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A WOMAN’S BODY was found off the western Australian city of Perth with “significant injuries consistent with a shark attack”, police said today, just two days after a surfer died after being mauled along the same coastline.
Western Australia police said they found the body on a boat ramp in Mindarie, after the woman was reportedly sighted injured in the water off the northern Perth suburb on this morning.
“The deceased person has significant injuries that are consistent with a shark attack, however the cause of the injuries are yet to be confirmed,” WA Police said in a statement, adding that inquiries were continuing.
No further details were released.
Surf Life Saving WA tweeted earlier Sunday that a shark was sighted one kilometre (0.62 miles) offshore from Mindarie Beach.
The suspected attack came two days after Ben Gerring – a surfer who lost a leg in a mauling off Falcon Beach some 115 kilometres south of Mindarie on Tuesday – died in hospital.
The 29-year-old was with a group of surfers when a suspected great white pounced on him, ripping off his right leg above the knee and snapping his surfboard in half.
A 4.2-metre (nearly 14 foot) shark caught on Wednesday near to where the attack occurred was destroyed at sea, although authorities could not confirm whether it was responsible.
Deadly attacks are relatively rare, according to the International Shark Attack File, which in February reported a record 98 shark attacks worldwide last year.
However, only six were fatal, including one in Australia, it said.
Experts say attacks are increasing as water sports become more popular, but stress fatalities are uncommon.
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How did we ever let them rule us.
@Sean Conway: well they had longbows when we didn’t and then they had muskets when we didn’t. Eventually they had gunboats when we didn’t but we were so fed up at that point we pushed through.
@Sean Conway: we still do; we speak their language over our own, we watch their football league teams over our own , we watch their tv shows over our own.
@Sean Conway: Britain, Troika or the EU lol. It’s in our nature…
@Ross Fehily: To be fair now rté isn’t worth watching.
@Sean Conway: the Irish didn’t . They where not interested in independence. They where too busy out conquering the world along side their neighbours.
@Ross Fehily:
They are all things we now choose to do in fairness.
@Ross Fehily: judging by the what’s on show in the journal comments section on a daily basis, we do not speak (or spell) their language
@Paul Smith: Gee “Paul”, apart from this rather tepid consolation from me….no responses.
Ah well…Happy New Year to you me aul spud.
@Ross Fehily: what we got instead of British rule was a country thrown back to the Middle Ages much like the “modern”Muslim world,where women had to be “churched “after childbirth And females could not enter a chapel without a covered head.hail to the great Irish men like Bertie,and Haughey the Italian mafia would be green with envy
@Ross Fehily: English is a West Germanic language brought to Britain in the 5th to 7th century by the Anglo-Saxon settlers.
News flash the average UKish person calls Ireland southern ireland and the vast majority think that Ireland is part of the so called united kingdom
@Eoin: lived in Britain for a time, can confirm most of them haven’t a clue. They asked me to explain why we have right to decode whether or not they should be in Europe, how dare we, their subordinates, make this decision on their behalf, we are the smaller country in the Union. An actual quote with nods of agreement in the local launderette in rural Wales…..I just stood open mouthed. Not all are like that but that was a special day….
@Natalie O’Brien Hughes: Most people across the water couldn’t care less about Ireland . They have absolutely no interest in Ireland what so ever . On the other hand the Irish are completely obsessed with Britain . I mean how many stories on the a Journal are about Britain . Ireland never became independent in 1922 they just changed a flag on a pole .
@Paul Smith: Ireland are dependent of Britain and what ever Britain decides to do Ireland will have to do the same.
@Paul Smith: that’s the part people have to understand they don’t care a small Ireland with a population 1/2 of London
@Natalie O’Brien Hughes: It really is incredibly the ‘shaigite ‘ we have to listen to sometimes ‘ glad you made it out Nataile its one to tell the grandchildren some day
@Paul Smith: well ive been in outside of ireland for 10 years now and any UKish person ive met on my traveles knows that Ireland is at the heart of the so called united kingdom and they do care
@Natalie O’Brien Hughes: I no Irish people in England who would never move back here
@Paul Smith: You seem to be the person who is most obsessed. A wannabe brit.
@Eoin: just take a little step back northern Ireland is part of UK why would they not call the office her part southern ? Don’t think it’s meant as an insult I no a few yank who still call it EIRE
Can’t believe that guy believed uk people are entitled to Irish passports and vice verse. Truly mindboggling !
@TradingDuck: most Irish people where up till the thev1980s
@bmul: So? He’s only 30 years out of date. Is that ok?
Public Schoolboy Toffs who are all cousins with no concept of the real world whatsoever.
Dosent suprise me, I mean the majority of brits voted to leave the EU! Their politicians are an accurate representation of the United kingdom!
@Danny Ennis: 37% of those eligible to vote voted leave
@bmul: no, 37% voted, of which 52% voted to leave. Which us actually only 19% of the electorate.
Imagine a decision as big as this being dictated by 19% ??
@John Moylan: There was a 72% turnout. So it’s quite correct to say 37% of eligible voters were in favour of Brexit.
It’s also correct to say that 28% didn’t care and were happy to let others make the decision for them, whatever the turnout might be. So saying that there were 52% in favour of Brexit is quite reasonable.
Let’s keep taking the moral high ground here and twist the knife some more. It can only be beneficial to us.
@MK76: showing your true colors Tory boy. If this happened to be a SF article you would be twisting multiple knives.
@Harry Corry: So tell me Harry, what’s the upside of continually twisting that knife? Does it make all the scars of the past somewhat less painful and/or does it put us in a better position going forward?
Try see past two inches in front of your face for once.
@Harry Corry: it couldn’t be a SF article, it’s about people who take up the jobs they are elected and paid to do, however badly in some cases.
@John Mulligan:
It has to be said your a class A clown, Displaying your zero comprehension of the northern Ireland issue here impresses no one.
The most ridiculous thing said I’d brexit means brexit ! Then never explaining what it means because it means different things to different people
@bmul: it might mean navy gun ships in the channel to stop migrants from Calais
@Bluey: and that’s only to he start
Hilariously deluded Tories
Brexit outa Ireland!
Everyone has the right to apply for an Irish Passport, it doesn’t mean that they will get one.
@John Fairclough: good point!
ignorance is bliss.
An awful lot of Irish people are unaware what a United Ireland would actually mean. Probably a 10% increase in their income tax rate for starters. The subsidies provided from UK to NIrl are incredible.
@sean de paore: You don’t know what a united Ireland would mean. No one does. There is no firm proposal, no budget and no plan.
But there will be before there is a vote on a detailed proposal…unlike some other referenda I could mention.
@sean de paore: t
They could always let these big companies in more or less tax free as we do.
I mean your not for one moment saying that we are any better educated than them.
Are you?
To paraphrase an english foreign affairs secretary, ‘the english should just go away and shut up’.
Why only educate the English ? What about the Scots and Welsh .
@bmul: pretty sure the Scots know.
@Dave O’Keeffe: what that they caused as many problems as the English ?
@bmul: because England call the shots. The welsh copy and the Scots are to scared not to follow.
So offended
@Bluey: not offended just bewildered
Well let’s face it the Irish know feck all about their own history . Irish history revolves around 1916 to 1923 . The famine and penal laws . That’s about it . 800 yrs of history in a nutshell.
@Paul Smith: so you’re not an Irish troll then?
@Paul Smith: You wha???
@TamuMassif2019: The Irish… not us Irish!
@Paul Smith: scutter, and uneducated scutter at that, remember we drove the English out, the bull McCabe and his kind,
@Paul Smith: the irish holocost you mean or ethnic cleansing from 1845 to 1850 over half of the regiments in the british army where here over 200,000 soldiers to take food from the mounths of crying children at gun point
@Eoin: Over 200000 soldiers in Ireland in 1840 . Well that’s my point proven . The British army in 1840 was only 120000 strong . 50000 was deploy to their colonies. 30000 of those where in India . Imperialist British army was tiny . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14218909
@Eoin: more than 1irish famine
@Paul Smith: awww i know Paul, god bless the poor Brits ehh sure weren’t they only trying to hang on their colonies and those Irish were always trying to steal Ireland back.
Also in 1840 the worlds population wouldve roughly have been only around 1 billion(vs 7 billion today) so actually those numbers would make constitute quite a sizeable army.
Dont they teach you any history at squadie training or is the brainwashing complete after 17-18 years of BBC and tabloid propaganda?
@Adam O’Donoghue: Britain was a naval power . It’s imperialist army was tiny compared to other imperialist countries . Imperialists Germany , France , Austria , Russia all had armies over 800 thousand . Britain had an army of 120 thousand . The Brits had over 70 colonies . 50 thousand troops where deployed to over 70 countries . 30 thousand where in India . It doesn’t take a lot to work out that the number of British troops in some colonies could be counted in their hundreds . 40 percent of the British army in 1840 was Irish .
@Paul Smith: which famine was that in 1916 then?
@Paul Smith: has Irish History really been condensed to that period ?- in the” Irish reader” in grade school (1950′s) it had some early Irish History.- Sarsfield etc -secondary education had History from the “Fir Bolg/ Tua De Danann” right up to 1923 and taught as Gaeilge to boot!
Only for Michael Collins we’d be still under tan rule
When the Tory government, or for that matter the Labour Party, can’t even agree on what Brexit means for them, and what the required outcome is, how can there be any possibility of a real deal
They pump so much money into Northern Ireland they probably believe they are supporting the whole of the Ireland. The irony being they chose to withdraw from the EU without knowing the reality of how it was going to affect them selves
The only real concern the Irish have about Brexit is …….can they still see corrie, Eastenders and their Footie.
I’ve tried so many times but their so damn absent minded. I keep taking the horse to water but …
@Matthew Gorman: When it comes to Logic there brilliant, that’s why they called on America to help in both world wars, of course America won.!! Hiroshima.!!
When you say – “When a border first went up in Ireland in 1924, it only had customs checks. But extremists saw it as a symbol of UK occupation in Ireland, a symbol of division, and began targeting custom posts. This led to police protection, and armed guards at the border” – Do you mean extremists like Eamon DeValera and Frank Aiken? Can you tell me when their extremism became OK? Thanks.
I’m reading comments here and wondering is there a lot of people missing thumbs unable to form words out there or is it because the centre right thick people read the journal?
Can’t believe I looked up to them as a kid. Going to USA cured me. Brits ‘pulling rank ‘ in USA. and yanks swooning. Tiny island bullshit. Not an original idea in their heads
Dual citizenship should not exist! You’re either Irish or you’re not! End of story!
The British are the filth of the world. they are an insult to humanity.
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