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Bernard Lee

Bernard Lee is currently being detained in the Yongah Hill Detention Centre in Northam, Western Australia due to an error made by the Australian Department of Immigration.

He needs your support.

Troy McNamara writes:

I have enjoyed your site over the years and even contributed to them from time to time in a humorous manor but I am now contacting you about something serious. You could help a young Irish man get out of a terrible situation with a single post.

Could I please ask you to post the petition [see below], which also explains Bernard’s situation, to your readers, asking them to sign it if they’re feeling especially moved.

Release Bernard Lee from unjustified immigration detention (Change.org)!

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Dáil members voting on Independents 4 Change TD Mick Wallace’s bill, to allow for terminations in Ireland in the case of a fatal foetal abnormality, and how TDs voted

Henry McDonald, in The Guardian, reports:

Dr Lara Kelly is one of the first members of the Irish medical profession to speak publicly about travelling to the UK for an abortion. The 35-year-old GP said her decision to speak out was motivated by the blocking of a bill in the Irish parliament earlier this month that would have allowed for abortions in Irish hospitals in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.

…At Liverpool airport, Kelly and her husband decided to carry the remains on to the plane, rather than have them placed in the hold, in case the luggage went missing. Passing through security brought on further trauma, she said.

“We were queuing at security for ages and I wasn’t feeling physically great after the procedure the day before,” she said. “When we got to the top we said to the security guy that we had to declare foetal remains. The guy said, ‘What?’ He didn’t seem to understand and so we said it out loud again. He didn’t know what foetal remains meant so Mark said, ‘It’s a baby in the box’, and the man said out loud, ‘A baby in the box?’ Half the queue heard that, probably some of those who were getting on our flight to Dublin heard that.”

…On her way back to Dublin, Kelly approached a member of staff at Liverpool airport to ask for advice about travelling with foetal remains. “The girl was Irish as it happened and she said something astonishing to me. ‘It’s fine,’ she said. ‘You need to go over to the gentleman at customs and declare the remains at security. It’s fine, I did it a few weeks ago.’ That’s what she said to me. It was said with such normality because she had done it herself.”

‘My baby in a box’: Irish GP tells of trauma of travelling to UK for abortion (Henry McDonald, The Guardian)

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From top: Former Anglo Irish Bank executive Willie McAteer; former chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey; and former Anglo Irish Bank executive John Bowe on their way into the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin this morning

Judge Martin Nolan sentenced three former bank executives at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this morning for their part in a €7.2bn conspiracy.

Former Anglo Irish Bank executive John Bowe was sentenced to two years; former Anglo Irish Bank executive Willie McAteer was sentenced to three and a half years; and the former chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey, was sentenced to two years and nine months.

The three men were found guilty last month of conspiring together and with others to make Anglo Irish Bank’s balance look like it had €7.2 billion more than it had – in order to mislead investors.

Orla O’Donnell, on RTÉ’s Today with Seán O’Rourke, reported on this morning’s sentencing.

She said:

“He [Judge Martin Nolan] said this was a very serious conspiracy, a conspiracy on the public, on anyone who was looking at these accounts. He said people were entitled to rely on these accounts. He said he believed the starting point for prison sentences was eight years in this case.”

“Now he did say there was a lot of very good mitigation put forward, on behalf of the men. He spoke about the fact that this took place in the context of a dysfunctional financial market, the men didn’t gain any direct profit from their crime, they were acting in the best interest of their companies… they had very good mitigation in terms of people giving character references for them.”

“They were family men. They had all endured a lot of stress, a lot of criticism from the public since these events had happened. But, at the same time he said, that this was a very serious offence and he had to impose a prison sentence.”

Meanwhile…

Three former bank executives sentenced over €7.2bn conspiracy (RTE)

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Today’s Independent.ie

Further to the conviction of Marta Herda for murder yesterday.

Dancost writes:

Hillary accepts the nomination stateside and ‘Repeal the 8th’ seems to be scrawled on every second wall in Dublin. And a female journalist writing for the Irish Independent pens anarticle on the ever changing wardrobe of Marta Herda during her murder trial:

‘Some days she carried not one but two statement leather handbags as she began to find her fashion feet.

Herda also began wearing a pair of trendy dark glasses – by the end of the trial, she could have passed for one of the legal secretaries sitting in on her trial.

One could never imagine that the well-groomed, harmless-looking woman was actually accused of murder.’

Struggling to remember the last time I saw an article written about the fashion choices of man on trial for murder. Holding the cause back a bit eh?

How Herda Sharpened her Look During Murder Trial (Irish Independent(

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UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Taopiseach Enda Kenny at Downing Street this week

Top Brexit gossip — Could Ireland join the Commonwealth? Ireland has a troubled past with the U.K., yes, but it is nothing short of freaked out at the economic and border consequences of Brexit. So the idea of Ireland joining the Commonwealth is not as far-fetched as it sounds, according to Playbook’s source at the Commonwealth of Nations.

With the prospect of border problems between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland arising from a Brexit, there are real discussions about reuniting the two countries. If that were to happen, a good way to reassure the Unionists would be tying the united Irish Republic into the Commonwealth, also…

Ryan Heath, Brussels Playbook, Politico.eu

FIGHT!

Brussels Playbook (Polltico.eu)

Thanks Eilis

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A Golden Discs voucher worth TWENTY FIVE big ones (Euros) to spend at any of the 13 Gold Discs stores nationwide is on offer.

All we ask from you is for a tune we can play at 1pm 2pm  TODAY.

To celebrate the outdoor music festival season Golden Discs would like to hear about a memorable live performance.

To enter, just complete this sentence:

‘The greatest live performance deserving of the Golden Discs voucher was obviously______________________’

Lines MUST close at 12.45pm 1.45pm

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