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GARDAÍ HAVE APPEALED for information following a carjacking incident in Swords, Co Dublin.
A taxi driver picked up two male passengers outside a fast food restaurant at Airside Retail Park at about 3am yesterday.
He drove the two a short distance to a roundabout close to the Pavilions shopping centre, where he was assaulted and stabbed a number of times.
The taxi driver managed to escape from the vehicle and raise the alarm. Both suspects drove off in the taxi, a 10-D registered grey Ford Mondeo, in the direction of the M1.
The taxi driver, a man aged in his mid 30s, was taken to Beaumont Hospital by ambulance where he is continuing to receive treatment. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
It is understood the taxi was driven north along the M1 towards Balbriggan following the incident. It was later located burnt out near Bellewstown, Co Meath.
No arrests have been made to date and gardaí have for witnesses to come forward. They are particularly appealing to anyone who was in the vicinity of the roundabout at the time of the incident to contact them. They are also appealing for information on any sightings of the taxi between 3m and 6.30am.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Swords Garda Station on 01 666 4700, the garda confidential line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.
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Government can’t get anything right in my opinion there not fit to run this country but doing a good job running it into the ground
@Brendan Doherty: Its easy to talk from a distance. Do you think anyone out there could organise the recovery from a Pandemic any better? Take a look around the world, eveyone is struggling with the mammoth size and complexity of getting things like reopening and international travel reopen safely. Or worse, many are just opening without consideration of the consequesces.
@Barry Sorensen: except, we had 19 extra days to prepare when comparing to our EU counterparts…
@Barry Sorensen: Ireland is a laughing stock. You could have predicted this would be a mess. They have consistently made huge errors during this pandemic. And in other countries it is much much better. International travel has not being closed. Different level brain washing in Ireland thinking yer great. Guess who the joke is on
@Brendan Doherty: This has been a constantly evolving, global situation for the last 15 months. You try keeping up.
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: No, we are not.
@Pauline Gallagher: indoor dining open for months in Spain. Imagine creating a two tier society just to allow entry to a restaurant. Ireland is a totalitarian laughing stock run by self serving politicians. And you a brain washed sheep.
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: Ireland isn’t a laughing stock, who is laughing at us? Some perspective is needed here, this is people rushing to go on holiday not exactly a priority. Before anyone says it, yes there are people looking to reunite with family, majority are holiday makers.
Laughing stock is such a pathetic asinine comment
What country in the EU is laughing at Ireland when it comes to EU certs
@Brendan Doherty: it looks like it’s not everyone there believe you have the right to YOUR opinion.
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: Loads of countries require a covid passport for indoor activities.
@Barry Sorensen: nevermind that we had 3 extra weeks to sort this …or that they didn’t have time in advance to sort out the logistics of how they were goun to handle) manage this.
@Ally Mc Culladgh: the brain washed feel obliged to decide what other people’s priorities should be. So so so many brain washed like you. Civil servant by any chance.?.. Most likely
@Sam Harms: loads of countries? Really? Name them
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: “Ireland is a totalitarian laughing stock…”. What does that phrase mean? And please, give me some examples of where this laughing is occurring. I love the way, when people moan on this app, they feel compelled to rush into unthinking exaggeration.
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/indoor-hospitality-around-the-eu-vaccine-certs-ventilation-and-early-last-calls-1.4606765
@Ally Mc Culladgh: spain for one. I’m here friend who works with border control tells me only ones from Europe turning up with no digital certs are Irish. Not a problem as accepting the HSE card
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: At this rate you’ll be lucky to find anyone willing to share a meal with you – let alone to sell them silver. Quit the name-calling.
@Kim Steen Hansen: everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that doesn’t equate to being entitled not to have your opinion challenged.
@Ally Mc Culladgh: the helpline is collapsing with the sheer volume of ‘non urgent’ callers.. Most of whom have issues with name/ other details on the DCC cert, which they inputted themselves on the HSE vaccine portal. Don’t see how the Government or anyone else can be blamed for that?!
@Martina McDonagh: or in my case looking for my cert as am fully vaccinated since May and require it if I want to dine in a restaurant next week
I received second vaccine in march …no digital cert received and no proper way to find out why this happened….looks like il be staying putt for a long road ahead !…enjoy y,er holidays!!
@Niall Cahill: if you had it with your GP check that they registered both of your vaccines with the HSE. I saw someone post on FB this morning that their GP didn’t give details of their second vaccine and that’s why their cert didn’t come
My wife is on the phone now for five hours because they misspelled her name.what a joke
I travel tomorrow. Fully vaccinated since May.
Booked trip as I foolishly believed government assurances that I would have received by cert through the post by yesterday. Cert hasn’t arrived.
Four hours waiting.
@Cookie: There is a transition period from 1st July till August 12th.During this time all EU member states are obliged to accept other form of Covid documentation if other member states hasn’t implemented Covid Passports yet or only started the process.Malta broke EU law by not allowing Irish tourists in on their vaccination cards-2wewks must pass since last dose so this card is a valid proof of vaccination.
@Cookie: if your going anywhere except Malta you should be ok with HSE card. I’m in spain was not a problem
@Anna Dempsey: Thanks so much for this. Was just on for two hours waiting.
@Anna Dempsey: Malta did same last week (or week before) when they refused entry to UK travellers as they incorrectly thought the visitor’s vaccines were not approved by the EU.!
Two observations:
The automated message needs to be updated to reflect this (i.e. If you’re not travelling in the next 10 days don’t phone us now)
More options could possibly help the process. At the moment, “option one” on the helpline is for people who haven’t received their DCC and for those for have received their DCC but there’s an issue with it.
The person who assisted me (when I eventually got through) was very professional. You could hear the chaos in the background – I certainly wouldn’t want to be working there
@Sean Ryan: Hi Sean, just a question, were they able to provide you with a DCC after you phoned them?. I have a flight on friday and im on hold for the last 2 hours..
@Todd: I had received mine via post but my name was misspelled. They rectified it and I’ll receive the new one via email within 5 days.
@Sean Ryan: ahh okay, thanks for the info!
@Todd: FYI it arrived in my inbox overnight
Some people are travelling for essential purposes like visiting a sick relative or friend, give the system time, and stop clogging the phone lines.
Word of advise; be very careful when getting your covid vaccine/registering to get to give your full passport name to the GP or nurse. This is the name that will go on your cert and it has to match your travel documented name!
@Pauline Gallagher: too late for that now
@Piggy: Well i didnt know it was my personal responsibility to tell you this, but it’ll do for the people who havent registered yet
@Pauline Gallagher: Unfortunately there was no joined-up thinking regarding the certs/travel when vaccinating started. At no time were people advised to give their full name as per passport. Otherwise those of us with different travel documents/passport/vaccination cert names, would have known to use the name as per those documents. That simple piece of information would have saved quite a lot of these calls. However, I agree with another comment on this thread, that the helpline should be further broken down into different options. An e-mail address should also be available (not just the one already there), for these matters. The e-mail address would have the added advantage of having a reference number created, once sent to the helpdesk. The helpline set-up is a failure and the biggest failure is that nobody seems to be trying to recitify the issue. Very frustrating and totally unnecessary.
They spelled my name wrong and never sent out my partners (vaxed in January). And they prioritise travel to other economies. Been on hold 3 hours now. Starting to hate jazz music and that annoying robot telling me to wait 90mins
@Piggy: They go by the name thats on your vaccination records, so you have to be sure that whoever is filling out your form whether its the nurse or your GP when youre getting your covid jab to record everything correctly.
@Piggy: I know a few people (Inc myself) whose names were misspelled through no fault of our own (mine was missing a letter). A separate option on the helpline for this would make things easier IMO. It seems to be a common enough problem. I’ll be humming that jazz for an eternity!
What are people supposed to do, my wife got both her jabs in work in a health care setting in January and hasn’t heard back from from revenue or the hse as to where is her cert. Both my son and I are fully vaccinated vaccinated since beginning of the month and we have our certs. We still can go inside and get a coffee in a restaurant yet as she has no cert. Surely you could go online enter your details and print it off from revenue site, keep it simple but that’s, not possible
People are booking trips away without proper credentials in hand is ridiculous, would you pre book a holiday without a passport and hope it comes in time?
@Ally Mc Culladgh: I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people who did that
I recieved second vaccine in march….no certificate recieved and no proper way to find out why ! So trapped here for the long foreseeable future ! Enjoy y,er holidays!!
@Niall Cahill: wow, mine came through 4 days after my 2nd dose, I’d definitely be pushing that one if you need it urgently. I heard there were some delays for people vaccinated via GPs though
Sorry but is this a vital service? That people can go on holidays? How much is this costing in terms of employee hours and administration?
@Bleurgh: oh that’s irrelevant, the entitled masses are clamouring for their certs.
There is a transition period to roll out the vaccine certs in EU from1stJuly till 12thAugust.During this time all EU states must accept also other forms of covid documents as notall states are ready.Malta broke EU law by quaranting Irish Tourists who had HSE vaccine card.Ourgovernment should have clearly mentioned that transition period to us to avoid the helplines being overwhelmed.Vaccine certs are not necessary for travel till12th August.
@Anna Dempsey: how would you validate the vaccine cards? They can easily be produced on a colour printer, lack any individual identifier, and are hand-written, I had to write in the date of my 2nd appointment once I got the text from the HSE
Got second vaccine Friday and cert last night by email .
Waiting on phone now for two hours!! Are u covered with original cert if travelling next week ? If I can’t get through!!
Absolutely ridiculous… Ive tried all day long.. my call gets hung up after 2 hours on hold… It has happened 3 times so far …. Trying again.. does anybody know what the working hours are?
Here’s a good one. My eldest son got his 2nd jab on Monday.He received his cert today via email and I cant’ even get through to anyone to find out why i haven’t received one.
I received someone else’s Digital Cert who has the same name as me. I’m not fully vaccinated yet so was surprised to see it in my email inbox yesterday. Attempted a call to let them know but was on hold for far too long. I just feel bad for the person who actually should have this and hope they have received it too. Will be interesting to see it I receive mine on time once I’m fully vaccinated
Currently 90 minutes in a queue
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