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TWELVE CHILDREN WERE shot between 2009 and 2014, according to Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).
Another 27 children were assaulted in that period, the NIHRC said.
The commission has submitted a report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child urging the British government to take immediate action to stop paramilitary assaults on children in Northern Ireland.
NIHRC Chief Commissioner, Les Allamby said the commission has highlighted a number of recommendations made by the UN in 2008 that have not yet been implemented.
He said they now require urgent action.
These include raising the age of criminal responsibility, ending corporal punishment and reducing the use of remand for children in the criminal justice system.
Allamby said it is important that the children of Northern Ireland are adequately protected.
The commission has advised that the UN Committee should ask the UK Government, including the Northern Ireland Executive, to:
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Didn’t work in Paris. The only thing it did was littering the city with those and being dangerous to pedestrians.
@Alex: Yes it does work in Paris, you know nothing.
@Dave Grant If you did any research whatsoever you’d know they completely banned them in 2023 because they caused such a nuisance.
@Dave Grant: How does it work in Paris ? Tell me Dave? Didn’t you know the Parisian voted at 90% to get rid of it ? How about you don’t say anything if you are clueless about it?
@Alex: nanny state mentality
@Dave Grant: banned in paris
@Dave Grant: 100% incorrect. You know nothing.
@Dave Grant: wrong they banned them for good reason. Do the research!
@DJ D: No it was a health and safety issues. They were blocking the footpaths and there were LOT OF accidents.
Nothing nanny state about it!
The people wanted then gone.
Delighted! They litter the streets and left all over pavements!
What, have you tried to walk down a street without seeing a car littering our pavements and roads?
@Bridget Nevin: eScooters? You barely see any in Dublin. Meanwhile cars have taken over everywhere
@9QRixo8H: cars don’t litter the pavements..theres this thing called kerbside parking, you see.. and offenders can be fined for bad parking ..
@frank dowling: can be fined is meaningless if enforcement levels are as low as they are.
@Liam OTailliuir: We still don’t see cars strewn across footpaths as Paris experienced with these scooters, ans we see with these ride-sharing bikes.
@9QRixo8H: You must be a sad person with no prospect of owning a vehicle so you want people off cars because “if I can’t have one, the no one can”, right?
@frank dowling: cars do litter the pavements, anywhere i look
@9QRixo8H: There are some cars that do, and the fight continues with them. But it has nothing to do with that fight.
All the cities these things have been released they injuries to users and pedestrian numbers is horrific.
Same with hire e-bikes.
They get abandoned all over the place too.
Google the issue and see why Paris banned them!
@Mick Duvanny: Hardly they are being blocked and stopped from entering various parts of the city.
If they do introduce them here it will probably not be monitored. I have seen these scooters all over the place in other European cities abandoned everywhere blocking footpaths for the general public and more importantly for vulnerable path users, the elderly and wheelchair users. No thanks and we don’t want to be knocked down by them either.
Did you not see any cars in those EU cities? No cars on roads? Or blocking footpaths? You don’t want to be knocked down by a car I would imagine?
@9QRixo8H: A car has a Registration Plate, therefore is *registered*, and insured, and taxed, and is obliged to be driven by people who have been tested and examined on their knowledge and compliance with the Rules of the Road
@Pink Freud: ok, how many people were killed from cars and how many people were killed from electric-powered scooters scattered here and there? EXACTLY. LOSE EVERY TIME.
@9QRixo8H: I pay road tax, I can drive on any road i want,
@Shane O Mac: No road tax in Ireland.
@Gary Crawford: they have brought in new protocols here in Finland. Reduced speed in built up areas and designated parking bays so you can’t just leave them anywhere you want. I can imagine they will be badly damaged in Ireland by certain people.
@9QRixo8H: so you asking how many people were killed by parked cars ?
@9QRixo8H: Which does not invalidate the point made – these scooters were being left strewn across footpaths and pedestrian areas in those cities that permitted their use.
To the extent that the people of Paris voted to ban them.
@Gary Crawford: Teething probs, that’s all. A scooter is one car less on the street. Keep them coming, and ignore the perpetual nay sayers.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: wtf??
@sean weir: He means it’s called “motor tax” and not “road tax”. There’s always one gobshìte that says this.
@9QRixo8H: hahaha no correlation there at all. Why not compare a space rocket to a car for mass , speed etc. Dopey. Get yourself a car like normal folk.
@Gary Crawford: Monitoring makes no difference, the GPS is not exact enough and the copaniers talk a good talk but they cannot back it up with facts.
@smatrix mantra: Actually the research says they replace walking, cycling, and public transport.
Car users changes do happen but are few and far between.
Google is great for research!
All electric scooters should be banned!!
All cars should be banned!!! All the best!!
@9QRixo8H: a stupid remark
@9QRixo8H: you beloved E scooters are banned in
UK
Holland
Greece
You need a full driver’s licence in Italy
Germany is banning them from 1st May 2024 .
@9QRixo8H: oh dear, you seem to have issue with cars…get help..
@sean weir: they are not banned in the UK
@Tony Lyons: on ALL public roads in England and Scotland
@Tony Lyons: Not yet but there are groups working on it!
No thanks.
My wife got hit by one on the footpath in Budapest. They are too big and designed to carry two passengers. Plus, they were abandoned without any consideration for vulnerable pedestrians
Would that be one of the many who duck and dive every legitimate and justified civil case brought against them? The same sort who accept no responsibility for anything that happens with their scooters, ever? The scooter rental that conspired to cover-up a known safety flaw in their product, *that* scooter company?
They are worse than the sneakiest among Car Rental companies.
A wholly notorious outfit, by all accounts.
We dodged a bullet there, that’s for sure!
What’s wrong with good old-fashioned walking. Probably not a thing anymore.
@did you every wonder: good luck walking a 40k commute every day..
@NotGreta: anyone doing a 40km commute on a e-scooter needs to have a good honest chat with themselves.
Have used them in other EU countries. Extremely convenient, especially in areas where it takes longer to take a taxi or bus. I was surprised at how fast I got around the city. They’re a better option than cars littering the cities and not just a danger to all but a fatality.
@9QRixo8H: That’s why those services are being banned a city after another right? So great the people living in those cities vote to get rid of it.
@Alex: that’s why how many people get killed by cars and not by electric scooters. You are SO RIGHT ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@9QRixo8H: banned in Paris
@9QRixo8H: are you upset patriot?
@9QRixo8H: Care to answer the question posed?
Why are the people of Europe banning these scooters?
@9QRixo8H: So you don’t like cars, fine. E-scooters are not the way around motor v ehicles, neither are bikes. Not everyone can use them.
Has everyone missed the obvious? It’s not the e-scooters that are the problem, it’s the users. Ride them safely, take into consideration other road users and pedestrians, obey the rules of the road and when finished leave them in a suitable place that does not cause a hazard for others
@Paul1st: The best way to stop a bad guy with an escooter is a good guy with an escooter?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: LOL! Top notch AmeriKKKan logic. Well spotted! Maith thú!
@Paul1st: The Law should have incorporated regulations on parking/lock-up zones for scooters in particular (with a public+workplace infrastructural obligatation), AND the obligation to afix a Speedometer to the handlebars, an obligation to surrender it’s current and historic record/readings to any Gard asking for it when stopped, and obligation to register all ride-on electronic propulsion machinery *and* it’s correlating fitted battery’s un-erasable manufacturer’s number/mark (in order to hold owners responsible for unlawful toxic disposal in the future) to a National Registry, and an obligation to hold similar (but far better/responsive) insurance both for the machine itself+the rider+public liability (for any harm it and it’s rider does to pedestrian, domestic pet or livestock while in motion).
@Paul1st: Ah the old second amendment argument, Guns don’t kill people, people do.
It is BS of the highest older.
Before people could so easily purchase escooters for transport, I used Lime in Berlin, around 2019. It was super handy getting from a to b and a bit of craic way to see the city. Though sometimes you’d run for a Lime via the app only to find it’s not there, which was a pain. They were kind of scattered without regard everywhere causing trip hazards etc, but there, they have large wide pavements whereas in Ireland, and DCC it’s not the case. If people had to return it to a docking station like the dublin bikes, I might be interested in using them.
Yea, Block everything…… let us always be miles behind European countries……
Muppets
@declan benson: Other Europeans places are going back on e-scooter sharing. It doesn’t work.
@declan benson: complete ban of them in the
UK
Greece
Holland
And Germany is banning them from 1st may 2024
@sean weir: are they banned in Germany or are they banning them from the 1st of may 2024?
@declan benson: like cigarette smoking
so the greens closing of dublin city to cars and we can all agree that public transport is not great, so people are using e scooters and now they want to ban them, how are people supposed to get access to the city
@Nikki Swift: they don’t want to ban them ,you can use them but there are safety restrictions.
A top speed of 20km is plenty,
@Nikki Swift: The Greens aren’t closing Dublin city to cars.
@Nikki Swift: try walking, like we’ve done for hundreds of years ya mope
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: They aren’t closing it but DCC are making it as difficult as they can for people who need to drive around the city. I’ve genuinely given up some small maintenance contracts in businesses around the city as they were no longer viable because of traffic.
@sean weir: Do you know that that rule is completely bogus,
Not chance in hell i n making it stick.
NONE and the minister knows that.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Not all of it just large parts, with the aim to have the canal cordon in place.
Bolt already has a presence in Ireland offering a bicycle sharing service in Sligo Kilkenny and Wexford. In Wexford alone the usage has blown past expectations. So Bolt could launch e scooters here fairly quick as they have the data and base.
@Nemethon: Yes and the bikes being deserted in all the wrong places are already being reported as is happening in Dublin too.
Thankfully. Westport is littered with their bikes already. The only people you see using them have cone out of the pub and go for a spin…
As usual the Greens are full of Sh** This would take 1000 cars off the streets but they no more green than biflg oil, scammers one and all.
Latest poll today has FFG and Greens on course for another 5 years in power. They have support with how they are running the country. Zero dissatisfaction if polls are to be believed.
@9QRixo8H: good thing the election wasn’t today
@Eoin .h: who do you think will win the election then
@9QRixo8H: FFG are very popular..Greens are facing near wipeout..Will have v little influence in future, if any
@9QRixo8H: Didn’t the Greens halve their representation in the recent Locals?
And got wiped out in the Euros?
While walking in ..,., yesterday young child had her leg broken because of mechanical vehicle on footpath, guy actually took off, so that’s a hit and run! It’s illegal to e scoot on footpath . It’s exactly the same as driving a car on the foot path. Under road traffic laws it’s illegal to have mechanically propelled vehicle on footpath, no matter speed or weight. You know it’s called a foot path for non vehicular mechanical assistant vehicles. Mechanical propelled vehicle ! So arrogant comments on here.
@Brian O’Connor: The minister changed the rules, by stealth. the MAV description no longer covers e-scooter or e-bikes.
The regulation brought in have more holes than a colander.
Delighted. Sick of ignorant scooterists driving on the path being a menace.
Everyone of these will end up in the social housing flats that blight our city.
@Paul: Good!
I have seen these used in many UK cities and work very well but typical Irish government cock up in legislation they will wait until a cronies months r family of a TD or minister is involved in company before law changes
@james dooley: They work well in Rome too, expensive though, as a side note Uber in Paris is excellent, and the drivers aren’t grumpy anymore! Cheaper than the Metro if you have a couple of people with you.
@james dooley: They are not a success in the UK, there have been massive amounts of complaints and serious lobbying to get them out of the system.
Time to ban people from our roads and leave it to the cars, buses, trucks, scooters, motorbikes,. Who needs people?
@Sean Ahearne: I know your comment is sarcasm. But take all those vehicles off the roads how long do you think our economy will last? People need all those vehicles to keep this country ticking over.
@Ger Whelan: No they don’t. Not within any of the Irish Cities. Cop yerself on!
A couple of bikes and scooters, yes, on “second tier” roadway thoroughfares a distance from the central/core inner city, maybe. Otherwise – main thoroughfares for Pedestrians only with limited low speed Public Transport, Adapted/Accessibility Private Cars, pre-registered pre-booked Trades Vans (daytime) and deliveries only in non-peak hours with a sole exception for heritage enterprise transports (Guinness deliveries down Quays).
Outside of Cities, obviously, use of private vehicles will remain part of core private and economic activity.
They are not banned in Paris, I was there last month, only the rental scheme ones are discontinued.
And before u know it, there will be gangs e scooting drugs up and down green ways that are currently been tarmac (ed) between towns in Ireland.. just asking for trouble while Gardai sit in their cars on the road
@Brian O’Connor: Already are, drug dealers delight as one person explained to me.
Things should be banned from sale or hire in ireland
@DC: I agree, ban everything
If I or someone else was riding a motorcycle or car onto footpath you be arrested. In court under law it’s mechanically propelled. So inconsiderate, not all but majority are arrogant
I hear you get one free with every council house
@Paul: You might need to see a doctor as you are hearing things.
Don’t listen to those voices, they are not telling you the truth.
lmao… Ireland, mystic land forged by the word ‘no’
Scooter,yeh right..I’m singing it?.
@Will Q: how much is the fish
@Anthony Hilton: does the fish have chips?
@Soundy Sound: yea and mushy peas too
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