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Updated 4.55pm
TWO TEENAGERS WHO drowned in a Clare quarry yesterday have been named locally as Jack Kenneally and Shay Moloney.
The boys were swimming with a group of friends when they got into difficulty at the disused quarry in Knockanean in Ennis at around 3.30pm yesterday.
It’s understood that one of the boys got into difficulty and the other tried to assist him.
Emergency services were called to the scene and reportedly searched for 40 minutes before finding them.
The teenagers were recovered from the water and taken to University Hospital Limerick but were later pronounced dead.
Both Jack and Shay were both from Ennis. The boys both played rugby with Ennis Rugby Club, which has released a statement paying tribute to them.
Tributes
Richard Murphy, President of Ennis RFC, said: “Shay and Jack were the heartbeat of our successful u15 squad. They were the guys that lead from the front, the guys that carried the fight, the guys that made the difference.
“As well as developing into exciting rugby players, both Jack and Shay were developing into fine young men who were a credit to their family and friends.
As resolute and fearless as they were on the pitch, they were as funny, engaging and inspiring off the pitch. Our club was a better place for having them as part of it and their absence will be keenly felt.
“We would like to acknowledge and thank the support of the broader rugby family at home and abroad in this difficult time.
“We would also like to acknowledge and thank the support of individuals and sports clubs across Ireland who have contacted us with their condolences and sympathies. Words and sentiments matter at times like this and it is all greatly appreciated.
“Our thoughts and actions are now completely focused on supporting the Moloney and Kenneally families over the coming days and weeks.”
The Principal of Ennis Community College, where Jack was a second year student, also released a statement saying the school is deeply saddened by his death.
This is a terrible tragedy for the Kenneally family, our school and our community.
It added: “Jack will be greatly missed by his fellow students and teachers”.
The school has implemented a critical incident management plan and psychologists from the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) and Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB) are supporting and advising teachers on how to support students dealing with this loss.
Speaking on Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 earlier, Deputy Mayor of Ennis Ann Norton said people in the community are shocked by the tragic deaths.
I think everybody in Ennis, and I’d say across the country, is in shock that two 15-year-olds have actually lost their lives.
She added that “it was just devastating to read” posts being left by young people on social media about the tragedy.
With reporting by Órla Ryan
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He must have a bad dose of cabin fever at this stage.
“The message that Manning’s sentence, the longest in U.S. history for the leaking of classified information to the press, sends to the rest of the world is disturbing. It says to the mothers and fathers who have lost children in drone strikes and air attacks, to the families grieving over innocent relatives killed by U.S. forces, that their suffering means nothing to us. It says we will continue to murder and to wage imperial wars that consume hundreds of thousands of civilian lives with no accountability. And it says that as a country we despise those within our midst who have the moral courage to make such crimes public.
There are strict rules now in our American penal colony. If we remain supine, if we permit ourselves to be passively stripped of all political power and voice, if we refuse to resist as we are incrementally reduced to poverty and the natural world is senselessly exploited and destroyed by corporate oligarchs, we will have the dubious freedom to wander among the ruins of the empire, to be diverted by tawdry spectacles and to consume the crass products marketed to us. But if we speak up, if we name what is being done to us and done in our name to others, we will become, like Manning, Julian Assange and Snowden, prey for the vast security and surveillance apparatus. And we will, if we effectively resist, go to prison or be forced to flee.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bradley_manning_and_the_gangster_state_20130821
@Benjy Dempsey:
So it’s okay for China to Grab Tibet, The 1 million murders carried out by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Hugo Chavez’s regime is okay, Cuba’s wars in Africa killing tens of thousands are fine by you.
If any of the above found someone leaking info they would shoot that person.
That’s okay by you too? Your in favour of murder then Wally?
WTF Alan?? That’s some leap of logic there..
Assange on very dodgy ground at the moment.
Do you honestly believe that he doesn’t have a deal wrapped up already with Trump? Complete amnesty for Wikileaks pushing the Democratic hack and DMC anything noteworthy on Trump. Deal is already done. Why else fly out to US and not Sweden?
Julian Assange Not Charged With Anything
Contrary to mainstream media fake news, Julian Assange has never been charged with any sexual offence. His status was that he was wanted for questioning. But the questioning by Swedish police and prosecutors took place exactly two months ago in the Ecuadorean Embassy, at length over several days. So he is no longer wanted for questioning, yet is still not charged. The pretence there is any kind of genuine criminal investigation in progress, already transparently thin, is now in shreds. https://goo.gl/72fU3K
Then why doesn’t he walk out? His list of excuses is becoming very thin.
@Frank’s Cat:
Because he does not have nine lives.
@Pádraig Ó Raghaill: care to quote any of that “mainstream media fake news” that stated that Assange was charged with a sexual assault offence? Thanks!
@Pádraig Ó Raghaill: @Pádraig Ó Raghaill: care to quote any of that “mainstream media fake news” that stated that Assange was charged with a sexual assault offence? Thanks!
care to quote any of that “mainstream media fake news” that stated that Assange was charged with a sexual assault offence? Thanks!
@Pádraig Ó Raghaill: Hi there, I can’t really remember any of the “mainstream media” stating that Assange was actually being charged with any sexual offence, maybe you can provide a few examples, otherwise it would appear somewhat misleading?
@Richard Lentam:
You could take it up with the author instead of trolling. Of course, that would require reading the article. We also know that slow thinking is a very rare quality.
Have a good evening
Not exactly a pardon though is it?
Pardon is an “executive forgiveness of crime”; commutation is an “executive lowering of the penalty.”
A “pardon wipes out the conviction while a commutation leaves the conviction intact but wipes out the punishment.”
Of course it’s not. Did you expect it to be???
Oh I don’t know tony. The way Obama was throwing out pardons to drug dealers. Who knew what he might have done.
@LITTLEONE:
“Not exactly a pardon though is it?”
Well, what did you expect?!
Manning put lives in danger by putting sensitive military information into the public arena. It is likely that innocent people have been killed because of what Manning did, i.e. local people who co-operated with the US and its allies.
As for the “Collateral Murder” video, the Apache helicopter crew honestly believed that the people on the ground were insurgents. Mistakes happen in what Clausewitz referred to as “the fog of war”.
By the way, Manning is still a man. After all, he still has his penis.
@LITTLEONE
Furthermore, Obama didn’t pardon small-time drug-dealers who were serving long sentences in federal prison – he simply commuted their sentences.
@Ciarán Masterson:
You are one of the most odious posters on this website. Your incessant apologism of US militarism and criminality is despicable and yet you have the nerve to lecture Russia and others on human rights when you’re constantly trying to rationalise the innumerable cases of human rights violations from the US.
Chelsea Manning like Snowden is a hero and will be remembered as such by decent people. She has received the support from other heroes like Daniel Ellsberg and Thomas Drake who have stood up to the US governments for its human rights abuses.
There is no evidence that the information Manning released ever led to the harm of any individuals as a US general conceded at Manning’s hearing. Furthermore the people who endangered the lives of US soldiers were the men who launched the illegal war on Iraq in the first place. To pin the blame on the whistleblower who showed a conscience and aimed to expose the appalling acts that were committed is beneath contempt.
It gratifies me just how much embarrassment Wikileaks has caused the US government, and I hope a lot more is to come. Until there is accountability for the US’ actions around the world, Wikileaks and whistleblowing is a vital necessity.
Also, it goes without saying that your transphobia is pathetic. But it’s characteristic of your type.
Assange on very dodgy ground at the moment.
@Louis Jacob:
You can say that again.
@Piotrek Król:
What dodgy ground would that be?
@HelloGoogleTracking!: If he’s going to live up to his word he should get off the ‘dodgy ground’ and get on a flight to the USA.
@MaryLou(ny)McDonald:
What dodgy ground is he on? He is guilty of no crime, and has no charges against him…..
As a online journalist he published information given by confidential sources….this is the basis of all media protections in any free society.
The job of the media is to hold the government accountable to the people who elect them, and inform them about important issues….
He didn’t hack, he didn’t steal classified material, he is the messenger and the online publication that people trust to divulge their information too…..to let people know what is going on, and expose corruption and lies by those in power.
@HelloGoogleTracking!: He said if Manning sentence was commuted he would agree to extradition to USA, he doesn’t have to wait, he can walk out the door of the embassy anytime. Time to sh*t or get off the pot.
@marylou
For an extradition to take place, an extradition request has to be made. This request requires a charge, a legal charge, and it has to be approved by a judge in the country who has custody.
There is no request or charge, so the ball is in the US court….they now have to decide whether they want to politically persecute a journalist…..
Perhaps crazy Clinton might have done it or Obama but they are no longer in power.
So wouldn’t hold your breath
He’ll wait till next week. He exposed the Democrats in the US for all of their hypocrisy and corruption, so he won’t risk going with them still in charge. He’s not really on Trump’s naughty list.
@Richard: Paul Rand of the Republican party just came out and lashed him. Trump lashed the hell out of Snowden previously – so the Republicans overall, equally don’t see any or all of them (Snowden, Manning or Assange) in a favourable light at all.
Well after all he did help the Donald get elected so i am sure he will be seeing more on the inside of trump tower than a prison cell
@techstore Exactly, that’s what it’s all about really; Trump has already signalled his support for Assange, hence the “offer” to go to the US. Theres also an election coming up next month in Ecuador and a new government may not be as supportive of Assange staying in the embassy.
Very little chance of him getting a fair open trial. It will be held behind close doors.
@Unitedpeople:
Hard to see what charges they could bring, attacking the free press is a serious line to cross.
@HelloGoogleTracking!: They sadly will find something. Maybe espionage related. If they can invent a war based on supposed WMD’s existing and lie to congress and many an investigation, it will be no bother for them to sadly further get inventive.
@Unitedpeople:
True that, but the eyes of the world are on them and Assange, the UN has already ruled in his favour.
If this is a witch hunt, and his human rights and civil rights are broken, it will be proof of the corruption within the USA. With worldwide confidence in the credibility of our political leaders and institutions this would only make things worse.
The best course of action for them to take now, is to stop persecuting the messengers, and get their house in order, address the issues raised by whistleblowers, and hold people to account.
Otherwise they will find themselves voted out of power, and have the revulsion of the world worse than it already is…
So he spends years avoiding his extradition to Sweden but offers to be extradited to the US even though there has been no request for extradition to the US? Seems about par for course for this guy.
He wasn’t avoiding extradition to Sweden, he was never charged with anything. He offered several times to go and answer questions if they agreed not to extradite him to the U.S. Do you disagree with his change of mind and offer?
@Linda: I’m not saying whether I agree with his actions or not. But there was definitely a European Arrest Warrant issued as well as an extradition request to Sweden made and there was never any request to extradite him to the US.
@The Bob:
@The Bob:
UN have found twice that Assange should be free to leave the embassy, as there is no case to answer. Assange has agreed multiple times to answer Swedish police questions from the embassy in London, but the game is to get him to Sweden so he can be extradited to the US. The woman in the alleged sexual assault case has gone on record at the UN saying she was ‘railroaded’ by police into the allegations. What he’s actually accused of is having sexual intercourse without a condom, but it was consensual. The woman even lent him train fare the next day as his bank card wasn’t working, hardly the actions of a rape victim. These are trumped up charges to get him to Sweden as there is an extradition treaty between the US & Sweden. Wikileaks has a 100% verifiable record with it’s releases over its 10+ yr history, that’s 100%…like hundreds of thousands of releases & 100% truth…unlike corporate owned media, but then Bob you probably swallow anything you read. As per propaganda usual this article fails to mention the fact war crimes were revealed by Bradley/Chelsea Manning, like torture at Abu Ghraib & the infamous collateral murder video showing the callous murder of unarmed civilians(incl. 2 journalists), but the ‘journalists’ for this article choose to omit all these relevant details. check out the video for yourself Bob & then decide who the bad guys are (type ‘collateral murder’ into youtube), always question the source.
So why do you think he agreed to go as long as they agreed not to extradite him to the U.S.? He also offered to be questioned at the embassy, in that time they traveled to the UK to question 44 other people but refused to question him, even allowing some of the charges to lapse. What is “par for course” with him?
@The Bob: There was a plan in place for his rendition and US Prosecutors were told to expect him. They said he would “fry”.
Looks like his lawyers are backing out
@Dave O Keeffe: no they are not.
Assange ‘standing by’ offer to be extradited to US – lawyer
@LITTLEONE: read the second last paragraph
“Following the White House announcement that Manning will now be released in May, Assange’s legal team did not immediately comment on whether Assange’s promise still stood.”
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: read the headline…. Read the first paragraph..
WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN Assange will stand by his offer to be extradited to the US to face charges there, one of his lawyers has suggested.
What you posted was last night and they had not made comment. So your point is what????
The story has been updated. It’s previous incarnation included comments from Assange’s legal requested that the US drop all attempts at extradition.
@Dave O Keeffe:
He should be fine, publishing leaked documents is not a crime, all free media do this in a free society.
Every newspaper from Washington post to new york times would also need to be prosecuted.
Now that the Obama admin and Clinton are gone, so too the witch hunt will end. Fighting so strongly against revealing illegal activities by elected officials is a disgrace.
Whistleblowing should be encouraged and people held accountable for breaking laws and the constitution, not the brave people putting themselves in danger to reveal the truth to the people
Technically the Patriot Act made the surveillance legal. By the way I think many aspects of the Patriot Act and every aspect of the surveillance are wrong and should never have been allowed. Publishing classified information is illegal.
@Dave O Keeffe: It might have made it legal in the USA – where USA law applies. However, the documents were published also world wide where we have more legal right not to have to kowtow to the dictates of US law.
I absolutely agree but the offense which America would try to bring would be an offense against the state.
He is not a US citizen, and he did not publish within the state as. The US should have no jurisdiction over him.
Also the Patriot act / any other piece of legislation, does not supersede the constitution. Any law that breaks constitution is not legal.
Also it was not legal under the Patriot act to have mass surveillance of American citizens, also it is not legal to break all constitutional limits on invasion of privacy by gov.
They knew it was illegal, that is why they kept it secret.
And hat is why whistleblowers are so important, and are in fact brave heros.
Again, i hope you understand that I’m not actually arguing with you. I’m just pointing out the stated position and mindset of those that seek to prosecute Snowden. Snowden and Manning are heroes in my eyes. The Patriot Act was able to be interpreted in a way that allowed for mass surveillance. Yes, unconstitutional but not struck down by the courts at the time
@Dave O Keeffe: Actions speak louder than words, he should forget all the BS and just walk out, then you’ll know if he’s talking shyte or not.
No, no he shouldn’t.
There is an outstanding European Arrest Warrant for him to be extradited to Sweden for questioning. There is no extradition request in the UK for him to be sent to the USA. If he was genuine he would now go to Sweden for his interviews. He says that the USA will then request his extradition from Sweden. If it does, he can now go. If it doesn’t, we might begin to think that he is a fantasist and narcissist.
@Patrick Brompton:
An arrest warrant without any charges against him, this has been questioned by the UN as being wrong, and would not be tolerated in any other circumstance, he is a victim of political manipulations, and effectively a political prisoner in the west.
If sweden were genuine they would conduct their interviews in the embassy, or would give guarantees that it is not a ploy to allow for extradition to the states.
He has every right to be suspicious, the US has proven to show no regard to international laws, or human rights over the last decade.
drone strikes, extraordinary renditions, invasions, created civil wars, invented evidence, guantanamo etc etc etc
Assange keeps hinting he is willing to let himself be extradited to the US and not with Manning having his sentence commuted he has no excuse not to return to Sweden to face his charges there (if he is as innocent as his supporters claim).
Julian Assange Not Charged With Anything
Contrary to mainstream media fake news, Julian Assange has never been charged with any sexual offence. His status was that he was wanted for questioning. But the questioning by Swedish police and prosecutors took place exactly two months ago in the Ecuadorean Embassy, at length over several days. So he is no longer wanted for questioning, yet is still not charged. The pretence there is any kind of genuine criminal investigation in progress, already transparently thin, is now in shreds. https://goo.gl/72fU3K
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Padraig. The European Arrest Warrant is still active as is the extradition request from Sweden. The US on the other hand have laid no charges against Assange nor have they made any extradition request for him from any country. Now if it was the case that Sweden no longer wanted Assange back in Sweden he then would have no valid excuse to remain in the Ecuadorian Embassy. Let us not forget he was free on Bail in the UK for one year prior to him jumping Bail and hiding in the Embassy. And in all that time the US made zero effort to have him extradited.
@Mick Jordan:
Can you back up your bluster re the warrant
@Pádraig Ó Raghaill: Then why if the Warrant is no longer valid is Assange still seeking refuge from it? Can you answer that. He is not wanted by US authorities and to keep repeating his paranoid accusation that the US is just waiting for him to leave the Embassy so they can get him just doesn’t fly. The fact is he is still wanted by the UK court for jumping bail and by the Swedish Authorities. The US has not indicted him on any charge nor has request any country extradite him.
@Mick Jordan:
So the burden of proof failed you mick. Thought as much.
You still haven’t answered the question why he is still hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
@Mick
Because he is obviously being politically persecuted, it stinks to high heaven.
Why is it you think the UL has spent millions keeping armed police presence in front of the embassy for years? For a allegation in Sweden that had no charge, and they only wish to question him? That is how the UK behaves when someone is wanted for questions…..of course not.
Also Sweden refuse to agree to simple conditions…why? Both the UK and Sweden are refusing to follow a UN judgement against them, that they are illegally detaining him.
All for a no charge allegation in Sweden ? Are you stupid?
They want to get him to their US masters who have ordered them to extradite him. The bloodthirsty Obama admin wanted to make an example….so no one else would dare tell the truth against their interests again.
What utter rubbish. He is a paranoid narcissist. The reason the UK has Police watching the Embassy is simple. He is a Bail jumper and they know exactly where he is. Or maybe you believe he is above the law.
He’s having a sex change first.
I would imagine that the Ecuadorian embassy will be glad to see the back of him. Five years back rent and full board in London will be a hefty price to pay.
It’s not at the porogative of the US. The second he puts one foot out that door the brits are obliged to extradite him.
Not according to the UN
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