Tag Archives: Sunday Times

Screen Shot 2014-08-17 at 01.13.32

A woman who became pregnant as a result of rape believes the state denied her access to an abortion for months, until the foetus became viable. Earlier this month, the baby was delivered prematurely through a Caesarean section, which was authorised under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act.

The young woman, a foreign national with limited English, was not able freely to travel abroad for an abortion because of her legal status in Ireland. She discovered she was expecting about eight weeks into the pregnancy, and immediately sought an abortion because she had been the victim of a traumatic rape.

Months later, the woman believed she had been effectively refused an abortion, or the ability to travel abroad for such a procedure, by the state. She then went on a hunger and liquid strike.


State ‘denied abortion’ to rape victim (Mark Tighe, Sunday Times) (behind paywall)

 

00127421phyde(Top – Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food Simon Coveney, Paul Hyde)

Reporting in yesterday’s Sunday Times, Colin Coyle detailed how agriculture minister Simon Coveney’s former sailing partner architect Paul Hyde has been appointed to An Bord Pleanála by Minister Phil Hogan after having been appointed to the board of the Marine Institute in 2012 by Coveney.

Mr Hyde is due to resign from the Marine Institute to take up the planning position at a salary of €111,214.

Coveney and Hyde were in school together in PBC Cork and have been members of the Royal Cork Yacht Club. They co-owned a yacht Dark Angel previously. Hyde’s father, Stephen has donated at least twice to Coveney’s election campaigns, giving €2,500 for the 2007 general election.

Pleanala role for Coveney shipmate (Colin Coyle, Sunday Times)

Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland, Marine.ie

tweetFollowing the settlement between Lance Armstrong and the Sunday Times, the paper’s chief sports writer David Walsh and deputy sports editor at the time Alan English, now editor of the Limerick Leader tweetz:

Lance Armstrong Payback For Sunday Times ‘Libel’ That Wasn’t (Robert W. Wood, Forbes)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nww7rRSq0x8&feature=player_embedded

“What is going on and why isn’t anyone stopping the murder that is going on in Homs every day.”

 

Marie Colvin, of the Sunday Times, who was killed in Syria, reporting on the bloodshed in Homs this week on CNN.

From beyond borders:

Throughout her career she has covered many conflicts around the globe, most recently Tunisia, Egypt and Libya in the grips of the Arab spring. Although her area of speciality is the Arab and Persian world, she has also worked in Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka, where she was injured in an ambush by government soldiers. She is a passionate advocate of on the frontline war reporting, stating “Our mission is to report the horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice”. She has won the British press award for “Best Foreign Correspondent” twice, for her work in reporting the conflict in Yugoslavia, Iran, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe; the International Women’s Media Foundation award for “Courage in Journalism” for her coverage of Kosovo and Chechnya, and the Foreign Press Association’s Journalist of the Year award.

Sunday Times Journalist Marie Colvin Killed In Homs (Telegraph)

The one about him owing hundreds of millions to Anglo?

To purchase shares in Independent News and Media that are now worth a fraction of the price paid? That appeared in the UK version of The Sunday Times and not the Irish one?

The one that also raised questions about Denis’s ability to repay those debts?

YES.

That one.

So we checked the “cuts” We could find nothing about these loans.

So Bodger spent the night going through The Fitzpatrick Tapes (having previously trawled through Anglo Republic by Simon Carswell). As there is no index he literally had to read it.

And yet he could find no reference to loans from Anglo to Denis worth hundreds of millions to purchase the shares.

Ewok failed to find anything online either. It was like it was never reported.

Quite.

And yet, as Ewok says, this is no ordinary bank, this is no ordinary punter and hundreds of millions is no ordinary borrowing.

And if the Emperor is only partially clothed…

Did you? We literally didn’t.

Are we the last ones to know?

Seriously.

Again?

Context

PS Perhaps some civic-minded reader could show us where this has previously been reported? Bodger has gone through Simon Carswell’s book Anglo Republic and the only mention of Denis and Anglo loans was this on page 83:

Anglo’s biggest coporate loans outstanding in November 2005 [included] Denis O’Brien and executives at the private equite firm Ion Equity, which had purchased the petrol station network and distribution business using an Anglo loan facility of €212 million.”

But no reference to loans (with Barclays) that funded more than €500 million worth of share purchase mentioned in the Sunday Times yesterday.