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12/7/2007. Bonfires in Northern Ireland

Hundreds of homes will be without electricity on the night of 11 July because of the risks posed by a bonfire built close to overhead power lines.

The bonfire has been erected in the County Derry village of Articlave, and is sited on land belonging to the Housing Executive.

Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has written to about 300 customers living in the housing estate to inform them.

NIE has urged people to keep bonfires at a safe distance from power lines.

The firm’s communications manager, Julia Carson, said they had taken the decision to remove overhead lines in Articlave for a few hours on Thursday night due to safety concerns.

Articlave bonfire: 300 homes to lose power due to bonfire risk (BBC News NI)

(Albert Gonzalez / Photocall Ireland)

 

 

 

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(Today’s Irish Independent cover, top, and, above Late Debate audio)

“The State cannot handle the truth of their own involvement in the collapse of the banks. In theory that could expose the state to litigation from bondholders, shareholders, investors and anybody else who got their fingers burnt.

And when you look at what the State does when it really really wants to tackle something after Veronica Guerin’s murder, we moved in extraordinary apparatus, the Criminal Assets Bureau, multi-disclipinary teams getting in to deal with a very specific problem.

You look at what’s happened after the banking crisis, has there been anything near that political will reflected in legislation and other measures? And for me, that speaks volumes about the real committment.”

 

Irish Independent legal editor Dearbhail McDonald speaking  on RTE’s Late Date on June 25th.

 

State begins witch-hunt to catch the Anglo Tape sources (Fionnan Sheahan, Cormac McQuinn and Peter Flanagan, Irish Independent)

Thanks Oireachtas Retort

headcageIn an attempt to quit his two-packs-a-day 26 year smoking habit, 42-year-old İbrahim Yücel from the western Turkish province of Kütahya has taken to wearing a helmet-like wire cage on his head, locked on two sides.

According to Hurriyet Daily News, İbrahim’s been wearing the thing since last Friday, and managed to make it through the weekend without smoking.

No word on how he’s done since.

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Tom D’Arcy citing the name of one of Ireland’s patriots at today’s Allsop auction in the Shelbourne Hotel.

Constance Markievicz died of TB in 1927, some 11 years after the Rising.

She also happened to be a lifelong member of Mná na hÉireann.

Protesters force cancellation of property auction (RTE News)

(Via Mark Moloney)

Hat tip: Adam Gelston

He’s back.

Judge Of The Day Hall of Famer Judge Martin Nolan, no longer in the Family Court, delivers another memorable judgment

A Dublin father who sexually assaulted his neighbour while her eight-year-old son lay in the bed beside was given a two-year, suspended sentence. The child woke up during the assault, recognised the man and told him to “get off my Mammy” before he leaned over and tried to push him away.

The man later told gardaí that he had no idea how he ended up in the woman’s bed and said he thought the victim was his partner when he began touching her

….Judge Martin Nolan said the man had given “an explanation of sorts” for what he did that night but added “I don’t find it very believable, to put it bluntly”.

He suspended the entire two-year sentence after he said that he didn’t think, considering the man’s lack of relevant convictions and genuine remorse, that the crime justified an immediate custodial sentence.


Dublin man avoids jail for sexual assault while victim’s son was in same bed (BreakingNews.ie)

Previously: To The Family Court With You

Judge Of The Day

Notorious WIG Does it Again