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@olivedoolan1 The issue onboard didn't seem to be as bad, staff have now decided that this service will terminate at Charleville - MH

The 06:15 Cork/Heuston service this morning will terminate at Charleville due to an issue onboard. Passengers will be accommodated on board the 07:00 Cork/Heuston service - MH

@IrishRail Why did we leave cork if they knew there was a problem with train

The 06:15 Cork/Heuston service is currently stopped at Mallow due to an issue onboard, which staff are investigating. Update to follow - MH

There's bravery and then there's this. What incredible courage and kindness. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“That wouldn’t be a fair question.” The temerity of the unaccustomed to accountability.

So help me god, I want to hit someone. This 'performance' from CHI Management is off-the-charts offensive, it's insulting, disrespectful and degrading. Harvey Morrison was removed from a waiting list without CHI consulting @GillSherratt23 or @Stephen63224725 . @TomClonan exhibited remarkable self-restraint in the face of such staggering professional ambivalence and incompetence. Paula Kelly just flat-out lied to the Committee.

Ireland is a funny old place, Lot's of high profile incidents across Ireland but despite a man on a bus having a non viable device which shows there was some intent there was no photo or no follow on reporting, Mean while an actual Irish man gets lifted and there is a picture, name, job title. Now do not tell me there was no one in court when the man went before a judge, I would say Ireland has very selective reporting. A MARKETING EXECUTIVE with a radio network has been released on bail after appearing in court over a seizure of €110,000 worth of cannabis at his office building in Dublin on Tuesday. Seafra O’Donovan (35), an employee of Bauer Media, was charged with unlawful possession of cannabis and having it for sale or supply at Marconi House, Digges Lane, Dublin 2 on 23 March. The location of the seizure, which was part of a joint Garda and Revenue Customs operation, is the base for Newstalk, Today FM and affiliated radio stations. Dressed in a black sleeveless jacket, navy sweater, white shirt, dark pants and black runners, O’Donovan sat silently throughout the brief hearing before Judge Conor Fottrell at Dublin District Court today. No plea was entered to the charges, which are under Sections 3 and 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act. Garda Kevin Hearns told Judge Fottrell that the accused, of Leeson Park, Court, Ranelagh, in Dublin city’s southside, was charged shortly after 11pm on Tuesday, handed a copy of the charges, and “made no reply” when cautioned. Hearns, from the divisional drugs unit at Kevin Street, confirmed he was not objecting to bail with conditions. Accordingly, Judge Fottrell ordered O’Donovan to sign on two days a week at his local garda station, notify of address or mobile phone number changes and not apply for a passport. Defence solicitor Aoife Dalton informed Judge Fottrell that her client had provided his phone number and that his passport had already been handed in. Garda Hearns asked for a lengthy adjournment, two to three months, if possible, as the investigation was still ongoing and a file needed to be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. Judge Fottrell ordered O’Donovan to appear again on 27 May next.

Let me be the first to say, @TomClonan I would like a town hall meeting with Lucy Nugent as committed today and on the 19th June 2025, and I’m sure: @Stephen63224725 @UnaKeightley @tivnana @mandacoughlan @mulvanypeopleb1 @AnthonyKeogh5 @mahoney_ciara @LalorMaher33771 @aarondalydub @SammyRB81 @AccessForAll7 @ClarCahill And many more parents affected would completely agree.

‘No children are taken off the surgery waiting list’, and ‘it would be recorded in their medical record’. That’s odd, Harvey was removed from the list and as far as I can tell it’s not recorded anywhere in his chart.

Ryan Casey just wouldn't be a good victim, would he. He wouldn't mouth the platitudes. If only he'd been good, he'd be a beloved hero of the media, comediennes & all. He'd be on RTE panels being pumped for slogans about forgiveness. But no, he has to go & have his own opinions.

@RobbieCoo76 Husbands from cork he called it a hard drink🤪🤪🤪

Fellow Dubliners please tell me you also called them “Coolpops” 🤷🏼

I am a Christian British citizen. I wish to make it known that I fully support the British Jewish community.

Dear Irish Times You didn’t ask me on but discussed me and my work in detail so let me assist on the question posed in your heading and a few other gaping holes. 1. I am the CEO of an organisation called @TheCountessIE. We incorporated a number of years ago. I am one of three directors. 2. We weren’t “involved in a failed Referendum” but this description from @IrishTimes is quite the tell. For us as grassroots leaders of a No/No campaign that spanned 30 locations over 7 weeks, this was a landslide victory. We view the 73.9% who voted to retain A41.2 as our constituency. 3. Our constituency do not want men in female spaces or services, prisons or shelters, sports or quotas. They know a man cannot be a woman and equality is predicated on certain accommodations like single sex spaces which provide safety, dignity and privacy for women and girls. They do not want their children indoctrinated into gender, or any other ideology at school. Far from being a twitter constituency as you describe, they are the majority. 4. Our advocacy stopped the Government removing the word woman from Maternity legislation. Our advocacy stopped the rollout of mixed sex toilets in schools. Our advocacy helped defeat the planned collapse of the gender ground and transposition of hate speech. 5. We have evolved to address the impact of immigration which like trans, is a sacred pillar of the new left that the electorate were not allowed to vote on. We observe how the media behaves the same way with regard to each of these issues. 6. We are alive to, and well versed in, the use of an ad hominem response because we dare challenge the narrative. 7. We know we represent the majority and will continue the work. 8. The work has been recognised globally. @TheCountessIE has addressed/briefed the UN alone three times, the EU parliament, Houses of Parliament, US Assistant AG among others. 9. Thank you for the ongoing coverage of the issue at hand which is the risk presented to women and children by the policy of housing unscreened male migrants en masse in residential areas. Le meas, Laoise de Brún BL

Never be afraid to speak your mind!

@keira_con Do they not have to report ?

@olivedoolan1 Went to court nothing reported about what happened

A really good report from Michael O'Farrell of News Scoops. Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae flouted planning laws to construct four apartments without planning permission. The secretly built apartments, in Deputy Healy-Rae’s hometown of Kilgarvan, were completed last year. The colourful Kerry TD then sought, and was granted, retention for the sub­divided house after he was issued with an enforcement warning letter by Kerry County Council. Prior to completion of the Kilgarvan development, An Bord Pleanála had moved to block a similar four-apartment scheme Mr Healy-Rae had sought permission to build in Tralee. The Kilgarvan house, known locally as ‘Jack Cahill’s house’, is opposite Mr HealyRae’s post office, shop and petrol station. The unauthorised Kilgarvan apartments were not specifically declared by Mr Healy-Rae in his Oireachtas declaration of interest last year, which referred simply to a ‘private house’ in Kilgarvan. Kerry County Council planning files confirm Mr Healy-Rae bought the house in 2018 and submitted a planning application the following year to ‘alter and extend’ the property into a five-bedroom home. The council granted planning permission in January 2020, subject to conditions. These specified the building must be constructed entirely in accordance with the drawings submitted.AdvertisementVolume 0% Instead, the Kerry TD built four separate apartments on the site in 2020, during the pandemic. Each apartment has its own entrance, kitchen, bathroom, living room and parking space – none of which was given planning permission. Mr Healy-Rae funded the unauthorised development with a mortgage from Allied Irish Bank, which was secured against the property a month after planning was received. Based on property values in the area, it is likely the politician paid in the region of €65,000 for the property before investing in the redevelopment. He now stands to profit after developing the house into apartments, with the housing crisis creating unprecedented demand for accommodation. One-bedroom apartments in the area, close to popular tourist destinations Kenmare and Killarney, can command between €80 to €100 a night on Airbnb. Similar units are being let on a long-term basis for between €500 to €600 a month. Kerry County Council confirmed it initiated enforcement action and issued the TD with a warning letter in December 2020 on foot of a complaint. A council statement said: ‘The unauthorised works referred to in the warning letter included altering, extending and subdividing a house.’ Under planning laws, councils have extensive powers to enforce unauthorised developments up to, and including, demolition. They can also prosecute those in breach of planning rules. As Mr Healy-Rae was building his Kilgarvan apartments, the council was prosecuting him for the alleged unauthorised erection of a billboard across the road. The action was ultimately unsuccessful because the court ruled the seven-year statutory period for planning cases had expired by the time the case was taken. Recently, the council has also initiated enforcement action against Mr Healy-Rae relating to an advertising structure on the gable of a former pub in Tralee. The Kerry TD removed the structure when served with an enforcement notice. But there would be no enforcement notice relating to the unauthorised apartments in Kilgarvan. Instead, Mr Healy-Rae submitted a retention application at the end of March this year which was approved weeks later, ending the council’s enforcement of the matter. A council spokesman told the MoS: ‘In cases where a grant of permission results, it is the policy of the Planning Authority not to pursue further enforcement actions as such would be almost certainly unsuccessful.’ The spokesman added that enforcement would have been futile because the apartment ‘development did not result in any environmental or other material damage to a protected structure or protected monument’. Nevertheless, when asked for the council’s view on unauthorised development, the spokesman said: ‘Kerry County Council believes that a strong culture of enforcement is critical to ensure that all goals and objectives of the planning function work to a high standard and for the benefit of the whole community.’ TDs FLATS COULD NET €100 A NIGHT MICHAEL HEALY-RAE is no stranger to controversy, nor is he unfamiliar with planning permission rules. As a long-sitting TD and Kerry county councillor before that, he will have advised many on how to navigate the planning system. As a postmaster, a shop-owner, a farmer and the Dáil’s largest landlord he has been dealing with planning all his life. There have been 14 planning applications in the name of Michael Healy-Rae before Kerry County Council since 2003. They include farm buildings, shop storerooms/extensions, houses and apartments. Planning and construction of the unauthorised Kilgarvan apartments proceeded at the same time as one of Mr Healy-Rae’s projects in Tralee was being rejected by An Bord Pleanála for the second time. Unlike the unauthorised Kilgarvan development, Mr Healy-Rae had submitted accurate plans for his Tralee development. But anyone concerned about Mr Healy-Rae’s Kilgarvan apartments may have been denied any opportunity to object because the plans only showed a routine five-bed house. The Kilgarvan application, submitted in August 2019 by Mr Healy-Rae’s agent and architect, Patrick Murphy, looked straightforward and simple. Mr Healy-Rae wanted to redevelop a dilapidated house across the road from his shop and petrol station in Kilgarvan. The new application was for permission ‘to alter and extend existing dwelling house’ and details a proposal for a ‘4+ bedroom’ house with two parking places. Design plans, submitted as part of the application, show a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a dining room, one bedroom downstairs and four bedrooms and a shower room upstairs. In total, the development. size was to be 164.6sqm. The standard declaration accompanying the application is signed by Patrick Murphy, as Mr Healy-Rae’s agent . Over the course of the following five months the file shows some routine correspondence between the planning department ‘d Mr Healy-Rae’s agent relating to issues with windows, site boundaries and a shed. On January 11, 2020 planning was granted with six routine conditions. Then, in the midst of the pandemic, something inexplicable happened. Instead of building the house for which planning had been granted, Mr Healy-Rae hired contractors who demolished all but a portion of the front wall and constructed four selfcontained apartments on the site. Each of the then-unauthorised apartments was approximately 40sqm, making a total floor space of 178sqm, 13.4sqm larger than the area applied for. The two car parking spaces had morphed to become four spaces. the development. appeared to represent a breach of planning laws and a breach of the permission that was granted for the house. Mr Healy-Rae applied for retention permission after the council issued him with a warning letter on foot of a complaint. The application for retention, submitted in late March this year, sought to retain the ‘dwelling house as constructed’. The application also sought retrospective ‘change of use of this dwelling house to four… residential units’. In granting the retention permission, the council stipulated that the ‘four units shall remain as one integral unit under one ownership and no individual unit shall be disposed of as a separate entity’. What planning laws say about breaches of rules PLANNING laws in Ireland are set out in the Planning and development Acts 2000-2012. Among other things, the legislation defines an unauthorised development as a building ‘not carried out in accordance with the permission granted or any condition to which that permission is subject’. Under section 151 of the Act: ‘Any person who has carried out or is carrying out unauthorised developments hall be guilty of an offence.’ Penalties for breaches of planning law depend on the nature of the offence but can result in a criminal prosecution, a fine and/or a prison sentence or both. The penalty for carrying out an unauthorised development, for example, can rise to as much as a €5,000 fine and/or a six-month prison term. In practice, an enforcement notice. or court order to demolish an unauthorised development is more likely, though not common. But the planning acts contain significant wriggle room for developers, mostly in the provisions allowing retention permission to be sought for an already-built development. Officially, retention is frowned upon and not encouraged but it is acknowledged that sometimes mistakes can occur and lead to planning regulations being inadvertently breached. This grey area of retention gives councils significant powers to rectify what would otherwise be an unauthorised development. Planning law also provides that, even if a development is unauthorised, a council may consider that it is trivial or minor, and may decide not to take action . They cannot do this in cases involving an environmental impact assessment. A council must investigate if a formal complaint is made, but can regularise an otherwise unauthorised development by granting retention so long as a project is in keeping with local needs and plans. For a developer, retention is a risky strategy since failure to secure this permission could result in an order for the property to be demolished.

Confirmed! The patrol partner of the Garda attacked on Capel Street today says he associated the term "Allahu Akbar" with terrorism. So presumably when Asst Commissioner Paul Cleary spoke on Morning Ireland 12 hours later and denied terrorism, Cleary was lying (concealing truth).

Will this lead to a general discussion about Islamist extremism in this country? Absolutely not. (Remember also the stabbing of the army chaplain by a self-confessed ISIS supporter).

@OdohertyI64991 Has there been any update on what happened in Liffey valley Can’t find any info thought u might know Hard to believe that whole incident happened and then there’s no mention of it anywhere

A 24-year-old man said he stabbed a garda and set the Black Forge pub in Dublin on fire last year as a message to the Government and to the pub's owner Conor McGregor not to insult the Prophet Muhammad rte.ie/news/courts/20…