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POLICE IN BELFAST are investigating after a man was stabbed in the neck in an assault on Christmas Day.
The PSNI said it was investigating the assault that took place in the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast yesterday morning at about 11am.
It was reported to the police that a man in his 50s was stabbed in the neck as he was walking between the Turl Lodge and White Rock.
Sergeant Ferguson of the PSNI said that it was believed that three males verbally abused the man before one of them stabbed him in the neck.
“Enquiries are continuing and we would appeal to anyone who witnessed the incident or who may have dash-cam footage at that time from the area to contact police on 101, quoting reference number 551 25/12/18,” the sergeant said.
Alternatively, information can also be provided to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 which is 100% anonymous and gives people the power to speak up and stop crime.
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I think ‘earned’ is the wrong word.
A job pays money. That money is called earnings. What don’t you get?
Stealing ‘pays’ money. That money is called …
Fill in the dots, good man.
show me someone here who doesn’t use banks. as long as money is flushed through the bank systems there will always be people making money off it. only way around it would be a zero interest state bank that allows people to be paid and spend that pay without benefiting individuals, but or society always elects people who serve money rather than the people, so there is no way around this. PS: Bertie, did actually have a bank account – he just used it corruptly.
the vast majority of these people have worked incredibly hard, sacrificing most of their 20s and 30s and 40s.. you will always have the one bad egg in any industry to ruin things.
Oh thats alright then. But we were told that we have to pay all that money to get the best. Seeing the state of the banking ‘industry’ in this country and the subsequent catastrophic effect on it’s citizens, maybe you could impart to us your wisdom on how bad thing would have been had we in actual fact not paid over the odds for ‘the best’ and, shudder at the thought, actually got the worst possible people to work here.
If this was a real republic then we wouldn’t have three token journey men, but the top dogs in jail.
The Republic is dead, long live the Republic.
Over paid, over rated pocket stuffers.
Nice one journal rub it in
Does that mean you can do the job?
Does it mean they can William?….track records a bit*h.
Isn’t bloody great to have the Celtic tiger back..
Meanwhile irish public servants are still paying for their transgressions. The financial emergency hasn’t gone away you know
“40 Irish bankers”……spot the typo
Financial Predators
- Bankers who max your debt
- Landlords who max your rent
- Political Parties who max your tax ….
There are no hidden fees for any service from a bank (you just have to read the smallprint and booklets) and nobody is forced to borrow money. Banks provide services and they involve risk. That’s it.
But that “risk” is never the bankers or the bond holders. Just the poor saps below that glass ceiling. All thanks to the neo liberalism of FF, FG and Labradooles
I’m not surprized. Banks have slapped charges on absolutely everything and are still charging big interest on the mortgage loans, fleecing the general public, totally acceptable behaviour by our lovely corrupt gov.
Mortgage rates in Ireland since the mid 2000s are pretty reasonable compared to what was available historically. As recently as the early 1990s, rates were up as high as 18%! Currently one can achieve a rate of around 4.5% variable. That’s not exactly extortionate, comparatively. I live in New Zealand and my fixed rate is 5.4%, and that was a fairly low rate historically (the available rates having fallen further since due to escalating house prices). You can’t necessarily blame banks for charging for their services, as they have always done. People took on these crazy 110% mortgages back in the Tiger days, not exactly the current banking regimes fault, a certain amount of responsibility must fall on the banks customer. Now don’t think I enjoy paying bank fees if I can avoid it, but there must be an understanding that services have a cost. You get paid interest by the bank for the facility of them using your deposited money, and as such, it works the other way.
that’s all good but the banks are getting money at zero rate plus ecb are buying assets
That’s all fine and dandy, but the banks’ mortgage customers, during the Celtic Tiger era, were thinking, on the one hand, I really should defer my house purchase until I have saved a 20% deposit, but on the other hand, if I don’t act now I will never get on residential housing ladder.
Due to non existent Banking Regulation, and an era of pushy salesmen in aggressive sales commission generating mode within Ireland’s banks, folks were forced into bad borrowing decisions.
No one forced anyone to do anything, I know, I lived in Ireland through those years.
The poor bankers.
The jealousy on here is hilarious. People who can hardly count, let alone understand economics and complex mathematics, moaning about smart men and women who have made successes out of their careers. Sad really.
What is sad Alan is that the rivers of Ireland are full of dead bodies directly attributable to the collapse of the Irish banking sector, Directly attributable to these same bankers, and while decent working people are still suffering pay cuts these super intelligent fat cats are still lining their own pockets. vote Fine Gael. Vote Labour.
Smart men and women? So why, if these were any business other than banks, would they have been shut down years ago? I wouldn’t be the jealous type anyway and certainly not jealous of people whose actions in getting back the money they created when someone applied for a mortgage eventually resulted in the death of that person because of the pressure they were put under to finance a loan I approved only to find out it wasn’t that sustainable after all. W/bankers are lovely people really.
What’s the issue here?
You work, you get paid, simples.
Some earn more than others, fact!
You may bet nobody earning 1 million + in wages is wasting their time in comments section of the journal!
There’s a lesson there folks….
Welcome to the ‘earning less than a million club’ Seamie.
and at least five million in 2007
No surprises there so…
I would prefer if headlines for articles such as this used the word “made” and not “earned” which I reserve for the income most of us gain from our efforts.
Compared to City of London this is small fries, compared to NYC? Fuggheadboutit. Also, I don’t have much passion for banking and think there’s a lot of sneakiness going on, but I can guarantee you whatever Irish bankers take in over 1m euro work harder for that than 95% of the population do for their 30-70k.
ridiculous.
At risk of feeling incredibly naive, I thought there was a cap limit of €500k for salaries in banks? I know some staff have used loopholes to get around this before, but to have 40 doing so seems crazy.
Look at the graphic again.. they all earned under €500K in fixed salary, even the top person who took home €2.5M after bonuses.
It’s the variable amount, i.e. the bonus component based on performance, that brings these people into the €1M+ total earnings.
shower of w**kers those bankers
Misleading in the extreme. Left wing populist journalism that hasn’t even researched what the headings mean under each industry type. The most important for the purposes of this article is the retail banking heading. The scope of the EBA not only includes the public banks, but also private companies that are regulated by the central bank.
You’re all wrong. People at the top of amy industry earm million dollar salaries. The banking system was banjaxed. You want the people in charge to be shit hot. If they do a good job they deserve the millions.
So to reitterate, you are all wrong. Good day.
The same people who f**ked it up are still in charge.
You’re wrong. Good day!
go dig out the annual reports for the main banks in 2007 and then dig out the same for 2014. line up the executive committee then and now. and report back….
Richie Boucher
wonga
Due to budget cuts and decreases of wages in our pockets it was our monies that was used to pay these bankers which is corruption at its highest . Banks should have been left to fall and bonds should not have been paid to shareholders . We are fools and still bailing out the banks while they live a life of luxury from our expense .
allowing the banks to fail was the right answer? really? of course it seems like the right answer in the depth of a recession – we all wanted to be iceland. but we are now in a position were unemployment rates are falling, people on dole is falling, USC is going to be cut further (more so than WC incr!), public sector wage increases are being put through. of course the man on the street is angry but recovery in asset prices is the first thing to happen. we are now going into the second leg which is money in people’s back pockets. i will bet my bottom $ that in 2016 & 2017 people will notice the difference and the recovery in ireland will broaden outside of Dublin. you are already starting to see asset prices recover outside of Dublin. Go and look at GDP growth rates on “google” for Ireland versus Iceland and see how you now feel? PS: a lot of the bankers that were in charge at the time are now gone. some have even gone to prison. there is a market rate for any job and internal remuneration committee – if you think it is that easy a job go and apply / work in the industry.
they were surely paid my mistake, customers should expect a refund soon for funding such errors.
take all your money out, cripple them. they keep taking money off you till they’re caught – sorry, it was a mistake. ok, here’s your prison cell. if every petty criminal said that to the judge for robbing people – sorry it was a mistake.
its never gone the other way, crediting your account, theres a reason for that and I’ve just said it. banks should be fined heavy for this trick.
disgusting
40 bankers made a million? That’s only 25k each.
How much is that after tax??
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