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THE WIKILEAKS ORGANISATION is promising a big announcement in the next few hours.
The group’s given a few clues about it’s new revelations — but so far, this tweet’s all we’ve got to go on…
As you might expect, there’s always some wag happy to try and fill the information vacuum…
WikiLeaks angered the United States in 2010 by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a huge cache of US diplomatic cables that embarrassed governments worldwide.
The group’s founder, Julian Assange, has been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London for more than two years as he fights sexual abuse charges.
This evening’s announcement comes on the eve of the first anniversary former US soldier Chelsea Manning’s conviction on espionage charges.
Previously known as Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst is serving 35 years in prison for passing along 700,000 secret documents to the Wikileaks organisation.
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Such a shame, I hope they get to the bottom of it .
Anyone know what the cool pyramid building is ?
I suspect it’s something to do with Met Eireann! The pyramid building that is, not the detergent issue……although!
The pyramid building is a Church. Just after the Tolka leaves the Botanic Gardens.
It’s the Pyramid church off Botanic Road.
It’s a church.
Thanks folks !
church
Our Lady of dolours Church,also nearby and shaped similarly is the Met office.
That’s the church beside the Botanic Gardens.
The Met Éireann office. It’s a great building, imo.
Oops, so it is! Two pyramids near each other on the northside! (I’m originally from Drumcondra!)
Its a Church,
I am so disgusted by this. The Tolka has improved so much over the last decade, a lot of work and dedication by the fisheries board and the local authorities went into cleaning it up. Now somebody has destroyed all of that with a spillage of some form industrial detergant. Whether it was deliberate or accidental I do not know but this is awful to see. I studied this river for years and its so sad to see this happen to it.
Easy enough to find the source of the spill I suspect.. I’m sure it came from one of the factories along the river..
Griffith Park is a lovely park, what a shame.
Some moron has put some detergent in the water. Should be caned, or back to the station for a good wallop of soap in a sock treatment .
No Andrew It’s the farrmers ; the farmers are always polluting the rivers – so its the farmers !
Well it usually is Dermot.
Looks like a chemical spill to me . It will be put down , just like so many others as accidental . The people who illegally dump in our rivers , know the cost of the fines is alway less than the cost of disposing of their waste properly . Such a shame , it will take years for the fish stocks to recoup , if at all .
Granted it sometimes is from a farming / food enterprise but they’re always blamed first.
I agree with dermot its always the farmers, is there anything safe from these guys
peoples’ ignorance amazes me sometimes
we kill sheep and cattle as well and we cut down crops and do all other nasties that we don’t tell our squeamish urban brethren ;; they like to use words like meat and bread to get over it …so that’s it Farmers;- animal murderers, and plant killers !
that was to Mr./Ms. Ithchie Saq.
No offence Ivon but the only thing I don’t like about all these new immigrants is the new names …I can never tell if I’m writing to a man or woman .
I don’t know the area but are there any factories in the vicinity of the pollution.
I will have to disagree with you on this one… coming from a farming background full sure they don’t use any detergent of any kind… Slurry yes but not detergent…. looks like either a chemical spill or somebody thought it would be a good laugh to see the river bubble up with detergent… fools…
Veronica I was being a little sarcy there ….. I’m a farmer myself ..although why I bother anymore is beginning to confuse me … have you any donkeys for sale I’m sick of making fat larry’s band sing !
People have worked very hard for years to resurrect a once badly polluted river, and bring it back to very good condition. The fish stocks, (brown trout in particular) in the Tolka were extremely healthy for a river that flows through a city area, and this hard work and dedication has been undone by one idiot.
I think it is disgraceful that people make jokes about such wilful vandalism and destruction of wildlife. If these were birds, deer, bats or any other species people would be up in arms.
Not to mention the salmon that were rediscovered there a few years ago after an absence of over 100 years!
All those dead fish could hardly add to the smell of what is the open cesspit people call Dublin.
Let’s not forget they’re literally swimming in their own shite out in Sandymount Strand.
Ah he is only whippersnapper, won’t be long til he has developed a nice shade of red on that neck of his slapping him across it. As is mucksavage tradition “Get up ta Dublin and get a job!”
John, I was going to answer your comment but judging by your twitter page you’ve enough issues to be dealing with.
John, against my better judgement, I can’t quite resist asking you what made you become a monarchist? Are you proposing that we crown a king here in Ireland?
Green thumb from me ,John ,still laughing …
John, should someone like yourself who has just finished his junior cert this summer be allowed have a twitter account. It’s past your bedtime.
Whynotme, yet another child with a chip on their shoulder. I’m embarrassed for you. Now please learn how to construct a proper sentence, there’s a good boy.
No chip on my shoulder ,Gary . Don’t be embarrassed ,your mother suffered enough with that . Run along now,like a good little girl .
Oddly John can make a derogatory comment about Dublin people which was by no means meant to be funny.
But when I highlightef his twitter account (no information given) just like other comments here, I have my comment deleted.. Fairness in action there THE JOURNEL.. Thumbs Up ;-)
Thick troll trying to aggravate Dublin people have a word with yourself will ya
Excellent point there Whynot me…. chip on the shoulder is quite often passed on from parent to child !
Yes because the smell of cow and horse poo is so much more pleasant than fresh air in a park?
Thanks,Dermot . You understand me ;) Killian ,if you lived in the country and I’m sorry if I got that part wrong ,it’s the slurry from the pigs that is something brutal . The smell from cow slurry is beautiful .
Someone in the industrial estate’s been up to something they shouldn’t.
Makes a change from junkies / suitcases with body’s in / needles / cans and shopping trollies I suppose.
Probably some kids with a bottle of fairy . Or a drug addict foaming at the mouth upstream lol
Everybody relax #culchie4life
Sinead Fahy, I bet you couldn’t find your way from Sligo to Dublin and that you haven’t a clue where this park is.
Your reference to “suitcases with body’s in” is patethic when you look at what happened in Sligo yesterday.
I actually lived on the north circular for 4 years while I attended university.
So know exactly where it is
@ Sinead, do you have any clue how long it has taken for the fish life in the Tolka to become healthy again? It used to be nothing would live in it. Years of work by environmentalists and scientists meant that in the last few years the river has become populated by fish of all kinds. To have them all killed in this way is actually quite sad, and not something to joke about.
I didn’t realise a body was found in a suitcase yesterday I’m sorry
The most pathetic cheap and disgraceful comment u have read on here in a while
PC brigade at it again.
Sinead you have no clue about that river! That river has been cleaned up unbelievably in the last few years. Both Fingal and Dublin City Councils have done their best to eradicate pollution from it and return salmonid fishery to the river.
It takes more than a bottle of fairy to do this.
I assume culchie4life equates to thicko for life!
Sinead, we can all readily appreciate that you are a culchie, as you describe yourself. Why not eff off and culchie elsewhere?
Then I suspect you know where the Royal Canal is not the river Tolka.
ha ha, sinead fahy, most hated person in this thread
Hey now,thats a tragedy and is still raw so i wouldnt go along blabbing like that.very disrespectful.I know the other lad is just as bad but they were just kids and obviously something was wrong with the young lad.
You really don’t need to comment anymore, hop on your horse and go back down the country Sinead, it was horrible going to my local park today to see this and then fools like you to try make a joke out of it! Piss off!
Don’t be a poofter then
Oh and FYI if you lived near or on the North Circular Road you would be near the Royal Canal Dublin, not the tolka river, you geebag, get your facts straight
You are able to read aren’t you ?
I said I lived on the n.circular so am well aware where it Is.
Never said I lived near it.
I can read perfectly, you obviously cannot recall what you have said in the previous comments as you have worded your comments very unsuccessfully , and also I can use my grammar correctly, unlike yourself, there is many examples your spelling… But in the last comment I think you meant to say “so I am well aware of where it is” rather than “so am well aware where it is”, so before you criticise anyone, read what you write or in this case type first, thank you ever so much for being my and many others entertainment for the night!
Night fag. Have fun rimming tonight
Wow your such an mature women! And I’m not a fag, I don’t come in a box with 19 other fags and I’m not smoked, so get your terms right first! Since that was so mature I might aswell give you a mature one back, but let me just say I honestly am just amazed at your behaviour tonight! Although what else would I expect from an filthy disgusting animal such as yourself?! I have never realised to this day how Cows could use technology but now my mind is at ease because I’m talking to one right now!
Don’t be a poofter!? You’re some an imbecile as well as a culchie so…
Fag and poofter!? You’re an imbecile aswell as a culchie then…
What a muppet Sinead is! Cant hack the red thumbs obviously. Clearly thought she was being witty and funny. The city is better off without ya Sinead! Make sure ya stay where ya are and never return.
Anybody have any idea how much detergent it would take to do that? Are we talking like a big box of Daz, or a truckload?
More than a truckload I would assume.
It would require quite a lot indeed :( this was a deliberate spillage of detergant that someone did not want to have to pay for it to be hauled away for treatment. I am disgusted by this.
That’s a poor show.
whilst I am not from Dublin this still enrages me so much… Reading the above article & all the comments posted it seems a lot of people made such a hard effort to clean up this once badly polluted river in to a fresh clean one for fish to swim in once again & now someone has gone & destroyed it… Fish are so precious as so many types are being fished out… But not only fish have been effected here, other wildlife species like otters, gulls, herons that swim & fish these waters for food will also be poisoned as will flora & fauna of the river.. I sincerely hope that the EPA or council will find out what these ungrateful fools (yes I want to say something stronger but I don’t like to swear on a public page as it may offend others) poison evil people that caused it….
This must be so dispiriting to all of those, local authorities and angling clubs et al, who have worked so very hard to return cleanliness and life to our urban rivers. Where is the effin’ EPA in all this? An agency set up to issue pollution licences, but not apparently to deal with those who actually pollute.
At the end of the article it says the EPA has passed off responciblity for the investigation.
I’ve watched trout in the river only recently. it is a great local amenity. Years of work and time spent on protecting the upper levels of the river has been ruined by this wanton act.
Pray for rain and lots of it
I am deeply saddened by this , its hard when all the work people do to get the river back to nature and some plokers , well I could call them worse, come along and with one stupid wave of there hand destroy it,get back in there ,lads and lassies, get yer river running clean again,,,,
Surely the EPA should be the designated authority to assess this incident?
The council cannot be asked to have the right personnel in place since Irish Water now run this area???
the E.P.A. …Are you joking …they didn’t know the difference between an assessment and a statement and were laughed out of court when it was pointed out to them !
Bunch of numpties if you ask me ,, and even if you don’t ask me they are still a bunch of numpties as evidenced in our courts !
The Tolka goes right by the Rose Garden section of the Botanic Gardens, the section includes the arboretum and the Millfield which is prone to flooding, I can see a lot of very old and beautiful trees being lost due to this.
Absolutely Disgusted. Walk my dog there most mornings and have seen a massive improvement over the past number of years. Seeing more fish jumping, herons, kingfishers – utterly disgusting that this has been ruined by deliberate dumping of detergent.
Salmon (what little few there are using this river) may recover well, when the adults return to spawn in the autumn. The salmon fry and parr currently in the impacted zone will probably be lost. Brown trout will take a hard hit and you will probably see a few generations wiped out but the void will be filled to some extent from the unaffected areas upstream and maybe downstream where the pollution effect was more diluted. All this providing the pollution source is stopped immediately and the stocks upstream and downstream are healthy. It could take years to replace the older cohorts if they were badly affected. Such a horrible thing to happen to a river with such potential and much hard work over the last few years.
There are a lot of idiots out there with washing detergent who seem to be just fascinated with bubbles, must have an extremely low IQ or something. On a daily basis in Dublin City the fountains are continuously getting washing up liquid or something added to them and it looks ridiculous looking, obviously it isn’t as bad as this situation but some idiots just seem fascinated by bubbles
By the amount of it, this isn’t someone with a couple of bottles of washing up liquid, this is someone dumping large amounts of waste industrial detergent on the sly and either making or saving a lot of money in the process.
Still, I’d rather be a Jack than be a King…
This doesn’t matter at all people !!…….it will just be brushed under the carpet by the end of next week just like all the other sh*t that happens in this country month by month and year by year…….is anyone governing the country ?
that’s really awful. I’ve spent many a lovely evening with my daughters spotting brown trout in the river. it’s only in the last few years that the dead grey water has come back to life with regular hatches of fly and plenty of fish moving right the way through griffith park. this fish kill is disgusting. i hope they nail whoever or whatever caused it.
Lots of brown trout in the waters at sandymount currently, maybe they could restock from there.
Those seagulls have lost the run of themselves this time. A step too far.
This is how Dubliners think you “clean” a river.
Made worse because the fish were blowing bubbles
…And they haven’t even started fracking in this country…
Y’all Something fishy about that
Dublin is a filthy, hideous city. I feel sorry for anyone who has to live in that ghetto.
Ah its not that bad once you get used to all the muckers about the place.
Rochelle,
Grow up
The junkies seem to love the place.
Get over yerself Rochelle! Actually, that’s not a culchie name. What were your parents thinking? They shoulda called ye Peg or Betty or Mary or sumtin like tha!! I’d say yer only experience of Dublin is gettin a shift off an off duty Garda in Coppers. Actually, tha shud be an duty Garda with beer googles and “desperate” tattooed on his forehead :D
Did you lot learn how to use knifes and forks yet
May they Rest in Peace.
I think the Lord Mayor is opening a book of condolences.
They’re giving them CPR as we speak. They have those Major Emergency tents up and everything. Saw a temporary morgue when I passed earlier as well. Surprised RTE didn’t go with it as their main story. Lord Mayor has called for three days of mourning.
Find them then gut them!!!!!!
Some cork fella doing his washing
The fish brought it on themselves…..
You still here Sinead……..
Bleed’n fordeigners wash’n der jocks in the river.
Better be non-bleed’n-bio
Its Our Lady of Dolours church,nearby and shaped similarly is the Met Office
Can we Forget about the pollution and talk about the church on botanic road , let’s get our priority right here who cares about the fish let’s talk about the architectural building work , just blame Irish Water and be done with it
It will be handy for when people in the area make some small gain but don’t feel great about it. There friends will have plenty of wet fish to slap them in the face with and then say “well its better than that”.
Too convoluted? Fair enough.
It was really tragic along with all the spelt and mid size fish were some beautiful rainbow trout and a few big Salmon.
Its a crime……simply.
Once again an incompetent city council s inability to deal with a major event . . No signs up along the river to warn people of the pollution . Shame on our council and Owen keagan … What is the councils agenda ??? Maybe it was greyhound waste they seem to do whatever they want and the council and justice seem turn a blind eye !
Did Wallace jump the barrier to get into the World cup stadia !!
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