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GARDAÍ IN ROSCOMMON are investigating the kidnapping of four people and the attempted robbery of a post office in Co Roscommon last night in which one garda sustained minor injuries.
Gardaí say that between 11pm last night and 8am this morning four masked man entered a private house adjoining a post office in Clonfad, Co Roscommon.
The men tied up the sole male occupant of the house before travelling with him to another house in which they abducted two females and a male.
All four where taken back to the house and adjoining post office.
After becoming suspicious local Gardaí went to the post office where they confronted the four suspects and were attacked by the men who, armed with shovels and bars, inflicted minor injuries on one officer.
No one else was physically injured during the incident and no money was taken from the post office.
The four masked men escaped in a green Volkswagon hatchback with a 06-Mayo registration number.
Gardaí say they are continuing to search for these men and have appealed for anyone who was in the area of Clonfad and Williamstown and saw anything suspicious to contact them cat Castlerea on 094 962 1630, the Garda confidential line 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
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I wonder what causes more disruption to air travel, Unions or Terrorists? I’d say Unions!
You’d wonder about SIPTU’s real agenda in all this. That deficit didn’t just happen overnight. It’s as much the workers fault as the company’s. the trustees either put too much trust in fund managers, or took their eye off the ball completely. Personally I think SIPTU are more worried about Croke park than anything else. Using Aer Lingus workers is a smokescreen.
The union guy won’t give up his wages during this dispute! I hope the union looks after these people.
They will, they provide strike pay to their members.
Here we go again! Ryanair will be laughing, counting their profits.
not quite, don’t forget they own just under 30% of Aer Lingus shares as well, strike action won’t do their value much good…
Last time they went on strike Ryanair leased a/c’s and crew to Aer Lingus and Ryanair operated some of their flights, probably just do the same again
Hard to listen to a man who paid himself €1.3 million last year accusing the workers of featherbedding…
The unions have wanted this strike for some time. They get to shut down the country and show how powerful they are. They’re ok with their big wage packets, while they screw the ordinary people of this country. Not nice people!
Hey, idiot, the Union doesn’t decide when people strike, the workers do
Their as bad as the teachers almost for striking
If you become an employee of a semi-state company – as aer lingus was – you are compelled to join their pension scheme. It’s a requirement. If you are required to join the surely the company that insists you Join has an equal responsibility to ensure the fund is properly managed and has a funding plan that is both acceptable and practical? Workers are just fighting for their pension rights.
Spot on Seafra. The comments above blaming “the unions” seem to imply the big boys in Liberty Hall are putting a gun to the heads of their gullible members to force them to strike. It’s the majority of Aer Lingus workers that made the decision and fair play to them for fighting for their pensions.
I reckon the government will introduce a law that will allow companies losing money due to strikes to hire new staff or fire the striking party! they did it in America in the 80s when air traffic controllers striked and shut one half off the country down, the government simply passed a law because because they seen it a potential threat to the economy and fired them all replacing them with the many people that were looking for work at that time.
Please don’t strike I’m flying with them late next month, haven’t had a break in years. I’m living for it :(
For the past 25 years at least it is the same old story with Air Lingus
Yawn yawn
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