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Dublin: 13 °C Wednesday 19 June, 2013

The 5 at 5: Thursday

5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.

We had dogs yesterday so in the interests of equality, here's five kittens/cats.
We had dogs yesterday so in the interests of equality, here's five kittens/cats.
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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you up to speed just as you’re heading for the door…

1. #JUDICIARY: The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said that judges in Ireland need guidelines when sentencing for sexual assault convictions following another case in which the guilty party was ordered to pay the victim compensation and given a partly-suspended sentence.

2. #MISSING: Police in Wales have been given an extra 36 hours to question a 46-year-old man in relation to the disappearance of Irish woman Catherine Gowing. Detectives have also confirmed a sighting of the missing 37-year-old at an Asda shop on Friday night.

3. #ABORTION: Between 200 and 300 pro-life campaigners protested against the opening of Northern Ireland’s first private abortion clinic in Belfast this morning.

4. #CENSUS 2011: The CSO has released more detailed data garnered from the 2011 Census, revealing that while the percentage of Catholics in Ireland is at its lowest ever, the actual number is at a record high. In separate research, the stats house said unemployment in the Irish traveller community increased to 84.3 per cent last year.

5. #RIO 2016: Katie Taylor wants to add Double Olympic Champion to her impressive list of accolades, confirming this morning that she will remain an amateur boxer and defend her title in Rio in 2016.

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Comments (14 Comments)

  • Sexual assault judgements recently have been laughable – the attacker gets off scott-free as long as they have the cash for compensation. Is this not just expensive prostitution?? I’m sure the compo will make the victims feel much better about the incident!!!

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    • Agreed. Judges and the legal system in general seem to be much tougher in cases where they has been some sort of finance-related crime (taxes, theft, etc.) than in cases where physical or psychological/emotional damage has been done, particularly in cases of sexual assault. It’s disgusting and thoroughly indicative of the capitalistic nightmare where things matter more than people. Substituting a custodial sentence with a monetary compensation just proves my point.

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  • Sentences for sexual assault are totally out of line with the seriousness of the crime..sometimes in rape and assault cases I wonder if judges have wives, mothers, sisters, children, brothers or any family they love whose lives they could imagine being torn apart by violence of a sexual nature..a man with money (Lyons) got six years with all but six months suspended lately with payment made to the victim..the victim apparently said shed prefer to see him serve the appropriate prison sentence..then this case yesterday!..meanwhile a man who underpaid tax on importing garlic gets six years when he had complied with Revenue in the meantime and was making payments???!!..something stinks somewhere, and it ain’t the garlic!

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    • Perhaps the judges should get a taste of the medicine the “defendants” have handed out. Then they might be aware just why the girls want nothing to do with any amount of money from these so called people. I couldn’t imagine touching it with a barge-pole myself!

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  • Joe Reid 18/10/12 #

    Unemployment in the traveller community is 84.3%. How many unemployed in the “non traveller” community can afford to buy 2012, 2011 or 2010 vans ? Are they discriminated against because they are not members of the travellers community?

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  • 84.3% unemployment in travellor community…. I wonder why? (Slightly sarcastic)

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  • zebedee 18/10/12 #

    Really strange sentencing recently from our courts.
    The above mentioned sexual assault cases really demonstrate this. We just cannot begin to comprehend the added injury to the victims these lenient sentences cause.

    Also, reported in press this evening a case where a drunk driver drives wrong way up a motorway, kills a person on the road and the defendant walks free!
    Meanwhile, reported in the same paper, a young man gives some guff to a cop at a screening of Ire v Italy game in Dublin city centre, he gets a €250 fine and 3 months in the slammer!
    Am I missing something?

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  • There were over 500 people protesting against the opening of the abortion mill Marie Stopes International v 8 pro-aborts but as usual the true figure is underestimated because it doesn’t fit with your agenda.

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    • Only 500? Guess people aren’t that bothered after all. The pro-choice march in Dublin a few weekends ago had several thousand in attendance. Time to wake up and smell the progress.

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    • “Pro Lifers” there included loyalist Jim Down who supported loyalists killing Catholics for over 30 years. Jim is also involved in the far right anti migrant BNP. Nice company the pro-life/force-birthers keep indeed. Bigots, racists and facists eh? brillo!!

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    • Hi Marion,

      I have no agenda at all in relation to abortion. The 200 figure came from the PSNI and the 300 from our photographer who was at the protest. For best reporting, I included both.

      Thanks
      Sinead

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    • snooch 18/10/12 #

      There were >600,000 people in Belfast who went about they’re daily business without feeling to join 500 overreacting pontificating miserable judgemental backwards ‘people’ because they see this move as progressive or dont feel strongly about it.

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    • People who are pro choice tend not to add to the discomfort of the women availing of these services by adding to crowd numbers. Marie Stopes actually ask its supporters not to gather outside and to think of the women entering.

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    • @ mark malone: funny enough the way that Marie Stopes herself (original founder of the organisation) was a racist and pro nazi too… but, hey, that’s not relevant, is it not?

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