I thought this shit only happened in films. "When gardaí arrived on the scene of the crash involving three vehicles ... the dead man was found slumped in the passenger seat of one of the cars. He was wearing a balaclava and carrying a Sig semi-automatic handgun."
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Person who died in three-vehicle crash at Newcastle West, on Monday is suspected to be a South American gun for hire
As the Labour Party, Sinn Féin, People Before Profit and some independents opposed council managers' plans to remake the park at Mountjoy Square in Georgian-ish style at Monday's Dublin City Council meeting, things got a bit heated. www.dublininquirer.com/council-appr...
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Police in Northern Ireland were warned repeatedly that 'a hitlist' of properties targeted in this week’s Belfast riots was circulating among anti-immigration activists – excl by @theguardian.com's Aamna Mohdin
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At Labre Park, residents are waiting for word on what they need, and will get, to protect from landfill gases. This Traveller halting site, like others, was built on a historic landfill. “It seems to be a pattern across the state to build sites on dumps.”
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Exclusive: PSNI repeatedly warned by monitoring group for eight months after a so-called hitlist of addresses began circulating in far-right networks
Before I moved to Ireland, a dozen years or so ago, I lived in ignorance, unaware that there is more than one kind of potato. Now I live in a world of potato-riches, and have strong opinions on which is the right potato for each situation: Roosters, Kerrs Pink, Golden Wonders, Queens, etc etc
Youth workers are looking for new ways to fight grooming of children as young as six by drug gangs. With younger and younger children being targeted, organisations on the ground have to respond, they say.
Six months on, the renamings of two Dublin parks are still stalled out. Councillors still looking to dename Herzog Park – and to rename Diamond Park after Terence Wheelock – say they’ve seen no progress from central government on regulations to make it an option.
"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season," writes Ellie Stone, of the inspiration for the image she did for the cover of our print edition #123.
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Does the council's site at Camden Yard really have to be offices – and should it be? As plans for the council to build it out progress, there remains something of a split among councillors as to what would be positive, and what would be possible.
The council has approved plans to remake Mountjoy Square Park, but there's still confusion on future of playgrounds and sports there. “The play trail won’t work for us,” says Geraldine O’Driscoll, who runs an early years service on Mountjoy Square.
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Councillors still looking to dename Herzog Park – and to rename Diamond Park after Terence Wheelock – say they’ve seen no progress from central government on regulations to make it an option.
As plans for the council to build it out progress, there remains something of a split among councillors as to what would be positive, and what would be possible.
