A bird taking up residence in my bedroom and refusing to leave.
Har de har.
[QUOTE=“The Scouse Cafu, post: 953361, member: 2660”]A bird taking up residence in my bedroom and refusing to leave.
Har de har.[/QUOTE]
A blue tit?
Could be a swallow.
Think you’re the man boasting about bringing a bird back but one swallow doesn’t make a summer.
A bird with the hand is worth two in the bush. Or not.
Carney is at it again-suspended the last 4 years of a 7 year sentence provided the rapist stays away from the victim. Not sure if he made him swear on his mother’s life or not.
[SIZE=5]A Waterford man who admits raping a teenage girl at a house party has been sentenced to seven years with four suspended.[/SIZE]
The Central Criminal Court heard that the 22-year-old accepts his “legal and moral responsibility” and is disgusted by his actions.
He pleaded guilty to rape of the 15-year-old girl at a house in County Waterford in March 2012.
Mr Justice Paul Carney suspended the last four years of a seven year term on condition that the man stay away from the victim.
He backdated the sentence to March 11, 2014 and ordered the man to undergo 18 months post release supervision.
The court heard that the victim, who was the sister of the man’s then partner, had gone to his flat for a party and the accused was very drunk.
After a row with his girlfriend, the man pulled out a mattress to sleep on in the living room. He, another male and the victim were lying on the mattress under a duvet.
The victim told gardai: “I was on the side. We were all lying under the duvet. We were laughing and talking. I felt a little drunk”.
She said she fell asleep with her clothes on and woke up later to find the man lying over her and touching her breast. She realised her underwear was down and the man was raping her.
She began crying and later said she was in total shock. She said that she could see another man, who had been lying on a coach in the living room, looking down at her but she doesn’t know if he saw that she was crying.
The incident lasted for about five minutes and afterwards the man turned around and fell asleep. The victim pulled her underwear and trousers back on, left the house and started to walk home.
She told a friend on Facebook what had happened and the next day she went to gardai with her mother.
When gardai presented DNA evidence to the accused, he told them: “Anything that did happen after I fell asleep I am not aware of”.
Mary Rose Gearty SC, defending, said: “He cannot remember these events. He fully accepts his legal and moral responsibility. What he did was of course his fault. The recklessness lies in having taken too much drink. He has said he is disgusted with what he did”.
She said his mother and his current partner, who is pregnant, are supportive of him and that he has been attending Alcohol Anonymous meetings in custody.
Garda Patricia Lanigan told Michael Delaney SC, prosecuting, that the victim has become a recluse and bursts into tears in public places.
In her victim impact report read the girl said that she had never had sex with anyone before this incident and that the accused had torn something away from her.
Before passing sentence Mr Justice Carney said that he was taking all of the mitigation presented by the defence into account “on the basis of what’s come down from the Court of Criminal Appeal”.
Is there something wrong with a lad working behind the counter in a chemists?
No.
Advising ladies on the best type of foundation?
I thought Clarkey was an accountant
advising gents on the best brand of rubber johnnies?
Touché
Of course no Irish man would ever ask advice on such a thing.
[QUOTE=“Horsebox, post: 953941, member: 1537”]Carney is at it again-suspended the last 4 years of a 7 year sentence provided the rapist stays away from the victim. Not sure if he made him swear on his mother’s life or not.
[SIZE=5]A Waterford man who admits raping a teenage girl at a house party has been sentenced to seven years with four suspended.[/SIZE]
The Central Criminal Court heard that the 22-year-old accepts his “legal and moral responsibility” and is disgusted by his actions.
He pleaded guilty to rape of the 15-year-old girl at a house in County Waterford in March 2012.
Mr Justice Paul Carney suspended the last four years of a seven year term on condition that the man stay away from the victim.
He backdated the sentence to March 11, 2014 and ordered the man to undergo 18 months post release supervision.
The court heard that the victim, who was the sister of the man’s then partner, had gone to his flat for a party and the accused was very drunk.
After a row with his girlfriend, the man pulled out a mattress to sleep on in the living room. He, another male and the victim were lying on the mattress under a duvet.
The victim told gardai: “I was on the side. We were all lying under the duvet. We were laughing and talking. I felt a little drunk”.
She said she fell asleep with her clothes on and woke up later to find the man lying over her and touching her breast. She realised her underwear was down and the man was raping her.
She began crying and later said she was in total shock. She said that she could see another man, who had been lying on a coach in the living room, looking down at her but she doesn’t know if he saw that she was crying.
The incident lasted for about five minutes and afterwards the man turned around and fell asleep. The victim pulled her underwear and trousers back on, left the house and started to walk home.
She told a friend on Facebook what had happened and the next day she went to gardai with her mother.
When gardai presented DNA evidence to the accused, he told them: “Anything that did happen after I fell asleep I am not aware of”.
Mary Rose Gearty SC, defending, said: “He cannot remember these events. He fully accepts his legal and moral responsibility. What he did was of course his fault. The recklessness lies in having taken too much drink. He has said he is disgusted with what he did”.
She said his mother and his current partner, who is pregnant, are supportive of him and that he has been attending Alcohol Anonymous meetings in custody.
Garda Patricia Lanigan told Michael Delaney SC, prosecuting, that the victim has become a recluse and bursts into tears in public places.
In her victim impact report read the girl said that she had never had sex with anyone before this incident and that the accused had torn something away from her.
Before passing sentence Mr Justice Carney said that he was taking all of the mitigation presented by the defence into account “on the basis of what’s come down from the Court of Criminal Appeal”.[/QUOTE]
:rolleyes:
He was drunk
He was drunk[/QUOTE]
Francis!
That new Doritos add with Joe Hart. FFS!!!
The mass grave in Tuam
Wrong on so many levels but also because of the insult that was behind in as I assume most of the babies were never baptised and so there was a message being sent along with the crime that was committed
Interesting time line here with contemporary reporting that demonstrates the power the Church had in Ireland in early part of twentieth century
If a foreign power presided over this it would be all over our history books in school.
https://storify.com/Limerick1914/children-s-home-in-tuam-1920s-1960s
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 954224, member: 2272”]The mass grave in Tuam
Wrong on so many levels but also because of the insult that was behind in as I assume most of the babies were never baptised and so there was a message being sent along with the crime that was committed
Interesting time line here with contemporary reporting that demonstrates the power the Church had in Ireland in early part
of twentieth century
https://storify.com/Limerick1914/children-s-home-in-tuam-1920s-1960s[/QUOTE]
It seems like this story was being discussed on twitter ages before I heard anything about it on the radio or TV. I saw last night that it had made The Washington Post
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 954224, member: 2272”]The mass grave in Tuam
Wrong on so many levels but also because of the insult that was behind in as I assume most of the babies were never baptised and so there was a message being sent along with the crime that was committed
Interesting time line here with contemporary reporting that demonstrates the power the Church had in Ireland in early part of twentieth century
If a foreign power presided over this it would be all over our history books in school.
https://storify.com/Limerick1914/children-s-home-in-tuam-1920s-1960s[/QUOTE]
+1. Absolutely barbaric stuff.
Malice behind it is sickening - those women would have believed in original sin so denying Catholic funeral rites to the kids must have tortured them