fire. The guys name was Mick - he was in his fifties. People had tied Celtic tops to the railings outside, which included a Rangers top and scarf. ( Not sure if I really approve of this type of thing - although one things for sure it's becoming more popular ).
The houses are mostly open air veranda type maisonettes - with closes at either end - each close has about Twelve families - Three to a landing , this particular close has been badly damaged by smoke - everything is completely covered in black greasy soot. Weans are up and down the close all the time ( they live there ) The close lighting is not working - The man's belonging have been lying in the street for several days now - some furniture, TV, his clothes, and what looks like a new mountain bike.
This part of the large street - it consists of hundreds of houses could fairly be described as slum dwellings - and housing the poorest of the poor - in terms of housing. The mans belongings haven't been touched - however I feel that the landlord GHA have acted in a disgraceful manner - with absolutely no dignity shown to the dead mans family friends and neighbours.
The people up that close should have been rehoused immediately - until the place was made habitable - however GHA ( remembering the ones you talk about clearing up our streets of drug dealers ) Don't appear to think that it is necessary.


Guess what - the guys belongings remain lying in the street - well done GHA
PS Gonnae get sumbudy up tae fix the ster lights.
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby ionnsaigh » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:03 am

Drug dealer Robert " Birdman " O'Hara's mother has died of a suspected heroin overdose.
She was found dead at her flat in Possilpark, Glasgow, last Thursday.
O'Hara headed a £2 million a year drug dealing network, before being caged for at least 20 years in 2005 for ordering a gangland execution.
His mother was a poverty stricken junkie who was often seen begging for money.

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A West End man has been accused of assaulting a male with a handgun in Castlemilk. Jason Callaghan 20, is believed to pointed the firearm at James Lee's head and repeatedly discharged the weapon at Dunagoil Street, Castlemilk, last August.
The accused is further alleged to have committed a breach of the peace by brandishing the handgun and firing it at a car before using it to smash the passenger window, alarming the occupants. He is further charged with maliciously damaging the car by battering it with a brick and smashing the windows. Finally he is charged under the Firearms Act 1968 for allegedly being in possession of the handgun. The accused of Blantyre Street, is believed to have been on bail at the time of the alleged offences.
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby Govangirl » Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:21 am

Something even more shameful to get on my soapbox about again! :twisted: My US friend sent me this tonight:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/116 ... s-monument

What an absolute disgrace! This is the very place where he was captured by the English forces. Has Scotland lost the flaming plot? :<> :shock: I'm foaming at the mouth here!
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby Pete Reek » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:13 pm

Creamola Foaming I presume?
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby Govangirl » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:42 pm

Aye, that an' aw, Pete.

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Translation: My Son, Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.


And of course, a line from the very historically-based Braveheart:

Every man drinks. Not every man truly tastes the Cremola.
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby ionnsaigh » Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:48 pm

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Re: Glasgow News

Postby ionnsaigh » Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:12 pm

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Re: Glasgow News

Postby gizmo » Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:10 pm

Seems like a reasonably fair assessment to me. Don't tell me you can find something to moan about there surely. :wink:
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby ionnsaigh » Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:42 pm

gizmo wrote:Seems like a reasonably fair assessment to me. Don't tell me you can find something to moan about there surely. :wink:


No on the contrary, a big well done to the Thomas Cooke guide, a fact of city life for many in the housing schemes of Glasgow. We can't however do much with our weather, we can eliminate Poverty, and all it's subsequent ills. Sectarianism, Racism, Crime, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Anti Social Behaviour.

The people of Glasgow have endured these conditions for decades and beyond, I hold the Labour party in Glasgow if not responsible, then at least guilty of the meek compliance of it's Middle Classes, to the intolerable conditions foisted upon the Working Class.
It's about time for a New Workers Party of Scotland. :wink:
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Re: Glasgow News

Postby ionnsaigh » Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:56 pm

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Re: Glasgow News

Postby EMDEE » Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:10 am

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Re: Glasgow News

Postby ionnsaigh » Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:17 pm

My part of Glasgow - wiped out though not forgotten. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXtzViu9kF8
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