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The Daily PollDESPITE THE CONTROVERSY over the Government’s website and information booklet, the electorate will go to the polls tomorrow to vote in the long-awaited Children’s Rights Referendum.
The intention of the proposed new article, the wording of which can be found here, is to protect children, support families and ensure the equal treatment of under 18s.
It recognises the “natural and imprescriptible rights of all children” and ensures they will be protected by law. It allows for the State to become the guardian for children in exceptional cases – regardless of their parents marital status – if the safety and welfare of the child is found by a court to be at risk. The new article will also provide for adoption when a court finds that is in the best interests of the child.
Writing for TheJournal.ie today, Fergus Finlay has said a Yes vote will end the culture of children not being seen or heard in Ireland. However, social worker and former foster parent Pat Kavanagh argues that a No vote is in the best interests of children.
How will you be voting in tomorrow’s Children’s Referendum?
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Shatters smart policing cuts… Working i see!!
“…the prisoner escaped..”
*GASP*
“from the van, unharmed…”
*sigh*
I passed it this morning. It was actually one of the small rigid trucks for transporting prisoners not a van. It was looking serious at that stage. Lots of thick smoke and a couple of guards and a prisoner sitting on the barrier up the motorway. At least no one was injured. Vehicles are replaceable, people are not..
And if the prisoner had to have been injured he’d take the state to court and get thousands. Paid for by all of us. Ridiculous.
To be honest i think he’d be perfectly entitled to sue if he received injuries as a result of being locked in the back of a Garda van whilst it went up in flames, also it may just be that the prisoner in question is only remanded in custody for the duration of his trial,he may be completely innocent.
Talk about a hot pursuit
I would have thought garda cars and vans would be some of the safest on the road, regular servicing, checking, repairs and all that, apparently not.
It was probably on its last legs Damien, have you seen some of the heaps Gardai are supposed to use these days!
They are serviced but they are hardly kept the same as if they gardai personally owned the vehicles
Damien if only you knew what goes on in On Garda Siochana re front line Garda and their Transport, it beggars believe. Keystone Cops eat your heart out.
“HOT FUZZ” part 2??
Thankfully not body hurt from this incident
Mmmmm…….bacon…….
My apartment overlooks garda hq, watched them unload the van from my balcony it’s in some state. The entire cab section seems to have melted/burned away.
Pity it didn’t blow up!!
Garda are nothing but corrupt sc*m
Your names peeping Tom for a reason… Quiet down now and go learn what your talking about first before being negative!
It’s handy to have an obscure profile name to hide behind.
Peepin tom jus remember that comment nxt time u pick up the phone to call 999 ya fool
Garda cheese eating rats.
Nathan, Noel & nip did you 3 fail your exams to become Garda??
Your right Mattie some dirty culchie took a lump of hash off me 6 years ago… Dirt birds
Some muldoon took my manhood. Dirty stool pigeons
Peeping Tom: Or another way of putting it would be; you let ‘some dirty culchie’ find and take your nodge you dumb f*ck
Nodge?? Speak English you moron
Tony.. Yesterday must have been confusing for you, giving your brother a Father’s Day present an all
Peeping Tom your are you one of them inbred Dublin gouger’s
A muldoon calling a Dub inbred. Now iv seen everything
Dezil did you get your brother a box of condoms & a bottle of lube for Father’s Day?
Or maybe that’s just everyday for you
Tom why don’t you get back to playing your Xbox and pulling your todger
Pull my todger.
Great comeback Denzil..
Game. Set. Match. Peeping Tom of the Peepers
I’ll leave you at it Tom I’ve to be up early for work , you prob won’t be up till after dinner then down to collect your dole
I’m actually a tradesman you dirt box & I guarantee I’m up a lot earlier than you!!
Peeping Tom get a life, and forget that grudge you have with On Garda Siochana why is it again that you have come to their attention.
What do you trade tom horses at Smithfield Market, oh n don’t forget the drugs.
Pic is Irish prison service van not a Garda prison van
Thanks for changing the pic and to the red thumbers…..suck my chocolate salty balls
That’s not a picture of a Garda prison van.
Seen it on the back of the tow truck. It was a 7.5 ton iveco about 2002 reg
Peeping Tom. On another day you’d probably have been the prisoner in the back!
Smokey & The Bandit !!
Mmmm was it one of those Mercedes vans which always go on fire , I recall a few went up A few years ago
It’ll be a Ford or a Fiat.
Seen a van today whilst passing inchicore on a flat bed,,apart from been burned out at the cab it looked old and ratty,like an old small box rigid body,
You gotta be careful of those hash sparks!
I’m actually a tradesman you dirt box!! I guarantee your not getting up as early as me
was this the van
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