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A CREW MEMBER from an Irish Ferries passenger ferry remains missing after a failed search attempt in the Irish Sea overnight.
The WB Yeats ferry operates the Dublin to Holyhead route. The alarm was raised at around 9pm yesterday.
The search is being overseen by the HM Coastguard in Holyhead in Wales, but the Irish Coast Guard is providing assistance.
The ICG provided an aircraft for use from about 12.30am to 3am, but there was “no trace” of the missing crew member.
An ICG spokesperson told TheJournal.ie the overnight search was unsuccessful but another search is expected to take place this morning.
A spokesperson for Irish Ferries said the company would not be commenting on the situation.
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Jeeeez…. About time. Hats off to Catherine Corelss for doing all that work, persistence and campaigning and fair dues to Roderic too…. thought he did a reasonable job under the circumstances of trying to to clean up a mess not of his doing.
Why isn’t the Criminal Assets Bureau seizing their wealth? Disgraceful organisation, in my opinion, tasked with the care of these women and their unfortunate children and inflicting this misery instead.
Where is the criminal investigation?
Thanks to Catherine Corless
The Green Party to make the findings hidden for “GDPR Purposes”.
@Peter McGlynn: You’d want to brush up on how Irish law works !!!!! One thing you need to learn is that GDPR laws apply to everyone… no party, in government or not, can break that law!!!!! Okay if you’re anti Green or anti GDPR… You might like to know …. They’re not the same!!!! A SF minister would have to do the same!!!!!
@Jerriko17: this government fight the European GDPR regulator in court when it states that the implementation of the Irish national ID card is violating GDPR laws.
Yet O’Gorman of the greens cries out GDPR when it comes to hiding names of those mother and baby home perpetrators.
Minister for children mehole.
@Peter McGlynn: He can only deal with the law as it stands now, nothing to do with the Greens …. Maybe you’d like to put it on the back burner until the GDPR legislation is changed!!!!!! It’s a European based law so God knows how long that would take!! Roderic, as far as I know is a law lecturer so I’d imagine he’s a bit more familiar with it than you or me.
About fuping time
Suffer little children
@Nollaig Kelly: yeah they took the “suffering” and neglect literally
We dont need new laws to investigate possible crimes!
P.S. Endless respect and gratitude to Catherine Coreless for giving all these victims (mothers and babies) a voice too long denied. Thank you
Why does it take so long to do anything in this country
They’ll never find a cause of death that can be used as evidence against anyone in a court of law.
Why couldn’t the remains have been removed 5 years ago in the correct manner and the pieces placed in coffins once sorted
Then handed back to any familes still alive …the ones without family could be placed in an appropriate resting place or memorial
Genuinely would like to know why it took a new law
To think that the moral barometer of this country was dictated by the RC Church especially John Charles Mcquaid. These girls were victims of assault, incest & usually ignorance, they & their children were betrayed by a so called Christian institution that allegedly holds forgiveness, kindness & compassion at the core of its so called value system. Beaten, betrayed & condemned to indentured servitude their babies were sold abroad, enrolled in drug test programmes or just allowed to die from neglect. While the Church & State profited from their suffering. And even now when the cat is out of the bag we’re still gonna go though the same hip deep river of 5hit because the guilty parties will Deny, Delay, Defer and Defend at all costs until either the victims or the perpetrators are all dead.
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