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Heavy flooding avoided (so far) in Cork as high tide passes

Surface water has been reported on one city-centre quay.

HEAVY FLOODING HAS so far been avoided in most of Cork city.

A spokesperson from Cork Fire Brigade said that high tide had passed this evening, but as there had been very little precipitation, rain hadn’t added to its height.

Heavy rain and flooding had been forecast for the south, with rain forecast for the rest of the country. A yellow weather warning for gales is still in place.

He said that no flooding had been reported in the city centre, but there was small surface water on one quay.

“Once high tide will pass for us hopefully we won’t have heavy rain,” he added.

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“We might get localised flooding around areas out in the suburbs, depending on the rain.”

High tide is expected in the morning again at 6.30am, and the risk of flooding will be influenced by wind direction and rain, said the spokesperson.

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    Mute Tom Ripley
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    Aug 25th 2020, 8:48 AM

    Always more to it. The full GF video really changed the context so will this one.

    https://youtu.be/yfi3Ndh3n-g

    How would you do in this exercise?

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    Mute Jacks R. Back
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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:04 AM

    @Tom Ripley: Pure speculation. There isn’t “always” more to it.

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    Mute Graham Manning
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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:44 AM

    @Tom Ripley: with every ounce of context George Floyd was still murdered by police.

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    Mute Dannys Dentures
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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:46 AM

    @Tom Ripley: when you see the video I can understand why the officer shot, the guy could have have very easily been getting a gun from the car.
    That said if the officer didn’t have a gun I think he would have tackled him to the ground a lot sooner removing any risk of getting a weapon from the car.
    Either way this was not race related the guy knew their was guns pointed at him and by getting into the car he would likely be shot. The same result would have occurred if the guy was white.

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    Mute Edmund Spencer
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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:02 AM

    @Graham Manning: Actually considering the amount of fentanyl in his system, the fact that he was saying he couldn’t breath for a few mins before the police pinned him down and the results of the first autopsy, it’s far from definite that George Floyd was “murdered”. I’m not saying the police weren’t out of line, but second degree murder in particular is not going to be easy to prove.

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    Mute Jacks R. Back
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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:05 AM

    @Dannys Dentures: I’ve seen the video. The guy could have been getting his drivers license for all you know, but you’ve decided he deserved to be shot multiple times in the back even though there is no clear and present danger to the police officer’s life!

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:07 AM

    @Edmund Spencer: It’s a lot easier to breathe when you don’t have a policeman’s knee choking you to death, wouldn’t you agree?

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:24 AM

    @Jacks R. Back: so theirs 4 guns pointed at you , you have been instructed quite clearly to stop and get and the ground and you ignore all this to get your licence

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    Mute Sean O' Donovan
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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:31 AM

    @Jacks R. Back: “Stop where you are, kneel, hands behind your head!”

    “Hold on, I’ll just get my driver’s licence first”.

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    Mute Canyon
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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:33 AM

    @Jacks R. Back: would you be willing to bet your life (because that’s what it might cost you) that the guy your pointing a gun at and telling to get on the ground is really not complying because he’s looking for his driving licence?

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    Mute RogerRamjet
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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:48 AM

    @Jacks R. Back: I think you need to consider more of the variables in this case though.
    - Previous convictions for pointing a gun at people, sexual abuse etc.
    - Outstanding warrant for arrest for mutlitple charges
    - From 2nd camera angle you can see he has a scuffle with the cops, gets up while they are shouting at continually to stop but he continues to not respond or listening to their instructions and continues to the glove compartment area in the passanger side

    I don’t think he should have been shot so many times (most experts agree that U.S. police need more training) but in this case, there were many variables that lead to the shooting (they tried tasing him apparantly earlier to no avail)

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    Mute Hans Vos
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    Aug 25th 2020, 12:19 PM

    @Tom Ripley: But then still why shoot in the chest?

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    Aug 25th 2020, 1:11 PM

    @Jacks R. Back: Are you on fentanyl? Go watch the full George floyd video he was saying he couldn’t breathe BEFORE he was tackled to the ground, classic signs of Over-dose. plus added to the fact there was enough fentanyl to over-dose on its pretty clear the cops weren’t the only cause of death. And in this new case you can clearly hear the police say “put down the knife” he had a knife in his belt.
    Its quite simple if the police have guns do what they say, how hard is that to understand?? Im not condoning the shooting but c’mon this guy had a warrant out for his 18th arrest, sexual assault on a minor, history of assaulting police.” He was charged with resisting arrest, carrying a gun while intoxicated, endangering safety-use of a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 4:52 PM

    @Dannys Dentures: “so theirs 4 guns pointed at you , you have been instructed quite clearly to stop and get and the ground and you ignore all this to get your licence”

    Police are supposed to only shoot if there is a imminent threat to life, not for disobeying authority.

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    Mute Conrad Shields
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    Aug 25th 2020, 8:37 PM

    @Tom Ripley: Okay, but in that instance, they fired once, not 8 times in the back.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 8:53 PM

    @Graham Manning: Autopsy findings say he did not die of asphyxia. He had enough fentanyl, along with other drugs, to kill an elephant. He was already foaming at the mouth and complaining he couldn’t breathe long before he was put on the ground by the police.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 8:57 PM

    @Edmund Spencer: And also the facts that the cop and Floyd knew each other and the knee hold was an approved training maneuver on suspects who are drugged up means this goes no where near 2nd degree murder. Manslaughter possibly but it’s also possible the cop is cleared.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:01 PM

    @Jacks R. Back: He had a record and there were warrants for his arrest which he was obviously resisting. They already knew who he was so going for a driver’s license very unlikely.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:03 PM

    @Jacks R. Back: It’s even easier if you cooperate with the police and haven’t just taken enough drugs to overdose a horse.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:06 PM

    @RogerRamjet: Driver’s side. American car. Steering wheel on the left.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:14 PM

    @David Jordan: You’re not supposed to assault police officers either. From that moment you’re gambling with being shot.

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    Mute Michael Burke
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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:30 PM

    @Sean O’ Donovan: none of that gives justification to shoot a man in the back 8 times in front of his children

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:34 PM

    @Jacks R. Back: He could have been reaching for his winning lotto ticket . Million things he could have been getting including a gun

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    Aug 25th 2020, 11:03 PM

    @Robert Preston: So it’s worth shooting a guy in the back on a million to one shot? Trigger happy American cops seem to think so, especially when the victim is black.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 11:31 PM

    @Jacks R. Back: Or african americans who still refuse to comply and resist arrest and take their chances . Wont be the last

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    Aug 26th 2020, 1:17 AM

    @Michael Burke: If you watch the video they kept shooting cos he kept reaching for a suspected weapon, he wouldn’t stop. They stopped shooting when he stopped reaching and then they administered aid and saved his life. He was given so many chances to avoid what happened, they also have families and they have a responsibility to protect the community and themselves. Don’t their lives matter?

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    Aug 27th 2020, 6:36 AM

    @Robert Preston: Them pesky African Americans should be going around shooting protesters, then they’d be patted on the back by the police instead of getting shot in the back..

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    Mute Francis Mc Carthy
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    Aug 27th 2020, 6:37 AM

    @Aoife Dooley: The weapon was on the other side of the car ? Tsk! Tsk!

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:01 AM

    Another opportunity to loot and plunder, May his soul rest in peace

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    Aug 25th 2020, 6:41 PM

    @Jimmy Carroll: He’s not dead. He’s in a serious condition, expected to live, but paralyzed. (according to his father, I’m in Minnesota, heard that on the local news).

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    Aug 25th 2020, 8:33 AM

    Imagine if the RUC shot an unarmed Catholic in the back in the North, you can bet the same would happen.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 8:51 AM

    @Barry: pretty much the reason why the IRA started their campaign in the 60’s Barry. Did you support that?

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:02 AM

    @Barry: No need to imagine Barry, the shoot to kill policy was commonplace amongst a lot of RUC.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:25 AM

    @Barry: Exactly!

    I’m stunned at the hypocrisy of those that can completely understand the anger of the Nationalist community in the North when they were being attacked, beaten and shot but can’t understand why other communities, feeling the same anger, should somehow be better at containing their anger.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:45 AM

    @Tricia G: Tricia, we know the answer to your question. It begins with R and ends with ISM.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:48 AM

    @Jacks R. Back: You’re exactly correct.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 1:15 PM

    @Barry: Unarmed?? He had 2 arms and a knife… You can hear the police say “put down the knife” go watch the video again.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 6:19 PM

    @my name: I supported it. They weren’t always right in their actions, but I can see why they needed to take up arms and fight.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:17 PM

    @Barry: He wasn’t unarmed.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:20 PM

    @Giddy: one bullet to the shoulder, or one bullet to the leg would have sufficed. 8 bullets in his back suggests a trigger-happy officer with little to no training and a desire to inflict violence, not conflict resolution or de-escalation which is what their job is supposed to be. It doesn’t matter what way you look at this situation – the police failed in their duties and caused harm far above and beyond the situation.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:32 PM

    @Jacks R. Back: Because the IRA were a lovely peace loving bunch of men who never killed or bombed anyone .

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    Mute Jen
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    Aug 25th 2020, 11:15 PM

    @RMChance55: can’t find any trace of that claim online. Care to share your source?

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    Aug 26th 2020, 2:47 AM

    @Brian Ó Dálaigh: Watch the videos again, he was like a man possessed, he would not stop looking for whatever he was looking for and in the cops mind that was most likely a gun, put yourself in the cops position, if a well known felon with a history of violence towards police is disobeying direct orders and walks around the car to reach under his seat, dont say you wouldn’t fear for your life and empty the clip in him, i know i would, and it doesn’t matter what colour the person is. Why does everyone think this is racial when the same things happen to white felons aswell.. It wont make the news if you’re white though as it doesn’t fit the narrative the liberal media have been trying to push… Divide and conquer

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:42 AM

    More insight as to what happended and a 2nd camera angle…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Sp8EIHu1A

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    Mute Dara O'Brien
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    Aug 25th 2020, 2:05 PM

    If the police stopped murdering people then there wouldn’t be as many riots.

    It’s really not rocket science.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:32 PM

    @Dara O’Brien: The police don’t run around murdering people. More cops are killed by perps than the other way around. And for those concerned with race more black people kill cops than cops kill black people. And if you were really concerned with who kills black people, the vast majority are killed by other black people. If you resist arrest and threaten the police with deadly force you are more than likely going to be shot. People with functioning brain cells cooperate with police and if they have a problem with the police they get a lawyer and take it to the courts. Those people don’t get shot. If you REALLY want to reduce your chances of a cop shooting you, DON’T COMMIT CRIMES! Maybe show some sympathy for the victims of these career criminals for a change!

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:07 AM

    One would be forgiven for thinking that the the US police are actually trying to provoke more riots/protests so that Trump can use them as a scaremongering tactic to secure votes from middle America.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:18 AM

    @Handsome McWonderful: I think your tin foil hat is starting to cut off the blood supply

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:53 AM

    @Richard Cronin: I see the patsy bots for our reptilian overlords from Nibiru are out in force this morning.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:38 PM

    @Handsome McWonderful: I think a better name would be Homely McStupid.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 6:40 PM

    People trying to justify anyone being shot 7/8 times absolutely baffles me. This man wasn’t committing a crime, he was reportedly trying to break up a fight. His 3 kids were in the car. Have some compassion, he’s someone’s child/father/brother/partner. Stop trying to justify it.

    Also committing a crime does not mean you deserve to be murdered.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:41 PM

    @Jen: Know the facts before you comment. Oh and the ‘choir boy’ wasn’t murdered.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:52 PM

    @RMChance55: I never said he was murdered, plenty have been. Even if he had a record, it still does not justify 8 bullets in the back.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 6:35 PM

    Father of violent offender, with live warrant, shot while violently attacking police is paralysed. I fixed it for you

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:32 PM

    @Rocky: no, you didn’t. You just managed to reveal your obvious bias.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 6:59 PM

    Innocent until proven guilty
    For both gentleman
    Very unsavoury incident
    Perhaps Police saw him reach for a firearm or he suggested he was going to? We don’t have all the facts
    If he was shot for no reason I cannot fathom why or what the officer hoped to achieve (unless he was of course a genuine racist)
    As for Mr Blake if officers were asking him to do something
    Why didn’t he? Irrespective of the over zealous nature of American police it’s always in your best interests to listen to someone pointing a gun at you

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:35 PM

    @Luke: “genuine” racist? What does that mean?

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:11 PM

    @Michael Burke: It means if he’s genuinely racist as opposed to just being accused of being racist
    Race motive must be proven irrespective of surrounding tensions on the topic of race
    Unless you care to suggest otherwise

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    Aug 25th 2020, 7:00 PM

    Are they gonna react like this every time a black man gets in trouble?

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    Aug 25th 2020, 7:28 PM

    @Pat Andrews: in trouble for what? Trying to diffuse a fight?

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    Aug 25th 2020, 7:59 PM

    @Jen: cops were responding to a domestic disturbance, he had an arrest warrant, fought with the cops when they arrived, skwirmed away and wouldn’t comply after being told umpteen times get on the ground and went to grab something in his car. His girlfriend was even telling him to stop. Who knows what he was going to grab. Black, white, whatever, comply with poorly trained cops who have guns or run the risk of getting shot.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:09 PM

    @James Reardon: it still doesn’t justify it.

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    Aug 25th 2020, 9:33 PM

    @James Reardon: imagine having to live like that!

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    Aug 25th 2020, 10:38 PM

    @Jen: No resisting arrest and walking back to your car when the police tell you not to . I don;t know why you think black people can .get a pass for doing this

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    Aug 25th 2020, 11:12 PM

    @Robert Preston: it still doesn’t justify it.

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