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Six migrants found in the back of a refrigeration truck in Laois

All six were brought to hospital as a precaution and initial reports are that all are well.

SIX MIGRANTS INCLUDING a child have been found in a truck on the side of the road in Laois.

The group was found at 4.40pm yesterday when a refrigeration truck was searched by gardaí at Stradbally. It’s understood the truck driver alerted gardaí to noises coming from his truck.

When searched, gardaí found six foreign nationals on board – three males, two females and a child.

All six were brought to hospital as a precaution and initial reports are that all are well.

A Garda team from Rosslare Port will interview the detainees at Portlaoise Garda Station at a later stage.

Gardaí say that no further information is available at this stage.

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    Mute Luke Lee
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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:56 AM

    In other news, when the coroner turned his back for 2 minutes Epstein cremated himself.

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    Mute Paul Furey
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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:27 AM

    @Luke Lee: And his last words were : “But I don’t want to commit suicide……”

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    Aug 15th 2019, 10:11 AM

    @Luke Lee: comment of the day

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    Mute Ellie Geary
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    Aug 15th 2019, 10:11 AM

    @Luke Lee: comment of the day

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    Mute Cupid Stunt
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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:53 AM

    The plot thickens…dun dun dun. I’d say NETLFIX are only beside themselves.

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    Mute James Wallace
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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:35 AM

    @Cupid Stunt: it would be hard to hang yourself without breaking bones in your neck, to be honest. It doesnt really indicate that someone else was involved. I’m not saying they weren’t, but..

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    Mute Peter Cavey
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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:51 AM

    @Cupid Stunt: it won’t be Netflix, it will be Michael Moore.. he hates the super elite and the damage they can do to the average person.

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    Mute Will
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    Aug 15th 2019, 10:01 AM

    @James Wallace: “more common in victims of homicide by strangulation.”

    They wouldn’t nail their colours to the mast but they seem to be implying that there’s a strong possibility that Epstein was strangled.
    The investigation is now looking at CCTV to see if anyone entered the cell in the lead up to Epstein’s death, a toxicology report to see if the man was drugged and are talking to all guards who were on duty that day.
    They are certainly not convinced that this was a suicide.

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    Mute Mártan Ó Conghaile
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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:24 PM

    @Cupid Stunt: Netflix won’t touch this. Netflix have a left wing bias, it’s blatant by what stories they do make documentaries about and what they don’t. I’ve been waiting for the Hollywood pedophile scandal to merit a Netflix documentary, Bryan Singer, Kevin Spacey. But, uh oh! They’re Democrats! So, no-go!

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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:53 PM

    @Mártan Ó Conghaile: wouldn’t they have to wait for convictions so that they wouldn’t be sued out of existence?

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    Aug 15th 2019, 3:18 PM

    @James Wallace: when hanging yourself off a bunk bed its less likely to break bones as you are basically choking yourself to death rather than actually being strung up by the neck

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    Mute Dave O'Keeffe
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    Aug 15th 2019, 3:23 PM

    @D H: unless you jump.

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    Mute Pat Patovic
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    Aug 16th 2019, 7:21 AM

    @Peter Cavey: Nope. Moore is the elite. He transitioned quite a while ago.

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    Mute Vote4Pedro
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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:15 AM

    Meanwhile the family of the coroner are devastated that he passed away in a car crash… next week

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    Mute Conrad Shields
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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:36 AM

    @Vote4Pedro: She! Joke worked better with the guards. Coroner not a threat to anyone, but if guards involved then they are.

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    Mute Sorcha Hendry instagram: @SorchaHendry86
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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:15 AM

    I’m just sorry his victims will never really get justice

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:28 AM

    @SorchaHendry86: she is taking out a civil case against his estate. It is also likely that criminal action will be taken against his co-conspirators.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:48 AM

    @Sorcha Hendry instagram: @SorchaHendry86: firstly there is no conviction, so I do not know how you can take a civil action case against a dead man.

    I’m going to cut to the chase here. Why would underage girls willingly go to a billionaires home for money knowing that they would be performing massages naked. I don’t buy the sex trafficking charges. But I would say he is guilty of sexual exploitation of minors, and deserves to be punished. I think the lure of money brought them there in the first place and it’s the lure of money and big payouts that are bring them to the courts. It smells of child prostitution in the West by rich by powerful rich men. I do not for a second think he should be be carrying the can here for the others, just indict them and name them, and let’s move on from Epstein.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:55 AM

    @Paul O’Sullivan: People are ofter successfully sued in civil court without a finding of criminal guilt. Why don’t you buy the sex trafficking charges? What’s weird to me is your the girls knew what they were getting into bit, seems more than a little bit unfair.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:52 AM

    @Sorcha Hendry instagram: @SorchaHendry86: didn’t they find loads of computers and flash drives? Hopefully there is something dodgy on those that can implicate some of these evil people.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:25 AM

    The jail (Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York or MCC) was built to accommodate 474 inmates but held 763 prisoners at the time of Epstein’s death.

    There’s a, staffing Crisis. Here’s staffing levels in federal prisons: https://i.imgur.com/byvQEFr.jpg, the drop in staff since 2017 is due to Government hiring freeze over disagreements involving the funding of the southern border wall, staff are retiring and quitting, no one is, replacing them.

    There’s only one psychiatrist for more than 500 prisoners diagnosed severe mental illnesses in New York’s two federal jails, he/she works between MCC and Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn (MDC Brooklyn). This single overworked psychiats would have briefly seen Epstein after his first suicide attemp.

    Due to staff shortages, since early 2018 the prison wings on MCC are staffed by only two guards. Indeed, there were only two guards on duty the morning Epstein was found dead.

    One of the two guards was working a fifth straight day of overtime and the other was working mandatory overtime. Also, only one of the two guards, on 9 South where Epstein was held, was a prison guard. Officials refused to say what the other guard’s usual duties were. However in 2018, the New York Times reported that Teachers and Sectaries were filling in for prison guards at MCC.

    In February 2018, a British court ruled against extraditing accused hacker Lauri Love – who is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome – to the US, on the grounds that he might commit suicide at MCC due to the dreadful conditions there.

    The heating failed in MDC Brooklyn in 2018 during a severe cold snap, this attests to the chronic underfunding of MDC, Brooklyn and MCC, MMC also has frequent complaints about mice and rats in prisoner’s cells, it has been described as a nightmare gulag, tougher than Guantánamo Bay.

    “The segregated units are horrifying and inhumane,” said David E. Patton, the executive director of Federal Defenders of New York, who wrote by email.“If you wanted to intentionally design a place to drive people mad, you’d be hard pressed to do better.”

    I don’t think he was attacked and killed, however I think it is possible they knew that suicide was a likeky and an intended outcome.

    On the other hand he was always going to end up in MCC because he was living in New York, so they didn’t choose the worst prison. Bernie Madhoff, who’s mansion was a few blocks away from Epstein’s, was also imprisoned in MCC.

    So on the other hand…

    “Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory” – Bernard Ingham.

    News Articles:

    Prisoners Endure A Nightmare ‘Gulag’ In Lower Manhattan, Hidden In Plain Sight – 2018 article

    Jeffrey Epstein jail ‘a gulag’ in lower Manhattan

    Manhattan Jail That Holds El Chapo Is Called Tougher Than Guantánamo Bay – 2017 article

    Safety Concerns Grow as Inmates Are Guarded by Teachers and Secretaries – 2018 article

    In Short-Staffed Jail, Epstein Was Left Alone for Hours; Guard Was Substitute

    Lauri Love would face ‘medieval’ conditions in US prison if extradited over hacking charges – 2017 article

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    Mute Paul O'Sullivan
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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:36 AM

    @David Jordan: thanks for sharing, in other words the prison is houses inmates in inhumane conditions.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:49 AM

    @Paul O’Sullivan: yes, due to chronic underfunding and a hiring freeze

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:10 AM

    @David Jordan: It’s not even a prison, it’s a jail. Only for people awaiting trial or sentencing. And pity about them if conditions are not worthy!

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:34 AM

    @Burn_the_Witch: you’ve just said that it’s not for the guilty then said those that are there deserve it!

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:45 AM

    @Dave O’Keeffe: Yes I did, didnt I. Would you like me to take it back?

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:13 AM

    @Burn_the_Witch: well in my opinion no person should be treated inhumanely in a prison. It is bad enough that a person is in prison that is the punishment in itself to be kept away from society. A prison is a building that houses prisoners it’s not a building to deprive a person of their sanity and to treat them inhumanely.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:24 AM

    @Paul O’Sullivan: Well aren’t you a saint. Maybe if this guy and his ilk had their dirty little way with your daughter you might feel otherwise. Child abusers are the lowest form of life there is and sympathizers like you who pity them being in prison are part of the problem. How you can even say that on here is beyond me. What do you want, a letter of apology and a fine and off he goes?

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:33 AM

    @David Jordan: Sorry can you repeat that We all fell asleep with your cut n paste story

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:38 AM

    @Burn_the_Witch: There is a lot of people that are in American jails whom cannot afford to pay the bail or who are waiting to be put into a psychiatric hospital.Why do you want those people to suffer in appalling conditions,Burns?

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:39 AM

    @Conor V: Another new account pops up to help out another new account.That is soooo adorable.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:48 AM

    @Burn_the_Witch: I am not just saying in Epstein’s case I am saying it for all prisoners.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:53 AM

    @Tom Doyle: So we should make it like a play centre for adults because there are a few innocents? Don’t think so. I see your point but incarceration is a necessity and it’s never going to be a nice experience. In fact there should be a special wing just for the sex criminals where they are treated like the people they are.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:58 AM

    @Paul O’Sullivan: well this is about Epstein, so how do you think he should be treated?

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:59 AM

    @Burn_the_Witch: no, you said every single person in there is innocent as they are awaiting trial. Epstein has been convicted of previously and got off very lightly, he was long overdue punishment.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:03 PM

    @Burn_the_Witch: in response to how Epstein should be treated. Well 3 meals a day, an hour’s exercise , a bed to sleep on..access to a shower one phone call and possibly s book to read and night or a tv. How would you treat him ?

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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:13 PM

    @David Jordan: Sounds exactly like what prison should be like.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:13 PM

    @David Jordan: Sounds exactly like what a prison is meant to be like.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:16 PM

    @Burn_the_Witch: FYI I don’t sympathise with sex offenders I believe in justice, justice for for all. That’s Victim, Survivor and Aggressor. I’ll informed people like you only sink to the level of the aggressor in my eyes.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:43 PM

    @David Jordan: He attempted suicide, but was later brought off suicide watch less than a week later. Why? BOTH guards tasked with watching him fell asleep. BOTH? I frequently work overtime, I think it’s convenient that BOTH fell asleep and therefore didn’t witness “the suicide”. Now broken bones in his neck, indicative of strangulation. Not hard then to place twisted sheets around his neck, hey presto, a noose.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 1:46 PM

    @Mártan Ó Conghaile: technically only one of them was a guard and he was doing overtime for the fifth day straight. It’s totally unacceptable and does need to be investigated.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:50 AM

    Just dig a hole for him and let’s move on.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:23 AM

    @Bad Dog: let’s not

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    Mute jacquoranda
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    Aug 15th 2019, 10:59 AM

    Ghislaine Maxwell has Jeffrey’s 100-page little black book of contacts. I would be very worried if I was her.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:47 AM

    @jacquoranda: Could already be dead as nobody knows where she is

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    Aug 15th 2019, 12:54 PM

    @jacquoranda: Mick Jagger and Eddie Irvine have been named….

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    Aug 15th 2019, 1:54 PM

    @Padraig Carroll: the question is by who

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    Aug 15th 2019, 4:59 PM

    @jacquoranda: her suicide is next week too….

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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:47 AM

    No idea who this guy is, nor have I ever heard of him.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:48 AM

    @Dan Skelton: He’s probably never heard of you either

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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:49 AM

    @Dan Skelton: Well said Bill !

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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:50 AM

    @Dan Skelton: I’d say there’s lots of things of haven’t heard of.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:55 AM

    @Dan Skelton: a lot of high power people are saying the same exact thing

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    Aug 15th 2019, 7:55 AM

    @Dan Skelton: Put the google app beside your Journal app.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:10 AM

    @Dan Skelton: these two shocking revelations seem somehow connected.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:15 AM

    @Dan Skelton: Seems to be a lot of that going around at the moment.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:55 AM

    @pethelhug: Google!? The hell is that!? Stupid name!

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    Aug 15th 2019, 8:41 AM

    Now that’s a proper prison. I do feel for the employees though, who have to put up with tough working conditions.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:06 AM

    @Thewestisbest: prisons dont work except to offer the population an element of ‘they are off the streets’. But they are a major failure when it comes to correcting behaviour. Recidivism is huge (over 75% here I think) and prisons are a school for criminals. Thus we send people to prison (correctional facilities in the US) to correct anti-social and criminal behaviour and end up teaching those who pass through them to be more antisocial and better criminals. Making the prisons ‘tougher’ is degrading and inhumane and makes us as a society no better than the criminals.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 9:30 AM

    @Thewestisbest: By their own standards it decidedly isn’t a proper prison

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    Aug 15th 2019, 1:53 PM

    @Thewestisbest: it’s a pre-trial holding facility therefore nobody there has been convicted, they just haven’t posted, or have been denied, bail.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:42 AM

    Lovely Day today I hope we get hot weather for a week

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:34 AM

    Then died in a tragic car accident next week…

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    Aug 15th 2019, 11:37 AM

    Ray Donovan did it

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    Aug 15th 2019, 10:21 AM

    There’s a report that someone was seen on a grassy knoll with a rope and a WW2 type rope launcher, he looked like a Mob type, almost certainly a Made Man, FBI have picked up some info on a wire tap, he may have been disappeared with approval from the Don and he’s now sleeping with the fishes.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 10:38 AM

    I Jjjtiyooi

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    Aug 16th 2019, 12:06 AM

    Wonder what kinda journey he will be on now…death always has the last say and is always the final decider.
    No one can be with him at the end as he goes on his second journey, it’s something he will have to face on his own without the help of money or the powerful.

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    Aug 15th 2019, 10:25 PM

    Looking more and more like murder then, must be a lot of pedos out there scared stiff in politics, royalty and in show business…

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    Aug 16th 2019, 7:44 AM

    Never knew Hillary did BJJ

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