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GARDAÍ IN GALWAY are investigating an incident of criminal damage after a window was smashed in a mosque while people were inside praying.
Members of the Masjisd Maryam Galway mosque were inside the building praying to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when rocks were thrown at the window at about 11pm last night.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke, Imam Ibrahim Noonan said that there was a large number of people in the mosque when the incident occurred.
“There was quite an amount of people in the mosque – men women and children,” said Noonan.
“We were actually in the middle of the prayer when we heard loud bangs – very loud bangs on the windows,” he said.
Imam Noonan said that at first it sounded like large fuse had blown in the building.
But when we completed the prayers we realised that the windows had been smashed.
Noonan said that the congregation went outside and saw “young men… running away from the mosque”.
He said he saw two young people running away from the building.
He said those present were upset by the vandalism.
A Garda spokesperson said that officers were investigating an incident of criminal damage at a property in Ballybrit, Galway city at about 11pm last night.
It is believed that the vandalism was carried out by juveniles.
Local Social Democrats representative Niall Ó Tuathail said that incident was a “cowardly act”, and said he had written to the gardaí in relation to the emergence of an apparent neo-Nazi group in Galway.
“This cowardly act does not represent Galway or Galwegians. Unfortunately, there are a small minority of people who want to make Muslims and other communities feel unsafe,” said Ó Tuathail.
This cannot be tolerated in any form. People of Muslim faith are welcome in Galway and contribute to the diversity and vibrancy of the city.
And a superspreader is???
@The Thinker: Someone who is sick, fails to seek medical attention and highlight their sickness to authorities but yet continues to integrate in the community until they are too ill to do so.
Basically that ‘hero’ at work who doesn’t take sick days but probably should as they keep infecting the whole office.
Part of this was accelerated by witch doctors saying the experimental and supportive treatments , the WHO teams etc were a conspiracy by western govts to give them Ebola that made many afraid to ask for help
Idiot keyboard warriors from the west helped spread this too, saying things like the CDC held the patent on Ebola so must have created it in the lab. Others spewed uninformed nonsense like “it’s highly contagious ” and “what if a refugee from Africa sneezes on me in the A&E” Those who actually knew what we were talking about were ignored at first but thankfully once people had the facts laid out it turned around
@The Thinker: Someone with oversized testicles.
Remember, stay at home with the flu and don’t be opening the door to any super-spreaders.
A flu mutation and pandemic would kill way more than Ebola (and we’re overdue for one) and unlike a dozen Ebola cases which we could easily have handled with the usually empty isolation ward in the Mater our health service would totally collapse in its present form during a flu pandemic
We don’t have enough bed capacity for normal operations (we’re at least 5-6000 short minimum some would argue double that) let alone something where anything up to a third of the population could either be infected or convince themselves their cold is the mutated flu strain. We’re oddly better equipped to deal with the far less likely smallpox or Ebola or bubonic plague than the near certain flu mutation
Great piece of machinery on the farm, the old superspreader.
Just make sure it’s shots are up to date.
Also works in the pub.
Journal, thank you for my 2017 GF pet name on Valentines day! “Ebola Superspreader”
I was talking to my mother on the bus a few months ago and this yoke on the back seats was saying he got Ebola from his bird. I told him it wasn’t likely. He said he got a Ebola soup off his bird. I didn’t find it funny but he taught it was hilarious until he was getting off the bus and fell down the stairs. I had a good giggle.
Super spreader? Like the country girl at the disco……
@Shane Russell: Is that drink or bladder?
With global warming there will be more spread of diseases and a few new ones.
My aunt in the U.K. has a friend who has a viral disease as I found out a few days ago, the doctors do not know what the disease is as they never saw it before.
Is there a chance that the doctors are not trained well enought as that is possible but it is a thought, could we be living in a time where the advent of new diseases from global travel and global warming will spread and create diseases? Can you imagine super spreaders spreading superbugs, and the only defense we have might be in old herbal books on age old remedies?
WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING?
Like dung or lime spreaders?
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