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Westmeath woman who sued husband awarded over €16k

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  • #32
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭pawrick


    There are often interesting stories on the local papers from that lane involving a few select families. Few years back for example there was a car chase with gardai and the different families involved when someone stole a wedding cake on the wedding day.


  • #33
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    sillyoulfool wrote: »
    ?:confused:

    I think the poster is implying the lady is of the type of peoples that have wheels on their houses. ;)


  • #34
    thalia_13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 730 ✭✭✭thalia_13


    cletus van damme wrote: »
    her surname is ward.....just saying....:pac:

    Blackberry Lane gives more away!


  • #35
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Ah jeez Ward isn't just a traveller name.


  • #36
    mikom
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Ah jeez Ward isn't just a traveller name.

    Have you seen the pic?


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  • #37
    sillyoulfool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭sillyoulfool


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Ah jeez Ward isn't just a traveller name.

    A quick Google street view of Blackberry Lane would indicate that it is indeed Traveller accommodation, and a google search for Blackberry Lane Athlone brings up some great stories.


  • #38
    mikom
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    sillyoulfool wrote: »
    a google search for Blackberry Lane Athlone brings up some great stories.

    I like this one........
    Armed gardaí required at Athlone court for Traveller feud hearing

    Mullingar Advertiser, January 13, 2012.
    Finian Coghlan


    Upwards of 20 gardaí, including an armed response unit, were present to maintain order as the latest seven protagonists in the ongoing Joyce-Ward feud went before the District Court on Wednesday (January 11).



    The feud is believed to have escalated over a damaged headstone in Coosan cemetery in October 2010, and has seen at least 10 incidents brought to Garda attention in the last two years.

    The most serious of these have included shots fired at a home in Blackberry Lane in September 2010; a mass brawl on the old Athlone-Moate Road at Creggan in November 2010 which resulted in the closure of both carriageways; an attack on the Joyce homestead in Farnagh in October 2010, for which six of the Ward clan are due to appear at Mullingar Circuit Court next month; and an assault on a woman on Northgate Street the day after that.


  • #39
    RobbingBandit
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Ah jeez Ward isn't just a traveller name.

    No it's not but it prominently is, anyone remember the guy on XFactor Shane Ward, lots of rags linked him to Irish Travellers, what's in a name though, the Reform Alliance party are still Fine Gael by any other name.;)


  • #40
    El Guapo!
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    MOD: Whether the woman is a traveller or not is irrelevant to the story. Do not turn this into a traveller bashing thread.


  • #41
    RobbingBandit
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    Sorry I may have opened the flood gates, no offence meant.


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  • #42
    sillyoulfool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭sillyoulfool


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    what's in a name though, the Reform Alliance party are still Fine Gael Opus Dei,by any other name.;)
    Fixed your post:D


  • #43
    washman3
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    Another fine example of the Banana Republic we are living in.
    How any judge could rule in favour of this beggers belief.
    Did the insurance company not contest this.? or is it just a case of €16k being the magical figure they assume will encourage people to 'just go away'


  • #44
    Scotty P
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 ✭Scotty P


    I bet they have the following on repeat down Blackberry Lane tonight.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifO7AwBtNjE


  • #45
    Avien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭Avien


    washman3 wrote: »
    Another fine example of the Banana Republic we are living in.
    How any judge could rule in favour of this beggers belief.
    Did the insurance company not contest this.? or is it just a case of €16k being the magical figure they assume will encourage people to 'just go away'

    The fact that this was awarded by a court and that the insurer had a motor assessor give evidence regarding a light impact and her previous claim 14 years ago would seem to indicate that they were challenging this. Even more so, the case was thrown out in the circuit court, so clearly the high court felt the circuit court got it wrong:rolleyes:


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