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Rocket launcher and warhead found in Belfast house

The search was conducted as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity.

A ROCKET LAUNCHER and warhead were removed from a west Belfast property last night after police searched the premises as part of an investigation into ongoing dissident republican activity.

Residents of Hawthorn Street were evacuated as PSNI officers and army technical officers examined the suspect device.

The rocket launcher and warhead have now been taken away for forensic examination. The road has been reopened and people have returned to their homes.

The PSNI said the weapon systems found were “clearly intended to kill” and their recovery means lives have been saved.

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    Mute Brian Ward
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    Nov 5th 2016, 7:22 AM

    There’s no point in throwing money at something that is falling apart at the seams. YOu could double what was budgeted this year and still have a complete mess. What is needed is a Minister who will cut out the massive excess of administrative personal and overlapping departments that has people doing the same jobs or just pushing paper from one side of a desk to the other. The problem is that no Minister has the guts to do this as it would be political suicide.

    The Government should appoint someone for a fixed term who doesn’t have to worry about being elected and who will weed out the excess baggage across the HSE. Having talked to a person involved in the private healthcare sector they told me that their own research into costs in the HSE showed that about 70% is admin staff. Thats absolutely crazy. The costs should be 70% medical staff and 30% admin. If this problem isn’t tackled then we will still be wasting billions every year on people who are surplus to requirements while not getting the best people and conditions for the people who do the most in the HSE and that is the medical personnel.

    Why else do you hear so many Irish accents in UK, Australian and New Zealand hospitals?

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    Nov 5th 2016, 7:43 AM

    @Brian Ward:
    Just try getting that past the unions

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    Mute jane
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    Nov 5th 2016, 7:44 AM

    And each one of those is now looking for a pay rise

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    Mute Brinster
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    Nov 5th 2016, 12:55 PM

    @Brian Ward:

    “The Government should appoint someone for a fixed term who doesn’t have to worry about being elected and who will weed out the excess baggage across the HSE”

    Correct Brian.

    But this is already happening.

    Roisin Shortall is chairing the cross party group which will make long term decisions to correct the absolute lack of strategic planning.

    New Politics is for the most part bunkum but this is one very, very welcome development.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/shortall-to-chair-d%C3%A1il-committee-on-health-planning-1.2696362

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    Mute Peter Buchanan
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    Nov 5th 2016, 7:16 AM

    Still left waiting hours & hours in A & E .. Harris is a little spoofer….

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    Mute Martin Sinnott
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    Nov 5th 2016, 7:32 AM

    To many bosses & not enough workers in health system. To many form fillers.

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    Mute Patrick Norton
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    Nov 5th 2016, 9:18 AM

    I had to wait nearly nine hours in a and e in James on Thursday night with a serious back injury. The amount of junk!e$ and $cumbags there is frightening and they were nearly prioritize over anyone else, system is a joke. Don’t know how nurses and doctors are doing that job. Huge respect for them and two fingers to the useless greedy government.

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    Mute mickmc
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    Nov 5th 2016, 6:59 AM

    Well hopefully health is the budget that cut in order to fund what the unions call pay restorations. Let’s face it, it a black hole anyway and when the government eventually bends over to the teachers, nurses or whoever else is playing the poor mouth I sooner see this budget being raided than a tax increase for the squeezed middle who pays for everything.

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    Mute Simon
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    Nov 5th 2016, 6:58 AM

    Well that’s good

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    Mute leartius
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    Nov 5th 2016, 10:34 AM

    Seldom we see a true verdict for any ministers statements but it will be this time next year before we know if this allocated budget of 14.7 billion is actually spent on health. Take mental health this time last year funds were “ring fenced” but by January this fence and budget was gone. This year 35 million was promised but only 15 million was allocated in budget 2017. The gap between what is promised and what is delivered gets wider every year. The HSE spends more every year on compensation to victims family’s who have being murdered by our health system. Elderly people dying on trolleys was cruel enough but now there lives end on chairs to keep the trolleys numbers down. Our health budget turn solicitors and lawyers into millionaires dragging victims of abuse through every court in an attempt to crush there very souls. The HSE are employing doctors that don’t know the difference between an knee and a elbow and who’s English is limited because they are cheaper than hiring doctors trained in Ireland. We train nurses for health systems worldwide but need to bring in nurses from Asia to keep our own system functioning.
    14.7 billion is a huge budget but will it reduce the 9 hour wait to be see doctor in A&E or stop local GP services from closing down . Harris promises like is smile is as fake as anything that has came before him.

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    Mute Brinster
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    Nov 5th 2016, 12:59 PM

    @leartius:

    “This year 35 million was promised but only 15 million was allocated in budget 2017″

    This was also the subject of a Journal Fact Check.

    Your statement is completely false.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/mental-health-e20-million-cut-budget-2017-facts-3044032-Oct2016/

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    Mute Lee Power
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    Nov 5th 2016, 11:14 AM

    I bleedin love the fact checker!

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