As you probably all know, Ireland’s Top Model - Katy French, said goodbye to this cruel world just a few short hours ago in the arms of her sister Jill at Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan. Another victim of Ireland’s impressive record in the ‘World coke-snorting Championships’. Of course, your not likely to hear the mainstream media say that. It’s waaaaaay too insensitive to say something like that about one of our darling dead Tiger Cubs. According to the latest press reports, Katy French was not, (as many people believed) going a bit heavy on the nose powder at a party when she collapsed. In fact, she wasn’t even at a party. She was merely over at a friends house having a chat… and there were lots of other people there… and it was around 3am, when all of a sudden, she had a mysterious seizure leading to multiple heart attacks. Yeah right. I’ve seen that girl do a bungee jump, there was fuck all wrong with her heart then. And what exactly were all these people doing at 3am, if not ‘partying’? Playing poxy Scrabble?

As I write this, there still been no formal Garda investigation launched into the circumstances of her death, any by all accounts they seem to be taking a very sensitive approach to the matter. Asking a couple of questions here and there, not causing a big fuss. Just keeping themselves to themselves really.

Rewind a couple of days before this awful tragedy, and you might recall that another young man died due to overdosing on the nation’s favourite sugar substitute. His name (in case you’ve already forgotten) was Kevin Doyle, and his friend, John Grey is still in a critical condition at Waterford Regional Hospital. In this situation, however, the Gardai were called in, the house was raided and people were arrested. The media promptly made sure everyone knew that these boys were ‘no-angels’ and were speculating as to what exactly was in the ‘cocktail of drugs’ they had taken. There was no big 6-page spread on the tragic loss of life for this young man, as I’m sure we’ll see in the morning for Ms French. Why not? Well, as it turns out, the lads happened to come from the Sunny Southeast’s Capital of Crime - Ballybeg in Waterford City. And for that reason we are not supposed to give a shit about them.

So what exactly does this say about the ‘unbiased’ media reporting in Ireland? It doesn’t fucking exist, that what it says. I wholeheartedly apologise for the insensitive nature of this post but it drives me absolutely mad to see this kind of bullshit two-tier society crap going on. Whilst Katy French won’t be soon forgotten, Kevin Doyle will hardly even be remembered.

H

**UPDATE**

It’s now 12:51 pm and I’ve come to learn that an official Garda investigation into Katy’s death is now underway. You’re on the ball there lads. The friends have only had 4 days to get the place cleaned up and get their stories straight. Can’t wait to see how this pans out…

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