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“We have turned the tide of public opinion; it was once a glory for men to boast of what they drank; we have turned that false glory into shame”.
Quote by Fr. Theobald Mathew (Apostle of Temperance 1790-1856) and Minority Fine Gael Government (2018)
 Dáil Éireann Bar During Normal Office Hours The two Bars in Dáil Éireann (one ‘Member’s Bar’ and one Visitors Bar’ and as Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘The Ballad of East and West’, suggests “never the twain shall meet”), are now expected to close following the new sections of the Public Health Alcohol Bill, which will come into operation next Monday.
Same Bill bans Alcohol advertising near schools or play areas, together with new separation rules for the hiding of alcohol products behind delivery pallets, out of the public view, while stocked in Irish retail outlets.
This Public Health Alcohol Bill recently passed through the Dáil, and represents 1,000 days of “Sweat of the brow” effort, hard work and uncivilised debate, undertaken by our glorious elected public representatives.
In mixed retail units, this public health legislation described as “ground-breaking measures” will now force same retail units selling alcohol, to erect barriers hiding their total lawfully held retail products.
The new measures now coming into law will include the prohibition of:-
- Alcohol advertising in public service vehicles, at public transport stops or stations and within 200 metres of a school, crèche, or local authority playgrounds.
- Alcohol advertising in cinemas except around films with an 18 classification or in a licensed premise in a cinema.
- Alcohol advertising in sports areas during events aimed at children.
- Children’s clothing which promotes alcohol.
Store owners who fail to comply with these new advertising regulations could face fines of up to €2,000.
Health Minister Simon Harris is in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary today to avail of a photo opportunity promoting Fine Gael, while officially opening the UL Hospitals Cataract Centre, situated at Nenagh Hospital. Mr Harris claims that this crackdown on advertising and display areas in shops, will ultimately help protect people’s health, and Mummy and Daddy will, in future, no longer return home on Friday nights ‘piss arsed’, to be observed close-up and personal by their adoring teenage children.
Items such as Whiskey Cake; Butter Scotch Ice Cream; Irish Coffee and Guinness Stew will, no doubt, be removed from restaurant menus, and ingredients detailed in such recipes, will be erased from the Internet.
We learn that separate new minimum unit pricing rules for alcohol together with other regulations to allow for cancer warnings on alcohol products, are expected to be brought before government in the coming months.
Meanwhile, Taoiseach Mr Leo Varadkar is asking politicians who have not settled their tab at the Dáil bar, that they should do so immediately or else have it deducted from their salary or pension. Some bar bills, know to equal at least €765.23, are outstanding since the year 2000.
Fine Gael Closing Two Dáil Bars
To Health Minister Mr Simon Harris and his Fine Gael Cabinet – Sirs, please keep in mind the words of the American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”
 Twenty-four Trainee Gardaí, all currently based at the Garda Training College here in Templemore, Co. Tipperary, took part in the manning of a total of 43 Garda checkpoints in the Kilkenny/ Carlow Division, with each checkpoint targeting the movement of local criminal groups. Four vehicles were seized under aspects of the Road Traffic Acts.
The operation was led by experienced Gardaí from the Carlow/ Kilkenny Division, assisted by the Armed Support Unit.
As part of Operation Thor’s ‘Project Storm’; twenty-two people were arrested by Gardaí during this policing initiative, aimed at preventing crime, disrupting criminal activity and enhancing community engagement. The arrests were made during a day-of-action in the Thomastown area today 24/10/2018.
Of the twenty-two arrested, thirteen people have been charged, 5 released with a file to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions and 1 person has appeared in Waterford District Court. A further 3 people were arrested in respect of outstanding warrants issued by the Court system.
A number of Fixed Charge Processing Notices (FCPNs) were also issued to drivers for a variety of breaches of the Road Traffic Act.
A number of community engagement activities took pace during the day, including road safety workshops at a local schools. The Garda Mounted Unit also visited a number of primary schools in the area.
 A former model aged 23, and the wife of Mr Patrick Joyce, latter jailed for 14 years for his part in an aggravated burglary at the Corcoran home in Burnchurch, Killenaule, Co Tipperary, was told by a judge that she was part of a contrived accident that led to claims by herself and three of her sisters-in-law, for damages totalling €240,000.
Mrs Julieanne Joyce (23) and her sister-in-laws were ordered last June to pay legal costs, which are expected to total almost €100,000, following the throwing out of all claims by Mr Justice Terence O’Sullivan in the Circuit Civil Court.
Mr Patrick Joyce, from Beaumont Hall, Beaumont Woods, Dublin 9, was among a total of 7 such individuals, including Mr Dean Byrne, aged 22, with an address at Cabra Park, Dublin 17; Mr Patrick Gately, aged 28, with an address at Primrose Grove, Darndale, Dublin 17; Mr John Joyce, aged 19, from Lentisk Lawn, Donaghmede, Dublin; Michael McDonagh, aged 22, from Tara Lawns, Belcamp Lane, Coolock, Dublin 5; Thomas Flynn, aged 19, Moatview Avenue, Coolock, Dublin 5, and Donal O’Hara, aged 21, from Glin Park, Coolock, Dublin 5; who all pleaded guilty to their crime.
The gang had been found guilty on October 1st, 2015, of breaking into the Corcoran home, armed with a sawn-off shotgun, a handgun and a machete, (Latter a broad bladed implement used in combat, like a short sword). Mr Mark Corcoran had suffered a fractured eye socket and a broken nose, from a blow from one of the raiders guns. This had resulted in him later undergoing four separate surgeries in an effort to reconstruct his face. Children, who were present in the house at the time of the robbery, were also threatened with death.
This attack, combined with numerous others robberies on those currently resident in rural Ireland, eventually lead to a meeting of some 2000 unhappy Tipperary people; held in the Anner Hotel, in October 2015. The purpose of this meeting; to rebuke the then FineGael /Labour Government over the lack of Garda resources in Co. Tipperary. The meeting in turn led to the setting up by An Garda Síochána of ‘Operation Thor’, sanctioned by government in November 2015.
Two of the afore mentioned criminal gang, namely Mr Patrick Gately, who had 85 previous convictions, and Mr Dean Byrne who had 120 previous convictions, both had their original sentences reduced from 16 years imprisonment to 14 years.
Judge O’Sullivan informed Ms Joyce that her case taken against the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) and a taxi driver, had all the hallmarks of an exaggerated claim to maximise injuries. The Judge noted and accepted that the four women in question had remained within the vehicle moaning, following this contrived collision, resulting in firemen removing the vehicles roof because of alleged spinal injuries.
The 23 year old Mrs Julieanne Joyce, with an address at Edenmore Walk Apartments, Raheny, Dublin; together with her sisters-in-law Kathleen O’Reilly aged 30, from Clongriffen, Dublin; Elizabeth Ward aged 28, from Priorswood, Coolock, Dublin, and Philomena Joyce aged 19, of Moatview Avenue, Dublin, had all sued the defendants for €60,000, arising from this contrived rear-ending on May 5th, 2014, on Clonshaugh Road, Dublin.
 Investigations are ongoing, following the seizure by Gardaí of the recreational drug (Diamorphine C21H23NO5), with an estimated street value of some €90,000. One man was arrested during this planned operation, which continues to successfully target the sale and supply of drugs here in Co. Tipperary and Co. Kilkenny.
The drugs were discovered by Gardaí when they intercepted and halted a car exiting the M9 motorway at the Knocktopher village exit at 11.00pm last night. The vehicle seized was then brought to Carrick-on-Suir Garda Station for a thorough search, at which time the heroin was located.
The arrested man, aged in his 40’s, was also the driver of the intercepted vehicle and is currently being detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Drug Trafficking Act, 1996 at Thomastown Garda Station, Co Kilkenny. He can be detained in custody for up to seven days.
The seizure was conducted by Gardaí from the Tipperary Divisional Drugs Unit, assisted by detectives from Co. Kilkenny and members of the Armed Support Unit.
A High Court case which was expected to resume today, being heard by Mr Justice Kevin Cross, has been informed that the case had been settled out of court. The settlement agreed has not been disclosed.
The case involved the throwing of a wedding bouquet in the Aherlow House Hotel, Aherlow, Co. Tipperary, some 6 years ago. A 53-year-old childcare worker, Ms Ann White, with an address at Highfield Grove, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, had sued the extremely popular wedding venue after she had allegedly slipped on rose petals lost from a bridal bouquet, which had been thrown two hours earlier by the then bride, during her wedding reception.
The bride flinging the bouquet over her head to all the single ladies is a sign of good fortune, only for the one who catches it. Hundreds of years ago, it was thought to be very good luck to touch the bride. This often caused discomfort and an invasion of privacy to the bride. In order therefore to deter guests, brides then began the practise of tossing their bouquet to distract people before making a break for it with her husband, to their bridal chamber. The groom would later open the door and toss out her garter, once the couple was inside.
People just wanted pieces of the bride’s accessories because she was married. So female guests were naturally thrilled to grab the flowers, and male guests her garter, since both items were believed to bring romantic luck for the future to those who gained their possession.
Ms White informed the High Court that at around 12.30am in the early morning the bride had thrown her bouquet of pink roses to an over enthusiastic crowd of some 20 single ladies. Ms White stated that while she was dancing later, she slid on one of the rose petals lost from this bouquet; leading to her falling on her back and hitting her head and arm on the floor. She claimed that hotel staff had failed to gather up and remove these petals at this 2012 wedding reception, thus creating this incident on the dance floor.
The Aherlow House Hotel had fully accepted the accident had taken place on their premises, but contested Ms White’s claim, stating that her ongoing pain was in fact due to an already pre-existing condition.
Ms White claimed she had been unable to work again due to an ongoing pain in her wrist.
Wedding Venues are, in future, likely to look closely at this century’s old tradition, with a view to a total ban on this practise taking place on the dance floor, into the future.
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