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Clanwilliam Terrace, Dublin 2
The Irish Times reports:
“A senior company executive shouldered a cyclist to the ground and began strangling and beating him for riding his bike on a Dublin city-centre footpath, a court has heard.”
“David Corcoran (50) Collinswood, Whitehall, Dublin, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Philip Fitzgerald who suffered dental injuries during the incident at Clanwilliam Terrace in Dublin 2 on July 1st last year.”
“Judge Michael Walsh said Corcoran’s actions were completely disproportionate but he ruled that he can avoid a criminal record and a possible sentence by paying €3,930 to cover Mr Fitzgerald’s medical expenses and new false teeth, and he must donate €2,500 to charity.”
…The court heard Corcoran punched Mr Fitzgerald in the face and head and got him into a headlock and “kneed him while he was in a headlock”. The attack ended when members of the public intervened.
Executive punches cyclist for riding bike on Dublin footpath (Tom Tuite, Irish Times)
Pic: Google Streetview
Thanks Bob
From top: Mary Manning on strike outside Dunnes on Henry Street on August 1, 1984; and Ibrahim Halawa
While doing my local weekly shop, I was extremely disappointed to notice that there is produce from Egypt on the supermarket shelves. I was immediately reminded of the stance taken by those brave supermarket workers who stood up to authority and who refused to handle imported goods from South Africa during the repressive apartheid regime.
I will not buy produce from a country that blatantly refuses to practise basic human rights so that a citizen of Ireland, Ibrahim Halawa, is not given due process of law and is languishing in jail this past three years. What kind of humanity allows this to continue?
I beg my fellow citizens to refuse to buy imported goods from Egypt so that by this gesture we may get justice for Ibrahim Halawa.
Siobhan Morgan,
Dublin 18.
Ibrahim Halawa (The Irish Times letters page)
Previously: The Dunnes Stores’ Strikers
Ulukelike
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Philip Ledingham writes:
Found this (top pic) in the Town Hall Theatre in Galway. Does it look familiar?
Brendan Gleeson on first uke?
Stop that.
What you’re doing.
IFSC, North Wall, Dublin this lunchtime.
Brexit meltdown?
Or pagan short-term derivative ritual?
We may never know
Thanks AngryArb
Gráffiti
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Jag’ll Do
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This morning.
Bagott Baggot Street, Dublin 2 4.
Thanks Hick
Dáil meant to begin at 10:30 to debate legislation to remove IBRC roadblocks – but it’s 10.53 and we haven’t got the quorum of 20 to begin
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) July 8, 2016
Nine TDs from Fianna Fail but only three from Fine Gael, plus Catherine Murphy and Paul Murphy. Even if Ceann Comhairle included, four short
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) July 8, 2016
Clerk does a quick head count and determines there are 19 in the chamber – the Ceann Comhairle makes 20 and we’re underway, 39 minutes late
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) July 8, 2016
Ceann Comhairle: “We have had a pretty unprecedented event this morning given the failure to present a quorum”
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) July 8, 2016
Yikes.
‘sup?
Patrick Corr writes:
Amazing People is my new series about truly inspirational people who make the world a better place. In this episode, I visit Cork Animal Care Society and show you the incredible people who rescued Stevie the Blind Cat and so many other wonderful animals! I also get to meet lots of cute animals on my trip… enjoy :)