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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know before you head out the door.
1. #JILL MEAGHER The man accused of murdering Irish woman Jill Meagher has denied the charge. Adrian Ernest Bayley (41) also pleaded not guilty to two of the three rape charges that he is facing at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court today. He pleaded guilty to one charge of rape.
2. #CONCLAVE The cardinals have moved into the Vatican today to begin the process of selecting the next Roman Catholic pope. The 115 cardinal electors will take part in the process in the Sistine Chapel, completely cut off from the outside world.
3. #MENTAL HEALTH The Mental Health Commission has called for a re-examination of the way in which the HSE dealt with John Butler, who took his life and those of his two daughters. His wife, and mother of his daughters, Una Butler, will be involved in the process. Una met with the inspector of mental health services and the chief executive of the Mental Health Commission last month.
4. #NICOLA FURLONG The family of murdered Irish woman Nicola Furlong have given their victim impact statements in court in Japan today. Her sister Andrea spoke of her “hatred for the accused”, American Richard Hinds. Reports say that two of the jurors and one judge cried during the statements.
5. #FACEBOOK Colaiste Chiaráin in Croom, Co Limerick has suspended 28 students after they liked a Facebook update that contained explicit comments about a teacher’s personal life. The school principal referred to it as a “highly sensitive matter” and said that the content was in breach of its acceptable usage and anti-bullying policies.
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That would be ideal for Ireland if it had front and rear .50 calibre machine guns, hedgehog mortor pads, Bouncing Betty and Claymore mine perimetre outlay, smoke generators, surface to air missile systems, priority target HUD, ridged Kevlar body finishing and the makings of a cup of tea.
@Paul Culligan: Some jihadi somewhere is drooling over your description.
@Paul Culligan: You play Call of Duty too.
How is this even news? These mobile banks already exist especially in the west
They had this in mayo in the 1980s.
@Michael Ruane: Our IRA friends targeted them.
Another bank crash waiting to happen.
@Ala Alowska:
If you can find a lender….
Ulster bank fo the same on donegal Shame that they won’t let you pat a cheque at the counter in the branch anymore. Love the way banks treat customers as an annoyance
Hardly ground breaking news, didn’t they used to do the same here with mobile banks in the 80′s?
Same with travelling libraries (which they still do)!
Where did the Germans get that brilliant idea?
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West Cork?
Piecemeal commitment to personal customers. At a major high street branch of a big bank in the UK recently and they had a grand total of 2 tellers servicing a long queue, while trying to herd people towards self service machines. Normal account holders are considered an inconvenience now.
@Shane McGettrick:
Must say the self service machines in banks are one of the best inventions ever!! No questions from a noisy teller
Kinihans and Hutch’s etc would cream themselves with this soft target
@Tom Harpur: there’s no cash on board so I doubt that they’d be bothered ..
Banksters here will be joining the Truckers Union next, did they ever find Hoffa?
What they don’t tell you is that you must pay for every transaction. Cash withdrawal, cheque lodgement, money transfer etc.
@Rear Admiral: So like a bank then?
@Rear Admiral: The rise of the cyrptocurrencies peer to peer transactions with no middle diddle men and women is the future, a cashless society is on the way it will take a while yet to sort out the glitches in the systems ,but the Banksters are not happy about the rise of the cyrpto’s
@Robert O’Rourke: Does your bank charge you to take out money? I would change if I were you.
@Rear Admiral: Transaction fees are quite normal.
This was normal in west cork in the 70s
I’d rather see a mobile brothel come to town with “Die – Sparkass” on the side of it. And “Anything You Need.” Would that circumnavigate the law on criminalising the punter? …in rural (and urban, of course,) Ireland mobile bonking means a bonk in a bunk in the back of a truck visiting different towns.
Believe it or not but the Mobile Bank of Ireland used to stop at our house every week on its way to the village in the seventies.That what I call service .
So instead of robbing a bank you can hijack the bank instead lol.
But knowing the roads here, it wouldn’t last too long…
We have them already in Towns across Cavan , are you brain dead
@Oliver: Are they not called boats lol.
GTA just got real, money on wheels.. Genius
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