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THERE IS TO be a cap of 100 people in the numbers allowed to attend wedding receptions, the Government has announced.
Receptions must also end at midnight.
The new measure is set to come into effect on Monday.
The move was announced by the Taoiseach this evening as part of a series of measures aimed at tackling the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
Micheál Martin announced that as part of the new restrictions pubs and restaurants must close at 8pm.
Other events – including those at theatres and cinemas – must also end at 8pm, with the midnight exception allowed for weddings.
The measures are to remain in place until 30 January but will be kept under review.
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I hope he ends up penniless .
I hope he get 150 years behind bars
Wishful thinking but neither will be the case. He has so many millions hidden away. Seanny boy will continue living the dream and have a long happy life with his lovely supportive wife
The only was to get this person is if we allow our security services to target him abroad with extreme severity. …..
If you get me.
Israel does it the usa does it russia and france do it among many others.
Flemming wiped 1 billion with his U.K bankruptcy a couple of years ago and is now free and clear.
Why are NAMA’s gravytrainboys making such a big fuss now after the horse has bolted???
We will be screwed for hundreds of millions by thegravytrainboys to recover nothing from Dunne or the rest of NAMA’s “finest”.
Don’t forget that the gravytrainboys worked for the W**kers who caused this mess.
The Gravytrainboys that presided over this mess.
The same old ireland still exists! Why do we always love to see the high and mighty fall. I see it in my work. It’s all down with the boss yet he pays their wages. They have this misconception that just cause he’s the boss he must be making money. I had a business during the good times but the recession put pay to that. I know how hard it is in business and would never cut down any person who gave it a go and failed. Unfortunately people have to realise that they will never see a fraction of this money he owes wherever he goes bankrupt. It’s also not all his fault that the government guaranteed the banks making us all pay his debt. I know this may not be a popular they point.
It has to be a troll? It can’t be serious? Can it?
Wander Arch I am not a troll. It’s my point of view and I when I made it I knew I would get loads of red thumbs but I couldn’t care less. It’s a country of free speech. Unfortunately the bankruptcy laws in this country are still inadequate even after the recent overhaul. The banks have a lot more questions to answer than Sean Dunne and I for one will be a happy man when some bankers are behind bars. I wouldn’t hold your breath though.
The problem may be the manner in which some people “give it a go”. In the final analysis governments will rake the line of least resistance. If it is easier to get money from the general population and they put up little resistance other than writing comments to the media then naturally they will be the first port of call rather than wealthy individuals with large legal teams and resources to hide their wealth. It is only if the general population is perceived as a greater threat that governments will look to alternative means.
Sean Dunne is not being criticized because he gave it “a go” and failed and left large debts owing. He is being criticized because he is trying to hide assets from the people who really own them, basically the Irish public. Mr Dunne could have behaved honorably and handed over what he owed to the banks as a result of personal guarantees he signed. No fair minded person would have blamed him for failing in business. He is blamed for trying to pocket wealth he has no moral right to. I hope he is left penniless.
Hope your comfortable on your high horse!
You have that wrong. You’re the one on a high horse. We’re the ones paying for the horse.
High horse? I don’t understand how you can believe Sean Dunne should be allowed keep a few million euro for himself? It has nothing to do with being on a high horse. There will be thousands of people who will seek debts forgiveness under the new laws and they will all be required to be honest about their assets. I don’t know why S Dunne should be treated differently.
It’s sickening.
The people of Ireland are paying back his €700 million bill. Meanwhile he’s living it up in the USA.
everytime an article comes up about this f*cker i ask the same question but i would really like to know how it is possible for an Irish citizen, with more debts in Ireland then anywhere, to declare bankcrupcy in the US? How is it actually possible?
How many sub contractors did not get paid for word completed for him
They say no, we let Snowden in lol
There was a crooked man, who walked a crooked mile, he made lots of crooked men rich.
Left the working joes lying broke in the ditch.
Slippery eel b*stards!
I don’t normally support Extraordinary Rendition, but in Seannie’s case, I’d be willing to make an exception.
Think I’ll take a trip to the US with a bin liner and a hurl.
Catch up with some old friends like.
If he has perjured himself in the US courts. He will get jail time
The gall of the man!
Go on the dunne , legend and clever business man .we all enjoyed our moment in the era of the boom .
He played by the rules set out by the government we elected and proved himself smarter than the whole bunch of gobshit,s put together . Forget about Dunne and his likes and worry more about the clowns running this country . Dunne is past , our government is present and future .
If he plays by the rules then that’s fine. Unpalatable, but them’s the rules until they are changed. If he is knowingly being economical with the truth then he deserves to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
However this, and similar cases, do seem to be being used as a convenient distraction to take eyes of other, more serious, events. Just a thought.
……..eyes off…….
Sorry.
We come on here read the story and vent our anger in the comments section, But these people are living in the height of luxury and loaded with money and in the real world. We have to face it, They got away with it and we must pay every day for them in higher taxes thanks to Kenny and Co.
Nama are crooked liars on insane money can’t believe a word they say. I am glad Ireland has produced a few real men. I see no difference between him and the thousands of young people deported. Nama are above the law and not even subject to data access I would be thrilled if he outran those cowboys. If he gave 700 or 7000 billion to Nama not one penny would come back to taxpayer. The spin doctors want you hating him instead of Kenny wake up folks put your hate where it belongs at Leinster house
Why is it always a case of either/or? Surely, by now you can see the connections between politics and economics? The answer isnt ‘either Dunne or the Governemnt’ its both.
If you cant see the difference between an unemployed person getting on the plane out of Ireland and Dunne leaving ireland then I would say you are mssing a few verybasic points
As for wishing him well, maybe you should turn your attention to those people in the Republic who have accounts with Ulster Bank. Ask them in a few weeks how much good luck they wish on the man who has been a major contributor to the ruination of that bank
Any one stupid enough to have a penny in or be paying UB deserve what’s coming the dogs in the street know that bank is going wallop any day
Hear hear
It is so sickening that nothing will happen to the bankers that did this to our Country. Sure read the Anglo Tapes..they did not care about the ordinary people of Ireland. All they care’d about was to Lie & Cheat and get as much money out of Ireland. And, The Golden handshakes to all the other people that knew what was going on. And! Us the ordinary people of Ireland for years to come will be paying it back.
Sadly… When the English left Ireland a void was created. The void was replaced over the years by an Irish Aristocracy (Catholic Church, politicians, government officials, public sector managers, union officials, large property owners, bankers, developers, successful land speculators), who consistently make decisins for us based on their selfish needs.
Here is a frieghtful truth…. Ireland needs to ask for outside help. We need assistance and guidance with our matters. We need to set Ireland on the right course and shake free of the Irish Aristocracy who only manage to get enough done to benefit themselves and to briefly appease our needs.
By having outside guidance could aid in setting our course so that we never have to experince the hardships that we having been facing day after day and year after year.
We need to get rid of the dead weight and the corrupt that guide us, decide for us and manage us. We really need to create an Ireland that is at par economically and socially with the Scandinavian countries.
We really have a chance to better than we are…. We have to shake ourselves of what we know and the trappings of who we were and look at what we can be.
More wise words, as usual, Marlon. Well done.
Thanks!
Tnuc
dat tuck me ages to figure out……lol tnuc
Tnuc? Plse help!
When Dunne made 700 people redundant in ballsbrigde, great man, earl of ballsbrigde, VIP in the galway tent, not a word about the 700 hotel staff, now Dunne’s hated and if 2 people loose there job in the local spar it makes the 6 o clock news. Our government have short memories !!!
R.I.P. (rest in pieces) Mr. Dunne.
Dunne’s done
A person should have to declare bankruptcy in the country where most debt was originally accrued, IMHO.
I’ll take great pleasure in seeing this f@&ker go down
Every time i read an article about Quinn and Dunne and the likes it really irritates me how they are pursued when the crooked TD’s who rezoned the lands, sold all our natural resources off and the bankers who gave them the money they didn’t really have still swan around on their big salaries irrepressible and untouched into the sun.
I think the latter are more responsible for the damage done to this country; these businessmen are chancers who will push their luck as much as they can like any business person will, some obviously more so then others and way over the line screwing sub contractors and the like which they have to be held accountable for.
The point is they were allowed to like puppets by the hierarchy and are now the scapegoats for all the damage done. The smokescreen is working and the people really responsible for the downfall in this country, the people in power walk away scot-free. It’s a sad day when the realization sinks it that its corruption that makes the World turn.
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