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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know before you head out the door.
1. #HOUSING: The government is to make €10 million available for repairs to pyrite-damaged homes.
2. #BUDGET 2014: The dissection of Budget 2014 continued today, culminating in angry exchanges in the Dáil. “You’re an embarrassment on television!” the Ceann Comhairle eventually told the chamber full of deputies.
3. #POST: Got mail to send to the UK? Do it before Royal Mail staff go on strike on 4 November.
4. #OPEN FOR BUSINESS: The US Senate has finally reached an agreement to reopen government and end the fiscal impasse…just hours before the nation’s debt ceiling was hit, reports Politico.
5. #SMOKING: The Irish Cancer Society has released a powerful video, hoping it will prove that non-branded cigarette packets will discourage children from smoking. Sitting around a school table, a number of third class pupils ask simple questions, including: “Why do people do it? Like, and why do they make smokes in the first place?”
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We will never see the trial of Irish Bankers for mortgage fraud and theft.
@Fiona deFreyne: …Or Bertie Ahern, Michael Lowry or a media mogul held to court account either. They all know TOO much!
@Unitedpeople: “It’s vital that justice is not just done, but is seen to be done.” – except where Irish banks are concerned.
@Unitedpeople: I really would pay to see those three cro#ks taken away in irons.
@Fiona deFreyne: we have such a long way to go to get anything remotely near the level of transparency a modern ireland deserves – anything like more broadcasting and public transparency from the legal system should be welcomed by the public – also the previous article on the journal about the disclosures tribunal doesn’t allow comments – an example of how backwards our systems can be – I totally understand during a live court case they close comments – but tribunals were suppose to help us shine more light on matters of interest – the public were outraged about the Garda whistle blowers treatment and a tribunal was agreed – yet all I see every day is painfully slow tangents and stories daily which seem like side shows – which while reported daily in the journal -the public are not allowed to comment ?? Seems outdated to me that there is a public gallery in tribunals and yet we cant comment on social media ?????? Why are comments not allowed ???
All courts should be available on line or tv. Then we could say justice is seen to be done.
All courts should run from 9am to 5pm. Enough judges should be appointed to ensure no backlog is built up. Justice delayed is justice denied. Free legal aid should be capped at two and after that you pay for yourself.
@Liam McGowan: What about the TV license?
@Liam McGowan: The courts are open to the public. Why not get off your butt and go along if you care that much?
@Ben McArthur: work maybe?
Comments are closed as this is before the courts.
The rulings will be null & void now because of some law involving the broadcasting of the verdict. Wait & See.
I’m sure the Supreme Court judges know better than you or me
@Tweety McTweeter: With many of “The Learned Ones” decisions I as a pleb often wonder are they as learned as we are led to believe.
@⚡ Seánie ⚡: Nah, it’ll be grand. That’s just the journals normal bullshit excuse.
@Tweety McTweeter: The last AG wasn’t too good.
@⚡ Seánie ⚡: where would you propose to appeal a Supreme Court ruling?
@John Considine: European Court of Justice.
They are just doing the Supreme Court..Are there any plans to do lower courts….Most public interest would be in how lenient the lower courts are…
Oh very interesting. Seems like it’d be a great way to make TV on the cheap and get high ratings. Good move Rte.
Add a premium phone line for the public to vote on and they’ll be in business. Why stop there though, we could kit out every prison in Ireland with cameras and have a Big Brother style pay per view for each regional prison.
– “Were you watching The Joy last night?”
- “Nah stopped watching that weeks ago. Now the Midlands, much better viewing.”
If I want to watch pond life at work I stare at my fishtank. What’s the difference between a goldfish and a Barrister? We don’t know if goldfish’s morals have a price tag.
My thought exactly…….paint drying would be more watchable
If they can time it so only the verdicts are read out it might have something. From my experience of jury service it w be an insufferable bore
@lavbeer: Supreme Court doesn’t have a jury.
Justice not only has to be done,it has to be seen to be done.
@Kieran Conroy: It should be enough for the public to be allowed into the gallery rather than broadcasting on live tv. Mistakes happen and lives are ruined by press intrusion.
@bopter: Yea.I accept that.Problem is we just can’t help copying America.
@Kieran Conroy: No, No. Justice (as in fair and equal judgments) never really has to be done. It just has to be seen to be done. Same as it ever was…..
@Kieran Conroy: I wish we had a no nonsence ever popular Judge Judy in this country who dont take no s#ite from anyone,if tv ratings are anything to go by her courtroom broadcasts are one of the most watched in this country, in her small claims court there is no hiding place and an ideal way to expose those spoofers and chancers that infest this country.
Knowing the stupidity of Irish judges, will it be listed under comedy or farce?
@Joseph Rooney: “You can hit it with your gavel but you can’t make it stand up in court” Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Judge Judy show in the way Irish style
About time…Family courts next please
Will you close the comments for this too?
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