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Burning of the Custom House: Some Dublin firefighters played a significant role by intentionally spreading the blaze


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Burning of the Custom House: Some Dublin firefighters played a significant role by intentionally spreading the blaze
Las Fallon explores the role of Dublin Fire Brigade members in aiding the attack.
By Las Fallon
Tuesday 25 May 2021, 1:08 PM
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The blaze was confined to one area as the firefighters arrived.
Image: Michael Ward.
Image: Michael Ward.
SET ABLAZE ON this day 100 years ago, the Custom House burned for a full ten days.
That was in spite of being attended by a Fire Brigade that had already been proven to be competent and well-resourced
and also in spite of being surrounded on two sides by large bodies of water and on the other by perfectly efficient fire hydrants. ....

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Taking the rap: crime


By Melanie Newman17 May 2021
Janet Skinner was 35 and a divorced mother of two teenage children in 2007 when she was accused of stealing almost £60,000 from the busy post office she ran on a council estate in Hull.
Last month she was one of 39 former postmasters cleared of similar offences after it emerged the Post Office had failed to disclose that a defective computer system installed at their branches was generating ‘phantom’ transactions. Initially charged with theft, Skinner pleaded guilty to false accounting despite knowing she had not taken the money. Her lawyer had advised this as her best hope of avoiding a custodial sentence. ....

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Taking the rap


By Melanie Newman17 May 2021
Janet Skinner was 35 and a divorced mother of two teenage children in 2007 when she was accused of stealing almost £60,000 from the busy post office she ran on a council estate in Hull.
Last month she was one of 39 former postmasters cleared of similar offences after it emerged the Post Office had failed to disclose that a defective computer system installed at their branches was generating ‘phantom’ transactions. Initially charged with theft, Skinner pleaded guilty to false accounting despite knowing she had not taken the money. Her lawyer had advised this as her best hope of avoiding a custodial sentence. ....

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