A deportation flight left Dublin today with 22 Polish & 12 Lithuanian nationals on board. The charter landed in Warsaw and then Vilnius. All 34 received prison sentences for crimes committed in Ireland and, as EU citizens, were removed under the Free Movement Directive.
Tenants of 36 rental properties in Bridgetown, Co Wexford were told by a representative that their landlord was delivering eviction notices because of the government’s new rental rules, according to a video recorded by a tenant’s doorbell camera.
https://t.co/5GSzco5PQw
“For they were shorn and shaved one palm above the ears, so that only the tops of their heads were covered with hair.”
- Laurent Vital's 1517 account of Irish men near Kinsale.
National identity doesn't have to be monotone or singular. It can be multi-layered and pluralistic. In fact, that's more authentic to who we are and who she was as a saint godess. Éire ildaite.
Cuirim céad fáilte roimh Chomhaontú Saorthrádála An India-An tAontas Eorpach.
Osclaíonn sé deiseanna suntasacha do lucht easportála na hÉireann in earnálacha an bhia agus an dí bhundúchasach ach go háirithe.
Last time copper prices shot up, some enterprising chap decided to reopen an old copper mine in Yunnan.
First he had to get six people to shovel bat guano out of the mine shaft.
They get sick and three died: of a SARS-like virus.
Virologists rushed to investigate. It was the first case of such a virus infecting people directly from bats.
They found SARS-like viruses in 9 of samples of bat shit from the mine.
They took them a thousand miles north to a lab in Wuhan.
A few years later they defrosted one of the samples to sequence and study the virus.
The next year a pandemic began in the city.
Turned out the virus they had collected from the mine shaft was the closest relative at the time of the virus that caused the pandemic.
Copper prices are now rising again...
I personally think it's a rather large problem that many criminals sentenced in our courts are so happy with the sentence that they leave smiling. Classic Judge Nolan example below
Ugly face of #ChristopherONeill +24 previous convictions who killed my friend's brother with 1 punch outside his family home after a cinema date. 6 yrs is all he got & clearly not learning his lessons after J. Nolan once again sentenced him. #JusticeForMartin#ResignJudgeNolan
An “infuriated” motorcyclist who killed his neighbour by punching him once to the head in an unprovoked attack has been jailed for six years.
The victim's family members today described “living in a nightmare for 899 days” after the killing.
After the sentence was handed down, Christopher O'Neill (31), winked and smiled at a person in the body of the courtroom. A member of the public told O'Neill to “wipe that stupid smile off your face” before prison officers escorted the defendant from the court.
https://t.co/YbD1Mlhgew
Martin was killed by a random scumbag who by the age of 17, tallied up 7 previous convictions & was sentenced by J. Nolan for 3 yrs (2 susp) for trying to run over a lad with his 4×4. 17+ convictions later, now 31, #ChristopherONeill got 6 yrs today for an unprovoked 1 punch kill
Hard to express how infuriating and disappointing this is.
The supposed remorse is hard to take seriously when “the 31-year-old smiled and winked at someone when the sentence was imposed”.
https://t.co/Xdmt8V9k5N