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MET ÉIREANN HAS issued a weather warning to 12 counties today.
Snow-ice is expected in Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Meath, Donegal, Mayo, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford.
The meteorologists predict snow showers which will give accumulations of between three and eight centimetres across the country.
“Snow will lie at lower levels, as well as on high ground. Amounts will be highest in coastal counties of Leinster.”
There will also be fresh to strong, gusty northeast winds, making for blizzard conditions in places during snow showers.
Highest temperatures will be between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius. There is better news for tomorrow with “good sunshine and temperatures of 4 to 5 degrees”.
AA Roadwatch has urged caution on roads today because of icy conditions, snow coatings and fallen trees.
If you spot any of those powdery flakes in your area over the next few days, snap a picture and sent it to tips@thejournal.ie.
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Sure give them a house there!
@DL_8_5: Yeah. At least they’ll have proper shelter in prison haha.
@DL_8_5: You will have to wait a few hours maybe till 10 or 11 am before you get counter arguments from the “everyone in the audience gets a free house brigade” or the its the “governments/bankers/tax payers fault crew” as it was dole day yesterday so they had to put in a long day in at the bookies or pub.
@Jonathan Whelan: Ohhhhhh that’s gonna BURN. Well said
@Jonathan Whelan: Stereotyping much?
@Andrew Giles: hmm I’d say its more stastical analysis than sterotyping!
@Jonathan Whelan: you’ve obviously never had the displeasure of being unemployed and on the dole then, trust me, you’re stereotyping.
@Jonathan Whelan: What are you talking about Johnny boy, did you not hear we are back to full employment. If you don’t believe me ask Leo.
Ps I get a half day today
@Derek Poutch: ha ha good man good to see some light hearted comments!
@Andrew Giles: awww no I actually have been, was on a project 9 years ago and they were laying lads off. I put my name forward as the rest of the lads had mortgages and one had a baby on the way. Was nothing going work wise so diversified and went out trawling to make a quid! All about drive n attitude!
Why suspend part of a sentence for a man with 67 convictions? Mind boggling.
@Dj: I think the idea of suspending part of a sentence is , that you have to abide by probation rules and can be monitored , and that if you let slip , you have to finish out your sentence .
So in a way , it’s keeping tabs on you when you get out .
@Ken Hayden: Fair enough but someone who has dozens of convictions has obviously proved to be a high risk repeat offender so why not just give him the full sentence and put him on probation when he gets out.
@Dj: Am no legal expert , but I would imagine the probation part would have to be included in your sentence , hence the suspended part .
Maybe someone knows the law and can post .
I hope we never get to the 3 strikes rule , but some people obviously consider the rule of law a joke , when they can commit 67 crimes and not be jailed .
@Ken Hayden: they cant be keeping tabs on him if he had a string of convictions!!! And i highly doubt they will now…
@Ken Hayden: I’m no legal w pert either but isn’t privation different Dron suspending part of your set sentence? The for is decided by the judge at sentencing time, when the latter is more to do with prisons letting you out early in a monitored way?
“snuck”. Fabulous. The standard term for the past tense of the word “sneak” is “sneaked”. “Snuck” is informal and really has no place in professional journalism.
@Maria Hickey-Fagan:
“snuck” is a recognised word but more commonly used in North American english:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/is-snuck-a-real-word
‘Mannerly Burglaries’. Love it!
Homeless men with an address at…
Sure they have a roof over their heads now and food everyday.
Well when your government won’t take care of you what do you expect to happen?
How about they take care of themselves
@Cameron O’Toole: Yes Talbot should be doing a life sentence. After 67 convictions its clear he will be nothing other than a criminal. The government has failed the people of Ireland.
As for your comment. It is not upto the government to house every junkie in the country. The government do not have to take care of people. Most of us take care of ourselves. The government didnt put the syringe into these men
@Cathal: They were until the Guards got involved :-)
@Cameron O’Toole: the government has never looked after me and im not living on the streets or on drugs or go around commiting crime… i look after myself!! And why should the government look after them??
Probably the only time in their lives these two guys will ever wear high-vis jackets.
Homeless, great tag line,
Two ##### bags more like it
At least they’ll get better treatment in prison. A warm bed and food, maybe a chance at rehabilitation that could lead to education and getting them off the streets, and people in prison won’t ignore them and pretend they are not there.
@Liberal Larry: Ya, it’s society’s fault that one of these men decided to leave school at 12 and go on to lead a life of crime. Instead of ignoring these criminal drug addicts society should have embraced them. How many criminals are you friends with Larry?
@Liberal Larry: yes Larry it’s the Governments fault, numbnuts
67 convictions? Where is the social equality when normal people struggling to make ends meet dont pay the likes of a tv licence and get jail ? Anything over 20 convictions automatic maximum jail term applicable for each particular crime. If working people pay more tax for the more they earn, like wise career criminals should have to pay more time in jail for the increasing number of convictions. Also in respect to free legal aid for criminal cases, guilty verdict = defendant liabile for legal costs. Garnish there future dole to recoup.
If homeless how come they gave addresses of where they lived
Why the big ‘homeless’ in the heading. Cheap shot headline.
If they have addresses how are they homeless?
How dare they. The cheek of them coming over here to our country and taking our women….and phones……oh wait!!@
Shame they didnt put as much effort into hetting a job
Snuck?
Does anyone ever serve the suspended part of these sentences? People seem to be serial offenders but I have never heard of time being added to convictions because they had reoffended after a previous suspended sentence. Can anyone shed light on this?
Lock them up and throw away the “glide”
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