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A LUAS TRAM and a car collided in Dublin this afternoon.
It happened on the Luas Green Line at Ballyogan Road in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area.
Gardaí were called to the scene after 3pm, they described it as a ‘minor collision’.
They are no reports of any injuries.
The Luas Twitter account was warning of delays earlier today at around the time of the crash.
A spokesperson for the Luas told TheJournal.ie that the crash caused a 20 minute delay to services.
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You can’t cut cut and cut and expect the same results. This is a pure cause from a cheap government
Yes you can if there is huge inefficiency. The cuts were financially necessary but the reorganisation hasn’t happened. Listen to the various Garda units…..
War on drugs require large large budgets and lots and lots of man in woman in blue. Self feeding and extremely lucrative cycle. ( Not for the taxpayer, user, addict or Guarda of course)
Really really shocked ‘respectable’ families are affected. Who would have guessed people with lots of money dabble in drugs. Keep fighting windmills with all we got, it’s important!!
a sensible drugs policy which keeps profits and victims away from cartels is still many years away
It’s a police service now not a police force. More about PR than fighting crime.
Until you stop criminalising the issue will you see positive results, but that makes too much sense to happen in Ireland.
What?
This is the effect of public sector cuts and no investment in resources for 6 yrs . Government has buried their heads in the sand and pray nothing happens. Not just Guards , firefighters nurses, ,ambluance,prison service,customs,army etc all destroyed because of cuts
Have you done a Rip Von Winkle? The Gardai are an administrative and management mess. Until there is reform it would be madness to put more money in.
They have no support. Not long enough prison terms, no prison spaces( we replaced a jail in cork with 20 less places), and legal lobby are happy as the repeat offenders are their main customers.
Legalise and regulate the trade entirely and offer safe spaces for addicts to go – that will resolve this issue.
Has anyone been around Talbot Street / Gardiner Street lately.
It’s like the zombie apocalypse with the junkies around there.
And how will legalising it reduce the amount of addicts?
It won’t – it will reduce the amount of crime associated though.
How? Junkies will still need to steal etc to afford their fix. Unless it goes on HSE? They can already get methadone.
Until heroin becomes a middle class issue the establishment simply don’t care.
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