EVERY SATURDAY MORNING we take a look at all the best comments left on the site by our readers over the past seven days.
This week there was a lot of talk about Irish Water, Sinn Féin and the Islamic State.
So here are the standout comments from the week that was.
The 5 most popular comments this week
1. After TheJournal.ie revealed that Irish Water had sent customers’ bank details to their landlords, Colm Byrne‘s topical remarks got 2,662 green thumbs.
Needs improvement. That will only be a 4% bonus so for that employee.
2. A café owner got support for her decision to ban some unruly children from Miriam Kelliher – and 2,328 readers with green thumbs.
I completely agree with the owner and I’m a parent…
3. And another take on Irish Water. This one from Donal Costello got 1,853 thumbs up.
Am I the only one beginning to find this whole thing hilarious!!Its like a Monty Python sketch
4. But Norman Hunter replied – and got 1,599 comments.
Donal nothing funny about the tens of millions that have been spent and looks like it was wasted.
Well done to FG/Lab only took ye 3 years to become as arrogant and as incompetent as FF.
5. Commenting on a story about an Islamic State fighter stoning a woman, Michael got 1,455 thumbs up.
I would say dogs, but I love my dogs.
The top 5 articles which received the most comments this week
1. Poll: Have you sent back your Irish Water pack? (272 comments)
2. New scandal: 10 Irish Water customers had their bank details sent to their landlords (242 comments)
3. We asked Mary Lou McDonald where she’d be now had she stayed in Fianna Fáil (227 comments)
4. Anti-water charge protests take place around the country (220 comments)
5. Man stones his own daughter to death in new Islamic State video (215 comments)
The Big Issue
Yes, it was water again. And Pat Kelly noticed something.
Am I mistaken or does John Tierney not look terribly like Ivor Callely.
Laugh of the week
CAPITAINE ADEBAYO wasn’t too happy with yesterday’s poll about what you are up to for the long weekend.
No option for wine and selfies. Poll is flawed.
Actually, this whole thread is funny.
Some other standout comments
Following a number of negative comments about Travellers, Hughie Collins said:
Hi I am from the travelling community I work and pay tax and I went to college so can I ask what makes everyone so different from us, settle people goes to college and work, pay tax and yeah in every community there are people who don’t follow the law so what makes travellers and settle people so different, there is bad and good in every community.
Earlier this week, DailyEdge.ie asked what was the kindest thing a stranger had done for you. We’re a nice bunch it seems.
Claire Hartweig remembers a special man.
When I was a child, from about the age of 7, myself and my siblings would get the bus from West Cork up to Cork City to see our dad every second weekend. We were three kids on our own and it was a journey of at least two hours, stopping in what felt like every town and village in Cork. But we had this amazing Bus Eireann driver who really looked after us, his name was Willie and I’m sure many people in West Cork knew him. He kept us entertained and gave us chocolate bars and cartons of orange juice. He even played our tapes on the bus cassette player. I heard he died a few years ago but I’m sure a lot of people still remember his kindness and that’s a great legacy to leave behind.
Brian Farrell recalls:
I was broken down in an artic lorry with my son on the Galway to Clifden road in 2000. There for 3 hours stuck on a bad bend. A fellow truck driver stopped and spent an hour getting me going. He wouldn’t take any money from me despite my protestations. He had after all gotten us out of a really bad situation.His parting words have stuck with me ever since – when I told him I couldn’t thank him enough for his help he just said “pass it on”
And mary carey gave us some real perspective on what a kind word and a smile can really do.
Was a bad bad time in my life. Had made a decision to end it. Went out close to dusk to a wooded area with a rope. Tied a noose, and tied it to a tree. Was upset & afraid and could see no other option but to follow through with it. A woman came upon me. She didn’t see the noose. I smiled, she smiled and walked on. I waited for about 5 mins for the ‘all clear’. I sat on a ditch in those 5 mins.
Her little golden cocker pup came back to me and sniffed me. The woman came back & sat beside me. She put her arm around me and said ‘you are not on your own, it will be ok’. She held my hand as I shook and cried. The gardai came and were as equally compassionate and nonjudgemental and I agreed to go to hospital with them.
The woman hugged me and said again ‘you are not on your own, it will be ok’.
Read the rest of the thread here.
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