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THE FAMILY OF a Brazilian woman Josie Ribeiro who died after being struck by a truck while cycling on Dolphin’s Barn Bridge last month has called for better and safer roads in Dublin.
The incident took place at around 12.30pm on 6 November. She was taken to St James’ Hospital with serious injuries and was later pronounced dead.
The family has issued a statement today through the Calm Crumlin Road campaign group and said it is their “deepest desire that her sacrifice helps the Dublin population to have better and safer roads”.
“We hope her memory and her tragedy makes people think twice about the everlasting consequences of not caring for each other,” the family said.
“She paid with her life so hopefully other people and families don’t have to go through such an intense and piercing pain,” they said.
The family thanked the public for the “love and support” that has been provided to them over the past three weeks.
They said the last three weeks have been “the most difficult time in our lives”.
“Josie was a one-of-a-kind woman, a truly remarkable human being. She made friends everywhere she went during the 36 years she was allowed to walk this earth. Her dreams were made of experiences and tastes, of different languages and foods, of human beings coming together despite the differences. Of spiritual bonding,” the family said.
“She had a thirst for adventure and a burning desire of being truly free. Her dream seeking adventures led her to New Zealand, Spain, France, England and Ireland. She could not be stopped, because her free spirit was so powerful that no one or nothing could ever stand on her way.”
They added: “May her beloved soul rest in peace and the memory of her beautiful heart helps the people of Ireland and Dublin to be more humane, and the rulers and administrators to take actions that would help keep our Irish brothers and sisters safe.”
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What a great world we live in,those animals need culling,not court
This is vile and a sad reality of wars. Maybe we can get a write up about the rapes happening across Europe, that are liked to migrants?
@Ladude: linked
Are these the very illegal migrants that O Gorman is so concerned about ?
@Mike Cantwell:
If you mean the victims of such atrocities, yes they would have been exactly the kind of people to whom we have a legal obligation to offer protection at the time of this conflict and when they, on the basis of their religion (mostly Muslim) and ethnicity were being subjected to grave human rights violations and war crimes.
As always, we continue to campaign for justice and reparations for victims of such atrocities and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
And when anyone even mentions that migrants are causing a string of sexual assaults in Europe, we are called racist, bigots and what ever else. And women should not be oppressed, but mention anything about Islam oppressing their women and we are called bigots, trump lovers, racists… It’s mind boggling
Good man Colm you have a lot of work ahead of you as the mostly Muslim illegal immigrants cause havoc throughout Europe , in a generation our little Island will have the same problems we see throughout Britain and Europe as the number of Muslims continue to grow here so when we have ” calls ” for Sharia , forced marriages , segregated classes for boys and girls etc etc we can thank people like yourself , everyone in Ireland who is concerned about what’s coming down the tracks needs to read Infidel by Aayn Hirsi Ali otherwise we will end up with our own Dewsbury , Molenbeek or Malmö
@Mike Cantwell: my other comment was deleted for what ever reason. These sjw are actually happy to see the west fall into chaos.
Telling the truth can get you into bother Lad , the looney left have no arguments / facts to justify their idiocy but rely on ” feelings ” , so as Islam gets a foothold in Ireland we will instances of FGM , forced marriages , demands for segregated swimming lessons etc etc , the left will ignore all this and talk about ” understanding ” , diversity and the usual excuses meanwhile Ireland will be divided into ” communities ” that have ruined Britain with every community fighting their corner , Ireland as we know it with its faults will change for the worse and all because those in power did not take sensible decisions re immigration
@Mike Cantwell: we both know the right is without its faults, but the left kept pushing and Proding the right. The right started questioning their logic and pushing and Prodding them self’s, and finding many holes and contradiction in their arguments. Actually many people who were not political at all have become political because of the left dogged determination to show why they should not be in charge of a country.
Yeah the majority of the rapists left and probably came to the UK and Ireland and got away with it.
I hope they’re reading this.
LIved next door to a survivor of the Bosnian war in Western Australia. He used to tell me about his and his wife’s experiences a lot. He ended up being rescued from a camp where the Bosnian Muslims were being held. To his credit, he told me they managed to be at peace and not hold on to any anger but he said he’ll never erase the cruelty he witnessed. All for what?
Colm O’Gorman – the very definition of irrelevance.
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