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MOTORISTS ARE BEING urged to take care on the roads overnight due to the risk of flooding.
Earlier today, a Met Éireann warning was put in place, saying that Munster, Connacht and Leinster can expect heavy rain over the next few days, while Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal can expect snow and ice.
Dublin has been officially warned to expect 25mm of rain, but Fine Gael Cllr Kieran Binchy said this may be upgraded to as much as 40mm, though this has not yet been confirmed.
Binchy said that the council has a number of plans in place, including drainage teams who are attending certain gullies that are at risk, while sandbags are prepared and can be easily accessed if needed.
Road safety
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is advising road users to take particular care on the roads following the of prolonged showers which will give rise to some spot flooding.
Especially at risk are Eastern coastal areas due to strong to gale force East to Southeast winds, while tomorrow will bring further spells of heavy rain and strong winds especially over Leinster and Ulster.
The RSA said that when driving in wet and windy conditions, drivers should be aware:
The RSA also said that if the road ahead is flooded, choose another route and do not attempt to drive through it. After going through water, drive slowly with your foot on the brake pedal for a short distance to help dry the brakes.
Pedestrians and cyclists are advised to wear a high visibility jacket or reflective armband and take extra care when near traffic or crossing the road in extremely windy conditions.
More information can be found in the RSA’s publication Severe Weather Advice for Road Users’.
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You can be sure he’ll be a permanent citizen of this country in no time as per the Kalergi plan. He’d be ejected out of Poland or Hungary after a terrible prison stay but not in weak Western Europe controlled by Sutherland and Soros.
@Ranty McCrank: Where are the open border champions now? He probably is one through his child thanks to meeting an Irish woman…
@Ranty McCrank: this forum explains the tolerance of such activity:
@Ranty McCrank: we’re wussies
@BrianMcB: Explain your open-border point please?
You’re alluding to something vaguely. What is the point you are making?
Are you suggesting we shut down all inward migration?
@Danny Rafferty: how about controlling immigration. Rather than invite all and sundry without restriction why not vet immigrants for illness, criminality and skills and remove them within ,say 10yrs, if they commit a significant crime or is that racist xenophobia?
7 and a half years seems very lenient having regard to the nature and circumstances of this vicious and predatory crime. No contrition, no admission, and he sought to destroy their characters of the victims as part of his vicious defence.
@Fiona deFreyne: joke of a sentence.
Seven and a half years???? That’s just over 3 and a half years per woman he violated, drugged and raped. Enough said really about our justice system.
@WJH: Just want to point out there was no evidence of drugs. I am not denying what they said but there is only the suggestion of drugs. If there was evidence it would have been given. It sounds like they reported it quickly and would have run a blood test.
@WJH: don’t forget the concurrent element of the already laughable sentence…
@Kal Ipers: apparently the rape drug is nearly impossible to detect in tests.
@Kal Ipers: doesn’t matter whether drugs were involved. He was convicted of rape and sexual assault. He is filth, end of story.
@PDiddy: not true. Urban legend
Hopefully he’ll get battered in prison.
@Dj: hopefully but it’s a sad reflection on us as a society when we’re hopeing other criminals deliver justice for us.
He should be fitted for a pair of cement shoes and shown how to swim in them.
Too short, but at least no suspended element. Watch this space for many time wasting, legal aid funded actions brought by this delousional cad.
@Caroline Otoole: The only suspended element of a sentence should involve a tree and a rope.
No comments? Yet? Perhaps this will not be commented on due to his rich South Dublin heritage
@Don Shavago: he’s from Cameroon
@@aidoroch: That sounds a little racist IMHO
@Don Shavago: does it not say in the article he’s originally from Cameroon and then lived in Sligo town? Are you acting thick on purpose or what?
@Don Shavago: what sounds a little racist??? explain me please?? stop using words which you don’t understand
Should be strung up for his actions.
@Ray Farrell: Ah, don’t be racist
@Ray Farrell: …by the nuts. With razor wire.
Just a quick question Tommy. If you think he should be strung up by the nuts with razor wire as punishment, what would you think a suitable punishment for females who commit equally heinous crimes? given they lack nuts.
@Flip off: a solution can be found to that minor mechanical issue
7 years ? Shows how out of touch the judiciary are.
when you have open borders you have to accept the good with the bad this guy should be banned from the country after his release but we know that wont happen, this is a heinous crime against these women
Cultural enrichment.
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