Terrible people "Let's see if we can turn these freshly killed murder victims to our own personal rhetorical advantage." - Terrible people. A day after mass murder of revellers in a gay nightclub in Orlando by a homophobic abusive man with a violent fantasy life that
Mass murder A gay club in Florida during Pride, running a Latino night. A man whose father said he got angry when he saw two men kissing. He had already come to the attention of the FBI as potentially violent but could still buy multiple weapons of mass murder. Dozens
I will not do a News in Gist tonight. Philip Cairns was 13 when he went missing from my neighbourhood. I was 10. By the time I was 13, I used to cycle down a nearby road to go to my local library. The smiling face from his photo was
Juries, juries, juries Serious crime cases have juries, who put in the hours needed to come to decisions. Sometimes, lots and lots of hours. They hear fantastic amounts of evidence and wrestle with legal niceties that baffle experienced lawyers. Today, the reportedly longest jury deliberation in the state's
NAMA The NAMA Annual Report has been released and, good news!, everything is awesome. NAMA is something something 20,000 new houses as well as in some way going to make a giant profit to make us all rich again at the end. All the jam will arrive every other
Lightning Basically, the main thing you need to know from the news to speak to you fellow humans is that a fella was hit by lightning and that he's alive and hopefully going to recover fully. This is everyone's chance to dust off their personal favourite
Crime With the courts closed and nothing else moving on a sunny Summer Bank Holiday Sunday, we're left with reporting on police activity as the final available form of official news. So, today we have shootings, assault on children and so on as the main breaking news. While
The Greatest Muhammad Ali's life story was too big for one life, so it overflowed and poured into everyone else's life story too. He fought for himself and, because he was an irresistibly attractive other, he fought for them too. The sport he played didn'
Court Reports It's a very sunny Friday of a Bank Holiday. Which means all our usual news sources are in beergardens- except for the courts! So, we've got guilty verdicts and innocent verdicts. It's all very official and newsy. Guy who worked for Irish
Health stuff Northern Ireland says gay men can give blood after all. But not marry. We're keeping it contiwise. The Minister for Health, who's a youngfella with a grand head of hair on him, says he wants everyone to agree with a policy that will take
Birmingham Bombs The Birmingham pub bombings from the 1970s are going to be looked at again, as they are now an official error so the UK State can acknowledge that. Who knows, maybe it will turn out a dead person was to blame. Gorillas (deceased) A faraway zoo shot a
Garda Numbers The Minister for Justice says she'll give more stuff to the police in a bit over gangs and maybe even more police, but not for years. She also wishes we'd stop asking her hard questions about them. Europe Water Thing Some sort of thing