Pre-deceased by his father Sean, mother-in-law Delia and father-in-law Jim Hunter (Ballina, Co Mayo); the passing of Mr O’Neill is most deeply regretted and sadly missed by his heartbroken family, wife Della, sons Jim and Bill, mother Theresa, twin brother Pat, sister Betsy and Marie, nephews, nieces, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, uncles, aunts, former colleagues in An Teagasc, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
Requiescat in Pace.
Funeral Arrangements.
The earthly remains of Mr O’Neill will repose at Hugh Ryan’s Funeral Home, Slievenamon Road, Thurles on Thursday afternoon, October 19th, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm same evening. His remains will be received into the Cathedral of the Assumption, Cathedral Street, Thurles, on Friday morning, October 20th, at 10:30am, to further repose for Requiem Mass at 11:00am, followed by interment, immediately afterwards, in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Moyne Road, Thurles.
For those persons who are unable to attend the funeral service for Mr O’Neill, same can be viewed streamed live online, HERE.
The extended O’Neill family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
Week beginning November 20th, 2023: Some 46,500 households will receive the Working Family Payment of an extra €400. Some 214,000 people in receipt of the Disability Support Grant will also receive a bonus of €400. A €300 Fuel Allowance lump sum will also be paid to some 409,000 households.
Week beginning November 27th 2023: Persons in receipt of the Carers Support Grant will receive a bonus of a €400 payment. Some 237,0000 mostly those older people who receive the living alone allowance will receive an extra €200. A €100 bonus will be paid in respect of 370,000 children in receipt of Qualified Child Benefit. More than 2,000,000 households will have €150 taken off their electricity bill with effect from December 1st, 2023.
Week beginning December 4th 2023: Each person in receipt of welfare payment will receive a double Christmas bonus payment. They will also receive a double Child Benefit payment of €280 per child.
Week beginning January 29th, 2024: A second double payment of all welfare payments will be paid to recipents of State Benifits. Weekly rates of qualified child payments will increase by €4 in January 2024 bringing them to €54 for those aged 12 and over and €46 for under 12s. Income thresholds for the Working Family Payment will increase by €54 per week regardless of family size from January 2024. Hot School Meals will be extended on a phased basis in 2024, to all non-DEIS primary schools, latter who applied as part of the expression of interest. Cost of living bonus for people with disabilities, pensioners, carers, and those unemployed. Social welfare payments will increase by €12 each week with effect from the beginning of January.
Please note* The once off payment of €400 to those people getting Disability Allowance, Invalidity Pension, Blind Pension and/or Carer’s Support Grant, is only payable in respect of one payment, even if people qualify for more than one of the payments or are caring for more than one person.
The Minister for Justice, Mrs Helen McEntee TD, will today officially open the state-of-the-art Limerick Female Prison, marking a significant development in Ireland’s justice system.
The Limerick Female Prison has accommodation for a minimum of 50 female prisoners. It will increase capacity across the prison estate, as well as providing an environment that promotes rehabilitation, helps reduce reoffending and helps to build stronger, safer communities.
Designed with a focus on rehabilitation, the Limerick Female Prison aims to offer a range of educational, vocational, and therapeutic programs to equip inmates with the necessary tools for a law-abiding life after their release.
These initiatives include educational courses, vocational training, mental health support, addiction counselling, and access to healthcare services.
The accommodation comprises of a mixture bedroom units, some apartment style units and a mother and baby unit, all with individual en-suites.
Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee TD said; “The opening of Limerick Female Prison marks an important step forward in increasing capacity across the prison estate and helping us build stronger, safer communities. These additional spaces are necessary to ensure that we have the sufficient space and facilities to support those committed to serve a custodial sentence in an environment that is safe and has the space and capacity to focus on rehabilitation. They also reflect our commitment to rehabilitating prisoners, reduce re-offending and put them on a path to leading law abiding lives. This modern facility reflects our determination to provide an environment that enables prisoners to address the underlying causes of their offending behaviours and helps them reintegrate successfully into society”.
In addition the opening of Limerick Female Prison today, over 200 spaces were provided across the prison estate in the last year, with an additional 96 spaces provided with the reopening of the Training Unit in Mountjoy, an additional 90 cell spaces with the opening of new male accommodation in Limerick.
Minister McEntee also intends to prioritise 4 additional short-term capital projects at Castlerea, Cloverhill, the Midlands and Mountjoy that could provide accommodation for a minimum of 620 additional people over the next 5 years.
The Minister is engaging with the Minister for Public Expenditure with a view to progressing an agreed schedule of capital builds. Budget 2024 provided an increase of €27 million in the Irish Prisons Service budget, including an extra €12.6m in pay to fund public sector pay increases and additional staff to cope with increasing prisoner numbers and services to prisoners. The new staff provided for in this increased allocation will include extra staff to assist with a Rapid Prison Building Unit to drive the Government’s intention to provide of over 620 new prisoner spaces over the next 5 years.
In addition, the Department of Justice and the IPS continue to work together to identify short, medium and longer term proposals to help manage capacity.
Director General of the Irish Prison Service, Ms Caron McCaffrey said, “I am delighted to announce the official opening of the new Limerick Female Prison. I want to take this opportunity to commend all the staff who worked on this development but also ongoing the modernisation of the Irish Prison Service estate. I feel a huge sense of pride and this new prison will equip women who come into custody with the necessary tools to lead law-abiding lives after their release”.
The opening of Limerick Female Prison signifies Ireland’s dedication to transforming its prison system into one that prioritises rehabilitation, reducing the likelihood of reoffending and contributing positively to communities. The facility aligns with international best practices. It is also essential that the prison estate is modern and fit for purpose and has the capacity to accommodate those committed to prison by the courts both now and into the future. The new Limerick Female Prison builds on the works that have been completed across the prison estate over the last number of years.
The Good News: More than two million households will see €150 taken off their electricity bill on December 1st, 2023. January 1st 2024 and March 1st, 2024.
The Bad News: The current coalition government will continue to use taxpayers money, which should be spent on health and other public services, in order to support extortionate prices being charged by unscrupulous power suppliers. Time to check your attic for the hydrocarbon fuelled heater and that John Tilly lamp, before returning them to full use, while the government pays your low charge ESB bill.
A promised strike by some 5,000 community healthcare staff and social care workers from 19 organisations has been averted, following an 8% pay offer made, after long drawn out talks, late last night.
Strike Action By Health & Community Care Workers Averted.
Workers at Daughters Of Charity Child and Family Service, DePaul Ireland, Ardeen Cheshire Ireland, Ability West, Co-action West Cork, Cobh Hospital, Don Bosco Care and Enable Ireland, Family Resource Centres, the Irish Wheelchair Association, Kerry Parents and Friends, St Catherine’s Association, St Joseph’s Foundation, St Luke’s Nursing Home, and the Western Care Association were all due to hold future stoppages.
Talks between the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the Department of Health and the ICTU group of unions, have now agreed to recommend that the new pay offer be accepted, same having been brokered at the Workplace Relations Commission.
The new deal will include a 3% pay rise backdated to April 1st 2023; another 2% on November 1st 2023 and a further 3% on March 1st also this year.
Further discussions on a key demand to link pay to public servant’s wages are also proposed as part of this agreement, with the government acknowledging that workers pay in section 39, section 56 and section 10 organisations had fallen behind equivalent and comparable grades in public service organisations.
The Workplace Relations Commission will now convene the parties, to the agreement, before December 1st, 2023
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