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POLICE IN WEST Belfast are appealing for information following a shooting incident in the Rodney Parade area last night.
An 18-year-old was taken to a laneway in the area just before midnight and shot in both ankles.
He was rushed to hospital for treatment, but his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.
Anyone with any information is being asked to contact Woodbourne Police Station on the PSNI’s non-emergency number ’101′.
Independent charity Crimestoppers can also be contacted on 0800 555 111.
I thought you had to pay for passports. That’s like saying “Temple bar pub down ten kegs of guinness after unexpected surge in business on a busy Saturday night”
@Ronan Sexton: oh no! Where can I donate?
Enda should follow Trumps lead and just push a bill across the table next time he’s sitting down with Theresa May. ‘Yeeeaaaaahhh… whenever you get the chance, if you could just pay that… that be great”
@Drew TheChinaman :): I wouldn’t do that, the passport office made 5.2 million on those extra passports so they came out way ahead
@Boganity: strange that the article focuses only on the costs.
How do you possible arrive at that figure… a passport costs €80… 10,959 passports were issued. That means revenue from them were approx €877k.
If you can’t do basic math you really shouldn’t comment.
@Drew TheChinaman :): id say the people in the passport office don’t know what’s after hitting them a surge in work they’d be used to the slow and steady approach
@Drew TheChinaman :): as its says in the article that is the net of a 3 month period year on year, the annualised figure is 65,000 passports issued to people in Britain which it also says in the article
Irish passport applications from British residents are now being processed in Britain itself.
@Nosmo King: all Irish passports are issued by the passport office in Dublin. Since 911 all passports have to be issued in the actual country the passport is from. Embassies and consulates now only process applications and distribute the passports when they receive back from Dublin
@Boganity: Yes, as I said. All Irish passport applications from British residents are processed in Britain itself !
@Nosmo King: ok, so what relevance is that to the story ?
€31,637,414 the running costs for a year!!!!!!!more massaged figures????or just bad management?
@et: that 31.6 million figure includes the printing and production costs of the 720,000 passports issued last year for which they charged 57.6 million, that’s a 26 million profit they made.
It had better be an April fool because there has been no recruiting in health, 32 extra staff and an extra €4 + million would benefit in that area would be far more welcome.
@Jho Harris: Health didn’t make 26 million profit the passport office made last year.
@Boganity: If you put your comment into context, health will lose money to the amount of extra passports on non passport holders in the country who have no intention of paying taxes etc.
Just remembered its April fools day
@et: Donald Trump bought Liberty Hall and is tearing it down apparently
This is good news. What’s with the negative headline? Months ago he was informing the world that they were understaffed and wouldn’t be able to cope with the volume of applications. Now they have work, staff and a great new app. He should be celebrating the preparation put in.
Allow the highly paid staff of the passport office their we rant
It’s all bull
I am over in the UK on a break
It’s must cheaper here fact!!
@Jonathan Yeo: do you pay property tax etc on your break?
Passport express now taking between 6 to 8 weeks not 10 working days. There must be a huge surge in applications
No mention of how much extra was taken in.
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