A man’s conviction for causing serious harm to two partners, one of whom was his wife, by intentionally or recklessly infecting them with HIV has been quashed by the Supreme Court.
>The African national denied the charges against him. His 2018 circuit court trial was told he commenced a relationship with both women in 2009 and was “reluctant” to use contraception and had unprotected sex. A later analysis of the man’s medical records allegedly revealed he was diagnosed with HIV in 2008 and had received treatment, advice and medication.
>The court heard he was advised not to have unprotected sex and was prescribed anti-retroviral medication, which should have eliminated his symptoms and rendered him non-infectious. However, a 2010 screening showed he had a positive viral load, suggesting he was not taking his medication, the court was told.
The man was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
But the Supreme Court ruled today that the judge in the case should have emphasised to the jury that they could not convict unless they believed beyond reasonable doubt that the complainants were fully truthful and accurate when each said they had never had unprotected sex with any person other than the man, and it should be communicated clearly to a jury that lies told by an accused, even in the hopes of evading responsibility, do not prove transmission.
Meanwhile, a Dept. of Justice briefing on deportation policy, released under a Freedom of Information request, has revealed that there are a significant number of illegal migrants deemed ‘non-returnable’ in Ireland. This is in part due to a reluctance to deport people with HIV, as they are unlikely to get the same standard of medical treatment in their home country.
Anti-retroviral medication for people with HIV costs the Irish State approximately €25,000 per case annually.
According to the HSPC, the majority of all HIV diagnoses in Ireland occur in migrants and the key group affected is gay men.
In 2018, HIV Ireland reported that 76% of both heterosexual male and female cases were born in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ireland had the highest rate of HIV diagnoses in western Europe last year which was over three times higher than the European average at 17.5 per 100,000 people, according to the European Centre for Disease Control and the WHO.
#NewToTheParish
🔗 archive.is
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
>The African national denied the charges against him. His 2018 circuit court trial was told he commenced a relationship with both women in 2009 and was “reluctant” to use contraception and had unprotected sex. A later analysis of the man’s medical records allegedly revealed he was diagnosed with HIV in 2008 and had received treatment, advice and medication.
>The court heard he was advised not to have unprotected sex and was prescribed anti-retroviral medication, which should have eliminated his symptoms and rendered him non-infectious. However, a 2010 screening showed he had a positive viral load, suggesting he was not taking his medication, the court was told.
The man was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
But the Supreme Court ruled today that the judge in the case should have emphasised to the jury that they could not convict unless they believed beyond reasonable doubt that the complainants were fully truthful and accurate when each said they had never had unprotected sex with any person other than the man, and it should be communicated clearly to a jury that lies told by an accused, even in the hopes of evading responsibility, do not prove transmission.
Meanwhile, a Dept. of Justice briefing on deportation policy, released under a Freedom of Information request, has revealed that there are a significant number of illegal migrants deemed ‘non-returnable’ in Ireland. This is in part due to a reluctance to deport people with HIV, as they are unlikely to get the same standard of medical treatment in their home country.
Anti-retroviral medication for people with HIV costs the Irish State approximately €25,000 per case annually.
According to the HSPC, the majority of all HIV diagnoses in Ireland occur in migrants and the key group affected is gay men.
In 2018, HIV Ireland reported that 76% of both heterosexual male and female cases were born in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ireland had the highest rate of HIV diagnoses in western Europe last year which was over three times higher than the European average at 17.5 per 100,000 people, according to the European Centre for Disease Control and the WHO.
#NewToTheParish
🔗 archive.is
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
Irish Examiner
Supreme Court quashes man's conviction for harming women by infecting them with HIV
The man's wife submitted a victim impact statement alleging her life 'dramatically changed' since he took away her personality, health and positivity
🤮97😡12👍5❤2
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
I think McGregor could get the Christmas No.1 if he dropped a few more bars. I'll add them in if he does. 😁
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🤣60🤡34🎄15❤8😁6👍2💩2
There was a packed community meeting in Cashelard tonight over asylum seekers being housed at Cavangarden House outside Ballyshannon.
Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny shows up like a bad smell whenever locals are opposing the new plantation but he was heckled throughout his speech tonight, with some locals even bringing up his party's support for the hate speech bill which he tried to downplay. A lot of them were very knowledgeable of the facts regarding the asylum racket and were throwing stats at him, which was good to hear.
Kenny didn't have any info to provide other than what they had already heard on Ocean FM this morning which I have posted above, and they bored of him quickly.
He also told them that he has asked the Dept of Equality's "Community Engagement Team" to meet with the locals just like he did in Dromhair where locals arrived to find the pop-up NGO Leitrim For All had also been invited 'for balance'.
Great to see an Irish Lives Matter sign on the door.
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny shows up like a bad smell whenever locals are opposing the new plantation but he was heckled throughout his speech tonight, with some locals even bringing up his party's support for the hate speech bill which he tried to downplay. A lot of them were very knowledgeable of the facts regarding the asylum racket and were throwing stats at him, which was good to hear.
Kenny didn't have any info to provide other than what they had already heard on Ocean FM this morning which I have posted above, and they bored of him quickly.
He also told them that he has asked the Dept of Equality's "Community Engagement Team" to meet with the locals just like he did in Dromhair where locals arrived to find the pop-up NGO Leitrim For All had also been invited 'for balance'.
Great to see an Irish Lives Matter sign on the door.
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
❤88👏19👍12🔥7
Three more clips from the community meeting in Cashelard over asylum seekers being housed outside Ballyshannon.
It's a cross-party bollocking they're getting with representatives from Sinn Féin, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil feeling the heat. Independent TD Marian Harkin then tries to placate the crowd with talk of deportations but the people aren't buying it.
"Yous are totally bullshitting. Yous are standing here singing from the same hymn sheet, the whole fucking lot of ye. And don't you stand there and talk to me like that. You sit down and have a bit of manners and listen to me."
The lad in the check shirt on the right is the Sinn Féin councillor who went viral last year when Donegal Live showed a picture of him welcoming some very African-looking Ukrainians to Bundoran which embarrassed Donegal Live into swapping out the photo.
🔗 x.com
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
It's a cross-party bollocking they're getting with representatives from Sinn Féin, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil feeling the heat. Independent TD Marian Harkin then tries to placate the crowd with talk of deportations but the people aren't buying it.
"Yous are totally bullshitting. Yous are standing here singing from the same hymn sheet, the whole fucking lot of ye. And don't you stand there and talk to me like that. You sit down and have a bit of manners and listen to me."
The lad in the check shirt on the right is the Sinn Féin councillor who went viral last year when Donegal Live showed a picture of him welcoming some very African-looking Ukrainians to Bundoran which embarrassed Donegal Live into swapping out the photo.
🔗 x.com
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🔥88👏15❤9👍6🖕1
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
"I want to send a message, and I think I speak on behalf of everyone here tonight from this surrounding area.
"We're sending a message to Dáil Éireann, to every one of ye parties in it, and your representatives that are here tonight:
"We will not accept any migrants in any premises in the surrounding area. We don't want them."
#BallyshannonSaysNo
🔗 youtube.com
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
"We're sending a message to Dáil Éireann, to every one of ye parties in it, and your representatives that are here tonight:
"We will not accept any migrants in any premises in the surrounding area. We don't want them."
#BallyshannonSaysNo
🔗 youtube.com
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🔥126👏25👍12❤3🙏1🖕1
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
"Every TD in Sinn Féin voted for the hate speech laws. Don't come and bullshit, Martin."
Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny now trying to claim Sinn Féin don't support the hate speech laws. Ballyshannon isn't buying it.
🔗 youtube.com
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny now trying to claim Sinn Féin don't support the hate speech laws. Ballyshannon isn't buying it.
🔗 youtube.com
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🔥116👏23👍12💩3😁1🤡1
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Last night's Prime Time on transgenderism in 4 minutes.
🔹 One in twenty-five 12-17 year olds are now identifying as "non-binary" or think they were born in the wrong body, mostly girls.
🔹 Transgender activists have been campaigning for these children to be provided with the so-called "gender-affirming" model of healthcare. This entails the children deciding whether they should be provided medication.
🔹 Online influencers have been coaching these children not to "come out" to "transphobic" parents.
🔹 One girl who underwent "gender-affirming healthcare" told how she was mislead into believing she was trans because a clinician told her she was. However, her parents were not "affirming" and she snapped out of it when she was 14. She's very happy she didn't take medication and only cut her hair off.
🔹 Doctors are not surprised that their concerns are ignored and the government wants the HSE to provide the "gender-affirming" model due to the prevalence of trans activists.
🔗 rte.ie
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🔹 One in twenty-five 12-17 year olds are now identifying as "non-binary" or think they were born in the wrong body, mostly girls.
🔹 Transgender activists have been campaigning for these children to be provided with the so-called "gender-affirming" model of healthcare. This entails the children deciding whether they should be provided medication.
🔹 Online influencers have been coaching these children not to "come out" to "transphobic" parents.
🔹 One girl who underwent "gender-affirming healthcare" told how she was mislead into believing she was trans because a clinician told her she was. However, her parents were not "affirming" and she snapped out of it when she was 14. She's very happy she didn't take medication and only cut her hair off.
🔹 Doctors are not surprised that their concerns are ignored and the government wants the HSE to provide the "gender-affirming" model due to the prevalence of trans activists.
🔗 rte.ie
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🤬74🤮18😢3🍌3😈3👍1
We need migrants to do the jobs Irish people don't want to do... like running brothels apparently.
🔗 archive.is
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🔗 archive.is
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🤬103🤣16👍8❤2💯2😁1😍1
Latest plantation site is another of the old planter mansions, this time in Galway.
Described as splendid 19th Century Georgian House of the landed gentry, who prized it for its serenity amidst rambling woods and rolling lawns, Ross Lake House sits down a lane off the Clifden Road in Killaguile, about 7km before Oughterard. An American family bought it last year while it was still in operation as a hotel.
A briefing document from the government says 70 beds are going into it on the 21st of December with a one year contract for international protection applicants — that's the non-Ukrainian variety of asylum seekers. There are no other official details.
The lads already have the lane barricaded with some logs but reinforcements are welcome.
There's an old badger fighting pit on the front lawn so maybe when all this is over Roderic can have a go in there to see how he fares. I've heard badgers are vicious but have never seen them scrapping.
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
Described as splendid 19th Century Georgian House of the landed gentry, who prized it for its serenity amidst rambling woods and rolling lawns, Ross Lake House sits down a lane off the Clifden Road in Killaguile, about 7km before Oughterard. An American family bought it last year while it was still in operation as a hotel.
A briefing document from the government says 70 beds are going into it on the 21st of December with a one year contract for international protection applicants — that's the non-Ukrainian variety of asylum seekers. There are no other official details.
The lads already have the lane barricaded with some logs but reinforcements are welcome.
There's an old badger fighting pit on the front lawn so maybe when all this is over Roderic can have a go in there to see how he fares. I've heard badgers are vicious but have never seen them scrapping.
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
🤬47👍43🤡8🔥5🥴2🌚1🎄1
Forwarded from Keith Woods
📺 🇮🇪 The latest episode of TRT World's Nexus covers recent events in Ireland: Conor McGregor, Dublin riots and the incoming hate speech laws.
I was on as a contributor to discuss immigration.
https://youtu.be/I8Ku7_GPJFA?si=9Q8ruouzOAMdvD41
I was on as a contributor to discuss immigration.
https://youtu.be/I8Ku7_GPJFA?si=9Q8ruouzOAMdvD41
YouTube
Is Conor McGregor Ireland's next President and Saviour?
Unprecedented riots in Dublin after the stabbing of three children and a carer, a controversial new hate crime bill, and UFC legend Conor McGregor declaring that the Irish are at war and he wants to be president. There’s a lot going on in Ireland. This week…
👍42🥴10💩8🤡3❤2🤷♂2🤮2
Locals are continuing to block the lane down to Ross Lake House which has been earmarked to accommodate 70 single male asylum seekers near Oughterard in Galway.
In a statement to RTÉ News, locals said that the blockade will remain in place for as long as it takes.
Fianna Fáil Councillor Noel Thomas, who has previously criticised the asylum industry, has told Galway Bay FM that his phone hasn't stopped ringing, and that he doesn't blame the locals "one bit" for the blockade because people are genuinely worried.
"This is just another example of the complete and utter disregard that this current government is showing to the people in these areas."
Michael Bergin has posted on X that he believes Ross Lake House is owned by Allen Stringer who leased the property to HOP IT LIMITED (owned by a Ms Craughwell in Clarinbridge), who have the contract with the government to provide asylum seeker accommodation services. I haven't been able to verify this information.
🔗 rte.ie
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
In a statement to RTÉ News, locals said that the blockade will remain in place for as long as it takes.
Fianna Fáil Councillor Noel Thomas, who has previously criticised the asylum industry, has told Galway Bay FM that his phone hasn't stopped ringing, and that he doesn't blame the locals "one bit" for the blockade because people are genuinely worried.
"This is just another example of the complete and utter disregard that this current government is showing to the people in these areas."
Michael Bergin has posted on X that he believes Ross Lake House is owned by Allen Stringer who leased the property to HOP IT LIMITED (owned by a Ms Craughwell in Clarinbridge), who have the contract with the government to provide asylum seeker accommodation services. I haven't been able to verify this information.
🔗 rte.ie
👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland
👍80🔥16❤9