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A MOOODY COW nearly drove rescuers mad as she made valiant efforts to emigrate by making a dash for the open seas.
The one-year-old Friesian, named Ghost, took a tumble from her field at an area known as Dock beach, in the tourist hotspot of Kinsale, Co Cork yesterday morning.
The frightened Friesian, which was marooned on rocks, was spotted by a man out on a passing yacht and members of the RNLI in Kinsale were called to the scene at 12.36 pm.
Kevin Gould, Lifeboat Operations Manager said: “We got a call to say there was a cow in distress on the rocks. When we managed to get close to her she was quite aggressive and was cut and bruised.”
The cow eventually ended up in the sea and it took up to three and a half hours to rescue her. The RNLI took the decision to close the beach in case the cow made a bolt for beach goers and onlookers.
She was gently towed back to safety on the Kinsale RNLI lifeboat, Miss Sally Anne Baggy II, and several crew members.
“We had a bit of a bovine adventure rescuing poor Ghost, the cow, who tumbled from her field at Castlepark onto the rocks below,” Gould said.
The farmer who owned her was located and he warned us that she could be a bit moody on the best of days so we knew we had our work cut out for us. The crew had to show great patience in trying to rescue her. It’s one thing dealing with humans but animals are a different story as they can be quite difficult.
“We made the decision to close the beach as a member of the public could have tried to help her and instead could have endangered their lives.
“RNLI members involved in the rescue managed to get a rope around a halter that she was wearing and eventually entice her into a nearby field. She was then, after some time, loaded up into a trailer and taken home. We’re happy to say she is now safely tucked up in her shed having a good old feed of hay.”
It is not the first time that Kinsale RNLI have had to rescue animals either.
“A few months ago we had to rescue, ‘Paddy’ the horse who got caught up in mussel fields. The human variety are definitely easier to deal with but we never say no to any rescue,” Gould added.
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I see Ulster Bank are now charging for ATM withdrawals, contactless payments, and just having money in a current account. Who’s doing the robbing ?
@Frank Lloyd wright: The guys with the stolen diggers?
@Frank Lloyd wright: when you get paid pull all money from account that does not require DD.
@Frank Lloyd wright: Frank, you should go on Have I Got News For You.
@Frank Lloyd wright: it took me 6 attempts over 2 years to close an empty account with UB crooks.
@Tweety McTweeter: yeah. I do have some remorse for the diggers owners
Here is an idea, tracking advice????? They didn’t think of that yet
@chris c: And how would you power this device? Do you not think they would disconnect this device.
@Mr N: For God’s sake. Everything you need is in the most basic smart phone. Just put a sim in, power it from the ATM. It’ll have 12hrs battery life when the power gets disconnected. Use ‘find my phone’ to locate it.
Cheap signal jammer or cheap RF detector to find it or store it in steel shipping container will sort sort that. They aren’t that stupid.
@Paraic: GPS doesn’t work inside a metal box.
@Mr N: Lithium battery
@chris c: if you have a free standing atm in your premises move it as far to the back as you can. This will also help impulse buys from users and as these are being targeted directly, remove the cartridges at night and leave them in a separate safe.
@Mr N: Isn’t your car a metal box? Does your phone not work inside? Mine does. I know I use Google maps when driving.
@Paraic: No, my car has windows. They’re very handy.
@Paraic: Look up faraday cage if you want to understand the discussion, otherwise you’ll make more embarrassing statements.
@chris c: according to RTE , they have tracking devices , which are being disabled!
@Diarmuid Hunt: I know exactly what a Faraday’s cage is, being an Electronics Engineer. A Faraday’s cage must be grounded to sink the signal, otherwise it just acts like a big antenna. This is why your mobile phone works just fine inside your car, and why it is you who should be embarrassed.
@Paraic: Any GPS tracking device installed in a vehicle needs to have a clear line of sight, unobstructed by metal, to the satellites. In cars and vans, it is usually placed in the dash, immediately underneath the windscreen. HGV, buses, etc. need to have an antenna mounted on top of the cab, wired to the device.
@Paraic: ammmm windows……
@Paraic: ammmm windows in cars…..
@Mr N: ever think of stand up comedy as a career?
@Mr N: thats what antennas are for. A little wire protruding and tadah, signal.
@Mr N: a battery?
@Paraic: it’s time the bank copped on im sure a SIM card could be hidden somewhere in the unit
@Damien Mc Padden: Absolutely false. GPS on your phone uses triangulation from both GPS satellites and cell towers called assisted GPS. GPS sattelite tracking is accurate to within 5m where as AGPS is usually worst case 50m. Long story short, tracking works without sight of the sky, hence why you can get a location on your phone inside your own home.
@Paraic: Cars are not grounded, rubber tyres and are also not fully enclosed, windows, I hope you’re not working on any big projects as an electronics engineer. Phones don’t work in elevators, and a gps tracker wouldn’t work inside a shipping container. I’ll be embarrassed when I’m wrong.
@chris c: lads they no who is taking them and where they are they are untouchable prob better armed than the state
@Paraic: Slight tangent but still related, you weren’t doing any work in France recently were you?
@Diarmuid Hunt:So now you agree with my point? An ATM in a vehicle won’t be in a Faraday’s cage because the van or truck will have tires so the enclosure isn’t grounded. Isn’t that exactly what I said? Mobile frequency RF will therefore penetrate. And exactly! An elevator IS well grounded so it won’t. But nobody mentioned ATMs being moved around in elevators before now. How is that relevant to the discussion?Phones can find their location by other means, even with GPS switched off. Didn’t you know this? Also, I never suggested that using a mobile phone as a tracker couldn’t ever ever be defeated but a metal enclosure isn’t a Faraday’s cage, unless it’s grounded… Difficult to ground in a moving vehicle as you rightly pointed out.
@Paraic: Fair enough, I got the wrong end of the stick, and am rightly embarrassed.
@Diarmuid Hunt: @paraic Don’t stop now lads. This is fascinating
@Tom Cullen: I was referring to vehicle GPS tracking devices and am relaying the information given by the company employed to install such trackers on our fleet. They had to drill holes in the roofs of our trucks to fit the antennae.
@Paraic: Can I ask how the grounding works when applied to helicopter linemen repairing live electricity lines?
@Damien Mc Padden: they’re not grounding they are equalizing potential and discharging static
@Damien Mc Padden: To answer your question stand bare footed in your filled bath and touch a live wire. Observe that being well grounded does not work to your advantage. Apply the principle to helicopter linemen. Helicopter linemen depend heavily on the fact that they are not grounded and the fact that electricity will always take the path of least resistance. So as long as a temporary circuit is made to bypass the faulty cable segment, it can be safely worked on by an ungrounded well insulated worker.
Its amazing you can bring a digger on a low loader and off load it and go through the process of removing two cash machines from a wall with all the noise this will make and load it onto a jeep and no one bats an eye, but in this same country you could drink 3 pints at night and be caught the morning after morning going to work purely because the gardai prioritize this operation over anything else!
@Liam O Connor: you’re implying here that it’s the guards fault…..you clearly know nothing current Garda numbers if I think they have thr ability to have a presence at every town/village every night. In my area there is one patrol car 3 guards covering 2 towns and 11 villages. An area that takes 50 minutes to drive from one end to the other. Factor in all the rural roads as well. And u think they should hear an ATM being taken. They’re not psychic. I’d be asking the question why people who lived near it didn’t hear it/report it straight away
@Liam O Connor: that’s a bit daft you comment, think about it
@Liam O Connor: You a dum dum!
@Anthony: there is a massive regional Garda station about 400metrrs away from these ATM’s in Kells
@Anthony: my point is that is that proximity of loads of Gardaí still doesn’t stop it, it doesn’t seem like it’s possible to stop it without ARU at every crossroads and even then you have people posting on Facebook where the checkpoints are and where they have been, so criminals know where not to be.
@Anthony: why would people in their right mind even think about reporting it.. Before it reaches RTÉ news, the lads that done the job would know the names of the whistle blower.. Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil…
Ridiculous that this can continue without any upgrade in security from banks or Gardai
@John Fahy: Thats the idea. It is happening too quick they cant implement sec quick enough
@John Fahy: or society outrage. Ambivalence.
Haha brilliant, who ever is at it is getting cocky..
@Hardly Normal: Its a small group of RIRA members from the border area.
@Darren: good man clouseau……
@Matthew Balfe: Do you support them or something?
@Darren: how does my comment suggest I support them?
@Matthew Balfe: Then why comment?
@Darren: You’re new here, aren’t you?
@Carrington MacG: You clearly aren”t with you’re perfect grammar.
@Darren: How do you know this? How do you know they exist? Or is it that “they haven’t gone away ya know”
@Darren: I hope they have all the necessary safe pass qualifications for working near dangerous machines.
@Darren: they haven’t gone away yeno
@Matthew Balfe: Why? Do you think they dont exist or something? Theres at least a few dozen members around the area im from and unfortunately for me a family member got mixed up and is serving 14 years for “the cause”.
Looks like police are only now realising there is an ATM robbery issue to hand. The radio said that they are having a meeting on it…soon..
@Aire Dezamba: sorted so!
Dissident provos building up the cash reserves for a new criminal terror campaign?
And they seem to be getting away with it so easily too, do we have any Garda intelligence services who have any leads?
@Dotty Dunleary: The biggest lead they have is for their Russell Hobb kettle!!
@Simon Connolly:
I understood it was the canine dept. that had the leads….
… i’ll get my coat.
Watch now as they give more funding to the Gardaí but when the banks robbed the people there was absolutely nothing done. A few lackeys thrown into the jail whilst the big fish got off scot free.
@Windom Earle: whoever said cut the funding was right until they start doing their jobs. Absolutely useless.
Embarrassing considering there’s a Garda station in the town.
@Éamann Ó Duinn: less than 500m away
@Éamann Ó Duinn: How many Guards do you think are likely to be working in a Garda Station like Kells station at 4:00am Éamann!?!! Assuming there are two Guards in the Garda Car, that are out patrolling, there’s hardly likely to be a platoon of Gardaí waiting to respond to an ATM robbery around the corner!! Population of Kells town is about 7,000 people, I’d hardly expect many Guards to be working!!
@Nuffsaid Thatsall: The station is the centre for the Garda traffic corp in Meath so it’s bigger than what it is, secondly it shows badly they are structured that they even can’t get armed and offer some kind of intervention to a major crime a stones throw away from the station.
We need to cut Garda overtime to pay for this.
@Paul Freeman: A silly comment Paul
Two ATMs stolen in Crumlin, County Antrim aswell.
@Frank Lloyd wright: the Ra are building up a nice tidy some of money
Carnalstown?
Is that where you go for a dirty weekend?
@Paul: Somebody didn’t do their homework it is actually Carlanstown!
Every Friday is a good Friday
That’s not how withdrawals are supposed to be made.
Once the .ATM moves from bank more 10 metres or is moved all cash flooded in red ink .
@den o sullivan: Good one….and easy to make too, with a simple proximity detect switch or a tilt switch to burst the dye bag.
@Pádraig Ó Braonáin: Banks already use them. It’s a ink block, generally hidden in stacks of notes. Move outside the bank a certain distance and it explodes. Has been around for years.
Insurance premiums for these small shops will go trough the roof.
@DavidOReilly: These were two large branches of AIB and BOI
@DavidOReilly: better than digger bucket going through their roof
Here’s a suggestion sounds obvious but why don’t they empty all ATM’s at night let’s say in rural areas therefor the boyo’s can pull the ATM’s but get zero therefor they’ll get greedy and venture further into towns and cities and hopefully get caught. Either that or hide a explosive device in the ATM that when it’s shifted it explodes injuring of killing the perpetrators
@In my opinion: They were full for the Bank holiday weekend.
Banks need to increase amounts to €50 for contactless payments and shops and pubs need to have more than one card machine on their premises. Eliminate cash as much as possible.
@In my opinion: Yeah, why not go the whole hog and put poison gas and minefields there too. Silly comments everywhere this morning
@In my opinion: There are two problems with your suggestion! Firstly, – ATMs are designed that once loaded, they can’t be unloaded – thats to deter staff being put under duress by a theif to empty them during a robbery…they simply cant! That’s the case for ATMs inside premises’ anyway! Secondly, if the ATMs could be emptied, or the Bank branch ATMs were to be emptied, well that defeats the purpose of an ATM – people having quick easy 24/7/ 365 access to your money!! It’d make more sense to look at anti-theft ideas eg. Banknote dye etc, than inconveiniancing the public!
@In my opinion: maybe people might want to use atm’s at night?
@Dotty Dunleary: We have moved too far away from cash already, its not a healthy situation.
Set up the ATM so that as soon as power is removed all the money inside is destroyed. Then it doesn’t matter how long the Gardaí take. They’d quickly stop doing it if there’s no money to be got.
*Maudlin Road
*Carlanstown
Are they not alarmed in such a way that as soon as there is a huge bang vibration similar to an atm being ripped from a wall with a big digger type sound that every alarm lights goes on and the emergency response team get there in mins to catch these guys. ..next they will be asking you to stand aside during the day while the digger gets stuck in
@Brian Martin: well even vending machines or gambling machines have if you tilt them, so shouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility!
Remove the bucket from diggers to be parked overnight and close to ATMs… and take bucket away off site. Another alternative could be for cops to set a trap by staking-out diggers close to isolated ATMs.
@Pádraig Ó Braonáin:
@Pádraig Ó Braonáin: it would be easy to take the atm out of the wall without bucket on the machine
How about a simple motion activated camera linked to any one of those 24/7 manned security firms who could then alert police. If the security firm see the screen go blank…if the thieves try to interfere with it, then they alert police anyway.
Thugs in control while the Gardai chase harmless old fellows for taking a pint——The result Nobody co-operates with them anymore
@John Mc Donagh: Nothing harmless about drink driving, it costs lives every years.
@Rochelle: Two pints is not drunk driving..
Hopefully theyre come upon by armed gardai in the middle of a robbery. Being dissidents theyl probably be armed. Bit of an aul shoot out. A few of them killed off. (The robbers that is) should put a stop to it for a while, and a bit of a good news story in the media for a change.
@Damo.f: There are no armed Gardai wandering around small towns and villages
Simple. Just install dye exploders in the machines. Destroy the money inside if it comes under extreme movement. Ruin it all before it even gets to the footpath.
Forget the dye or trackers – how about expanding foam? It’d solidify within minutes
@Barbara Edwards: only on outer notes
IRA building up funds for more guns.
ATM’s are in our culture sir.
Maybe it’s because I watch quite a lot of crime programmes.that I cannot understand why the police could not set up a snare for this kind of crime, for instance, a make believe building site with digger on site adjacent to small town with bank , this last episode really amuses me,to think that there was a police station 20yds from the crime scene and no police to take the warning from the lady who called in.
Don’t these ATM have a security Dye that goes off when tampered with??either way these criminals need to do long stretches in the slammer no doubt they have probably been inside before, time to get rid of the bleeding hearts clubs who plead on their behalf with the sob stories and allow them back on the streets with ridiculously light sentences.
Every Friday is a good Friday
Since when was Cavan & Monaghan in “the south”
I think you need a geography lesson
@Liam O hAodha: think you need one too.. “south off the border”
@Yorkie1892: *of
@Yorkie1892: the article says “in the south” not “south OF the border”
Throw the book at them
The Jeep brand of 4×4 is very popular with these robbers
It’s the one hoist that you don’t need a inside man involved
Has it occurred to anyone that this happened less than 300 meters from a Garda Station?
My god… They have come south of the wall!!
Is there no surveilance being carried carried out on this gang between 1-5 am?
It’s getting contagious
Their robbing the public blind for years,,, F**k the banks !
@Jeffrey Quirke: yeh cause it’s not gonna cost the customers / public for the loss and repairs.
Seriously guys, how on earth is this happening. Makes us look stupid. Except for the guy with the digger
Install a nice high voltage protection around them. Any digger breaks through it, will have a nicely fried occupant!
Daring Criminality. As a society we have an ambivulance to wrong doing. Lacking civic spirit. This doesn’t occur in America where some machines are placed on footpaths.
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