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WITH THE SUMMER weather finally here and with more people taking to the beaches, the Irish Coast Guard has launched this year’s summer safety campaign.
When the good summer weather comes out, the beaches along the Irish coast are always packed to the brim with families out to enjoy the day. It can be difficult to keep an eye on children playing.
The Irish Coast Guard has started distributing wristbands for children under the “Give us a hand” campaign.
The wristbands aim to prevent children from getting lost on beaches and near coastlines by getting them to wear wristbands.
Parents
The wristbands are disposable and allow parents and guardians to write their phone number on it and place on a child’s hand.
“If the child gets lost the phone number can be contacted and everyone reunited quickly, minimising the need for a large scale search and undue concern for parents,” said the Irish Coast Guard.
The wristbands are free and made of Tyvek material which is durable and waterproof.
John Draper of the Coast Guard said: ”Time and time again we would reiterate water safety, particularly with regard to children.”
He emphasised proper parental oversight where there are children near the water, whether it is inland waterways or off the coast.
Draper said that people should ensure children are not allowed in the water beyond their capabilities. If people are boating, he wanted to underline “that the wearing of a life jacket is law”.
“To me, it’s no different to wearing a seat belt,” said Draper, who added that people should not take chances with the weather.
The wristbands are being distributed around the country at coastal and inland waterway locations. They will also be available for collection at lifeguard stations and public buildings like libraries.
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If he’s an Iranian national and involved in criminality then why wasn’t he deported?
@Shaner Mac: Oh this annoying little thing called evidence!
@Orla Smith: Well since he was known to Gardaí they most’ve had some evidences on him. Again why not just deport him if he’s a criminal?
@Shaner Mac: sure, our legal system won’t deport him, “he has built a life in Ireland”.
@Shaner Mac: they obviously didn’t have sufficient evidence to arrest and charge him with anything. It’s not rocket science to work that out.
@Orla Smith: He was convicted of robbing a brothel, perhaps that would have sufficed?
@Yermanuptheroad: maybe he’s an Irish citizen?
@Shaner Mac: Saw a previous news story say he had been granted asylum here.
Likely they wouldn’t/couldn’t send him back because he was wanted in Iran for some previous crime and could expect harsh treatment rather than a free reign here.
Justice system is failing the people.
Gardai catch, Judges release.
@Dara O’Brien: Might not be enough for a concrete conviction in a particular crime but he needed a visa/work permit to be here, there would’ve been enough evidence to rescind that and deport him.
@John Mulligan: He is described in the article as an Iranian national.
@Shaner Mac: He is departed now instead.
@Yermanuptheroad: He robbed a brothel and also mugged a woman and stole her laptop, But it’s ok.. He got a 3 year suspended sentence for himself. I wonder was Judge Greally involved??
@Yermanuptheroad: and robbing laptops etc. That’s a couple of articles on him. Happened in cork
@Earth Traveller: Being an Iranian national doesn’t mean he was not an Irish citizen.
@Shaner Mac: you know the usual, menthal health difficult childhood born in a war zone etc etc
@Shaner Mac: Wrong question.
Why was he allowed in in the first place?
@Shaner Mac:
Along with quite a few ”stand up” citizens from Eastern Europe.
Ireland is a wash with foreign criminals.
@M: Awash with Irish criminals too though
@Yurty Tim: Plenty of Irish criminals in Spain, the Netherlands,Dubai etc. Criminals are criminals, regardless of nationality, or what country they are in. You can’t stop criminality, best that can be done is try to.
@Orla Smith: jasus i’d say you have your evidence now Orla,bet he wished twas found Monday…
@Shaner Mac: This buck had been granted Asylum, maybe time to revisit that file and maybe a littke word with whoever felt an iranian drug dealer deserved to live here.
@Gerry Campbell: He probably didn’t disclose that he was a drug dealing hitman on his asylum application
@Gerry Campbell: Which ones? All of them?
@Orla Smith: The fact you can’t acknowledge this guy was a s#umbag and instead defend him and then deflect the subject about some far right activist from another country with literally nothing to do with this artictle shows how ridiculous and dangerous for society you lefties are becoming.
@Yermanuptheroad: Cash or goods?
@Yurty Tim: NSS.
Point is- we have records and files on our own. We dont on those who come in and move about freely.
@Gerry Campbell: the people responsible for processing this animal need to be sacked. a warning to all the other ”do-gooders” and lazy gits in the system- if you screw up- you’re out. This is a screw up, where is the fall out?
@M: You’re right. We should deport all foreigners, just in case.
@M: and awash with racists. Deport all racists.
@Yurty Tim: easy kid that’s how Brexit started
@Shaner Mac: Really, three people have been shot dead and you want to talk about the fact that “one these isn’t from here!!”"….me thinks your priorities are skewed
@Gerry Campbell: Probably the same person in who gave American islamist jihadist Walker an irish passport.
@Fory Go-Farty: It’s a legitimate concern if that person is connected to the death of other people. The State should use all it’s available powers to combat criminally including deportation. And why use quotation marks? I did not write that.
@Yurty Tim: You’re a real smart arse, eh…
@Shaner Mac: Sure its a concern, but its a small part of the picture here.
This is about Irish lads shooting Irish lads over drugs and profiting from drugs, and you hone in on the one immigrant component, which is disappointing.
I am not defending the actions of Sanambar; it is curious that your concern in this whole scenario is immigration. Not the violence & drugs trade. Felt like a opportunity for you to soapbox about a tangential issue.
There’s a lovely Albanian gang I know that are just dying for an Irish passport; great background in robbery, extortion and dealing will I give them a bell now?
@Liberal_Ireland: Don’t bother. They’re here already.
@Liberal_Ireland: Albanian gangs don’t bother with Ireland- more active in London.
@Liberal_Ireland: I think Liam Neeson took care of them all.
@Liberal_Ireland: you sure your not getting confused with fg /ff ?
What does useless Charlie Flanagan think he is going to achieve by visiting the area? The answer to that is nothing of course. Most people in the country believe that crime is treated too leniently and so what Charlie Flanagan needs to do is acknowledge that and press the government or the judiciary to start taking it seriously instead of going personally to the area for a publicity stunt
No background checks on entry
@Jack: When he arrived here he asked the guards what the score was between Roscommon and Mayo and got a hearty wave through and some back slaps….
On ya go fella, watch yar step, milk and sugar, fella, do ya know da fella, Saso over in Tehran, runs a cow business, etc etc….
Oh Leo is visiting…that’s wonderful news for the residents. I’m sure they feel safe in their homes already…
@Anthony: of course they will there will be loads of Garda there that day…the last time the residents of coolock would have seen that many Garda was when the water meters were going in
@Anthony: Leos chalk outline would be wonderful for the whole country.
@Gowon Geter: that’s a horrible thing to say
He had convictions here according to the news. In Donegal I think RTE news said. I’m pro immigration and as Liberal as they come but if you commit a crime in this country and you are not Irish and especially not from the EU you should be immediately deported once your sentence, if any, is served. We have enough toe rags of our own without importing them.
This is taking the piss at this point
@Darrell Pickford Monks: nah, that would be Seanie
The Leftie snowflakes will probably say poor guy, he fled his country for a better life and all he could find was bad Irish people who led him down the wrong path and then he got murdered by racists.
@Anorack Jack: they probably won’t. Case in point, no one has. It’s just your own little warped mind.
Dublin is lovely
@Yurty Tim: if cows had thumbs you lot would have problems too
@David Daly: Whos my lot?
@Yurty Tim: horses…..
“the Iranian national, who was granted political asylum”
” considered an enforcer for crime gangs, had been operating in Cork several years ago. ”
“In June 2015, Sanambar was handed a three-year suspended sentence for the robbery of a brothel on Cove Street in the city centre in September 2012.”
Ahh the justice system
The chaps picture was on whatsapp last night after it happened. Surprised the usual red top rags didn’t post it
@Jims – TechBuzz Ireland: send it on
@Al coholic: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rte.ie/amp/1052310/
@Dublin Wings: nice chap I’d say with his tear drop tattoo
@Jims – TechBuzz Ireland: He looks like a stand up guy, prepared to work and pay taxes, and to help the elderly….etc…..etc…
In any country where you have high levels of poverty and inequality you have high crime levels. The result is that you have prisons full of poor people. Look at the US. Look at Latin America and you see the high levels of crime and high levels of poverty. Putting these people in jail is like putting a sticky plaster on the problem. Why don’t we set about giving everyone a fair change and completely eradicate poverty and inequality. Unfortunately our current government policy has pushed more people into poverty. The rich have gotten richer and the middle class are falling into poverty while vulture finds run riot and pay no taxes.
@great gael of Eire: I guess you have no problem giving up half your salary house car etc to help those less fortunate who have never contributed to society yeah right!
@Deirdre Fahey: It wouldn’t cost half your salary Deirdre. You’d let your neighbourhood burn to the ground if ya got to keep the scraps wouldn’t you?
Greed. Anyone who bemoans helping others because “it would cost me too much” is just greedy. You’re worse than those struggling to make a living.
@Deirdre Fahey: who said anything about giving them anything for free. A fair and equal society is one where people go to work and earn a decent living wage. A wage where they can afford a house and a good quality of life. If we have kids growing up in poverty, where they are hungry and suffer abuse while the state ignores their existence. What exactly are they going to do. They turn to crime cause there is no other option. Our govt is too busy bailing out bank and bond holders. The allow vulture funds to come in and buy all our houses and make a fortune tax free by the way. The facts are that when you have an equal society that works for everyone then crime almost vanishes…
@Deirdre Fahey: well my wages have been hit by bank of ireland where you have worked,among others,great gael is right what she/he said, truth is you know,and dont care.
@great gael of Eire: it‘s a myth that people turn to crime because they can’t find a job! Most of these gang thugs are in it for the quick buck and wouldn’t even consider working on an average wage.
Varadkar says he will visit the area as soon as he gets a little bit of time. Of course writing fanmail takes precedence for leo, as well as the exorbitant amount of time he’s conjuring up and coreographing images for his photo opps.
The people buying the drugs for their own use are very much a part of this mess.
Leo never turns down a good photo op. It ends there.
Country a magnet for criminals because of its softly softly approach
Would anyone risk their welfare going witness for an imported disreputable criminal?
@Paul Freeman: not a chance anyone in that area will talk to the cops if they know anything.
Leo will get his Photo Shoot and then Swing Out of Town !
Probably have a Baileys when he is “ Safely Supervised “ !
Leo will visit the area go back home and forget about it. Flanagan is talking through his h**e when he says there is enough Garda resources the chap was shot dead in the front garden of a chap who was shot dead last week for Christ’s sake. The only good thing the area can take from it is there will be no shortage of Garda present when Leo or Flanagan visit
If an Irish person has a criminal record they cannot enter the US or Australia, how can non EU people get into Ireland with criminal records ?
TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR has pledged to visit the Coolock/Darndale area of Dublin
* Leo The Clown googles Da Northside. It’s okay, Clown, you don’t need your passport for this pledged trip.
A shambles of a man and the blunt spearhead an utterly poisonous political party.
@Brian McHale-Boyle: bet he,l get a bus there to follow the green agenda with the other 51 seats filled wit gardai
@Brian McHale-Boyle: he’s from the Northside.
@Rebecca De Stanleigh: Born in the same barn that I was. I heard that it’s not where you are from, it’s where you are at, and if you believe that Leo the Loser Clown holds an affinity with Coolock/Darndale/Donaghmede, then I respect your open heart but expect it will be broken.
*If you are from “Blanch”, you’re a Westie, not a Northsider.
Top reporters……….Titter ye not…………..
@Peter Bell: They’re not bad, Peter.
Garda resources: additional notebooks for all!
Plenty of time over the last 2 weeks to canvas. Vradkar is a total gimp
The gardai do an amazing job at arresting the criminals only to be let down by the soft sentencing.
Gardai have enough resources? Attend any one of the local area joint policing committees and you will find superintendents pleading the exact opposite. It might be why the army was required to support the gardai on a number of occasions in Blanchardstown recently.
I can’t believe he came out with the line ‘as soon as I can find a little bit of time’. Ah don’t worry about it Leo it’s only a few murders. I’m sure there’s more important things to look after.
@Σ ΛΛ ΛΛ Θ: he has to wait for his favorite socks to dry
@Σ ΛΛ ΛΛ Θ: why would he be bothered about thugs killing each other? Good riddance all of them!
Thought this article was about our entitled leader go in for a looksie around gangland
1. Leo doesn’t give a flying F about you or your neighbourhood.
2. The minister for Justice doesn’t either….
3. After the first two shootings, the police were at pains to point out ”people of interest were under surveillance, to prevent retaliation”…..we know what happened….
4. Third person shot while a family were meeting and greeting mourners….
5. Where the F was the police presence?
@M: you shouldn’t mourn drug dealing violent thugs! They only got what they deserve and the families of these psychos are never as innocent as they claim they are.
Immigration officer- So, ya wana asylum here, bud?
Yes, I persecuted in Iran….
IO- What are those marks on yr face? Tribal tat thing, bud?
Yes, tribal thing tat…
IO- Funny that, I saw boys n the hood and this hard bollox had something similar- tats was mark of a vengeful angel- an assassin….
In Iran, we dont have no Blockbuster…
IO- Right, bud, I’m welling up, sign here and we’ll fix ya up with a gaff and some cash- happy? F the SHAH! Right, bud? Hahaha—I’m from Offaly, btw- ever hear of it`?
A gangland killer got killed himself? So what? Good riddance and now it’s time to move on! Nobody will shed a tear
“when he gets the time” – don’t worry Leo, not too many FG voters north of the Liffey!
Maybe some night after a Kylie concert
Maybe a little less time at social events would enable you to do your job Mr v
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