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Sometimes it’s interesting to see how others report stories that happen nearby. FOXNews.com who use the slogan “we report, you decide” had the following article on their website about an incident where there was a sewage Leak on a flight that had to divert to Shannon airport last week. Obviously something got blocked and the Sh*te had nowhere to go except down the aisle of the plane…

“I’ve never felt so offended in all my life,” passenger Collin Brock of Washington state told Seattle’s KING-TV. “I felt like I had been physically abused and neglected. I was forced to sit next to human excrement for seven hours.”

Continental Airlines who owned the plane in question stated “We deeply regret the serious inconvenience to our customers and are apologizing to them and compensating them for the poor conditions on the flight as well as the diversion and delay,”

If you are not too squeamish click here to read more about it and even watch a video!!

The 10 Things I miss about Limerick thread has fallen off the front page because of new posts.

If you are wondering where it is, it can be found here.

Keep your suggestions coming.

We have a tendency to jump up and down with excitement when on of us bloggers gets a mention on page 146 of the Limerick Leader. We get a little hysterical when we see someone get a mention in the Irish Times.

Anyway, You should brace yourselves as I can reveal that one of our native bloggers has become so famous, that they have put him on, … wait for it… the Telly.

If you were watching RTE’s questions and Answers on Monday night, you would be saying to your self, OMG and WTF as John Bowman called out a familiar name during the political debate show.

Blogger Dan Sullivan was given the opportunity to ask a question on the show. You can, if you have RealPlayer, watch the programme on the programme’s webpage.

He will also feature on the Visncent Brown Radio Programme tonight on Radio One.

There was much scoffing and snarky remarks when some Lithuanian government official claimed that Lithuanian children were being beaten up because they were more beautiful than their Irish peers, and the Irish couldn’t handle being around such beauty blah, blah blah.

However, after the past few weeks, one has to ask, is it really something that can cause one person to smack another person in the gob? And is this kind of hating someone for being beautiful confined to children?>

Recent news stories would suggest that it is not.

Earlier this month, Rose of Tralee hopeful Melenie Carroll found herself involved in an incident with two other girls on Ellen Street, while on a night out with friends. She escaped being injured and her family denied the attack had anything to do with the fact that she was a Rose of Tralee hopeful.

It has emerged now that Miss Trinity Rooms, Loraine McCarthy, who is competing in the Miss Ireland final on Saturday, received a broken nose after an unprovoked attack in Shannon.

While she was getting up to leave a pub in the town, she was accosted by another female, who asked “who do you think you are?” before she punched her in the face.

After incidents like this one has to ask, is there any truth in the Lithuanian Government’s claims?

Above is the piece of artwork which was reproduced on “offensive” T-shirts being sold at Sunday’s Riverside Market.

You can click on the image to enlarge it.

The Limerick Co-Ordination Office have now issued an apology for any offence caused by the sale of these and other t-shirts depicting a gun toting Willie O’Dea.

The LCO say that the person who was selling these did not have a permit to do so at the market, and would not be selling them next week.

Live95FM has more.

The person who it is claimed did not have a permit to trade at the Sunday market, did indeed have a permit, it is reported in the Limerick Leader today.

The Limerick Coordination office claimed in a statement that the person selling the “offensive” T-Shirts did not have a permit from them, thus implying that they were trading illegally.

However, Martin Shannon, the man who was on the stall, has come out stating that Limerick Co-Ordination Office are not being truthful. He is pictured in the paper holding his permit.

A permit was issued to Alanna and Co, and Ms Alannah Cusack and Ms Christina Foley are the two official holders of the permit, a statement from the LCO claimed.

Mr. Shannon pointed out that this statement was untrue, stating that he is a member of Alanna and Co., along with four others. He has also told the paper that he attended several meetings with other stall owners prior to the market.

He contacted the newspaper in order to “let the people know [he] wasn’t there illegally.”

A man and a woman were yesterday taken in for questioning in connection with a €150,000 haul of herbal cannabis in an apartment in the Ballysimon area of Limerick.

The drugs were delivered from South Africa to a postal depot in Portlaoise.

The woman, who is Fijian is in her 30s and the Man from Togo is also in his 30s.

From Breakingnews.ie