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    Mute Saoirse Geraghty
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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:46 AM

    A fund for a drug mule… Classy stuff, would be better to donate it to a children’s hospital for sick children… I’m shocked they even had the shame to start a fund and for 20,000… Disgraceful!!

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:42 AM

    I can already see her getting asked banal questions by Tubridy on The Late Late in 2020 ‘You must have been very scared?’ Zzzz

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    Mute David O'Reilly
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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:46 AM

    Why would people pledge money to some young naive girl who got caught trying to smuggle drugs through an airport?

    Hypothetically, i bet if this was a young man from an African country, there’d be no news, no pledges, just another drug mule that got caught. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:42 AM

    That 2,616 would be put to better use in a drug rehab centre.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:47 AM

    Who in their right mind is giving them money?

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    Mute Big Pat
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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:51 AM

    Its a charity fund to replace the payment they wont get from the dealers now that the drugs have been confiscated.

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    Mute Jay
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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:43 AM

    Well she is guilty actually ,she tryed to smuggle drugs.. forced or not lt dont matter.

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    Mute Emma
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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:47 AM

    Do the crime do the time it’s a joke to me I mean hello they new what they where doing and if they weren’t stopped they be in a pub somewhere laughing about it now and spending there money

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    Mute John Johnson Kcco
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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:56 AM

    Id feel sorry for these two idiots. Ruined thier lives but its no-ones fault but their own.

    Im sure the families are stressed out of it altogether.

    These two girls story should be told in schools so hopefully others will see that there is no such thing as easy money

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:49 AM

    I can just see it at Halloween, loads of girls dressed ah her with that stupid hair and a little briefcase.

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    Mute Joe Traynor
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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:48 AM

    She made a mistake and hopefully she will do her time and learn from it, plenty of people who get mixed up with drug gangs don’t live long enough to get a second chance.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:58 AM

    love you profile pic

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:45 AM

    I wiould give sister a few euro towards trip right or wrong nightmare for the family.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:56 AM

    Stunning looking girl.looks way better here than in her trashy picture on newspapers

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    Sep 17th 2013, 9:00 AM

    j

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:48 AM

    Isn’t anybody rooting for her anymore.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:49 AM

    Nope!

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:52 AM

    I think her sister is rooting for her alright

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