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1) The Tyrone guy should be dropped form the Tyrone GAA Panel. I would say for good. The GAA doesn't need people like that (particularly when it's struggling to hold onto positive role-models like a law-abiding Protestant hurler).
As a matter of interest, as I did not watch the programme did any of the others involved play any field sports?
Caught the last 20 minutes of it last night, sick b@st@rds. Should be locked up.
I missed the programme last night. Do BBC show Panorama on their web site?
The punishment for dog flighting would appear to be minimal. The only activity like that can be punished is through public shaming.
Any club or organisation that allows someone like this remain as a member condones the act.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ma/default.stm
Seems to be. not sure if it'll be available in D'Republic
Demeanour? Check
Attitude? Check
Violent character? Check
Availability? No. Booked up for next two weeks in preparation for his fight against a pack of mongrels led by the most horrible, battle-weary, chip-on-shoulder pitbull of them all.:cool:
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Watched the show last night. Horrifying stuff. Surely, if pretty shamefully, this will push our authorities into action, though policing such an area would seem to be very difficult in that announcing a ban will have little to no effect without follow-on scrutinous checks at entry points, and even at that it would still seem very much like an uphill battle. But there are two issues here, dog-fighting as an outlawed 'sport' and dangerous dogs on our streets. The former, given the evidence BBC uncovered, should now be severely dissipated, but one wonders if the latter will ever be overcome given the practical difficulties of stamping it out and the pig-headedness and stupidity of certain people.
Whats pig headed and stupid is blaming the dogs
My mate has an American pitbull and he's one of the cutest, most playful dogs I've ever came across
These dogs behaviour is all down to the way they are raised (for want of a better term)
It's the scum who raise the dogs to be vicious are the problem
Besides, they're the very same type of people that if you take their dogs away they will just replace them with a gun or a knife or an iron bar
...ah yes, the mythological pitbull that's great with kids.
Maybe if we ever get round to outlawing them we should go for a two-for-one deal and outlaw Chavs with them. Just a thought.
Watched it on the BBC website. Truly the Republic has blood on its hands. Why have these dogs not been banned here yet? :confused:
Knives don't randomly attack kids though! If the bad dogs are taken away at least less innocent bystanders will suffer. The only way to do this is with an outright ban on the particular breeds. I don't know the extent of the problem though so whether impinging on personal liberty, like your friend, without any guaranteed success is worth a ban I really have no idea. Particularly now given that one presumes dog-fighting is on the way out, and thus the demand and supply of the really wild dogs should fall.