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THE FAMILY OF Dublin grandfather Paddy Hansard, who was brutally attacked outside his home last month, are to make a TV appeal for information.
The 73-year-old’s family will appear on RTÉ’s Crimecall tonight and said of their father that they “don’t think they will ever get that man back”.
Hansard had been having a drink with his partner June in the Clonliffe House before heading home in the early hours of 17 August. A man with a weapon and wearing a mask was waiting for him and he was seriously assaulted.
His partner June says that she thought he was dead and that “he’s a very strong man to survive this”.
What I saw that night when I was walking in frightened the life out of me. I thought he was was dead.
Hansard remains in hospital with significant brain damage that doctors have said is life-changing.
He is a highly respected member of the Ballybough community and a candlelit vigil was held in Dublin’s north inner city a week after the attack for people to pray and speak about Paddy.
In an appeal for information on what happened, Paddy Hansard’s brother Paul tells Crimecall:
Paddy should have been safe going to the pub, coming back home…It’s shattered the peace of our family. Our family are devastated.
“If anyone has any information, big or small, you need to get that information to the guards,” he adds.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Mountjoy Garda Station or the Garda Confidential line on 1800 666 111.
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There is an adjoining report that Harris states that ‘you can’t pitch a tent anywhere you want’.
I have a question: when these tents are distributed, are those they are given to told where they can be pitched?
I have another: is there anywhere where they can be pitched that is acceptable to the government?
And who is paying for these tents anyway?
The government, via ‘charities’, on behalf of the taxpayer?
The government, which then destroys those tents within hours of distributing them?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: they are pitched up in Milltown now making camp.
@Sean Money: @Sean Money: Do you know if there is anywhere these can be pitched that is acceptable to the authorities?
If not, then why are these being distributed?
Are our government departments really *that* disfunctional?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: exactly they are in cahoots with the tent makers, millions spent on tents now
See this ffg governments will never and I mean never stop pollution of everything for profit ,
@Robert Halvey: Bet they sell the fish too!!
Slurry, I suppose. Farmers, I suppose.
The reason it was only reported yesterday is because nobody works the weekend
I don’t see pike on the list. Probably being killed off by the angling clubs. They kill pike all over Ireland seemingly with the blessing of the IFI. Taking out the predators leaves weak and sick fish to spawn. In turn making the fish sizes smaller in the rivers. You don’t take a predator out of a habitat
@Michael o Dwyer: it’s not the clubs killing them off, it’s the international fishing folk who clean out the rivers and lakes of every fish they get their hands on, no matter the size . They are a plague
@Michael o Dwyer: It’s more likely that it’s just a narrower river that doesnt contain pike. Of which there are many around the country
Pharmaceutical waste !
@sakk sa: irish water chemical leak at the water plant, either chlorine or fluoride
Hopefully the carcasses can be salvaged for food or even pet animal feed.
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