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A WOMAN IS looking for help in finding a chain necklace that was given to her after her father died.
Eimear Naughton lost the chain somewhere in Dublin on Friday.
She says the chain has a huge sentimental value to her as it was given to her by her mother when she was 13 years old just after her father died.
Father’s death
“I have worn it more or less every day since, I’m now 28. The chain is gold with an ‘M’ initial on it. The M is for Michael, my fathers name.”
While she says that she knows it is just an object and won’t ever replace the memories she has with her father, she said that wearing it every day made her feel like her dad was with her.
She said she felt “he got to live my life with me and watch me grow up and experience all the things I’ve experienced. I felt that through life I’ve always had someone helping me make decisions and steer me in the right direction to make me who I am today. I had visions of wearing this as my something borrowed on my wedding day and can’t believe I could have lost it”.
Naughton has tirelessly been searching for the lost necklace all weekend.
Lost
“It makes it more devastating to think that I lost it on a regular Friday considering it has survived many the escapade”.
Re-tracing her steps that day, Naughton said she has called into every shop she was in on Friday.
I am living in Stoneybatter and left the house with the chain on, I walked to work on Georges Street through Smithfield, onto the quays and up by Dublin castle.
She said she is 99% sure she was not wearing it before her run but she can’t be certain.
I have gone to every single shop I was in and checked CCTV to see if I could pin point the time I might have lost it but unfortunately the images are too grainy to see clearly. I have sent an email out at work and called to and rang every Garda station.
I am absolutely devastated at the thought of not having this irreplaceable chain to see me through what life has to offer next. I’m hoping someone might have come across it and will help free me from a life of staring at the ground looking for shiny objects.
If you have any information about the whereabouts of the necklace please contact the gardaí.
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Lets start the PR campaign for increased premiums for this year. Insurance industry do you job and stop moaning.
Every time there’s a natural disaster somewhere around the world we’re asked to dig into our pockets and help out. While I’m not comparing this to the loss of life or devastation of some of these disasters to this series of storms I can’t help wondering if anyone around the world will give a damn about us or put their hands in their pockets for our communites wiped out by these storms. I doubt it. We’ll be left to fend for ourselves and raise more levies to pay for the repairs. No happy endings here.
Despite our current troubles, we aren’t a third world country.
No children will starve because of this storm.
Your comparing apples and oranges.
Actually I stressed that I wasn’t trying to compare our current troubles, as you choose to describe them, to anyone else’s. What I said was that when others had disasters far worse than what we’re currently experiencing we have consistently put our hands in our pockets to help them out, I’m simply ask for a little quid pro quo.
This need not necessarily come from those third world countries you describe but, just as we helped other countries on the other side of the world, there are plenty of wealthy countries on the other side of the planet who we have helped out in the past when they weren’t so well off.
I bet they are rubbing their hands together saying what ever we spend we will triple it next year by raising rates
Presumably all these premium increases will be reversed once the profit margins reach previous levels.
I thought insurance companies didn’t cover damage by acts or nature or acts of God?!
Can they prove that god exists, that it was an act of god? Tot so
I’m covered so, as an athiest.
If they’re going to claim it’s an act of God, then prove God exists.
You prove he exists iv things to do today il give ye a hand tomorrow
They can’t make up the cost because their too busy making up increase in premiums first.
This will be covered by the wet storm and flood peril operative on all standard home insurance policies.
They’ll pull some excuse out of their holes not to pay out for damages. Insurance companies are nothing but thiefs.
Like “sorry but we don’t cover flood damage cos you…… Em live on a fookin island” or something. Storm damaged roof recently wasn’t covered and excuse given was bad workmanship when the house was built…… 12 years ago, if the workmanship was that bad surely one of the storms over the last 12 years would have exposed it.
What gets me is if you have a claim they increase your insurance on renewal,but if you have no claim during the term of your policy they don’t do likewise and decrease it,no it always goes up for some reason or another,then they take away flood cover,now this is like 50%,of your policy,now does your policy go down 50%,no it dissent,its time to tink outside the box on other ways of protecting your property like some kind of co,op and get rid of these insurance parasites.
The majority of affected properties damaged will not be covered for flooding due to the exclusions in their policies as all the areas are have flooded before and once their is a claim for flood in the area all properties in the area are designated as a flood area. So all they will pay for is a few slates
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