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A DUBLIN BUS was damaged this afternoon after it struck a tree branch in Clonsilla.
Images from the scene show significant damage to the top deck at the front of the 39A bus. The incident occurred at the junction of Mountview Road and Hartstown Road.
Two Dublin Fire Brigade trucks attended and two HSE ambulances were also sent to the scene as a precaution. A garda spokesperson said there were no injuries in the incident.
The damaged bus has now been removed from the scene and council workers have cleared the debris.
A Dublin Bus spokesperson said that the company is investigating the incident.
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Is this an opinion piece or a report?
@James Groden: An excellent question.
@James Groden: That would be an ecumenical matter
@James Groden: it’s called editorialising the news and is an insidious practice, particularly in media where journalists feel they also have to be activists.
@Paul Dowling: But the piece consists entirely of facts (disprove if you can).
@Brendan O’Brien: I did. See my response to your other comment below. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. I could also have mentioned how the writer makes a point of saying how FF completely misjudged the mood of the country. That is not what we normally count as a fact. That is an opinion.
@James Groden: Well all of the FF and all but one FG TD done a Pontius Pilot on this vote by washing their hands of the matter. No surprises there. Moral cowards.
Clear evidence that FF and FG out of touch with most of the population
@Declan Joseph Deasy:
@Declan Joseph Deasy: really ?has the people been asked about this extension of abortion NO they have not & a lot of people would not want this if voting again most people were fooled by the hype of abortion being seldom its over 32 thousand todate Discraceful
I see the Journal.ie has yet to learn the difference between opinion and news. Say what you will about them but at least the Irish Times (not a noted friend of the Pro-Life side) would have had the dignity and journalistic ethics to know which category to assign this article to – though even their opinion writers might have hesitated to write something quite this lopsided.
@Ross Nolan: The piece consists entirely of facts. If you disagree, please point to the opinions within it.
@Brendan O’Brien: oh dear. Someone needs to do a course in media criticism. The article opines that the focus in the run up to the 2018 referendum was on FF; it mentions how a period of reflection was required for FF post referendum to ensure they didn’t alienate young urban voters. These are inferences that a person will make if they have a particular POV. They are not a neutral recounting of the facts. Frequent references to FFers as the ‘Soldiers of Destiny’ are meant pejoratively and the inclusion of a photograph of No-voting FFers is all meant to serve the narrative of ‘How could they have got it so wrong?’ Again, not neutral.
@Paul Dowling: It appears factual and analytical to me, and not anti-FF. I may be mistaken but I see only one ‘soldiers of destiny’, which, as I mention below, is probably intended for stylistic variation.
I think FF has had difficulties in terms of discarding its traditional social conservatism and coming to terms with no longer being Ireland’s dominant party. It and FG would need to wake up.
@Brendan O’Brien: whatever difficulties FF has are irrelevant when it comes to reporting the facts. Drawing out the implications of policies and events is what op-eds are for. Now, a clever journalist can still subtly get their biases across while cloaking them in factual language, but this writer didn’t even try to hide them. The very last line ‘…this still rings true today.’ That sentence has no business being in a straight-up news piece. Attributing a mood to the party without quoting anyone in particular (or quoting them as an afterthought) is poor professional practice. The Journal should have made it clear this was an opinion piece.
Anyone hear the interview on Newstalk from an abortion rights advocacy group where she stated they demanded abortion on request up until the point of birth? I was absolutely flabbergasted that anyone could have such a view. Was so bad I thought she might have been a plant put in by the pro life side.
@Longlin: some of these abortion people are crazy kill a baby at birth just shows the mentality Nothing surprises me anymore & if any Dr went with this he should look at why he became a Dr ,
Save lives & do no harm have they forgotten or is money more important
@Sheila McNulty: the only thing they have to look foward to, and this corrupt world
The hour of the justice of God is close, and will be terrible!”
“Tremendous scourges are impending over the world, and various nations are struck by epidemics, famines, great earthquakes, terrific hurricanes, with overflowing rivers and seas, which bring ruin and death.”
“If the people do not recognize in these scourges (of nature) the warnings of Divine Mercy, and do not return to God. ANOTHER TERRIBLE WAR WILL COME FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. RUSSIA WITH HER SECRET ARMIES WILL BATTLE AMERICA; WILL OVERRUN EUROPE.
LAUNCH FORTH INTO THE WORLD A MESSAGE TO MAKE KNOWN TO ALL THAT THE
SCOURGE IS NEAR AT HAND, The justice of God is weighing upon the world. Mankind, defiled in the mire, soon will be washed in its own blood, by disease; by famine; by earthquakes; by cloudbursts, tornadoes, floods, and terrible storms; and by war. But men ignore all these warnings, and are unwilling to be convinced that tragic events are hanging over the world, and that the hours of great trials are at hand’
ht@ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slmAd2dgYHY , 2:55 uploaded 9 years detailing the future and the following prophecies above
It tells you a lot about the split in FF.And there was me thinking it was about politics. Turns out it is about telling women what to do with their bodies. 25 TDs voting against it and 8 abstentions. Archbishop John McQuaid would be proud of them
Hate the right wing Irish government? Stop voting for Irish Tories.
And jazes if you think FFFG is bad, voting for the far right will only make things far worse.
Soldiers of density.
Stephen Donnelly abstained? That man is a disgrace to even himself!
When is the next General Election anyway?
@BachMutt: Due February 2025
The unwillingness of your opinion piece writer (masquerading as a news report) and of several of those commenting here to acknowledge that people opposed to abortion have a deeply felt conscientious objection to the taking of human life does them little credit. There can be few measured observers who believe that those deputies who refused to vote for the PBP motion are unaware of the influence exerted by the unrelenting media campaign to remove what few pro-life protections remain. Rather than throwing insults, reflect instead on these uncommon instances of professional politicians being prepared to put their beliefs and principles ahead of negative media and the risk of endangering their parliamentary seats.
Ireland First.
@Prussian:
Why so many ? Thats the question worth asking. What is happening to society ?
Why are we going to get rid of our muppet members of the Dáil some who want to take ownership of their homes some who don’t know the difference between a baby boy or a baby girl
Reverse engineering helps here.
A quick look at the comments tells me …… another the propaganda piece.
By an author who was never heard of before or since.
Yeah yeah im a dumbass, but why is the term ‘soldiers of destiny’ being used more than once in this article?
Excuse my ignorance folks but it is what it is….
@Denis Rathsallagh Brady: An attempt at stylistic variation.
Wonder will Martin and FF be commenting on the €600,000 they were gifted on the death of a party member…Martin was fast enough to criticise when SF were in the same position. Wonder why the media failed to report this story. As for the vote…FF are a political party without direction. Their political lives depend on Varadkar and FG.
Even as a Yes voter this piece appears to be biased propaganda. Low standards, thejournal.ie.
People Before Profit got elected by complaining about Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael
do they really expect them to turn around and help them ?
FF and FG wouldn’t give PBP the steam off their pi$$
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