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Re: Travellers
« Reply #195 on: February 27, 2019, 09:47:31 am »
Smart move. As the now dead David Ervine of the PUP in Norn Iron said, "We were bulking ourselves up producing idiotic body-builders when in jail, whilst the Shinners were studying books producing articulate, informed and intelligent politicians".

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #197 on: March 01, 2019, 11:34:52 am »
No problem getting a TC2 if you've never declared any income.

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #198 on: March 19, 2019, 03:22:43 pm »
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0318/1037063-murder-charge-carrickmacross/

19-year-old charged with murder of man in Co Monaghan

Updated / Tuesday, 19 Mar 2019 06:55

By Sinéad Hussey
North-East Correspondent

A 19-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in Co Monaghan three years ago.

Aaron McDonagh, of no fixed abode, was arrested at Clarke train station in Dundalk yesterday evening.

He was brought before Monaghan District Court this evening, charged with murder and arson.

Gerry Marron, 61, died in a fire at his home at St Macartans Villas in Carrickmacross in March 2016.

Gardaí later established the fire was started deliberately.

Detective Ciaran Marks told the court that he charged Mr McDonagh at Carrickmacross Garda Station and the accused made no reply.

Legal aid was granted and the accused was remanded in custody to appear before Cloverhill District Court on Thursday.

Medical assessment for the accused was granted.

The court heard an application would be made regarding the accused's fitness to plead.

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #199 on: March 20, 2019, 01:01:06 pm »
https://www.thejournal.ie/sulky-racing-horse-4549849-Mar2019/

Body of young horse that was used for sulky racing dumped on Dublin road

A woman found the horse’s body while she was out walking with her dog.

6 hours ago

A HORSE WHOSE body was found dumped in a skip bag on the side of a Dublin road was likely used in sulky racing, a charity has said.

A woman who was out walking her dog on Monday came across the horse’s body on Peamount Road in south county Dublin. She contacted the My Lovely Horse charity and co-founder Martina Kenny went to the scene this morning.

She told TheJournal.ie that the horse, which she estimated was under the age of two when it died, looks as if it had been used for sulky racing.

“She was shaved like they do for sulkies, her mane was shaved. And she was wearing shoes which she shouldn’t have been at that age. Her feet were still growing, she must have been in so much pain.

“She was a small little pony, she shouldn’t have even been in a sulky trap. They don’t have the strength.”

The charity regularly comes across abandoned horses, both alive and dead, who have been used in sulky racing. The ones who are alive are often so weak they do not survive long after they are saved.

“Every single week we get a call of either a dying horse or a dead horse. All around Dublin we’ve had to put horses down, it’s happening everywhere,” Kenny said.

Some are injured, others are starving and have been left with absolutely nothing.

One horse in a northside Dublin area was so emaciated they had to get a vet to come put her down.

And there was another near Dunsink in Finglas, we had to put her down. There was the body of another horse beside that one.

Kenny said this was all in the space of three weeks.

“It’s just crazy, people are dumping animals like rubbish.”

Volunteers from the charity were out again last night attempting to rescue abandoned horses in the same area this body was found.

Regulation

There were calls last year for tighter regulations in relation so sulky racing after a number of instances including one where a horse was found collapsed in a housing estate in Cork.

Just days before this incident a video had emerged of an exhausted pony being dragged by two youths on a public road after collapsing as it carried a cart.

An inquest in January last year into the death of a 12-year-old who was thrown from a sulky car on a public road recommended specific by-laws to regulate their use.

Independent TD Mattie McGrath soon after introduced a bill to the Dáil which would prohibit sulky racing, but there has been little movement from the government to put specific legislation in place.

Last year Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, whose remit is animal welfare, told McGrath that the use of sulkies or any other horse-drawn vehicles on the roads is a “legitimate activity provided it is done in a safe manner giving due care and consideration to other road users and the animal’s well being”.

He said illegal racing activities taking place on roads, involving any type of vehicle, was a matter for An Garda Síochána and the Department of Transport.

His department did roll out a number of courses to promote good horse welfare among sulky owners in Dublin, Cork and Tipperary last year.

He said the course encouraged participants to move away from “the road racing practices to racing on tracks and to engage with the regulated sport of harness racing on tracks as operated by the Irish Harness Racing Association”.

“The course provider has a clear understanding of the cultural sensitivities surrounding participation in road-racing.”

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #200 on: March 20, 2019, 01:19:10 pm »
Broody cleam clackers

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #201 on: March 20, 2019, 03:06:44 pm »
Why would you dump a perfectly good skip bag?
Mr. T-bag to you

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #202 on: March 20, 2019, 03:15:21 pm »
Why would you dump a perfectly good skip bag?
Poor Auld Horse, at one stage was in good nick until they fcked around with it, should be ashamed of themselves.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #203 on: March 21, 2019, 09:58:01 pm »
Why would you dump a perfectly good skip bag?
Why would you dump a perfectly good Knacker Traveller ?

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #204 on: March 21, 2019, 10:13:57 pm »
Why would you dump a perfectly good skip bag?
Why would you dump a perfectly good Knacker Traveller ?


No such thing ken
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Re: Travellers
« Reply #205 on: March 22, 2019, 02:17:15 pm »
A dead one?

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #206 on: March 24, 2019, 01:38:54 pm »
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/irish-water-says-sewage-plant-will-not-adversely-impact-on-traveller-site-1.3834396

Irish Water says sewage plant will not adversely impact on Traveller site

Travellers are closest residents to proposed north Dublin plant at Clonshaugh

Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 19:10
Olivia Kelly

Large Traveller populations living close to a proposed regional sewage plant will not be adversely affected by odours or vermin, Irish Water has told a Bord Pleanála hearing.

Traveller accommodation sites are the closest residential developments to the proposed plant, with more than 200 Traveller families living less than 900m from the site at Clonshaugh, east of Dublin Airport.

Irish Water is seeking permission from the board for a €500 million sewage plant at Clonshaugh, which would be the second largest sewage works in the State after the Ringsend plant in Dublin 4.

In addition to the plant, the project includes the construction of an underground orbital sewer from Blanchardstown to Clonshaugh to intercept existing flows to Ringsend; a pumping station at Abbotstown; and an outfall pipeline to discharge effluent into the Irish Sea approximately 1km northeast of Ireland’s Eye.

There were, Irish Water said, 3,775 homes within the “study area” of all these facilities.

Residents and politicians, including Minister for the Environment Richard Bruton, made submissions in relation to the impact of the development on hotels, schools, sports clubs and homes within the area, and suggested there was a “lack of community gain” for the area.

Irish Water said Travellers living at Cara Park in Darndale, the closest homes to the Clonshaugh plant, would not “experience a negative impact” arising from the operation of the plant as, at approximately 850m, the plant was a sufficient distance from their homes.

Dr Imelda Shanahan, representing Irish Water, told the hearing that “any odours from the facility will be contained and treated to a very high degree”, and there would be “no detectable odour at the site boundary”.

Odour issues

She said concerns had been raised that the new plant would suffer the same “historic odour issues experienced at Ringsend”. The Ringsend plant’s odour problems were “a symptom of the fact that the Ringsend works was treating loads in excess of the design capacity”, she said. The Clonshaugh plant “is being designed for the required treatment capacity, and therefore the primary causative factor for historical odour issues at Ringsend will not arise”.

Dr Martin Hogan, addressing human health issues for Irish Water, told the hearing that “vermin management” would be in place during and after construction, and “odour is not in itself a health effect”.

He said the alternative of not going ahead with the project would be “intolerable” from a human health perspective.

“Inappropriate or improper treatment of human waste is simply intolerable in human health terms. This would give the potential for the transmission of disease as a direct result from contact with human excrement, and indirectly from associated aspects such as increase in vermin.”

The sewer construction will involve tunnelling through the grounds of Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown. Dr Hogan said the windows at the hospital “will be required to be closed at all times during the construction works as part of the air quality mitigation measures in order to control dust intrusion”.

Construction work in the hospital grounds is expected to take up to six months.

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #207 on: March 24, 2019, 02:00:50 pm »
what about cross contamination .

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #208 on: March 25, 2019, 06:26:55 am »
Do Traveller's and Raw Sewage have anything in common ?

In a Taxi drivers Eye's what would you pick up First ?
Raw Sewage or a Knacker ?

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Re: Travellers
« Reply #209 on: March 25, 2019, 09:36:00 am »
I'd imagine the Raw Sewage workers might have something to say about the smell from the creamers
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