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Every afternoon, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you really need to know at 5 o’clock.
1. #IVOR THE TERRIBLE: Today in the Seanad, Senator Ivor Callely began praising the recent High Court ruling against his Seanad suspension last summer, before being interrupted by the Cathaoirleach calling time. Speaking over the Cathaoirleach and the bell, Callely quoted from the Bible: “You shall know the truth – and the truth shall set you free”.
2. #BAILOUT: Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan are due to meet European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in an hour’s time, to discuss the possibility of Ireland renegotiating its EU/IMF bailout agreement. Billionaire former investor George Soros says it’s “patently unfair” Irish people have to absorb the total losses caused by the banks, while the bondholders are “free”.
3. #KINDLE: Online store Amazon has announced that the number of ebooks sold for the Kindle device has now overtaken the site’s sale of paperbacks.
4. #GE11: Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin may intervene in the party’s election planning by moving candidates between constituencies. Martin is reportedly concerned about the number of candidates Fianna Fáil is running in some constituencies.
5. #FACELUCK: A Dublin man has tracked down his stolen car after someone who saw his appeal on Facebook spotted the vehicle. Warren Coakley, 34, saw his Audi A4 being stolen from outside his house in Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15 over a week ago. Five days later, with the help of Facebook, he found it in Mulhuddart.
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There is ALWAYS more than one reason for an accident, blaming the driver entirely is wrong in my opinion. For instance, a reckless individual would have been noted by somebody else in the company at least once in the past 13 yrs. We will have to wait for the final report to know ALL the factors that caused this tragedy.
He woke up on thursday mornin as a train driver.. He went to sleep with a charge of reckless manslaughter of 78 people hanging over him..
His life is ruined no matter how guilty or innocent he is.. Along with all the other families who lost loved ones…
I wouldn’t make my mind up about any incident like this until a full technical report about the track/train was published,this seems all a bit too quick,he’s still in hospital FFS
Agreed. Let the man recover a bit first before charging at him with axes and burning torches.
This man should be put down after this act of negligence! Bragging on his Facebook page about goin 200 kph you would think he was a teenager. Hope he never sleeps again thinking of what he did
Have you forgotten the possibility that it may not be his fault ? An unlikely possibility maybe but angry mob mentality will do nobody any good.
I think there is the possibility that the Facebook page was a fake.
Have to agree with you there Patrick. And @ the journal.ie… why did you report yesterday that he had been charged with reckless homicide and now he faces “possible charges of reckless homicide”!? Same guy, two different qoutes??
I presume the driver didn’t get up in the morning and say ” I’m going to kill a load of passengers today” ……….
I have to agree there with the comment @ Journal. Come on guys – you’ve got a great news portal already without resorting to sensationalism. Leave that to the experts at Sky.
Hi there,
I don’t think any article yesterday said the driver was charged? There was one which said he had been detained since Thursday “for the alleged crimes of reckless homicide” but there was no mention of charges.
Hi Jennifer,
My apologies… It wasn’t here on The Journal that I read that. Got them mixed up. Damn, I hate my obsession with the news :)
Sorry Jennifer.
Ah, that’s what you get for reading your news elsewhere ;) No worries, guys.
From what I’ve read in the Spanish media, the accident occurred pretty much at the point where the train moved from AVE (high speed) lines with very advanced signaling that controls the trains’ speed and won’t allow a driver to exceed speed limits to a conventional normal speed line where signaling systems wouldn’t control the train speed but only advise the driver of it.
I think we need to wait for the dust to settle and allow the technical investigation to run its course before we jump to any conclusions about the driver.
The investigation will be very through and that’s a very high tech train so it will have onboard camera and data recorders.
They’ll go through this much like an air crash investigation.
Innocent ’til proven guilty, eh ? Oh, sorry, wrong way around for some on here. As others have said;, ignore the media speculation and wait for the full report. Media speculates to sell their product, regardless of fallout to any individual, the driver in this case. Benefit of the doubt, people, benefit of the doubt.
Innocent ’til proven guilty, eh ? Oh, sorry, wrong way around for some on here. As others have said;, ignore the media speculation and wait for the full report. Media speculates to sell their product, regardless of fallout to any individual, the driver in this case. Benefit of the doubt, people, benefit of the doubt.
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