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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #GOOD NEWS: Dublin has hospitality in its DNA. That is the reason given by Airbnb for choosing Ireland as the location to develop its European headquarters.
2. #SHARES: Want to own a slice of Twitter? The microblogging site announced last night that it had submitted papers ahead of a planned IPO (initial public offering). Can you say that in 140 characters?
3. #CAB: John Gilligan’s prized equestrian centre in Kildare has gone on sale this morning for an estimated €500,000 on the instructions of the Criminal Asset Bureau which seized the property from the crime boss. Take a look around (we’re not sure if it comes with the floral couches).
4. #HIT AND RUN: The woman arrested yesterday in relation to a fatal hit and run in Donegal has been released without charge, gardaí confirmed this morning.
5. #AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a bomb that killed at least one person and injured another 18 at a US consulate in the Afghan city of Herat today.
6. #FIRE: A massive fire rages in a New Jersey business area, undoing months of rebuilding efforts after Superstorm Sandy. The blaze has destroyed more than 20 businesses but no casualties have been reported.
7. #SYRIA: Talks between Russia and the US continue in Geneva today with an aim to reach a deal on how to guarantee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, the Guardian reports.
8. #BUSY FINGERS: Even though Irish people do not use text messages as much as we used to, we still managed to send 2.4 billion texts between April and June – on top of missives sent through services such as Whatsapp.
9. #BLOBBY: The blob fish has been voted the ugliest creature in the world. Aw. Don’t worry, Blobby, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.
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40 foot swimmers jeez they’re tall
@Alison Maguire: The Nephilim are back! . . . And this time, their pissed.
@Alison Maguire: Brilliant comment. .. You’re very quick..
Time to have all boats carrying a registration number like the US
Otherwise the rules are a waste of time
No accountability for reckless use of water crafts
Jet skis are particularly dangerous and many clowns own one
What do the coastguard do, issue a set of regulations . These rich kids owners of those crafts should be charged with endangerment to swimmers.
@Just Me: only if they are rich? Or was that a redundant adjective?
@Just Me: eh it was Conor McGregor not some rich kid.
That place is Notorious….
@Brian O’Faolain: those responsible obviously liked the may weather
@Ian Ó Grèachaín: Don’t think many will get that.
@….: who da fook is that guy?
@Ian Ó Grèachaín: there’s been a floyd of complaints
@….: I get it!
Foreign nationals on jet skis we get them from time to time in Tramore no idea of any rules or regulations.ps get pc about my comment we watch them launch their jet skis from pier
@Gerard Heery: I won’t get PC about your comment, but some punctuation wouldn’t go amiss.
@Gerard Heery: it was Conor McGregor, unless you consider Tallaght foreign!
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Will you have a word with Brian MacCartaigh please
@Ian Murphy: Is he not from Crumlin? Bleeding tallafornians trying to claim
Everyone as theirs
@Neal Ireland Hello.: It’s computer predictive text sometimes changes after I post don’t know y
And the would of got away with it, if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.
Kirsty MacColl was decapitated be a death , sorry, jet ski. These idiots should be seriously penalized for endangering lives.
Spoilt brats on their power toys with no respect for others. Typical establishment behaviour
@Roger Clarke: it was Conor McGregor, so you’re right about the spoilt brat bit
@Sam Harms: was it really???
@Deborah Behan: yep lovin dublin had an article about it
@Roger Clarke: one things for sure Conor’s not part of the establishment
A, the forty foot, brings back memories albeit the only thing that raised alarm back in the day was old fellas crinkly dangly bits on full view
You should be allowed shoot Jet Ski riders.
@William Grogan: with a blunderbuss to ensure maximum spread
Drug dealers
Gobmight’s Ted
If the yellow marker marks a swimming zone and they are on the far side of the marker what’s the problem?
@David Hanks: scratch that. Just had a look at the chart and that bouy is about 200m from shore so they were too close
Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig says it beautifully in “Ode to a jet ski person” https://www.google.ie/amp/s/homepaddock.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/ode-to-a-jet-ski-person/amp/
The only thing I took from that was the weather was so nice you could go swimming in the sea and now I want to cry.
That’s all we need boy racers in the sea, spoilt lowlifes knew they were in the wrong
This is not national news
Bloody fools!
Surely the time rules are arse ways?
@Derek Brian Griffin Cooper: why do you think that? It’s to accommodate swimming hours, it’s also a massive ocean and there’s plenty of other places jet skis etc could go.
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