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Monthly Archives: April 2011
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Two minutes 44 seconds of Luke Flanagan on life after weed. Smokin’.
TANAISTE and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore has insisted he did not know Prince Albert of Monaco attended a controversial dinner with Michael Lowry and Michael Fingleton during his visit to Ireland last week.
The Labour leader’s deputy, Social Welfare Minister Joan Burton, said yesterday she was shocked by the reports of the unofficial gathering organised by businessman Dr Michael Smurfit, Ireland’s Honorary Consul in Monaco — a position controlled by Mr Gilmore’s department.
Also on the guest list were disgraced TD Mr Lowry, the former Fine Gael minister officially reprimanded in the Dail the previous week following the Moriarty Tribunal report, and Mr Fingleton, the former Irish Nationwide chief.
Irish Nationwide provided the loan to Dr Smurfit and property developer Gerry Gannon to purchase the K Club in Co Kildare.
Gilmore ‘Had No Role’ In Prince’s Controversial Dinner (Fionan Sheehan, Irish Independent)
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This story was broken yesterday by Paul Williams in the Irish News of The World (not available online):
A WELL-known journalist is at the centre of a shocking child sex investigation.The best-selling author, who can’t be named for legal reasons, has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl member of a Dublin GAA club.
It’s understood she’s known the journalist since she was just 14. A Garda investigation was launched two weeks ago after the writer’s daughter allegedly found sexually-explicit text messages he’d sent to the girl on an old mobile phone.
The daughter made the discovery when she put a sim card in and found the sordid texts. The journalist had given the phone to the teen who was collecting them to donate to a charity.
She showed the messages to her mother, who then took the phone to gardai.On being found out, the journalist allegedly tried to take his own life. He’s now receiving medical care.
The Garda Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit has been called in, and officers are planning to interview other members of the girl’s GAA club. The standard practice in such cases is to discover if other children have been in contact with or were abused by an alleged perpetrator.
Tomorrow’s Sunday Independent.
Now that‘s an unexpected development,
What would he have said if investigating rape cases hadn’t been his forte?
Meanwhile, Michael McDowell makes a welcome, if utterly barking, contribution to the debate, asserting:
“Whatever offensive crudities in a squad car in Mayo we, as a nation, need to get the gas ashore. If the loony Shell to Sea campaign succeeds Ireland will suffer irreparable damage.”
To readers outside Ranelagh, crudities are offensive remarks. Crudités are traditional French appetizers comprising sliced or whole raw vegetables dipped in a vinaigrette and/or another dipping sauce.
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On March 12, the Japanese government issued an evacuation order for residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Since then, the no-man’s-land has been out of touch with the rest of the world.
A Japanese journalist, Tetsuo Jimbo, ventured through the evacuation zone last Sunday and filed the following video report.
He says that, inside the zone, homes, building, roads and bridges, which were torn down by Tsunami, are left completely untouched, herds of cattle and pet dogs left behind by their owners wander around the town while the radiation level remains far beyond legal limits.