Live aid 40 years on

[jimmym]

You can hear the pleas already...These kids loved it here, surely they should be allowed stay,

 

[Kimeartimmyboy]

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon. Those would be the other big three. Lots of other long running or low level conflicts that would rarely make the news.

Umm, Afghanistan was fairly spicy then too.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

You can hear the pleas already...These kids loved it here, surely they should be allowed stay,

I'm absolutely convinced that's the plan.

There are some amount of adults coming with them too.

Hopefully the Irish government use this as a watershed moment to show that we are starting to take immigration seriously.

33 children plus a number of adults travelling from a war torn country for a hurling tournament lol. Yeah right.

 

[steve sanders]

away from the politcal side, what a lot of people from this side of the atlantic forget or don't know, was that there was a US live aid concert on the same day.

joan baez, tom petty, dylan, the stones, the who, csny, beach boys etc. jack nicholson in a hosting / mc capacity.

queen still did "win" live aid nonetheless.

 

[Mike Strutter]

Apart from the Ethiopian region, I can't think of any other wars in 1985 tbh.

The six counties !!

 

[Warm Leatherette]

Umm, Afghanistan was fairly spicy then too.

Yeah, I forgot about that.

 

[Mike Strutter]

We should have another concert for Palestine.

Mary Lou can sing at it

Kneecap are doing that already and quite regularly too

 

[jimmym]

In the song your love is king does Sade say..you kiss his ring?

 

[The truth seeker]

Kneecap are doing that already and quite regularly too

Can we chip in and send them to Gaza.

Swap deal.

 

[fed up]

I'm absolutely convinced that's the plan.

There are some amount of adults coming with them too.

Hopefully the Irish government use this as a watershed moment to show that we are starting to take immigration seriously.

33 children plus a number of adults travelling from a war torn country for a hurling tournament lol. Yeah right.

That would be an asylum issue and not an immigration one.

Meant to ask you about that lad working on Douglas Street that was abused by a customer. You said you never felt so ashamed of yourself for saying nothing.

Does he still work there?