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100 YEARS AGO today, the Battle of Mons broke out.
15,000 Irishmen formed part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) who arrived at Belgian town in August 1914.
This video by Ronan McGreevy recounts how an Irishman fired the British Army’s first shot of the war and how Irish Lieutenant Maurice Dease manned a machine gun to hold a railway bridge across the Mons-Condé Canal outside Mons.
Today, Mons is marking the battle, which saw around 1,600 British and over 5,000 German soldiers die.
Ronan McGreevy / TwitterWreaths laid at the site at Nimy Bridge where Maurice Dease and Sid Godley won the first VCs of the First World War. pic.twitter.com/JnUi4x6mb5
— Ronan McGreevy (@RMcGreevy1301) August 23, 2014
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Isn’t it amazing that the families of the victims of the disaster are expected to pay legal fees when a drug dealer s unmbag can get free legal aid.
Just pay the bill Enda
If there is an agreement in place it should be honored immediately. This is such an emotionally charged case and these people have been thru enough,please do the decent thing. I remember the event well even tho I was only 10 yrs old. Myself my sister and two neighbours set up a garage sale on the side of the road,we gave the proceeds to the local priest to give to the victims fund. The images on TV are still as vivid today to me as they were 33 yrs ago. An absolute tragic event that should never be forgotten .
I’m sure you just asked the government to do the right thing. Not going to happen unless the legal team are friends of FG.
I bet you every Gov politican would have promised to help them when they were in opposition but like every dog in the corner they will run away when challenged on their promise’s…also Happy Gilmore is out in Brussels trying to fix the problems in the Ukraine so don’t bother contacting him about it anyway
One should be careful about accepting promises from any government unless one is Ibec, RTE, a bank or a bondholder, multi-national or part of the farming lobby or some other part of the establishment; or a friend of a leading politician. That is show it is in Ireland.
When you see the word ‘promise’ in the same sentence as the word ‘politician’, the first word to enter your mind should be ‘lie’.
1st word is – It better be written down.
These are families that have never healed or gotten closure for their grief and loss. Could’nt Butterly toss in a few Euro’s towards this as well, seeing as how he did so well financially & legally out of the deaths of 48 young people on his sub-standard premises!!!
“They are agreeable to having their costs measured on the basis of all work done in connection with the above hearings”
Question. How much will the Governments charge for measuring that all work done was in connection with the hearings? I bet it’s more than €192k.
The Stardust Disaster was one of the most appalling tragedies to ever happen in this State and appropriately a Judicial Enquiry was held to uncover the cause even though we were all well informed at the time as to the likely cause. Jam factories are hardly ever likely to be suitable buildings for night clubs and especially when Emergency exit doors are chained and locked while large numbers are on the premises.
The Government should urgently look at this request but the problem is that the survivors are still demanding another Judicial Enquiry into the tragedy and someone has to eventually suggest we stop as its not going to be resolved after so many years no matter how awful the loss and cause.
Well, that explains a lot.
Finally, i’ve copped on. This whole Journal.ie site, it’s a load of horse shite. Set up for eejits, to make bigger eejita of themselves, but pretending to be about truth. I’m outa here, gone, bye bye.
Is this money owed to the grieving families or to a bunch of greedy lawyers?
Geraldine Foy has given us the power to fight on and only for her we wouldn’t have gotten this far
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