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The businessman Sean Quinn Jnr has been questioned by gardai after allegations that he was drinking alcohol and caused a disturbance on a train journey over the weekend. Mr Quinn was on a train from Westport, Co Mayo, to Dublin on Sunday afternoon when the incident occurred. The Irish Times understands Mr Quinn had been drinking and that there was a complaint about his behaviour. The driver contacted gardai to alert them to an unruly passenger on board the 3.15pm service from Westport to Heuston. When the train pulled into the station in Tullamore, Co Offaly, gardai arrived and boarded the train. Mr Quinn was found in the toilets area and was handcuffed by gardai and taken from the train. He was then questioned about the matter in Tullamore but was not charged.

Audi manage that?

Sean Quinn jnr questioned by gardai after allegations about behaviour on train (Conor Lally, Irish Times)

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Indeed, the evidence suggests the very act of being armed changes one’s perception of others to a decidedly more paranoid one. Other studies have shown an element of racial priming too, where a black subject is more likely to be assumed to be carrying a weapon. Guns have a curious psychological effect beyond this: a 2006 study by Dr Jennifer Klinesmith and colleagues showed men exposed to firearms before an experiment had much higher testosterone levels and were three times more likely to engage in aggressive behaviour relative to the subjects not primed with a weapon.

 

Ireland’s double-barreled, Oxford University-based, physicist David Robert Grimes in today’s Guardian Science.

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