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GARDAÍ IN CO. Meath are seeking the public’s help in tracing the whereabouts of a local 17-year-old girl.
Andrada Moldovan is missing from her home in Navan and was last seen last on Wednesday 9 October at 1.30 pm.
The teenager is a Romanian national and is described as having a thin build and being 5’9 in height. She has blue eyes and long curly blonde hair.
When last seen, Andrada was wearing a pink/peach jacket, blue jeans and white runners. She was also carrying a black handbag.
Gardaí are asking anyone who has seen the teenager or who can assist in locating her to contact Navan Garda Station or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.
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I’m definetely not a fan of The Green Party but he seems to be one of the only ones with a bit of dignity.
I actually had the pleasure of engaging him in conversation at my front door one day, and although I don’t necessarily agree with a lot of his political thinking, I found him to be a particularly decent human being. The very fact that he resigned the leadership of his party because of his principles regarding FF and Bertie Ahern speaks volumes. We could do a lot worse than Trevor Sergeant.
Met him a few times before, a very genuine guy. Resigned the party leadership when they went into power with FF, he stuck to his word which is a rare thing amongst our politicians
Never forget the wasters kept Fianna Fáil in power .
Him and his party got us Irish to pay a carbon tax to travel and heat our homes
While India and China open 4 coal powered power stations every week
see this link
http://www.thegwpf.org/china-india-building-4-coal-power-plants-week/
you don’t understand the issue
All cost increased under Sargent Rule once he increased fuel prices, Never again NEVER.
http://www.cartaxpetition.net/
@ one-off Ireland
Oh I understand the issue alright, don’t you worry about that!
@theirishbrain I like the idea of “CO2 Tax: based on fuel consumption per annum (CO2 emissions per Km x Kilometers per annum recorded at NCT tests x tax rate).”
However, surely it would cost rural dwellers more and therefore would be politically difficult to implement. Rural vehicle mileage is much higher than urban? or would you have different tax bands based on geography?
Martin you just posted a link to the Global Warming Policy Foundation who will not reveal its funding sources. Lord Lawson, when interviewed by BBC Radio 4, said that he relied on his friends who “tend to be richer than the average person and much more intelligent than the average person”.
BP and EXXON Mobil spring to mind!
@ one-off Ireland
So they are wrong, is that your point?
no. they are looking after their business interests.
@ one-off Ireland
so, are China and India opening 3 to 4 coal powered stations every week?
And in your opinion is it true or false that they will do so every week for the next 75 years or so?
@Martin
you better hope not – cos if they do we are all screwed. Most of all the Chinese.
If that rate of demand growth continues supply the price of oil and coal will soar- as a net importer of Euro6billion per annum we will have very severe problems.
so if it is true, and I believe it is.
It makes the carbon tax foisted on us by the Greens a painful joke!
Trevor and the Greens need(ed) to
“get out a bit”
and
“have a look around”
and see the uselessness and economic impact of putting a carbon tax on 4 million people on a tiny island outpost of western Europe while our giant far off neighbors are burning coal to beat the band!
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Well I disagree.
Leaving aside what you believe, all the evidence clearly points to the need to urgently transition from fossil fuels. As a net importer, and “our far off neighbours burning coal to beat the band” it simply makes sense that we do so.
In any event, we have legally binding EU Directive targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. If we do not achieve these targets we will face fines .
http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/pdf/nd/swd2013_ireland_en.pdf
China are adding the equivalent of about 1 coal powered station per month to help them continue to make all of our stuff. If they continue at this rate we are indeed all in trouble. However they are also the world’s largest investor in clean energy both domestically and abroad, and Beijing are about to bring in a… guess what… carbon tax: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1154268/beijing-hopes-carbon-dioxide-tax-will-help-reduce-pollution
See my blog on some of this stuff here: http://www.iiea.com/blogosphere/china-coal-and-climate-change-a-narrative-for-inaction
Wrong Ryan
more like 3 per week
Check the links for references.
@ Ryan Meade
Ok checked your links,. now can you check this link
http://www.thegwpf.org/china-india-building-4-coal-power-plants-week/
Yeah, despite being founded by a former Chancellor of the Exchequer the GWPF seems to have a bit of trouble with sums. 160 plants over four years is less than one per week, even if you include India’s 46 proposed plants. The “4 new coal plants a week” headline was added to the NYT piece by the GWPF – so much for “restoring balance and trust to the climate debate”.
Good!!
So he’s definitely running then…
No Tara, Bad!!
That’s suits us grand , plank !!!
Can we get a commitment from the other green clowns not to run?
Jeez,not the greens again.
Wise decision, I’d still like to know why he stuck 50 euro on a fill of oil I use to keep my family warm during the winter. Why the greens devalued my car by 3 grand over night because it was a 2007 and not 2008 any why they desamated the car industry in ireland?
The carbon tax – were they not out of office before it came in? Was it not the current gov who actually brought it in – - – — or didn’t stop. Was this done to ensure that the Green’s would be ridiculed forever as a party – - – - but it put an unfair tax on us?
What car industry? That implies we make them when we only sell them. If it’s decimated it’ll effect some overseas company.
Would you enter the Lotto if you knew you wouldn’t get a single number??
Sargent in 2008:
“There are a few more weeks left in the parsnip season…”
There were more important things going on in 2008, if I remember correctly…
Minster of irrelevance for one thing. Thank f**k the greens are gone. What a bunch of cabbages.
Typical of an Irish voter ” I’m not a fan , but he has a bit of dignity ” why don’t you just say ” he built the road and he came to granddas funeral”…. Just because he didn’t lead the party into coalition means nothing .. He was happy to take a ministers salary and then pension ..this is why Fianna Fáil are on their way back and also why Fine Gael are doing well in the poles despite one ruining the country and the other carrying on the work under a different name
Nonsense, people always complain about politicians not resigning from their positions but he did it twice.
He resigned twice ???!!! …. Fool me once is springing to mind … I won’t be surprised if he does get a 3rd oppertunity
you can see why nobody decent run’s for electoral office with the baying mob of fools commenting above. Maybe the public engaged in some moderated informed political debate you might get some better candidates
One-Off
I couldn’t agree more!
Would love to know who they’ll all vote for come Election Day.
One off Ireland. So sad and so true. Only think of their own pocket and not the future of EVERYTHING
One Off,you are either a drama queen or Green party groupie,can’t decide which ???
@ on-off Ireland
What separates the baying mob of fools from you?
@ one-off Ireland
” He resigned as Minister when he admitted unlawfully contacting Gardaí about a criminal case involving a constituent.”
quote taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Sargent
@ Ru Ni Digs – you make my point nicely for me!
@ Martin you just put ‘politician’ and ‘resigned’ in the same sentence! I think he might have been the first – over an issue which he was incidentally later cleared of any wrongdoing
One Off,you didn’t make a point you just had a little ridiculous whinge!!!
I said “Maybe [sic] the public engaged in some moderated informed political debate you might get some better candidates”
How is that not a point>? should I rephrase it to help?
@ one-off Ireland
why did he resign then?
i dunno. I think it was a perception issue. It was shortly after the Willie O’Dea and John O’Donoghue fiascos – lots of stuff online about it.
@ one-off Ireland
If you don’t know why he resigned, how do you know he was cleared of any wrongdoing then?
wtf? cos’ he only resigned as a minister and remained on as a TD and he was never charged with anything. He resigned on his own volition.
I think it was a perception issue. There is lots on the internet about it
@ one-off Ireland
So if he wasn’t charged with anything, but he resigned of his own violation then he has admitted to have done something wrong.
However, I do respect a man of principal, I believe that as a man Trevor Sargent has principals and integrity.
One-off Ireland………”I’ll see you in the next cartoon”
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That Dan Boyle fella is an awful eejit.. Ye know those debating society types in colleges, he’s like the worst of them, like the one the other clowns can’t stand.
Trevor Sargent isn’t a great politician and is definitely single minded, but he’s one of the food guys if you ask me. Eamon Ryan should just join Fianna Fáil and be done with it.
Why are we continually looking at posts of also rans and has beens, is this where the new ideas, new attitudes and new faces are to come from? There’s new bloods out there with stacks of ideas that need a chance to get an airing in the media. Why keep rehashing the same old stuff, are we constantly to be locked in to our history, when there’s 4000 a month emigrating, 192,000 homes in distress and nearly half a million unemployed. Indeed, Ian why is this news!
Why is this news??
Its not really, more of an informative piece to make Labour Tds aware of what faith awaits them.
Norman,
Eamon Gilmore is an atheist.
No “faith” awaits him.
Good news at last! I hope the rest of those green leftie bed wetters follow his lead… They should have targeted non compliant multi nationals and businesses instead of crippling us with nonsense so called carbon taxes … Getting from A to B and heating our homes has never been so expensive! Thanks Green (dodo) Party.
and it is going to get more and more expensive so get used to it
Perhaps somebody might explain how the greens carbon tax has in any way benifited the people of the country,because it most certainly had the effect of driving up prices.
easy. its called sending a price signal. Look it up on Wikipedia
Thank god maybe a few more of them would follow
And we’re saved from future embarrassment…
Bad man. Bad, bad man.
All the greens managed to do the last time anyone voted for them was introduced carbon tax and prop up FF selling us out to Germany… Then got wiped out in the next election but kept their nice fat pensions…. Hmmm why wouldn’t everyone vote for them again?
Their members ruined a decent party by deceiving the electorate in 2007 … Going in with FF was their death knell .
Still can see John Gormley’s downcast face when Bertie was dragging out his infamous retirement .
Delighted he’s not going to run again …
that darn electorate is always being deceived!
Won’t be elected to anything anyway
I have great admiration for Trevor always have done I stood in the general election in 2007 for the greens and Trevor was a great support I was there the night the vote was made to join ff and decimate the greens personally I voted against joining green. I believe Trevor would be a great leader again but time has moved on.
Good! Nothing personal but if you sell your soul what do you expect Labour for the same soon enough :-)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha h
Hodor
This is a story?
Everything’s a story. I got out if bed this morning. It’s short, irrelevant and of no interest to anyone but it’s a story.
obviously interesting enough to post a comment on it!
Guys,
Nothing happened. Nada. Zilch.
Nothing. Happened.
It. Is. Not. A. Story.
you’re not helping Paul!
“Nothing happened. Nada. Zilch.
Nothing. Happened.
It. Is. Not. A. Story”.
………………why did you click on the link so, Paul?
Why are you here posting comments then?
he’s in a quandary now!
Dave,
I clicked the link because I thought there might be more to it. But there isn’t.
There is integrity there, yes, but because he decides not to do something that would have no effect on the politics of this impoverished nation does not mean that it is worthy of an article.
On a more positive note, I shall be having toast soon.
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