ACHIVES...MONTH BY MONTH COMENTARY ON THE REAL IRELAND
NOVEMBER 2006
Kidnap and murder plan foiled
Garda gangland swoop nets two suspects with links to drugs boss
GARDAI believe they foiled a gangland assassination in Dublin yesterday after a targeted operation.
Detectives from the recently formed Organised Crime Unit and the Emergency Response Unit had been monitoring the movements of key gangland suspects when they pounced on their targets.
Officers are satisfied the operation thwarted a plan to kidnap and murder a man as part of a vicious drugs gang feud resulting from "turf wars" on the northside of the capital.
More...Irish Independent
Mother tells of birth in field after abortion
A WOMAN, pregnant and under huge financial pressure, told an inquest how she paid for an illegal abortion and gave birth to her full-term son in a field.
The Lithuanian woman (26) said the baby was not breathing and was blue, and that she held him in her arms for a long time.
More...Irish Independent
Poverty safety net spend tops 700m in year
THE St Vincent de Paul charity spent a record 41.3m last year in response to over 300,000 requests for assistance from all over Ireland.
Publishing its annual report for 2005, the Society revealed that this 6.6pc rise in expenditure enabled it to allocate almost 794,000 each week to those in need.
More...Breaking News.ie
Charity paid out 41m to the poor in 2005
Figures 'give lie to belief there is now no poverty in Ireland'
(Someone has to pay for the greed of the patrons who keep our government in power.)
THE St Vincent de Paul charity spent a record 41.3m last year in response to over 300,000 requests for assistance from all over Ireland.
Publishing its annual report for 2005, the Society revealed that this 6.6pc rise in expenditure enabled it to allocate almost 794,000 each week to those in need.
More...Irish Independent
Anti-gridlock road scheme to get underway
(Excuse me...again!...But I thought that this was the job of Gardai/Police ALL THE TIME and not just at Xmas...'Must be taking the wrong tablets!)
The Operation Freeflow traffic management plan for Dublin will swing into action at 6.30am tomorrow.
Dozens of dedicated traffic gardaν will be backed by an extra 163 student officers for the six-week initiative to ease gridlock during Christmas and the New Year.
More...Breaking News.ie
Measley 3 years for thug who killed two teenage girls while out joyriding
(You can bet that this thug has a string of convictions and will be out to carry on as before in 2 years. Better still...HE MIGHT BE SUITABLE FOR CUMMUNITY SERVICE???)
David Naughton (19) was jailed for three years after he pleaded guilty at Ennis Circuit Court last month to dangerous driving causing the death of Stacey Haugh (16) and Lorna Mahoney from Kilkee on October 17, 2003. Imposing sentence, Judge Con Murphy said that Naughton was on a campaign of dangerous driving on the night in question. He was 15 at the time and bought the green 1984 Opel Cadette that he crashed, with the two girls as passengers, for 60 on the day of the accident.
More...Irish Independent
Great day out in court...Naked prisoner and riot police.
(These guys just might qualify for community service...See their CV...HERE)
Members of the public had to evacuate the courthouse after an altercation at Cloverhill prison where Dumbrell has been in custody awaiting trial.
Officers with riot helmets, bullet-proof vests and batons cleared the courthouse, home to the High Court bail list each Monday, and asked the public to vacate the building.
Earlier this month, Dumbrell (32) and his brother Jeffrey (26) were charged with the murder of a father-of-six near his home in a Dublin flats complex.
More...Irish Independent
Restaurant with no Irish accents
He'd better get used to it. The army of immigrants are driving the Irish economy and we're going to need at least 300,000 more by 2020 to keep our boom alive.
To the man in the restaurant, the misunderstood Polish immigrant serving him tea and a bun is doing a menial job - the kind of task that many Irish workers now turn their noses up at.
More...Irish Independent
House buyers still being screwed...They pay four times more tax than investors
(So many being shafted by so few...with the help of our 'government'.)
The tax saving for a first-time buyer married couple is 1,600. For a non first-time buyer couple, the tax saving is 1,016.
An investor renting the property, in contract, would have a tax saving of 4,700 (10,000 at 42pc income tax and 5pc PRSI and health levy). That means the investor is making four times the saving than the (non first-time buyer) couple is making. This is based on figures worked out by tax specialist Sandra Gannon.
More...Irish Independent
Man shot dead in Drogheda
Gunman posed as worker to carry out hit
'Dirty dozen' listed in Reay murder hunt...More
(This 'victim' normally wore a bullet-proof vest but he appears to have left it at home because he was on his way to court to answer drug charges.
Is the gun the real law in this country?)
A GUNMAN posed as a road worker to flag down his victim's car in Drogheda yesterday and then pumped at least three bullets into his chest.
Paul Reay (26) is believed to have been shot dead because his killers thought he had tipped off the gardai about a big drugs haul seized near Athboy, Co Meath, last August.
More...Irish Independent
TWO YOUNG MOTHERS SHOT DEAD IN LAST SEVEN MONTHS
Children left without a mother after shootingGardai to interview jailed husband as hunt stepped up
LATEST...Killer may have called to Baiba's home earlier
Baiba knew of hit being planned and gave gardai victim statement (Her solicitor got the protection)
Bullet-proof vests and a shy counsel...More
Limerick gang suspected of carrying out murder ...More
Baiba suspect is 'notorious career criminal'...More
Baiba forced to move after car set on fire...More
Gardai probe crime web after mum's murder...More
Traumatised Baiba witnesses make plea for counselling...More
(THE SOLICITOR ACTING FOR BAIBA SAULITE HAS FLED THE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF DEATH THREATS...RTE News 22-11-06
It now appears that this solicitor was under armed guard while it appears that the victim was not.)
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Latvian woman Baiba Saulite was shot dead on the doorstep of her north Dublin home in what detectives fear was a contract killing. Her two small sons were asleep upstairs at the time.
More...Irish Independent
Death threat made to murder victim's solicitor... More
Inquest into the death of a young woman who was shot on her doorstep March 05 '06 adjourned.
(This thug, who was known to be violent, was running about with 28 CONVICTIONS.
What would be so wrong with protecting the majority of society who are law abiding by keeping him locked up...forever if necessary. Lucky enough, this thug managed to extricate himself from the 'gene pool'.)
Foster, a heroin addict from Woodbank Avenue, Finglas, had 28 criminal convictions. He was also a prime suspect for a number of recent big robberies in the Dublin area. Three eyewitnesses, who knew Foster, were prepared to identify him as the gunman who opened fire with a 9mm handgun as he leaned across the bonnet of a silver Volvo. Foster had earlier been refused entry to a party at the house, although a group of his associates were told they could attend.
More...Breaking News.ie
Pub customers terrified by maniac with shotgun
(So long as nobody smokes on the premises it's OK!)
A MAN is to appear in court this morning on assault and weapons charges after a gunman, who had been refused entry, threatened customers and staff at a busy pub with a sawn-off shotgun.
More...Irish Independent
State subsidising officials to drive gas-guzzling cars
(I often wondered what Officials do...They go for a drive sometimes)
The rates will allow councillors travelling from Dublin to Donegal in a large car to attend a conference or meeting to claim 382 in round-trip mileage expenses. The same official driving a car with an engine capacity below 1,200cc will earn just 252 for the same journey.
Environmental campaigners criticised the mileage hike and said it was "flying in the face of Department of Environment policy on sustainable motoring and pollution control".
More...Irish Independent
Barrister accused of passing drugs to prison inmate
(The easiest place to get drugs in Ireland is in the prisons.)
It is believed that the lawyer had been in consultation with his client when he passed him what appeared to be a new, sealed, packet of cigarettes.
However, a prison officer noticed the exchange and immediately intercepted the packet which was then handed to court gardai.
More...Irish Independent
Grenade attack on house in Swords
RESIDENTS in a Swords estate have admitted they are pretty scared after a grenade attack on a house in Ridgewood Green - the third violent crime in the area in the past 13 months.
Although no one was injured in the explosion, damage was caused to the property, according to gardaν.
Swords Gardai are investigating a grenade attack on a house at Ridgewood Green on November 6 last, at 9.30pm. They are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
More...Irish Independent
Crime blackspot estates earmarked for 100m government facelift
(If the authorities removed the thugs from the estate, it would rejuvenate itself. What else can you expect when you have a riot involving up to 30 thugs attacking the Gardai and other services and only one arrest?)
ONE of the country's most troubled housing estates received an early Christmas present yesterday with the news that the Government and local authority are set to invest around 100m in a major regeneration package.
More...Irish Independent
125 women killed since 1996
(More discernment required when picking partners. It's amazing what some women settle for.)
Each framed picture on the dark cloth was a reminder of just how many evil domestic abusers have preyed on innocent Irish women during the past 10 years. Above the black blanket, members of the women's support group stood beside a large placard: "125 women have been murdered in Ireland - 80 of these women were murdered in their own homes," and held a minute's silence.
More...Irish Independent
Convict gets four years jail over threat
(Here we go again...unleash the thugs and to hell with protecting the public.)
A 34-YEAR-old man who threatened to gouge out another man's eyeballs and kill him has been jailed for four years.
Michael Devoy from Balbutcher Dr, Poppintree, Ballymun, Co Dublin, was only weeks out of prison for a similar offence when he told gardai that he would find Mr Eddie McElligot in prison, slash his face with razor blades, gouge out his eyes and smash his head.
More...Irish Independent
Mother of targeted girl could not find a garda for three days
(Foreigners are starting to realise that there are easy pickings here and not being able to report a potential crime for three days only confirms their suspicions.)
THE mother of a 15-year-old girl who was targeted by a man who tried to lure her into his car has said it took three days before she could find a garda in the town to report the incident to.
The woman told how a black man beckoned her daughter over to his car in Skerries, north Dublin, on Saturday, September 30.
More...Irish Independent
Planning 'still not as clean as it should be'
(Where there is big money and no government controls, sculduggery will thrive. )
THE "heavy gang" of lobbyist Frank Dunlop, builders and developers used their power to ensure planning decisions were pushed through Dublin Co Council, a TD told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.
"Frank Dunlop in my opinion debased the whole planning process and unless ordinary landowners knew the system they hadn't a hope of getting their land re-zoned unless they were in the circle", Labour's Sean Ryan said yesterday.
More...Irish Independent
Ship workers 'earn 2 an hour'
(Must be run by an Irish 'businessman'!)
FERRY company Norfolk Line last night expressed surprise and concern at allegations made by union officials that crew aboard a ship operated by the company were earning as little as 2 an hour.
Ken Fleming, of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), said that he carried out an inspection aboard the Merchant Bravery yesterday morning and uncovered evidence of double bookkeeping and parallel contracts of employment.
More...Irish Independent
Buses into UCD halted after late night vandalism
BUS drivers have halted late night services into the UCD campus following reports of damage to buses by drunken students who also exposed themselves in full view of CCTV cameras.
Services after 10pm were halted after Dublin Bus drivers reported seats being slashed, a window pushed out and also people urinating and exposing themselves on the upper platform of the number 10/A service.
More...Irish Independent
GAA probe as final ends in ugly brawl
After what can best be described as an 'ugly' week for Carlow G.A.A. the County Board is set to launch a full investigation into the abandoning of their county Minor football league final.
Referee P.J. Reamsbotham was forced to abandon the Eire Og/Mt. Leinster Rangers Minor league final at Spellman Park nine minutes from the end after some of the most ugly scenes ever witnessed in an under-age game in the county.
More...Irish Independent
Our lax rules are creating a 'paradise for perverts'
Child experts fear convicted paedophiles are flocking here
British paedophile gave gardai slip in a matter of hours... More
Convicted paedophiles are making their way here from Britain on their release because of tougher surveillance on their activities there.
Child experts blamed our 'archaic' regime for this.
The warning came as it emerged that one of Britain's most wanted sex offenders has been living and working in Donegal under a false name for almost two years.
More...Irish Independent
The familiar, isolated haunt of evil attackers
LATEST...Man arrested in Tralee...More
THE LONELY and isolated roads that track through the mountains of the Dublin/Wicklow border have all too often been the site of vicious and deadly attacks on women.
The remote location chosen for the brutal assault of a young woman at the weekend is close to where others have suffered similar crimes or an even deadlier fate.
More...Irish Independent
Gang-rape victim's cries for assistance were ignored
(Women being dragged off the streets of Dublin and gang raped
This is the fourth incident of this nature...are the media trying to keep it quiet?
The first report of the incident said that the woman was sexually assaulted and now it's 'gang raped'???)
They are particularly anxious to speak to people who unwittingly ignored her cries for help as she was being frog-marched by a man from Cathal Brugha Street along Parnell Street and into the Kings Court apartments around 2am on Saturday morning.
Passers-by innocently believed that it was simplya couple having an after-drinks row.
They are asked to come forward now and help gardai build up a better picture of at least that man, as he was one of the three rapists who attacked her in a Parnell Street apartment block.
More...Sunday Independent
Pope may approve use of condoms
(Can feel an anticipatory 'throb' already!)
STRONG hints emerged yesterday that the Vatican is preparing to change its policy on the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS.
A 200-page study on the question, commissioned by the pope, is being passed to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for consideration.
More...Irish Independent
Prosecuted care homes owned by developer
TWO nursing homes being prosecuted for alleged breaches of care regulations are owned by a company headed by leading property developer Terry Devey, it was confirmed yesterday.
His company, Devey Healthcare, also owns St Doolagh's nursing home in Balbriggan in Dublin, which has been told not to admit any more residents.
Generous tax incentives to build nursing homes have led to a growing number of property developers becoming involved in the business in recent years.
More...Irish Independent
Manchester properties worth 2.2m frozen in IRA probe
MORE than stg£1.5m (2.21m) worth of property in Manchester belonging to the brother of top republican Thomas "Slab" Murphy has been frozen.
The British Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted orders at the High Court in London halting the sale of 10 homes as part of a major inquiry into alleged money laundering, fuel smuggling and mortgage fraud linked to the Provisional IRA.
More...Irish Independent
Fingerprints crackdown on identity abuse
A STATE-of-the-art electronic fingerprint system is to form part of a new crackdown on identity abuse by illegal immigrants.
Work on installing the 18m system, bought for the gardai and the immigration service, will begin immediately.
It will replace the existing measures in use by the Garda Technical Bureau and the existing fingerprinting scheme for asylum seekers in the office of the refugee applications commissioner.
More...Irish Independent
Families with a grim choice are pinpointed
MOST households on social welfare or the minimum wage do not have enough money to make ends meet.
A family of two parents with two older children that is dependent on unemployment benefit gets 163 less each week than the minimum to meet essential lifestyle needs, a new study by the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice found.
More...Irish Independent
Don't worry: they have the same issues in Russia . . .
IF it's any consolation, they probably worry about the same things in Colombia and Russia - frightening levels of crime and a dodgy electoral register.
Is it any wonder a gloom hung over Dail Eireann yesterday as our elected representatives pondered the nation's state of affairs?
We may be rich, but at what price has come our fortune?
More...Irish Independent
Victims 'should be let kill home intruders'
(One man who did got 6 years in jail. The traveller culprit who had a string of convictions and whose family aquired more convictions since couldn't possibly be at fault here.
Search for 'Padraig Nally' on Google.)
Eight people have been killed in their homes since 2000 - four in the last 14 months alone - and there are an estimated 500 burglaries carried out each week.
The stage has now been set for another intensive debate on home-defence laws and marks the first step towards the enactment of so-called "make-my-day" laws that sanction force in self-defence and the defence of property on the basis of reasonable response to violence.
More...Irish Independent
FG will set up boot (galoot) camps to deal with young offenders
(Getting near a General Election...The 'political footballs' are being broken out already. As usual, there will be debate after debate and nothing constructive will be achieved.)
The Government is about to introduce ASBOs (anti-social behaviour orders) from next year, and Fine Gael will want to appear just as tough, if not tougher, on lawlessness.
The party denied last night that it was pandering to a "hang 'em and flog 'em" wing within its ranks. But a Fianna Fail source commented: "What's next for Fine Gael - bringing back the birch? This is an outlandish idea, a crowd pleaser that could have hidden dangers."
Fine Gael defence spokesman Billy Timmins confirmed yesterday that he had been asked by Enda Kenny to look at ways in which the Defence Forces "could be used to make a contribution to wider issues in Irish society".
More...Irish Independent
US court bid to make Irish church pay for priest's abuse
(Proper order...The tax payer had to fund most of these types of claims in Ireland.
As usual, our government bailed out the perverts.)
A LANDMARK US court case aims to make an Irish archdiocese financially liable for child sex abuse committed in America by an Irish priest.
Senior Irish church figures have been questioned in connection with the case. It is being taken in San Joaquin, Orange County in California.
The case, which centres on paedophile priest Oliver O'Grady, is the first to try to make a diocese in one country financially liable for abuse carried out in another. It lists the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly as a co-defendant.
More...Irish Independent
Imams must stand up and be counted
(Some people have counted too many already.
I was born in 1948 and all I can remember of my upbringing was the all pervasive intellectually castrating sickness of relegion and just when there appeared to be a light at the end of the tunnel, along comes a deluge of a multitude of 'believers' whose sole purpose seems to be to impose their 'camel jockey philosophies' on the Irish people.
I would be obliged if these people didn't dangle their relegious symbols in my face...Thank you!)
Therefore, it was very disappointing to read Imam Yahya al-Hussein of the South Circular Road Mosque, and vice-chairman of the newly established Irish Council of Imams, refusing to condemn suicide bombings in Palestine and Iraq and making veiled threats against non-Muslims into the bargain. Such behaviour is totally un-Islamic.
As a Muslim cleric I totally condemn murder by the Israeli defence forces and the US military, but I also condemn the murder of innocents by those claiming to be Muslims. In this I know I have the support of the majority of Irish Muslims - who repudiate the extremists from all sides.
More...Sunday Independent
Corrupt company's link to Sinn Fein $375,000 fundraiser
(Would like to take this opportunity to thank all our Irish-American friends for their financial support for our great IRA heroes...The bombs and bullets worked great!)
AN EX-PAT founder of a corrupt US building firm has emerged as the main organiser of a fundraising event in New York two weeks ago which raised $375,000 for Sinn Fein, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
The fundraising dinner, hosted by Friends of Sinn Fein, was the first such event attended by Gerry Adams since a ban on him raising money in the US was lifted.
More...Sunday Independent
'History catching up with Provos' - O'Malley...MORE
Meticulous records reveal extent of IRA's criminal operations...MORE
FF politician heads off to 'glamorous' Barbados
(Why not have this 'conference' in some of the poor countries who are suffering from water shortages...perhaps they check out the problems close up and maybe come up with some solutions. Anyway, the local economy would benefit if nothing else came of it.)
Some 70 MEPs (about a tenth of the parliament), 84 officials, and 30 interpreters - led by UK MEP Glenys Kinnock - headed out last night and today to Bridgetown in Barbados for the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
The MEPs will be staying in some of the world's most luxurious resort hotels with politicians from some of the world's poorest nations. They are also entitled to claim over 130 a day in expenses.
More...Sunday Independent
999 medic savagely beaten by gang of youths
(This is a regular occurrence...The thugs call out the emergency services so that they can attack them. There's a very strong chance that no thug will be brought to book for this.)
The teenage gang, armed with a baseball bat, attacked the two paramedics in the Southill area of the city at 7 o'clock on Thursday night.
The youths kicked, punched, spat and threw rocks at the paramedics in the O'Malley Park area of the southside estate.
Minutes beforehand, the emergency services had received a 999 call stating that a 14-year-old girl was drunk and uncontrollable in O'Malley Park.
More...Irish Independent
MORE CORRUPTION???
19 Nov '06 Sunday Tribune: Judge Curtin is currently a director of a music school in Tralee that includes children and has been since 2002 when he was first suspected of the possession of child porn.(When it comes to the 'stupidity stakes' the Irish just don't know when to quit.)
LATEST...Revealed: Curtin's child porn disgrace
(If I, as an ordinary citizen was found to have just a few of these images on my PC...I would spend time in jail and rightly so. But this pervert, was indirectly shieled from prosecution because he was a member of the cosy little 'closed shop' called The Judiciary.
DON'T FORGET...That it's perverts like 'our learned friend' who, by seeking out such material, cause more children to suffer by increasing the demand.
The most reprehensible crime of all is to betray the trust of an innocent child.)
The images he downloaded from a US website were described as "vile", "sickening" and "unimaginably cruel".
This newspaper has also learned about Curtin's habit of frequenting internet chatrooms and about the details from notebooks and diaries of the codes he used to enter them.
We also reveal that Curtin (54) used false names and kept records of those he communicated with in those chatrooms.
More...Irish Independent
Depraved? You be the judge
Ailing Curtin doomed to life under murky cloud of doubt...
The murky details...HERE
Strange case of Judge Curtin...More
Disgraced judge Curtin quits after failing to halt Dail inquiry
(This galoot who was appointed a judge in our 'legal system' among other matters was found driving while drunk and for FOUR YEARS has been drawing E150,000 a year for doing nothing and now gets E19,000 a year pension.
And it's going to cost the taxpayer about E500,000 to finance his defence of the indefensible.
Did the Gardai who initially went to arrest the judge not know what day and time it was?
Must poor 'Joe Sixpact" be kicked in the genitals on a regular basis by the so-called establishment.
You only have to look at some recent outcomes of court cases to know that 'organic brain damage' is rampant in our judicial system.)
Lawyers for the judge produced new medical evidence that he had been recently diagnosed with organic brain damage. But it was not sufficient to persuade the all-party committee to delay its hearings any further.
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If granted such a reduced pension, he will get a sum of about 19,000 a year and a lump sum of 57,000, which includes monies he paid into his pension fund.
The judge's resignation brought to a close the unprecedented inquiry which has been delayed by 30 months because of his two unsuccessful court challenges.
More...Irish Independent
The biggest scandal in the judiciary since the foundation of the State...More
New push to roll out high-speed internet access
(Eircom have the monopoly on telephone lines...This should have been a priority years ago...Another 'political football'.)
Now the Department of Communications has earmarked extra cash to ensure services are brought to the 10pc-15pc of the population who cannot receive broadband. This comes despite the fact that just 13pc of Irish households are actually connected to a broadband service.
More...Irish Independent
13 years later, we're still paying the beef bill
(27m...mostly paid to the legal profession to create a smokescreen so the their political pals didn't have to do jail.
Again...CORRUPTION AT IT'S BEST.)
All these bills were for legal costs approved by the Taxing Master so they could not be contested, he said.
The Beef Tribunal, which finished in 1993, was the first State inquiry to probe the relationship between big business and politics and has already cost the taxpayer more than 27m.
More...Irish Independent
More families plunging into debt to meet household bills
(Not everybody is getting wealthy here.)
Overall one in 10 households last year were "experiencing debt problems arising from ordinary living expenses" and the number is up from 8.7pc in 2004, the CSO said.
This involved debt brought about by routine costs such as meeting ordinary household bills, school or Christmas expenses, the survey on Income and Living Conditions found.
More...Irish Independent
Joyrider found guilty after headbutting TD during row
(This thug is one of many social terrorists who operate with impunity in housing estates all over the country...terrorising their local neighbourhoods in stolen vehicles that YOU and ME pay for with our taxes and insurance premiums...not to mention the fact that some decent person bought this car to take him/her to work and this thug wrecks it for a laugh. Anyone with 32 convictions should be doing 10 years in jail. The protection of the public at large doesn't seem to come into the equation at all.
AND NOW THE JUDGE WANTS TO SEE IF HE WOULD BE SUITABLE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE!!!)
Sinn Fein's Aengus Σ Snodaigh managed to throw his attacker, Mark Moran (23), into a garden hedge in an effort to defend himself before gardai arrived.
Moran, who has 32 previous convictions (mostly for car-related crime), had been doing 360 degree handbrake turns near Mr Σ Snodaigh's home in Ballyfermot, Dublin.
Moran, a tyre-fitter from Cremona Road, Ballyfermot, was at the time under a five-year ban for a previous uninsured driving offence.
More...Irish Independent
CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF HOW CORRUPTION WORKS
State agrees to buy West-Link toll bridge for 600m(This scenario is the result of deals done between crooked or stupid politicians and greedy business crooks who saw an opportunity to screw the motorist for over 20 years. Toll roads were initially invented to pay for road improvements which facilitated the free movement of traffic...in other words, you are paying for a service that enables you to go from A to B as efficiently as possible...not a bad deal. In Ireland on the M50 you pay road tolls to be held up...where else in the world would you pay to be in a traffic jam caused by the fact that you have to pay to be in it? And now our stupid government have to pay 1m a week to a bunch of crooks UNTIL 2035!!! And not one of our brass neck politicians, when asked about this debacle, shows even a modicum of embarressment.)
Lifting the toll bridge barriers before the M50 upgrade is finished would be a "disaster", the Taoiseach said yesterday, as it would just move the traffic jam elsewhere.
The Government is in the final stages of buying out the toll franchise from NTR for around 600m.
Mr Ahern said the cost of compensating National Toll Roads is estimated at 45m a year up to 2020.
More...Irish Independent
Traffic chaos on the double
Port Tunnel trucks 'nightmare' on M50
MOTORISTS face traffic chaos on the double after the Port Tunnel opens next month.
Thousands of extra trucks will flood onto the already-congested M50 from the tunnel. They will hold up traffic as they scramble to get across lanes in time to link up with the M50.
Truck drivers will have just one kilometre of frequently jammed roadway in which to change lanes by cutting across one of the fastest-moving traffic lanes in the country.
More...Irish Independent
OUR SPECIAL ETHNIC GROUP...THE TRAVELLERS
Cancelled wedding sparked family 'ambush'(These 'travellers' can't seem to have any sort of gathering without a visit to the hardware shop first...they seem to be trying to out-do each other in this respect to see who can aquire the more 'exotic' implement. Of course the odd shotgun helps to top off the collection.)
Bride-to-be Martina Cash, from the Bonnettstown Road, discovered her fiance Thomas Cash had cheated on her.
The row took place just outside the village of Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny.
A jury found that the husband and wife and two of their sons had "ambushed" their second cousins, four members of the Cash family from Ballyconra, Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny.
One son was also convicted of serious assaults on two relatives. Edward Cash was found guilty of assault causing harm to his cousins Quigh and Thomas Cash from Ballyragget.
Elizabeth Cash was acquitted of assault causing harm to Andrew Cash. Johnny Cash was cleared of violent disorder; and Michael Cash jnr was cleared of assault causing harm to Quigh Cash and an assault on Edward Cash.
More...Irish Independent
Heavy garda security at aborted death threat trial
TIGHT security surrounded the opening of a trial in Galway yesterday in which a 32-year-old local man is accused of threatening to kill another man.
Up to 30 uniformed and plain clothes Gardai took up position at all entrances to the courthouse while detectives armed with Uzi sub-machine guns manned the main doorway leading to the Circuit Criminal Court.
More...Irish Independent
Traveller assaults American airline attendant
Woman kicked after spurning advances
The woman who is a staff member of American Trans Air (ATA) Airlines was kicked and punched in the toilets of the South Court Hotel in Raheen, Limerick last Tuesday night.
Gardai believe the culprit is a member of a well-known Traveller family based in Limerick with a history of violence and assault on members of the public in the city.
More...Irish Independent
More recognition for the travellers...HERE
Five years' jail for firebomb attack on Green councillor
(It's guaranteed that this thug won't even do three years...just a 'slap on the wrist' for a would-be murderer. This is not the first time that death threats have been sent to politicians who stand up to these thugs as can be seen...HERE)
More than 55,000 worth of damage was caused to the Loughmahon house in the petrol bomb attack.
The court heard that Quinn's attack on the Green Party official's home followed a crime rampage that had included throwing a brick through the window of a house owned by a blind mother of five young children. The woman also had her car vandalised, with substantial damage caused.
The attack on Cllr O'Leary's home involved a container of flammable liquid being thrown against the front door. Both the door and its surrounds caught fire. Cllr O'Leary awoke when he thought he heard a noise. On noticing the smoke, was able to get his family into the back garden to safety.
More...Irish Independent
Patient lost both legs after MRSA bug hit hospital
(You could wait for years to get into a hospital in Ireland and then you run the risk of picking up a further disease while there.)
A WOMAN who went into hospital for a kidney stone operation contracted MRSA and had to have both legs amputated.
The shocking case follows a statement from Professor Brendan Drumm of the Health Service Executive in which he said the public would be frightened if the true facts were published on the incidence of the disease in hospitals.
More...Irish Independent
Hard-pressed families hit with illegal nursing home charges
(If you are old and sick and OUR GOVERNMENT get the smell of money...THEY WILL try every trick in the book to make sure that you leave this life with nothing! Even if the family home has to be sold...TOUGH!)
The latest scandal comes in the same week that the HSE begin their multi-million euro payout to thousands of nursing home patients and their families for overcharging since the 1970s.
The HSE is due to make up to 15,000 payments to patients and former patients with the average repayment for overcharging coming in at 26,000.
The issue of overcharging for "necessary equipment" came to light after a number of families in the midlands complained of being hit with additional charges on top of their monthly nursing home care bills.
Paul McGrath (FG) TD for Longford Westmeath discovered through questions put to Health Minister Mary Harney and the HSE that patients and families "should not incur additional costs for the use of equipment deemed medically necessary for the appropriate care of patients".
More...Irish Independent
FROM THE LEINSTER LEADER 09-11-06...THIS IS IRELAND 2006
(Anti-social behaviour has been the scourge of this country for years. It's getting worse and the authorites don't seem to notice)Playground taken over by vandals The community of Kildare Town has, in the last year, been provided with a terrific childrens playground and, as with any public amenity in Ireland, it now has to be protected by a 'concentration camp' type fence which can be secured at night because drunken teenagers are using it as a hangout and generally making a racket late into the night not to mention the potential damage to equipment designed for small children. It's the same old 'Irish solution to an Irish problem' syndrome as the law either can't or won't be applied to solve the issue.
Here we have more of the same:
Plea to vandals to stay away from Resource Center This is another valuable community center in Newbridge which is being constantly damaged by thugs who are so stupid that they don't realise that it is their own community center that they are attacking. Again, no consequences for the perpetrators.
Same again:
Attempt to destroy community center An arson attack on the old community center in Suncroft on Halloween night was believed by the Gardai to be a deliberate attempt to burn down the building.
(Thugs gone off laughing again!)
Another one:
Naas house targeted in arson attack Neighbours say that this house was attacked deliberately and the fire service had to be called after some fireworks were thrown through the letter box.
And another one:
Three arrested after car chase It started when some thugs drove a car through a Garda checkpoint and as a result a police helicopter had to called in to assist in the chase...at great expense no doubt... the culprits were cornered and arrested in Celbridge. One was charged and the 'famous' DPP is looking into the legal position of two more as if there was a doubt.
You can bet your bottom dollar that these thugs are out and at it again as I write this.
Not finished yet:
Town councillor has tyres slashed
The Leader says: 'A newbridge Town Councillor woke to what has become an all too common sight...slashed tyres.
The incident was a repeat performance of an identical crime carried out four days earlier when he suffered the same damage as did others of his family and some neighbours. This has happened four times in the last six months'.
Who's to stop the thugs from doing it again tonight?
Nearly there:
Arrests made over burglaries
A witness...brave person...watched two thugs kick in the door of a house in Newbridge and called the Gardai who arrested the culprits, asked them a few questions and let them off the do the same thing again.
Welcome to Ireland where the thug can get away with almost anything.
Cheap booze and smokes are just a click away . . .
(The prices mentioned here re-enforce the notion that we in Ireland are being ripped off left, right and center)
In many EU countries, such excise duty is only a fraction of what is charged here.
Legal experts in Brussels believe that the court will rubber-stamp a previous ruling by its advocate-general and that shoppers will be able to use the internet or mail order firms to find the best bargains in Europe and have them shipped home.
The potential is for big savings for Irish consumers - 200 Marlboro Lights cigarettes purchased in Latvia cost only 10.70 compared to over 60 here. A litre bottle of Jameson can be bought in Spain for 12 - substantially less than half of the price here.
More...Irish Independent
ESB worker badly burned as vandals hit power line
(This is the second attack on this power station in a month...Will anyone do jail for this?...Not a hope.)
The man suffered severe burns and was hospitalised after the incident on October 6. It is known that a chain was thrown onto the equipment, resulting in a small explosion and fire. Several homes and businesses were left without power for several hours.
Vandals struck again at the same site on Monday November 6. But no one was injured in the incident. "Those carrying out the vandalism risk serious injury and possible death, as well as compromising the safety of people living in the area", said an ESB spokesman.
More...Irish Independent
4m hotel bill from Health Service Executive
(Only the best for those who preside over a Third World Health Service.)
The four-star Tullamore Court Hotel received the largest single sum - 69,597 - from the Midlands branch of the HSE, followed by the four-star Mullingar Park Hotel, which billed the HSE for 29,971.
Others on a list of more than 100 hotels used around Ireland and abroad include the luxurious five-star Druids Glen Hotel and golf resort in Co Wicklow; the Atlantic Coast Hotel, a four-star converted mill overlooking Clew Bay in Westport, Co Mayo; the Barcelona Hilton in Spain; the plush five-star Westbury Hotel in Dublin; and the equally salubrious Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Killiney.
More...Irish Independent
Boorman living the Tiger Ireland dream
(It's nice to think that someone else sees the 'real picture' that the majority prefer to ignore)
In the lengthy, poetic speech, listing the good and the bad of the island, he spoke of, "The conviviality of the pub and binge-drinking. The welcoming smile to the stranger and rabid xenophobia.
"Poets and scholars and the higest illiteracy rate in Europe. Longer life expectancy and young men taking their own lives.
The compassionate nurse and the callous health service. The rule of law and the grotesque greed of lawyers; the craic and the crack-up; national neutrality and gun and drug wars.
"The anonymous generosity that fills the collection boxes and the grotesque greed of lawyers."
He compared the blue-eyed, black-haired Galway girl of yore to the dyed-blonde in the SUV with a phone glued to her ear.
More...Sunday Independent
300 Polish migrants sleeping rough
(Are our own homeless down-and-outs being displaced by foreigners?)
"We don't have a handle on it and we have no idea of the numbers of Polish homeless. They think they are not entitled to anything so they don't come into contact with us."
Br Kevin Crowley, Director of the Capuchin Centre off Church St, who cater for 500 people a day, half of whom are foreign nationals, sees first hand the downside of emigrant life.
"Today we had 380 for dinner and about half of them were foreign nationals, the bigger majority being Polish," he explained.
"A lot of them won't go to the hostels because they are afraid of getting robbed. I have come across Poles who were unsuccessful in getting a job and ending up in the [Phoenix] park," he added.
More...Sunday Independent
Middle-class cocaine crisis now official
(Realization finally dawns...Did people really believe that millions of euros worth of drugs were being smuggled into the country, at very little risk, for the few dope heads who crawl around our streets?)
But the problem is highlighted in a report presented to the Government recently by the Taoiseach's brother, Minister of State, Noel Ahern, who has responsibility for drugs' strategy.
Although the joint report, by the National Drugs'Strategy and the National Advisory Committee on Drugs, is only in draft form - and, therefore, not complete - it is already clear that cocaine abuse among well-heeled 18 to 35-year-olds has developed into a major national problem. Anecdotal evidence had already suggested that cocaine abuse was rife in this group but this report now makes official that belief.
More...Sunday Independent
POLITICAL CORRUPTION AT IT'S BEST
Bailey brothers to avoid prosecution for tax evasion(Latest news from 'The Galway Tent'...If there was ever any proof that this country is run by the rich for the total benefit and amusment of the rich... THIS IS IT!!!)
Labour's Joan Burton reacted with fury to the decision.
She said in most countries such a large settlement would result in a criminal prosecution and asked if there was a chance the message is still going out that it is worthwhile taking a risk on your tax returns.
She compared the apparent readiness of the Department of Social and Family Affairs to pursue 256 cases of social welfare fraud where the monies concerned totalled 1.3m compared to the 22m paid out by the Bailey brothers.
The record settlement followed a voluntary disclosure by the Bailey brothers of their company's affairs going back 23 years to its foundation in 1983.
More...Irish Independent
Want more proof?...The 'joe sixpacks' who enentually 'buy' these houses/apartments have no way of escaping paying ALL taxes relating to the property while the developers, with the collusion of our government,
continue to find ways of avoidance and the 'pretend' attempts of the Minister for Finance to address the problem are laughable.)
Probe to see how builders avoid paying stamp duty
THE Government has launched an investigation into how some of Ireland's wealthiest property developers can exploit a loophole allowing them to avoid paying stamp duty.
The Irish Independent has learned an inquiry is underway into a series of tax avoidance schemes used by wealthy developers and builders.
These allow millionaire developers to avoid paying stamp duty rates on sites bought to build new homes, while ordinary householders struggle to pay up to 9pc.
More...Irish Independent
Here's how it all started...
Dunlop 'bribed councillors in deal' to change farming zone to housing
More...Irish Independent
Pregnant woman has sex toy party row case adjourned
(This is what 'our great legal system' amuses itself with...Are more serious cases scarce?)
The defendant, Michelle Brady (19), of Ard na Greine, Kells, had told Judge Brophy that she had been crying outside the sextoy party in a house on her estate because she was not invited.
She had not been invited, she said, because the party organiser "blamed me for taking a vibrator" at a previous sex toy party. The organiser told the court that she later saw Ms Brady "kicking lumps" out of her car.
After hearing evidence, Judge Brophy said that Ms Brady was treating the court as a joke, that he was prejudiced against her and that he would stand aside.
More...Irish Independent
Only 13pc of homes have broadband
(The reason for this is the fact that EIRCOM have a monopoly on the telephone lines and the fat cats who operate and run this company have, at all times, to be placated. If there ever was a 'con-job'...this is it.)
See proof...http://www.comwreck.com/
But while broadband is reaching out to most cities, towns and villages - Kerry's Black Valley has yet again been forgotten.
Having only got electricity in 1997, it was revealed that the 80-strong community has not yet got a land line. Only two homes have Broadband - but its via satellite - and costs just over 2,500 to instal.
More...Irish Independent
Gardai ask gangs to end their spiral of violence
(One just hopes that the Gardai adopted a concilliatory tone when asking...We wouldn't want these criminals taking them to court for harassment!)
A garda crime prevention spokesman has appealed to "people on both sides" to end the saga of "appalling crimes. At the end of the day, whoever is doing this, you are only shortening your own lifespan. You will always be looking over your shoulder, wondering are you next," said the garda spokesman.
Acknowledging that the public appeal was likely to fall on deaf ears, he said they wanted to see an end to the "tit-for-tat" shootings and attacks as "there will be no winner".
He also acknowledged that the gardai in Limerick would not be able to defeat the feuding gangs without the assistance of the public.
More...Irish Independent
Grenade attacks linked to weekend shootings
Gardai are satisfied that the attacks are linked to a feud between two families and some of their associates. Some of those involved are known to gardai and have been investigated in the past by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau.
At the weekend shots were fired from a handgun at houses in Canon Lillis Avenue, Seville Place, and at Kings Avenue in Ballybough. In both incidents the houses and vehicles parked outside were damaged, but nobody was hurt.
Members of the same family or their associates live in the four houses that have been targeted.
More...Irish Independent
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Thugs set couple alight
(It appears that there was the welcome element of 'poetic justice' in this scenario)
Last night, gardai were trying to establish if four brothers, who were admitted to hospital on this side of the Border with serious burns, were involved in the attack.
Lisa McClatchey and her partner Thomas O'Hare (33) were attacked by up to six men in their home outside of Keady, Co Armagh, late on Monday night. After pouring petrol over the pair, the gang set them alight and then torched the house.
They then fled the scene.
More...Irish Independent
(No end to the hypocracy...every other day there are politicians using the media to whinge about the carnage on our roads and spinning the same 'shite' solutions knowing right well that the resources and the will to do anything about the problem are almost non-existant. Recently two galoots were fined E2000 for racing each other at speeds of 170 or 180 kmph on the N4...these guys should have had their vehicles confiscated and banned for 5 yrs as they showed no regard whatsoever for the lives of other road users....here's more of the same.)
No ban for 196kmh Porsche driver
Declan Grady, technical manager at Novotem factory in Crolly, Donegal, was charged with dangerous driving on June 3 after reaching high speeds on the main Letterkenny to Ballybofey road.
Garda Dan Curran said the car was travelling so fast he could not detect a speed on his laser gun, however, he clocked the car travelling back down the main Ballybofey road five minutes later at a speed of 196kmh.
More...Irish Independent
Gardai meet with boy racers and parents
(If you are an 18 yr old thug with a souped up car terrorising the neighbourhood, the Gardai will call you to the station for a chat after which you are free to continue as before.)
In the light of three young men being summoned to appear before court in the near future for dangerous driving, gardai in Mallow took the initiative and requested 18 young men and their parents to visit the station last Saturday in a bid to educate them about the dangers of driving cars that are not meeting safety regulations.
The gardai in North Cork have been operating an undercover operation for the last number of months in a bid to tackle the issue of boy racing.
More...The Corkman
DPP to rule on catapult sniper case
(Here we have a car load of thugs who drove around for hours amusing themselves by terrorising people with a high-powered catapult...they have been apprehended and the 'famous' DPP is CONSIDERING whether to charge them or not.)
Two youths were believed to have used a black saloon-type car to tour areas of Kinsale, Carrigaline, Innishannon and Togher where the back-seat passenger fired out pellets at various targets.
A hotel door, house windows and several new cars parked in a Cork city garage were shot at.
It is also believed pellets were fired at a Bus Eireann school bus.
More...Irish Indo:
1.75m to get us drinking less
But 60m splashed out on ads encouraging us to drink more
(Hypocracy is alive and well and living in Ireland. Visit any town in this country on a Saturday night and see the results of alcohol for your self...See 'The Galoot Project" in action.)
Rolande Anderson, director of the Irish College of General Practitioners' Alcohol Project, said he would be very sceptical about taking health advice from a drinks industry "puppet".
"I would be very cynical and sceptical of any attempt by the drinks industry to get involved in this. Their job is to sell alcohol and they muddy the waters by talking about responsible drinking.
"They should not be involved, they should concentrate on what they do best - which is selling drinks - and leave health advice to the Department of Health and others," he said.
More...Irish Independent
WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT MENU...SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY...Oct 6
5 yr old boy shot in Limerick...houses shot up
More...Irish Independent
Croke Park plays host to Fight Club of shame as international footie becomes frenzied brawl
(Thousands of kids were brought to Croke to witness two teams of galoots beat what little brains they had out of each other...Pat Kenny radio show Mon 6 Nov....same thing happened at some 'hurling match'.)
More...Irish Independent
Community in shock at murder of popular local
Man killed trying to stop car break-in
More...Irish Independent
Thug fires shots at two houses in morning attacks
More...Irish Independent
The 'Taliban' haven't gone away you know!
(The 'camel jockey philosophers' are still trying to keep us in the dark ages.)
This sounds insane. A priest, a nun and a Catholic businessman tried to stop giving terminally ill women the chance to have their lives prolonged by several months because they didn't want them told they should use contraception if they were having sex? And the State is paying for this nonsense to be propagated? Fr Kevin Doran, one of those who protested, argued that pharmaceutical companies behind clinical trials are being "over-prescriptive in their requirements", requiring women to use contraception which was contrary to Catholic teaching, and "infringing on women's freedom".
More...Sunday Independent
'Conspiracy to hide IRA bomber priest set to rock Church'
One of the key figures who provided much of the moral grounding for the Provisional IRA campaign, who is still alive and cannot be named for legal reasons, played a significant role in the indoctrination process used on recruits. All new recruits in Belfast attended lectures by the priest, many unaware that he was a member of the clergy.
A former IRA man from west Belfast who attended one of these lectures said the lectures were designed to instill the belief that any action they might be asked to carry out - up to and including murder - was justified in Catholic teaching as they were fighting an enemy occupying their country. The youths were told it was not a sin to kill in defence of one's country.
(Where did I hear this type of 'galootism' before?)
More...Sunday Independent
Deadly combination of Border county craziness and teenage thrill-seeking
(Let's introduce more legislation...it's cheaper than putting police on the ground and sure, maybe the problem will miraclesly go away.)
They told me that the ecstasy and coke culture has been dominant for years. The thrill-seeking game is called Chicken. You find a long stretch of road and park up at each end. When there are corners and twists, you keep in contact by mobile phone. You both start up and go at the same time. You head towards each other at top speed and when you see the other car's headlights, you cut off your own. Now you have a car careering towards you that you can't see until it gets up close. The first one to chicken out swerves away.
More...Sunday Independent
Why are the Irish so frightened of the greenest and most environmentally friendly source of energy known to mankind?
The world - and that means Ireland, too - is at a once-in-a-century crossroads. We are moving away from carbon-based fuels to nuclear power. This century will be nuclear and we had better get used to it. While the language and prejudices of the 20th Century still (understandably) dominate the nuclear debate, the realities of the 21st Century point unambiguously to a nuclear future.
More...Irish Independent
Rabbitte and McDowell vie as protectors of the poor
Meanwhile, a "chilling" three-year descent into a vicious and violent society is the fault of Justice Minister Michael McDowell, Fine Gael said yesterday.
Since his first full year in charge at the department, murder rates had increased by a quarter, rapes were up by a third, and gun crimes had zoomed ahead 43pc, the party said.
More...Irish Independent
HAPPY HALLOWEEN IRISH STYLE
Fireworks laws flouted as fire service struggles to cope
Shocking stories of rockets shuttled into pubs, smoke bomb attacks and barricades on housing estates matched any scary movie on TV on Tuesday night.
More...Irish Independent
Gangland violence ensures real fright night in city
LIMERICK is recovering from a Halloween night of gangland violence and vandalism which saw two homes firebombed, the city's bus service suspended and at least 25 people arrested.
More...Irish Independent
Pensioner's terror when thugs set her clothes ablaze
A PENSIONER has told of a terrifying ordeal in which her clothes were set alight by firework-throwing thugs on Halloween night.
Sixty-nine-year-old Audrey Chambers, who is registered as disabled, suffered burns to her legs before she managed to put out the flames.
More...Irish Independent
New charges for accused in arson attack
(This thug is a local terrorist and was involved in setting a car alight in which two small children were scarred for life. It's incredible that he cannot be named and that he was allowed out on bail to go marauding around the country AGAIN.
Just wondering...AM I LOSING IT???)
He was granted bail but was back before Limerick District Court yesterday where he was charged with obstructing a garda in the course of his duties and provoking a breach of the peace in a Co Tipperary town on Tuesday night.
More...Irish Independent
Commuters driven mad by 'Beirut' bus route from hell want protection
(Again...the resources to deal with violent anti-social behaviour are inadequate and these thugs know that they can get away with almost anything.)
A young student was thrown out the window of the top deck of a bus on the same route a few weeks ago.
Throw in a rape threat to a female bus driver, urinating passengers and discarded syringes and you could forgive commuters for taking the Luas or walking.
More...Irish Independent
Gardai go undercover to counter late-night thugs
Bus Eireann workers are worried that lives will eventually be lost because of such attacks.
These range from thugs throwing bottles or bricks at the windscreen of buses as they pass, or scattering broken glass or debris on roadways as coaches approach. Such attacks are particularly focussed on the period around Halloween.
More...Irish Independent
Mindless thugs post violent attack on innocent girl on Youtube
When a young girl can be beaten by mindless savages on a Dublin street, just so that her pain and terror can be videoed and posted on one of the most popular websites in the world for the gratification of any number of sick voyeurs, we must set about finding a way to control this monster.
