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A 21-YEAR-OLD man, currently on remand in Cloverhill Prison, appears to have left Afghanistan three months ago before arriving in Ireland from France recently as a stowaway in a lorry.
‘Walli Ullah’, the name the man has given to authorities, was found at the side of the M7 motorway in Co Kildare a fortnight ago, reports the Kildare Nationalist.
He speaks no English and has no identification papers.
Conal Boyce, Ullah’s solicitor, told RTE’s Morning Ireland today that he believes his client “may well be entitled to refugee status”.
“He’s very confused, he’s just 21 years of age and finds himself in a different planet from where he grew up,” Boyce said.
When he was found he didn’t even know where he was.
Ullah’s native language is Pashto. Unable to find anyone who speaks the language, his legal team resorted to speaking to him via the Iranian language Farsi.
“It was sufficient to communicate for a conversation, he simply has no English at all” said Boyce.
Ullah was brought before Judge Desmond Zaidan in Naas District Court last week who took a “very humane” approach to the strange case according to Boyce.
Although the maximum penalty for a person in Ullah’s position (ie a non-national with no recognised form of identification) is 12 months in prison and a €3,000 fine, Judge Zaidan applied the probation act, meaning although the facts of the offence were proved no conviction was recorded.
Upon leaving court, Ullah was immediately re-arrested for the same offence.
“He’s like a fiddler’s elbow, in and out of court at the moment,” said Boyce.
We had to remand him in Cloverhill, there was nothing else to be done. But there is a very humane regime there also.
He’s in good health, he clutches his Koran to his chest each day in court.
Boyce says that now a representative of the Office of the Refugee Applications Commission (ORAC) will deal with Ullah and “try to help him out as best they can”.
It’s likely he will be accepted into the refugee status application process and then brought into some sort of assisted living situation.
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Theft by any other name…
My god….. Even your money..isn’t yours it totally belongs to whomever has the power, nothing belongs to you, your money, your house and this is “democracie”? When the handfull decide overnight to dip into private accounts without consultation, legislation or mandater. I prefer the landlords of past at least they were what they were, today they are Rothschilds bankers, corrupt career politicians with us puppets drip feeding them our wealth……
Don’t be so shocked, we allow this to happen.
In my opinion Lowry is a tax avoiding criminal, yet there he is as bold as brass voted back in to government and allowed let in by us.
We don’t have the right to complain about anything when we let this go in in our own country.
Sort out our own cesspit first before we complain about others. We get what we deserve.
Gonna hijack again with a new Tom Darcy update
“To our fellow victims of illegal banking, your bank if a member of Europe broke the following laws THEY COULD NOT HOLD A LEGITAMATE EUROPEAN BANKING LICENCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING S.I. No. 395/1992 — European Communities (Licensing and Supervision of Credit Institutions) Regulations, 1992. 4. Control of credit institutions and solvency ratio. 5. Determination of qualifying holding. 6. Minimum capital requirement. 13. Maintenance of own funds by credit institutions. 19. Non-disclosure of information. 33. Offences. Please post across the world”
This could cause a run on banks across Europe
I’ve already transferred money to my current account which I’ll be withdrawing on Tue. What to do with it though.
Buy gold or silver maybe. But what has been done sets a very bad precedent as it shows nobodys money is really safe in a bank, if it comes to the crunch your money can be taken
How many Cypriots have more than 100K in cash deposits? I just wonder if the Russian hot money can be electronically transferred before Tuesday and just leave the locals queuing for their modest funds?
A couple of years back, when we began to really experience the full effects of ‘austerity’, a friend of mine remarked to an older, and very wise, man: “I am paying extra tax on less income, a higher mortgage on a house worth less, I’ve no disposable income anymore and no possibility of it improving, and there is talk of even more taxes. What more do they want?” To which his older friend replied “Your savings. Everyone’s. All of it.”.
Looks like they have skipped the preliminaries in Cyprus.
Well said Kate
I cannot describe the rage I have felt since I heard this announcement.
Jim Corr for president doesn’t seem so ridiculous now !
they are pushing europe towards a state of anarchy
Keeping money under the mattress is not so stupid after all.
Theft. Theft. Theft.
Taxing a countries deposits , when that country has to be bailed out. Total bullying of a small country by the vultures of Europe .
Did I read what i just read?? What the hell is happening?
u are being robbed – wheter u live in Ireland , Cyprus , UK etc – waht are u going to do about it . Unfortuntely there is no 2nd Amendment here !!.
Germany&america an their secret society of wealthy families are calling the shots now. They own the banks the world is in debt they own us. An Australian politician Ann Bressington, is the only politician brave enough to speak up about the agenda she seen. As she said if hitler was alive he would be sitting back thinking he didn’t need guns for a global takeover. This is not fake there is mountains of proof and only way it can be stopped is a revolution.
I hear about it and really I thought a bunch of nuts but after looking into it. ( America politicians talk about a global government a global currency and new world order all the time.
People need to look into it. If you have kids do it for them or you are dismissing something that might leave them living in a dictatorship society.
We need a Chavez.
Absolute disgrace. EU / IMF are now little more than facilitators for a new world order run by the banks. We’ve already gone beyond the tipping point here. A revolution is all that will end this madness now and given how comatose most of the population is that’s not going to happen.
Right behind you, Thomas, revolution-wise. What’s the plan?
Hear hear
Another classic example of the elite f**k it up….the ordinary people pay for it.
This is a disgrace. The moral justification for bailing out the banks is based on protecting depositors. How can you justify hitting depositors and not bondholders? This makes absolutely no sense to me??
The reason Cyprus is in trouble is because of their exposure to Greek sovereign debt. Greece has been bailed out twice at this stage.
Because Cyprus are so small, I thought it’d make sense to allow the bondholders their banks to take a hit and the system would be able to absorb the loss? However, by not allowing this, the EU are sending a serious message to other troubled countries (i.e. us) that this isn’t going to happen.
As somebody who’s always viewed Ireland’s EU/IMF agreement as harsh but necessary, I’ve now lost major faith in the EU.
Many of the bonds Cyprus banks hold are greek gov and bank debt. If they burned them, then more cash would be needed for Greece and yet more debt ‘restructuring’. All ending up on the EU (inc Ireland) and IMF to try and get yet another debt deal.
Most of the deposits in their banks are Russian hot money hence the deposit tax (and the Russian loan). Amazed corp tax did not rise to 14% or more (effective rate in France).
Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
well put
ATTENTION ALL UNITS: 211 IN PROGRESS IN CYPRUS! Armed Robbery of regular peoples deposit account money. If you think this can’t happen in Ireland, sadly the FG/Lab Govt cheered on by FF have plans to do the same, they did similar already with the Irish personal Pensions theft. Spanish bankster bankia stooge Rajoy is planning the same.
It was not just personal private pensions
In Ireland the national pension fund is now almost zero- this was the fund to pay for state pensions to all and public sector pensions
If a company did this they would now be in jail!!
What!?!
Next you’ll be telling me revenue will be taking money out of peoples bank accounts!
Never happen here!
Sure they already rob our deposits
Its called DIRT tax which has increased over the laast number of budgets
That us simply unbelievable. What a bunch of fu***ng gangsters. They’re as bad as any organised criminal gang
So we can hit depositors but we can;t hit the bondholders nor we can’t ask business to pay the actual corporation tax in countries
You would wonder have the financial sector been hatching a plan for this financial crisis
All that has happened is that the state has taken on their losses, they have been able to cut huge amounts of staff, have ensured that public assets have been transferred to the private sector
Im at a loss to see what restructuring has taken place in the banks there is nothing to stop this from happening again
Of course this is planned. Flood market with easy credit stop the credit. Firesales and increased interest in lending rates win win win for the big players… only risk is bondholders getting their money out of broken system and that as we have all discovered they had covered.
It’s time for people to stand up to these rich bureaucrats who have destroyed people’s lives with their own get rich policies at the expense of ordinary law abiding citizens hell is not big enough for these leeches
A 3.24% differential. That kind of deal sounds so very familiar.
Europe appears to specialize in designing solutions where those that have the least, pay the most for a debt they had no hand in creating. Comes as no surprise when you consider how well this approach worked in Ireland for the top 5%.
I wonder, will the Cypriots lay down in traffic the way we did.
Bitcoin users not affected.
Im interested in their corporate tax rate going from 10% to the same rate as ours. Who was the influence behind that.
Enda had a few words with his pals in Germany.
My thoughts exactly. Our own politicians are in this big EU scam as much as anyone else & we wonder why we get no sympathy. Ireland is as much tyrant as any other country.
Harsh, harsh stuff. Makes our deal look a whole lot better.
Mornin Kevo
yes -we are realy doing well – payig for other peoples mistakes !!!
@Jim, yes it is so unfair that we have to pay for the mistakes of the Fianna Fail government.
Whoever elected them must have been complete morons.
Oh wait, that would be the people of Ireland. Doh! It was us. Dammit.
And guess what, we might elect them again! They are top of the polls!
Totally deserve what we get.
Arbitrasure, you make it sound like 100% of the people voted for the government every time! Not once has anyone I ever voted for ever entered government yet I still have to pay for their mistakes. Your logic is flawed.
@brian- that’s how Democracy works. Majority rules. And those FF clowns were elected three times…despite obvious corruption in their ranks. It only seems like no one voted for FF because they rarely identify themselves in public.
I understand how democracy works Kevin. I have no problem with democracy. What I have a problem with is the fact that a moronic section of the Irish public kept voting these thieves and liars in in the expectation that their segment of the population would get the benefits while those who voted against wouldn’t, but suddenly when the tide turns they don’t want to accept responsibility and instead want to heap some of that responsibility on everyone else. I also do not like being told that I personally voted in FF as is implied in the above post. I know I didn’t.
@Brian, no implication that you personally voted FF.
I know, it is an insult.
I meant the country elects its government, obviously not everyone votes the same way.
@ Arbitrasure:
you really believe that the crowd who are in now are better than FF ??
or – is it that you voted for them ??
Michael, FF made an absolute mess of the economy. Not just by fuelling a property bubble, but by being in bed with the developers and having absolutely no control imposed via the central bank on what lending multiples banks were permitted to have.
So I’m furious that after that absolute sh1tshow of a Government, who ruined the country with ugly mosntrous crap build built willy nilly in every village and cliff top, when it blew up in their face, they then went on to guarantee the whole stinking mess on behalf of the taxpayer, before handing over the dead corpse of Ireland to FG.
So sorry if you are trying to defend FF or divert from FF’s betrayal of their duty to the country in actually managing the economy, by saying any other Government would behaved in the same irresponsible manner.
And yes, I really believe the crowd that are in now are better than FF – which is not saying much really. But please don’t try to fuzz the issue. FF FVCKED US. Full stop.
Jim Corr doesn’t seem to mad now.
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Ahhhh, the eurozone. What a complete disaster it turned out to be. Will everyone please , if there’s another european referendum, please vote no. Theres no stability or solidarity when it comes to Europe.
No need for any more referendums they have all the power they wanted, we are on the road to joining German and American cartels to one world government. Wake up ,sleepy brainwashing time is over or your children’s future is OVER.
Answer no, regardless of the question?
“‘bailout’ deal simply because the main issue with it is moral, not financial or economic – it is the repeated case of EU willingly opting to destroy ordinary people income/wealth/savings to underwrite speculators. There is nothing more that can be said about it. And nothing less.” Qouting someone else but it really says it all
They are taking money over weekend and have enacted measures to prevent money being transferred electronically before their cut us taken
Is that even legal??
The banks are above the law and they own us and our government and all the media we have been Brian washed with so that we don’t wake up and realise what is happening. Once people wake up it is the end of the banking cartels( history, key to knowing these cartels exist) they have no power they are few we are many WAKE UP.
I take it they don’t expect a run on the banks?
The Swiss would never take this!!! DDI now!
Mad. All we had to do was introduce a Universal Social Charge, Property Tax, Water Charges, Pension Levy…
Yes, Fianna Fail were responsible but if it wasn’t caused by them then it would have been caused by the other fvckin’ clowns. I am not a fan of Fianna Fail. I would be overjoyed to see that miserable excuse for a democratic party wiped from the face of the Earth. However, Fine Gael are no different! They are different cheeks in the same arse. We keep voting out Bert and voting in Ernie or vice versa. We have been doing this since the foundation of the state. Ireland’s system of governance has been a failure from the very beginning. I challenge anyone to read the constitution and tell me it’s an appropriate document to build our society around. It’s time to leave the old established political parties behind us. It’s time for the creation of new political parties and a new constitution. Let the old miserable corrupted parties wither and die. I wouldn’t trust those incompetent, geriatric, brass-necked, god-fearing halfwits to look after my cat while I was on holiday, never mind actually tasking them with running the country. I view Ireland’s economic collapse as the inevitable conclusion of decade after decade after decade of poor governance which begun the moment we achieved our independence. If the constitution is a mess then how can you expect the institutions of state that have been built around it to function effectively? The politicians you see in front of you today are merely the arrogant fvcks who managed to worm their way into high office through manipulating the laughable, broken system of governance that we call our republic.
nail on the head my man nail on the head, civil war politics is a complete joke and has held this country back since its inception
This is being done to tackle major tax evaders . Every report I’ve read prior to this deal being announced signalled this as a guaranteed part of an agreement. Cyprus is a major tax haven favoured particularly by Russian billionaires.
That’s like tackling burglary by putting everyone in jail for a week, guilty or innocent. Outrageous.
@mjhint – Its only a matter of time before three is a harmonisation of corporate tax in the EU.
They cant strong arm us into increasing ours as part of a deal, but they will get around it by allowing other member states to lower theirs.
“allowing other members lower theirs”
EU states can already do that if they wish…
Have none of you ever hear of DIRT (Deposit Interest Retention Tax)? Currently 33% in Ireland? Is that theft? C’mon, someone with half a brain knows these taxes apply on financial facilities.
DIRT is an existing tax that people know about when signing up. This is a new tax being sneakily applied on a bank holiday weekend which nobody knew about when signing up. You can’t claim anyone with half a brain knew about it because it didn’t exist until now.
Dirt is a tax on interest. This is pure and simple robbery. They are just taking the money irregardless of wether you can afford it or not.
DIRT, while it’s risen in recent years, applies *only* to the interest earned on savings. Cypriots are being taxed on what they have saved, which is completely different.
Has no one heard of the pension levy?
And is a tax on interest growth not capital
I wonder if this also affects depositors of the Cypriot banks UK branches?
This isn’t banking. A bank would borrow money from its savers and agree to pay it back with interest.Welcome to the European dictatorship. With us voting yes to the Lisbon and Nice treaties we gave them the power to do this. Democracy is a dirty word in the european parliment these days.. Are people finally going to switch off X Factor and wake up?!
This is criminal. The Cypriots did themselves no favors by electing a “pro-bailout” government, but it is still just criminal. I see no reason to rescue banks yet burn depositors. Are the ECB exceeding their brief again? I am disappointed by the silence of Irish politicians on this.
Once EU savers have been hit once they can, and probably will, be hit again. How safe are Irish deposits in the Post Office or in government Savings Bonds or in local credit unions or anywhere?
Good question….we should look for answers. Don’t like this development in Cyprus today, giving our crowd ideas for the next budget!!!! Money on deposit by ordinary folk is money that has been taxed, prsi’d, usc’d already. Very unfair.
Are the people in the picture queuing up outside a bank for lackeys?
50% of people affected are Russian. Now I’m not anti Russian but my point is its not attacking the cypriot people but rather their lax banking and tax systems.
Pol, what about the other 50%?
Which is a lot of people with not so much money. Roughly €2.5b to be raised by regular Cypriots. How many regular savers would there be? And then how much per average saver?
Get your money out of the bank fast, they are about to rob you…….
For anyone seeking ‘greater fiscal union’, (either financiers politicians or lunatics) This is what you can expect for the property tax. Don’t want to pay it? No problem the government will save you the stress and direct debit it from your account. Tax gone up? Can’t pay it? No problem your government will direct debit it every month from your account and heaven help you if you don’t have enough in t here , you will be charged the exhorbitant fees of the …………banks. The ones who created this mess.
Sleepwalking into a totalitarian state…honestly some people are so gullible….
50% of the money in Cypriot banks is Russian. A new cold war brewing.
I am absolutely outraged at this outright theft of unsuspecting account holders and to make it even more sinister they do it over a bank holiday giving them more time to push through the levy and literally steal OUR money.
Disgusting. There has got to be an alternative. Europe belongs to the people. The government works for us not the other way around.
once these cnuts start going into peoples bank account they will lose the run of themselves with money power..its on the way here too.
So the game is changing. When Irish banks need capital to cover the mortgage side of the debacle they caused; depositers are next in line. Time to get the last of the savings they haven’t mismanaged out of Irish banks.
I wonder if Cyprus had their own government €100k deposit guarantee scheme. Guarantee my arse.
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