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DOZENS OF boxes of fireworks were seized in Dublin yesterday evening ahead of Halloween.
As part of ongoing investigations related to Operation Tombola, which targets the supply of illegal fireworks, gardaí carried out a search of a premises in Finglas yesterday evening.
In total, 29 boxes of multi-fire fireworks valued at approximately €8,000 were seized.
In advance of a busy night for all emergency services, An Garda Síochána is reminding people that the sale, possession and use of fireworks in Ireland is illegal.
As part of Operation Tombola, Gardaí conducted a search of a premises yesterday in Finglas.
— Garda Info (@gardainfo) October 31, 2023
29 boxes of fireworks were seized worth €8,000.
Fireworks are dangerous & cause distress to people & pets. They also have the potential to cause fires.#KeepingPeopleSafe pic.twitter.com/Unk2IQfhvf
“Fireworks are dangerous and can cause serious injury and/or distress to people and pets, as well as potentially causing fires in properties if they continue to burn after landing,” gardaí said in a statement.
It is an offence to throw or direct any ignited firework at a person or property.
Gardaí are particularly appealing to parents and adults to advise children of the hazards fireworks pose.
Anyone with any information relating to the illegal use or sale of fireworks is asked to contact their local Garda station or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.
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1st world problems …
She should have given it to charity, Rehab maybe?
Billionaires worrying about pennies.
The times they are a changing.
Look after cents- euros will look after themselves .
…or something like that! :)
A rock gets that value, metal gets another value, sad world we live in!
Hope he gets it back… Poor man could only afford to buy his daughter an island for her birthday
Poor woman has been through the wringer, I hope she gets that €2.5 billion. She deserves every cent.
Imagine that’s all you had to worry about !!!!!!!
Michael I don’t know about you but if someone stole a ring on me worth 50 million I’d be fairly worried
I agree 100% but the magic word is IF sounds like a squabble over who gets the cat to these guys lol mad !!!!! Different world!!!
I’d say that week were the banks shut down was enough time for him to remove his money.
‘A ring worth as much as €50 million’….. Interesting concept really. It is a piece of jewellery, therefore it serves no practical purpose. Is it’s intrinsic value therefore nothing? It’s only worth €50M because people who can afford to spend that much money frivolously have a desire to possess such an item. Always fascinates me how particular metals and minerals dug from the earth are valued so highly for their appearance rather than their practical use.
Sounds similar to house prices in Ireland?
I wonder what pussy riots position on this is
Diamonds are worthless, don’t believe me. Maybe you’ll believe this man,,,,,De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer confessed, “Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.”
Marriage, what’s mine is yours, he took her youth. She gave him kids/family then he thinks, next next so courts should know half. Pity real men are rare.
Same could be said of women
He took much more than that Colleen, I’d say!
Probably billions of roubles belonging to the Russian people, following the madness in that country after the fall of communism, where the politicians and the oligarchs divided up and kept the country’s “family silver” for themselves, essentially paving the way for one-party rule there.
The “real men” will be those Russians who try and recover the booty for their state and it’s citizens, when the nation realises how much it has been swindled by these oligarchs.
How did he take her youth? It’s not like he abused her. Surely she enjoyed her youth in lavish surroundings. Real men aren’t all that rare, they just save themselves for the women that deserve them.
Nice one!
The poor kids, oh no there not poor ! God help them grow up sane.
Is the €100,000 figure correct near the end there. It dos’ent really make sense.
It was the savings threshold on which people got taxed…if you had more the €100k in savings you got that tax
Ah ok!
Makes sense now.
Cheers.
Vulgar.
€50 million is an enormous sum of money – for instance, it is probably like £2 million or so from the 1960s adjusted for inflation, which was a mind-boggling amount at the time.
The existence of these stupid-rich billionaires, increased numbers of rich people around the world, higher expectations of living standards, higher wages etc. all devalue in our minds enormous sums of money. For somebody taking home €50,000 a year after tax, a decent sum, and who takes home the equivalent of €2.25 million in 45 years (ignoring social welfare benefits like pension etc.), €50 million is over 22 lifetimes of earnings.
According to the wealth x report for 2013/2014, there are only 113,135 adults in the world worth over $50 million, or €36.35 million (ie. €13.65 million less than €50 million … a huge lotto win less than €50 million).
If 75% of the world population of 7,215 million are adults, there are about 5,411 million adults. So only 1 in every 47,827 adults around the world (approximately) is worth over €36.35 million.
So approximately 47,826 out 47,827 adults around the world are worth under €36.35 million. And the number worth over €50 million is much fewer again. So, one ring worth €50 million is just crazy. I love having accurate perspective on large abstract numbers.
A bit more of a detailed breakdown would be nice please.
Meh, I have a hatred for inflation and in particular it irks me to notice the term “millionaire” becoming less meaningful over time – 20 years ago there were hardly any millionaires and those that existed were rich and it was something to dream of, never mind in every decade prior to that . .. nowadays €1 million isn’t that much, and even €10 million doesn’t hold the same allure that £1 million used to hold. Every footballer in the premier league being millionaires a few times over really grinds my gears. Celebrities being worth hundreds of millions … argghh. I can’t get it out my head that a *million* is meant to mean something, even if it is just an arbitrary figure! I am basically insane.
Diamond prices are artificially maintained by a cartel which hoards the world diamond stocks to avoid over supply ruining their massively inflated prices for crystals worth a fraction of their price if there was a proper market.
First concocted in the last century my marketeers as a ‘must have’ for your wedding, if you try to sell your ring in the secondhand market you’ll get a shock how much you were swindled in that glittering window down the laneway from Bewleys.
Secondhand stones in antique jewellers can be a bargain, but they are also inflated if joe public walks in the door with his eyes like saucers at all the sparkles.
They took a haircut on their €100,000 savings.
That’s the house deposit gone so.
Colleen take that flip flop out of your mouth.
I was only keeping it simple, they met as students, and I betcha if she would have known there was going to be infidelity on his part. She wouldn’t have married him, she was busy with their girls, when she realised he was.
And @ Amy, it is a form of abuse, where She married for love and then while building up his business, he is off having affairs, and still with her, “health wise too. Not to mention he killed off his business partner in 96. She must have been living in fear too. He really is the devil.
@shane, I could care less what Russia is up to, but you just know when a when a woman is pissed and revenge is only going to get bigger. If it was here practically nothing. Flip flip. I don’t own any. Wet shoes for our beaches lol
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