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Thurles,
Co.Tipperary,
Ireland.
27th September, 2011.
Dear God,
I trust you and yours keep in good health. I did not intend to write to you until tomorrow, but every day living in this State, we appear to become more silent, corrupt and greedy.
Please understand, that I am aware that You and Your Guardian Angels are very busy at the moment, what with famine in the Horn of Africa, the state of the Euro and all the other chaos worldwide, caused mainly by individual political greed and the never ending lust for position and power.
 Miss Teresa Treacy - A Lady With Real Backbone I personally don’t ask You for much as you know, but presently, it’s gettin’ hard to tell what’s wrong from right.
On behalf of Your many confused, but faithful followers, I am hoping that, having read this letter, You might find the time to reply and perhaps offer me some wise council, since it is my belief that You haven’t been calling around this once Island of Saints and Scholars in the last number of years, due to Your heavy work commitments at more deserving locations.
Lord, allow me to explain my confusion.
A 65 year old woman, Miss Teresa Treacy, from Clonmore, Tullamore, Co Offaly, has been imprisoned in the Dochas, Women’s Prison at Mountjoy Jail, in Dublin, for the past 14 days. Her only “crime” has been to challenge ESB and Eirgrid, over the right for them to cut her security locks, trespass on her land, cut down 12,000 of her trees and build pylons on her property, without her consent.
Unlike drug dealers, rapists, thieves, murderers etc. this woman’s prison sentence will not be considered by the authorities, under their “Revolving Prison Door System,” of justice, which presently continues to operates in this country for other truly dangerous offenders.
You understand Lord that in 65 years, this woman’s only crime is that she displays, what our present political leadership lacks, namely, basic backbone, and unless she apologises to our Court system and purges her contempt, which she refuses to entertain, she must remain locked in prison with convicted murderers Catherine Neven and Linda Mulhall.
God, what confuses me is that this event is happening here in Ireland, at the same time as a Sinn Fein leader, who, through his past association with terrorism, without the support of our democratic system and who has wasted more of the Irish taxpayers money than both Fianna Fáil and our present greedy banking system put together, is being supported for the post of President Of Ireland.
Accompanying him in this race also, to get his undeserving hands on a salary worth almost €250.000 plus €317, 434 expenses, is a man who wrote letters, seeking clemency on behalf of a man charged with the statutory rape of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in 1997. Note also Lord that this is happening in the same year that our government has suddenly realised that pedophilia is not acceptable in present society.
This is happening also in a time when those who have been allowed, by law, to willfully rape and pillage our fair land, still continue to party, using the proceeds from their looting and ill-gotten gain.
What should we be doing Lord, to correct this grave injustice in Irish society? I would appreciate your guidance in this time of silence.
Your faithful servant,
George Willoughby.
P.S. Lord, You do not appear to have an account with Facebook, but if others feel as I do, is it O.K. to send Miss Treacy a message of support by clicking here? We can deal with the “Presidential Hopefuls,” at the ballot box.
 Speed Camera Vans Judge Mary Devins dismissed two cases taken against motorists over in Castlebar, Co Mayo last week. The accused had been supposedly detected breaking speed limits by Ireland’s new speed camera van system.
The two defendants informed the court that they had never received fixed penalty notices in the post, informing them that they had been detected speeding and therefore did not pay the imposed fine.
Mr Padraic Sammon of Go Safe Ireland, latter which operates these speed camera vans, giving evidence to the court, explained that always at the end of his daily shift, he submits all the information to his headquarters, which in turn forwards this on to the Garda department located in Thurles, Co Tipperary, which then communicates a ‘Fixed Charge Penalty Notice,’ to offenders where applicable.
Judge Devins having heard the defendants excuses, informed the court: “I have no evidence that these fixed charge notices are issued, it’s putting a huge presumption on me that they are. This is a huge issue, I’m not in a position to just rubber stamp that they are.”
Gardaí are understood to have then withdrawn a third prosecution against another accused motorist, because of the judge’s ruling in the two previous cases, thus saving valuable court time.
 Sinister element of Irish rural culture revealed. The illegal poisoning of wildlife is still a very sinister element of our rural culture, which I regret, shows no sign of disappearing in this country.
My remark is borne out by the deliberate killing of two Buzzard chicks discovered by BirdWatch Ireland volunteers, near Roscrea in Co. Tipperary earlier this month. The bodies of the birds were found close to three poisoned, hand reared and tethered pigeons, used as bait to attract the birds to their untimely death.
BirdWatch Ireland state that this incident was particularly abhorrent, particularly since Buzzards are a farmers friend, only eating rabbits, crows, magpies, fresh road kill, rats and mice and are no threat to farm animals. Buzzards will however, like other meat eating creatures, feast on a larger animal carcase, which it finds already dead.
The Buzzards’ nest near Roscrea was being monitored by two volunteers from BirdWatch Ireland’s Raptor Conservation Project since early spring and the live pigeon bait was found tethered to the ground heavily coated with the banned poisonous insecticide Black Carbofuran. The pigeons had their wings clipped to prevent any chance of escape. A day after the dead buzzards were found another live, poison coated pigeon was discovered tethered close the same area.
The Buzzard species is protected by law and is indigenous to Ireland. The species were absent in Ireland from the late 19th century until 1933, when a pair of birds bred in Co Antrim. The species has spread slowly down from the north and are now established in almost every county in Ireland.
An investigation has now been launched and anyone with information is asked to contact the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Tel: 057 91 37811 or Birr Garda station Tel: 057 91 69710.
Note: This crime is especially irresponsible, as had a local child discovered these stricken pigeons and tried to help them, they could very easily have suffered a similar fate to the unfortunate Buzzards.
 It appears the number of people arrested for public order offenses around Tipperary seems to be on the increase, according to information posted on the TippFM website. More than 20 arrests were made for offences in recent days, with the largest number of offences taking place in Nenagh where 8 people were arrested.
The following is a list of towns and the number of people arrested in recent days;
- Nenagh – 8 people were arrested
- Clonmel – 5 people were arrested
- Thurles – 4 people were arrested
- Tipperary Town – 2 people were arrested
- Templemore – 1 person was arrested
The exact details of the arrests made in Thurles is unclear at the moment, but if you would like to know more about what constitutes a public order offence, the Citizen’s Information website provides a useful page about Public Order Offences and Powers of Arrest.
 Ardscoil na mBraithre the CBS High School, in Clonmel has successfully appealed against an earlier Equality Tribunal finding, which ruled that the school indirectly discriminated against members of the Travelling Community and others when it refused a Traveller child admission.
The school had argued that their actions did not constitute discrimination, because 83 other children from the locality had also been refused admission, due to their parents having not attended this same establishment.
Judge Thomas Teehan allowed the appeal against the decision of the Equality Tribunal, that it should offer John Stokes a place and also their direction for the school to review its current admission policy, thus ensuring that in future it did not indirectly discriminate against any child of the state.
Thirteen year old John Stokes, through his mother Mary Stokes, latter instructed by the Irish Traveller Movement Independent Law Centre, first lodged a complaint against the Clonmel school based on the grounds that the school had breached the Equal Status Act 2000.
John Stokes had applied in November 2009 to attend the CBS School, having attended a local primary school in Clonmel town. However there were 174 student applications applying for just 140 places available, at this educational facility, at that time.
The school selected pupils on the basis of an agreed admission policy and based on three criteria:-
(1) The students father or another older sibling had previously attended the school.
(2) He was Roman Catholic.
(3) He had attended a primary school in the locality.
While John Stokes met the last two criteria of the school boards criteria, John Stokes was the eldest boy in his family, and his father had never attended the school in question.
The student, through his family, had unsuccessfully appealed this initial refusal by the school, to the Department of Education, and failing here, had appealed to the Equality Tribunal, on the grounds that requiring a parent to have previously attended the school, disproportionately affected the rights of the Irish Travelling Community and others.
Judge Teehan said that he was satisfied that the parental rule was discriminatory against Travellers and indeed others, whose parents were unlikely to have had the opportunity of attending this school previously. However, it fell to the school to demonstrate that its admissions policy could be fairly justified, and he found that supporting family ethos within education had amounted to a legitimate aim by the school.
Judge Teehan also found that the policy was appropriate in a case where numbers of students applying, exceeded available existing places. This parental rule, by the school, assisted in striking a fair balance between academic results and admissions, based on these exceptional circumstances.
He further noted that the CBS School had highlighted the importance of ties between their school and their past pupils in terms of meeting funding shortfalls and therefore this parental rule was necessary in creating a balanced and a proportionate admissions policy.
The school was therefore within its legal rights to reject a student because his father was not a past pupil.
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