Gardai are advising people not to approach a missing teenager – believed to be armed with a rifle and a number of rounds of ammunition in County Clare.
19 year old Jack Dinan was last seen at his home in Considine Road, Ennis yesterday, at around 10am in the morning.
Jack is described as 6 feet in height, of slim build with black hair and may be carrying a green rucksack.
Gardai are advising the public NOT to approach him, but to instead contact gardai.
Irish Rail workers on strike in the Shannosndie region have expressed their frustration at being on the picket line this morning.
No train services of any kind are running today across the region, as NBRU and SIPTU workers stage the first of five planned days of industrial action at Irish Rail in a row with management over a proposed pay rise.
Drivers have taken to the picket lines demanding a no strings attached pay rise, but Irish Irish Rail says it’s unaffordable.
Commuters hoping to access bus services are being warned that pick ups at train stations, including at Longford, are unlikely to be from the regular stops,.
The Bus Eireann service manager in the Midlands has advised that:
Derek Nolan from the NBRU spoke to Shannonside FM outside Longford train station this morning:
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Two objectors to an €850m data centre in Athenry, Co. Galway have been refused permission to take their case to the Court of Appeal.
They wanted to appeal the Commercial Court’s decision to uphold the granting of planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.
They claimed the planning board failed to take account of the potential environmental impact of the project as a whole.
But Mr. Justice Paul McDermott didn’t feel they raised any issues of “exceptional public importance” to warrant an appeal.
The average hourly wage of childcare workers in the Shannonside region has been revealed to be less than €12 euro.
The figures are contained in a new report published by the Children’s Minister which has revealed Leitrim childcare workers on average, earn earn €11.69 per hour.
The figure is only slightly higher than Longford’s which is €11.48 per hour and Roscommon where employees are paid an average of €11.21 per hour.
The report also reveals that Leitrim had the fourth highest rate of staff turnover between May 2016 and this year at 32.4 per cent.
Roscommon and Longford in contrast are able to retain their staff much easier, where staff turnover is recorded over 22.5 per cent and 21.6 percent respectively.
In total 4,727 children are enrolled in childcare facilities across Longford, Roscommon and Leitrim – with 355 on waiting lists, despite the report claiming there is 436 vacant places the region.
A man who killed two Roscommon women in a road crash over twelve years ago has been jailed after being involved in another crash, when, with drink taken, he was on the wrong side of the road without lights at midnight and hit a vehicle.
Paul Patrick Duffy of Hillside Drive in Dunloy, County Antrim, was jailed for four months at Coleraine Magistrates Court this week where District Judge Liam McNally told him he could have killed either himself or someone else in the incident at Dunloy in September this year.
In 2005, Duffy,was an unaccompanied learner driver when he killed mother of eight 48-year-old Marian Maye and her 77-year-old aunt Kathleen Fitzpatrick, who were both from Liscaul in Roscommon
In 2006, Mr Duffy pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of the two women at Gortnafolla, Turlough, Castlebar,and was given a suspended jail term and was banned from driving for ten years.
This week Coleraine Magistrates Court heard after hitting another vehicle in Dunloy, Duffy tried to escape but was followed by the other motorist.
The defendant crashed and when police arrived they attempted, but failed, to get a breath sample from him at the scene on five occasions and he also failed to give a sample at a police station
Defence barrister Dean Mooney said his client had got behind the wheel whilst under the influence of drink and although there had been an accident there was “no significant damage or injury”.
He said his client did not stop and “one bad decision was compounded by the next”.
Sentencing Duffy, Judge McNally said he had a conviction from just over ten years ago for causing death by dangerous driving and yet he was back in court.
The judge said one would have thought the defendant would have “learnt some sort of lesson” from the previous tragedy.
As well as the jail term, Duffy was banned from driving for two years and he will have to pass an extended driving test before being allowed back on the road. He was also fined £100.
Duffy was released on his own bail of £500 pending appeal but is not allowed to drive in the mean time.
John Lavin.
Carragarriffe, Tibohine, Co. Roscommon.
Tuesday, October, 31st peacefully at University Hospital, Sligo.
Sadly missed by his loving wife Kathleen, sons; John and Pat, daughter; Mary (Zimmer) brother; Pat and sister Mary.
Reposing at the Sharkey funeral home, Ballaghderreen, tomorrow evening (Thurs) from five o’clock, followed by removal at half past seven, to Tibohine church, arriving at eight o’clock.
Mass of the Resurrection on (Fri) morning at eleven o’clock with interment afterwards in Tibohine new cemetery.
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