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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you up to speed with the five things you should know as you head out the door.
1. #SENTENCING: Almost two thirds of murder victims’ families are dissatisfied with sentencing regimes in Ireland, according to new research. The study said that the portrayal of victims in court cases is of huge concern and distress to their families.
2. #ASYLUM SEEKERS: Ireland’s immigration services are more likely to reject applications from asylum seekers than all but a handful of the authorities in other EU countries. New figures show that 1,625 cases were ruled on last year and just 140 were granted some kind or positive protection.
3. #MENTAL HEALTH: The Acute Psychiatric Services Unit at Roscommon County Hospital was closed to admissions last weekend because of a staffing crisis leading to one ‘suicidal’ man being turned away. Staff nursing levels have dropped from 111 in 2009 to 58 this year.
4. #GRAFTON STREET: Dublin City Council spent €400,000 on the Grafton Street makeover before construction work has begun earlier this month. The money was spent on “investigative surveys” and design and administrative costs, the council said. The overall project is set to cost the taxpayer €4 million.
5. #BOOZE: We might be famed for our drinking culture but a new study has found that the British might be to blame for that. The research, conducted by UCD found that out complicated relationship with alcohol may date back to when we were under British rule with people living in “The Pale” more likely to binge drink than those in rural areas.
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Hope for her families sake they get some answers
It can not be easy searching dense undergrowth and woodland especially after the horrendous weather conditions we have endured so if any thing is found which might shed light on this disappearance then it would be remiss of the gardai not to attempt to examine possible links and this according to the article is what they are attempting to do, so comments which try to belittle these actions are petty,if the reverse of this was the case, the gardai would be criticised and called out for being inept, the good news , if any, is that three separate reports of activity concerning these woods and Tina’s case are reported in the papers today .
That could be anything really .. needle in a haystack
@cormac o neill: cool story maybe, just maybe that’s why they sent it for testing!
@Ohhh_reeally: read the article, they say the exact same themselves
Really hope they find her as must be agonizing for her family not knowing either way….
Not looking to good..very sad.
@owen kirwan:
Sure, let’s bring back phrenology as a legal argument.
Why are comments open on this story but closed on any story relating to the Tallaght scrotes knocking down Lidl????
@Universal Soldier:
There’s not even any evidence that a crime has been committed yet – it’s currently a missing person search.
Please. It’s unbelievably obvious what happened. Nobody is being fooled by Richard Satchwell, and the sooner he is put away – preferably for the rest of his pitiful life – the better.
I believe that The Tina Satchel is in the hands of drugs lords that is where the large sum of money went to That is why he is so sure of himself He knows where she is and is biding his time Very crafty disgusting man Remember he harps on about her depression
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