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THE GARDA OMBUDSMAN is investigating after a man was critically injured following a crash in south Dublin shortly after midnight last night.
Gardaí were investigating reports of an alleged false imprisonment of a woman when a car left the area at high speed.
Gardaí pursued the car and it crashed on the side of the Spawell roundabout heading in the direction of the Tallaght bypass.
It’s understood that the driver pointed his gun at uniformed gardaí for them to get back when he got out of the car and that they were unarmed and retreated.
He then walked over to a grass verge and a gunshot was heard. Gardaí found the man slumped on the ground when they approached him and he was immediately taken to Tallaght Hospital by ambulance.
He appears to have sustained a gunshot wound to the head and is in a critical condition.
RTÉ reports that the man – aged in his 30s – is known to gardai.
The office of the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission has been contacted and investigations are continuing.
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Me heart bleeds for them
@brian reid: The economy’s heart will bleed for them. Don’t be so happy about it
I wonder how the staff are holding up without pay? Contractors on zero pay and permanent staff on pay as you fly rates. Zero basic pay even on a permanent contract.
Only 64 more days until it’ll be the one year anniversary of our first lockdown, I wonder if in hindsight they regret not at least trying to implement 0 covid. If they can restrict me to a 3 mile radius of my house for most of the last year they could have minimised cross border travel from NI. Also wonder how much longer they can support having nearly every business in the country shut down for and what happens if they re open in March? Back to level 5 in May? Strange strategy from the government & NPHET.
@David Lee: Can’t do 0 Covid… We have an open border with the North…. It’s simply not feasible
Every lockdown is “the final push”. We’ll probably be in another lockdown in March or April and have a 30 billion deficit next year. The bottom 50% having to struggle even more, while US multinationals flourish from online shopping (from PUP) and the local economy is decimated (click and collect banned).
Click and collect queuing outside is dangerous… Meanwhile we can all pack into coffeeshops. Michael Martin states that we shouldn’t leave our house unless we have to do completely essential work. Very consistent approach.
@Tomo: we can’t all “pack into coffeeshops”. Know the facts.
@James St John Smith: I passed a costa coffee yesterday on my way out of Tesco with about 10 people queuing with little or no social distancing. So yes you can. Know the facts.
Click and collect is banned, which is far safer than costa coffee. Know the facts.
@Tomo: But you said they were packed into. They were outside. I take your point about queueing for coffee vs queuing for click and collect. Not sure why one is allowed and the other is not. You have to give your order for coffee which I would assume means a longer interaction than with click and collect. A lot of pain for small businesses for negligible gain I would have thought.
@Thomas O’ Donnell: I’m just looking for consistency across the board. If click and collect (queuing OUTSIDE usually) is deemed unsafe by evidence presented to cabinet, one can deduce that getting takeaway coffee (queuing INSIDE with longer transaction time) is more dangerous.
If people should only leave their house for essential purposes, then why are coffeeshops open selling cakes and coffee? Looks like people are meeting up in their cars in large groups getting takeaway coffee.
Hardly draconian….desperate times call for desperate measures and they could have been much more severe.
Droconian Measures?
You mean measures brought in to stop a deadly virus from spreading? Ryanair showing their lack of class as usual.
@Adam J: It is not “deadly”. Not much that others. The issue is that it collapses all heathcare systems, because it’s highly contagious and has a high rate of hospitalization.
Most of the measures couls have been avoided by strengthen the healthacare system.
Now, rather than covid, we’ll be dead of starvation in few years, if we keep going down this road.
They’re right. Myself, as many other like me, moved overseas *also* because we knew we’d the possibility of travelling back home every now and then, at the cost of a bus for just a weekend.
If this doesn’t go back where we were, at some point, I’m afraid to see a domino effect on large scale in EU…. and not a pleasant one. I remember I read somewhere, that RYR made EU much more than Euro or Bruxelles. After 15yrs abroad, I can say ‘nothing was more true’.
What about Cork Airport?
When they’ve finished their hissy fit perhaps we should reallocate their landing slots to other airlines.
@Sara Davis: what other airlines?? Cork Airport only has the 2 ryanair and Airlingus… its not like we are talking JFK. Here, if we keep loosing flights etc, will we get them back??? I don’t like Ryanair as much as the next person, but they bring jobs, tourism, freight… don’t cut off our noses to spite our faces
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Vac & go…really? Scraping the bottom on the telly
And they’re still running their tasteless “vax and go” ads.
@Ger: jab and go
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