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SOME PEOPLE HIT the sales, others dress up in semi-pagan garb and march through the local byways banging on instruments.
For many others, though, St Stephen’s Day means a walk in the mountains.
The country’s nature trails are thronged in the days after Christmas – as families bid to escape their homes before the inevitable cabin fever sets in.
For most – it’s a stress-free day in the country. But it’s also a busy time of the year for the Coast Guard and mountain rescue crews, who are called upon to help people in difficulty on the hills.
In many cases, the hikers are inexperienced – and sometimes find themselves lost in the wilderness amid fading light and deteriorating weather conditions.
With that in mind, we asked the Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team to put together a checklist of everything you need to know before setting out on your post-Christmas trek.
John Kavanagh of Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team (who put the above list together) is asking people to get involved in their Walk the Line dusk-into-dark fundraising hike. It happens on 12 March and you can find details here.
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Abstaining from vaccinations puts other people at risk. Vulnerable people and young children. Reasons not to do it are generally based on false research, rumour and emotion rather than peer reviewed independent research. Do your homework and vaccinate! If you choose not to vaccinate to “save” your children then lock them up in isolation to save mine
@Y U no spell good?: she is not being jailed for refusing vaccinations, but for contempt of court. She should have the limited right to chose to space the vaccines or to take the cocktail approach.
@Greg Blake: I get what she’s being jailed for and don’t have a huge issue with a limited choice to decide timing. The refusal to vaccinate is what I have an issue with
@Y U no spell good?: if the vaccinations work, your child would be safe from an unvaccinated child.
@Greg Blake: ironically she would have been vaccinated by her own parents.
@Pheilum Shannon: that doesn’t help children who can’t have vaccinations because of allergies or people with compromised immune systems, like Chemotherapy patients.
@Pheilum Shannon: it’s called herd immunity and is one of the first steps on the road to eradication of disease
@Pheilum Shannon: Please research herd immunity and children that can’t be vaccinated for valid medical reasons.
Sheesh!
@Pheilum Shannon: yes, once my child is vaccinated. What about before my child is vaccinated? Vaccinations aren’t all given at the time of birth and many of the diseases vaccinated against are fatal to newborns and young children
@Pheilum Shannon: This is inaccurate. If people continue to refuse to vaccinate their children what will happen is the virus will mutate and render the vaccine useless. The aim of vaccinations is to completely kill off the virus. TB is almost unheard of in Ireland and this is because before this nonsense every child got their bcg. When was the last time you heard of a child getting a bad case of polio? But mark my words, you will if this madness continues for much longer..
@Karen Wellington: Also, for various reasons, vaccine might not take. Having everyone else vaccinated caters for this
@Y U no spell good?: read above ‘the court order would have seen her son receive up to eight vaccinations in one go’. It seems to me that that is what is scaring her.
@Greg Blake: read the paragraph before that, her and the child’s father agreed to space out his vaccinations 9 years ago when he was born, she didn’t do that and waited he needed eight of them before the court stepped in
@Y U no spell good?: how is it ? your talking total shiiiiite !!
@Y U no spell good?: So if my kids do not take the poison, how are they a danger if the other kids have taken the vaccine they should be fine right ?
@Y U no spell good?: I totally agree with the reasons not to comply, like, FALSE RUMOURS etc…And I too have Children who go to School with mixed background Classmates, some of whom I would think would be apposed to our GP’s recomendations. So If the Vac is to prevent the spread of a viral illness like FLU for example, then yes the Minister for Education Should make it Compulsary, & not to comply Should result in expulsion. Sure F knows how many bottles of lyclear & Full Marks My wife has bought over the years because Parents are too lazy or just plain neglective of checking their Childrens heads for filthy little fleas & nits.
Disgacefull…
@Johnnathan Biskalero: so if I run across the M50 how am I in danger if all the cars have brakes I should be fine right?
@Johnnathan Biskalero: The poison? What is wrong with you?
A modern day hero!!! A medical expert with a degree from from Facebook likes and a Masters from Tim Hat university !!!
@Gggordon: What about parents of fat kids? Do you think they should be jailed too?
@Gggordon:
Don’t besmirch the good name of Tim Hat
@Dj: Ah jaysis Dj. Did you really ask that question?
@Honeybadger197: I just don’t think someone should face jail time for not vaccinating their child.
@Honeybadger197: I think he did. Amazingly pointless comment.
@Dj: I do
@Dj: She’s not being jailed for not vaccinating but for being in contempt of the court. Read the piece again.
@Dj: If it’s from the result of obvious neglect, the parents simply not caring what their children eat and feeding them twinkies for dinner then yes, they should go to jail, for a long time.
@Dj: technically she’s being jailed for contempt of court.
@The Girl: You’re right. My mistake. Didn’t have time to read the whole article as I was just heading into the shower in the gym.Was balls naked reading it. Could do with changing the headline.
@Dj: definitely some of them, they’re responsible for there children so yes…
@Dj: Balls naked, heading to the shower… with a phone? Sure.
@Ciara Baines: You don’t want to know where he keeps the phone during showering
Every parent has a right to do what they think is right for their child, regardless of other people’s opinions. Where will it stop forced to take vaccination, what if your forced what school you have to put your child in to, and the lessons he or she takes are dictated to them their choice of job will be chosen for them, who they can marry, how many children can they have etc. DO YOU ACTUALLY SEE WHERE THIS TYPE OF THINKING WILL LEAD TO IF WE AS A SOCIETY ARE NOT CAREFUL.
@Paul Bennison: Yes, not vaccinating children will lead to and has recently lead to mass outbreaks of preventable diseases.
@Paul Bennison: I’m pretty sure it will stop at vaccinations. The rest of the sh*te you’re spouting is totally unrelated and is typical of the nonsense argument that hides the lack of evidence against vaccines. As per my previous comment, arguments against vaccines are based on rumour, anecdotes and emotion. I’ll add “assumed tumble into unrelated forfeit of civil liberties” to that list now though, thanks
@Paul Bennison: Actually this child has two parents. The agreement made between the parents was that the child be vaccinated. The father clearly wants the child vaccinated. So why does the mother get to decide alone not to vaccinate ? Especially when she previously agreed to vaccinate the child. Is the fathers choices for his child not Important ? No is the answer. One parent doesn’t get to change an agreement after signing a legally binding consent to vaccinate. What about this fathers choice to vaccinate his child ?
@Paul Bennison: Exactly! “Forced & coerced” to be vaccinated; undergo psych evaluations, be subjected to brainwashing to believe you’re something that you’re not; too be coerced into taking cocktails of narcotics, antipsychotics, etc.; worse to be forced to take something that you do not want to put into yours or your child’s body; punished for resisting or refusing to conform comply and or obey. Horrific and so so very wrong!! If the mother does not want to put foreign agents into her child’s body and othe parents disagree with that mother’s decision, jail time or prison is NOT the answer! Instead, parents who object to vaccinations (or the frequency of for a better lack of words) for their children should be given other alternatives that would be fair to other ‘concerned’ parents who fear the worst for their vaccinated children. Their concerns should be heard, understood, and equally addressed as any parent who chooses to vaccinate their own children, NOT thrown in jail for violating a court order that would only exacerbate the situation further to the point of being stripped of their innate parental rights and ultimately forced and coerced to drug their child.
@TruthSeeker:
She wasn’t jailed for not vaccinating
@Avina Laaf: Keep telling yourself this.
She’s pro choice?
@Brendan Hughes: pro vaccine choice. Is this going to be a thing now.
@Brendan Hughes: until we lose herd immunity and they see what happens
Misleading headline so. She was jailed for contempt of court. Sensationalism at its worst.
Journal authors …can you put some sort of keyword highlighted in the report…and people can’t comment unless they give this keyword first….
Jesus, they did a great job rounding up the sheep this morning for the comments section.
Remember to line up nice and straight now.
Have a great day sheepeople. ☺
@Pat O’Connor: And you commenting here yourself makes you one of the shepeople. Hope you lined up nice and straight.
@Ciara Baines: What a silly comment.
@Pat O’Connor: Oh enlightened one, please explain all to us!!!!
the secrets of the chem-trails, the Sandy Hook false flag, the faked moon landings!!
I want to know it all enlightened Oracle of knowledge!! , please help me to no longer be a sheepeople.
Tell me the inner workings of the tinfoil hat, Bitcoin, flat earth, 911 area 51, new world order!! !! Free me from the matrix please Oracle please!!
lots of unvacinnated people coming to live in IRELAND,its against there religion they say
vaccinations is the one thing I genuinely think is honest , some other medical / pharmaceuticals i do believe are money makers. However was reading pharmaceutical company change the way they made a drug the side effects were Waite gain, hair lost. Unless something like this has happened, I believe it safe for now compared to the risks of not getting.
Most childhood vaccinations have been around for decades and are known to be safe.
@: While most vaccinations don’t guarantee protection they do offer enough varying levels of protection to have wiped out such things as smallpox, rabies. Diseases like measles can be wiped out however in large urban areas where people chose not to have their children vaccinated there have been large outbreakes with fatalities.
Imagine someone saying your children are going to travel in a car every day, here’s a safety device, it’s not 100% guaranteed but it’s 80% – 90% guaranteed. Would you take it, would you use it? Or would you wait for for the 100% guaranteed device?
Vaccinations work. They’ve been around since Jenner … ok, for a long time. They’ve already wiped out some of the deadliest diseases we’ve known, and if we allow them, can wipe out more. And here’s the thing, we don’t even have to do anything. We don’t have to do any major effort, no running, no sweating, just a vaccination that ensures we’re covered. Kind of difficult to explain why it isn’t done.
@Jed I. Knight: it’s called choice I think
#clickbait
Your headline is wrong, she did not get jail because she refused to get her child vaccinated. She is going to jail for contempt of court because she agreed to something which she than did not do.
I know your extend of journalism is to copy/paste other peoples work but at least read your own copy/paste article before you do put a headline up.
She’s had a whole 11 months since the court order to ‘space out’ the vaccinations. Never mind that she’s had 9 years to do it in total. She obviously had no intention from the beginning
She must have been talking to the bishop of Lismore & Waterford
Anyone ever heard of thalidomide..
Seems to me that a parent has every right to refuse vaccination given the possibility that there may be unintended consequences which no one can predict. If the state ..ie other people.. want to take full responsibility for my children then by all means take it and provide 100 percent of all they require..you can’t pick and choose either a parent is a parent with all the rights and responsibilities of one or ..they are simply childminders on behalf of the state…think they should make their mind up.
@Observer: well after the numpties voted in the Children’s referendum, we have been reduced to caretakers. The government knows best and will do a wonderful job protecting and providing for our children.
@Carina Clarke: absolutely! And this is what is called “socialism” and social control! No two bodies are alike and no two bodies react to the same foreign agents in their body as another. Everybody responds differently to substances and it is simply ignorant to believe or argue anything otherwise. For parents who disagree with this mother’s perspective they can always educate themselves on science and why some vaccines have left many parents concerned as well adults who have lost their own spouses due to vaccines all gone wrong.
@TruthSeeker: it’s really sad that your so devoted to risking your children’s long term health and even life, especially when your parents probably did right by you. Before anyone bites my head banging on about poison and autism, I don’t want to hear your Facebook based research. Anti-vaxers are danger to those they claim to love and a danger to society as a whole.
Another fine mess over custody squabbles. Here’s the local report on this.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/2017/10/04/ferndale-mom-vaccination-contempt-of-court/731366001/
why would you put poison in your kids when they are free from it ?
@Johnnathan Biskalero: Going just on the evidence of the hysterical posts you put up regularly. I must say, it really does seem that you may be someone whose brain is suffering the effects of lots of the mind altering poisons you have consumed voluntarily. Of course, I could be wrong. I await a well thought out balanced post that reflects your broad range of knowledge and wisdom.
The land of the free, lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
This is a joke….simply Tyrannical !!
Welcome to the de facto cultural marxist state. Zero risk does not exist…
We are truly fooked.
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