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YOU’RE PROBABLY USED to seeing photographs of lightning by now – but bet you never realised you could capture an image of thunder too.
Science News brings us this video of thunder being captured on camera for the first time.
How did they do it?
Well, the scientists shot a copper wire into a lightning-prone cloud. The lightning then followed the wire to the ground, which meant the researchers could record the sound waves caused by the thunder.
The green flashes in the video are caused by the copper wire, and here’s the picture (acoustic imaging) of the thunder (to the right):
Judge Greally said Loughlin was “perilously close” to going to jail………..going by other trends when it comes to being banged up,she has only another 117 offences to go..
Probably would have if she hadn’t used the money to pay her motor tax, you know as long as you pay your way!
She’ll be running for politics next
There are people who care about the country were just stuck in a rut election wise
Nice dress for the presentation though..
Who paid for it though?
And then resigned via text message…..classy!!
So we are basically allowed to steal 28k and nothing will happen to us.
She’s blessed, her former employer appears to have saved her ass from jail reading between the lines!
Aimoo,
It’s a little more sinister than that. When you see someone buying so much personal stuff through the company they work for it normally has VAT & Tax benefits for the purchaser. Wink wink nod nod.
she wasn’t employed by a company
She’s a lucky lady not to get jail.if it was an ordinary Joe…..
Yes definitely.. If you were to break into somebody’s home and steal €28,000 from a safe you’d definitely do jail time. But hack into their bank account and steal 28 grand you’ll get a slap on the wrist..
She is an ordinary Joe, a young girl working as a legal secretary who is engaged to an electrician. That’s about as ordinary as you get. She screwed up, paid it all back and in all likelihood never be in trouble again. By ordinary Joe i think you mean the class that like to be called working class bit don’t actually work. That’s the dole class, they don’t want to work, so they’d never been in a position to steal from the employers. When you finished reading this, brush the dandruff of your chip
There’s a lot of sense to what you say Peter. I’m appalled by what she did, but there’s nothing to be gained by sending her to jail and she’ll probably be a good contributor to society over the course of her life. It will be tough to overcome the shame of this, but hopefully she’ll just get on with things now. She deserves a second chance.
Yes Peter I wouldn’t waste more taxpayers money on keeping her in jail for two years. She’s not a danger to society. Her employer should have kept an eye on her company affairs every month and this would have been nipped in the bud.
Ye, shame on her employer for trusting her personal assistant!
It’s the employers fault this whole thing happened and got so far.
She should apologise and take her back on immediately!
Howya
that’s a dumb dumb comment to make. It’s not about trust at all. There are simple company procedures designed to prevent this situation. These should have been implemented as we all do. The least she could have done was check her accounts on a monthly basis. The employer gets no sympathy from me. I never said it was the employers fault.
The employer is not looking for sympathy! In fact the employer had sympathy for the thief in this matter which is why she was not put to jail!
The employer would have been embarrassed I’m sure that she,specialised in employment law and here under nose was a thief doing to her what she probably deals with everyday in work!
It was disgraceful what this lady did to her employer! Company procedures you said,this was the barristers PA with her account not a huge companies account!
Wow she is a THIEF PURE and simple
There’s those words you hear all the time when a female is in front of the courts “suspended sentence”…
dochas must be empty so
The money was just resting in my account
A classic con. Identity a friendly, busy, trusting professional – and use every trick in the book to rip her off. But some us take a different view of this obnoxious thief because he was a GAA player…
In that case Dotrice – “He” should be Drug tested, as “He” is going around looking and acting like a “She”
The lady who was robbed, was female. You on the White Powder again?
@ Dotrice – For someone that supposedly went to Harvard, you really are as thick as bottled Pig Shite, read the article again, Read the part where Her name is Dinah, and SHE was an inter county player, Read the caption just under the first photo, where she is collecting HER trophy….
went to Harvard? – It must have been a day trip and you thought you were in Disney world or something – ya Plank
@ Dotrice – For someone that supposedly went to Harvard, you really are as thick as bottled Pig Shite, read the article again, Read the part where Her name is Dinah, and SHE was an inter county player, Read the caption just under the first photo, where she is collecting HER trophy….
went to Harvard? – It must have been a day trip and you thought you were in Disney world or something – ya Plank
calm down you buffoon. my post had a ‘he’ typo. a thief’s vile act has nothing to do with sport, even gaa…
Me calm down? – you were the one that went down the “White powder” route, not me – if ye can`t take it, don`t give it, Buffoon…also you brought up Thief and Sport in the same sentence, ..
Have a nice day now.
No more drugs for either of you!
Materialism obsession. Celtic tiger is coming back
She’s only sorry because she was caught! No reason to think she would have stopped never mind pay the money back had she not been caught.
Sad to see this happen to a sporting hero. Hopefully she’ll be able to re-build and move on.
Why are you sorry for the thief and not the victim?
A hero is someone with fine qualities and someone to look up to and aspire to be. This woman is no hero.
Won a soaring star in 04 and again in 14. Fair play
So the thief could play a sport!! Like so many of vour politicians – even Enda is only there because his father could play football! Will we ever learn…
I was highlighting the poor editing!
€28k for a wedding, are they hiring Crystal Swing?
She got better looking with age.
Clash of the ash is what she needs
The gas were not paying her enough
Sorry the gaa
no, you’re grand, GAA or gas, both shįte comments either way but thanks for trying.
Niall, the gas doesn’t make payments to players – but the GAA does. Around my Midlands town, there’s a lot of good GAA players – with fine houses and cars. But in rather basic employment…
Well maybe they don’t spend money going on the beer or smoking or foreign holidays … And also may be training 4/5 times a night with GAA teams so there food bill mightn’t be too high!!!!etc so they can spend the money on other nice things
Maybe – yes, they’re training 5 times a night…
I’m sure she gets loads of perks from being an intercounty star! Oh wait.. She’s a woman!
Funny how national media can pick up on this story yet wouldn’t bother their HOLE reporting on women’s GAA championships!
I bet marguerite Bolger will keep a closer eye on her finances in future. €28,000??? in all fairness!!
Do feel sorry for her. But if she declared her self as a charity or a friend of fg/ff/lab she would have got off Scot free
What were the ‘professional’ reasons forcing her boss to report the crime? Without these ‘professional’ reasons, nothing would have happened at all? Anything to do with the use of the credit cards? Maybe it was some sort of stuffy lawyer’s ethics?
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