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Pictured l-r: Steven Flynn, Skytango; Prof. Derek O’Keeffe, NUI Galway; Wayne Floyd, Survey Drone Ireland; Santiago Montenegro UAV Specialist, Wingcopter; and Marc Daly, Vodafone Ireland with the world’s first diabetes drone. The drone completed the first autonomous, beyond visible line of sight delivery of insulin in a drone, connected by Vodafone IoT, from Connemara Airport to Inis Mór on the Aran Islands. The diabetes drone was given special research permission from the Irish Aviation Authority to show the possibility of future deliveries of this kind within planned drone corridors. Photo: Andrew Downes, Xposure
People across Ireland – including key decision-makers – tell the story of Thursday 12 March 2020. By TheJournal.ie team Friday 12 Mar 2021, 9:00 AM Mar 12th 2021, 9:00 AM 109,293 Views 49 Comments
NOTE: This article was originally published on 13 June 2020. We’ve moved it back up to our homepage today to mark the first anniversary of the initial 12 March lockdown.
IN THE PRECEDING days Ireland had looked on in mounting horror as the death toll in Italy climbed higher and higher. Travel advice was updated and then updated again as officials scrambled to keep up with the pace of change across Europe.
St Patrick’s Day parades across the country had already been cancelled. The previous night, Wednesday 11 March, the first Irish death from coronavirus was announced. The Taoiseach’s traditional US trip was cut down
Storm Emma looter must stay on the straight and narrow
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A convicted burglar who looted a shop during Storm Emma in 2018 will go to prison if he does not stay on the straight and narrow , the Court of Appeal has warned.
David Berney (39), of Suncroft Park, Tallaght, Dublin pleaded guilty in 2018 to burglary at a Centra store in Jobstown, Tallaght on March 2, 2018, during the heavy snow. He was given an 18-month suspended sentence which the Court of Appeal ruled in March last year was unduly lenient.
The court gave Berney time to show that he could rehabilitate and on Thursday Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy said she was gratified that he has progressed very well. She said the appropriate sentence is three years but in light of his successful efforts to rehabilitate the court would suspend the entire term for three years.