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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
#WE CAN’T BREATHE: There was outrage in New York and across America after a jury decided not to try a white police officer whose chokehold killed unarmed black man Eric Garner.
#TRAGEDY: Police near Bristol in England found the body of Charlotte Bevan and her newborn child, after the two went missing from hospital yesterday.
#RAPE: Conservative MP Mark Pritchard was arrested by police investigating an alleged rape in London.
Amid protests and disbelief at the death of Eric Garner, and a jury’s failure to indict the New York police officer involved, Wil Wheaton gives us this stark reminder of Garner’s dying words.
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Why not deduct the tabs from their salary?? They are doing it to us
Yup, all they’d have to do is provide their PPS number. I’m sure that wouldn’t be an issue.
A tactic often used by governments when introducing new charges or taxes is to tell us how the same charges are already the norm in a selection of other countries. The intention being to highlight the fact that we are ‘behind’ these other countries.
I’d like to know now, how many other countries have a pub in their parliament?
Bad news for you there, a lot of parliaments have bars. There are several in Westminster, and I saw one on the roof level of the Reichstag building on a trip to Berlin.
But I somehow doubt you’ll be allowed run up a tab, or create a lapgate, anywhere else.
There should be no “tabs” in the Dail bar and those with Tabs should be charged interest at the same rate the revenue demands from the people living in this country.
There should be no pub in the Dáil, never mind ‘tabs’.
In fairness, they’re all on high salaries so it’s safe for the bar to give credit on the basis that “They’re good for it”.
These piss heads are so out of touch with ordinary joe soap…
And the ‘ordinary Joe soap’ won’t don’t a thing about it.
@ Jason: Hear, hear.
What a bunch of absolute pigs.
Amen
Ale sucking degenerate pigs
“Attention fellow TD’s”
“An important piece of legislation has to be passed”
“Lets have a €7,000 allnighter p1ss up”
“Yehaw”
Writing off people’s debts will certainly help that.
Bunch of round dodgers
7k bill during a night of discussion and related work…..so….drunk at work :They get a tab…. We get fired….yeap that’s fair…
Why don’t they just name those that didn’t pay their bill?
Should be drug and alcohol testing before these bofoons make huge decisions affecting the whole country.
Why are they allowed drink at work? Anybody else pissed at work gets fired.
Pity they don’t stay in the bar all day. Results would be better without them and at least they would have an excuse for the crap answers the give in the dail
Fall in tabs,is that a vote after
‘LAPGATE’!
Who cares?
Lots of people care. How come they aren’t as enthusiastic about fines and interest as they are if one of us plebs owes a bit of tax?
Tab
They get it all back in expenses then!
I wonder will claims for the months the Dail wasn’t sitting be the same as the months it does?
That reminds me, I must drop in to Lidl next time I’m passing and pay for that two-litre bottle of Woodgate Cider from last month.
That picture deserves an award.
#politicalreform
Tax almost rhymes with fax, maybe they could fax tax back whilst sitting in the jacks.?! Hmmm possible resolution in the making..!
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