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Article updated at 11.15am on 11/10/2022
A 78-YEAR-old woman who was missing from the Dublin 8 area since yesterday has been found safe and well.
In a statement this morning, Gardaí confirmed that the woman had been located safe and well.
“An Garda Síochána would like to thank the public and media for their assistance in this matter,” a garda spokesperson said.
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Ban all the parades and bonfires.
@neuromancer: but….but…kulture?
@neuromancer: it’s actually quite sickening. I really hope these images are shown worldwide.
@TonyFantozi: psni are afraid to go anywhere near these hate fests. Also, a large majority of them come from these communities. I don’t think they support such overt hatred, but they may turn a blind eye
There’s more culture in a yogurt
@Skinnerbot: Nah political policing.
@Skinnerbot: KKKulture
@Jane: you have a snowflake constitution then, doesn’t bother me at all, just boys having fun.
@neuromancer: does that include st patricks day parade?
Hopefully the British media are all over this and show the loyalist community up for what they really are
@Brian O’Loughlin: you can bet your own arse they won’t!
@Brian O’Loughlin: the only thing the British media is showing is an idiot bomb maker feigning apologies… nice little deflection from what actually goes on in northern Ireland!
@Brian O’Loughlin: a bit late with this but just had to point it out. What if the boot was on the other foot! Are you so sure that if the catholics up there had a similar parade/celebration, they would not just as equally do such nasty things?
@Brian O’Loughlin: BACKWOODS MEN AND WOMEN, STILL STUCK IN THE 17TH CENTURY.
You have to hand it to the unionists, they never fail to demonise themselves. The irony of course is that the real Martin McGuinness can rest peacefully in his actual coffin, his final message to the people of Northern Ireland being one of peace, unity and parity of esteem.
@The Risen: The Unionists definitely succeed in demonising themselves. Please remember John Hume had been advocating equality, reconciliation and reunification before and throughout the darkest days of the troubles. Glad others finally took it on board. The DUP badly need a John Hume refresher course asap.
Why do you think they put his face up there? Clue: It wasn’t because of the peaceful things he done in later life.
People need to have the balls to talk about why the bitterness exists, otherwise it’s just a playground slagging match.
Sickening to see it anyways.
@Scundered: “Why do you think they put his face up there? Clue: It wasn’t because of the peaceful things he done in later life.”
I bow to your capacity to think like a unionist.
@The Risen: Nice display of lacking the aforementioned balls. People aren’t just born bitter, things happen to make them that way, doesn’t excuse it but it does need to be untangled to get anywhere if a solution is to be found.
@TonyFantozi: really, what bit did you think was bitter?
@TonyFantozi: what attack? I neither support nor am against republicans, merely a realist who believes in peace. You’re the one attacking here, in case you didn’t realise.
@James Connolly: ‘a wee picture’. You’re definitely from the North. Obviously unionist. Wrong was done on both sides but we can’t live in the past.
@James Connolly/diarmuid:
You got your two ‘james connoly accounts mixed up again dermo
twitter.com/Jc1916Connolly
1. try to stick to using one per night
2. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery xx
Sets up a twitter account called 4connolly4, using the same avatar and banner as For Connolly.
https://twitter.com/ForConnolly (the original)
http://twitter.com/4Connolly4 (dermo having far too much time on his hands)
Sad. Very sad.
@James Connolly: Just so you know, theres someone laughing their ass off right now at the thoughts of somebody once again cloning their twitter profile, who if they had so much spare time on their hands would put it to far better use.
Cheers for the chuckle xx
@Scundered: and why do you think the bitterness was there before he became peaceful.
I see they have no problem with the ISIS flag… interesting that
@Scundered: Hey scundered, speaking of lacking balls, any chance you could finally man up and post the proof to back up ypu allegation that I have regularly posted dergotatory comments about Protestants? Just one quote and a link. Failing that, have the common decency to retract the accusation.
@Tír Eoghain Gael: am sure the readers are riveted with your cut and paste deflection from the story above, and hearing a women bully use the word decency is quite amusing.
Time for you to get on your barstool, pubs opening soon.
Not surprised- I don’t think they even know what they are celebrating anymore. How can you bring about change to children with adults acting in this capacity. Shameful
@Donnacha Bhoicaire: How about stopping the separation of kids at the age of 4.
There should not be segregated schools.
Any idiot in the world can see that.
I have an idea. March 17 is the Green day. July 12 is the Orange day. Between these dates is May 15. This should be the White day. We should do everything possible on that day to come together.
@Mick Tobin: except Mick, the green day is about celebrating something positive, the patron saint of Ireland. The orange Day is about celebrating something negative and is used to oppress Catholics: the victory of the Protestant king over the catholic king. The green day has nothing to do with Protestantism. They are not like for like and shouldn’t be compared as such.
Twas only 327 years ag0. …
@No Mauvaise Foi❄: Neither are positive.In reality one evil sect (catholocism) overrode the natives
If anyone wonders as to why Stormount may never rise again, you need look no further.
I wish I could defend loyalists by blaming this on fringe bigots, but it’s endorsed by politicians.
Notably not a word from the government here either, as hundreds of the states flags get burned tonight, all in the name of culture.
Who needs “republican propaganda” when you’ve loyalists hanging Martin McGuinness off a 30ft bonfire
A hate fest
@Skinnerbot: there’s huge amounts of complicity in silence from politicians both sides of the border who’d be up in arms if the shoe were on the other foot
@Skinnerbot: well said my friend
@Negan: had to be said. Truly vexed after seeing this tonight
Maybe Leo should do his job as representative for the Irish people and put pressure on Theresa May to put a stop to the burning of our national flag along with all the other vile racist, sectarian hatred that goes with these bonfires.
@Dark Knight: Leo, doing his job, your having a laugh. if it doesn’t involve novelty socks he doesn’t care
@Dark Knight: the irish government just ignores this nonsense, whereas the shinners are tripping over themselves to be offended
@james connolly: I am offended at the burning of my flag. What have I or the 4m rest of us ever done to them?
@No Mauvaise Foi❄: best to just leave the north an its people to their stupid ways, it really changes nothing for us in this country
Classy bunch.
Funny that Loyalist is against the Irish language act but see this as “culture”.
Genuinely feel sorry for these people. The highlight of their year is lighting a fire with some tricolours on it . Sad really.
That’s a fair way of looking at it. And then the rest of us should probably just fly the tricolour on the twelfth. And I don’t mean half mast. After all, the orange in it isn’t there for nothing, is it. It means something.
Lads, it’s getting light, and I should’ve crashed a few hours ago. I’ll do so now, but I’ll be opening the window first to fly my tricolour.
Happy Twelfth everyone. And I mean everyone.
@Brendan Mulhern: just like the highlight of some people year is being offended by this
@james connolly: I seriously doubt the family of Martin Mcguiness look forward to seeing this
@Brendan Mulhern: i wonder what the victims of IRA terrorism would make of it
It’s their ‘culture’ and as such is beyond criticism.
Theres no need for anyone to demonise their ‘culture’, theyre perfectly good at doing it themselves.
I wonder will they be able to sell the ASH for CASH ,lolololololol
Mix all school in the north and end this madness
@marty johnbann: I went to a mixed school until I was 11. Then my parents had to decide between a catholic or Protestant secondary school. It’s beyond lunacy.
@marty johnbann: north and south…
Sad to think the British have to rely on them to form a government to run their country
@Christy McCarthy: well considering the shinners arent mature enough to act like adults what can we expect?
@Christy McCarthy: conservative and unionist party is the offical name of the torys christy. sad mad bad
The real Brits have no love for the loyalists. They see them as a bunch of petulant children stuck in the 1600′s. The best thing about May going into coalition with the DUP was to show what the British public actually think of unionists in the north.
But what about the fleg? And Arr culchur? To the rest of the UK they’re paddies. The ones who do this are just hateful, spiteful inbred basťárdś.
If only the tricolour was made from non-flammable material. Still though it’s nice to see it flying high in a Loyalist heartland. Hopefully it pisses rain for the evening.
Oh no you can’t say this is wrong it is “culture”. Well this culture is sick and should be stamped out what is wrong with these cavemen?
They have a great bonfire with an effigy of the Pope which should satisfy the anti-Catholic mob in the Journal -
http://www.eliteimagelibrary.com/keyword/orange%20order/i-Rd7DjMm/A
@Gerald Kelleher: Silly post, you can be anti catholic church or anti organised religion without having a problem with catholics or wanting to see the Pope burn in effigy.
@The Risen: You would make a great Unionist then as that is exactly how they operate. We have St Patrick’s day where kids go out dancing in the streets as a celebration of a nation where spirituality/inspiration is a driving force of a nation. Royal Society bobbleheads believe in secular laws and laws of nature but then again so did the old commies and the national socialists.
@Gerald Kelleher: “Royal Society bobbleheads believe in secular laws and laws of nature ”
Don’t believe in the laws of nature yourself gerry?
@The Risen: Hence a Royal Society bobblehead every bit as dour and dull as the bowler hats living off past glories of domination. The Royal Society academics tried to replace the old testament laws with the laws of nature/motions/physics/gravity and it looks like they are successful in filling Ireland with theoretical junkies who hate or protest everything and love nothing spiritual/inspirational.
@Gerald Kelleher: Old testament laws like if a woman is not a virgin on her wedding night she should be stoned to death on her fathers doorstep. That sort of stuff?
Oh and some of us find inspiration from the images from Hubble rather than the book that claims the sun revolves around the earth.
@The Risen: To be inspired or inspirational you have to be spiritual. A lot of the Christian writings reminded readers that Jesus was tested on points of Judaic law including stoning.
Somehow you fell victim to people who tried to put inspiration in conflict with reason or science vs religion, faith vs fact or any variation on that theme. The old Irish Poets and writers understood the difference between being religious and being spiritual or its evolution into current events where the failings of denominational Christianity fall away to a Christianity that once existed in its original form.
@Gerald Kelleher: What?
@Gerald Kelleher: St. Patrick was not a Catholic and had no time for the Papacy in Rome, that’s why religious Protestants in the North adore him.
@Atheos Euripides: You don’t know your history, he didn’t care for the theologians but appealed to inspiration -
“Who was it who called one as foolish as I am from the middle of those who are seen to be wise and experienced in law and powerful in speech and in everything? If I am most looked down upon, yet he inspired me, before others, so that I would faithfully serve the nations with awe and reverence and without blame: the nations to whom the love of Christ brought me” St Patrick
http://www.confessio.ie/etexts/confessio_english#
In short, if you have a problem with denominational Christianity then turn to inspirational forms.
@Gerald Kelleher: I don’t know my history, the PhD on the wall says differently. I should have studied fairy tales like you.
@Atheos Euripides: Don’t worry son, trying to pass academic trivia off as history is as vacuous as the deflective academic question of ‘what’s your point ?’. You won’t be the first or the last to try ‘fairytales’ fanaticism because being spiritual and inspirational generally puts Christian understanding on the right foundation.
@Atheos Euripides: saint patrick was british born in wales buried in downpatrick part of great britain
Well noted
They are the only people that get away with this sectarianism, hateful and provocative behaviour, no one else either in the uk or Ireland would get away with it, they would be up for incitement of violence and discrimination!! I think authorities just hate dealing with them, such is their whinging and screaming about their ‘kulture’ and their ‘flags’
They are not the smartest bunch..those blue pallets are worth a right few bob, even the plywood they made that coffin from is marine ply, the dearest you can get!..
Who is funding these though, pictures all week of mini diggers and teleporters and mewps working on the bonfires..They dont come for nothing!
@Lord Clanricarde: there is a 59000 Stirling grant for bonfire building courtesy of the Council , i kid you not that is why the do not care about the value or otherwise of the pallets
Arlene Foster urged those who build bonfires to “do what you want but TRY not to wind up the Fen1ans”. Enjoy your salary for doing fe1c all!!!
Sadly used to seeing it year after year, its seeing recently KKK, Nazi and confederate flags plus the disgusting racist banner against Scott Sinclair starting to pop up, like hating catholics just isnt enough.
This hate fest needs to be faced down like Afrikaner racist hate was faced down. Like the kkk is faced down in America. It needs to become an embarrassment to be associated with it. Instead we get the DUP funding it and applauding it..
@gordon kennedy: nutshell
A culture of hate . They should take their culture back to Scotland
@free Palestine: I think John Lennon got it right in his song bloody Sunday. “Repatriate to Britain those of you who call it home, leave Ireland to the Irish not to London nor to Rome”
They should be ashamed of them selfs , but the bigots in the north will never change and the same people voted for the loyalist party and are going to form part of the English government. I can’ see the north of Ireland slipping back twenty years.
It’s time for the Irish government to step in and share rule with the uk before its to late
So we just have to accept that the burning of our national flag down the road from us is part of someones culture. Can u imagine the coverage if it was someone burning a pile of USA flags? Or even the Union Jack? It makes me so sad to see such hate on our doorstep.
Can the Unionist claim Ash for Cash from these bonfires ???
Ban all the parades once and for all. That carry on is on the same level as those ISIS thugs. Karma karma karma karma ..the karma police are always on duty folks.
@Kieran Mc Donnell: Banning the marches is probably the quickest possible way of inciting a riot.
Now I think the Unionists who do this kind of thing are backward fools, but I much prefer silly parades to riots.
@Malachi: the law is tooooooooooo soft. There is a young irish lad in an Egyptian jail for 5 years because he innocently participated in the wrong march/riot to be seen in . If those folk got a taste of that law enforcement they would think twice about rioting
@Kieran Mc Donnell: Yeah, but thankfully Ireland isn’t run as a dictatorship (like Egypt).
@Malachi: of course 5 years in an egyptian jails is wrong but certainly a stretch of what ever lenght would deter trouble makers. If things were run a bit more in the real world those offenders would have more respect. For sure. The laws are to soft for rioters.
@Malachi: I thought you would be looking for the anti-Catholic bonfires to be extended down South.
Have you ever been to a riot? It’s great crack
Trees are just pallets that have not reached their full kultural potential.
That is just downright disgusting. The hatred up the north is still very much alive.I actually feel sorry for them.To be so pre-occupied with such venom is very sad.
If only they waited to Halloween, such a waste of good pallets. Still on the plus side, it’s nice to see the tricolour flying high. If only it was made from non-flammable material.
If you want to understand the bitterness in the north look no further than the 12th July
” celebrations” where they celebrate a battle in 1690 and use it to deny equality to others!
This culture despised “taigs” long before there was troubles! Lord Brookboroughs boast that he wouldn’t have a catholic about the place is as true for these bigots today as it was then!
The bigotry on display at this time of the year is in many ways reminiscent of the KKK in the deep south.
Some are so blinded by hate for the IRA they are quite happy to see the Uppity N*****s get taken down a peg or two!
Sad really!
Why has no one arrested them for using the blue pallets as they are hired out to companies and stealing them to use is still stealing?
Their actions just proves who they are, is anyone surprised?
@Alois Irlmaier: Yes: Smurfit/GKN/Chep.
Hate crime. Why is this tolerated in this day & age & not treated as such???
@Scunnerred. Notoriety wasn’t sought by Martin McGuiness it sought him. All he wanted to do was serve an apprenticeship but the Unionist regime and B-Specials wouldn’t allow it. I am not condoning the IRA’s actions for one minute but I can tell you this as someone who lived through the conflict as a child and young adult I can fully understand stand their actions. Furthermore, it riles me when someone passes Judgement on Martin McGuinness (and anyone else) just as much as that hate fest against Catholics that is allowed to happen every July
I’m going as Arlene Foster for Halloween imagine waking up next to that THE HORROR
I suppose we are looking at the dregs of the unionist community, no worse than our own who haunt us each Halloween. The majority of decent people north and south find this type of carry on highly distasteful and would in no way condone it.
@winston smith: While they may not be out with their dregs of society brethren tonight sitting around the bonfire drinking cans of “Dutch” Gold, they will demand to be allowed to walk down Garvaghy Road singing their hateful sectarian songs and banging on their big drums. And those of them who are not donning their orange sashes and stupid hats will be standing on the footpath waving their union jacks and cheering them along. There is no such thing as class in the loyalist cult so I don’t understand the faux snobbery you allude to.
These people are so sad, this 2017. I would hate to think what they would bring to the table if there was a united Ireland. Arlene Foster is the new Paisley.
The strange thing is….the people who will be applauding the burning of this crap are not only the street tugs but nurses, teachers, policemen and ordinary people. Makes ya wonder if they see anything wrong with being a bigot?
@Darren Mccarthy: The majority of unionists are not like this, they just turn a blind eye, because let’s face it, they would be threatened and labelled if they spoke out!!
@Darren Mccarthy: wow, such ignorance.
Ironically the same mindset required to join the idiots who build the bonfires.
Having lived in the north most of my life I can tell you I know nobody who supports them, would you stand up to gang of thugs in your area? I doubt it.
@TonyFantozi: very little support for the bonfires, they’re nearly all on dodgy housing estates full of disenfranchised idiots. And too few willing to tackle them.
If it was on your street would you go out and try to stop them? You’d be a marked man.
Peace in Northern Ireland ……
So, over 300 years ago, a Dutch, Protestant Prince, defeats a Scottish King in a battle in Co.Meath Both using, even to them, foreign armies. Now the celebration of that is called culture?. It’s just out and out, childish, our religion beat your religion nonsense.
Are the bonfires not having a bad effect on the environment with the toxic smoke given off.
Wank#rs
I have read the effin rubbish in comments praising the British ‘Enlightenment’ with its anti-Catholic ideology. These people were so dumb that if anyone went to the battle of the Boyne site on the 12th July 1690 nothing would have happened. The correction necessary to bring the calendar in line with the Solstice and Equinox points instituted by the Church in 1580 wasn’t introduced in Britain and therefore Ireland until 1751.
The Battle of the Boyne happened on July 1st 1690 as they reckoned it back then and the Battle of Aughrim on the 12th July 1690 so they had to give the Battle of the Boyne importance after they reluctantly fixed the calendar correction.
Great to see the Royal Society dunces still on the go in the Journal comments.
When city councils have to go to the courts to try and prevent the unsafe construction of bonfires, that should be a concern…. When police officers are afraid to enter areas where the construction of unsafe bonfires is taking place because of the risk of inciting violence, that should be a concern…. When peoples homes have to be boarded up and families temporarily moved out to protect them from the overspill of the fires, that should be a concern…. But there seems to be a different concept during the 12th of July celebrations in Northern Ireland as to what is safe, and enjoyable for all, and what is ridiculously stupid behaviour.
Better they burn pallets and effigies ,rather than Nationalist homes
@Brian O Reilly: ”tis there culture boss to burn, something.
No Surrender. No Brains.
So the loyalists are having their annual fix. Who are they loyal to? Certainly not the U.K. Certainly not the U.K. Parliament. If their Queen forbade the bonfires they would not obey her. I think they are loyal to nothing.
Unfortunately, it will take a awful long time for them to wake up to the ways of the real world.
Bonfires????? The more ash, the more cash…. Simple really
DIRTBAGS..FROM THE MINORS TO THE ADULTS…! I keep seeing an Israeli flag flying near these Bonfires Every year..A sign that they love there aparthied Ways of living.They love to hate there Neighbours..BURN THE LOT OF THEM..
These Thicks put an Ivory Coast flag on a bonfire…we are looking at a dying breed folks..shall we mourn them…no..
Do they do free cremations for taigs ? Could be a good business opportunity for the rabid hoards up there.
Culture? It’s just hate speech and violence. It’s disgusting. The whole lot should be banned. Smug b*stards. Ugh I have rage now!
Answer: Secular State with Christianity confined to Church buildings and private conscience. Christianity is a fantasy to overcome the finality of death and as such it is a death cult. How macabre is a bloodstained piece of rag allegedly belonged to a dead Mother Theresa being visited by hundreds of thousands and being promoted by the Catholic Church as an Indulgence and the Protestants celebrating a bloodbath called the Battle of the Boyne which happened over 300 years ago- Christian killing Christian………….get real!
Orange is the new bad.
@neuromancer: But why?
and let’s see you go pull them down!
Pigs in Bowlers !
Would they ever grow up the fu(king bitter idiots
@Meekus: these people can’t move on, they are stuck, they can’t adapt they’ll become extinct. Ignore them.
The Dirty filthy loyalist sc
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