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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you kick off your day.
1. #TRAGEDY: Lorraine Gallagher, the mother of Erin and Shannon, has spoken of her grief at their deaths, saying that they had been the light of her life and that recent events had left her feeling numb. Shannon Gallagher was found dead in a suspected suicide on Wednesday night, six weeks after the death of her sister Erin.
2. #FLOODS: Flood warnings have been issued for the south and east coasts of the country. The alerts, issued by Met Éireann, are set to remain in place until 3pm today.
3. #ROADS: A man in his 80s has died in Meath after being hit by a truck as he crossed a road. Gardai are investigating the circumstances around the crash.
4. #CONSULTANCY: A consultancy firm that is owned by a senior advisor at the Special Delivery Unit has received around €51,000 in payments since 2011 for advising the HSE, the Medical Independent has reported.
5. #DISCRIMINATION: A new report from the ESRI has shown that in 2010, 12 per cent of Irish adults said that they had been discriminated against at some point over the previous two years. People of black ethnicity were found to be almost four times more likely to report experiences of discrimination than white Irish people.
6. #KEAVENEY: Doubt remains over whether Colm Keaveney, who yesterday voted against the Social Welfare Bill, will remain as the Labour party Chairperson. Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore last night said that he didn’t “think it’s tenable for someone who’s out of the parliamentary Labour party to hold a senior office in the party.”
7. #FINUCANE: Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has written to Taoiseach Enda Kenny, urging him to examine government documents which “could assist the family in refuting the British government’s effort to frustrate the Finucane family’s demand for a public inquiry”.
8. #NORTHERN IRELAND: Six houses were evacuated overnight in Newry after a viable device was found in a house in Mayobridge. Residents were allowed to re-enter their homes at 5.20am this morning once the area had been made safe.
9. #RIGHT TO DIE: The High Court is set to rule on the case of Marie Fleming, a terminally ill woman, on 10 January. She had taken a case against the High Court in which she challenged the current ban on assisted suicide, arguing for her right to die.
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In addition to Broderick’s confession, he accepted his age and lack of previous convictions as mitigating factors and suspended eight years to “give him some prospect of emerging back into the light of day for some short period”…………….Personally I’d leave him rot in jail!
It’s quite astonishing to hear terms such as ‘mitigating factors’. That ‘man’ is no father. I hope this lady gets the help and support she needs.
Good for her speaking about it. Sexually abusing your own innocent daughter is a most horrific crime. I don’t think 7 years is enough to be honest.
I see no reason to take age into account when in fact he took no account of hers. She’s satisfied with the sentence however. That’s important.
Good God almighty she was a 4 year old child when he started sexually using her for his own gratification! How can there be any ‘mitigating’ factors for that???? I don’t care how sorry he is or he should be behind bars for the rest of his natural life.
It would make you wonder how many people are hiding their abusive pasts through fear. Hopefully when people like this go public it gives strength to others to come forward and get these subhuman monsters dealt with and jailed.
It would also make you wonder how many children are going through the exact same thing right now. This guy did the worst thing you could ever do to his child. He was supposed to make her feel safe and loved. He filled her life with fear and he deserves to spend every day in a prison cell, contemplating his choices in life, what could have been if he had taken a different path and to die in that prison cell knowing that his daughter came out of his horrific abuse as much a survivor as she could be.
He is a monster of the worst kind, he should Die in prison and dump his body in a hole, he deserves no mercy, and NO leniency.
Should b no jail term just throw the off the cliffs of moher
More than half the sentence suspended! Why would someone put themselves through this for that effort? It seems like the judges are nearly apologizing to the offender for jailing them meanwhile the victim can never get out of jail.
WTF is the matter with these “men”???
It’s literally like rape is legal in this country. The sentencing for these kinds of crimes is a joke!
And the judge who remitted more than half his sentence because he confessed and cooperated is an insult to the concept of justice, he may know the price of everything but he knows the value of nothing
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