Yearly Archives: 2016

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Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster

The DUP leader Arlene,
Has said things that sound a bit mean,
About those who died so,
The Brits might just go,
While wearing a proud shade of green.

John Moynes

BBC

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Sinn Féin Cork city councillor Stephen Cunningham

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Sinn Féin TD for Cork South Central, writes:

Our friend Cllr Stephen Cunningham is missing. I would be grateful if everybody could please share this post.

Stephen is 23 years old and is 6 foot in height with brown hair. He was last seen in the South Mall area of Cork City at 1pm on Friday, March 18, 2016.

Anyone who may have seen Stephen around or after 1pm on March 18, or anyone who may have information as to Stephen’s whereabouts, is asked to contact to the gardaí at Mayfield on (021) 455 8510 or Angelsea Street Gardaí on (021) 452 2000.

There is a search team meeting tomorrow at 10am at the Sinn Féin office in Barrack Street. All help would be greatly appreciated.

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Facebook)

UPDATE:

Stephen has been found safe and well and is at home with his family.

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This afternoon.

Citywest Hotel

Labour Party General Election candidates arrive for a post mortem on the election and to discuss the future of the party’s leader, Joan Burton.

From top: Brendan Howlin; Pat Rabbitte and Alan Kelly

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

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Johnny Cullen writes:

For too long Jessica Fletcher has avoided justice – even suspicion – for the brutal string of murders that she has committed. I made this film to present a legitimate case to finally #bringjessicatojustice

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The Save Our Community Meeting in the Anner Hotel Thurles, Co Tipperary last October

Up to 1,500 people gathered at a meeting in Thurles on Thursday night to call for urgent reforms of bail laws to help tackle a growing “epidemic” of rural crime

Senior gardaí were present for the meeting, including Assistant Commissioner Jack Nolan and Chief Supt Catherine Kehoe for the Tipperary division.

The gathering heard calls for a series of tough measures to help combat the problem, such as electronic tagging of convicted criminals, stronger trespass laws and greater Garda resources.

Calls for bail law reform to tackle rural crime ‘epidemic’ (Irish Times, October 8, 2015)

Burglaries were down by 5 per cent, 26,246 report crimes last year. That development will come as a relief to the Garda and Government who had both been under pressure over the continued rise in burglaries.

The debate about rural crime was a feature of the election campaign, with claims that burglaries were occurring most frequently in rural areas, despite data showing the problem was growing much faster in Dublin.

…Like drugs offences, gun crime has declined significantly, halving in some areas…

Murder rate falls to 21 year low but threats to kill rise, CSO finds (Irish Times, today)

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Annie West writes:

Thanks to the gifted Sligo photographer James Connolly we can now bring you the Benbulben 1916 flag…

UPDATE:

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The flag up close.

The reason?

As part of our ongoing centenary celebrations, some members of the Fr Michael O’Flanagan Memorial Group made it to the summit of Benbulben at lunchtime on Easter Monday to fly a tri-colour.

Fr O’Flanagan instigated the seditious practice of displaying the tri-colour in Cliffoney in the summer of 1915.

In her book Crossing Highbridge, Maureen Waters describes how her father, a member of the Grange Volunteers, climbed Benbulben and planted a tri-colour there in 1916 to let the people of North Sligo know the Rising had begun.

Cliffoney Remembers Fr Michael O’Flanagan (Facebook)

Thanks David Lawless

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‘sup?

Shane Rooney writes:

I know you don’t normally do this but my coach left a runner behind on Dun Laoghaire pier [Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, the other one (above) looks lonely. HELP…

UPDATE:

Shane writes:

MIA location has been confirmed:”left shoe was last seen Monkstown Dart Station at approx 4pm on Easter Monday”