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2020 Number Of Visitors To Ireland Up By Armagh Haulier Pleads Guilty
To Migrant Manslaughter In
2nd, 300% In July But Still Nowhere Near Essex C

September 2019 Levels President & Founding

Publisher
he number of overseas
visitorsarrivinginIreland
Of the 227,300 persons
number of bus and rail jour-
| Twentupbyalmost300% Ireland. restrictions on August 18, the Paddy McCarthy
Editor
neys taken during the week
arriving to Ireland in July
EXAMINER lastmonthcomparedtothepre- 2020, 188,100 (82.7%) arrived commencing August 16 was has A haulier from Northern Ireland Associate Publisher
Grahame Curtis
by air and 39,200 (17.3%)
vious month.
58.4% lower than the week
guilty
to
the
pleaded
Marc-Yves Tumin
arrived by sea. Of the 275,400
New CSO figures show
commencing March 1.
manslaughter of migrants who
Rail use was the most
IRISH 227,000 people arrived in persons departing Ireland, severely hit, with a decrease were found dead in the trailer of a News Editor
Ireland from abroad in July,
239,000 (86.8%) departed by
David Carter
lorry in Essex.
(13.2%)
in use of 97.2% for the week
air
and
36,400
up from 57,000 in June.
Passengers arriving from departed by sea. starting April 5 compared to Ronan Hughes (40) of Co Arts & Entertainment Editor
Brad Balfour
Britain accounted for 97,000, The CSO also released the first week of March. Armagh admitted the charge on
while 23,000 came from data on domestic travel, Also, information from Friday at the Old Bailey. Sales Director
John O’Rourke
Spain and 13,000 from showing that the use of pub- the Road Safety Authority He was one of several men
France. lic transport decreased fol- says 84 road fatalities accused of being part of a people- Classified Advertising
There were also 8,000 lowing updated public health occurred in the first seven smuggling ring linked to the deaths John O’Rourke
arrivals from the US, one of guidance. months of 2020, compared to of the 39 migrants last October. Art Director
the world’s biggest Covid-19 Following the announce- 78 for the same period last The bodies of the Vietnamese Heidi Gross Kelley
hotspots. ment of further Government year, C nationals were discovered on an Contributors
The figures show 275,000 industrial estate in Grays, Essex, Joe Kavanagh, C.S. O’Brien, Mike
Fitzpatrick, Seamus Kelleher, John
people left the country in shortly after the lorry arrived in Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
July, with Britain, Spain and Purfleet on a ferry in the early hours McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
Poland being the most popu- of October 23rd last year. Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
lar destinations. Among the men, women and Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
Compared to July 2019 children were 10 teenagers, two of Daly, Jim McKeon
figures, there has been a them 15-year-old boys. Contributing Photographers
89.8% drop in the number of An inquest heard their medical Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
passengers arriving into cause of death was asphyxia and Wong
Ireland during the month, hyperthermia – a lack of oxygen Circulation
while there was a 87.4% and overheating – in an enclosed John Philip, Manager
decrease in the number of space. C North East - Paul Hamrock
people departing from West Coast - Jim Clement
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