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INDEPENDENT TD THOMAS Pringle has lost his European Court of Justice challenge to the legality of the permanent European Union bailout fund.
The court said in its decision this morning that there was “nothing capable of affecting the validity” of the European Council decision of March 2011 regarding the European Stability Mechanism in the challenge brought by the Donegal deputy.
Thus it ruled that the ESM is lawful, clearing the way for the multi-billion euro bailout fund to come into force next year.
The court had been considering the case brought by Pringle who argued that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) breached Irish and European law.
The ESM had already survived a legal challenge in Germany and the decision of the court this morning will come as no surprise to analysts who predicted the court would uphold the law.
The Supreme Court in Ireland earlier this year referred several questions to the ECJ, which is based in Luxembourg, as a matter of “exceptional urgency”.
The ECJ had been asked to rule on three questions:
Such was the gravity of the case all 27 judges of the ECJ participated in oral hearings last month where Pringle’s legal team argued that in the formulation of the ESM there was a breach of law.
However legal arguments for Ireland claimed that the ESM was compatible with EU treaties and the court has found in its favour this morning.
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Where were the flight attendants the whole time Mike was being harassed? If he gets sued he should sue the airline
@thomas walsh: Americans just can’t behave themselves
@John Kelly: true . They really can’t.
@John Kelly: especially on planes. Americans get on planes and they start to act like football fans
@thomas walsh: or, do football fans act like Americans? Anyway, the flight attendants aren’t there to sort that out, the guy with the gun should have been on the scene.
@TomTraubert: Not all planes have that gun
I’d have hit the other guy myself in the same position. Tyson showed remarkable restraint to ignore their behaviour for as long as he did.
Some people deserve a good dig. This gobshyte was one.
No matter how drunk you are, it’s takes a special type of įdiot to try to persistently annoy Mike Tyson like this.
@John Sheahan: Everybody’s got a plan until they get a punch in the mouth. Mike Tyson
Alcohol impairs sensible judgement
@Paul: yep! If he had just had a spliff him and Tyson could be sitting by a pool now, chilling.
Pretty sure he said “ Mike , can’t wait for G.I. Jane 2” and Mike slapped the $hit out of him
@Mark Hannan: except gi Jane was a woman and didn’t have a stüpid face tat.
The guy knew exactly what he was doing provoking Mike Tyson and he’ll be a millionaire by the end of it which is the sad way of these things.
It’s Mike Tyson , what do you expect when you constantly annoy him? He still has that beast mode inside of him, guys lucky he didn’t take an ear!
The pr!ck deserved it
The guy knew exactly what he was doing provoking Mike Tyson and he’ll he
You’d think you’d get less clowns in business class
@The Guru: Enough alcohol will turn anyone into a clown
@thomas walsh: but you just single out the football fans Tommy boy
@John Kelly: I literally just singled out this guy and also agreed with your statement above?? Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
@thomas walsh: ah I know I’m just digging back a bit. Maybe you should just say drunk people can’t behave themselves on the football articles or ‘some football cant…..’ Instead of including all of us because a lot of football fans generally can it’s normally the drunk ones like this American tool on the plane
@John Kelly: I’m only joking around at this point as well. I just don’t understand how you guys get so upset.
@John Kelly: I think we can agree that this drunk is lucky Mike actually held back on him. He could of really damaged him
@thomas walsh: ah I know but it’s still kinda annoying its like calling all Americans brain dead even tho only most of them are :)
@John Kelly: You guys do know I’m not American, don’t you? I just happen to live here as do a lot of Irish
@thomas walsh: I pretty muched guessed that but I think a lot think you are. Plus you live there so that makes you part brain dead American like that guy on the plane. See its not nice being tarred with the same brush Tom. The irony
@John Kelly: Oh not me. Back in my younger days I might of acted up while on the drink. But I’m definitely too old for that now. And I definitely wouldn’t of been messing with Tyson
@thomas walsh: “wouldn’t of been” is so American
Investigating the video or the assault? (I know)
And he didn’t learn his lesson judging by the s tu pi d face afterwards.
Do we take it from the comments here that it’s quite okay for all of us to slap/punch anyone who is annoying us? Mike Tyson is much a much bigger stronger man than the fellow he hit. MT was in no danger from him whereas he drew blood when he hit the irritating passenger.
This was an incident which could have had serious consequences for all on board had it gotten out of hand.
@Siobhan O’Sullivan Morrin: No it would not had any consequences for anyone on board except that g0bsh!t,,,I would feel extremely safe knowing Mike Tyson was on the plane I can assure u
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