More akin to playing with an action man Iâd have thought 
What sort of grown man spends hours a day playing video games FFS
Iâll have you the next time Iâm back in Montenotte you prick. Right after I behead that alt-right Limerick fucker in Rochestown.
Just purchased a PS5 
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Just try to avoid being named after a headline like this and weâll be fine live and let live I say
How the fuck is this still dragging on?
I just spotted Gavan Reilly doing a report to camera outside Henry Street station so we should get his insight later unless thereâs something else after happening.
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He hardly came down just to report on that,
Sure people come up with any kind of excuse to spend a bit of time in Limerick city.
Didnât think Gavan Reilly did much reporting outside court houses, strange one. I thought that case in question had been dropped.
He signs off his bits and pieces on the radio âGavan Reilly, Newstalk Court Reporterâ every so often.
God those video games make lads very aggressive.
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New body cams launched at Henry St Station today. The flailing Minister for Justice was in attendance.
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Boyfriend of murdered teacher Ashling Murphy sues BBC for defamation
It is understood action relates to criticism of his victim-impact statement
Mark Tighe
August 03 2024 02:30 AM
Ryan Casey, the boyfriend of murdered teacher Ashling Murphy, has taken a defamation action against the BBC.
Mr Casey filed a High Court defamation case against the British broadcaster on Thursday and is represented by Tullamore firm Brian P Adams & Co.
A BBC spokesperson said: âAs this is a live legal matter, we have no Âcomment to make.â
It is understood Mr Caseyâs legal Âaction relates to criticisms that were made of his victim-impact statement to court last November after Jozef Puska, a then 33-year-old Slovakian father of five who lived in Mucklagh, Co Offaly, was found guilty of murdering Ms Murphy (23).
Puska, who had pleaded not guilty to the murder, was sentenced to life in prison by Judge Tony Hunt for Âstabbing Ms Murphy 11 times on January 12, 2022, when she was out for a run along the Grand Canal outside Tullamore.
Puska had lived in Offaly since 2015 with his wife and five children.
Before sentencing, Mr Casey made an emotional victim-impact statement to the court outlining his love for Ms ÂMurphy and their plans to build a house, get married and have children together.
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He described Ms Murphy as âthe girl of my dreams and my soul mateâ, but said Puska was the âepitome of pure evilâ.
I feel like this country is no longer the country that Ashling and I grew up in
Mr Casey said the pain of losing Ms Murphy was âindescribableâ.
âIt just doesnât make any sense to me how somebody who is just so insignificant, worthless, lowest of the low, burden to society and overall, a waste of life, can completely and permanently destroy so many peopleâs lives by taking the life of a person who is the complete opposite â a life with meaning, a life with dreams, a life of love and compassion, respect; a person who contributed to society in the best ways possible,â he said.
Mr Casey said: âIt just sickens me to the core that someone can come to this country, be fully supported in terms of social housing, social welfare, and free medical care for over 10 years â over 10 years â never hold down a legitimate job and never once contribute to society in any way shape or form [and] can commit such a horrendous, evil act of incomprehensible violence on such a beautiful, loving and talented person who in fact, worked for the State, educating the next generation and represented everything that is good about Irish society.
âI feel like this country is no longer the country that Ashling and I grew up in and has officially lost its innocence when a crime of this magnitude can be perpetrated in broad daylight. This country needs to wake up; this time things have got to change.
Journalist Kitty Holland. Photo: Collins Courts
âWe have to, once and for all, start putting the safety of not only Irish people but everybody in this country who works hard, pays taxes, raises families and overall contributes to society, first.
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âWe donât want to see any other Âfamily in this country go through what we have gone through and are continuing to go through.â
These aspects of Mr Caseyâs victim-impact statement were criticised on BBC Northern Ireland programme The View last November. Host Mark Carruthers interviewed Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland who said elements of the media were right not to report Mr Caseyâs full comments as they were ânot helpfulâ.
Ms Holland said she understood Mr Casey was heartbroken and Âdevastated, but said there were âelements that were not goodâ in his statement. She said the far right had âlatched ontoâ the comments but were ignoring all the cases of violence perpetrated on women by white, Irish men.
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Strange case to take. I donât think there is one there. He wasnât defamed himself.
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I doubt the indo would want to repeat the alleged defamation so left it quite vague. IIRC Holland and Carruthers went a lot further in their criticism.
Also note Hollandâs comment that the media was right not to publish the comments from the victim impact statement. Clearly she doesnât understand the role of the media i.e. give us the facts and well assess ourselves
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I watched back the interview after it was aired and didnât see anything majorly controversial in what she said. Iâm almost sure she referred to the Press Councilâs code of practice (something I mentioned here at the very time) as rationale for some publications not including the full victim impact statement. From my viewing at the time, there wasnât anything defamatory, but clearly his legal team seem to think otherwise.
Kitty Holland is not a campaigner first and foremost.