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FIVE PEOPLE, including a 16-year-old boy, have been arrested in connection with the stabbing of a man on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in London.
The teenager was arrested on suspicion of assault and is being held in custody along with four men in their early 20s, according to police.
The victim, a 20-year-old man, suffered stab wounds to the stomach and hand at about 6pm in Ladbroke Grove on Monday, the Guardian reports. He is reportedly in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
The victim was one of 86 people to be brought to hospital during the two-day festival, which celebrates Caribbean culture. Last year 117 people were brought to hospital, the BBC reports.
A heavy police presence was deployed at this year’s street festival following the recent riots in London.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said that he was determined that the festival, which the biggest in Europe, would go ahead this year despite the recent unrest in the city. “Obviously there were quite a few people who wrote to me saying ‘for heaven’s sake, scrap it’. But we said ‘no, that would be wrong, because that would be an admission of defeat,” he said.
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Another massive failing of Enda’s reign… The people voted to keep the Seanad so Enda threw all the toys out of the pram and did nothing to reform it.
The people voted to keep the Seanad to spite Enda.
Yeah… That’s why he’s been such a baby about it,
that is reverse psychology at its best !!!
Enda never promised reform – the people who wanted to retain it did. Was it 1979 the referendum was passed to expand it to a greater electorate?
I know I did.
I voted for reform, Enda had absolutely nothing to do with my decision.
I believe we need two Houses as a “check and balance” but I want to see voting opened to more people and reduce then number of party appointments.
And I suspect if you asked most who voted to retain they’d have the same reasons.
How does the Seanad provide a “check and balance”? The Seanad has no powers to veto legislation and, based on Taoiseach’s nominees, will always have a government majority?
It doesn’t as it stands now.. That’s why it needs reform. Just getting rid of it would give whatever government was sitting in the Dail too much power.
The Seanad needs to be strengthened and democratised, not abolished, in my opinion.
No, it was actually Chuck Norris. He got them over a decade before Twitter was invented
Yera I got a billion re twitters the other day.
Norris is a total slieveen
The Seanad. Jobs for the boys. All around back scratching, brown nosing, secret handshakes. Get rid of it.
We didn’t want to get rid of it. We had a vote, remember?
Would love to see the seanad voluntarily filled..with travel expenses limited to 10k per annum…separate those who want to serve..from those who want to take..how many former TDs would be lining up?
See, I have a problem with making politics only possible for those that are independently wealthy.
I don’t want only rich people in politics.
There is a balance to be found where a position in politics is possible irrespective of your financial ability.
In a perfect world, all (qualified) citizens should be “drafted” to do, say 2 years in politics. Force us all to participate in the running of our society.
Sick of the gobshutes on this caraval of its mee it’s mee
It’s me.
How,did we make such a big mistake? Totally un democratic.
Really, you actually fact-checked Sabina Brennan’s qualifications?
David Norris told personally before that he’s almost completely IT illiterate and doesnt wrote his own Tweets
“joint Oireachtas committee members also get bonuses of between €792 and €5,989. ” http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/tdssenators/salariesallowances/salaries/
Committee Chair person do not committee members
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