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Pearse Doherty said Sinn Fein is willing to enter into government formation talks with Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. Leah Farrell

Sinn Féin supports calls for a government review into the health impacts of 5G rollout

Sinn Féin says it is open to talks with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil after the next general election.

A FULL GOVERNMENT review to establish the “independent facts” about the possible health impact of 5G rollout should take place, according to Sinn Féin. 

Launching its programme for the party’s Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Derry this weekend, Donegal TD Pearse Doherty said the Ard Comhairle will be supporting a motion calling for the health and environmental concerns relating to 5G to be reviewed.

5G is the next step up from the 4G and 3G services offered through mobile phones. It is capable of much faster download and upload speeds. Vodafone was the first network to offer it to customers earlier this year, but many other mobile phone networks are now following suit.

A number of communities have voiced concerns about the arrival of 5G in Ireland, in particular the radiation levels it emits, the impact of mobile masts and associated infrastructure, and the radio waves impact on humans.

5G concerns 

Councillors in Clare, Leitrim, Sligo and Wicklow have passed motions raising objections to 5G on health grounds, while protests have been held in towns such as Dingle in Kerry.

In light of the pushback, it was reported recently that Ibec chief executive Danny McCoy wrote to Ministers Richard Bruton and Eoghan Murphy stating that it would be a disaster for businesses if 5G was blocked in any way.

Speaking about the motion ahead of the Ard Fheis this weekend, Doherty said the Ard Comhairle of the party met on Saturday and discussed all the motions, including the ones on 5G, and decided to support the motion which calls for a full, independent review into the effects of 5G.

The motion also calls for the government to provide health warnings where applicable to citizens on such technologies.

The program for the Ard Fheis this weekend includes other motions on issues such as parking charges at hospitals, calling for fees to be scrapped. Another motion tackles the issue of the decriminalisation of drugs, calling for Ireland to follow the Portugese model.

Banning flags

A motion also calls on the Ard Fheis to “prohibit the display of paramilitary flags and banners, secure their immediate removal and prosecute those guilty of erecting them”. This is to include displays of other intimidatory flags and banners.

MP for Fermanagh/Tyrone Michelle Gildernew told reporters that during the summer hundreds of flags are seen hanging in towns across the North. She said that any flag that is hung up should only be done so for a limited time, and should then be removed.

She said that such flags are used by people who are “marking” their territory, and “needs to end”. 

On the issue of whether Sinn Féin would be open to entering into government with either Fine Gael or Fianna Fail, Doherty said they would be willing to discuss forming a government with either party.

Doherty said the party is willing to speak to either of the main parties, and a broader left coalition, in order to form a more progressive government.

“The current position goes back to last year’s Ard Fheis, which is Sinn Fein will only enter a coalition if we can secure an appropriate programme for government that delivers on our major issues,” Doherty said today.

“We need to see proper investment in housing, a solution to the perpetual crisis in health, a focus in relation to public finances, moves in preparation for Irish unity.

“But the position is, it would be up to the delegates of Sinn Fein, if we were satisfied we could secure that with any other coalition party, then we would go back to them.

“We’re open to it, if those parties are wiling to come on board, with a proper progressive policy platform.

“Now, that would be a big step for them to take, given we have these two conservative parties that have been in government for the last three years that have made the health and housing crisis worse, and widened the gap between income earners.

“Whether they’re willing to move on that would remain to be seen, but our position allows us to enter in those discussions,” he said.

Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have ruled out entering into government with Sinn Féin.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:01 AM

    Thankfully, he lost.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:43 AM

    @Tony Daly: What’s going on, the courts are delivering actually justice this week. That’s twice.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:47 AM

    Trigger happy with the delete button from the copy and paster staff here.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:04 PM

    @Dave cullen: As a corrupt billionaire if you can’t silence people one way, there are alway others Denis probably has a secret bid in to buy The Journal!

    I suspect that this comment will also be deleted, even though the proof is there that Denis O’Brien is a corrupt businessman. We have a cowardly media that would rather kowtow to the likes of him than actually do some real journalism with some integrity.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:09 PM

    @Jayo Breathneach: yea there is that.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:40 PM

    @Tony Daly: Damn, that’s my chance of The Euro Millions gone this/weekend, it is not possible to see two miracles on the same day. At least DO. getting shafting has reduced the pain this week. Hip hip, hip hip, hip hip.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 8:05 PM

    @Thomas Maher: Ah, but Dinny made his bed in Ireland several years ago with Eircom,now the chickens are coming home to roost.Karma,don’t you just love it.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:02 AM

    Brilliant news. Well done Catherine Murphy.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:02 PM

    @Keano: just award the state’s costs against him and it really will have been a victory.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:01 AM

    Does that we can talk about him?

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:08 AM

    @John Cotter: If you’re in the Dail, yes.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:34 PM

    @John Cotter: who can’t talk about him? He’s not Voldermort.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:02 AM

    Could not have happened to a nicer person.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:37 AM

    @ray.farrelly: hope it cost him a pretty penny!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:06 PM

    @Deborah Behan: Don’t worry, FG will award him with another state contract and he will recoup the loss 1000 times over. Enda looks after his backers.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:01 AM

    Delighted for him. Keep on losing DoB.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:06 AM

    At last some good news roll on the Siteserve decision hopefully it will be more good news. Well done Catherine Murphy for sticking to your guns on this issue.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:38 AM

    @Eddie Byrne: meanwhile Enda is consoling DOB!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:03 AM

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha………hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..hahahahahahaahahahahaha! :-)

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:37 AM

    @Les Behan: child….

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:50 AM

    @Les Behan:

    That’s infectious, I actually laughed.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:02 AM

    The separation of powers has been upheld.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:45 PM

    @Tony Daly: he has plenty of money to be wasting it on such frivolities. I imagine the lawyers love him.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:02 AM

    Delighted!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:14 AM

    Well done Catherine Murphy, hero to the Irish people

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:06 AM

    Testing comment. Test. 1 2. Omg the comments are actually open!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:07 AM

    Poor Denis.He’ll have to be putting in a lot more water meters to pay this bill.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:13 AM

    I’m sure he was advised by his Lawyers that he didn’t have a case but he proceeded anyway to silence the Dail and media for a while. These tactics apply to corporations who have the loot to do so.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:02 AM

    Comments are closed are legal proceedings are pending…wait?

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:02 AM

    Good.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:15 AM

    Great news . Well done Catherine Murphy and co.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:09 AM

    ha ha Denis money don’t buy you everything

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:24 AM

    DOB has “constitutional rights” to SFA in Ireland because he is a tax exile. Take the case in Malta! Bring your water meters with you.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:13 AM

    One would have thought that Mr O’ Brien would have known all about “privilege”, ironic it should be his downfall on this occasion…..

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:06 AM

    Comments closed in 5,4,3,2…..

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:27 AM

    This was a very serious attack on our democracy folks…do not take it lightly…this guy, because he has been allowed to politcally, believes he is bigger than our democracy…look at the favourable rates he was paying to IBRC( IBRC is you and I dont forget) vs what the ordinary joe soap was being charged!!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:29 AM

    JUSTICE !!!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:26 AM

    Happy Friday Everyone! Have a great, great, weekend.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:17 AM

    I am amazed that he took the case in the first place as it was always going to fail…He is either thick, badly advised/ripped off and has too much money (as per Moriarity findings)

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:08 AM

    He has the eyes of a whitewalker

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:23 AM

    Great hope he has to foot bill 100%

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:21 AM

    I’m delighted.He has some neck suing the state after the mobile licence controversy.
    Every Irish families struggling to get by and working hard paying mortgages and rearing their children and this arrogant man who domiciled himself in Portugal so he wouldn’t have to pay his fair share of tax.
    Get lost back to Portugal Denis,everyone has you copped on.We don’t need him.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 4:32 PM

    @Gerry Fallon: he is still trying to sell his Vilamoura site…..

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:45 AM

    Mention noonan and o brien in the same comment and it gets deleted.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 4:31 PM

    @Dave cullen: noonan, o’brien………..not deleted yet

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    Apr 1st 2017, 11:07 AM

    @Gus Sheridan: Not a sentence there Gus

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:03 PM

    Would explain why kenny was in Malta yesterday. Apologising to the master in advance.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:10 AM

    Although I don’t approve of Dàil privilege, i totally agree with this outcome.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:14 AM

    @Deskindo: I agree. This proves it was justified in this case

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:45 AM

    Good, good, good, good and good. We’ve have had enough of money hungry moguls thinking they can do whatever they want.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:55 AM

    Word on the street is that Dinnie rents the barricades to the gardai n people when we, the people, take to the streets, hope it was an open and fair tender…
    He is certainly well got with the shakers and weavers of Irish society

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:25 PM

    More Catherine Murphy’s needed in the Dail cesspit.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:12 AM

    Next up the SUPREME COURT.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:09 AM

    Was there ever going to be any other outcome? Waste of time and money.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:45 AM

    Delighted! The Irish Trump doesn’t get his way

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:59 AM

    Wow a judge with gumption. Well done judge.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:29 PM

    In all our misery, at least we can be thankful that we have some integral TDs like Catherine, Clare, Mick, Catherine Connolly, Roisin, Pearse and many more

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:02 PM

    Wow Now this is nice to hear! Big respect to that judge!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:16 PM

    He can slink back to Malta for himself.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:03 PM

    Nice days work for the Government hope he is nailed for costs

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:36 AM

    yay. \o/

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:23 PM

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:08 PM

    Delighted.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:00 PM

    LOL

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:00 PM

    Dail privilege is called that fir a reason Denis

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:14 PM

    Great news for democracy and the Irish people

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:23 PM

    Great day for democracy

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:20 PM

    DOB’s hair has something in common with Trump’s – both got the comb-over!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:24 PM

    I would be a bit worried if D.OB. was to read some of the comments in the comments section in case he desides to sue the Journal, i wouldn’t put it past himto do so.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 11:17 AM

    And all this “you said this and you said that” has made such a difference to how our Country is governed by the people we pay to govern. One winner here, the Legal Profession and one loser, us!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:32 PM

    Lol

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:42 PM

    Lost? Good. This guy thinks he owns the country. He may own the odd politician but clearly not the rest of us.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:08 PM

    If u haven’t been sued by dinny u should feel left out

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:37 PM

    Yesssss. Let this be the start of the end of Mr O’Bribe’em’s impunity.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:39 PM

    A good news story at last…

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:39 PM

    I want to see him dragged away in chains some day. One of the biggest crooks not in the country for any useful purpose.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:34 PM

    I passed one of those revenue collection vans going home from work the other day, was a wee bit over the speed limited, half expecting a demand for money to arrive in the letter box.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:44 PM

    Hey Deno do you know where the five lamps are!?!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:26 PM

    Aw that’s a shame. My heart goes out to him.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:45 PM

    I wonder will D O’B let this matter slide, considering that I don’t believe that the Court of Civil Appeal would give him permission to appeal this judgement to the Supreme Court.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:06 PM

    Most good.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:08 PM

    Ha.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:54 PM

    Woohoo

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:00 PM

    Dinny for Taoiseach! #MakeIrelandGrandAgain

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:46 PM

    Who pays for the expenses of tying Courts (not just legal fees) Dail with Dobies rubbish

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:48 PM

    But he didn’t lose per se, comments in the Dáil are outside the remit of our Courts as per the Constitution. The judge couldn’t make a ruling as such.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 1:08 PM

    I could not care less about DOB or this particular case and I agree with her point about TD’s not being expected to keep up with injunctions etc., but if the TD freely admins they are aware of the injunction and deliberately uses Parliamentary Privilege to circumvent it then is that not a clear abuse?
    On balance it is for the best that he lost but politicians interfering with court injunctions is not something I am comfortable with.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:49 PM

    That’s why it is called parliamentary privilege. The court’s reach does not extend into the speaking chamber of the legislature and executive. It’s called. Separation of powers.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:56 PM

    Parliamentary privilege is a tool of democracy and like any tool it can be used for good and ill. Just as Catherine Murphy uses it to expose the rank underbelly of Ireiand’s powerful, wealthy, corrupt and dishonest, and their political puppets.

    By contrast, Michael McDowell used it to maliciously and mendaciously destroy the reputation and career of an independent journalist with smear and supposition, so as to eliminate the threat of independent journalists – giving hen’s teeth a run for their money always as they do in modren Direland – investigating the corrupt theft and bribery surrounding Rossport and Ray Burke’s corrupt and criminal deals with oil companies to give away the Irish people’s hydrocarbon rights and plant enormous potential bombs near their homes.

    But that is just the fact. All tools are just tools it’s the intention, carefulness or recklessness in their use that produces “good” and “bad” results.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 3:20 PM

    @John O’Driscoll: lot of sweeping accusations in there – none of which I am going to engage with.
    I simply don’t trust politicians and think there should be some group able to keep an eye on them. Right now, that group is … politicians.
    I also don’t trust the electorate to do the job given the number of crooks that are elected and re-elected.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 3:37 PM

    I think they are quite precise in fact. Agree with your second premise and that group is supposed to be known as the fourth estate however robber barons like Mr O’Bribe’em keep reducing that estate and adding bits of it to their own, irredeemably corrupting and making useless that which is supposed to be the opposite. Otherwise he terrorises it into submission with blizzards of writs. Your third premise agree also it truly is appalling but then look at the alternatives worse yet.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 3:41 PM

    Perhaps it will come down to men of straw and little property, citizen bloggers and activists, to form digital star chambers to call the likes of Mr O’Bribester to account. After all he can’t take the knickers off bare arses you can only be intimidated when you got something to lose.

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    Mar 31st 2017, 4:59 PM

    Comments turn on for a DOB story WTF?

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    Mar 31st 2017, 3:11 PM

    Good outcome !

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    Mar 31st 2017, 2:38 PM

    This man should be in prison. Parasite and criminal. His self righteousness is flabbergasting!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 3:16 PM

    Poor snowflake.

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    Apr 1st 2017, 12:00 AM

    Like the gardai he thinks he is untouchable ………………………

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    Mar 31st 2017, 9:24 PM

    Yeehoo!!!! Made my otherwise miserable day happy!

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    Mar 31st 2017, 12:14 PM

    He will win on appeal of course but this is a good slap in the face for him none the less.

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