Demand for Ryanair soars
‘CREATIVE’ BOY MADE TWO 999 CALLS FROM CELL
Her mother, Vera Twomey, campaigned for people facing rare illnesses to have easier access to medicinal cannabis.
Vera walked from Cork to Leinster House in Dublin to highlight her daughter’s plight and even travelled to Spain to get medicinal cannabis for her daughter.
Ava’s condition was so serious it had onnce led to cardiac arrest and an eight-day coma.
One tribute read on RIP.ie “fly high with the angels.”
IRISH budget airline Ryanair saw passenger numbers grow in May.
The airline said it carried 17 million passengers during the month, an increase of 10 per cent from the 15.4 million in the same period last year.
It had a load factor of 94 per cent, up from 92 per cent a year earlier.
It is bouncing back from the low levels experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic, when most of Ryanair’s planes were grounded due to closed borders.
A “CREATIVE” Dublin youth who telephoned a hoax bomb threat to a Garda station demanding release from a cell, and a republican prisoner be freed, has received a two-month sentence.
The boy (17) had been detained at Clontarf Garda station but sneaked a phone in with him and put on “a northern accent” when he made two 999 calls from inside a holding cell.
Judge Paul Kelly heard at Dublin Children’s Court the teen threatened to detonate one bomb at the station unless its prisoners were let out and another bomb at a shopping centre if Declan “Whacker” Duffy was not released from Portlaoise Prison.
It caused a “bit of a panic”, but a “seasoned” station sergeant was unconvinced, and a garda caught the teen using the phone in the station’s holding cell.
Sentencing was adjourned for a probation report. The boy was charged with knowingly making a false report or report at Clontarf Garda Station.
He had initially denied the charge but entered a guilty plea when his trial was about to start, and prosecution witnesses had come to court.