I wish the Garda goodwill in apprehending the vile killer(s) of Mr Francis Dunne in Cork . Cathal o Brien , 23 years , a university graduate, was murdered and dismembered in Cork City in 1994. His remains were never found and his loving family still make appeals for closure after all these years. Cathal was a fine young man and took a year off after his graduation before embarking on a career. He volunteered with the Simon Community in Cork during this transition and was violently murdered. (Unsolved). Kevin Ball, another victim of this brutal crime also remains unsolved since 1994 (remains never located either).
R.I.P.
Cian
I’m curious. If the bodies were never found how do they know they were brutally murdered and dismembered?
Otis Blue
In the circumstances, it’s a reasonable conclusion.
He had help in disposing of the remains. Keystone cops come to mind. Seamus O Brien used to travel from his home in Wexford to Cork with neighbours and friends to dig areas in Lothmore woods for his sons bones. It’s time victims are put at top of the list — you won’t meet better or nicer than the abandoned O Brien family.
Lilly
Poor horse, that looks painful.
Lilly
The RTE report on Frankie Dunne’s death was something else. ‘Decapitated man identified as as… The results of a post-mortem report confirm that Mr Dunne died violently.’ Any passing luderachan could have saved the pathologist a trip so. The poor man’s head did not fall off in the wind.
dav
The dismemberment (cutting up of the body) could have occurred post mortem (which means “after death), as I suspect you probably need such terms to be explained to you. Any passing amadán might have suspected that cutting up the body was to try and hide it….
Lilly
And who, exactly, is going to cut up the body of a person who died of natural causes, Sherlock?
dav
The point of the pathologist (who you think should not have bothered) was to find out if the man was dead before or after his head was removed, understand?
Lilly
My comment, if you care to re-read it, was on the RTE news report. If a body has been decapitated, it’s fair to assume the person met a violent end. It would have been comical if the subject matter weren’t so grisly. Stop making such heavy weather of it, and thanks for the definitions but, like most people, I have Google if I need it.
shayna
Could I give a “Yay” to Bernard Purcell of the Irish World . He appeared on BS on the telly, he came across as a lovely guy. Also, Happy New Year to everyone on BS. I was going to do the wittering thing…
Deckydancer
Thank GOD for Vanessa Feltz and her joyful and jubilant tips in the daily express, 2020 is looking better already.
GiggidyGoo
Eamon Ryan gets more and more laughable by the day. An army of bulldozers (spewing diesel fumes?) for the bogs. Utter idiot.
Cú Chulainn
When I come to think of the various complete idiots that I have met in my life, not one could be described as such a great big complete idiot and amadan as Eamonn.
Nigel
That’s your reaction to the idea of restoring our surviving bogs and turning them into carbon sinks? Utter idiot is right.
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
Why do you bother replying to attention-seeking know-nothings?
It doesn’t portray YOU in a positive light, either.
Nigel
I dunno. Maybe I’ll give it up for the New Year.
GiggidyGoo
Naw. Just use another new name.
GiggidyGoo
And therefore, what does that make YOU?
ROFL!
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
Oh look Pops it’s a big un
GiggidyGoo
Eamon Ryan isnt the only gobpoo obviously- add Nige to the list.
Nigel
You are quite the sparkling wit, aren’t you?
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
sparkling wine I’d say
Lidl finest
Nigel\
At least we agree its an obviously virtuous way of spending the money.
Spaghetti Hoop
The newspapers clearly don’t give a toss about Australia and its desperate fires and entrapment of folk within them. People gathering on beaches ready to take to the water if the fires encroach, appealing to the army to get involved.
Government decides to continue with Sydney fireworks.
dav
According to the Daily Mail, it’s the peoples fault because they “refused” (DM’s words) to evacuate..
bertie blenkinsop
I love the Guardian and I like Megan Rapinoe but making her footballer of the year is the most Guardian thing ever.
Brother Barnabas
I see where you’re coming from but…
has any other footballer’s impact extended as far and wide as her’s this year?
bertie blenkinsop
She’s high profile, she’s controversial but she’s not even the best player in the US team imo.
And we’re lucky to be living in an era when arguably the greatest ever, Messi, is playing.
Tuna Fish
Yes it’s true she’s not the best player but she is a real leader in every sense
She is winner of the Ballon d’Or Féminin and named The Best FIFA Women’s Player in 2019. All because she won a World Cup winners medal this year. What man has achieved that his year?
Did Messi win a World Cup winners medal? Ever?
Or, is it only humans with penises can qualify for such accolades?
Her achievements this year – on the pitch – makes her worthy.
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
Insert mansplaining/ flaccid limp male member here
Rosette of Sirius
Huh?
Ringsend Incinerator
Robbie on Claudine? #superinjunction
Otis Blue
If Mesut Ozil had bothered with the playing bit he’d have been a shoo in.
I don’t get it either. She was news for 4 weeks, said stuff, had a funky haircut and played nice football. Before the ladies World Cup she was a talented footballer, after the World Cup she was more popular with the press.
However to proclaim her footballer of the year when Messi, Ronaldo, Salah etc are practically performing miracles every week is tokenism. Journalists are such saps.
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
Millions of people, women and girls in particular, will be inspired by her example.
Not only as a footballer but as a person of principle.
Ronaldo is an alleged rapist, persuade me he’s not a horrible person, and Messi is a tax cheat.
You’ve got blinkers on.
dav
crying because their multi-millionaire “heroes” didn’t get another acknowledgement for doing something that they already get well rewarded for..
Bertie Theodore Alphege Blenkinsop
Nobody is crying Dav, it was an observation.
stick to blushirt whinging.
Charlie
No blinkers here honey. I know tokenism when I see it. Your words “alleged” and “persuade me” tell me all I need to know about your agenda.
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
Don’t honey me bitch
The fact is that the people you favour are not leaders off the field – if you’re able to provide an argument do so.
Charlie
Atta gal!
Charlie
There are plenty of far superior footballers doing wonderful things off the pitch that go unmentioned. Charities, working with kids etc etc. Get off your feminist high horse and get real.
dav
nothing alleged about the tax cheating, or because he’s rich he should get away with it…
Charlie
Would you like salt n vinegar on that?
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
More partial to gammon?
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
Messi and Ronald could do more to speak up and highlight issues like racism in men’s football (a point well made by Rapinoe herself during the year).
The likes of George Weah, Didier Drogba and even a somewhat maligned figure like Craig Bellamy lead by example on and off the pitch. Your attitude and that of Charlie below smacks of plain old fashioned sexism and tired old misognystic tropes about female achievement.
Charlie
Messi and Ronaldo are footballers. They’re “speaking up” has zero to be their athletic ability. You do understand the award was for best “footballer”, right?
What you’re looking for is a not a footballer but a politician. Get a grip woman!
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
It’s harder to get a grip when the other party possesses such a tiny little wiener
Charlie
Good girl Sharon!
scottser
Craig Bellamy was a mouth and a cheat. I appreciate the point you’re trying to make but that’s a poor example to give.
f_lawless
From what I read, she said the following:
“I want to shout, ‘Cristiano, Leo, Zlatan [Ibrahimovic], help me’. These big stars do not engage in anything when there are so many problems in men’s football.”
“Do they have the fear of losing everything? Who would scratch Messi or Ronaldo’s names from the world of football for a statement against racism or sexism?”
Last seaon Ronaldo made a strong statement in defence of Kalidou Koulibaly, a Seria A player who’d been subjected to racism:
Ronaldo posted: “In the world and in football there always needs to be education and respect. No to racism and to any sort of insult and discrimination!!!” with a photo of him together with Kalidou.
Ronaldo, Messi and Ibrahimovic have appeared in an anti-racism video sponsored by UEFA
Why the need to throw those players under a bus with accusations that are unfair / misleading? Is this really about urging football stars to join together to fight discrimination or more about portraying herself as morally superior?
Ambivalent Gendered Brit
You tell me f_lawless
I’m sure you’ll have some groundbreaking insight from Craig Murray on this
f_lawless
I am telling you my opinion. The language she used in dismissing the previous efforts of Ronaldo et al is divisive and makes one wonder is it motivated by narcissism (which footballers, including Ronaldo et al are famed for)
100,000 Irish passports claimed by Brit-Irish people. Any figures on Irish people looking for British duel nationality, would it not be a good passport to have for the future, if you could get it. Just wondering what the advantages might be… ?
Ringsend Incinerator
In fairness the difference between Brit-resident whingers getting Irish passports and the FG electorate in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown getting them is negligible.
Frightening stuff going on in Australia at the moment. The carry on from Scott Morrison on all of this is nothing short of shameful.
Verbatim
Why fireworks, which is a pollutant and a very expensive one at that going up in smoke, still a tradition, and all this talk of the climate…I’d reduce it to once every 5 years, if I ran things
Nigel
The disconnect between governments and the reality of the climate crisis is becoming more and more like a heavy-handed satrie about politicians deliberately disconnected from reality.
Cathal
Time to re-release Midnight Oil’s “Beds are Burning”?
20th anniversary of that Y2K stuff. What was it all about?
The little fecker never turned anyone down.. including me..
Who? Sharon Stone?
Cú Chulainn’s just a bit miffed, coz as an alien, he couldn’t ring Andy Bell’s bell.
I expect he will find erasure for the incident soon.
Now come on, A Little Respect, please.
Take a chance on me he said.. on a flight from Akron to NYC..
https://youtu.be/L-d4J3YUQmU
I don’t get it. Who needs love?
I wish the Garda goodwill in apprehending the vile killer(s) of Mr Francis Dunne in Cork . Cathal o Brien , 23 years , a university graduate, was murdered and dismembered in Cork City in 1994. His remains were never found and his loving family still make appeals for closure after all these years. Cathal was a fine young man and took a year off after his graduation before embarking on a career. He volunteered with the Simon Community in Cork during this transition and was violently murdered. (Unsolved). Kevin Ball, another victim of this brutal crime also remains unsolved since 1994 (remains never located either).
R.I.P.
I’m curious. If the bodies were never found how do they know they were brutally murdered and dismembered?
In the circumstances, it’s a reasonable conclusion.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/father-of-man-feared-murdered-in-corks-house-of-horrors-appeals-for-information-470121.html
Thanks for the link.
Jeez he got off on a technicality on a third murder. That’s terrifying.
Pretty squalid stuff.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/youth-tells-court-uncle-showed-him-body-parts-1.59984
He had help in disposing of the remains. Keystone cops come to mind. Seamus O Brien used to travel from his home in Wexford to Cork with neighbours and friends to dig areas in Lothmore woods for his sons bones. It’s time victims are put at top of the list — you won’t meet better or nicer than the abandoned O Brien family.
Poor horse, that looks painful.
The RTE report on Frankie Dunne’s death was something else. ‘Decapitated man identified as as… The results of a post-mortem report confirm that Mr Dunne died violently.’ Any passing luderachan could have saved the pathologist a trip so. The poor man’s head did not fall off in the wind.
The dismemberment (cutting up of the body) could have occurred post mortem (which means “after death), as I suspect you probably need such terms to be explained to you. Any passing amadán might have suspected that cutting up the body was to try and hide it….
And who, exactly, is going to cut up the body of a person who died of natural causes, Sherlock?
The point of the pathologist (who you think should not have bothered) was to find out if the man was dead before or after his head was removed, understand?
My comment, if you care to re-read it, was on the RTE news report. If a body has been decapitated, it’s fair to assume the person met a violent end. It would have been comical if the subject matter weren’t so grisly. Stop making such heavy weather of it, and thanks for the definitions but, like most people, I have Google if I need it.
Could I give a “Yay” to Bernard Purcell of the Irish World . He appeared on BS on the telly, he came across as a lovely guy. Also, Happy New Year to everyone on BS. I was going to do the wittering thing…
Thank GOD for Vanessa Feltz and her joyful and jubilant tips in the daily express, 2020 is looking better already.
Eamon Ryan gets more and more laughable by the day. An army of bulldozers (spewing diesel fumes?) for the bogs. Utter idiot.
When I come to think of the various complete idiots that I have met in my life, not one could be described as such a great big complete idiot and amadan as Eamonn.
That’s your reaction to the idea of restoring our surviving bogs and turning them into carbon sinks? Utter idiot is right.
Why do you bother replying to attention-seeking know-nothings?
It doesn’t portray YOU in a positive light, either.
I dunno. Maybe I’ll give it up for the New Year.
Naw. Just use another new name.
And therefore, what does that make YOU?
ROFL!
Oh look Pops it’s a big un
Eamon Ryan isnt the only gobpoo obviously- add Nige to the list.
You are quite the sparkling wit, aren’t you?
sparkling wine I’d say
Lidl finest
At least we agree its an obviously virtuous way of spending the money.
The newspapers clearly don’t give a toss about Australia and its desperate fires and entrapment of folk within them. People gathering on beaches ready to take to the water if the fires encroach, appealing to the army to get involved.
Government decides to continue with Sydney fireworks.
According to the Daily Mail, it’s the peoples fault because they “refused” (DM’s words) to evacuate..
I love the Guardian and I like Megan Rapinoe but making her footballer of the year is the most Guardian thing ever.
I see where you’re coming from but…
has any other footballer’s impact extended as far and wide as her’s this year?
She’s high profile, she’s controversial but she’s not even the best player in the US team imo.
And we’re lucky to be living in an era when arguably the greatest ever, Messi, is playing.
Yes it’s true she’s not the best player but she is a real leader in every sense
So is Salah and he IS a brilliant footballer.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46379716
Fair point but bet he’s not a Guardian reader
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo etc etc
She is winner of the Ballon d’Or Féminin and named The Best FIFA Women’s Player in 2019. All because she won a World Cup winners medal this year. What man has achieved that his year?
Did Messi win a World Cup winners medal? Ever?
Or, is it only humans with penises can qualify for such accolades?
Her achievements this year – on the pitch – makes her worthy.
Insert mansplaining/ flaccid limp male member here
Huh?
Robbie on Claudine? #superinjunction
If Mesut Ozil had bothered with the playing bit he’d have been a shoo in.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/21/mesut-ozil-playmaker-who-spoke-out-arsenal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I don’t get it either. She was news for 4 weeks, said stuff, had a funky haircut and played nice football. Before the ladies World Cup she was a talented footballer, after the World Cup she was more popular with the press.
However to proclaim her footballer of the year when Messi, Ronaldo, Salah etc are practically performing miracles every week is tokenism. Journalists are such saps.
Millions of people, women and girls in particular, will be inspired by her example.
Not only as a footballer but as a person of principle.
Ronaldo is an alleged rapist, persuade me he’s not a horrible person, and Messi is a tax cheat.
You’ve got blinkers on.
crying because their multi-millionaire “heroes” didn’t get another acknowledgement for doing something that they already get well rewarded for..
Nobody is crying Dav, it was an observation.
stick to blushirt whinging.
No blinkers here honey. I know tokenism when I see it. Your words “alleged” and “persuade me” tell me all I need to know about your agenda.
Don’t honey me bitch
The fact is that the people you favour are not leaders off the field – if you’re able to provide an argument do so.
Atta gal!
There are plenty of far superior footballers doing wonderful things off the pitch that go unmentioned. Charities, working with kids etc etc. Get off your feminist high horse and get real.
nothing alleged about the tax cheating, or because he’s rich he should get away with it…
Would you like salt n vinegar on that?
More partial to gammon?
Messi and Ronald could do more to speak up and highlight issues like racism in men’s football (a point well made by Rapinoe herself during the year).
The likes of George Weah, Didier Drogba and even a somewhat maligned figure like Craig Bellamy lead by example on and off the pitch. Your attitude and that of Charlie below smacks of plain old fashioned sexism and tired old misognystic tropes about female achievement.
Messi and Ronaldo are footballers. They’re “speaking up” has zero to be their athletic ability. You do understand the award was for best “footballer”, right?
What you’re looking for is a not a footballer but a politician. Get a grip woman!
It’s harder to get a grip when the other party possesses such a tiny little wiener
Good girl Sharon!
Craig Bellamy was a mouth and a cheat. I appreciate the point you’re trying to make but that’s a poor example to give.
From what I read, she said the following:
“I want to shout, ‘Cristiano, Leo, Zlatan [Ibrahimovic], help me’. These big stars do not engage in anything when there are so many problems in men’s football.”
“Do they have the fear of losing everything? Who would scratch Messi or Ronaldo’s names from the world of football for a statement against racism or sexism?”
Last seaon Ronaldo made a strong statement in defence of Kalidou Koulibaly, a Seria A player who’d been subjected to racism:
Ronaldo posted: “In the world and in football there always needs to be education and respect. No to racism and to any sort of insult and discrimination!!!” with a photo of him together with Kalidou.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2018/12/27/ronaldo-speaks-out-on-racism-after-chants-aimed-at-koulibaly/38802021/
Ronaldo, Messi and Ibrahimovic have appeared in an anti-racism video sponsored by UEFA
Why the need to throw those players under a bus with accusations that are unfair / misleading? Is this really about urging football stars to join together to fight discrimination or more about portraying herself as morally superior?
You tell me f_lawless
I’m sure you’ll have some groundbreaking insight from Craig Murray on this
I am telling you my opinion. The language she used in dismissing the previous efforts of Ronaldo et al is divisive and makes one wonder is it motivated by narcissism (which footballers, including Ronaldo et al are famed for)
Meanwhile, according to an online headline, the great leader of China is wishing loyal citizens a Happy 2010. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_5378138
An bhfuil ‘cúpla focal’ aige?
100,000 Irish passports claimed by Brit-Irish people. Any figures on Irish people looking for British duel nationality, would it not be a good passport to have for the future, if you could get it. Just wondering what the advantages might be… ?
In fairness the difference between Brit-resident whingers getting Irish passports and the FG electorate in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown getting them is negligible.
Australia is burning.
https://twitter.com/_Tors/status/1211978872683499520
Frightening stuff going on in Australia at the moment. The carry on from Scott Morrison on all of this is nothing short of shameful.
Why fireworks, which is a pollutant and a very expensive one at that going up in smoke, still a tradition, and all this talk of the climate…I’d reduce it to once every 5 years, if I ran things
The disconnect between governments and the reality of the climate crisis is becoming more and more like a heavy-handed satrie about politicians deliberately disconnected from reality.
Time to re-release Midnight Oil’s “Beds are Burning”?
Thanks for adding that, guys.
Cheers, Nigel. Happy new year.
Many happy returns.