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US COMEDY ICON Bill Cosby has been ordered to testify under oath in response to accusations from a woman who said he drugged and sexually abused her when she was a minor.
A Los Angeles Supreme Court judge earlier this week ordered the 78-year-old actor to submit to questioning from the lawyer of Judy Huth on October 9. Huth will have to answer questions from Cosby’s lawyers six days later.
Huth has accused the fallen star of forcing her to drink alcohol before taking her to the Playboy Mansion, where she says he sexually assaulted her.
The alleged incident happened in 1974, when she was 15.
Physiological damage
In her complaint, filed in December 2014, Huth says Cosby forced her to perform sex acts, leading to psychological damages.
Cosby — a pioneering African-American comedian who played a beloved family doctor on the hit 1980s sitcom “The Cosby Show” — has been swept up in a flood of accusations of sexual abuse spanning four decades from dozens of women.
New York Magazine pictured 35 of his accusers on its cover last week, all of whom say the comedian drugged and violated them.
Forty-six women have accused Cosby so far, and the magazine left an empty chair on its cover to represent those who have not talked publicly about their accusations.
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Mairead McGuinness is an excellent intelligent voice for Ireland in Brussels, delighted to see her back there.
@sean de paore: what she done since getting there?
@Dermot Foley: It’s not what she done but what she did that counts.
@Dermot Foley: More than you, that’s for sure!
@páraicS: what exactly did she do then? In her past term?
@páraicS: who did she do
@pete: vice-president of the parliament
@sean de paore: She voted to destroy our internet with article 13. She’s not that smart.
@Declan Joseph Deasy:
There are 14 vice presidents of the parliament. It’s not THAT impressive.
@Dermot Foley: She made it on to George Soros’s panel of reliable allies in the European Parliament. Have a look at Pages 59-61 to see the other Irish MEPS who the Open Society Foundation can rely on to implement their policies
https://legacy.gscdn.nl/archives/images/soroskooptbrussel.pdf
@Declan Joseph Deasy: so she done well in terms of herself! But what did she do that was of actual benefit to the irish people? Except for self promotion and finanical reward
@sean de paore: http://maireadmcguinness.ie/2017/10/12/glyphosate-debate/
Speaking in the European Parliament following a public hearing on ‘The Monsanto Papers and Glyphosate’ she said: “In this hearing we heard nothing new, just a repeat of the scientific evidence and advice from our EU agencies, EFSA and ECHA that Glyphosate is not a carcinogen. This is advice and guidance that I accept.”
@pete: In some areas its the party and not the individual, civil war politics…
@sean de paore: totally agree
@pete: nothing only collect a big pay packet and expenses
slán leat Boylan!
wonderful to see so many shinners fail : D
@sean de paore: likely be a president in time maybe
@pete: Isn’t it sad that Declan Joseph Deasy can’t find 2 things that she did.
@Sean Troy: There are 751 MEPs in the European Parlament, to put that figure of 14 vice presidents into prospective.
To be honest she is a good rep for our country. Intelligent. Not like certain Ho chi Ming bearded individuals who spend a year in Roscomon (breast feeding). While claiming expenses for being in Brussels.
@Jams O’ Donnell: you should perhaps look at the work ming does before comenting on it, regarding FG, too quick to sell Ireland out to their European partners. A vote for them is a vote for every scandal that has beset the country with them in power, childrens hospital, broadband, homelessness, poverty, corpses rotting on hospital floors and on and on.
@Jams O’ Donnell: Haha good man Jams keep the jokes rolling!!
@Michael Wall: you left out insurance fraud.
@Jams O’ Donnell: Pity you dont have that perceived intelligence that you think she has.
FG troll, any comments on Maria Bailey ?
@Michael Wall: What work has Ming done since he went to europe?
@Jams O’ Donnell: He has one of the better attendance, voting and committee records now that his wife is much better. But you have a dig and a laugh at the illness like that. FG shills will always get in a family dig. At least he’s clued into politics, not worrying about tamagotchi and polly pockets while hanging off the coat tails of McGuinness, soaking up party preferences. Jesus, Walsh’s policies were on a par with Casey’s and she was about as eloquent.
@Do the Bort man: I’m not google, do your own work
@Do the Bort man: Ming is quite active on Facebook. Go and have a look for yourself
@Jams O’ Donnell: clearly intelligence and the ability to checkout about what someone has done before making sweeping statements is lacking from this comment
What are they at in the counting centers for Dublin? Seems to all be very messy and slow
@Aisling: They spent one whole day sorting rather than just having separate ballot boxes for each ticket
@Aisling: it’s such an antiquated system and costs a fortune when paying all those involved
@Aisling: It’s a complicated and slow process!
@Ajax Penumbra: no idea why there wasn’t a separate box for each of the 4 sheets.
@Aisling: what’s the hurry?
@Caroline Otoole: because people would end up putting ballot papers into the wrong boxes making their vote null and void. This was the easiest way around that.
@Aisling: if only we had invested in some expensive electronic voting machines and not used them for dust storing purposes
@Cocker: that wouldn’t really have saved much time, boxes were tallied in local count centers before being sent to the central count and the actual count couldn’t start before Sunday under EU rules. What’s taking so long is the high number of candidates whose votes are being transferred.
@Caroline Otoole: there wouldn’t have been space in my polling Centre and I’m sure that’s true for a lot of places.
@Pat O Brien: in the end that’s still less work than sorting absolutely everything. So long as each ticket was on different coloured paper, it’s an easy fix. Pull out the few that ended up the wrong box and just sort those
@Cocker: they weren’t allowed to start counting until everywhere else in Europe had voted
@Tony Donoghue: it’s one of the best systems and gets the fairest outcomes. Everybody has a say! It means you can vote for who you really want to get in even if they’re a long shot and if they don’t get in you can still help to make sure people who you really don’t want in with your preferences!
Much better than first past the post!
@Cocker: wrong. What you say cant be done. Each box in each centre had to tally at the end of polling day with the amount of ballot papers handed out. Any mix up by people polling would have caused serious problems. One box for all meant not one vote was marked null and void for going into wrong box.
@joe: I was referring to the system of how votes are counted
Credit where it’s due. They got the referendum done in plenty of time. It’s all the other votes they’re working through now. Also, it saves us money to have a few counts done at once. There’s, what, local and mayoral and MEP and the referendum as well, bundled in together. If they spread them out it would cost more, and it’s a convenience to us to vote them all on one day. It doesn’t seem as bad as the last general election to me. That had whole newspapers of candidates going for election.
@Fiona Fitzgerald:
Might depend on where you live Fiona, the Ireland south EP ballot with 23 candidates was the longest I have ever seen.
@Caroline Otoole: Because some nobhead, or numerous nobheads, is bound to put the ballot paper in the wrong box. They would have to be sorted anyway.
@Tony Donoghue: ah yeah sure pay no one robots are the future.
@Tony Donoghue: yes, but don’t forget the relatives and friends of our politicians probably get a handy few bob for sitting there counting on their fingers…..??
@Aisling: it’s Centres Aisling. It’s Dublin Ireland not U. S
Hope Saoirse McHugh gets elected – she is a breath of fresh air, full of energy and cares about the environment, at a time when our countryside, birds bees wild animals are being destroyed and humans too with pesticides, hedge eradication tree felling gorse burning to mention a few
@GO GREEN: I also think she’s a breath of fresh air and a genuine decent character, I would love to see her elected. Not looking good though.
@GO GREEN: fresh air? Thought she was vegetarian though
@James Wallace: Unfortunately does not seem she will win at this stage, which is a pity, but no doubt will win in the future.
@James Wallace: What do her looks have to do with her ability to represent us? She looks a damn sight better than you do this minute!
@HuffnPuff: he never mentioned her looks. He said of her likelihood to be elected that that didn’t look good. Nothing about her appearance, though. Read the comment again.
Francis Fitzgerald? She fuucking helped destroy Maurice McCabe and she still gets in? On behalf of the sensible people of Dublin, I apologise.
Should people outside Dublin even be allowed to have a vote? They make some very strange choices. Maybe we should have a referendum on the issue, only Dublin votes would count of course
@Tony Donoghue: The people of Dun Laoghaire are good at electing scalps and scoundrels.
@Teresa Ryan:
@Tony Donoghue: Ah you’d soon change your tune when us culchies and boggers stop sending food and water up to the capital
@Tony Donoghue: Ah you’d soon change your tune when us culchies and boggers stop sending food and water up to the capital
@Mill Lane: but we have san Pellegrino and salmon with avocado on gluten free, organic wholemeal wraps thanks
@Tony Donoghue: Dubs thank you so much for giving us CJ Haughey and Bertie, 2 lads expert at slight of hand.
@Tony Donoghue: sure they wouldn’t even bother their arse to vote in half the electoral area,
@Tony Donoghue: Dublin is the problem and that from a Dub !
Fitzgerald made a complete shambles of Mc Cabe affair and Garda investigation and we reward her by sending her to a cushy job in Europe. We really are stupid
@Mary Mc Carthy: you can put the blame squarely in Dublin for that. The rest of us didn’t have a choice
If only we had some sort of electronic means to cast votes…….
@Dave O’Looney: wish I had thought of that
@Dave O’Looney: Nah— not secure enough. A long count process is a small price to pay for a fair, safe system.
@Dave O’Looney: pencil and paper aren’t susceptible to the foul ups of computer or mechanical voting. They’re recountable so far more representative, a small price to pay for democracy.
@Patrick Kearns: €51m for the electronic voting machines and another €4m to store them and scrap them…”small price” I suppose to billions this current government is going to waste!
@Dave O’Looney: there are a multitude of studies and test that suggest evoting can’t be secured.
You could start with the Princeton research. Easy to read.
Eh, are you not going to bother reporting the North??
@Mark Moloney: there’s a while article about it just beneath this one.
@Jane: whole
@Mark Moloney:
Here is an article about the North so stop complaining.
https://www.thejournal.ie/northern-ireland-european-elections-4656146-May2019/
@Mark Moloney: no
Three more Irish MEPs: Diane Dodds, Naomi Long, Martina Anderson.
@Tomás de Buitléir: At least one of them would take issue with the Irish moniker.
@Tomás de Buitléir: northern Irish
Only 1. Your post said all. Hardly worth posting if only 1. GIMPS
@Jh2019: I’d say the plan is to update it as they are elected.
Why so angry?
@Jh2019: 1 is all we have it thst moment. It’s accurate and will be updated live. Someone needs a bank holiday to cure his case of the Mondays
@Jh2019: jeezus you’re some eejit
Wallace will be in a handy spot to watch European Football, yup, he will, for sure!!
The whole process is messy and incredibly slow. It looks as if we will be still counting and checking on Wedensday. We need a faster way… electronic voting machines or a scannable paper ballot paper. This is the 21st century not the 19th
@Peter Buchanan: You can look at the shambles in Florida that got George Bush Jr. elected and you might think again. Convenience or democracy, take your pick.
An excellent voice for the vulture class.
How the f**k did people vote Frances in after the McCabe mess? We really are stupid.
@Keith O’Reilly: You are wondering why the people didn’t vote Mark Durkan instead? I would imagine Frances has decades of service in Dublin and that’s why they voted for her.
@Paddy J: Who vote for FG, FF or Labour?
Rigged ..
@james r: not even slightly
Only in Ireland are they still counting in other countries- us and our obsession with pen and paper at barcode the ballots and stick them in a counter
Does McGuinness resume her role as Vice President of the EU Parliament or does that go up for grabs again with the new session?
Anyone?
@wattsed56:
Each Parliament elects new positions, just as there will be a new set of commissioners, one of the first jobs of the new Parliament will be to approve the commission nominations
@Patrick Nolan: Thanks
@wattsed56:
your welcome
Here’s hoping #BREXIT will be called off, just to keep @FineGael ‘s @DeirdreCluneMEP out of the parliament. It’s a pity @FitzgeraldFrncs got elected. Wonder what internal deal was done with @FineGael as I suspect Frances would not get reelected to the Dáil if she ran at next election. Dianna Fail have a lot to answer for letting this government go unchecked.
Welcome back Sinead, you were wasted on that Ireland AM nonsense TV show
Only time will tell….
people still don’t define ‘broadband’, just like with counting there are different systems and we need to choose the better one…seeing as 76 species of birds chose to leave Mt Nardi by the time the 4G LTE tower was switched on – what do you think will happen with mandatory broadband blanket covering the earth? And yet no one discussing the real issues with ‘broadband’ in this country, or that most of the MEPs just want to stick their hand in the EU honey pot to roll it out or that 20k satellites are going up for space based highly questionable broadband, and just why exactly fibre is better all round.
you forgot the 4th constituency in Ireland which elected Martina Anderson (SF) Dianna Dodds (DUP) & Naomi Long (Alliance)
@Breandán O Conchúir: That would be a GB constituency, and those 3 seats will be gone in a few months.
Just popping off to do my VAT return with a pencil and paper…. Yeah, right.
Let see it elected members make enough attendances to vote on the issues going through the parliament.
So far Luke Ming has maintained in around 90% attendance rate compared to other Irish members voting on as little as 20-30% on the issues and still getting paid the same.
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