Looks like Tusla have devised a plan that they think counteracts the state of, in this instance, crèches. Yep, they class them as ‘critical risk’, and then leave it at that. Have another tea or coffee, and then onto the next inquiry. Repeat the ‘unacceptable’ mantra, and retire again for refreshments. That’s Tusla and Zappone world.
B9Com From No
Amber and Greg though
GiggidyGoo
Why are the Gardai unwilling to issue a description of the alleged Courtown rapists, sexual assaulters? Why does the Irish Times report that gardai went to Kilkenny looking for a number of ‘Irish’ males. That’s a strange deviation from normal reporting. Something not right with the lid being kept on this. The gardai looking for witnesses or help, yet don’t even issue a description ? Has this anything to do with the recently moved-in residents of the Courtown Hotel (in May), who were hurriedly told on Sunday that they were again being moved, and who – apart from 4 I believe – all refused to be moved.
dav
I’m sure you have a point, outside of the gardai wrecking any potential court case by giving a national newspaper blow by blow account of their investigation.
GiggidyGoo
And your point is?
how often do we see reports of assault, with the line ‘Gardai described the assailant as’
No such, or any, description here. Yet they appeal for information. If they want information, then they have to give some type of description of who they are looking for. Be that hotel residents, or our own ethnics.
dav
My point is that, outside the sneering tone of your post, I don’t know what you are trying to say/infer/snidely remark on.
It serves no purpose giving out description of suspects. An Garda know who they are – are actively searching for them. Early days – give them a chance !
eoin
It’s like that time a few days ago when the Gardai said a suspect extradited from Spain to answer charges of child sex abuse had gone missing. What’s his name or what does he look like? Who knows, who can tell, but he was the leader of the IRA in the South!
Shower of incompetents.
garrett
Because they are not white ,and apparently some are no longer in the Country.
I love our open Border policy.
Charger Salmons
The Indo reports the five suspects are teenagers and the cops know their names.
How difficult is it to round up five known teenagers in a place as small as Courtown ?
Unless …
ReproBertie
Any evidence to back that up garrett?
Alex
Give it time reprobertie. It will all become clear
Charlie
The Daily Star wha!? Just when you thought they couldn’t reach any lower for a front page headline. The scrotes will be crying with laughter into their cans.
kellyma
Seagulls like beer now?!? Who knew?!?
Optimus Grime
I can confirm that! One of them shat on me yesterday and there was the distinct whiff of Carling off it
B9Com From No
Haha
eoin
FG senator and TD-hopeful for Wexford, Paudie Coffey settles his defamation case with a Kilkenny newspaper. The case had one 13-day hearing last year but the jury couldn’t agree a ruling. The case was set for a second hearing but was settled yesterday.
No apology for the article itself. No word about damages. No word about legal costs. Did both sides pay their own costs, estimated at around €200,000 each?
eoin
The galoot from Ranelagh publishes the homeless figures for June. 10,172 in emergency accommodation including 3,675 children. This excludes around 700 asylum seekers, adults an children whose asylum application has been approved, who are eligible for HAP but they can’t find housing. It excludes rough sleepers which is probably in the hundreds around the country. Most importantly, it excludes those who want to find their own housing but they can’t find anything suitable that they can afford, so they’re staying at home with parents, or living in friends or relatives spare bedrooms and sofas. These are the hidden homeless, they’re not begging for a cup of tea but in a properly governed country, they’d be in their own housing.
The galoot didn’t publish any comment about the homeless figures published yesterday, but it’s probably safe to say he still finds them “disappointing”
March 2019
“The figures for March show a slight increase on February, with four additional adults and 37 additional dependants in emergency accommodation. We continue to put considerable efforts in to prevent people from entering emergency accommodation, while also exiting as many families and individuals from homelessness as possible each month.”
Feb 2019
“The increase in homelessness in February is hugely disappointing.”
Jan 2019
“It is very disappointing and we remain in a very difficult situation where homelessness is heavily impacting on the lives of families and individuals. “
Nov 2018
“It is very disappointing to see more children in emergency accommodation as we enter into Christmas week.”
Sep
“We are still very much in the midst of a crisis in homelessness in this country”
Aug
“Earlier this year a number of categorisation errors were identified and corrected in the March and April reports.”
July 2018
“Any increase in the number of people accessing emergency accommodation is unacceptable”
June 2018
“Obviously any increase in people accessing emergency accommodation is unwelcome but it is good to see a decrease in the number of children and we are seeing a continued stabilisation of the numbers of people in emergency accommodation.”
May 2018
“Any increase in people in emergency accommodation is very disappointing.”
March 2018
“A number of local authorities have erroneously categorised individuals and families living in local authority owned or leased housing stock, including in some instances people renting in the private sector but in receipt of social housing supports, as being in emergency accommodation. “
January 2018
“The increase in homelessness in January was anticipated to a degree.”
Nov 2017
“Obviously the increase in November is disappointing.”
Mum’s & Dad’s have a right to know if the creche that they are leaving their toddler is “at critical risk level”. Not in a million years would we leave our child there?
eoin
Isn’t it gas to hear the lawmakers (TDs) aghast at the fact their laws doesn’t allow Tusla shut these creches down.
MaryLou's ArmaLite
I’m not sure I want Tusla having more powers, they haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory to date.
Cian
Possibly a middling solution is that Tusla don’t have the power to shut the crèches, But they do (must) name-and-shame. Also the crèche must prominently display the “critical” issues so all parents/guardians can see them. let the parents decide to more.
B9Com From No
Nah they should let them self regulate like the lawyers- that’s working well
Listrade
Yes. The shock that the bad policy made as a knee-jerk reaction to the last RTE investigation is exposed during a knee-jerk reaction to another RTE investigation. Thankfully Alan Farrell’s back injury had recovered enough for him to sit through the whole hearing.
eoin
Anyone following the child custody case in London between the dictator of Dubai and one of his wives, the 2-day hearing concluded yesterday and merely set a date for a full hearing in November this year. Media reporting is heavily restricted. We don’t even know if Princess Heya got her anti-molestation order or arranged marriage protection order [which applies to her two children, it is reported].
It has been revealed that Heya started a £300,000 British company last November.
Was she planning on fleeing Dubai last November, the month before Mary Robinson disgraced us all by parading the captured Latifa in what looked like a heavily medicated state?
B9Com From No
I personally didn’t feel “disgraced” by the actions of a fellow private citizen
eoin
Meanwhile, the latest poetic effort from Mo McToom, aged 11 and 3/4 70 was published online yesterday. Mo had previously penned a poem after his wife escaped, with that classic line “You no longer have a place with me. I don’t care if you live or die” So simple, so beautiful. Shakespearean almost.
Yesterday’s effort contains an alliterative masterpiece “shining swords with sharp blades” but it’s unclear who the poem is about and it might be about regional leaders in Middle East. I hope he wasn’t referring to the missus who says she’s “fled for her life”.
Looks like Tusla have devised a plan that they think counteracts the state of, in this instance, crèches. Yep, they class them as ‘critical risk’, and then leave it at that. Have another tea or coffee, and then onto the next inquiry. Repeat the ‘unacceptable’ mantra, and retire again for refreshments. That’s Tusla and Zappone world.
Amber and Greg though
Why are the Gardai unwilling to issue a description of the alleged Courtown rapists, sexual assaulters? Why does the Irish Times report that gardai went to Kilkenny looking for a number of ‘Irish’ males. That’s a strange deviation from normal reporting. Something not right with the lid being kept on this. The gardai looking for witnesses or help, yet don’t even issue a description ? Has this anything to do with the recently moved-in residents of the Courtown Hotel (in May), who were hurriedly told on Sunday that they were again being moved, and who – apart from 4 I believe – all refused to be moved.
I’m sure you have a point, outside of the gardai wrecking any potential court case by giving a national newspaper blow by blow account of their investigation.
And your point is?
how often do we see reports of assault, with the line ‘Gardai described the assailant as’
No such, or any, description here. Yet they appeal for information. If they want information, then they have to give some type of description of who they are looking for. Be that hotel residents, or our own ethnics.
My point is that, outside the sneering tone of your post, I don’t know what you are trying to say/infer/snidely remark on.
David. That’s your problem. Work on it
It serves no purpose giving out description of suspects. An Garda know who they are – are actively searching for them. Early days – give them a chance !
It’s like that time a few days ago when the Gardai said a suspect extradited from Spain to answer charges of child sex abuse had gone missing. What’s his name or what does he look like? Who knows, who can tell, but he was the leader of the IRA in the South!
Shower of incompetents.
Because they are not white ,and apparently some are no longer in the Country.
I love our open Border policy.
The Indo reports the five suspects are teenagers and the cops know their names.
How difficult is it to round up five known teenagers in a place as small as Courtown ?
Unless …
Any evidence to back that up garrett?
Give it time reprobertie. It will all become clear
The Daily Star wha!? Just when you thought they couldn’t reach any lower for a front page headline. The scrotes will be crying with laughter into their cans.
Seagulls like beer now?!? Who knew?!?
I can confirm that! One of them shat on me yesterday and there was the distinct whiff of Carling off it
Haha
FG senator and TD-hopeful for Wexford, Paudie Coffey settles his defamation case with a Kilkenny newspaper. The case had one 13-day hearing last year but the jury couldn’t agree a ruling. The case was set for a second hearing but was settled yesterday.
No apology for the article itself. No word about damages. No word about legal costs. Did both sides pay their own costs, estimated at around €200,000 each?
The galoot from Ranelagh publishes the homeless figures for June. 10,172 in emergency accommodation including 3,675 children. This excludes around 700 asylum seekers, adults an children whose asylum application has been approved, who are eligible for HAP but they can’t find housing. It excludes rough sleepers which is probably in the hundreds around the country. Most importantly, it excludes those who want to find their own housing but they can’t find anything suitable that they can afford, so they’re staying at home with parents, or living in friends or relatives spare bedrooms and sofas. These are the hidden homeless, they’re not begging for a cup of tea but in a properly governed country, they’d be in their own housing.
https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-m-homeless-figures-2/
The galoot didn’t publish any comment about the homeless figures published yesterday, but it’s probably safe to say he still finds them “disappointing”
March 2019
“The figures for March show a slight increase on February, with four additional adults and 37 additional dependants in emergency accommodation. We continue to put considerable efforts in to prevent people from entering emergency accommodation, while also exiting as many families and individuals from homelessness as possible each month.”
Feb 2019
“The increase in homelessness in February is hugely disappointing.”
Jan 2019
“It is very disappointing and we remain in a very difficult situation where homelessness is heavily impacting on the lives of families and individuals. “
Nov 2018
“It is very disappointing to see more children in emergency accommodation as we enter into Christmas week.”
Sep
“We are still very much in the midst of a crisis in homelessness in this country”
Aug
“Earlier this year a number of categorisation errors were identified and corrected in the March and April reports.”
July 2018
“Any increase in the number of people accessing emergency accommodation is unacceptable”
June 2018
“Obviously any increase in people accessing emergency accommodation is unwelcome but it is good to see a decrease in the number of children and we are seeing a continued stabilisation of the numbers of people in emergency accommodation.”
May 2018
“Any increase in people in emergency accommodation is very disappointing.”
March 2018
“A number of local authorities have erroneously categorised individuals and families living in local authority owned or leased housing stock, including in some instances people renting in the private sector but in receipt of social housing supports, as being in emergency accommodation. “
January 2018
“The increase in homelessness in January was anticipated to a degree.”
Nov 2017
“Obviously the increase in November is disappointing.”
Mum’s & Dad’s have a right to know if the creche that they are leaving their toddler is “at critical risk level”. Not in a million years would we leave our child there?
Isn’t it gas to hear the lawmakers (TDs) aghast at the fact their laws doesn’t allow Tusla shut these creches down.
I’m not sure I want Tusla having more powers, they haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory to date.
Possibly a middling solution is that Tusla don’t have the power to shut the crèches, But they do (must) name-and-shame. Also the crèche must prominently display the “critical” issues so all parents/guardians can see them. let the parents decide to more.
Nah they should let them self regulate like the lawyers- that’s working well
Yes. The shock that the bad policy made as a knee-jerk reaction to the last RTE investigation is exposed during a knee-jerk reaction to another RTE investigation. Thankfully Alan Farrell’s back injury had recovered enough for him to sit through the whole hearing.
Anyone following the child custody case in London between the dictator of Dubai and one of his wives, the 2-day hearing concluded yesterday and merely set a date for a full hearing in November this year. Media reporting is heavily restricted. We don’t even know if Princess Heya got her anti-molestation order or arranged marriage protection order [which applies to her two children, it is reported].
It has been revealed that Heya started a £300,000 British company last November.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11691134/filing-history
Was she planning on fleeing Dubai last November, the month before Mary Robinson disgraced us all by parading the captured Latifa in what looked like a heavily medicated state?
I personally didn’t feel “disgraced” by the actions of a fellow private citizen
Meanwhile, the latest poetic effort from Mo McToom, aged
11 and 3/470 was published online yesterday. Mo had previously penned a poem after his wife escaped, with that classic line “You no longer have a place with me. I don’t care if you live or die” So simple, so beautiful. Shakespearean almost.Yesterday’s effort contains an alliterative masterpiece “shining swords with sharp blades” but it’s unclear who the poem is about and it might be about regional leaders in Middle East. I hope he wasn’t referring to the missus who says she’s “fled for her life”.