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LAST UPDATE | 21 Sep 2022
Christina Finn reports from New York:
AN AER LINGUS flight that was taking the Taoiseach from Dublin to New York for the UN General Assembly events was forced to return to Ireland this evening.
The flight departed at 4.20pm but having just passed Ballina, the plane had to turn back to Dublin Airport.
The Irish Examiner, whose Political Editor Daniel McConnell was also on the flight, reports that the plane had risen to over 12,000 feet when Captain Karl Quinn informed passengers of the need to return to Dublin due to a vibration in its right-hand engine.
A spokesperson for the Taoiseach confirmed that everyone was fine and an Aer Lingus engineer was called to inspect the aircraft.
Earlier in the day, the Taoiseach had attended the National Ploughing Championships in Laois earlier today.
Aer Lingus said in a statement that Flight EI107 operating from Dublin to New York JFK Airport was required to turn back when the aircraft experienced a bird strike shortly after take-off.
“The aircraft landed safely at Dublin Airport and all customers and crew safely disembarked. We plan to operate the flight later this evening on a replacement aircraft. We apologise to customers impacted for the inconvenience,” said the airline.
It is understood that this flight took off shortly after 8.30pm.
Martin was due to attend a reception this evening with world leaders and senior delegation members, including US President Joe Biden.
However, due to the delay the Taoiseach is unlikely to arrive on time to attend the event, however, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney will be in attendance.
Micheál Martin is due to give a speech to the General Assembly tomorrow evening.
Today’s events come just six months after the Taoiseach missed out on a meeting with US President Joe Biden after contracting Covid-19 while in Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day.
Christina will be reporting from the UN throughout the week. You can follow her updates on Twitter @christinafinn8
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More likely people will use them to escape social situations as we veer further towards a fully virtual society.
Porn, it’s going to be used for porn. Same as the Internet.
FFS get a grip,that was pure shite!
Jasus The Journal has gone downhill if this is considered newsworthy
They’ve always peddled fluff alongside the more pressing issues. Room for them both
Every weekday at 11am we have Take a Break, it’s generally a lighter video like this. We have about 60+ articles a day, so there’s plenty to read that isn’t like this.
Great, now look what you’ve done Cosmo. Hope you’re happy.
Pass no heed aoife you’re doing a sterling job. Snapchat hun?
Yes but not every video with an “Irish Mammy” is funny
I like the Journals work @Aoife. Never mind the bugrudgers! I think it’s a great video. .. shows how accessible it is. The Irish mammy dropping f-bombs is classic!!
Nothing to do with begrudging, it’s just my opinion and many others that it is cringeworthy and not remotely funny. Journal can do much better than this
Yawn
Was expecting more ‘
FFS Filming in portrait !
You’d think they’d make the cameras not record video in portrait by this stage…
Or you would think people would know to record with their phone sideways by now.
Was only a matter of time before these videos arrived.
I wonder what she was watching
It’s the jurassic Park clip. A sleeping bronctosauaus wakes up and comes over to you. It’s really cool
Why is the footage warping at sections around the womans body?
Illuminati and or NWO, with a possibility of lizard people shapeshifting
That’s nearly two minutes of my life wasted. On the plus side, at least she didn’t pepper the entire video with multiple effing and blinding which, unfortunately, one has come to expect from such Irish-made videos. But for gawd’s sake, why can’t the makers of them use landscape mode?
That looked like me coming home from the pub last night.
Have a look at that wine rack in the background, packed!! Bit early in the day to be drinking!
Are those the 30€ dunnes headsets?
Gear VR
That kitchen looks a bit dated!
Billy big balls cause he has an island in his
I think this is an advert…
This pornos great…
Actual scene, -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEKjamS9cTs
Can’t wait to play knockout kings on this so I can finally win a fight.
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