Alan Hawe

Gary Meneely, in The Irish Sun, reports:

Alan Hawe killed his family as he faced the prospect of his marriage breaking up, it emerged yesterday.

The deputy school principal murdered wife Clodagh and their three sons before taking his own life at their Cavan home in August 2016.

The Irish Sun has also learned Hawe’s feared “fall” from grace was over a “sexual matter”.

Mary and Jacqueline [Clodagh’s sisters] said in their statement:

“While the psychiatrist has attempted as best he could to create a retrospective diagnosis based on items and records, his GP who knew him for five years said he never displayed any signs of depression.”

“On August 29, 2016, we lost our daughter and sister Clodagh and her lovely sons Liam, Niall and Ryan in the most horrific circumstances.

“We are aware that the inquest has a limited role in law in that its function is restricted to establishing how, where and when our loved ones died.

“….The inquest does not address why Alan Hawe committed this savagery but his counsellor has said that he was concerned about his position as ‘a pillar of the community’ and we are aware that he was concerned at his imminent fall from that position and the breakdown of his marriage.”

Twisted Alan Hawe faced the prospect of his marriage ending as he feared a ‘fall from grace’ over a ‘sexual matter’ (The Irish Sun)

Yesterday: ‘We Are Aware That Alan Hawe Was Concerned At His Imminent Fall’

Previously: The War At Home

New homeless figures from the Department of Housing; Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar 

Last night.

The Department of Housing released its homeless figures for November.

It recorded that 5,524 homeless adults, 3,333 children and 1,530 families accessed emergency accommodation from November 20 to November 26 last.

That’s a total of 8,857 people and an increase of 365 people in a month.

Specifically, there was an increase of 139 children, 226 adults and 67 families from October.

The Department of Housing’s homeless figures don’t include people who are sleeping rough.

Below is how the figures have risen since February 2016 when there were 5,811 people accessing emergency accommodation.

February 2016
Adults 3,930
Children 1,881
Families 912
Total number of people 5,811

March 2016
Adults 3,969
Children 1,994
Families 955
Total number of people 5,963

April 2016
Adults 4,068
Children 2,121
Families 1,037
Total number of people 6,189

May 2016
Adults 3,993
Children 2,177
Families 1,054
Total number of people 6,170

June 2016
Adults 4,152
Children 2,206
Families 1,078
Total number of people 6,358

July 2016
Adults 4,177
Children 2,348
Families 1,130
Total number of people 6,525

August 2016
Adults 4,248
Children 2,363
Families 1,151
Total number of people 6,611

September 2016
Adults 4,283
Children 2,426
Families 1,173
Total number of people 6,709

October 2016
Adults 4,377
Children 2,470
Families 1,178
Total number of people 6,847

November 2016
Adults 4,436
Children 2,549
Families 1,205
Total number of people 6,985

December 2016
Adults 4,643
Children 2,505
Families 1,205
Total number of people 7,148

January 2017
Adults 4,760
Children 2,407
Families 1,172
Total number of people 7,167

February 2017
Adults 4,875
Children 2,546
Families 1,239
Total number of people 7,421

March 2017
Adults 4,909
Children 2,643
Families 1,256
Total number of people 7,552

April 2017
Adults 4,972
Children 2,708
Families 1,302
Total number of people 7,680

May 2017
Adults 4,922
Children 2,777
Families 1,312
Total number of people 7,699

June 2017
Adults 5,046
Children 2,895
Families 1,365
Total number of people 7,941

July 2017
Adults 5,187
Children 2,973
Families 1,429
Total number of people 8,160

August 2017
Adults 5,222
Children 3,048
Families 1,442
Total number of people 8,270

September 2017
Adults 5,250
Children 3,124
Families 1,455
Total number of people 8,374

October 2017
Adults 5,298
Children 3,194
Families 1463
Total number of people 8,492

November 2017
Adults 5,524
Children 3,333
Families 1,530
Total number of people 8,857

Source

Meanwhile…
Ah here.

Jackdaw writes:

If they’re paying 5 million for that sludge I think we should have some fun with it.

Of Course They Know It’s Christmas
(after Midge Ure & Bob Geldof)

It’s Christmastime; and there’s every reason to be afraid
At Christmastime, we let the light love us and we banish shame
Down our streets of plenty we can spread the smirk of money
Throw your arms around a former bass guitarist
Whose name you think is Chris at Christmastime

But ping your pennies at the other ones
In the long line outside the foodbank
As you drive loudly past
In your silver BMW
Because it’s better than paying tax

At Christmastime
It gets hard, though not as hard as it used to, when you’re having fun
With a reupholstered former model who claims to be a cousin
Of General Pinochet’s personal physician
There’s a world outside your triple-gazed PVC window
And it’s a world of fear and hate
Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting
Of an accountant from Penge
Peeing on rough sleepers
Because his train is late again

We could’ve kept our enormous
Mouths shut, or had the good taste
To be found dead in suspicious
Circumstances at least a decade ago
Instead we offer
A bunch of rock stars who’d be forgotten
If it wasn’t for this old song

And the alarms that go off there
Are the clanging chimes of private property
Well tonight thank Lucifer it’s them instead of Bono
And there will be ice in sleeping bags this Christmastime
The greatest gift they’ll get this year is death
Remind them that it’s Christmastime
In case they missed the ads

Kevin Higgins

Rollingnews

With Oumuamua currently hurtling through the solar system, YouTuber Reigarw Comparisons brings some perspective to various asteroid impacts on the surface of our home planet. To wit:

In this episode, we compare the impact of the sizes of asteroids from 1m to 1000km large, how often they occurred and what are the results. Including the Chelyabinsk Meteor, the Tunguska Meteorite airburst and the KT Extinction Event (bye-bye dinosaurs) Chicxulub Asteroid.

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