Recent content by Petra

After the Paris FX fiasco they really should have brought back the line judges ... could have sworn both of "Putina's" footsies went out of bounds. She must be well used to not seeing her flag and anthem by now.

Don’t presume to assume. Given the statistics it’s an educated guess that she comes from an immigrant family. You haven’t proved any point. My point is you can’t back up what you claim. Well that proves your colonial mentality.

Keep your racism out of other countries.

MaryClare don’t presume to know the country you don’t even live in. Immigrants have only relatively recently arrived into the country. Try imagining what the average Ukrainian child is going through in Russia … or the average Irish child in UK , NI .

People really need to stop copying race issues in America and applying them to countries that have only recently taken in immigrants.

I think the pqrents of the child are just looking for financial compensation … you know “compo culture” .

The mother allegedly refused to meet the official when offered. There is more to this story than is now known. If the mother really cared about her kid and privacy then how did the video end up on the internet? Explain the “systemic racism”?

Huge pressure from the media, vicious online mob etc. Gym Ireland doesn’t have much funding and probably didn’t have good legal counsel.

There is a longer version of the video. Whoever edited it to look like it was racist was sh*t stirring. The mother of the child kept this up for a year and a half. She has an agenda … ££££££ $$$$$$$$$. There is no way this video just happened to appear on the internet all of a sudden in it’s...

This video is edited. You can look at this thread on Reddit in the Ireland section where some reasonable people offered a simple explanation. The child placed on the “Winner’s Podium” and was due to get that medal. She was in the line-up to get what is known as a “Participation Medal”. There...