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PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENCE DAY 2011 IRELAND

 

  • Location: National Basketball Arena, Tallaght, Dublin Ireland
  • Normally this is Ireland biggest gathering of Filipinos of the year
  • Date 11 June 2011
  • Time 8:30am to 9:00pm
  • Entrance fee €5 per person
  • The venue is reported as having compactly for about 3500 people. This could be an issue since over the previous years 9 to 10 thousand people attended the event.
  • Parking Is Free. Also reports are saying there is only a few hundred parking spaces at the venue, so maybe consider public transport if available.

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Sorry could not post more info but this event appear is either very poorly advertised or else it a secret for only Filipinos in Dublin, because finding out information on this event was a difficult task
 

 

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3 Filipino Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain were executionsvia in China via lethal injection.

They were arrested separately in 2008 when they were caught carrying packages of at least 4 kilograms of heroin.In 2009 they were convicted and sentenced

They are the first to be executed of 72 Filipinos who are on death row in China due to drug-related cases.

China takes the drug trafficking problem very seriously, Smuggling more than 50 grams of heroin or other drugs is punishable by death in China.

The executions were carried out just days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty.

President Benigno Aquino III is not keen on reimposing capital punishment, noting that the country's imperfect justice system may lead to the conviction of the wrong person.

At a press conference at the Liberal Party's 65th anniversary, Aquino said he will study emerging calls to reimpose the death penalty, "but the essence here is our judicial system is not perfect."

"There is a possibility that people can be wrongly convicted especially if they do not have the ability to secure competent counsel," Aquino said.

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