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A MALE IN HIS late teens has been arrested by gardaí investigating a fatal single vehicle crash in Ballinatray, Courtown, Co Wexford last month.
At around 10.30pm on 15 June, a car collided with a wall before entering the water at Courtown Harbour.
Two of the car’s three male teenage occupants managed to swim to the shore, but the third, aged 19, was later taken from the water by the Coast Guard and emergency services. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gardaí arrested a teenager in connection with the incident in the Wexford area this morning. He is being held at Gorey Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
Gardaí are renewing their appeal for witnesses to the crash to come forward. They would like to speak to anyone who was in the Ballinatray area between 10pm and 11pm on 15 June, particularly if they were around Seamount.
Gardaí at Gorey Garda Station can be reached on 053 9430690. The Garda Confidential Line is 1800 666 111.
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And now it’s time for change and to trust women by voting yes
@Barry Somers: Yes. We are all captains of our own ship.
@Martin Ryan: ships’ captains are responsible for the lives of all on board!
@John Campbell: by choice not force.
seamen………
@Barry Somers: it’s too open , once the 8th is gone a future government could relax abortion legislation similar to the UK I’m voting No !
@Alchemy: They could also make it stricter.
@John Campbell: indeed.However if the passenger is a threat to the ship then the captain has the last say.
I can’t wait till it’s all over. Peace and quiet. I will feel free in walking the streets of my city without being harassed
@Michael Collins: until you walk into a poster not taken down.
It’s good to see the youth vote a lot of them have lost confidence with everything going on in the Country so by not voting you cannot solve anything.
@Donal Carey: It is ironic that they are throwing away any influence in future on this life and death issue by a ‘yes’ vote so they are only solving the Government’s problem of being saddled with the electorate and any checks and balances needed such as the 12 week/no reason component of the Oireachtas report.
@Gkell1: There’s no such thing as 12 week/no reason. There’s always a reason. It may not be good enough for you but it doesn’t have to be.
@Slim Shady:
“2.40. The Committee recommends that the law should be amended to permit termination of pregnancy with no restriction as to reason provided that it is availed of through a GP-led service delivered in a clinical context as determined by law and licencing practice in Ireland with a gestational limit of 12 weeks.”
@Gkell1: No restrictions is not no reason. It means no specified reasons. No woman has ever had an abortion for “no reason”. You know this of course.
@Gkell1: who said they were all voting yes
@Gkell1: a Yes vote passes decisions to the Oireachtas, the formation of which citizens can influence through general elections. Should a Yes vote pass, then in future, a government that campaigned on an anti-choice platform will be able to reverse any legislation that doesn’t align with their (and their supporters) anti-choice ideology. Poland being a current example.
@Gkell1: Yeah sure. 2 + 2 = 5
Well we know of one French student in Galway who got her polling cards despite the fact she didn’t register. She reported it to the Gardai.
@Stephen Duffy: I hope
@Stephen Duffy: I hope to not have to take a pregnancy test before treatment or any radiology. I hope my country will be there for me and all other Irish and non-Irish women should we find ourselves with a contraception failure and need support to make a choice. I hope that if I become a victim of rape or ffa then I will get compassion not silence. I hope.
@Deborah Behan: is that a reply to my comment? Because if it was you lost me completely..!!!
I haven’t received my polling card yet….I’m not a new voter
@Anne: I changed address months ago before “the big rush” yet Louth county council and south Dublin county council seem to be able to mess things up between them. Still got my polling card in Louth yet contacted south Dublin twice and they said it’s all good. That’s the civil service admin rights there!
@Anne: neither have I, I’m sure the postmen will be busy in the next couple of days, and if you don’t receive your card, just bring ID to the polling station
@Anne: photo id will suffice at polling station.
@Anne: if you don’t receive it you can still attend to vote once you have ID with you.
@Darren Sheils: thanks…no change of address either…thanks everyone for letting me know about the ID…I dont want to miss this one!
@Anne: my parents didn’t receive their voting cards either even though they’ve not changed address since last referendum. I changed address since the last one and I received mine over a week ago. Both with Louth CoCo.
Registered to vote but still havent tecieved my voting card and the website still says I’m not on the register.
@Ed Magnier: Same for two of my children who registered long before closing dates. They say the same about several of their friends who also registered. I’m wondering if its a ploy to silence young voters, cant be a coincidence.
@Caroline Reddy: I never received my polling card for the last few elections but I was on the list when I went to vote wouldn’t worry or cause hype
@Ed Magnier: my name doesn’t come up in the search ring your local county council and they can check only takes a sec put your mind at ease
@Caroline Reddy: quite the conspiracy theory there
@Ed Magnier: As already stated, just phone and ask. If you don’t get polling card just bring ID (you don’t technically need the polling card). I haven’t received mine yet either. BTW if checking again online make sure you’ve no extra space after your name as it counts the space as a character, apparently, and smartphones generally add the space in automatically.
@Caroline Reddy: I’m selling some high quality tinfoil if you’re looking…
@Caroline Reddy: they will be on the supplementary register if they only recently registered. you won’t see them on the central register. when they go to vote they should just ask for the supplementary register table. they won’t receive a polling card either. similar issue with my 18 year old daughter but we rang council and they confirmed she is on the supplementary register
@Ed Magnier: Supplementary register now online so suggest you check again and follow up with local authority. I changed address and added a family member a week before the deadline and changes are appearing online. Voting cards will issue this week.
http://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/news/general-news-public-notices/supplementary-register-can-now-be-checked-online
@Helen Loughman: Thank you Helen.
In 10 year’s time you will be proud that you stoped the modern slavery against all the women’s of Ireland, if you vote yes. If you do not vote yes history will judge you like a promoter of mysoginism and prejudice. You have a chance to write history, with your vote. Chose compassion and tolerance. Vote yes. Your religious creed maybe don’t teach you tolerance for women’s, but you can chose to be different. Do what is just. Vote yes.
@c rosus: I think the opening gambit to a conversation should not be, we can destroy a life up to 12 weeks, the opening gambit should be we protect life, but we must have a better way to facilitate women who are struggling, physically or emotionally with a pregnancy. Unfortunately the blunt object of a referendum does not accommodate my own views on protection of life, or care of women. Legislators…must do better. I just think what they are proposing is not fit for service, send them home tae think again!
@Kenneth Finnerty: Look nobody is speaking in the referendum about killing children. The referendum is about to let the women’s chose for themselves what is best for them. There will be abortions? Yes there will be. The question is, at least for me: I will be there to sustain them or I will the pointing finger hypocritical yelling sin? The male society have treated womens in Ireland for to long like a commodity, something to be used or take advantage of. Now there is the possibility to repair mistakes and build bridges. Trust is better than faith. I for one I trust them, I believe in progress not in stone age. How could you chose a foetus over a living being? So for you is better let a fully grown human being die because you cannot comprehend that a foetus is still a foetus? Really? Vote yes.
@c rosus: I think your confusing where I am coming from. I am saying abortions should be allowed, but not as standard normal practice. Trust me(pardon the pun) I am not taking moral guidance from the church, you seem to think I am. I have said women should be accommodated, so your suggestion that I put a grown woman ahead of a foetus, or a 6 month old unborn child is a nonsense. Vote No, send them back to come up with something a bit more intelligent.
@c rosus:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/nell-mccafferty-pro-lifers-are-right-about-some-things-1.3469975
She said she recently googled what a pregnancy looks like at 12 weeks. “They [the babies] suck their wee thumbs and they have toenails, fingernails and arms and legs.”
So stop hiding behind this, its just a bunch of cells nonsense. This is Nell mccafferty talking, I respect her much more than you for having the guts to come out and say it like it is. Vote yes if you wish, but be clear about what your calling for.
Does anyone know what you do if you haven’t received a Poling card?
Got an email confirmation that I was registered and would receive a Poling card but now only get an automatic response when I try to contact the same person in Dublin City council back?
@Aimee Nagle: just bring passport/drivers license in the day
@Aimee Nagle: bring photo id to the polling station and once you are on the register you will be allowed vote.
@Diddles Daffy: great thanks
@Brendan Luke Ferron: thanks. I hope it is accepted…..As start to have a feeling of doubt as I’m not on the Register online and I did not receive a Poling card even though I got an email to confirm I would.
@Aimee Nagle: you don’t need polling card and there’s still time for it to arrive anyway. If in serious doubt then phone them
My name on the register is my maiden name and this will be my first referendum at our new address so I want to make sure I’ve the correct ID if needed. My passport is in my married name but it has my birth name on it; will this suffice as ID? The only thing I have still in my maiden name is my Garda Age Card and I don’t think that’s an acceptable form of ID.
A growing baby can suck his or her thumb as early as 12 weeks! Many expecting parents have been able to catch this moment on an ultrasound. As soon as the baby’s arms can reach her mouth, she will learn how to and be able to suck her thumb for comfort or just as a way to explore all her new developments. Some babies may even continue to suck their thumbs once they have been born and even into toddlerhood!
https://www.babygaga.com/15-mind-blowing-things-babies-can-do-in-the-womb/
You wouldnt allow a 1 week old baby to be destroyed.
The USI have a cheek to be endorsing the pro-abortion side. If they were representing all students they wouldn’t be taking a side. Half of the pro-abortion people in the student union probably wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for the Eighth Amendment.
Listen what are you smoking? You’re as high as a kite, modern slavery? Your shite tbh.
You obviously have never seen modern slavery I have, take that comment down its a disgrace
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