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A Public Prosecution Service barrister told Judge Philip Babington yesterday that the dog belonged to neighbours of Gerald McEldowney. |
Its owners, the McGuigan family, described Buster as "a great family pet, and a lovely dog". |
The defendants believed the dog had been responsible for a number of sheep worrying incidents on Gerald McEldowney's farm. |
On the evening of March 31, 2016, the dog got loose from its owner's farmyard and ran into Gerald McEldowney's adjoining field. |
It returned 10 minutes later followed by an angry Brian McEldowney who drove into the farmyard on a quad shouting "where is the dog?" before he hit it on the head with a stick. |
The dog's owner, Attracta McGuigan, put Buster into a byre before going to collect her son from work. |
She left her two daughters, one of them aged 15, in the house. |
Shortly after Mrs McGuigan had left, the 15 year-old daughter saw the two defendants and a third man in the farmyard outside her home. |
"The defendant Brian McEldowney was seen by her carrying a shotgun," the prosecutor told the court. |
"He opened the byre door and he went in and the daughter heard two bangs. She came running out of the house and saw the third man hosing blood away from the byre. |
"She saw Gerald McEldowney tying a blue rope around the dog's legs and then pulling the dog by its legs. The dog was then lifted by him over a gate and put into a field as if to make the shooting of the dog legal for sheep-worrying." |
Three days later the dog's carcass was thrown into a second field by Brian McEldowney, again to make it look as if it had been legally shot for sheep worrying. |
The carcass was recovered by the police following a complaint from the McGuigan family and a post mortem examination stated it had died from a gunshot wound to the neck. |
Defence barristers told Judge Babington the uncle and nephew both apologised to the McGuigan family for their actions. |
They said the defendants believed the dog was responsible for sheep worrying on Gerald McEldowney's hill farm, thereby putting him under financial pressure. |
The barristers said the defendants and the McGuigan family lived cheek by jowl in the countryside and the McEldowney's were mindful of the immediate and long-term trauma they had caused to the McGuigans. |
Judge Babington released the defendants on continuing bail and said he would sentence them on Thursday. |
In Iran, a bomb attack on a police command post killed at least three people in the restive southeastern port city of Chabahar. |
State media reported several people were also wounded in the terrorist attack. |
The official IRNA news agency said it was a car bombing. Sistan-Baluchistan province, where the bombing occurred has long been a flashpoint, with Pakistan-based Baluchi separatists and jihadists carrying out cross-border attacks. |
Ever wonder if your family has any skeletons in the closet? Miguel Riviera in Disney’s Coco definitely did. In this family friendly, colorfully animated musical film set on the Día de Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, Miguel travels to the fantastical afterlife to uncover his family’s biggest secret. |
The Rivieras have a multi-generational music ban because Miguel’s great-great grandfather left home to achieve his musical dream, leaving behind his wife and young daughter, Miguel’s Mama Imelda and Mama Coco. As Mama Imelda has passed away, the only person in the Riviera family to remember the identity of the unknown ... |
As a 12-year-old living in a small village in Mexico, Miguel feels like an outsider in a family of shoemakers. Uninterested in the family business, his dream is to be a musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. In his safe space in the attic, Miguel has collected trinkets and memorabilia of the popular musician. By wa... |
During the holiday, Mexican families will put photos of ancestors on a mantle and invite them to come back from the afterlife using marigold petals and the ancestors’ favorite foods as a lure. Guided by paths of marigolds laid out by their descendants, ancestors can cross over a marigold bridge from the afterlife to th... |
Miguel’s act of rebellion on the Dead of the Day plunges him into the adventure of a lifetime. In a strange series of circumstances, Miguel finds himself able to see and communicate with the spirits of the ancestors. He learns that his ancestors continue to live on in skeletal form. With the guidance of ancestors he kn... |
Director Lee Unkrich and his team at Pixar’s efforts to create a culturally conscious film were successful. Coco is the first Pixar film to feature a minority lead and to include an almost all-Latino cast that seamlessly slips in and out of Spanish and English. Additionally, Coco pays homage to important aspects in Mex... |
While a children’s film, the upbeat score, skeletal slapstick humor, rich visuals, and multilayered characters weave together a storyline that also appeals to adult viewers. Addressing questions about death, memory, and obligation, Coco manages to be entertaining while encouraging viewers to think about and be thankful... |
Perfect for Thanksgiving, this heart-warming and uplifting coming-of-age story celebrates Mexican culture and presents a tear-jerking and emotional journey for kids of all ages. The message of Coco remains heartfelt and important. Many can relate to the struggle between staying faithful to one’s dreams and one’s duty t... |
Progressive godfather Bernie Sanders is rumored to be ready to announce a run for the presidency in 2020. He’s the most popular senator in the US, but according to one columnist, he’s also an agent of Putin. Yes, really. |
Senator Bernie Sanders didn’t run in 2016 to push his bold platform of economic and social justice on America. No, instead his campaign was orchestrated by the Kremlin to divide the left and help Donald Trump take the presidency. At least that’s according to former New York Times columnist, and current Wired editor and... |
Many of his 2016 supporters, she tweeted on Saturday, were “Kremlin minions.” For evidence, Heffernan relies on indictments against the Russian Internet Research Agency “troll farm” – claims that have never, and will never be proven in court. |
Proving whether a social media account is a ‘Russian bot’ or not is an inexact science, and some organizations have played fast and loose with the rules before. The Hamilton68 dashboard – a bot-hunting database frequently cited by Russiagate types – doesn’t reveal its methodology, and PropOrNot – another outfit that se... |
But wait, Heffernan has more connections to make. Sanders’ 2016 strategist Tad Devine once worked with former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort in Ukraine, where Manafort was lobbying for pro-Russian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych. Rather than business as usual in the Washington DC swamp, Heffernan sees more collusion... |
“I mean, the Bernie bots and bros — even the ones who believed they were acting on principle — certainly gave Trump and the Kremlin a mighty assist,” she continued. |
Better not tell Heffernan that Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, Clinton strategist Mark Penn, and John McCain’s 2008 campaign manager Steve Schmidt also lobbied for Yanukovych in the late 2000s. |
In reality, even with the Democratic National Convention secretly rooting for her, Clinton couldn’t match Sanders’ popularity by the end of the 2016 primary campaign. Clinton trailed the socialist Senator in favorability by 14 points, days before she was declared presumptive nominee in June. Indeed, as the DNC got unde... |
But what’s really going on here? Has the Democrat/media establishment really consumed so much ‘Russiagate’ poison over the last two years that they’re seeing reds under the bed and hearing the Soviet anthem as they fall asleep? Or are they scared? |
The Democratic Party has been pushed to the left in recent years, a change evident in the popularity of Sanders and the meteoric rise of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both self-described socialists and champions of universal healthcare, a raised minimum wage, and redistributive taxes on the wealthy. ... |
Harris announced her 2020 bid with a generic pledge to “fight for the best of who we are.” She has previously expressed support for Sanders’ universal healthcare bill and for a federally mandated $15 minimum wage, but is in most other respects a traditional, suit-and-tie Democrat. |
Also, can someone explain in what sense Kamala Harris has "star power," other than the fact that NYT, CNN, etc. have decreed she has "star power"? What does that even mean? |
The same smears have been deployed against Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran whose 2020 campaign has focused on ending interventionist wars abroad. Critics pounded on Gabbard for meeting with Syrian leader Bashar Assad in 2017, and opposing American involvement in Syria’s civil war. Despite call... |
With mainstream journalists pushing what Glenn Greenwald called “Alex-Jones-level conspiracy derangement,” and gatekeeping who is and isn’t a respectable Democrat, it looks like if Russian bots exist, they won’t have to lift a finger to divide the Democratic party heading into the coming election battle. |
BOSTON, Jan. 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Carbonite, Inc. (Nasdaq:CARB), a leading provider of cloud and hybrid business continuity solutions for small and midsized businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the North American cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery assets... |
Founded in 1997 and purchased by Seagate Technology in 2007, EVault is a leading provider of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions designed for SMBs and small enterprises. In contrast to vendors who provide exclusively on-premise software and appliances, EVault offers a full line of cloud-based appliances... |
“It’s clear that growth in the SMB backup and recovery market is driven by cloud based solutions and vendors with these solutions will gain market share going forward. The EVault acquisition extends Carbonite’s long-standing cloud-based data protection and recovery strategy and enables us to meet the evolving disaster ... |
Carbonite expects to complete the acquisition of the European Union assets of EVault in the first quarter of 2016, subject to applicable laws, compliance requirements and customary closing conditions. |
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements represent the Company's views as of the date they were first made based ... |
Carbonite, Inc. (Nasdaq:CARB) is a leading provider of cloud and hybrid business continuity solutions for small and midsized businesses. Together with our partners, we support more than 1.5 million individuals and small businesses around the world who rely on us to ensure their important data is protected, available an... |
Giant Media is rolling out a pre-buy planning tool called VuePlanner that allows brands and agencies to transparently plan campaigns down to the individual video level, and curate relevant YouTube segments using proprietary data. |
VuePlanner’s Placement Scan provides “an analysis of the brand suitability and contextual relevance of a sample of the videos [companies have] been running [YouTube] TrueView ads against,” according to Giant Media. |
Giving buyers more tools to examine videos on YouTube is meant to ease concerns about brand safety and suitability. Of course, with an estimated 400 hours of video uploaded to the platform each minute, these ad buying tools need to evolve quickly as well. |
George Robertson, formerly UK Defense Minister and in 1999 NATO SecGen, repeatedly proclaimed in 1999 the slogan "Serbs Out". (Not "Third Army Out, or "Serb forces out.") The NATO attack was explicitly aimed at ethnically cleansing Kosovo of Serbs. |
Geoff Hoon, Robertson’s successor at Defense, was explicitly asked whether the NATO attack was not greatly increasing the flow of refugees. He refused to answer, and the BBC interviewer did not press him. |
The only force up to stemming, let alone reversing, the ethnic cleansing is the Serb-Montenegrin Army. Only they have the force and the concrete interest in working for a solution. But that is as likely as the British government of the time appearing in its rightful place the dock at the Hague. |
Only if you mean the International Court of Justice. The ICTY lacks the authority to try anyone. |
What comes around goes around the Serbs are reaping what they sowed in the ’90s. |
You mean, the "genocide" of 1999, that never happened? The "massacre" in Racak, that never happened? The "mass deportations" which just so happened to be organized by the KLA? While Albanians were far from being treated with kid gloves, it is beyond dispute that they want Kosovo ethnically cleansed of not just Serbs,... |
In a way, it’s not their fault. They were used as killers by the Ottoman Turks. But while other Balkans nations have struggled to rid themselves of the heritage of Ottoman oppression, it seems the Albanians have embraced it as part of their ethnic identity. No wonder they can’t get along with anyone in the Balkans. Thi... |
I was also present at the rally in Crawford. I also spoke. Like you, I also departed before Ralph Nader arrived. Like you, I participated out of a desire to see people united around a shared commitment to ending this war and providing real support to the troops, both on the ground in Iraq and upon their return. |
For one, I was pleasantly surprised that the organizers had recruited a Republican for the event. I thought your opening an excellent speaker’s "hook." And though there were specific aspects of your position that I could have debated with you, I am supportive of the main thrust of your comments. It is for all of these ... |
You seem truly uncomfortable with the diversity of the crowd. You bet, middle class Anglos were over represented, though I can’t say I saw that many "yuppies" in evidence. There were outrageous costumes, but no rudeness. There were colorful vehicles, but no violence. The sound system was the best that the limited budge... |
If you were unprepared to accept the diversity and amateur nature of the event, why drive 500 miles? What did you expect? Mr. Holmes, these folks are not, by a large, "long time activists" like yourself, just good American citizens, outraged at the behavior of their government and trying to make a difference. |
There is more than enough ideological intolerance in this country. The current administration plays on those differences to keep us divided and controlled. Your characterization of this event does nothing to thwart their efforts. I suggest that if you are sincere in your desire to see unity across traditional lines of ... |
You should also check your facts. |
The gentleman, and he is truly a gentle man, that you characterized as: "One short fellow was dressed in a pseudo military uniform that made him look a bit like a munchkin generalissimo… maybe that was his intention" is a member of Veterans For Peace. He is a World War II veteran. His antiwar activities date back to th... |
Finally, and a small point this, Ms Sharrock was neither "recently wounded" nor trained as a Blackhawk pilot, but rather a Chinook pilot. Had you spoken to her and ask, you would not have made the mistake. |
I grant you the benefit of the doubt. While many of your comments, particularly extolling your own performance, come off as self serving, I will hold to the higher ground and chose to believe your motives pure. I hope your future actions do not disabuse me of that notion. |
Thanks for your comments on the Crawford event. |
I meant no disrespect to anyone in my commentary, particularly the W.W.II vet I described in colorful terms. |
My observations were in part intended to convey some of the cultural aspects of this kind of event and were not meant to be disparaging to anyone involved. I wish I had talked with Mr. Johnson, as you suggest, I’m sure I would have gained additional insight. |
In conveying the performance aspects of this event, including my own, I was trying to share some of the festive flavor these protests have, including costumes, and I thought I was being fairly honest and straightforward. |
Several elements of my account were attempts to demonstrate similarities to the Crawford rally with GOP events to illustrate some commonality despite major ideological differences. I’ve never heard any decent music at Republican rallies either, if that’s any consolation. And sorry, what I heard at Crawford was pretty b... |
I think likely an account by a Peace activist speaking at a Republican rally (should that occur) might also include similar anthropological observations. In addition, part of my perspective is that of someone who attended numerous anti war rallies and marches during the Vietnam era (as likely many Antiwar.com readers d... |
The minor inaccuracies about Ms. Sharrock’s background doubtless are my fault, as I was briefed by one of the media people before the rally about her and I recalled "wounded", recently discharged, and Blackhawk, perhaps the latter being misremembered, along with information about her currently serving husband. None of ... |
If I am guilty of immodesty in describing my own brief remarks, then is out of a sense of relief that despite being the proverbial skunk at the picnic, I at least came out smelling like a banana, if not a rose, in terms of audience appreciation. |
Other elements of my commentary were candid observations rather than unvarnished praise. I was merely being honest. I was not there in the capacity of a supposedly objective journalist. This event, like many others I’ve attended for Republican and other groups, suffered from the "preaching to the converted" sameness wh... |
You might note that several news accounts of the Crawford rally you can find by Goggling also stressed some of the same archetypal "left" protest icons as I did. Some featured extensive reporting of the nearby chili cook-off crowd and their attitudes about the rally, far less charitable than mine. |
I am appreciative of the opportunity I had to speak at Crawford, and would do so again in similar circumstances despite the discomfort of so openly opposing the nominal leader of my party. I conveyed this appreciation, and my thanks to the organizers of the event, both personally and subsequently via email. |
And I am particularly encouraged by the efforts to include clergy and veterans such as yourself, who have far more credibility with those undecided or troubled by the Iraq war than the usual left-of-center speakers who would denounce Santa Claus if they thought he was a Republican. |
It was my concluding thought, indeed my fervent hope, that future protests against neo-imperialism are not merely nostalgia trips for aging Vietnam war protesters, or simply fun days at the park for leftists trying to give away their newspapers (though I have nothing against that, and in fact wished the music and vibe ... |
I respect your service to your country and your activism. I came in solidarity with the cause. Our cause, not just yours. |
And where were those Catholic priests, by the way? I’m not Catholic myself but it would seem that the largest religious organization in the world, headed by an outspoken opponent of the war, deserved a place on the speakers lineup. |
When enough vets, Baptists and Catholics, Republicans and yes, even people with colorful buttons and uniforms, get together to stop this nonsense, the wars of the future like Iraq will not be waged. |
A DemocracyNow.org story said as many as 50 executions a day are occurring in the second largest city in Haiti. Also the US is placing enormous pressure, so far resisted by Jamaica, for Aristide to relocate to Africa. If the level of executions is any where near that level why is this not a story on your pages? The Hai... |
I would expect that to be the case in the mainstream media but the reason I visit your site is to find information not available in the corporate media. |
Also a very good report on the four day running battle in Fallujah was on public radio this afternoon but I get no sense of the conflict from your pages. Just these short news clips with no depth. I hope you have a better report when you update tonight on the developing situation there. |
Our researchers are volunteers, so please send the URLs for any stories we are missing. The link submission form can be found here: http://antiwar.com/link-sub.php. |
I definitely had not heard the story on Haiti you refer to. |
Your articles are weak and your site is avoiding any articles critical of Jews involving themselves in terrorist acts, i.e. Cohn and Asher Karni. |
This has got to be a sardonic joke. We are simply fair, and it so happens that we come down on the Israeli side much, much harder than the Palestinian side. So your criticism is not just wrong, it’s absolutely ludicrous. And we don’t know who Cohn and Asher Karni are don’t assume we’re omniscient and are just choosin... |
Considering how hard we are on the Israeli side, what more could we do to not be "too pro-Jewish/Zionist and Israel"? Run stories from Rense.com on how Jews are hooknosed moneygrubbing Evil Incarnate? Never. Gonna. Happen. |
Just what is your objection to China’s claim over Taiwan and the Chinese people’s willingness to fight over it. This sentiment, as you have no doubt encountered in your daily life in China, is shared by most Mainland Chinese; and I can safely say probably shared by most overseas Chinese as well. |
"Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it? break it, so to speak? but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?" |
Instead of a contract, the bond that binds the Mainland and Taiwan together is five thousand years of Chinese history and civilization. Again in his first inaugural address, Lincoln asserted that "we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself." C... |
Where exactly in my column did you read that I am either pro- or anti-independence for Taiwan? |
Either way, Taiwanese seem to be worried about missiles and Sedition Laws and not reunification per se. I can understand the ties between the Mainland and Taiwan, can you understand Taiwanese fears? |
Articles like Nebojsa’s are needed to raise the general public’s awareness of what’s really taking place in Kosovo and to the Serbs. |
The attack on the Serbs is not simply a case of ethnic cleansing. This is genocide, and I challenge anybody to present a logical argument to refute this. The pogrom is not being solely committed by extremist Albanians, but also by the KPC (yes, they too are extremists though not officially), UNMIK, KFOR and the UN. |
Prior to his illegal abduction to the Hague, Slobodan Milosevic warned the Serbian people "that NATO isn’t attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia" (Address to the Nation, 02 Oct. 2000). Those who doubted this comment at the time cannot do so today. The attack on the Serbs did... |
Whilst I do agree with a large part of Nebojsa’s writing, I do not expect that the Alliance will "start living up to it right now, this very minute or admit failure, leave forever, and pay damages to the victims of their criminal stupidity". Why would they even contemplate: living up to something that was never their... |
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