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AA IRELAND is warning motorists of “very significant price rises” for petrol in the coming fortnight, with prices possibly hitting a record €1.70 a litre over that period.
Conor Faughnan, AA Ireland’s director of policy, told the Marian Finucane programme on RTÉ that industry sources were indicating a serious hike in petrol prices due to the rising global demand for fuel.
However, Faughnan said that the level of “super-taxes” imposed on fuels in Ireland is the single biggest factor in high petrol prices here.
Faughnan said that petrol price variations between countries was down to different tax systems. “A tax-free litre of petrol would cost somewhere between 75 and 80 cent a litre,” he said, adding that oil barrel prices and currency fluctuations “really only affect a portion of the pump price – the great wedge is tax.”
“If you’ve got super-taxes, and rising oil prices, and a fall in the euro, it’s that combination that is likely to see us paying €1.70 a litre.”
He suggested the price problem could be alleviated by cutting the taxes imposed on fuel in Ireland.
According to the latest prices on Pumps.ie, petrol prices around Ireland currently range from around €1.60 a litre upwards. AA Ireland figures show the average price for unleaded petrol in Ireland is €1.63 a litre and €1.54 a litre for diesel.
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The lowest common denominator of society listen to and comment on that show. It’s a skangers forum with no value whatsoever.
It’s well reported that FM104 have employees call in and bait other callers to bring out the worst in people.
@David Mac Shite: I wonder if you used the term skangers on his show would someone complain?
Skangers arnt a vulnerable group they’re the predators and leeches never the victims
..and no I don’t mean working class people. I mean skangers. We all know the difference
@Mr Snuffleupagus: I wonder do online ‘news’ sites have employees comment and bait other commenters to bring out the worst in people.
Don’t they all. You can predict who’ll be on 4fm, 98fm and fm104 talk shows – you can count on one hand ‘new’ callers.
If you point this out you get “there’s a button on the side!”
The researchers on fm104 only let you on if you imply you’ll come out with stupidity. Seriously ring them yourself and try bring studies and statistics on they’ll hang up, bring a divisive attitude and you’ll be on in no time! Tabloid radio
Probably some one from FM104 for publicity . Sure aren’t we all talking about it now .
I’m with FM104 on this. People will say stupid things in these shows if the presenter and other callers challenged them I can’t see why Fam104 are responsible
This show is for trailer trash. It gives the uneducated dregs of society air time and makes Chris Barry feel like some sort of intellectual – Of course it’s all relative in relation to that.
@Barry Davidson: I think you’ve answered yourself, Barry. Because the presenter, i.e. an employee and the public representative of 104, allowed the comments to go unchallenged. Hence FM104′s responsibility.
It’s like complaining about a fight breaking out on Jerry Springer.
Its quite obvious that the caller to the show is pure ignorant of being someone that has ever had the privilege of interacting with a person who happened to be born through no fault of their with a special need or who happened to have an accident or illness of some kind that over night became disabled. I happen to be the mother of a child with special needs and know first hand the challenges of life a child or adult have to go through everyday, I am blessed and extremely privileged to help my child grow to the best he can ever be in his life with manners even though he is almost none verbal brought up to respect all. I can assure you that person on the radio is extremely challenged and not quite alright in the head, but one day he may face the challenges of a person with a special need maybe he might be introduced to a child, grandchild parent with dementia or maybe he might be the person that indeed needs the help through old age or some other karma, so people like him will have their day. He also sounds very uneducated and miserable in he own ignorance I do feel sorry for people like that as they miss out on so much in society when one can’t see through ignorance then one is truly blind.
The restrictions to public broadcasting are ridiculous in this country. Even idiots have free speech and if a private company wants to allow one of them to air their idiotic views so they can be challenged then they should be allowed to. How is censoring such conversions going to help educate anyone who holds such beliefs.
@Awkward Seal: I agree to a point. I’d like to see us adopt a first amendment approach.
@Awkward Seal: I think one of the main issues was not challenging the speaker and their outrageously ignorant remarks
Why do people think we have freedom of speech? That is an American thing which most of Europe doesn’t have. You can not incite hatred for a very good reason and the US has a problem with nut jobs and freedom of speech. Europe learned from having Nazis.
We should have freedom of speech. There are obvious limits on it but offence shouldn’t be one of them. I haven’t listened to the program (I’d rather pour superglue in my ears than listen to fm104) but I’m lead to believe that the ideas expressed were called stupid and offensive.
Did the person who made the complaint realise what show they were on? Was it their first time ever listening? If people can’t see that these shows are the Jeremy Kyle of the Irish radio waves, then they have other problems besides their indignation and horror. A bunch of skangers blowing off steam every night can hardly be taken seriously. If you don’t know the definition of Skanger, see
Oh the humanity!!
Or lack thereof
I like this show, but plenty of low lifes are calling in. Chris is always very good though. Another day some guy had a beef with ticket controllers that are usually of different skin colour as he described. He was ranting he’s been hassled by them and his teenage son like 50 or more times. Man was raging there. I’ve never been hassled, not even once by them and I’ve been using public transport for years. Maybe because in contrast to that caller… I pay for my fares? How dare some foreign person demanded from him to have a valid ticket lol… People of that sort are sadly calling in all the time, good for some laugh though… cant win with stupid.
Some people can get away with saying anything, whilst others have to be as careful as they would be when walking on eggshells.
Just look at the hullabaloo when Panti said that David Squint, Breeder O’Lyin’, Patricia Crazy and John Slobbers at the Iona “institute” were homophobic – which is about as inaccurate as saying the Pope is a Catholic – and those religious whack jobs trousered the guts of 100 grand without the matter even needing to go to court.
Does it really matter what some eejit says when he or she gets on the radio for a minute or two? Does anyone take such fools seriously? The same people would never dare to use insulting terms to handicapped people to their faces and they might be more careful what they say on radio as well if their identities were verified before they were allowed to speak on air. If anyone makes a disgraceful remark about “mongoes”, for example, just make sure the presenter then says: “well Joe Soap of Coote Street, Portlaoise, that’s your opinion, but I can’t say I admire you for it.”
@David Quim: I think you’re last sentence sums up the issue, the complaint was upheld as the BAI felt, that the presenter didn’t challenge the comments in an appropriate enough manner.
It not one of our best radio stations, and they let that Person rubbish these Children for what, because he hated them Barry should have seen where this was going and nipped in the but.
Before it so far.
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