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1. #BANAMA REPUBLIC: AIB has transferred €9.3hn in loans to the National Asset Management Agency – and an aggregate discount of 59 per cent has been applied to them. A total of €19bn will be transferred to Nama from AIB.
2. #POWER OUTAGE: Parts of south Dublin and Wicklow were hit by a blackout this lunchtime. ESB crews have started to restore power to areas around Bray, Greystones, Foxrock, Carrickmines and north Wicklow. DART services had been cut from Bray to Greystones during the outage and Luas Green line services are still curtailed from Sandyford, with buses in place there.
3. #UK: A dozen men under the age of 40 were arrested in four separate police raids in England and Wales early today. They are suspected of being involved in planning “an act of terrorism”.
4. #DRUGS: A prison officer in Mountjoy is being questioned by gardai after he was arrested on his way into work this morning. He is being held on suspicion of trying to smuggle drugs into the prison.
5. #FACEBOOK CRIMES Police in the UK are investigating 7,545 criminal cases in which the alleged perpetrators used information on Facebook to target victims. The Daily Mail carries the story of parents Haydn and Jamie-Leigh Leighton whose house was burgled when they posted that they were away in hospital keeping watch over their sick daughter.
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Sad we have lost him – regardless if self inflicted or natural medical problem-He will be missed ;-(
And why are people so eager to find out…should be just in his family’s interest in knowing. …
Won’t make any difference now anyway sadly.
I’d call him a hero before I’d call him a heroin
Prince was a Jehovah’s Witness.
He had been badly in need of a double hip replacement but it was against his beliefs to have a blood transfusion.
Makes no difference now in any case as his soul will be winging its way back to the Creator.
RIP.
What sort of shite are you spouting Cal?
This morbid fascination with how he died is creepy to say the least.
Some ” theories” being put forward demonstrate how the Internet seems to bring out the darkness in certain people. Let get guy rest in peace and be thankful for his music.
He was a very well known public figure,an icon for many people,legions of fans across the planet.He lived his live to a fair degree in the public eye,people being curious or wanting to know how he met his end is not morbid fascination,creepy or dark…exaggerate much?
Does it matter how he died may he r.I.p his music will live on
We’ll finally know if he really did have those ribs removed
It doesn’t matter how he died, he was a genious and I’m glad to say I saw him perform in Malahide, r.I.p Prince, oiche maith
Genius
I like that he talked about geoengineering in a interview before his death
A sobering reminder that unfortunately, our favourite celebrities (and musical geniuses) often talk a lot of b*llocks.
Also, it wasn’t his last interview. But I guess that bit made it seem a bit more spooky.
Geoengineering and GMOs are worth talking about…just because you trust the mad men who run the planet…not everyone is quite so naive…
The science is clear on GMOs, unless you’re just talking about risk of ecosystem takeover, which is a useful conversation to have.
Geoengineering, i.e. chemtrails, is a load of nonsense that has never, ever been substantiated.
Overdose
Evidence ?
Apparently he overdosed on painkillers last week and was revived. He really needed surgery but as one poster said earlier he wouldn’t go through with it for religious reasons. I suppose we will have to wait for the coroners results..in the meantime its probably better to sit back and listen to some of the brilliant music he made. And remember he was musical genius.
Every single news outlet in the world has been reporting in since this afternoon and the pm results are obviously waiting for toxicology results. So it’s so obviously an overdose.
Sorry if everyone is so offended by that but honestly can’t understand why they are!
Like I said it was reported he overdosed on painkillers last week..but sure you seem to know more. We wiĺl wait for toxicology results so..now maybe you might wait as well.
Wow!!! You know before the medical examiners complete the post-mortem. Quick!! Get on Sky and tell them u know more than anyone else. Ye dope!!!!
Macooper, not obviously an overdose. Not obviously anything yet just pure speculation. I don’t think people would be offended if it were an overdose its more the complete spoofery of people who think before the results are in that is bothering people.
What is that all about?!
Heroin
Kill your idol or your idol will kill you .
Loada w@nkbots invading
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