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    Mute Lisa Murphy
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    Jun 17th 2015, 11:51 PM

    NY Times issued an apology – “I’m sorry if you were offended ….” Not really good enough.

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    Jun 17th 2015, 11:09 PM

    The dead should be mourned but so should those with life changing injuries

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    Mute Jules Lucas
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    Jun 17th 2015, 11:46 PM

    It was distasteful and really not appropriate for them to criticise Irish students in their reporting. These families are destroyed and it was insensitive at such a tragic and heartbreaking time. There’s a time & a place guys.

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    Mute Jimmy Murphy
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    Jun 17th 2015, 11:53 PM

    Disgusting, irresponsible & soulless journalism.

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    Jun 18th 2015, 12:57 AM

    This was a group of young people who apparently made the mistake of being Irish, drunk and standing on a faulty balcony. Are they implying that being drunk, Irish and at a party is to blame for this tragedy? Because that’s what I’m getting from that NYT article. If it was any other nationality on that J1 they would not have written the article from that angle.

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    Mute Celeste Vogel Dillon
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    Jun 18th 2015, 3:39 PM

    Correction — they were drinking —- we do not know if they were “Drunk” or for that matter how many were drinking — as a lot of young people I know do not drink!!! Assumption and presumption is the mother of all F——ups never assume you know or they know what they are talking about —- and presumption — just because they were Irish the NTY made that presumption that they were drunk, is preposterous…. we do not know !!!!!

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    Mute Ruth Durnin
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    Jun 18th 2015, 12:16 AM

    The Irish Mirror printed a supposed interview with a student that never took place.
    Total fabrication .

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    Mute John Reese
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    Jun 18th 2015, 12:06 AM

    Sadly the NY Times a once great institution and like many once great newspapers has long fallen off the cliff into gutter journalism.

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    Jun 17th 2015, 11:11 PM

    Why is the Journal taking this tragedy and using it to bait the NYT. I thinkone articlein itis enough. It was one line in one poorly judged article. There have been many similarly poor articles published on this website but because the subjects weren’t white Irish it’s all fair game. Do you hire people full time to trawl through American, Australian and UK papers to find things we can be offended by?

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    Jun 17th 2015, 11:21 PM

    No way guru. I read the article this morning and it was the tone of the first half of the article that was unsettling. Simply not true to say it was one line. Families deserve better.

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    Mute J. Dunn
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    Jun 18th 2015, 8:43 AM

    Fair share of victim blaming in the commentary of this article from just a few days ago.
    http://www.thejournal.ie/us-shark-attacks-2161970-Jun2015/

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    Mute Patricia Tsouros
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    Jun 18th 2015, 4:07 PM

    We need to remember we were all that age once, looking forward to life’s adventures. They were having a 21st party – pretty normal- they stepped out onto a badly, deadly engineered balcony and fell to their deaths – how could they know they were on a death trap. God love them, the injured and their families. The press in general have been very good with coverage and respect, the exceptions well they are not worth reading.

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    Mute Brian Kelly-Mór
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    Jun 18th 2015, 7:59 AM

    Hight quality reporting can be found no matter how fast the technology. Example:- the Parliament shooting in Ottawa last year was handled with class by the journalist in the CBC.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Jun 19th 2015, 1:01 PM

    Once again, we see a tragedy used as a vehicle for promoting an agendist concept.
    Sometimes people are victims due to combinations of circumstances and their own actions.
    How else can these events be reported?

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    Mute fact&ionlydealinfact
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    Jun 21st 2015, 6:11 PM

    I’m bored with this story now, can the next disaster hurry up please.

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