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13 year-old girl critical after Lisnaskea machete attack

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  • #122
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Latest story on it
    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/critically-injured-teenage-girl-threw-herself-on-top-of-baby-to-save-his-life-during-machete-attack-964904.html


  • #123
    glenfieldman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭glenfieldman


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Latest story on it
    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/critically-injured-teenage-girl-threw-herself-on-top-of-baby-to-save-his-life-during-machete-attack-964904.html

    Not one mention of them being more concerned about making a call out video than the poor child welfare


  • #124
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,469 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I just went to the rte site and the story isn't on their mobile site.

    Anyway, I read it in the indo site. It says this girl of 13 saved her nephew, a baby, by shielding him.

    So were these grown men in to kill a toddler?


  • #125
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,722 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    kildare lad wrote: »
    Any statement from Martin Collins of pavee point yet ??

    Ah now, give them time to get out of the bed :)


  • #126
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭Wheety


    glenfieldman wrote: »
    Not one mention of them being more concerned about making a call out video than the poor child welfare

    Not defending anyone in this story but the paramedics arrive at the end of the video so they must have called them before making the video.

    Unless I missed an earlier video?


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  • #127
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I just went to the rte site and the story isn't on their mobile site.

    Anyway, I read it in the indo site. It says this girl of 13 saved her nephew, a baby, by shielding him.

    So were these grown men in to kill a toddler?


    According to the kids granny, yes.
    Speaking to ITV News, the baby's grandmother, Elizabeth Joyce, said the young girl tried to save his life.
    She said: "They burst through the house, one attacker came to me attacking. I was screaming and kicking and fighting back. The other attacker went for the wee fella, but his auntie, who is in hospital in a very critical condition, she threw herself on top of the baby to save the baby's life."


  • #128
    [Deleted User]
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    I just went to the rte site and the story isn't on their mobile site.

    Anyway, I read it in the indo site. It says this girl of 13 saved her nephew, a baby, by shielding him.

    So were these grown men in to kill a toddler?

    I was following the back n forth call out videos last night and Bernie Joyce (girls fathers uncle) denied anything to do with it but said they probably thought it was the girls brothers wife (mother of the baby) and that she would have deserved it.


  • #129
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,090 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Not as much coverage of this incident in the news or any of the breakfast programmes. Newstalk haven't even mentioned. Compare that to the uproar there was over some comments that a FF by election candidate in tweets made in 2011. Why are the media so afraid of covering this ethnic minority community?


  • #130
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,469 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    It's the fear of being branded as racist.


  • #131
    Lillyfae
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    Wheety wrote: »
    Not defending anyone in this story but the paramedics arrive at the end of the video so they must have called them before making the video.

    Unless I missed an earlier video?

    They deserve a medal :rolleyes:


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  • #132
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Floppybits wrote: »
    Not as much coverage of this incident in the news or any of the breakfast programmes. Newstalk haven't even mentioned. Compare that to the uproar there was over some comments that a FF by election candidate in tweets made in 2011. Why are the media so afraid of covering this ethnic minority community?

    Newstalk are too busy doing bizarre fluff pieces, on how Balbriggan definitely doesn't have a gang problem.


  • #133
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Lillyfae wrote: »
    They deserve a medal :rolleyes:

    Yeah, that's what I'm saying.


  • #134
    canonball5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭canonball5


    Us settled, law abiding, tax paying folk ought to be ashamed of ourselves. This poor disadvantaged minority are merely practicing their cultural norms.


  • #135
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    Culture.

    Move along now.


  • #136
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,057 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    We put dogs who bite down.
    Perhaps we could have that extended to mongrel humans.


  • #137
    Insect Overlord
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    All the videos are doing the rounds on WhatsApp. They cannot be un-seen.


  • #138
    ampleforth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭ampleforth


    Dubrangan wrote: »
    A 13 year-old girl I in a critical condition and a 41 year-old woman is also injured after a gang of men forced their way into a house in Lisnaskea in Co. Fermanagh last night and stabbed them with machetes.

    This is a horrific crime. Someone who can do that to a child needs to be put away for life.

    I know I will regret that I have asked. But, do we know what their motivation was? Or where they just stoned out of their mind? It appears like there was a strong motivator...


  • #139
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,068 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    ampleforth wrote: »
    I know I will regret that I have asked. But, do we know what their motivation was? Or where they just stoned out of their mind?

    Family feud, possibly to do with young girls beating a retarded woman, believed to be their aunt, in the house.

    Saw some of the videos they put out last night.

    Hyper dysfunctional so who knows exactly.


  • #140
    ampleforth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭ampleforth


    Danzy wrote: »
    Family feud, possibly to do with young girls beating a retarded woman, believed to be their aunt, in the house.

    Saw some of the videos they put out last night.

    Hyper dysfunctional so who knows exactly.

    So its personal. What we do not want anywhere is that kind of stuff happens without any actual reason... the worst kind of crime, IMO


  • #141
    spodoinkle
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    Thelonious wrote: »
    Wannabe rapper in court for ramming a dildo up a young lads arse. !

    Wut


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  • #142
    normanoffside
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    Hopefully a good old fashioned bare knuckle fight can sort this all out.


  • #143
    Cantona's Collars
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    I wonder if Matt Cooper will have the traveller comedian fella back on this evening to talk about this after he was on discussing those tweets the other day?
    How come when one of the traveller representatives goes on TV or radio it's always the same line of "sure it's only a minority" yet one look on YouTube gives you reams of videos of threats and violence.


  • #144
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Cantona's Collars wrote: »
    I wonder if Matt Cooper will have the traveller comedian fella back on this evening to talk about this after he was on discussing those tweets the other day?
    How come when one of the traveller representatives goes on TV or radio it's always the same line of "sure it's only a minority" yet one look on YouTube gives you reams of videos of threats and violence.

    It's a minority of the whole population, and a majority of the traveller population...if they only paid attention in school they'd know the difference


  • #145
    [Deleted User]
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    Fella that was uploading videos on YouTube - Jim Nevin New has a post on his channel naming 3 guys stating “ Wanted for attempted murder”.


  • #146
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Beating for John connors to pop out and say they’re not what travellers are about!


  • #147
    normanoffside
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    Bernard Sweeney is just banging on about Traveller Homelessness this morning.
    This happened just up the road from him,I thought he might have an opinion...


  • #148
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    RTE Radio 1 discussing it now. Awaiting the T word.


  • #149
    dartboardio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    What's worse is I can guarantee that poor young girl will be left in their care.

    Absolutely messed up. No authorities mess with the travellers out of fear. They can let things happen to their kids like this, and it's overlooked.


  • #150
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Nope. Clare Byrne or the correspondent didn't mention the T word.


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  • #151
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Found one article that mentioned it was traveller related, below. None of the others mention it at all, its reported as a random machete attack, essentially.

    https://extra.ie/2019/11/18/news/irish-news/girl-machete-attack-fermanagh


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