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Updated at 2.30pm
GARDAÍ IN LISTOWEL are investigating all of the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in his 70s, following a collision involving a car and a teleporter vehicle.
The incident occurred in Ratoo, Ballyduff, Co Kerry.
Gardaí were called to the scene of the collision at 8.45am this morning.
The driver of the car, a man in his 70s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the teleporter was not injured.
The Garda Technical Bureau and the State Pathologist have been requested to attend the scene.
Results of their examinations will dictate whether investigators launch a formal murder probe.
A man in his 60s has been arrested by gardaí, and is currently detained under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, according to a statement from the force issued this morning.
Anyone with information relating to the incident is asked to contact Listowel Garda Station on 068 50820 or the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111.
Ballyduff is located around 16km to the west of Listowel, in the north of Co Kerry.
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Just goes to show you can’t tax your way out of a recession. I’ll bet the figures will be even lower next time around.
I think we’ve gone beyond recession at this stage! Ireland’s beyond help. If it were an animal, the vet would’ve been sent for some time ago!!
The last bunch of Gobshites didn’t learn, you would think that these bunch of Gobshites would have learnt from the last bunch of Gobshites.
Alas, monkey see monkey do! Same gobshites different logo!
The well is dry Noonan. Time to tell merkle to fuck off.
They won’t be patting each other on the back when the civil unrest begins. And it won’t be long now before it begins. A budget away at most.
The way I feel at the moment that civil unrest could be closer than you think!
Yep, I can daily now sense trouble brewing.
More so than last year already.
Maybe the public is finally going to get up and take to the streets in what I hope will be PEACEFUL protest a lot more!
Ye see, the great thing about the Irish is we do nothing for a while.
Sure, we moan and grunt about whats going on but we let it happen in the great subtle hidden hope that it’ll all be fixed.
Though, when the tiger does get poked enough, it’ll not just eat the kids hand but burst outta the cage and eat his family too. Gruesome? It should be.
VAT will be even lower in two or three months time with the insane increase…
Your head would be done in with the weather and news here.
The government will need to make up the missing 2.5%. I reckon it should be docked from their wages and pensions
The deficit would have been less (by 3million) if the gov hadn’t secretly voted to UP their own budget from 14 to 17million for their new name plates, office chairs or whatever the hell they spent it on.
Looks like he’s having a dump in that pic!
Serious squeeze going on there…
More than likely he’s hiding his German Bonds somewhere we can’t find them.
the only thing he is squeezing is the citizens of ireland.
Yeah, he’s shitting all over us!
Great idea to increase the VAT, so takings will even be less next year, why do we have to pay these Idiots and their so called Advisers so much money to make a total cock of the country.
Did anyone in the dept of finance ever hear of the law of diminishing returns?
They do but don’t you know these laws don’t apply to Ireland remember the “soft landing”.Anyway it’ll be ok Enda has a new plan just tax and charge citizens to breaking point and then wonder why people are rioting.
And tax us some more when we don’t… Meanwhile forget about getting extra income by introducing a third tax band so they don’t have to make as many cuts on the vulnerable. He doesn’t want to affect those that might vote FG again.
Noon get lost and dont come back you know your screwed just like you screwed us.
If you look close at the pic I think you can see the top of Enda kennys head….
No news item on the savage increases on health insurance announced today, did Enda tell the journal not to report it?
That’s because it’s not a new development today. We covered the current hikes previously as well as the tax credit for older customers.
Oh Lord. Time to renew my dual citizenship I think. We are screwed. I predict an emergency budget before August because we have not quite hit the bottom yet.
Agreed !!! They will miss next quarter and 2nd quarter.We will have emergency budget in summer when most of the will be blinded by the Joxer army sham show in Poland.It won’t work it’s getting worse bigger numbers on trollies dole queues airport departure terminals.Yet we persist with this “is feader linn ” bullshit foisted up us when Obama was in town as Tim Guidner was telling the ECB the Irish can’t be let default as American reinsurance companies were holding the risk.
Thanks Dave.
A simple but visionary comment.
Keep it ip
Gavan, you are wrong. The increase announced today is a new one.
Fair enough. Will look into it now.
Same headline could also read – ‘tax take rises by 7%’ – or ‘deficit target for 2011 reached’ – there’s a lot of ways to look at this one – I’m just amazed how quickly everything has suddenly become Enda Kenny’s fault!
Not Endas fault last March but when he continues the same bullshit as the previous lot it becomes his to own as well.He wrote the December budget not FF he had choices but chose the EU and the banks over the Irish people.
Everything became Enda Kenny’s fault when he lied to the electorate to get elected.
1) Create employment. There has been no reduction in dole queues.
2) “Politics of cronyism must end” 25 TDs have hired their relatives.
3) Cut 30,000 public sector jobs without forced redundancies or frontline cuts. Lies, Lies and more lies.
4) ” Rogue bankers brought to justice” No one brought to court yet !
5) “Everyone must bear the pain ” Yet he breaks ceiling caps on pay for his friends.
Kenny has lost the confidence of his supporters. I along with thousands of others will not vote for them again. Promise everything to get elected and deliver absolutely nothing.
@Caitriona, did you really think that the country’s problems were going to be solved within ten minutes of the general election? Yes people are incredibly frustrated and at the end of their tether, but no claim was ever made that it’d all be grand by the end of the year!
It takes time to create jobs, they don’t just appear out of thin air – in any case, 6,000 jobs have been created in the hospitality industry since the announcement of the lower VAT rate cut during the summer. With regards the public sector job cuts, neither FG or the Labour party ever for one second claimed that there would be no reduction in public sector numbers.
The current coalition is boxed in by the Troika – You knew that when you went to the polls, so why did you think it would be any different in reality? Neither Labour nor FG deceived the electorate, people like you have fabricated half-truths and nonsense to suggest this. Yes thinks really suck, but blaming the new guy won’t make it all go away.
There is a greater evil in this country that lurks behind the corner at all times that goes by the name of Fianna Fáil, if.
Conor, No I didnt expect things to be better after 10 minutes and never insinuated I did, but after 10 months I along with thousands of others expected improvements. If you read my comment properly before launching into your FG PR shite you would read , i never said FG said there would be no cuts to public service jobs.
FG promised cuts of 30,000 without forced redundancies or frontline cuts. Thats what they promised. The only cuts in the last 10 months have been to frontline services.
I take great exception to your comment and let me assure you I do not fabricate. I am sitting here with lots of FG election flyers that I was stupid enough to put through letterboxes. Currently the only evil I see are the bunch of teachers now running the country, none of whom have ever created a job or have the ability to ever create a job.
Conor. The only difference between FF and FG is the colour of their shirts. Sorry but true. He said, she said!!! Silly civil war pendulum swing. I’m bored of it. Fuming with Labour propping up Enda kenny. Wtf
I’m getting my coat Conor. If you’re FG and part of the club that fooled caitriona to canvass for ye, god help you. Hell hath no fury and all that…
I’m not FG myself, if it’s at all relevant I’m a fully-paid up member of the Labour party. Nevertheless, I’m getting quite tired of listening to people who voted either FG or Labour in the general election claiming that ‘promises have been broken’, or that they were misled by the two parties. Neither made any secret of the policies that they intended to follow or claimed that there would be dramatic improvements in the short-term.
Now we have people ranting and raving about the household charge, the same people who agree that the tax base isn’t broad enough and that stamp duties are unsustainable and yet they oppose moves towards more sustainable tax policies. Sometimes I despair of this country, their lack of loyalty and faith.
I look forward to Caitriona going up for the local elections on behalf of Fianna Fáíl in 2014.
Sorry Conor. You should change your shirt for your profile pic. Only joking! Always voted labour myself and feeling a bit let down tbh. I just console myself that budget would have been worse if FG had free reign but even that consolation is wearing thin atm. It’s a tough road being a labour supporter especially when they forget their party’s ethos. My sympathies.
Connor looks like you wouldn’t have to renew your membership in the Labour party after the next election as they told enough lies to put them in the same place as the Green Party.Jesus but you are a self deluding muppet.
You have to use the link by using the reply button Norman. Some people might appreciate a reply in their emails. Not being smart. :-)
Without getting into all the problems that do currently exist in Ireland, which we have all spent most of our time discussing and learning about, one of the main advantages of Ireland’s current predicament, which we will in time significantly recover from, is re-building our community structures and supporting each other! This in turn eventually leads to increased productivity and positive spending, business growth(farming etc…). 3 national resources we have are our seas, sea-bed, land and our education establishment. These cost money to run but can be used to generate a whole lot more when we export the products in time…. One thing we have to believe is that in time we will recover but grasping a chance to improve our nation is the best we can focus on right now, developing our community and supporting each other through these hard times will strengthen us in coming years and will pave a more positive future society for our children. We can focus on solving our inherent political legal banking healthcare financial social problems etc…in this time and with this community spirit. Perhaps my experience was just unfortunate but having returned to Ireland for 3 years in 2008 after having lived in a few places abroad, this negativity in Ireland together with, let’s face it, an insufferable amount of begrudgery, is the main difference I saw between us and countries with a better and more equal quality of life for all it’s inhabitants …. This is something I think we could easily improve on in Ireland. Our Celtic tiger capitalist days are no longer, we should consider more social and equality based methods than we are at present…. Anyhow, that’s my 10c, I’m no expert and I might be wrong but it’s my synopsis after escaping abroad again recent,y to happier times again…I’d love to cone back to that place some day, but not until things change unfortunately…rant over!;)
Sadly people like you don’t go into politics in this country,only self serving scumbags are presented to us as our prespective leaders,but hey good luck in whatever you do see you in ten years.
The black and grey market would easily make up the balance. It’s rampant across all industries. As a sme owner myself, I pay my taxes and do my returns yet the guy next to me puts the cash straight into his pocket, I ask him sometimes, why doesn’t he pay taxes and he says “why should I have to pay back the banks mistakes”
I continually read these mixed comments, predominantly negative and who can blame them? The thing I wonder about, and would love to hear from the experts out there is if the Irish economy is salvagable without some kind of default scenario?
I’m not an expert but I can tell you a default is inevitable.
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