METRO HERALD Tuesday, January 14, 2014
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Jobs boost credited to State body MORE than 18,000 new jobs were created last year by Enterprise Ireland, the State body has said. Businesses it supports had seen total net growth of 5,442 jobs in 2013 – the highest in a decade with its end of year report showing a loss of 12,591 jobs last year. Jobs Minister Richard Bruton (pictured) said the figures were great news. Enterprise Ireland said 175,750 people are employed in companies it supports – 149,718 full-time and 26,032 part-time. It highlighted some major investments, including by food group Glanbia, which will create 90 jobs in Monaghan and Dublin, and Eishtec, developed after Talk Talk closed in the south-east in 2011 with nine employees, but expects to grow to 950 staff. Elsewhere, the agency invested in 97 start-ups, aiming to take on more than 1,600 staff and generate over €300m in annual sales.
Man accessed We come in peace child porn on hostel laptop
Principal of Gaelscoil Bhun Cranncha in Donegal, Úna Ní Mhaoildeirg Uí Cheallaigh, and some of her pupils, who donned appropriate attire, teach astronaut Chris Hadfield cúpla focal as part of Tourism Ireland’s drive to showcase our country’s attractions, culture and language Picture: John Mcconnell
A MAN is to face sentencing after he admitted accessing child pornography on a laptop at the Dublin hostel where he was living. Iosif Antili, 41, with an address at St Ignatius Avenue, Dublin 7, but originally from Romania, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child pornography. The offence came to light after a laptop belonging to the accused went missing and he borrowed the hostel manager’s computer. Upon her return, the hostel manager saw sites containing preteen and baby porn had been accessed, and called gardaí. Gardaí then searched the accused’s house in Dublin 7 and seized another laptop containing further child porn. Judge Mary Ellen Ring remanded Antili on bail until July.
Boy’s tirade of abuse at judge who revoked bail A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolboy who went on an alleged car rampage in north Dublin in the early hours of yesterday morning screamed abuse at the judge who locked him up on remand. The Dublin Children’s Court was told the pursuit, which started at 4.30am, lasted 35 minutes and the teenager repeatedly drove against the flow of traffic and on the wrong side of roundabouts. The stolen car’s lights were not activated and it was claimed he sped off on roads at the back of Dub-
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lin Airport while being tailed by a Garda helicopter. The boy allegedly broke red lights and it was claimed he drove at a Garda car which had to take evasive action. It was also claime d the drive came to an end when the teenager had a blow-out and he was arrested in Glasnevin. In the morning’s court sitting, the
boy had been granted bail with several conditions including a ban on him having contact with another teenager suspected of being a passenger in the stolen car. However, later in the day, the boy’s bail was revoked after Judge John O’Connor heard he had defiantly spoken to his co-defendant in front of gardaí at the courthouse. The teen, who also picked up two breach of the peace charges, launched
‘I only wanted my f***ing phone back’
into a foul-mouthed attack on the judge for revoking his bail. The boy, who had cuts on his forehead and to the side of his head, shouted: ‘I was going to go home, only wanted my f***ing phone back, you goggle eyed bastard’ at the judge. He then screamed as gardaí moved in to escort him from court. The boy is charged with unlawfully using the stolen 4x4 and will face his next hearing on January 20. His mother, who was present in court, said her son required substance abuse counselling.
Boy of 3 killed in lift accident
€19m for storm clean-up Bike crash man hard up
A THREE-year-old boy died yesterday after a lift accident. Gardaí were called to the scene at the Hynes Building on St Augustine Street in Galway city at about 3pm after the child became trapped in a gap at the lift floor. Local gardaí, fire crews and ambulance and paramedic staff were called to the scene where the boy was pronounced dead. His body was removed to University Hospital Galway where a post-mortem examination was to be carried out. He had been in the building with his siblings and his mother when the accident happened.
STORM damage in Galway will cost more than €19million to repair, local authorities have estimated. Galway County Council has said it has already spent €500,000 on the clean-up, and puts the total cost at €18.3m. Some €2m of that amount has been earmarked for road repairs, with €700,000 for burial grounds which were disturbed during the three weeks of storms. The local authority believes it will cost €2.5m for repair works at beaches and tourist areas. Meanwhile, Galway City Council has issued a €750,000 estimate for clean-up in its municipal area.
A DUBLIN cyclist suffered an unwanted erection for five weeks before seeking medical attention. The 22-year-old’s woes began when he hurt himself after falling on to the crossbar of his mountain bike, leading to a continuous flow of blood to his penis, which was painless but caused a sustained erection, termed Priapism. The young man eventually sought help at Tallaght hospital, where radiography treatment proved successful. The report in the Irish Medical Journal does not say when the incident occurred, but concludes that the patient reported no recurrence of the problem.