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THE FUNERAL OF the former IRA chief of staff Ruairí O Brádaigh was attended by gardaí in full riot gear today.
Gardaí said there were no incidents and no arrests at the event and that the gardaí in riot gear were present for ‘operational reasons’.
Ó Brádaigh was Chief of Staff of the IRA from 1958 to 1959 and 1960 to 1962. He was also president of Sinn Féin from 1970 to 1983 and president of Republican Sinn Féin from 1987 to 2009. He joined Sinn Féin in 1950 and died on 5 June aged 80.
Ó Brádaigh was imprisoned after taking part in the Teeling Column attack on Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in County Fermanagh in 1956.
He was elected a Sinn Féin TD for the Longford-Westmeath constituency in 1957.
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A whole 168 people? Seems legit.
164 in fact. And was probably carried out on their facebook page.
The way that this survey is misleading. It’s fairly impossible to initiate contact with somebody via email unless you know their address. It would trying to guess their mobile number. Facebook is similar to a directory so you have the advantage of looking them up. So of course Facebook will trump email on first contact.
Must people I know – and I’m not a student – don’t "email" on Facebook but will chat. Email is still a primary channel of communication.
Yes, 168 is far from a realistic sample size to start drawing conclusions and issuing statements.
No one in my year sends emails, most only have an email to be able to use Facebook/social networking sites. 95-100% of my year have a Facebook.
The expression “no shit sherlock” springs to mind
What is this “email” of which you speak?
Interesting. I would have thought that students would have been encouraged to have a linked in page set up in order for them to acquire employment.
Any one on Google yet?
I think what the survey is highlighting is what Brian mentioned above. If you look for someone on facebook you will most likely find them and have a profile photo to hopefully verify you have the correct person. Even if you preform a google search on a name, facebook results are usually within the top 5 links
The same can be said for Linkedin
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