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A MALE CYCLIST involved in a road traffic collision last week has died in hospital.
The 43-year-old man was seriously injured in a crash with a car outside of Kinvara in County Galway on Thursday 6 August.
The accident happened on the N67 at around 1.30pm.
The cyclist was airlifted to hospital with head injuries. The driver of the car was uninjured in the crash.
Gardaí confirmed the man died in University Hospital Galway on Saturday.
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Dosent go near far enough
@Mark Dawson: Far enough for most 3 star soldiers to have a family, A holiday n a nice army pension after 21 years
@Mark Dawson: This guy posts photos of himself n
His family enjoying themselves on holidays
Plastered on Facebook yet he’s the cheek here… Yous get enough money. Cut officers wages…. Or would they not be happy working easy
Numbers for under a grand a week!
Glad that’s sorted. They deserve to be regonised for what they do and the help and support they provide in so many facits of our country. Obviously people who ridicule the need for such a dept do not understand or have not encountered them, they’re worse off for that fact.
@ThatLJD: Less than a euro a day b4 tax is not a recognition of anything.
@Paul White.: it’s not but it’s getting back to the agreement of terms of where they should be which is the recognition I mention. Obviously there is additional scope for investment in resources and facilities but again I think the dept and also senior officers are no where near knowing or planning for the future. I think if you pay more that’s obviously a help but other factors and motivations need to be catered for to keep the good people within the service and also force relevant going forward into the next few decades.
The Irish Defence soldiers are the best in the world at peace keeping. I was in the FCA a few years ago and we did a few manoeuvres with them and their fitness and combative skills were top class and I must be honest we was not the same standard as them.So they deserve all the money they get in my opinion.
@Marty from Sligo: not to denigrate our soldiers but being better than the FCA is hardly a high bar. And what other military have you experience of to compare them to and declare ours the worlds best peacekeepers?
@GMCManning: we are the most ecperienced and our ordance disposal are regarded accross europe for thier skills . Soldiers from 5th batt recently won gold in the british army cumbria challenge even beating a french legion section, our arw snipers won an international competition so we do have an exceptional army
@Mark Dawson: never said we didn’t. Just pointed out being better than the FCA is hardly praise and there’s no metric by which to claim our soldiers are the worlds best peacekeepers.
@GMCManning: dont underestimate our reserves they now a days are in some cases as good as and more than capable of steping up if asked. We need make more use of them
@Mark Dawson: I didn’t. Merely pointed out how Marty was exaggerating and making stuff up with nothing to back it up. Nowhere was I putting down any of our defence forces.
@Marty from Sligo: Daft Comment.
@Mark Dawson: Is This guy for real! That’s something like a Montessori child would say.
Well we do have the best snipers in the world beat all other countries including the Americans in the world championship last year.
@Mac Dara Powell: sure. We could keep the few hundred snipers and get rid of the rest and put money into crime prevention
@james foley: on average 3 times a day eod called out. Our aircore chop pilots save lives with sea rescue , transport sick kids, our navy protect our waters and involved in drug operations, our peace keepers who in syria came under fire after taking an ied hit …i can go on
@Mark Dawson: a 1b euro budget excluding retired pensions. 99 percent of sea resume done by outsourced supplier. Most drug bust done by coast guard and customs. I don’t know cost of Navy. We don’t need to be in Syria and if we are we don’t seem to be doing a lot to protect the Kurds. We are also paid separately for our in work does not come out of the general expenditure budget. Mind you in a country where tax payers fund horse racing and greyhound racing to the tune of 70 m a year the dept Def seems reasonable value. Still image the gaurds getting an additional budget of 750 m a year still seems a lot more value than dept Def.
@james foley: ied heli rescue prisoner escort, prison security , 6 months away from family on un missions , fishery protection, aid to civil power under COD6 , even bin men during strikes , helping with flood defence , central bank security , even local fire service in the curragh , low wages long hours , using weapons , ordanance and driving large apc or tcvs tired cold and in darkness worth every penny and more
@Mac Dara Powell: wow… here’s a lollipop for that! Lol
This is not a pay deal, it’s an increase in allowances. The Government prevented the pay commission to look at pay.
less than the price of a packet of fags per week sure they will lose the run of themselves as they travel through war torn countries keeping the peace .
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