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A FIVE-YEAR-old girl became a hero when she saved her family’s lives after a car crash in Canada.
Their story has now come to light after a Go Fund Me page was set up to try and raise money for the family, who are dealing with the medical implications of the crash.
On June 8, mum Angela Shymanski, daughter Lexi (5) and 10-week-old son Peter were in their car on their way home from a holiday when it veered down a 40-foot embankment.
Shymanski had fallen asleep at the wheel and was rendered unconscious.
Her daughter managed to get out of her harness and climb up the embankment and get help. Her heroic deed saved her mum and brother’s lives – Angela had broken her back in two places and needed CPR.
She had major surgery and now uses a wheelchair. Her son had to have neurosurgery to alleviate swelling on his brain. Lexi escaped with scratches and an injury to her neck.
Raising funds
According to their Go Fund Me page, the family are now in need of funds, as Angela has lost her job as a swim instructor, while her husband Travis had to take leave from work to care for his wife and their children.
Though their aim was to raise $5,000, so far the family have raised $17k from well-wishers.
Angela told the Prince George Citizen newspaper it has “been just amazing how people have helped us”.
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we will not go back to the model of boom and bust – #michaelnoonan
Eh did you miss the ‘down a third from the Celtic Tiger’ line or refuse to let it stand in the way of your rant?
irony 101
That statement was recently echoed by Enda Kenny, now that you mention it, the notion that under the tenure of Fine Gael there will be no more boom to bust politics.
I find this statement, the entire idea of it, somewhat worrying and wholly ridiculous. Ireland as a country operates under a capitalist system. The cycle of boom and bust is a hallmark of capitalism; it’s the nature of the beast.
To claim that any form of politics can put and end to the boom and bust nature of capitalism to to display a fully spellbinding ignorance of both history and economics….by the both Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach of this country.
Worrying indeed…
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/no-going-back-to-boom-and-bust-says-kenny-1.2131248
No but you can mitigate against it by allowing losses to be actualised, rather than socialism of the elite that we have (our gains are ours but our losses are yours mentality), and by heavy regulation of the more volatile markets (here that’s property)
I thought after the not one penny more speech people stopped taken in anything this government states, I did and I only listen for a laugh now to see the drivel they come up with. I didn’t vote for them thank god but i thought they couldn’t be any worse than the mess FF made but how wrong I was .
But even the IRA boogey man has come back is a whopper . Imagine destroying the peace process for power and votes. Really shows the value these parasites place on human life for money and position.
Ah ffs. . . Will be renting awhile yet it seems
You will never be able to own your own house anyway with property taxes & household charge. Who knows what other charges are coming down the line for “homeowners”. Part of UN agenda 21 is to abolish the ownership of private property.
Abolish? Really?
^ what are you on about? clown
@Graham
Well someone is screwing us that for sure, makes just about as much sense “ah sure that’s the way it is ” BS that people shallow and accept while asking for seconds.
Can we ever get a story about the housing market outside Dublin. These stories always seem to lead with a national housing cost headline but then simply deal with everything Dublin while the majority of the country is left out
Who’s buying – owner-occupiers or buy-to-lets?
Nama
Yeah.
NAMA, we’re all crazy now…
Gazumping creeping back in too I reckon!
Sad to see this. A home should be a home and not subject to speculative volatility.
The banks love to see a scarce supply, as aggressive investors are pitted against desperate would be owner occupiers, driving up the value of the security held against non performing loans and enabling the Banks to accelerate repossessions without compunction or inhibition.
The bank always wins!
“..should not be subject to speculative volatility” – yes, and so shouldn’t be my private sector pension, but it’s a roller coaster alright.
Same here. I have funded my private pension entirely out of my own income and I see it take hit after hit, including from the pension levy.
Here we go again
…So wait… If prices rise, we’re in a bubble.
If prices don’t move or fall, we’re in a recession.
Prices have recovered 9% from last year following one of the most dramatic property price collapses in global economic history, this yoyo-ing is a natural return as confidence and consumer wealth have improved there may well be over corrections, but they are small and effectively the same as other nations experience.
You “here we go again” are the most negative people on the planet. It’s a begrudgery to the point where you genuinely want the nation to fail so you can sit there looking smug. My goat has been gotten on.
in 2007, residential property prices were at a speculative and unsustainable high point and artificially inflated by cheap credit. Now prices are inflated by scarce supply and continuing cheap credit, to the extent that credit can be obtained .
The cost of residential accommodation in Ireland is a major inhibition to foreign direct investment into Ireland. I am personally aware of two specific cases in 2105 where Ireland lost out to other countries because of residential accommodation cost. It’s a significant impediment.
It is not in the general public interest that residential property values should inflate again.
The boom is back babyyyyyy!!!!!
House prices in Dublin were overpriced even after the crash as far as I’m concerned. I felt no sympathy for anyone who bought during the height in the last boom you got what you deserved. If everyone acted sensibly there wouldn’t be booms.
May I ask if you live in Dublin so. Or if you are from Dublin.
Only because your comment makes no sense at all. After the crash the cost to buy a house was less than the cost to build it. Maths 101 days your WRONG.
The cost of building houses, most of which were built many years ago is of little relevance to the current costs.
Distinguish between building costs as the RICS figure and the major cost component being the extortionately high and speculatively driven costs of development sites. The secondary and speculative market in development land is sill holding back development and making many projects financially unviable.
The other major cost elements are the VAT and other taxes take on construction materials and services. Add local authority and planning charges.
Nw residential property construction costs and site acquisition costs are still excessively high and highly unfavourable compared to the UK and other EU countries.
Your right. It’s higher now.
Nice one….! we can all sell off our portfolios to the next generation of tiger cubs just before the next pop………SUCKERS
An artificial housing bubble created by Enda Kenny FG and Labour.
Shame on them for crucifying ordinary people so financial institutions and vulture hedge funds can profit.
It’s treason against Daoine na hÉireann
Don’t forget our conflicted media, HOUSE PRICES went UP AGAIN last month and THEY’RE NOT STOPPING. *(this does not constitute financial advice, we love daft)
Probably not whocares, as this will just lead to another crash!
No evidence to think that it will lead to another crash.
With the new large deposits and limited loan sizes there is a strong block against a crash.
What we need is to be building about 20k houses a year to keep demand from driving prices up too high.
Well I have commented here on house prices etc and been red thumbed and told I was wrong lots but for anyone bothered to check both my comments and dates of comments will note I was spot on the previous times and with timings. For anyone who cares for some predictions. House prices will stall until next March. Then you will see them take flight. Starting at 1% month on month rises rising significantly. Now I will be asked to prove where I get my info. My answer will be do your own research. I’ve done mine. And lots of it. The biggest movers will be the commuter belt around Dublin. 20 km outside Dublin m50. And other cities around Ireland. Then Dublin will boom again. And how it will blossom. How I would love to be living and owning in Dublin before next September. I will be trying.
Do you have shareholders in common with daft.ie too Sacha? Most people overstating a housign boom round here do.
I never said boom. I said prices will rise. I am not selling anything to anyone. I am just stating that if people think it’s expensive to buy today. Wait 12 months to see it get harder. I was only offering my predictions. You can’t keep expanding the size of a population but all but stop building homes for 7 years and not expect a supply v demand led rise in house prices. Not to mention how many expats are eying up a move home , especially from the UK particularly as the have such a favourable currency conversion now.
;Ireland is a failed society, unable to elect a Government that can design a framework for the stable supply of affordable “free of regressive taxes” family homes for all its citizens.
its like i always said, record sustain low interest rates and the easy money policies of the ecb have blown up asset bubbles all over sectors in europe. the property crash is going to repeat itself and the head of the central bank here knows it.
there is another property bubble building up here. the banks have gotten worse since the last crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJKxjldYMwM
In a bubble called Balrothery near Balbriggan house prices have dropped almost 15% in the last 5 years and valuers are saying it continues. Funny that.
Houses houses
just bricks and mortar
no platinum or gold
just sand cement and water
The connection between The Journal and a well known property site wouldn’t have anything to do with this blatant talking up of the property market, would it?
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