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Nutty gizzards, free readings and bus tours: Here's your Bloomsday 2016 event guide

We look at the events celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses, running from today until Thursday.

EVERY YEAR FANS of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses gather in Dublin and around the world to celebrate Bloomsday.

16 June, the date the fictional events in Ulysses take place, is recognised with readings, performances and even Bloomsday Breakfasts.

The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the main character in Ulysses. The novel, often regarded as Joyce’s most important work, follows Bloom’s journey around Dublin.

City events 

The events in Dublin are centred around the places that Bloom visited – such as Glasnevin Cemetery, the Martello Tower in Sandycove and Sandymount Strand.

A full programme of Bloomsday Festival events is available online and there’s also a host of fringe happenings to enjoy.

Some of the events have already sold out – but here are our picks of events happening around Dublin, from today until Thursday.

16/6/2015 Bloomsday Celebrations Mark Stedman / RollingNews.ie Mark Stedman / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

Monday

Travel to locations associated with Joyce and his work, including his birthplace in Rathgar and the Martello Tower in Sandycove, in the comfort of a bus. The bus leaves the James Joyce Centre on North Great George’s Street at 10am. The tour will finish up at 4pm and costs €30.

Tuesday 

Strolling through Ulysses! starts at 7pm on Tuesday evening in the International Bar on Wicklow St. The audience are taken on a 70 minute journey through the novel. Tickets are available online or at the door.

Wednesday

Celebrate Joyce through the music that helped inspire his first novel. Tickets for the night of tunes in The Stag’s Head cost €12. Musicians Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy will also talk about the background of the songs.

Thursday 

Bloomsday itself…

16/6/2014. Bloomsday Celebrations Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

Kick off your day

Breakfast is big on Bloomsday.

Based on the breakfast that Leopold Bloom ate on 16 June 1904, fans of the book can enjoy a traditional Irish fry-up, with optional gruesome extras: nutty gizzards, kidneys and sheep’s heart. The James Joyce Centre breakfast is currently sold out, but who knows, maybe some tickets will become available this week?

Howth RNLI are also hosting a Bloomsday Breakfast, with prosecco and gorgonzola at 11am at Howth Yacht Club and tickets cost €30.

There will be other Bloomsday Breakfasts happening in different locations around town too.

Bus it 

If you want to get away from the city, a coach will once again be bringing people from the James Joyce Centre at 10am to the Martello Tower at Sandycove and Sandymount Village. The bus will return to the city by 3pm.

City Sightseeing Dublin will run two free Bloomsday bus tours. The buses will depart from Hugh Lane Gallery at 10.30am and 12.30pm. Tickets must be booked in advance online.

Glasnevin Cemetery

13/8/2014. Glasnevin Cemeteries Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

Glasnevin Cemetery will be hosting a series of events to mark the day. There will be Joycean breakfast and lunch in the cemetery’s Tower Café from 10am to 3pm. At 11.30am, there will be a re-enactment of Paddy Dignam’s funeral procession from the ‘Hades’ section of Ulysses.

At 12.15pm, there will be a Joycean tour of Glasnevin Cemetery. Booking is essential, we’re told.

Readings

16/6/2015 Bloomsday Celebrations Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

Bloomsday readings will start at 3pm in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. This event is free and no booking is required. The event will include songs, readings and performances. RTÉ broadcaster Keelin Shanley will lead the readings, alongside the likes of Bloomsday stalwart David Norris, and Colm O’Gorman.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:43 PM

    I think people are more worried about the budget rather than the passing of a gangland criminal, no sympathy here

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:48 PM

    That is all that needs to be said

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:49 PM

    Of course, no one would disagree but you still have to be concerned that people are being murdered in broad daylight with no regard for other people. These lads are becoming brazen about this and it’s only going to get worse unless the Gardai take a hard stance, but with numbers dwindling in the Gardai and funding being cut, Broad daylight murders, like Eamon Kelly’s will be a regular occurrence.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:50 PM

    No sympathy but the rise in cold blooded murders taking place during daylight hours on busy streets isn’t exactly welcome either.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:54 PM

    @Chris. A man died. A MAN died. A man DIED.
    This is not Xbox or some stupid TV show. Your disregard for the death of a MAN murdered in a Dublin street is either a reflection of your complete callousness or indicative of the fantasy world you and your ilk occupy.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:01 PM

    !

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:02 PM

    A man who held scant regard for the lives of others. Live by the sword…

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:07 PM

    @Kieran so you are sorry that a drug trafficker and armed robber, who has brought misery to countless families, is no longer walking out streets?? This speaks volumes about the kind of person you are sir.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:18 PM

    Chris. Im not crying. I only know what the media are saying, apparently the victim was a criminal. But my capital city is not a place I want to see cold blooded murder take place in. Your flippancy shows scant regard for the sanctity of human life and the rule of law.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:20 PM

    kieran it wasn’t a man that died, it was a lowlife..

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:24 PM

    Doesn’t sound like the deceased MAN had much respect for law and order. The welfare of the many over the few.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:28 PM

    @Kieran I won’t apologise for not being mournful at the passing of a gangland leader, we will agree to disagree, I like decent law abiding people whereas you sympathise with criminals who destroy lives.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:30 PM

    @Chris ???

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:41 PM

    Meh. Only problem with gangland criminals is that there seems to be an endless supply of them. A bit like cutting a head from the Hydra.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:48 PM

    The problem here is that when drugs are illegal it gives rise to organised crime like the prohibition of alcohol in America during the 20s, but the government ended it by taking it out if the hands of the drug dealers. This is key for our nation as all the drugs are in the dealers hands like this man who was shot. If we decriminalise, tax and regulate we can reduce our debt by over a billion , lower prison number, lower drug use and take away the drug dealers supply.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:56 PM

    @ DublinLad72
    I’d blame our limp dicked judiciary before the Gardai! Our boys in blue are getting the results on their end (uniformed unarmed Guards today chasing down gunmen of this Kelly fella!) but it’s the Judges who are letting these criminals away with literally murder!!

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    Dec 4th 2012, 11:31 PM

    Kevin what has robbing banks got to do with legalising drugs? The problem here is some village is missing you Kevin

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:07 AM

    that’s just whack…

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:09 AM

    @chris did you read before that you tool about trafficking cocaine? No. The village is waiting for you man. My main point is that the war on drugs has failed, 40 years they’ve been at it and drug use hasn’t gone away. It’s time for a change

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:40 AM

    Amen

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:49 AM

    He’ll likely qualify for the burying grant of 850 euro. C@nt should be sent up to one of Albert Reynolds mincing machines and turned into dog food. How many bereaved parents/partners/children has he left behind? Good riddance.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:59 AM

    Kieran, the red thumbs say it all!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:02 AM

    Kevin, the war on drugs is here in America. You are in Ireland I presume. Two different countries! Get real!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:22 AM

    Declan the war on drugs is in every country where there are illegal drugs. Your right in saying it started in America but it became worldwide after all the countries signed the UN treaty in the seventies. As long as drugs are illegal in Ireland there is a war on drugs, you see it everytime there’s a gangland killing or a grow house raid. If you look at Portugal where all drugs are decriminalised they have lowered drug abyss by 50% , saved millions of police hours and lowered crime by 28 %. So Declan I think you have to get real.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:28 AM
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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:34 AM

    Yes Kevin and do you think the drug dealers are going to let the police take away their business if its all legalized? Do you realize that they will have to be given amnesty and allowed to be legit because if you don’t they will continue and put up a fight and the war continues. Also do you think that it would be acceptable for a government to allow a product to be sold that can be devastating to a persons health and profit from it with taxes? As I said Get real!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:40 AM

    What do you mean let them? Who would buy weed off a drug dealer if there’s a local coffeeshop they can go to for clean taxed weed? Who would buy heroin off a dealer when there’s a clinic giving out clean heroin for free and enlisting the addicts in treatment programmes? You ask any addiction specialist worldwide and they’ll tell you this is a better system. Just look at Portugal. Dr Garrett McGovern who runs a clinic in dundrum says he’d decriminalise all drugs, and he’s one of the top addiction specialist in the country. Drugs are damaging but only if abused , you see this with alcohol. Look at Mexico, we are 10 years off having the same problem here and we need reform before its to late.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:45 AM

    Kevin, I’m well aware of the war on drugs. I just don’t want that shit in my neighborhood- legal or illegal! I don’t want anything to do with someone who has a drug problem. Too many deaths, too many broken families because of that shit! Feel free to do it yourself but don’t come crying to the govt afterwards looking for help because you lost your job, house and family because of a addiction. Get real!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:55 AM

    You said earlier its only in America ? So your not aware. Legal or not its most likely always going to be in your area, illegal drugs, legal drugs such as tobacco, alcohol etc… I don’t have an addiction , I don’t use any drugs bar the odd smoke. I do however have a great knowledge of drug addiction, laws and the drugs themselves. I care about the families of the addicts, the addicts and general drug users. That’s why locking them up and throwing away the key isn’t the answer. They need help, advice, support. Functioning users are functioning so no problem there. Finally the general publics need better education on these drugs and concentrating police hours on the drug cartels such as the triad gangs. I don’t think you know enough about this subject to even be debating it. I’ve been debating this for years now and I can tell you there’s no basis to your argument.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 2:12 AM

    Kevin
    who’d but fags of a criminal when you can going into any shop
    Who’d by fake DVD’s when the real things are in the shops.
    Who buy diesel from a crook when every town has at least two stations.
    Who’d buy drugs from a dealer rather than a shop selling them legally?
    Your right Kevin Leagalise drugs and the criminals will go away. Good call.
    The thing is Kevin a tool as you called me is usefull you my friend are not.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 2:24 AM

    I pay taxes, I have a job. I care about the people of this nation. The only point you argued is in relation to cannabis and I will answer that. People can grow weed at home, why buy from anyone? We’ve seen in Amsterdam that coffeeshops can work. It’s 4 euro a gram in Amsterdam where in Ireland it’s 20-25. So yes the drug dealers will hate it. I got threatened at a march by a drug dealer saying to stop doing what your doing. I have the same enemy as you but unlike yourself I have a solution. Once again please educate yourself on the matter before making judgement on it.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 7:28 AM

    The government already profit from tobacco and alcohol, which destroy an awful lot more lives than illegal drugs.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 8:26 AM

    Live by the sword die by it – he made his choice

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    Dec 5th 2012, 8:52 AM

    Sadly the comments by many here are indicative of peoples sense of Justice or lack thereof. Ireland has a justice system to deal with these individuals like most so called civilized countries, its not perfect and will invariable fail, it might be more appropriate to advocate change within the system rather than condoning the murder of a man in your streets. By condoning the murder it follows you support the actions of the criminal gang that carried out the execution, warped really and simply legitimises the cycle of violence. That attitude is hardly conducive to the change people want to see. I live in London and these types of murders are carried out on a more regular basis, its is always disturbing to know a human being lost their life down the street from where you live, it doesnt really matter who or what they were into, it matters your streets are compromised and every day on your way to work you walk on the very spot the person was shot or stabbed to death. Your society is sick for a variety of reasons, that is the real issue here. So this man was into organised crime, what about those who are into crime that is not organised, do we simply advocate their murder too, Ireland is full of criminals, some more harmful that others, do we advocate their murder too, i would say we be careful what we advocate for, no one wants to live with vigilante type justice!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 9:41 AM

    @Sinead Lunney I agree with you. I’d say most of the comments above, whilst they are bloodthirsty and ill-considered, nevertheless reflect a desire for justice that is in all of us.
    The function of government is, above all else, to protect citizens and administer justice. Our namby-pamby sissy western welfare state is unjust, hence the dissatisfaction we see reflected here. If we knew that those who kill and maim and rape and abuse and rob with seeming impunity were going to receive retribution from the state commensurate with their crimes, perhaps our sense of justice would not be so constantly outraged.
    A man lost his life yesterday at the hands of those who would tear this state apart and would not think twice of murdering any of the people who have applauded their actions. Justice – rough or otherwise – was not done. The state ought to step up and administer fairer justice. Why should we applaud criminals who administer the death penalty on our behalf? It’s a topsy-turvey world when we do so.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 10:39 AM

    @ Kieran Mac Court, Agreed it does certainly reflect the sense of injustice that such people remain free to walk the streets, however I cant condone the murder of anyone on our streets, otherwise whats the point in having a justice system at all. All said this brings us back to the justice system, and how it can continually fail the people. Not sure if I agree with the Welfare State being unjust, but do agree its probably geared in the wrong direction, my daughter who is attending University asked yesterday how is it when your parents work all the time and contribute to the system you get less help with your student fees and grants, and when the parents don’t work or contribute you get a lot more? Its a fair question and I think she is right it doesn’t make sense, and it does annoy me, but without a Welfare system we would probably be living in a lunatic asylum, crime would be much higher. Prison systems are not interested in rehabilitation its a crime and punishment affair still today, most offenders go on to re-offend they become institutionalised and can cope with a second stint in prison, which should be evident enough that the system is not working. By rehabilitation I don’t mean creating a Marxist victim accompanied by cuddly benefits to bring you back to the fold with an inherent belief in victim-hood, I mean some hardship that will make the experience as awful as possible, not sure what that would be. In respect of the overall system it does make me wonder what is in it for them, perhaps the more doped out we are on various substances the more likely we are to drop out of conventional society and its norms, and conversely the less likely we will involve ourselves with changing the system. One thing I know for certain, the justice and criminal system know who these people are and the proliferation of drugs and guns into the country can be curbed.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:59 PM

    I just paid €9 for the dearest car wash just because the mot serving was a cracker and for some reason I taught she would be impressed with me saying “I will have the best one”. Now I’m still in this fecking car was and I haven’t enough money for a trio tray on the way home. …..Balls, I forgot to take the aerial off. SHOCKING

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:52 PM

    karmas a bitch…what goes around comes around.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:15 PM

    God doesn’t exist John, did you not get the memo? It was all a laugh.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:19 PM

    Maybe you’re right about God you’re entitled to your opinon, but we’re getting off topic this bastard got what he deserved agreed?

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:21 PM

    My only real regret about this killing was that it was carried out in broad daylight and thus was witnessed by a 13 yr old who may need counseling for many months or indeed years.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:46 PM

    Whatever way he lived his life, you have to feel for the teenager who witnessed this in broad daylight. My big worry is that they’ve arrested this lad in his 30′s and the news said he’s a well known dissident Republican which means there will be retribution for this. Eamon Kelly was no small time player, any crime writer will tell you that, I’m sure he had friends in high places and this, unfortunately will not be the last we’ll hear of this.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 2:53 AM

    Nail on the head.. This seems to have a different resonance in Dublin than it does up here in Derry… People have been waiting for a move like this from the dissidents after Alan Ryan’s killing. Drug money in Dublin is key to their advancement.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:30 PM

    That German student being knifed to death, doesn’t look good for Ireland and the Justice System. We need to introduce the three strikes, life meaning life and get tough with crime!

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:17 PM

    At least Mr Kelly won’t have to worry about the budget tomorrow

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:01 PM

    Good riddance

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:03 PM

    Eamonn Kelly was a stickie and a comrade of Gilmore. He provided funds and muscle for Comrade Gilmore’s private army many moons ago.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:58 PM

    A rabid dog was put down.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:29 AM

    And you don’t post under your own name…. :-/ ha ha! ;)

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:42 PM

    The only sympathy I have is for his family. However he knew the game and death was always on the cards in that game.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:32 AM

    ….and he lasted way longer than the industry average too I’d suggest!!! :-/

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:56 PM

    Surely if he was a senior man in organised crime it’s not a bad thing that he was killed. Why are people condemning the shooting. The fact remains that a criminal is off the streets. Therefor the streets are a little safer. How many lifes has this man ruined over a clearly long criminal career peddling drugs, thieving and what not.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 7:27 AM

    Unfortunately he will be replaced. The new generation coming up behind seem to be worse hence the increase in gangland killings etc

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    Dec 5th 2012, 8:13 AM

    Yeah but does it matter. There will alway be criminals coming up the ranks. They are not scared of Garda nor prison. Maybe the children of today will be thought a lesson that its a dangerous game and won’t get involved. At the end of the day there is a war on drugs, people are dieing every day from the effects of drugs in the community. Innocent people are going to be killed but that’s war!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:12 AM

    Christ lads give the dead man a break, its not like he was importing garlic, he was only a low life criminal

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:51 PM

    begs the questions
    will gilmore carry the coffin of his fallen comerade?
    will he have a republican funeral?

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:13 PM

    Will guns & roses be played…

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    Dec 4th 2012, 11:01 PM

    He wasn’t a Republican, in the early 80′s the Workers Party/Officials needed money via bank fundraisers but didn’t want the vote damaging associations of having members doing time for it. So they outsourced the activities, provided all the support etc but left the running in the door of the bank to men like Kelly.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 11:19 PM

    Gilmore found an easier way to do it a lot more effective though don’t you think

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:32 PM

    One of the new houses in stiles court has a security camera facing the road, they should have a look at that, they moght get something recorded on it, I walk past that street about 4 times a day to collect kids from school, and one of the times is normally between 3:30 and 4 but today I did not go thank god!!

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:54 PM

    Correct me if my memory does serve me correctly, but wasn’t he in the Official SF the time Gilmore and his friends were there before they joined the LP. Or maybe the Republican Clubs which were similar.

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:46 PM

    What Dublin Bay north TD ?? He’s central , and yes we get it I riordan distract us from the budget ,,,, you thing we are stupid this man was a major criminal who never upheld the law a bit like all in government buildings get real …

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    Dec 4th 2012, 9:48 PM

    Think-ha ha typo error

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    Dec 4th 2012, 10:58 PM

    What a waste of a good bullet

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:12 AM

    Bullets are good? Gun=deaths

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:57 AM

    I wonder did he support city cos his day got even worse if he did.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 3:13 AM

    What a fcuking skumbag. I’m happy he’s dead.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:06 AM

    I hope this TD will be as quick condemning the actions of other criminals in his constituency or is he protecting his own arse?

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    Dec 5th 2012, 2:32 AM

    Was it the nidge fella?

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:42 AM

    R.I.P

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:36 AM

    R.I.P.
    Rest In Piss

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:24 AM

    You’d have to wonder were the ERU following the wrong gun on Temple Street this morning?!? :-/

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:43 AM

    ….and – as I see a few early red thumb’s – I didn’t mean on purpose or anything of that order… I’m no conspiracy theorist!!! ;)

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    Dec 5th 2012, 12:23 AM

    One wonders is Martin “The Viper” Foley looking over his’ should even though he has now gone legitimate into a debt recovery business (fwiw I’d use him any day ahead of a solicitor/court).

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:17 AM

    I like cheese….a good lump of matured white cheddar at room temperature….and a dip of chef brown sauce

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:19 AM

    and that sinn fein fella….what can one say?

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    Dec 5th 2012, 7:25 AM

    Watching too much love /hate. RIRA v Drug gangs.

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    Dec 11th 2012, 10:06 PM

    There was another side to this man . he had a heart of gold and would do anything for u , if he could help in any way he would, xxx

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    Dec 11th 2012, 10:04 PM

    xxxxxxx

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    Dec 5th 2012, 1:51 AM

    quick….get them in ! comments on this article are about to be closed

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    Dec 5th 2012, 8:26 AM

    By all accounts this looks like an amateur botched assassination, and I would imagine, head office up North will be down for another knee capping soon, the guards were all over this.

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    Dec 5th 2012, 11:13 AM

    News flash for Mr Declan Noonan,,,,Tobacco and alcohol are both harming peoples health killing thousands every year, and the government collect taxes on both!!!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 11:20 AM

    Gangland style!

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    Dec 5th 2012, 4:25 PM

    These people will continue to profit and war over profits as long as they run the drugs trade, which will never go away, no matter how illegal you make it.

    You people praising his death may have the viewpoint that the death of this heroin dealer is a good thing, but this death or any other death will not ever even slow the drug trade. These deaths will get more frequent and you can be sure innocent people will be caught in the crossfire. Aslong as we allow them to have the drug trade.

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    Dec 10th 2012, 1:16 PM

    he’ll just be replaced by someone else. sure there will some revenge and lives will be lost. But our dear judges will give them petty punishments, and they’ll be out terrorizing people again. The failure of the law to be harsh with people like that doesn’t do any favours.

    we all shout about human rights and the value of life, but we forget that in sparing this man and throw many before him, that we allow them to go on harming others. What about those people they harmed? No one gives a shit. because oh the poor criminal has to have his rights.

    Death penalty. Cheap and efficient. Pity someone else had to do it because the law are too afraid to pull the trigger themselves. I’m not applauding the fella who did it, but as many users have aptly said, live by the sword and die by it

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