Over 100 locals packed into Burke's Bar last night for a meeting organised to discuss their opposition to the relocation of 98 asylum seekers to Coole Court, a 12 apartment development in a renovated section of the former St Joseph's Orthopaedic Hospital in Coole.
A spokesperson told the Westmeath Examiner that people are concerned that the village doesn't have the sewerage, educational or health infrastructure to cope with almost 100 new residents and that some parents are concerned about child safeguarding.
“No planning permission was needed to build the apartments. We can't build a house, but we can build a refugee centre.”
“No one in the community can get a doctor's appointment, you have to wait two or three weeks.
“We would like to know what nationality the people are. We are concerned about what their mental health will be like. These people will have no jobs, no money and there's not a lot to do around Coole.”
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A spokesperson told the Westmeath Examiner that people are concerned that the village doesn't have the sewerage, educational or health infrastructure to cope with almost 100 new residents and that some parents are concerned about child safeguarding.
“No planning permission was needed to build the apartments. We can't build a house, but we can build a refugee centre.”
“No one in the community can get a doctor's appointment, you have to wait two or three weeks.
“We would like to know what nationality the people are. We are concerned about what their mental health will be like. These people will have no jobs, no money and there's not a lot to do around Coole.”
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Settlers and indigenous rights activists clashed in Waterford today.
Campaigner Ferg Power said gardaí allowed their rally to be surrounded more than once, and that they were spat at, goaded and threatened while being called 'Nazi and fascist scum'.
He said the settlers were accompanied by members of People Before Profit who have previously expressed support for open borders in a party manifesto.
"We stood our ground as we always do, but I'm telling you here and now, people need to get up of their arses and start putting in the effort and fighting for this country, our home and all our innocent children's futures."
"The only rights that are under attack are ours, the people that own this land."
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Campaigner Ferg Power said gardaí allowed their rally to be surrounded more than once, and that they were spat at, goaded and threatened while being called 'Nazi and fascist scum'.
He said the settlers were accompanied by members of People Before Profit who have previously expressed support for open borders in a party manifesto.
"We stood our ground as we always do, but I'm telling you here and now, people need to get up of their arses and start putting in the effort and fighting for this country, our home and all our innocent children's futures."
"The only rights that are under attack are ours, the people that own this land."
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"The eventual destination of this new season of Islamic discontent can be seen in Tower Hamlets East London where local governance has been entirely hijacked by first and second-generation Bangladeshis who ejected from the Labour Party complete with vote rigging reminiscent of 19th Century Tammany Hall."
https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2023/10/20/is-the-gaza-crisis-is-about-to-propel-islamo-populism-in-the-uk
https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2023/10/20/is-the-gaza-crisis-is-about-to-propel-islamo-populism-in-the-uk
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Is the Gaza Crisis About to Propel Islamo-Populism in the UK? | The Burkean
“I had dreamt of no Islamic revolution in Britain but rather of a slow conversion, helped by an Islamic infiltration.” Anthony Burgess 1978 Bye-elections aside the British Labour Party is having a poor week. The centrist Labour leader Keir Starmer […]
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Apparently late night flights from Ethiopia have been met by Garda escorted buses with blacked out windows, directly on the runway at Dublin airport.
Staff aren't allowed near the planes and no luggage has come off.
This has happened several times a week in recent weeks.
Staff aren't allowed near the planes and no luggage has come off.
This has happened several times a week in recent weeks.
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A settler stakes a claim to Waterford in the faces of indigenous rights campaigners after being handed a megaphone from Roh Perera, a founding member of the NGO umbrella group Le Chéile from London.
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Your Sunday long read:
That time MI5 set up a human rights NGO for republican prisoners and duped Gerry Conlon and Angela Nelson into fronting it.
(It's not that long)
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That time MI5 set up a human rights NGO for republican prisoners and duped Gerry Conlon and Angela Nelson into fronting it.
(It's not that long)
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>Gardaí are becoming increasingly concerned that radical extremists in Ireland are infiltrating small “unregulated” Muslim prayer houses that have sprung up since the Covid pandemic.
>Senior security sources say there could be up to 100 such groupings in the greater Dublin and Leinster area alone, with more scattered around the country.
>A senior officer described them as “unregulated”, with many having no connection to the established mosques. The source added: “We’re really just looking into the dark when it comes to the smaller groups. There are extremists, who are transient and who use Ireland as a transit point, a back door into Britain. It is these individuals who are a cause of concern, not the ordinary law-abiding Muslim faithful.”
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>Senior security sources say there could be up to 100 such groupings in the greater Dublin and Leinster area alone, with more scattered around the country.
>A senior officer described them as “unregulated”, with many having no connection to the established mosques. The source added: “We’re really just looking into the dark when it comes to the smaller groups. There are extremists, who are transient and who use Ireland as a transit point, a back door into Britain. It is these individuals who are a cause of concern, not the ordinary law-abiding Muslim faithful.”
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The new plantation of Ireland is running over three times faster than schedule — up to 50,000 new houses now required each year as lowering demand is not an option for unexplained reasons.
"The ultimate objective has to be to create a situation where we can build as many houses as possible."
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Update on the late night Ethiopian flights into Dublin.
A lot of evidence suggests they're technical stops for flights bound for the USA and Canada which have been happening since 2015.
The airline will be using Rome instead as hub from October 29th.
Flight itineraries show stops in Dublin lasting 55 minutes. Passengers do not disembark.
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A lot of evidence suggests they're technical stops for flights bound for the USA and Canada which have been happening since 2015.
The airline will be using Rome instead as hub from October 29th.
Flight itineraries show stops in Dublin lasting 55 minutes. Passengers do not disembark.
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They couldn't even stage a production about Cú Chulainn for the 1916 centenary celebrations without casting an African.
Great montage 🤣
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Ashling Murphy trial to resume at 2pm today.
Below is some of the key details reported by breakingnews.ie, rte.ie and a court reporter from the Daily Mirror on Friday when some of the 25,213 hours of CCTV footage collected during the course of the investigation was shown to the jury.
The jury first watched Josef Puska cycling from Mucklagh (where Puska has listed his address in Lynally Grove) to Tullamore and then around Tullamore at times between 12:25pm and 14:05pm wearing a black jacket and black tracksuit bottoms with white stripe.
He was riding a grey Falcon Storm with luminous green forks and handle bars. Garda Harney believe he spent 30 minutes at a park off Cormac Street before cycling up towards the Tesco Extra on Portarlington Road 2.5km away. He then returned towards town. A court reporter has his full itinerary here.
There was some focus on footage showing him behind two other women and cycling in the direction of their travel. Then footage showed him near the McDonalds at 1:58pm and then entering the Daingean road car park near the Grand Canal at then finally on Callary Street after crossing to the north side of the canal at 2.05pm. This location is about 2km away from the scene of the murder in a straight line down the canal.
At 1.53pm, Garda Harney told the court the footage shows Mr Puska stopping his bicycle and appearing to reach into both his pockets. The garda said Mr Puska places both hands to the front of his body for a number of seconds and appears to have something in his hand which he then returns to his pocket. He said he came to that conclusion after watching the footage up to one hundred times.
This was challenged by the defence who put it to him that the footage was not of sufficient quality for Garda Harney to see what he was suggesting, but they did not contest Puska was the figure in all of this afternoon footage.
The jury were next shown CCTV footage of Ashling Murphy getting into her car at her school at 2:37pm and driving it. The last footage of her at 2:55pm showed her having parked her car in the same Daingean road car park Puska was shown in, and then walking towards the canal wearing a pink bobble hat, jacket, scarf and runners.
On Wednesday, a witness said she and her friend came upon Josef Puska crouching over Ashling Murphy after starting a run at 3:15pm about 500 metres away from the scene.
The next CCTV footage the jury saw was night time footage purporting to show Puska near Maunsell's Gala on Portarlington Road in Tullamore 3.6km away from the scene of the murder at 8:55pm. This is beside the Tesco Extra he was spotted near in the afternoon footage before the murder. The defence now contested this was Puska.
Portalington Rd leads into Church Rd after a roundabout and several cameras picked up a figure purported to be Puska walking down Church Rd past Tesco towards a housing estate called Hop Hill Grove which the figure reaches at 9:06pm.
Then across the road in a housing estate called Church View, CCTV from the Simply Baked bakery shows two figures getting into a grey VW Golf with a sunroof at 9:10pm. One of the figures is purported to be Jozef Puska. The headlights of the car are turned on, momentarily turn off and then are turned back on again. The vehicle begins moving and is seen at a roundabout after exiting the estate at 9:12pm. It passes an accountants on Cormac St, travelling in the direction of Muclagh.
At 12.58am on January 13th, footage shows a car pull up at Oak Apartments on the Armagh Road in Crumlin, Co. Dublin and Puska’s father and mother exit the car, followed by Jozef Puska who has changed his clothing and appears to be moving freely and has a phone in his hand.
At 11:56am at the same location the following morning, Puska is seen being brought out in a carry chair to an ambulance.
At 12:13pm, he arrives St James Hospital and is seen on a stretcher being brought into the hospital.
Puska is shown to have shaved his beard this point.
Below is some of the key details reported by breakingnews.ie, rte.ie and a court reporter from the Daily Mirror on Friday when some of the 25,213 hours of CCTV footage collected during the course of the investigation was shown to the jury.
The jury first watched Josef Puska cycling from Mucklagh (where Puska has listed his address in Lynally Grove) to Tullamore and then around Tullamore at times between 12:25pm and 14:05pm wearing a black jacket and black tracksuit bottoms with white stripe.
He was riding a grey Falcon Storm with luminous green forks and handle bars. Garda Harney believe he spent 30 minutes at a park off Cormac Street before cycling up towards the Tesco Extra on Portarlington Road 2.5km away. He then returned towards town. A court reporter has his full itinerary here.
There was some focus on footage showing him behind two other women and cycling in the direction of their travel. Then footage showed him near the McDonalds at 1:58pm and then entering the Daingean road car park near the Grand Canal at then finally on Callary Street after crossing to the north side of the canal at 2.05pm. This location is about 2km away from the scene of the murder in a straight line down the canal.
At 1.53pm, Garda Harney told the court the footage shows Mr Puska stopping his bicycle and appearing to reach into both his pockets. The garda said Mr Puska places both hands to the front of his body for a number of seconds and appears to have something in his hand which he then returns to his pocket. He said he came to that conclusion after watching the footage up to one hundred times.
This was challenged by the defence who put it to him that the footage was not of sufficient quality for Garda Harney to see what he was suggesting, but they did not contest Puska was the figure in all of this afternoon footage.
The jury were next shown CCTV footage of Ashling Murphy getting into her car at her school at 2:37pm and driving it. The last footage of her at 2:55pm showed her having parked her car in the same Daingean road car park Puska was shown in, and then walking towards the canal wearing a pink bobble hat, jacket, scarf and runners.
On Wednesday, a witness said she and her friend came upon Josef Puska crouching over Ashling Murphy after starting a run at 3:15pm about 500 metres away from the scene.
The next CCTV footage the jury saw was night time footage purporting to show Puska near Maunsell's Gala on Portarlington Road in Tullamore 3.6km away from the scene of the murder at 8:55pm. This is beside the Tesco Extra he was spotted near in the afternoon footage before the murder. The defence now contested this was Puska.
Portalington Rd leads into Church Rd after a roundabout and several cameras picked up a figure purported to be Puska walking down Church Rd past Tesco towards a housing estate called Hop Hill Grove which the figure reaches at 9:06pm.
Then across the road in a housing estate called Church View, CCTV from the Simply Baked bakery shows two figures getting into a grey VW Golf with a sunroof at 9:10pm. One of the figures is purported to be Jozef Puska. The headlights of the car are turned on, momentarily turn off and then are turned back on again. The vehicle begins moving and is seen at a roundabout after exiting the estate at 9:12pm. It passes an accountants on Cormac St, travelling in the direction of Muclagh.
At 12.58am on January 13th, footage shows a car pull up at Oak Apartments on the Armagh Road in Crumlin, Co. Dublin and Puska’s father and mother exit the car, followed by Jozef Puska who has changed his clothing and appears to be moving freely and has a phone in his hand.
At 11:56am at the same location the following morning, Puska is seen being brought out in a carry chair to an ambulance.
At 12:13pm, he arrives St James Hospital and is seen on a stretcher being brought into the hospital.
Puska is shown to have shaved his beard this point.
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Ashling Murphy murder trial: Footage of Jozef Puska cycling in Tullamore shown to jury
Clips of Puska cycling around Tullamore between 12.25pm and 2.05pm on the day of Ashling Murphy’s death were shown in court.
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Stills from CCTV footage in Tullamore and the bike found at the murder scene.
Proceedings are now continuing.
Paul Healy is live tweeting the trial here.
Proceedings are now continuing.
Paul Healy is live tweeting the trial here.
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Kurdish refugee Yousef Palani, who was motivated by his hatred of homosexual men, told detectives that he would have continued "to kill" if gardaí had not stopped him, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
The sentencing hearing for the 23-year-old also heard while Palani told gardaí that his religion forbids homosexuality, gardaí were satisfied he was not radicalised despite suggestions to the contrary.
Palani told gardaí in interviews that Muslims could not be homosexual and vehemently denied being gay, despite using homosexual dating apps.
The court heard that the first murder victim, Aidan Moffitt, had been decapitated in his home, with his head placed on a bed. He had also suffered 42 stab wounds. Michael Snee was also found tied up on the floor of his own bedroom with 38 sharp force injuries. A third victim suffered injuries to his eye but managed to escape.
All victims had arranged to meet Palani on Grindr.
Update: Palani was sentenced to life plus 20 years.
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The sentencing hearing for the 23-year-old also heard while Palani told gardaí that his religion forbids homosexuality, gardaí were satisfied he was not radicalised despite suggestions to the contrary.
Palani told gardaí in interviews that Muslims could not be homosexual and vehemently denied being gay, despite using homosexual dating apps.
The court heard that the first murder victim, Aidan Moffitt, had been decapitated in his home, with his head placed on a bed. He had also suffered 42 stab wounds. Michael Snee was also found tied up on the floor of his own bedroom with 38 sharp force injuries. A third victim suffered injuries to his eye but managed to escape.
All victims had arranged to meet Palani on Grindr.
Update: Palani was sentenced to life plus 20 years.
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