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THE FIANCEE OF Thiago Cortes has said it has been “amazing to see how much love” there has been for him following his tragic death.
Teresa Dantas was speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne this morning and spoke about her worry when he did not come home and then of getting to see him in hospital.
Deliveroo cyclist Thiago Cortes was killed following a hit-and-run incident in Dublin on Monday, with friends and colleagues gathering in the capital yesterday to remember him.
Teresa said Thiago did not answer her calls on Monday night but that she assumed his battery may have been low until the news of an incident began to filter out.
“At around 12 on Monday night in a Whatsapp group people texted saying that a Deliveroo rider was in an accident, and that we should call our friend to try to figure out who it was.
It was at that moment I felt it might be him because he wasn’t texting me for over an hour at that time. And I tried to call him several times with no answer until finally one of the guards that was at the scene answered his phone and told me to go there.
Teresa says she is relieved she was able to see him before he died but that it was clear when she arrived at the hospital that the situation was very serious.
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She added that the affection for him has been clear in the past number of days.
It was amazing to see how many people were there. A lot of people didn’t know him and they were all touched. It could have happened to any of them, or any of us.
“I was really, really happy to see the amount of love and support yesterday and since the accident. I have been receiving support from the Brazilian community and from Irish people. And it’s been amazing to see how much love is around. ”
Teresa went on to detail that the couple had been together for six years and that he proposed in March on her birthday. She says it was Thiago who really wanted to come to Ireland and that she has no regrets.
“He wanted to come here to get a better life and we were getting that, we had a great life here,” she said.
Gardaí are renewing their appeal for witnesses to Monday’s incident to come forward.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the incident room at Store Street Garda station.
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I’m a 30 year old single male playing this quiz in shorts on a Monday evening. I’m more ashamed that I scored 7 out of 10
@Mr D: 36 and pyjama bottoms instead of shorts…
@Peter Smyth: I got 3 right just by guessing, I’ve never seen the film, I’m happy to say
@Peter Smyth: 35 and pj bottoms too. Man I feel old. Anyway boyz it 5 past 10 I’m off to sleep
@Mr D: String vest and a tutu myself, yes it was a good holiday weekend, thanks.
@Mr D: 7/10, 39 years old after a feed of stout and have never seen the film. More stout!
@Mr D: Five to five in the morning and I got 10 out of 10 on my morning visit to the throne.
@Mr D: the saying hero gets thrown around a bit easy nowadays, but you are a hero.
@Jimmyjoe Wallace: The film is awful. I was begging for the ship to go down about an hour before it did.
@Cat Agatha: Actually took longer in real life, believe it or not.
There’s a graveyard in Nova Scotia where Joseph (J) Dawson is buried. Originally from Marino in Dublin he worked in the engine room stoking the boiler. Many people believe it is Leonardo DiCaprio character who’s buried there and now his grave is now the best tended grave in the graveyard. Which is nice I think.
@Hank: cool fact. Like reading things like this
Spoiler: the ship sinks in the end.
Oh dear lord, I got 10 out of 10.
@Dave Murray: I knew you would. So did i. So ill leave you alone !
PCP-spiked clam chowder?
@Aisling Ní Bhróithe: its great stuff you should try it.
I saw the film when it was released and I felt every moment of it. My heart goes out to the people below, the ones who never had a second chance of life. It is said that 90% of the privileged survived and 10% of the passengers below survived.
Rest in Peace.
@Andi Black: dam waste of deck space as it is, nothing much has changed in the world.
I remember being at work, having not seen it yet, I saying jokingly “ah sure, we all know what happens at the end”.
To which one girl exclaimed “Yeah, I can’t believe he dies in the end!”
Sickened, I told her (while giving her the evils) “no, I meant the ship sinking”.
Where’s the most important question. Why did old Rose throw the blue gemstone back into the sea. It could have been used to set up the Jack Dawson foundation to support many a implausibly good looking impoverished artist☺
Séan???? What happened to the qiestions about Hockley and Lovejoy?? A real man makes his own luck you know !!
I’m slightly disappointed I didn’t get all 10 correct, that’s very sad
7/10. Last one was a dinger!
@Darren Bates: wouldnt think Jack thought so !
I have never seen this movie and I didn’t do too bad with just guesses lol
3/10. Better than I expected
10 is wrong, mytgbusters proved the door could have held them both.
I get the feeling with all these Titanic stories that someone’s baiting me to say that Winslet & DiCaprio banged.
10/10. Guess I’m a sad old romantic at heart. My wife would probably not believe that though
very proud of my 2/10 .Twas a muck film .
4/10 never seen any version of titanic!
Old lady Rose is just a big fat liar. Also, worst captain in film history.
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