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IRISH RAIL HAS condemned an incident on a Limerick train where a woman told a man to “go away and fuck off back to India”.
Footage of the incident, which happened on Sunday on a train from Colbert Station to Limerick Junction, shows the woman verbally abusing the man, telling him: “Speak fucking English when you’re in fucking Ireland, we don’t speak fucking Indian when we’re in fucking India.”
The row appears to have started over the man leaving his bag on a seat.
Iarnród Éireann said it was alerted to the incident by a customer via Twitter.
In a statement, the company said: “It is a shocking and disgraceful incident – any form of abuse of customers is intolerable, particularly discriminatory abuse.
“We have contacted the gardaí both in Limerick and in the Community, Diversity and Integration Unit in Harcourt Street, and have asked the customer to contact the gardaí also, particularly if they have any other footage.
The incident will have been deeply upsetting to those who were subject to abuse and those who witnessed it, and we are grateful to the customer who reported it to us and raised awareness of it.
Irish Rail added that it works with the Immigrant Council of Ireland to “counteract racist abuse and encourage reporting of any instances of abuse suffered by customers or employees”.
‘Harrowing footage’
Brian Killoran, CEO of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, also criticised the incident.
It is harrowing watching this footage of people being aggressively abused because of their ethnic identity. Every year the Immigrant Council of Ireland runs an anti-racism campaign alongside Transport for Ireland encouraging victims and witnesses of racism on public transport to report all incidents.
“Sadly we know from this experience racial abuse on public transport is an issue, with victims often being transport staff themselves. Evidence of this nature highlights the need for effective hate crime laws to more robustly tackle such unacceptable behaviour and work towards eradicating it from our society,” Killoran said.
Gardaí confirmed they are investigating the incident and asked anyone with information to contact Henry Street Garda Station in Limerick.
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I imagine the equivalent of a paper jam on a 3D printer must be horrendous
Hehehe comment of the day. ..
Phenomenal business idea.
1: Buy 3D printer
2: Print out more 3D printers and sell them.
Sounds like the machines can now repoduce. *screams* THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD I TELLS YA!!!!
Would probably still be better quality than the majority of house built in this country during the Celtic tiger years.
This is actually exciting news in terms of construction technology.
Spot on.
This system would save us 100′s of millions and solve the housing “crisis” without having to fatten up crony NAMA builders pocket’s.
3d printing is going to have a massive impact on the world we live in. This technology will make many existing jobs redundant in the future.
It will definitely be a game changer it becomes practical anyway
Can’t wait
*bit torrents new conservatory
Imagine what this technology could do in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico or any country with a huge slum problem. Also the impact it could have in disaster zones, if houses like this could be built in 24 hrs in Haiti, New Orleans and other areas soon after the disasters there I’m pretty sure it would have made a huge difference to those people affected.
I’m no expert, but the article said each home cost $4800. Seems much cheaper than traditional building.
I just can’t get my head around 3d printing. I try , but It’s beyond me . I need to be led to a darkened room and allowed to sit down when I try to understand it. Am I alone? But I’m just so happy that some amazing people in the world have developed this technology.
‘Howiya Martin. Come here to me, am lookin’ for one of them 3D 24-Hour houses. Can ya do anythin’ for me?’
‘No problem Mick. I’ll tell ya what, I started one this morning but I should have her done by the end of June. How would then suit ya?’
‘The finest Martin. Take her easy. And if she comes easy take her home. Hah?! Go on’.
1500 square metres of house for $4800?
That’s assuming a single story, possibly double that for not much more.
That would solve the housing crisis here.
And just imagine what humanity could spend their resources on..
Could you not just live in a 3D printer that size
That’s my kind of thinking symbolism!
Just how good are hey at standing up to gale force winds, heavy rain, snow etc the sort of weather we get here. Does seem that it might be an answer to housing problems world wide.
Concrete built is better built… ;)
For $4800 you could build a new house every year and still be better off financially. Concrete is an expensive, slow and outdated way to build houses.
Concrete is cheap, the thousands of man hours required to turn it in to a house aren’t.
All good untill hurricane force winds hit it
You seem to know a lot about the physics behind the structural strength of these houses. Can you elaborate on what you know in terms of the houses structural inability to stand up to Gale force winds?
I know they said the building industry said the same about Timber frame houses in the 1980′s. But they were proven wrong.
in fairness cal most timber frame houses in Ireland have a block/brick outer leaf…
The Chinese,a great bunch of lads
Maybe the next invention would be a plastic 3D cooker to go with the house – doh!
Excuse my ignorance but is it normal breathing in plastic? Chinese workers gave died or became ill due to work conditions concerning plastics
You don’t breath it; its a house, you live in it.
Or, you’d suffocate fairly quickly if you stopped breathing in the house.
Maybe build a 3D oxigen mask
But isn’t the problem we have is that there are so many unused houses
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