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LOW FARES SUPREMOS Ryanair have been robbed of about $5 million (€4.6 million) from one of their bank accounts.
The money was taken from one of the airline’s accounts last week by electronic transfer via a Chinese bank.
It is not yet clear who perpetrated the fraud, which was discovered last Friday, but it is understood that the money in question has since been frozen.
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has been directly involved in the investigation at Ryanair’s request.
“Ryanair confirms that it has investigated a fraudulent electronic transfer via a Chinese bank last week,” a spokesperson for the airline said..
The airline has been working with its banks and the relevant authorities and understands that the funds – less than $5 million – have now been frozen.
The airline expects these funds to be repaid shortly, and has taken steps to ensure that this type of transfer cannot recur.
The money stolen was apparently taken from an account normally used by the airline to pay for aviation fuel for its fleet of 400 aircraft.
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She’s an idiot.
No, O’ Dea is the idiot. He could have written to the DSP instead of wasting Dail time. Would have taken his secretary all of five mins.
Or he could have laughed at her and moved on with actual relevant work.
And we keep electing plonkers to speak for the idiots
She’s not an idiot , we don’t even use 13 reg cars , its 131 or 132 .. We are a superstitious nation
In fairness that would not lift her out of idiocy, just make it more common, but I am not sure that is the reason the numbers were brought in- they are still going after all.
But if it was the reason it would be idiotic.
Superstition is idiotic, whether it’s an individual or a whole group of people.
Aggree. But moan burton gave her a get out of jail card. ‘Pps can be changed if it is compromised’ all she need do is publish it and voile new number.
Meaning i aggree with captin ireland.
Good to see that Willie O’Dea is tackling the real issues that effect the people of Limerick today. Never mind your jobs and housing nonsense
Why bother tackling them, it’s not going to get him elected. Like it or not politicians get elected for fixing pot holes, attending funerals and appearing to be at the beck and call of his electorate. Without a separation of national and local issues nothing will ever change.
The way to separate National and local issues is to have at least 40-60 TDs elected from a list system i.e. Voted on by the entire electorate.
Id be bragging
Another matter of life and death for Willie the Weasel, it is sad that this Muppet will be reelected if not topping the pole close to it.
Grow up.
The man should of been sacked and lost his pension for committing perjury..
It seems perjury isn’t an offence in Ireland, as Michael Lowry will bear out.
Religion makes people stupid ! ..
My work phone number contains 666 but it has yet to scare off any clients or indeed curry me any favour with them whatsoever. You’re useless Satan!
Is it a hotline?
You flatter me…
If her social welfare have 666 in it, I doubt she’d have a problem then
What makes you think she is on social welfare? Do you know something we don’t know?
No. It’s just a 666th sense ;)
On second thoughts you are probably right. No body that stupid would ever get a job.
Could be a banker
Come to think of it, herself has 3 sixes in her phone number. Better check her scalp when she’s asleep…
No need. I checked her when you were asleep.
Cheers Papa, but what about her head?
Look at it another way…999.
And she loved my cannabutter! As will you one of these days :)
She did mention that she felt a little blue last night alright. All makes sense now. I was beginning to think I was going to have to make my own since there was no invitation forthcoming. Will I bring herself or will it be too awkward?
Is there anything to be said for another mass?
Something tells me this may be a combination of mental health and paranoia.
Willie O’Dea raised the issue in the Dáil, seriously? Great to see such vital issues being raised in out national parliament.
Ireland 2016.
This is a great use of Dail time. It’s not Frank’s mother by any chance?
Oh ffs……people have little to moan about!
My PPS has a 666 in it, I always found it amusing and no one has ever commented on it except family to slag me!
0.2% statistically will have it!
0.5% I mean… Whatever difference that makes to my non point!
Surely it’s .666%
Mine has 668 in it as I’m a neighbour of the beast.
7366654E the PPS number of the beast.
Her number would be compromised if she posted it on a public message board, and then she could get a new one!
True but where’s the fun in that? Making herself and Willie O Dea look ridiculous is far more entertaining.
Why are these people given air-time – “666″ is a number – another number containing the digits 6,6 and 6 is exactly that, another number.
Besides which depending on who you ask, some “experts” will tell you that “666″ is actually a mistake and should be another number….somebody needs to look into the child’s welfare…..
The real danger to the child is in the ignorant superstitious nonsense like this that he or she is exposed to.
My son was athlete 666 at Special Olympics Ireland a few years ago. It didn’t do him any harm and no one batted an eyelid. A number is just a number.
Numbers live the devil is a man made creation….
True. 666 is 666 (and not a different number) as based on an ancient game, where letters are replaced with numbers, 666 refers to roman emperor Nero.
Also, the story of Armageddon, is essentially a pep talk for the Jews of Megiddo (whose name mutated to meggidon >> Armageddon) who were under occupation of the roman army battalion, the ironsides, and the 4 horsemen simply represent armies coming to the aide of the people of meggido. These were the fantasy tales or comic books of their day.
Last bible tidbit for the day – the resurrection; the core of Christianity. None of the bibles have the same story, perhaps because they were written anything up to 80 years after Jesus was to have died.
The Core indeed, Not to mention they worship the device their god was killed on. Although it wasn’t a cross he was hung on at all. Google Chi Rho to get closer to the mark.
I read recently somewhere that they translated the passage wrong and 666 isn’t the number of the beast its 616
So by that reckoning she’s nothing to worry about.
On a more serious note have the people who represent us got nothing better to do than this shit.
Two of them on newstalk this morning before ten carrying on like two children fighting over who said what etc.
“On a more serious note have the people who represent us got nothing better to do than this shit.”
Let’s explore this a little Michael.
Problem : Health service is going to hell in a handbasket.
Reaction : “Oh no the health service is going to hell in a handbasket”.
Solution : “Let’s ban dogs from pubs”
The system works!
I would genuinely love to have that little to bother me
My 6th was going to be born on Friday the 13th…. you want to see the fuss I kicked up in the maternity unit over it.
The number 5 in the scriptures usually represents Satan
“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit” Revelation 9:1
The movie, The Oman
Depicted the antichrist as a 5 year old child
In this movie 5 people who discover his true identity are murdered.
The name given the antichrist in the movie is Damien Thorn.
The US Pentagon has 5 sides, 5 sections, 5 floors and is built on a 5 acre courtyard
Washington Monument is 555 feet tall (6660 inches)
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Freemasonry/baphomet-pentagram.jpg
The movie, The Oman. Rubbish movie about a Sultanate
Don’t the scriptures also tell us about men parting seas, talking to burning bushes and stuff?
I take it with a pinch of salt myself… usually 555 grains!
Eyepopper …speaking of grains.
The rosary of saint Michael archangel possesses 39 grains.
The prayer of the Ave Maria is told 27 times and the Our-Father 13 times.
The grains of the rosary are subdivided in 9 sections referring to the 9 choruses of the angels.
Source for the above. http://www.ridingthebeast.com/numbers/nu39.php
Amazing, and I couldn’t give 2 shites.
Is riding the beast one of those filthy porn sites?
Not the onion OR the american South.. Irish people are getting dumber by the second.
Reminds me of Damien Trotter.
Quoted text: the woman “felt uncomfortable with her child having this number”.
“felt uncomfortable with her child having this number”. = 55 simple English
http://www.gematrix.org/?word=felt+uncomfortable+with+her+child+having+this+number%E2%80%9D.
The word “DEVILS” appears in the King James version of the Bible 55 times,
She’s been watching too much of the Omen, Frank. That’s all.
““The woman is not particularly superstitious but has more of a dislike to the associations of those digits. ”
Have you ever heard such Class A bollocks in your life?
Where is the Frank who used to give us his whacky conspiracy theories? Now all you do is throw out number garbage. I want the old Frank back.
actually only 48 times Frank…
Perhaps you could drop the ” number” bit?
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/search.php?hs=1&q=devils
I was born with a weird birth mark that looks incredibly like someone has written 666 on the top of my head in biro… never caused me any problems.
Hope the child’s name isn’t Damien or Beelzebub?
Would this lady, by any chance, by a member of some sort of Evangelical Church or be a “born again Christian”? With all that is going on in the world today THIS concerns her?
The Number of the beast is 666
It doesn’t apply when it is contained in a string of numbers and a letter like a PPS number.
Bloody stupid stuff this.
These kinds phobias exist so if something as simple as changing a pps number puts this lady at ease only a cruel thick inconsiderate pleb of a public servant and public service would refuse her request.
No we shouldn’t pander to all kinds of nonsense. Someone should have taken this person to one side for a quite word and told them to cop the feck on!
I disagree . If this is bothering this woman and she is anxious enough about it to request that it be changed, why not change it ?. Ireland isn’t going to fall a part on account of it. Its not as if people are going to be clogging up the system getting numbers changed.
But what next, a passport is issued with a number she doesn’t like? Requests may be few but people doing these jobs have better things to be doing.
I wonder if she won the lotto would she refuse a jackpot of € 6,666,666?
Just to point out as it is a common mistake. 616 is actually the number of the beast. That is if you believe this kinda nonsense.
I think we should keep a watchful eye on that child. This could be the beginning of the end of the world.
Jesus… Mine starts with 666….. but it never worried me
Wow I wish I had her worries ..!
Must be election going on !!! Jayus
my pps number contains 666 also
I thought that it was a mistake and in the book it should read 616 rather than 666 but it is only a number, it is not like a mark on the child lol.
My number had 666 in it also and I remember staying a job on 6/6/2006 and the payroll person ripping on me about it
In the Codex Vaticanus, – the original writings of St. John were in ancient Greek, and the direct translation of his words into English are, -
” for it is the mark of the multitudes of a man…”
Then he wrote down what looked like the Greek letters, Chi Xi Sigma with a bar over them.
This has variously been interpreted as 666 or 616,
However, Arabic scholars say that it is Arabic for ” in the name of Allah, Islam.”
https://icliks.wordpress.com/gods-changes/end-times/anti-christ/bismillah-the-mark-of-the-koran-and-the-chi-xi-stigma-of-revelation/
Islam teaches that there is no god but Allah, Allah has no son and is not a father. The belief that God has no Son is encoded in the Koran in several places. It is embossed inside the Dome of the Rock in two foot high Arabic letters.
I John 2:22 says: “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist.” It is apparent and simply stated that the belief of Islam is antichrist.
The truth does not sit well with some people…
Just hold an exorcism over the child and everything will be OK.
Simple really.
Always knew the beast would come from Limerick.
Willie O’Dea should offer to swap his own number with the offending number.
“The number of the Beast” would suit Willie O’Dea very well.
It’s in my mobile no an it seems great the attention you get from it your always asked a question about it .an I’m a very lucky person
Well that is not good! My son has 666 in his PPS numer. I always took it as a sign that one day he will rule the world… Now I have to tell him that plans have changed and he will have to share the crown… Parenthood is not easy….
The devil made her do it!
Don’t Dublin garda station telephone numbers start with 666?
His slave number
Where is Frank?
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