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Banks
‘pushing
people
over the
edge’
Howzat for size?
by Conor Kane
The developer’s body was
found by his solicitor, Aidan
Leahy, on Dec 18 last,
at the mart owned by the
De Vere Hunt family.
The coroner said banks in
general “treat you as a hero
when things go well, and
when things go wrong they
have no mercy”.
“They speak of a moral
hazard when it comes to
giving people concessions,
but they live in a moral
vacuum themselves. They
make an idol of money and
sacrifice the dignity of the
human being.”
He said banks have
a “Darwinian” or survival of
the fittest approach, to the
way they treat people in
difficulty: “They treat you as
a celebrity while you’re
building up money and
then, when things go
wrong, they’re so aggressive
that they can push a person
over the edge.”
Mr De Vere Hunt’s note
was not read in evidence
yesterday but the coroner
took account of its contents
when dealing with the case.
The inquest found that
Mr De Vere Hunt died as a
result of cerebral hypoxia,
consistent with suicide.
The coroner quoted comments made by Pope Francis
at a soup kitchen in Rome
on Wednesday: “A savage
capitalism has taught the
logic of profit at any cost,
of giving in order to get, of
exploitation without thinking of people... and we see
the results in the crisis we
are experiencing.”
Mr De Vere Hunt’s wife
Annette and other family
members were present at the
inquest.
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Kenny’s talks
with tobacco
lobby criticised
by Ann Cahill
Europe
Correspondent
■ Coroner says banks’ aggression
towards debtors must be stopped
A coroner in the suicide of a
prominent businessman has
said someone should “shout
stop” to financial institutions
whom he said “can push a
person over the edge” in the
way they pursue debts.
The comments were
made at the inquest into
the death of developer and
auctioneer Philip De Vere
Hunt, 64, who was found
dead at his cattle mart
property in Cashel, Co Tipperary, on Dec 18, 2012.
It was reported earlier this
year that Nama was suing
Mr De Vere Hunt, of
Ardmayle House, Cashel,
for a debt of €30m associated with a bank
loan which was
advanced
for
a development
project.
Yesterday’s
inquest in ClonPhilip De mel heard that
Vere Hunt the
developer
and his legal
team held several meetings
with Nama regarding the
debt but, according to coroner Paul Morris, Mr De
Vere Hunt’s dealings with
the agency “brought him
to the end of his tether”.
Before he ended his life,
the businessman left a “very,
very sad note” which
described his “sense of
desperation” on the matter,
Mr Morris said, and for his
family.
He feared that the farm
owned by the De Vere
Hunts could be taken away
from them. Mr Morris said
“it’s time that someone
shouted stop” regarding the
banks’ approach to debtors.
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The Taoiseach has been
accused of jeopardising new
EU tobacco laws by holding
secret talks with industry
representatives.
The highly controversial
legislation — which has
already seen the forced
resignation of a European
Commissioner and led to
investigations by EU fraud
body Olaf — is at a very
sensitive stage.
Ireland, which holds the
EU Council presidency, has
a pivotal role to play to get
member states to agree their
position on the legislation.
However, a secret meeting
between Enda Kenny, Finance Minister Michael
Noonan, Justice Minister
Alan Shatter, and the tobacco lobby has infuriated
members of the European
Parliament and anti-smoking organisations.
German MEP Ingeborg
Grässle, who is spearheading
a probe into why excommissioner John Dalli
was forced to resign last
year, accused the Government of not following
European procedures.
“There is so much money
involved in this, so much
harm that is done to people’s health, and the tobacco
lobby is so powerful that the
Irish presidency has to be
especially careful. The question has to be asked why did
the Irish ministers meet
them? We have to show
credibility, and this undermines the credibility of the
whole legislative procedure
and calls it into question.”
The meeting in Dublin
earlier this month with John
Player, British American
Tobacco, and Japan Tobacco
International followed similar meetings by officials
working for Mr Noonan
and Richard Bruton, the
enterprise minister, despite a
warning from James Reilly,
the health minister. He said
Ireland had signed up to the
World Health Organisation’s
World Tobacco Treaty in
2004, committing to transparency in any meetings
with the tobacco industry.
The Tobacco Products
Directive is now before the
parliament’s public health
committee, which will play
an important role in how
MEPs vote on it.
Labour
MEP
Nessa
Childers, a member of the
committee, condemned the
Taoiseach’s actions.
“This is absolutely shocking and shows complete disregard for all in Ireland who
campaign for public health
issues and against cancer. It
is especially embarrassing for
the Irish presidency, which
is overseeing the negotiations on the EU Tobacco
Products Directive.”
Ms Childers, who cochairs the MEPs Against
Cancer forum, said the
Taoiseach must reveal how
and why the industry was
lobbying the Government.
“This directive was a
major priority for the Irish
presidency. We know that
the industry are lobbying
specifically on tax and intellectual property grounds
against the new EU law,”
she said.
A Government spokesperson said the meeting was
about tobacco smuggling.
The revised legislation
would see 75% of all packaging covered by pictorial
health warnings; allow
countries to introduce plain
packaging, and a ban on the
use of attractive flavours.
The cost of treating
people
suffering
from
tobacco-related illnesses in
Ireland is €1bn a year,
Dr Reilly recently told
the Dáil.
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Cannes do: Celebs splash the cash at charity bash
by Fiachra
Ó Cionnaith
Leonardo DiCaprio: Space
ticket sells for €1.2m.
The rich and famous are
known to splash the cash
on occasion, but even this
is taking things to the
extreme.
As part of the annual
amfAR charity auction,
which takes place during
the Cannes Film Festival
every year to help raise
funds to fight Aids, some
of Tinseltown’s biggest
names joined forces with
business leaders to open
their wallets for a good
cause.
In the process of bidding
for trips into space,
evenings with Leonardo
DiCaprio and nights
partying with rock bands,
they managed to part with
millions of euro.
Among the most
eye-catching bidding wars
at the charitable event,
held at the exclusive
Hotel Du Cap on the
French Riviera, were trips
into space on Richard
Branson’s Virgin Galactic
flight.
A pair of tickets for the
life-affirming — if it lands
safely — journey went for
a mouth-watering €1.8m,
while a solo ticket next to
Hollywood star DiCaprio
sold for €1.15m.
The major charity
dinner, hosted by Sharon
Stone, also saw watches
sold for over €100,000
and a house party with
Duran Duran go for
€700,000. Other items
included a week away in a
five-star Caribbean
hideaway and a 53-carat
diamond necklace.
Due to its close
connection to the Cannes
Film Festival, the event
saw some of the silver
screen’s best-known faces
take centre stage.
But they were not alone,
with music stars including
Janet Jackson and models
Karlie Kloss and Karolina
Kurkova also making
appearances.
The recession might
continue to be akin to a
modern-day horror movie
plot for most of Ireland,
but in the land of
Hollywood movie stars at
least, it’s still a case of
letting the good times roll.
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In your paper today
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SEEING DOUBLE: A
man pretending to be
Korean pop star Psy has
managed to gatecrash
the Cannes Film Festival
and fool top stars.
World....................... 10
ONLINE LIBEL: Sally Bercow, the wife
of a leading UK politician, has settled a
libel action with a British peer over a
defamatory tweet.
Forum............ 11 to 18
CLIFFORD COLUMN: Gardaí have not
always been a force for good, says
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RENT RELIEF: Nama
has agreed annual rent
reductions totalling
€14m “in order to help
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Top-rated show The Voice
of Ireland was the main
driver behind revenues
at Screentime Shinawil,
which doubled to a record
€8m last year as the
firm recorded profits of
almost €250,000.
The
independent
Dublin-based production
company enjoyed a 50%
jump in revenues in 2012
as the firm recorded profits
of €245,031 in the 12
months to the end of
Jun 30 last.
The €245,031 profit in
2012 followed a loss of
€59,882 in 2011.
CEO Larry Bass, said:
“In a difficult trading environment, it has been difficult to increase margin
while we have invested in
programme development.”
Mr Bass said that the
firm “is targeting a similar
profit for 2013, but we are
not there yet”.
The abridged accounts
just filed with the Companies Office show that the
firm’s accumulated profits
increased from €515,611
to €760,642 last year.
The firm — set up in
1999 with a staff of two —
today produces some of
the most popular TV
shows on our screens here
with Irish editions of The
Apprentice for TV3 and
Masterchef, Dragons’ Den,
and The Voice for RTÉ.
Mr Bass said revenues
associated with The Voice
— which debuted on
screens here last year —
accounted for “a good
chunk” of the increase in
turnover last year.
The firm today employs
26 full-time staff and
Mr Bass said that on a
production day for a show
like The Voice — which
attracted almost 1m viewers to RTÉ for its final
this year — can have 100
people employed.
Mr Bass said: “We’re
very proud of our production of The Voice — it has
been the strongest performer of any production
of The Voice across the
Kelly Mongan performs in ‘The Voice of Ireland’, which was the strongest performer of
any production of ‘The Voice’ across the world in terms of audience share.
world in terms of audience
share.”
Mr Bass confirmed that a
celebrity version of Masterchef is to appear on RTÉ
screens this Summer with
a celebrity version of The
Apprentice coming to TV3
this autumn with Caroline Downey Desmond
replacing Bill Cullen.
Mr Bass said it was
an interesting time
to be working in
Kathryn
Thomas:
Presents show.
TV “where there is a
paradigm shift happening
right before our eyes”.
He cited the firm having
recently pitched a
TV show to
Yahoo.com. He
said:
“It
is
a whole new
world
our
there for
TV where
you
are
talking
about social media
driven TV
schedules.”
He also
confirmed that
Top marks
University College Cork
intends to be largely self
-funding within five years,
saving the Irish taxpayer
millions of euro a year.
The university also plans
to establish an innovative
business school, as well as a
student hub to enhance
the ability of graduates to
gain employment in their
chosen field.
Under
an
ambitious
strategic
plan
unveiled
yesterday, the university
revealed that it intends to
build commercial income
to half of total funding and
to increase annual research
income to €90m a year.
Increasing foreign direct
investment and job creation,
as well as a surge in international students, lie among
the regional, national, and
international benefits outlined in UCC’s strategic
plan, Sustaining Excellence
2013-2017.
Launching the plan, university president Michael
Murphy said his vision was
for UCC “to be a worldclass university connecting
our region to the globe”.
He said the college would
double the annual number
of potential business startups from UCC research to a
total of 20 companies and
150 jobs by 2017.
Increasing non-exchequer
income to 50% of total
income, and increasing
annual research income to
€90m are also among the
targets.
“When our students leave
our gates for the last time,
they are work-ready and
world-ready, joining our
alumni across the globe and
shaping the world around
us,” said Dr Murphy.
Acknowledging the strategic importance of international education, the plan
commits UCC to ensuring
foreign students make up
over 17% of the student
population during the next
five years.
Sustaining Excellence also
seeks to meet the needs of
the Knowledge Society
by increasing the percentage
of students studying at
postgraduate level from 22%
to 30%.
The plan involves more
strategic alliances with international universities, as well
as domestic third-level institutions. This will include
deepening partnerships with
CIT and other education
partners to promote more
opportunities for students to
transfer between institutions
Screentime Shinawil is developing drama and comedy shows for the first time
with the planned comedy
work being done in conjunction with known Irish
comedy writers.
He
also
confirmed
that the firm is currently
pitching two new format
shows to RTÉ and one to
TV3.
“We
are
constantly
dreaming
up
new
concepts. We are pitching
to many TV stations.
We are like bad pennies
going back to commissioning editors. You have to be
relentless.”
■ UCC ranked in the top
2% of universities (QS
World Rankings 2012).
■ Ireland’s first five-star
university (QS Stars
2011).
■ Annual research
investment was €79m in
2012 while research
funding from EU sources
rose by over 200% in the
two years to 2012.
■ Building projects
completed include the
€100m Western Gateway
building, the €50m
extension of the Tyndall
National Institute, and a
€15m extension to sports
facilities at the Mardyke.
and
minimise
overlaps
between programmes, in
pursuit of better value for
the taxpayer.
It also envisages offering
more distance learning
courses, as well as strengthening research and job
creation by enhancing technology transfer and commercialisation.
According to the plan,
UCC’s participation in the
Irish Maritime and Energy
Resource Cluster, together
with CIT and the navy, will
deliver innovation and jobs
in the maritime and energy
sectors.
UCC will continue to
play a leadership role in the
development of the Cork
Science and Innovation Park
in co-operation with Cork
County Council, Cork City
Council, CIT, the IDA, and
Enterprise Ireland.
The college also plans
to build a state-of-the-art
student hub to support
learning and employability
skills development and provide more opportunities for
student work placements.
“In this document, we set
out our strategic agenda for
the next five years, clearly
demonstrating our confidence and ambition as a
strong European university,”
said Dr Murphy. “We
are mindful of current
straitened economic times.
That has only strengthened
our resolve to ensure that
when circumstances improve we will emerge
stronger and better able to
compete in a dynamic international marketplace.”
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on WWD’s cover is called
“Betty”. The 50s-style
number is a flattering
A-line cut with a shawl collar and pearl embroidery.
O’Neill’s first muse was
his late mother, Mim,
who ran O’Neill’s B&B in
Ballyheigue. She worked as
a nanny in Manhattan in
the 60s and was given
a number of Bergdorf
Goodman dresses from her
former employer, a Park
Avenue socialite.
His work is still strongly
influenced by his Irish
heritage, he explained to
British website The Fashion
Spot in January.
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Theia specialises in
evening and bridal couture
and includes Paris Hilton,
Nicole Kidman, and Amanda Seyfried among its clientele. The brand launched in
2009 and has gone from
strength to strength.
Don has dressed Carrie
Underwood for the
Grammy Awards and
Oprah Winfrey wore his
“crunchy gold sequin” dress
on the cover of the Sept
2011 issue of O magazine.
Winfrey loved the dress so
much she wore it to present
at the 2012 Academy
Awards.
The duchess-satin dress
by Gordon Deegan
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US cover for Kerry designer’s dress
Kerryman Don O’Neill’s
design lit up the cover of
international fashion bible
Women’s Wear Daily on
Thursday. The Ballyheigue
native’s New York-based
fashion label, Theia, is
hugely popular in the US.
A buttercup-yellow dress
from the autumn 2013
collection was splashed
across the front page, flagging up a feature on dresses
that are both feminine and
sexy. Women’s Wear Daily
has a circulation of more
than 50,000 and (including
the online readership)
reaches an audience of
more than 200,000.
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NEWS 3
Irish Examiner
Saturday 25.05.2013
GAA bosses
urged to
suit up on
the sidelines
by Michael
Moynihan
José Mourinho.
Pep Guardiola. André
Villas-Boas. All managers
on-trend with their smart
shirt, jacket, and tie look.
So why haven’t GAA
managers followed suit
and gone all Savile Row
on us?
As the provincial
football championships
crank up a notch this
weekend, soccer manager
Roddy Collins reckons his
football and hurling
counterparts are missing a
trick by sticking to the
traditional GAA tracksuit
and bib. “Seriously, GAA
managers, get yourselves
down to Louis Copeland.
Fast,” he said, laughing.
“On match day, I get up
and dress the best I can,
to make a statement to the
players, to show them I’ve
prepared the best I can for
this game. I’ll wear the
best suit, the cleanest
shirt, to show them I’m
there for business.
“You’ll stand out. You
won’t make them better
but at least when they
look over at the dug-out
they’ll see 15 lads in
tracksuits and bibs and
one man in a suit, and
they know: There’s the
boss.”
New Kerry coach
Eamonn Fitzmaurice is
young enough to still be
cutting a sideline dash in a
suit, but he reckons it will
take a couple of trendsetting managers to make
the suit de rigueur again.
“Would I wear a suit on
the line? Maybe. Would I
break the mould? No, but
I wouldn’t feel that
uncomfortable in a suit.”
John Maughan broke
the mould with his shorts
on the sideline in the ’90s.
People still refer to it as a
high water mark in GAA
managerial style.
“Brian Mullins was
doing it as well at the
Scouts to admit
gay youngsters,
but not leaders
by Claire Power
The Boy Scouts of America
(BSA) has thrown open
its ranks to gay youngsters
— but not gay adult leaders
— in a compromise some
warned could fracture the
organisation and lead to
defections.
The scouts stressed yesterday that the organisation of
about 2.6m boys and about
1m adult leaders and volunteers would not condone
sexual conduct by any scout
— gay or straight.
However,
the
bitter
debate continued as liberal
scout leaders made clear
they wanted the ban on gay
adults lifted too.
Yesterday’s vote result was
welcomed by gay rights
groups, but many religious
institutions — which charter about 70% of the
America’s
more
than
100,000 scouting units —
were upset and some
threatened to defect if the
ban was lifted.
“We are deeply saddened,” said Frank Page,
president of the Southern
Baptist Convention’s executive committee.
“Homosexual behaviour
is incompatible with the
principles enshrined in the
scout oath and scout law.”
Some of the scouting
group’s largest sponsors are
conservative denominations
that have supported the
broad ban on gay members
and leaders — notably the
Catholic
Church,
the
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day
Saints,
and
Southern Baptist churches.
The policy change takes
effect from Jan 1.
Yesterday’s vote came after
a survey of more than
200,000 leaders, parents,
and youth members earlier
this year. More than 60%
supported the policy of
excluding gays, while 34%
opposed it. However, most
parents of young scouts, as
well as youth members, opposed the ban. That tracks
with a growing national
acceptance of gay rights in
the US, especially among
younger people.
Pascal Tessier, an openly
gay 16-year-old scout, was
elated by the outcome.
“I was thinking that today
could be my last day as a boy
scout,” he said.
“Obviously, for gay scouts
like me, this vote is
life-changing.”
The BSA, which celebrated its 100th anniversary
in 2010, has long excluded
both gays and atheists. But
protests over the no-gays
policy gained momentum in
2000, when the US
Supreme Court upheld the
BSA’s right to exclude
gays. Scout units lost sponsorships by schools and
other entities that followed
non-discrimination policies.
No punishment for
hacking ex-boss’s phone
by Tom Tuite
A civil servant who was
found guilty of spying on
her former supervisor by
hacking into her phone’s
voicemail messages, has
escaped punishment.
Dublin City Council
employee Severine Doyle,
aged 39, of Parnell Court,
Crumlin, had pleaded not
guilty to 11 charges under
the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act.
However, following a
hearing last June she was
found guilty of intercepting
voice messages on a mobile
phone used by Teresa Conlon, Dublin City Council’s
head of housing allocation.
Dublin District Court
heard that Ms Conlon’s
voicemail messages had been
intercepted over a five-week
period, from Jan 8 until
Feb 11, 2010.
Doyle’s sentencing was
adjourned until yesterday
and Judge Eamon O’Brien
asked: “How is she getting
on?”
Defence solicitor Declan
Fahy said the case was in
for a review and Doyle was
“getting on brilliantly”.
“I will strike it out with
liberty to re-enter,” said the
judge, adding: “I am giving
her a chance; the ball is in
her court.”
During the trial, on Jun
28 last year, Ms Conlon
had told Judge O’Brien
that she found out that some
city councillors had said
they had listened to tapes of
messages that had been left
on her phone.
“A tape had been handed
in by councillor Mannix
Flynn, with a message
from my voicemail,” she testified, adding that she was
“extremely upset”.
Ms Conlon later learned
her voicemail had been intercepted by a caller using
five different phones, including one belonging to
Doyle’s 72-year-old mother.
She agreed with state
solicitor Tom Conlon that
there had been a grievance
procedure in relation to
Doyle. A complaint against
her by Doyle in relation to
inappropriate allocation of
housing was never proven.
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The Central
Bank heard of
possible issues
before issuing
a flawed James
Joyce coin last
month — but
went ahead
regardless
Staff shortages
mean Kerry's
Probation
Service is
failing to
submit reports
on accused
persons before
courts
Tottenham’s dapper boss André Villas-Boas suited and booted and, in contrast, Kerry coach Eamonn Fitzmaurice.
time, but he didn’t have
legs as good as mine, so
he didn’t get the same
focus as I did,” deadpans
Maughan. “I togged off
with the team in the
dressing room and on a
hot day on the sideline of
a big match, it was the
most obvious thing in the
world to do. The fact that
I got slagged about it at
the time made me think,
feck it, I’ll continue to
wear the shorts if it’s
going to rise people.”
Collins still thinks being
suited and booted is one
Premier League tradition
the GAA would do well
to ape: “You’ve got to
dress well. I had to get rid
of six players one day in
Bohs and I wore a
pinstripe suit, snow-white
shirt, and bright red tie.
Why? I’d seen the president of America in that
combination
and felt he stood out
straightaway.”
See the full story in
today’s Championship
preview supplement
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Irish Examiner
Saturday 25.05.2013
Garda accused of using forged DPP letter
Donegal man charged with
killing four British soldiers
❚ A Donegal man has
appeared at the Old Bailey
in London charged with the
murder of four British
soldiers in the 1982 Hyde
Park IRA bomb blast.
John Downey, aged 61,
was arrested at Gatwick
Airport on Sunday. He
was accused of being
responsible for a car bomb,
left in South Carriage Drive,
which killed soldiers as they
rode through the park to a
changing of the guard.
Downey was charged with
murdering Roy Bright,
Dennis Daly, Simon Tipper,
and Geoffrey Young, and
with intending to cause an
explosion likely to endanger
life.
He was remanded to a
hearing on Jun 5.
by Tom Tuite
A female garda is to stand trial
accused of using a forged letter
purporting to be from the office
of the DPP in connection with a
criminal investigation.
Catherine McGowan, aged 46,
who is attached to a Wicklow
Garda station, appeared at
Dublin District Court yesterday
morning.
She is charged under Section
Inquest date into men’s murder
❚ A date has been set for
the inquest into the death of
two men who were shot in
an ambush on a busy road
in city centre Dublin.
Michael “Roly” Cronin,
aged 34, a major drug
dealer, and his associate
James Moloney, aged 26,
were shot while they waited
in a car at the junction of
28 of the Theft and Fraud
Offences Act 2001, for using a
false instrument at Bray Garda
Station on Jun 21, 2011.
The details of her arrest,
charge and caution were
contained on a certificate
which was furnished to Judge
Victor Blake by a Garda
sergeant.
Her charge states that it is
alleged that on Jun 21, 2011, she
used a copy of a letter from the
office of the DPP dated Jan 14,
2009, “which was, and which
you knew or believed to be,
a false instrument with the
intention of inducing another
person to accept it as genuine
and by reason of so accepting
the said instrument to do some
act or to make some omission,
to the prejudice of that or any
other person”.
A conviction for this offence
can result in a fine and/or a jail
term of up to 10 years.
The officer, who is from west
Dublin and has not yet entered a
plea to the charge, spoke briefly
during her court appearance,
saying “good morning” to the
judge.
During the hearing, state solicitor Tom Conlon told Judge
Blake that the DPP has directed
that Garda McGowan is to face
trial on indictment, meaning
her case will go before a judge
Order
settles over
US, Canada
abuse cases
Summerhill Road and
Langrishe Place at 8.30pm
on Jan 7, 2009.
It is believed that Cronin
was chatting to his murderer,
who was sitting in the back
when he produced a
weapon and fired into the
heads of both men.
Coroner Dr Brian Farrell
set Sept 25 for the hearing.
Man arrested
in drugs raid
❚ More than €1.7m worth of
drugs has been seized by
gardaí and one man
arrested.
The 36-year-old man was
in custody last night
following a raid on a house
in The Strand, Donabate,
Dublin, on Thursday.
Gardaí said the search,
which came about as a
result of received
intelligence, netted
€700,000 worth of cannabis
herb and €1m of ecstasy.
The man was arrested and
taken to Mountjoy Garda
Station, where he was held
under the provisions of the
Criminal Justice (Drug
Trafficking) Act 1996.
The 400-year-old signature.
Bard signature
to be exhibited
❚ A priceless William
Shakespeare signature is to
go on display.
The 400-year-old scrawled
autograph — at the foot of a
deed manuscript for a £140
property in Blackfriars — is
one of six known signatures
penned by the bard.
The property, which was
destroyed in the 1666 great
fire of London, is believed
to have been part of a
gatehouse.
The document will be the
centrepiece of the
Shakespeare and London
exhibition at the London
Metropolitan Archives from
Tuesday to Sept 26.
Director’s case
adjourned
❚ The High Court has
adjourned a director of a
well-known sausage-making
business’s action aimed at
preventing her husband and
mother-in-law from firing her
and removing her as a
director.
Caroline Kerrigan-Hick,
who is a director and
employee of firms that trade
as Hick’s sausages, claims
that her employment has
been unlawfully terminated
and attempts are being
made to remove her as a
director.
The matter was adjourned
to Jun 13.
Lottery results
❚ Last night’s €85m jackpot
in the EuroMillions draw was
not won. The numbers were
7, 17, 22, 27, 40, lucky stars
2, 3. The Plus numbers were
35, 39, 43, 47, 50.
The top prizes in both
Daily Million draws were not
won. The numbers were 14,
21, 22, 24, 30, 35, bonus 3.
The Plus numbers were 16,
18, 20, 21, 28, 36, bonus 12.
New Blasket Island memoir
❚ The memoirs of the
This latest memoir follows
in the 80-year tradition of Ó
Criomhthain’s The Islander,
Peig, and so on, but is the
first to be written only in
English.
From the Great Blasket to
America — The last Memoir
by an Islander is published
by Collins Press and is
priced at €12.99.
oldest living native Blasket
Islander, Michael Carney
(Micheál Ó Cearna), 93.
were launched last night in
the Dunquinn/Dún Chaoin
interpretive centre
overlooking the island in the
presence of other former
islanders and relatives of
islanders.
■ Brothers in $16.5m agreement
by Cormac O’Keeffe
President Michael D Higgins with Philip Treacy at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, where they were conferred with
honorary fellowships yesterday.
Picture: Andrew Downes
Hats off to Higgins and Treacy
as institute honours achievements
by Brian McDonald
President Michael D Higgins and internationally
renowned designer Philip
Treacy shared a stage yesterday when they were honoured by becoming the first
recipients of honorary fellowships from Galway Mayo
Institute of Technology.
The awards were
presented before an invited
audience of more than 200
people to mark the 40th
anniversary of the institute
which has campuses spread
across both counties.
Actress Marie Mullen,
footballer Padraic Joyce,
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theologian Prof Enda
McDonagh, businessman
Bernard Collins, and
archaeologist Seamas
Caulfield were also honoured.
The president of GMIT,
Michael Carmody, said
that the honorary fellowships were intended
to recognise publicly the
contribution each of the
recipients had made in their
own field.
GMIT was formerly
known as RTC Galway and
opened its doors on Sept
18, 1972, with 1,213
students on campus. Today,
GMIT has almost 8,000 full
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and part-time students in
five campuses across
Galway and Mayo.
Mr Carmody noted: “We
envisage that the minister
for education and skills will
shortly be announcing
a cluster of higher education institutions for the
Connacht-Ulster region
comprising GMIT, IT
Sligo, and Letterkenny IT,
who form the Connacht-Ulster Alliance, along
with NUI Galway.
“These institutions will
collaborate to create a
coherent provision of higher education programmes at
all levels across the region
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and create new opportunities for learners to avail of
a wider range of modules
and awards using modern
delivery technologies to
facilitate greater access to
higher education.”
He pointed out that,
with 72% of foreign direct
investment going to Dublin
and Cork, it was essential
that the institutions worked
together for the West of
Ireland, combining their
strengths and building linkages around the Galway,
Shannon, and Limerick
gateway to provide a viable
alternative to the
Dublin-Cork axis.
The Christian Brothers has
been urged to mediate settlements with survivors of
historic sexual abuse instead
of fighting cases in the
courts following a landmark
deal in North America.
The call comes after
details emerged of a $16.5m
(€12.7m) settlement involving the Christian Brothers
in the US and Canada
and more than 400 adults
who were sexually abused as
children by members of the
religious order.
The victims claimed abuse
at schools and childcare facilities run by the Christian
Brothers and the Christian
Brothers of Ireland, Inc, in
17 US states and Canada
from the late 1940s or early
1950s until the 1980s.
“Intense negotiations during the past three months
have led to painful concessions in bringing about
this mutually agreed upon
settlement. This settlement
will allow an opportunity
to recommit ourselves to
bringing the gospel of Jesus,” Brother Kevin Griffith
of the Christian Brothers
said in a statement.
James Stang, a lawyer
representing the plaintiffs,
said the settlement reached
in a US bankruptcy court
also enabled the victims to
pursue more assets from the
order, such as real estate or
insurance claims.
A committee representing
the victims, who claimed
abuse mostly by brothers
of the order, agreed to the
settlement terms.
In 2011, the Christian
Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection in response to
the sexual abuse claims.
Maeve Lewis, executive
director of One in Four,
called on the Christian
Brothers in Ireland to engage in a similar mediative
process with survivors of
child sexual abuse, namely
those abused in day schools
run by the order.
She said that, unlike
survivors of the industrial
school system, these survivors were not covered by
the Redress Board. Instead,
they have to engage with
the order directly.
“Many of our clients find
that when they engage with
the Christian Brothers they
are difficult to deal with.
“I would love to see
the Christian Brothers enter
into the mediation process
and seek fair settlements.”
As part of the compensation deal between the State
and religious orders in 2009,
the
Christian
Brothers
agreed to pay €30m and to
transfer playing pitches then
valued at €127m.
Education Minister Ruairi
Quinn last year urged all
congregations to increase
their contribution up from
€1.36bn to €1.47bn.
The Christian Brothers
said it could not up its offer
as it risked going bankrupt.
It also said it needed to keep
money aside for anticipated
claims from survivors of its
day schools.
● Additional reporting by
Reuters
Kenny backs Shatter as FF
table no confidence motion
by Shaun Connolly
Political
Correspondent
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and jury at the Dublin Circuit
Criminal Court.
The prosecution lawyer asked
for an eight-week adjournment
during which time a book of
evidence is to be drafted.
Defence solicitor Andrew
Freeman said there was consent
and Judge Blake extended time
for the book of evidence to be
served on the Garda.
She was ordered to appear
again on Jul 19.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny
threw his full weight behind
embattled Alan Shatter as
the justice minister faced a
bruising no confidence
motion in the Dáil next
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fianna Fáil triggered
the censure move as the
controversy surrounding Mr
Shatter’s failure to complete
a roadside breathalyser test
continued to swirl.
Mr Kenny accused Fianna
Fáil of “political opportunism”, insisting he had full
personal confidence in Mr
Shatter.
Stepping up his campaign
against Mr Shatter, Indepen-
dent TD Mattie McGrath
claimed that gardaí who
dealt with the incident were
left in “quite an upset state
because of the nature and
the nastiness of the incident” involving Mr Shatter.
He re-ignited the penalty
points furore when he
forced Mr Shatter to reveal
he had been stopped by
gardaí before he became a
minister in late 2008 or
early 2009.
Mr Shatter insisted he did
not complete a breath test at
the time due to his asthma
and was “waved on” by
officers after he informed
them he was travelling back
from the Dáil.
Mr McGrath said the
minister had failed to answer
key questions, such if his be-
haviour to the gardaí was
cordial, did they let him off
with a caution, and did he
invoke the law banning TDs
being stopped going to and
from the Oireachtas.
Mr Kenny said he had not
discussed with Mr Shatter
if he had invoked such
Oireachtas privilege.
Fianna
Fáil
justice
spokesman Niall Collins
also launched a fresh attack
on the minister, saying many
aspects of the incident
remained murky.
Finance Minister Michael
Noonan led support for
Mr Shatter, saying that the
controversy over Garda discretion was now closed.
Health Minister James
Reilly said the fact Mr
McGrath had got the date
Alan Shatter: Under fire
over breath test revelation.
of the incident wrong
proved he was confused.
In a key intervention
Labour heavyweight Education Minister Ruairi Quinn
warned the situation had
been blown out of proportion by the opposition.
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Bid to allow abortion in fatal abnormality cases
by Mary Regan
Political Correspondent
A group of cross-party TDs and senators plans to table an amendment to
proposed abortion legislation which
would allow for terminations in
cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
At a meeting in Leinster House
this week, women told politicians
of their experiences carrying their
babies home in boxes from England
— where they had terminations —
when they had no chance of survival
outside the womb.
Under current Irish law, women
have to carry a foetus even if it
will not live beyond delivery. These
circumstances are not included
in proposed laws allowing for
abortion in limited circumstances
because, according to the Government, it would be in breach of the
constitutional protection of the right
to life of the unborn.
However, the Terminations for
Medical Reasons group, which met
with parliamentarians this week —
said it has legal advice that including
fatal foetal abnormalities as grounds
for abortion is constitutional.
“We believe it is possible within
the framework of the Constitution to
legislate for this because the conditions we are talking about are incompatible with life, and therefore
we think it doesn’t conflict with the
Constitution,” said United Left
Alliance TD Richard Boyd Barrett,
who chaired the meeting.
He revealed during the meeting
that he had lost a baby girl shortly
after her birth in 2002. He said the
fatal condition in those circumstances was not diagnosed during
the pregnancy, but “one thing that
myself and my ex-partner were
absolutely clear about at the time in
this awful situation was that if we
had have known, we would certainly
have wanted to have had that
choice”.
He said: “What choice we would
have made is another matter. In a
situation like that, there is no good
option. But we would have wanted
to have had the choice.”
He, along with a number of independent TDs and possibly some
from the Government benches, will
put together an amendment once the
full version of the Protection of Life
during Pregnancy Bill is published.
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Unions opposed
to cuts are subject
to law, says Kenny
■ Prospect of strike action at schools and colleges
by Niall Murray and
Jimmy Woulfe
Teacher unions and others
that remain opposed to
€300m public sector pay
cut proposals will be
subjected to laws cutting
higher salaries and other
work changes, Enda Kenny
said yesterday.
He echoed earlier comments by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn as the
prospect was raised of strikes
at hundreds of schools and
colleges by the rejection of
the proposals from the
Labour Relations Commission by two unions.
The executives of the
Association and Secondary
Teachers Ireland and the
Teachers’ Union of Ireland
decided on Thursday not to
ballot their members on the
new deal. They said that,
despite concessions on cuts
to higher pay, restoration of
money
for
supervision
work, and other areas, the
proposals do not differ
enough from February’s
Croke Park II deal, already
rejected in earlier votes.
Both unions have a mandate to call industrial action
if pay cuts or work condition changes are imposed
without their agreement. A
similar power is held by the
Irish National Teachers’
Organisation, but its executive is recommending their
32,000 members accept the
new deal, as is the country’s
largest union, Siptu.
Enda Kenny: Five months
of extensive negotiations.
The ASTI said its standing
committee does not believe
there is sufficient improvement and clarification in the
Haddington Road Agreement for it to constitute a
final offer.
The Irish Federation of
University Teachers, which
also rejected Croke Park II,
decided last night to ballot
its 2,000 members next
month.
Mr Quinn said legislation
giving effect to cuts will be
put to the Oireachtas next
week and passed, whatever
individual unions decide on
the
Haddington
Road
proposals. The bill published
by Public Expenditure and
Reform Minister Brendan
Howlin on Thursday gives
authority to implement the
pay cuts in the deal, but
would mean those not
signed up to the LRC deal
would not benefit from
aspects relating to restoration of salary increment that
are to be frozen.
“We live in a democracy,
that’s their right to so
choose,” said Mr Quinn.
“We would have preferred
to have negotiation and
reach agreement, but in an
open society that’s not always possible and individual
organisations and individual
citizens have the right to
make their own decisions
and we will respect that.”
Later, Mr Kenny said the
Government and the LRC
have spent five months on
extensive negotiations on
the matters.
“Those unions who have
now agreed with the
Haddington Road statement
will have those agreements
honoured, and those unions
that do not will be subject
to legislation which will go
through the Dáil and the
Seanad next week,” he said.
TUI general secretary
John MacGabhann said
there would be no threat to
the Junior or Leaving Certificate, or to exams in institutes of technology where
4,000 of his members work.
“The logic is that the industrial action would take
effect in a progressive, layered, measured way from
the commencement of the
next academic year at both
second and third level,” said
Mr MacGabhann.
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Clockwise, from left, the embassy in Washington, valued at €2.6m; the Paris chancery, valued at €45m; the Villa Spada in Rome, valued at €18.4m;
and views of the interior of the embassy in the French capital.
€45m Paris embassy tops State foreign portfolio
by Noel Baker
Ireland’s foreign property portfolio is worth more than €135m,
with the State’s Paris chancery
worth €45m alone.
Figures released to Sinn Féin’s
Pearse Doherty through a parliamentary question show Ireland in
possession of an impressive array
of real estate in many of the
world’s capital cities.
The figures include that for the
Villa Spada, a listed building in
Rome that now acts as the main
embassy
in
Italy,
whereas
previously it was the embassy to
the Holy See.
Since the Government’s decision
to close the embassy to the Vatican it moved staff from its rented
Rome embassy to the building it
owns, with the valuation of the
Villa Spada listed at €18.4m.
The properties in France and
Italy are by far the most valuable,
but just five of the properties
owned by the State for diplomatic
purposes overseas are worth less
than €1m.
The list only includes those
properties owned by the State,
and so does not include London,
where the embassy is rented.
In the United States the Washington Chancery is valued at
€2.6m, the Washington residence
is valued at €4.1m and New York
permanent mission to the UN
residence is valued at €5.7m.
One possible issue with the figures is that many of the valuations
were undertaken as far back as
2005, although it is understood
that valuations are only requested
by diplomatic staff in a country
in light of any major change in
market values.
The department has kept the
whole area of residences and
embassies under review as it seeks
ways to save money, but one
source said valuations of properties would not necessarily reflect
the prices they might achieve on
the open market.
In addition, it is often seen
as less expensive to own and
maintain a property rather than
pay expensive rents.
Some of the properties listed
may be revalued in the near future
to take account of changes in
the marketplace in recent years.
The figures also differ from
those provides last year by
the Comptroller and Auditor
General.
The Audgen report into the
Department of Foreign Affairs for
2011 put the department’s land
and building assets at almost
€160m at the end of 2011, not
including other figures such as
motor vehicles and furniture and
fittings.
The same report said three
embassy premises — Paris, Holy
See and permanent mission to
the United Nations in New York
— had been revalued during
the year.
This has resulted in a total increase in their values of €11.43m.
Circumstances of
fatal motorway
crash still unclear
by Conor Kane
Mystery surrounds the
circumstances of a crash on a
motorway early yesterday
morning, when an elderly
motorist travelling alone was
killed.
The victim of the collision, on the M8 south of
Cahir in Co Tipperary, was
Martin Heffernan from the
village of Lattin, outside
Tipperary town.
He was in his early 80s, a
single man and well-known
in farming circles as well as
in the political community
as he was a long-standing
Fine Gael activist.
Gardaí are trying to establish what Mr Heffernan was
doing in the area as he
would not normally have
been travelling in that part
of the county, particularly
at 2am, the time the crash
occurred.
The incident happened in
the townland of Raheenrow,
Cahir, between exits 11 and
12 of the M8, when Mr
Heffernan was travelling
south.
It’s believed he was on the
wrong side of the motorway
when his car collided with a
truck coming in the opposite direction.
It’s not known where he
was coming from but he
may have been in Cashel
earlier in the night and
made a wrong turn onto the
motorway, in the Cork
direction, when intending
Man was
stockpiling
painkillers
for sale
Gardaí at the scene of the crash on the M8 near Cahir in
Co Tipperary, which claimed the life of Martin Heffernan.
to travel home towards
Tipperary town.
The driver of the truck
was not physically injured in
the crash.
Mr Heffernan’s body was
brought to South Tipperary
General
Hospital
in
Clonmel for a postmortem.
The deceased had farmed
on his own for many years
and travelled around the
country to marts, as well
as being a keen GAA
supporter.
Fine Gael TD Tom Hayes
said he knew Mr Heffernan
well and described him
as coming from a popular
local family. “Even though
he was a single man, he
made an impact on a lot of
local people and was well
respected and well liked,” he
said.
The scene of the collision
was closed for much of the
day while Garda forensic
investigators carried out an
examination of the road.
● Anyone with information
about the crash, or about
Mr Heffernan’s movements
before it happened, is asked
to contact gardaí in Cahir
on 052-7445630 or the
Garda Confidential line on
1800-666111.
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A teenager who was nipped by a
dog became so agitated with the owner and other people that gardaí had
to be called to restore peace in the
neighbourhood.
The 16-year-old found himself facing three charges at a juvenile sitting of
Cork District Court yesterday. He cannot be identified because of his age.
The teenager pleaded guilty to three
public order charges arising out of the
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to drive him home.
Solicitor Emmet Boyle said the
outline of events was accepted and the
defendant did get “a nip” from a dog
and was very cross with the owner
about it. He apologised on the defendant’s behalf.
Judge Con O’Leary adjourned
sentencing for two months to allow
time for the preparation of a probation
report.
The defendant pleaded guilty to
charges of being drunk and a source of
danger, being threatening and abusive
and failing to leave the scene of a
disturbance when directed.
Prisoner claims detention is invalid
because he was raped at knife-point
by Aodhan O’Faolain
and Ray Managh
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The teenager claimed he had been
bitten by a dog and was ranting at the
owner and at neighbours.
“Sgt Kelleher found no bite mark on
any part of his person. He was agitated
and aggressive. His mother and sister
arrived on the scene and placated him.
“Sgt Kelleher told him to calm down
and leave the area and warned him of
the consequences of failing to do so.
He walked away a short distance but
returned in a more aggressive and agitated state. He continued to shout at
neighbours and had to be arrested.”
The teenager was taken to his local
Garda station and, when his mother
was contacted and asked to bring him
A High Court judge is
to hear submissions from
a prisoner who claims
his detention is invalid
because he was raped
at knife-point while in
custody.
Yesterday, Mr Justice
Gerard Hogan directed
that the prisoner, who
claims he was raped by another inmate at Mountjoy
prison in late 2011, be
brought before the court
next week. This would
allow the court to determine if it is to hold a full,
formal inquiry into the
legality of the prisoner’s
ongoing detention.
The judge ordered that
the prisoner cannot be
identified by the media
and should only be referred to as “Mr Y”. He is
serving a sentence after
being convicted of assaults
contrary to sections 2 and
3 of the Non Fatal Offences Against the Person
Act 1997, said the judge.
Mr Y, who has been
moved to another prison
since the alleged rape,
wrote to the High Court
seeking an inquiry under
article 40.2.2 of the
Constitution
into
the
legality of his detention,
said Mr Justice Hogan.
Mr Y claims his ongoing
detention is invalid, and
that he should be released
from prison, on grounds
that arising out of the
alleged rape the prison
authorities
have
not
guaranteed
his
safety,
in particular his constitutional right to bodily
integrity.
In his ruling, Mr Justice
Hogan said he was not
prepared to formally open
an inquiry into Mr Y’s
detention at this point in
time. However, the claims
made by Mr Y were most
serious and deserved some
consideration.
The alleged rape took place
at Mountjoy in 2011.
The judge said he would
conduct a preliminary
hearing into Mr Y’s application for an inquiry, in
the presence of state authorities, next Wednesday.
Mr Y was also to be
brought before the court
for the hearing, the judge
further directed. Certain
aspects of Mr Y’s claim
needed to clarified, explained, and put in an affidavit, he added.
by Liam Heylin
Gardaí carried out a search
at a house in Cork
and discovered that a man
was stockpiling painkilling
tablets for sale or supply to
others.
Insp Bill Duane said gardaí
obtained a warrant to search
the home of Christy
O’Gorman
at
102
Hollyville, Hollyhill, Cork,
on foot of confidential
information received.
He said they met O’Gorman at the house and
showed him the warrant.
“Gardaí commenced a detailed search of the house
and Christy O’Gorman
brought them to a bedroom
where there was a large
quantity of prescription
tablets,” Insp Duane told
Cork District Court yesterday.
The defendant pleaded
guilty to charges of possessing the tablets and possessing
them for the purpose of selling or otherwise supplying
to others.
Diarmuid
Kelleher,
defending, said his client
accepted that he had not
obtained the tablets by prescriptions that were properly
made out for his benefit.
Instead he had gone to
other people and obtained
as many painkillers as he
could get.
At the time of the raid by
gardaí there were 235 tablets
in his possession.
Mr Kelleher said the
defendant was coming off
heroin at the time and
was on a methadone
programme.
However, he was experiencing a lot of pain
and started to abuse the
prescription tablets.
Since then the solicitor
said O’Gorman’s situation
had stabilised in terms of
drug use and was now
taking tablets legitimately
prescribed for him by his
doctor.
Judge Olann Kelleher
said of the stash of
painkillers found at the defendant’s home on May 10,
2012: “I don’t accept they
were all for his own use, not
with the quantity involved.
“I don’t accept his evidence in that regard. Some
of them may have been but
not all of them.”
The judge imposed a
four-month jail sentence
which he suspended.
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Irish Examiner
Saturday 25.05.2013
Health
charity hails
€2m in
donations
by Fiachra Ó Cionnaith
At Xposé Live, clockwise from above: Models in styles inspired by ‘The Great Gatsby’;
Leona Sheehan, Bandon, and Sarah Murphy, Innishannon; presenters Lisa Cannon and
Karen Koster; Aislinn Murphy, Douglas, and Karen Brown, Dublin.
Pictures: Darragh Kane
TV3 calls all fashionistas to Xposé their style at live show
by Claire
O’Sullivan
If watching Xposé
is a guilty secret of yours,
today’s the day to get a
group of friends together
and head to Cork as the
Xposé Live show is in
town.
Hosted by the show’s
presenters — Glenda
Gilson, Karen Koster, Lisa
Cannon, and Aisling
O’Loughlin — it’s the
ultimate girl’s day out.
The event kicked off at
the Silver Springs Hotel
yesterday and includes a
fashion show with models
wearing the latest from
SimplyBe.ie, Jacamo.ie,
Opera Lane, Saville
Menswear, Gasoline, and
Penneys. It continues until
tomorrow.
Fashion will be focusing
on dressing for summer
2013 and there will also
be beauty and fashion
masterclasses taking place
on the main stage between
the fashion shows. Top
stylists and make-up artists
will be on hand to share
tips on everything from
the perfect “mannie” to
how to master this year’s
must-have high definition
brows.
But according to TV3,
Xposé Live is about far
more than just fashion and
beauty, it’s about having
fun with the girls.
“Reality TV star, Calum
Best is our special guest
for the weekend and there
will also be performances
by X Factor star BEXX
(ex Belle Amie), new
girlband HALO and upand-coming Irish boyband
5th Base just fresh from
playing at the Cheerio’s
Apple manager claims unfair dismissal
by Georgina O’Halloran
A human resources manager
with US multinational
Apple said a Cork-based
manager, who claims he
was unfairly dismissed after
turning down a position
with the company in
California, did not have a
“mobility clause” and was
under no compulsion to
move to the US.
Will Reeves, who was
a manager on a salary of
€112,000, has taken an action for unfair dismissal
against the tech giant.
The father of five began
a new role at Apple in 2009
as a project management
officer, which saw him over
a team based at Apple’s
headquarters in Cupertino,
California.
Apple executives subsequently decided it would be
better if Mr Reeves, who
had received “exceptional
reviews”,
relocated
to
Cupertino and he was
offered a relocation package.
The package was worth
€400,000, Apple executive
James Verner previously
told an Employment Appeals Tribunal.
Mr Reeves decided to
turn down the role for
family reasons.
Giving evidence at the
tribunal, HR manager for
Apple in Cork, Bernard
Cronin, said Apple did not
have mobility clauses in
contracts which meant the
Will Reeves: Turned down position at Apple’s California
headquarters for family reasons. Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney
company could not relocate
Mr Reeves without his
permission.
However, he told the tribunal that once Mr Reeves
decided not to accept the
role in the US, there was a
“redundancy situation”.
Questioned by Cathy
Maguire BL as to whether
he thought it was “odd that
someone who was so highly
rated was not kept on when
the company was growing
like a weed”, Mr Cronin
said that Mr Reeves had
the opportunity to go to the
US.
“He had a specific skill set
and there were limited
options for his skill set in
Cork,” said Mr Cronin,
who added that Mr Reeves
was made aware of any
positions “open” in Apple.
The tribunal heard Mr
Reeves was put forward as a
potential candidate for a
six-month role in Cork
but that it was subject to
approval from the US.
In Dec 2010, when
Mr Cronin emailed the US
office to find out what was
happening, he was informed
it was felt that Mr Reeves
was not the best person for
the job and felt they should
look for someone with a
“different skillset”.
Mr Cronin had replied
in an email that it was
“weird” as two Cork-based
employees had indicated he
was the “perfect fit”.
Ms Maguire said there was
no written documentation
stating why Mr Reeves was
not suitable for the role,
about the manner in which
a complaint against him was
dealt with (which was later
found to be without foundation) or in relation to the
move in the US.
She said there were no
documents about “core
business decisions”.
Mr Cronin said that
was how Apple operated:
“Apple is a company that
moves quickly. If we documented every business decision we would not be as
successful as we are today.”
He said Apple “treated
people fairly” and this was
the first time he had appeared before an EAT in his
32 years with the company.
Tesco customers targeted in email phishing scam
by Pat Flynn
Customers of supermarket
giant Tesco are the latest to
be targeted by criminals
using an email scam which
promises cash to those
who take part in an online
survey.
Members of the public
in Ireland and Britain
have been bombarded with
emails in recent days, purporting to be from Tesco’s
online department, but
from a “fiat.com” email
address.
The email guarantees
customers €100 if they
take part in a “customer
satisfaction survey” and asks
them to click on a link
that leads to a phishing website.
Phishing is an attempt
to trick customers into revealing personal or financial
information by imitating
websites they may already
trust.
“Smishing” is the text
message equivalent of the
same scam.
When customers click
on the link, they are
redirected to a Chinese
website which asks a
series of questions and
then for a credit card
number.
Anyone who unwittingly
clicked on the link was
taken to a page with a
survey that initially asked
questions about their shopping habits.
However, at the end
the survey asks for more
personal details, including
their date of birth and credit
card number.
There is no indication
how many people have
fallen foul of the scam,
and although Tesco has
successfully managed to
have this particular site
closed, others are expected to appear in the
future.
A spokesman for the
supermarket giant said:
“Along with many other
companies, we are from
time to time targeted by
these phishing emails and
once alerted to them, we
strive to have these scam
websites shut down as soon
as possible.
“I understand this has
been done.”
In
recent
years,
a
number of Irish banks
have experienced a significant increase in email
phishing attacks by criminals.
In Feb 2012, mobile company O2 successfully forced
the closure of two websites
which were used by scammers in an attempt to con
customers.
Childline concert and at a
birthday bash in Mullingar
for One Direction’s Niall
Horan,” a spokesman said.
Tickets are priced at
€15 for adults and €10
for students and are
available at Xposelive.ie.
Xposé Live kicks off at
10am and continues until
6pm today and tomorrow.
Ireland might be in the grip
of a major recession, but
that has not stopped bighearted Cork people from
donating almost €2m to a
vital health service charity
since the crisis began.
The Mercy University
Hospital
foundation
is
expected to reveal today that
the magic figure has been
reached after five years of
public donations.
Since it was established in
2008 the group, which
alongside
radio
station
Cork’s 96fm oversees the
Giving for Living radiothon,
has helped to fund vital cancer, hospice, and paediatric
services across the county.
Despite the ongoing damage the economic crisis has
caused the country, donations have stayed at between
€300,000 and €400,000
every year.
At the group’s 2012
update last summer the total
amount of donations stood
at €1.7m, with a massive
€410,000 of the pot coming in the previous 12
months alone. And, while
the group is urging the public to keep on giving in order to save lives, senior officials are hoping its latest update today will see the total
figure pass the €2m mark.
“These donations I would
say have helped thousands of
people since the foundation
began,” said hospital foundation
chief
executive
Micheal Sheridan.
“Between 2008 and 2010
we specifically on paediatrics services for the Mercy
University Hospital and
Cork University Hospital.
“However, since then we
have extended it to cancer
services and the Marymount
Hospice, and the money
really is doing so much good
there.”
The recession-era donations, he said, have come
almost entirely from the
public, who have used
whatever spare change they
have to help those in need.
In the process, public
health services which would
otherwise have been left
without funding have been
made available to seriously
ill patients and those suffering in pain.
“One of the biggest
amounts of donations comes
from the Bus Eireann station
in Cork City.
“Every year they put a
skip there and the drivers
man it for three days on
behalf of the radiothon. It
raises about €20,000 a year
and that’s just from people
dropping spare change into
the skip. There are also a
number of coffee mornings
that have been set up around
the city and county which
have raised in excess of
€1,000 each, and we really
just want to thank everyone
for giving.
“That money is going towards things like the new
CT centre in the Mercy to
investing in comfortable
seats for patients.
“Last year it was even used
to fund a schools awareness
programme on prostate cancer. That reached more than
5,500 teenage boys, and it
wouldn’t have been funded
without this,” he said.
The exact amount of donations achieved by the radio-thon - which has become a staple part of Cork’s
charitable mindset - to date
will be revealed later today.
To donate, contact Mercy
University Hospital and
CUH or see radiothon.ie
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Call for improved staff training in wake of creche revelations
by Claire O’Sullivan
Childcare organisations are calling on
the Government to fund improved
training of childcare staff as they try to
dampen down a “crisis of confidence”
created by revelations about substandard practice at three Dublin creches.
There has been significant political
reaction to reports that RTÉ has video
evidence showing toddlers spending
prolonged periods in high chairs, and
children being yelled at and handled
roughly during sleep and rest times.
The Prime Time footage, due to be
broadcast on Monday, is also believed
to show children’s daily report cards
being fabricated by staff, and allergy
lists being ignored.
Parents were paying up to €1,200
per month for their children to be
taken care of at these creches.
Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin spokesmen
on children, Robert Troy and
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, called on the
minister for children to direct the HSE
to publish all creche inspection reports
online immediately.
Early Childhood Ireland, which
represents 3,300 preschool and creche
providers, met with Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald this week to
discuss the planned RTÉ programme
and its implications for the sector.
“We asked the minister to introduce
mandatory levels of training for the
sector and to set a very clear timetable
for achieving this, which must be
accompanied by the right level of
funding. We also urged her to enhance
both the approach and the numbers
of inspectors for the early education
sector,” said CEO Irene Gunning.
The Association of Childhood
Professionals also called on the
Government to work with childhood
professionals to achieve high quality
provision in the childhood sector.
“For many years there has been
under-investment in the development
of the sector. Quality provision cannot
be achieved without a quality workforce. The development of the sector
requires quality standards for training,
professional development and inspection. It also requires commensurate pay
for workers and Government commitment to ongoing development based
upon evidence and best practice,” a
spokeswoman said.
The incriminating footage was
gathered when an RTÉ researcher
went undercover at Links Childcare in
Abington, Malahide; Giraffe at
Belarmine, Stepaside; and at Little
Harvard in Rathnew, Co Wicklow.
One childcare staff member has
already been fired at Links and five
more suspended at Links and Giraffe.
Giraffe, which has 21 centres in
Dublin, has started installing CCTV
cameras in every room at the Stepaside
Centre.
Links, which runs 10 childcare
centres in Dublin, made footage from
its CCTV system available to parents in
recent days. No staff have been sanctioned at Little Harvard to date and its
public relations company said: “Little
Harvard and its legal advisers will continue to carry out a full investigation
into the isolated incidents and review
all options available to improve the
service in its creche.”
All three creches have now hired
public relations companies to field
questions from journalists and are all
alleging that the programme does not
give a fair and balanced representation
of the care they provide to children.
State must uphold
strict standards in
preschool sector
Presenter Colin Stafford-Johnson paddles his canoe on the Shannon at sunset in the new RTÉ documentary ‘The Secret Life of the Shannon’.
Documentary
to zoom in on
Shannon wildlife
by Dan
Buckley
Bats, squirrels
and the humble Irish
pike will be seen in
high-definition glory in a
ground-breaking
documentary set to hit
our screens tomorrow.
Using technology
previously employed by
director Christopher
Nolan in his movie
Inception, a small Irish
film company has
captured an intimate
portrait of Irish wildlife
in slow-motion detail.
Snapping kingfishers
and dragonflies at 1,000
frames per second, the
two-part documentary to
be shown on RTÉ
uncovers surprising
secrets about the
private lives of Ireland’s
wildlife.
The series reveals
details about animal
behaviour, showing for
the first time water bats
hunting at night and
remarkable underwater
footage of the mating
dance of Shannon’s great
predator, the pike.
Wicklow filmmakers,
Crossing the Line, hit the
international stage last
year with an Emmy
nomination for their film
about tigers in India and
are currently filming
gorillas in the Congo
for the BBC — but they
are delighted to be
Colin Stafford-Johnson:
Emmy award-winner.
bringing it all back home
for The Secret Life of the
Shannon.
“We have filmed on
seven continents and
honed our techniques and
technology over the past
20 years,” says camera
man and director John
Murray.
“So it’s great to be
bringing all that
knowledge back to the
banks of the Shannon,
where we’ve found just as
much mystery and beauty
as anywhere around the
world.”
Emmy-award winning
wildlife presenter Colin
Stafford-Johnson
explored the little-known
islands, lakes and
tributaries of the
Shannon over two years,
paddling his canoe to
discover the teeming life
of Ireland’s largest river.
The two-part film
Feeding time for this kingfisher, part of the rich wildlife diversity of the Shannon.
follows the river from
dawn to dusk through
four seasons and captures
its changing moods and
atmosphere — as well
as the acrobatic antics of
red squirrels, magnificent
whooper swans ending
their migration, and the
exquisite orange-tipped
butterfly.
The filmmakers also
gain access to a series of
remote places that few
ever experience, shooting
high in the tree canopy
for weeks, following the
intimate goings-on of a
little egret colony as
parent birds brood their
young in a giant nesting
platform some 30ft in the
air.
Broadcast as part of the
RTÉ Goes Wild Season
— a month-long season
Pakistan quizzed over expelled reporter
by Noel Baker
The Department of Foreign
Affairs confirmed it asked
Pakistan to explain the expulsion of Irish journalist
Declan Walsh from the
country.
However, it has yet to
receive a reply.
Mr Walsh, working as the
Pakistan bureau chief for
the New York Times out of
Islamabad, was covering the
run-up to elections when he
received an official letter
telling him his visa had been
revoked and he would have
to leave.
He had been working in
the country for a number of
years, primarily with The
Guardian. He later said he
was surprised at the move by
the Pakistani authorities.
Two days before the election, Mr Walsh, who previously worked for the Sunday
Business Post, was summoned to his home in Islamabad, where he met policemen and a plainclothes
officer who gave him a letter
ordering him to leave the
country within 72 hours.
The reason provided was
that it was “in view of your
undesirable activities”.
A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs
confirmed messages asking
for an explanation had been
sent via two different channels to the Pakistani authorities regarding Mr Walsh’s
expulsion.
“We made a diplomatic
approach to Pakistan and we
are awaiting a response,” the
spokesman said.
It is understood the approach is seeking clarity on
why Mr Walsh was asked to
leave Pakistan. Approaches
were made via the Irish embassy in Turkey and the Pakistani embassy in London.
of wildlife-themed
programmes, The Secret
Life of the Shannon is
set to cast a whole new
light on the struggles
and surprising domestic
dramas of Ireland’s rich
riverside wildlife.
● The Secret Life of the
Shannon will be broadcast
tomorrow on RTÉ 1 at
6.30pm, with the second
episode on June 2.
Nine years ago, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) raised issues about
how preschool and creches
were being run in this
country.
“The regulatory framework in place in Ireland
seems weak in comparison
to other countries. It is
basically a licence to practice, but does not include
sufficient incentives to train,
employ qualified staff
or continually improve
expertise. Other countries
regulate more stringently
or, like Australia, introduce
voluntary quality improvement and accreditation
schemes,” it wrote.
Two years later, revised
regulations were introduced
by the Department of
Health with greater
emphasis on the “learning,
wellbeing and development” of the child, but the
regulations, in terms of
ensuring child development, were still not of the
stringency that the OECD
might expect and were variously described as “timid”
by childcare experts.
And so the Government
asked the Centre for Early
Childhood Development
and Education (CECDE) to
develop a national quality
framework for early childhood care and education.
Called Síolta, it was published in 2006, but has only
been implemented in little
over 100 of the country’s
5,000 preschools.
In recent years, an early
years curriculum aimed at
“planning for and providing
enriching, challenging and
enjoyable learning opportunities for children” has also
been drawn up by the
National Council for
Curriculum and Assessment
(NCCA). This curriculum,
called Aistear, is about far
more than education during
the ‘free preschool year’.
It provides a blueprint for
how children should be
cared for in creches and
preschools from age zero to
six years old so that they
meet all their development
potential. However, Aistear
isn’t compulsory in creches
or preschools. Instead,
preschools are asked to
“engage” with Aistear but
they are under no compulsion to adopt its principles.
Therefore, we have a
quality framework for
early childhood care and a
national curriculum for
children aged zero upwards,
Standards have
been set, they
just have to be
enforced, writes
Claire
O’Sullivan
but they may as well not
exist as none of the ministers in the departments of
health, children or education has seen fit to make
their adoption compulsory.
Heino Schonfeld is a
childcare consultant, running his own company,
Leitmotiv. As the former
director of the Centre for
Early Childhood Development and Education, he
helped draw up Síolta.
“We are very good in this
country at drafting reports,
but like poetry, they sit
there on a shelf without
being implemented. Implementation is just as important as drawing up a
blueprint, but you cannot
implement a quality service
unless the creches and
preschools are supported
so that the childcare workers have the capacity and
support to put these
programmes into place.
Implementation of Síolta
and [the] curriculum has
been very slow as the
creches and preschools don’t
have sufficient resources,
such as sufficiently trained
staff, to do it,” he says.
If childcare services of
the quality that Síolta and
Aistear aspire to are to
exist, there will need to
be a huge investment in
childcare by the State,
according to Heino.
The State does fund community creches for disadvantaged children but the
vast majority of Irish creches are for-profit companies,
run by individuals. At the
core of the HSE’s existing
regulatory structure are
carer-child ratios.
These stipulate, for
instance, that for every
five children under two
and a half, you must have
one childcare worker.
Such ratios mean that wages
are the biggest cost for most
childcare providers but with
large numbers of creche
owners burdened with
Celtic Tiger mortgages on
their premises, and many
hard-pressed parents opting
for the cheaper childminder
option, few creche owners
are making any kind of
substantial profit and so few
can afford to invest heavily
in widespread training of
staff .
This means the impetus
to engage in further training must come from the
individual childcare worker.
“Central to a creche is
the child and carer relationship. Childcare and child
development is about how
the child is treated by the
carer and there should
be very clear standards
around that. With the free
preschool year, there was a
new demand from the
Government to train up
staff teaching the course,
but when pay rates are very
low in a sector, there isn’t
much of an incentive for a
staff member to fund themselves to educate themselves
further. There is minimal
motivation,” he says.
To teach the Early Childhood Care and Education
(ECCE) programme, a team
leader only needs a FETAC
level five certificate. But,
preschools where a team
leader has a childcare
degree are given higher
capitation funding by the
Government and this had
led to a fifth of preschools
hiring staff with a degree.
Because of this, Heino
has come to believe that
if Irish parents are really to
receive best quality childcare, the State will have to
become serious players in
the childcare sector.
“The private childcare
model is a higgledy piggledy poor business model.
There is a very strong argument that the State should
come into this sector as just
like primary schools, they
can drive quality and standards as they have the resources to do so. The motivation of those in the private sector is to make a
profit and in the case of
larger creche chains, satisfy
investors. However, if the
State are to invest hugely in
childcare training and
preschool education, the
benefits for the country in
the long term are enormous. All the evidence
points to it,” he says.
Polish trio charged after probe into 100 burglaries
by Tom Tuite
Declan Walsh: Working for
the ‘New York Times’.
“We would have indicated
our concern, certainly,” the
spokesman said, adding that
if no response was forthcoming, the Government
would “follow it up”.
Three Polish men, including
a father and son, have been
charged in connection with
a Garda probe into more
than 100 burglaries in
Dublin.
Yesterday, Boguslaw Jakubiec, aged 53, his son
Marcin Jakubiec, aged 31,
and Wojciech Borowski,
aged 30, who all live at Carcur Cottages in Wexford
Town, faced six charges relating to offences allegedly
committed in south Dublin
suburbs over a three-month
period earlier this year.
They did not apply for
bail when they appeared at
Dublin District Court and
were remanded in custody
until their next hearing on
Wednesday.
The three jobless men had
been arrested as part of an
intelligence-led Garda operation investigating burglaries
throughout south Dublin.
Gardaí carried out searches at homes in Courtown
and Wexford town last
Thursday morning and
recovered house-breaking
implements,
suspected
stolen
items
including
jewellery and watches, as
well as locksmiths’ tools, car
key grabbers and foreign
currency.
The three men are all
charged with burglaries at
two neighbouring houses at
Littlewood
Belarmine,
Dublin, on Mar 13, at another house at Wyckham
Point, Dundrum, on Apr
15, and at an apartment in
Shankill on Jan 2.
Marcin Jakubiec and
Wojciech Borowski each
face two additional charges
over burglaries at Honeypark and at Glebe Hall, Dún
Laoghaire, on Jan 25 and
May 3.
None of the men, who
had the proceedings translated, addressed the court and
they are to be granted legal
aid subject to an examination of their means.
Defence solicitor Tracy
Horan said a bail application
was not being made.
The men had been arrested and held at Wexford and
Enniscorthy Garda stations
before being transferred to
Shankill station in South
County Dublin, where the
charges were put to them
yesterday afternoon, Detective Garda Joe O’Hara told
Judge Bryan Smyth.
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Saturday 25.05.2013
Irish duo
‘abused UK
bankruptcy
system’
Trip to
the stars
nets
$1.5m at
Cannes
by James Faraday
Going up to the stars with
one of the Hollywood’s
biggest stars is going to cost
you.
A trip into space aboard
Virgin Galactic sitting next
to Leonardo DiCaprio sold
at the Amfar Cinema
Against AIDS charity dinner
at the 2013 Cannes Film
Festival for a whopping
$1.5m (€1.15m), according
to The Hollywood Reporter.
Dubbed as the “Oscars
experience” and organised
by producer Harvey Weinstein, the trip into space
is
described
as
a
“once-in-a-lifetime trip”.
Just after the solo seat next
to The Great Gatsby actor
sold, a second pair of seats
abroad Richard Branson’s
Virgin Galactic flight sold
for $2.3m.
Other big ticket items
sold for the annual charity
auction included Adrien
Brody’s Bulgari watch for
$116,000 and a house party
with Duran Duran for
$776,000.
The show opened with an
apt rendition of James Bond
anthem ‘Goldfinger’, as
singing
legend
Shirley
Bassey roused celebrity revellers to dig deep at the 20th
Amfar gala in the Cap
D’Antibes on Thursday
night.
The British-born singer
was one of several performers, including Duran Duran,
who sang at the goldthemed auction event near
the Cannes Film Festival,
hosted by actress Sharon
Stone and held at the
French Riviera’s exclusive
Hotel Du Cap over-looking
the sea.
The annual Amfar gala has
for two decades attracted the
film and fashion industries’
rich and powerful, and this
year was no exception, with
movie mogul Harvey Weinstein — perhaps the Hollywood equivalent of the Midas touch — Leonardo
by Lynne Kelleher
US actress Sharon Stone, hosting the Amfar Aids fundraiser at Cannes, shares the stage with Czech model Bara Holotova, Spanish model Dalianah
Arekion, Canadian model Senait Gidey, and Dutch model Stephanie van der Laan.
Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images
DiCaprio, Jessica Chastain,
Janet
Jackson,
Milla
Jovovich, and Goldie Hawn
sitting side by side.
Stone, a pushy but charismatic host, is starting to
earn herself a legendary
status presiding over the
Amfar event, since the
passing of its founder,
Elizabeth Taylor, in 2011.
“I heard that somebody
might go into outer space
tonight. Maybe a rumour,
maybe not,” said Weinstein
before the auction.
He was not wrong. Items
sold under the hammer did
indeed include a trip to
space, but also more terrestrial items such as an Andy
Warhol lithograph of Taylor,
a chance to have a family
portrait taken by iconic
photographer Annie Leibovitz, a week in fashion
designer’s Donna Karan’s
Caribbean hide-away and a
shimmering 53-carat dia-
mond necklace.
The gala’s excess remained
just a front to one of the
world’s biggest fundraisers
in the fight against Aids, a
disease that Amfar says still
affect about 34m people
worldwide.
For the second time in
Amfar’s history, the event’s
penchant
for
excess
translated rather well into a
glimmering catwalk show
— curated by stylist Carine
Roitfeld. It featured 38
gold and black looks from
designers such as Dior,
Chanel, Lanvin and Prada
worn by models such as
Karlie
Kloss
Karolina
Kurkova, Angela Lindvall
and Alessandra Ambrosio
Models who strutted on a
catwalk between dining tables. All the dresses went
under the hammer to a single bidder, selling in just a
couple of minutes for a staggering $1.56m.
Psy impersonator crashes the party
by Fiachra
Ó Cionnaith
A man pretending
to be South Korean pop
star Psy has gate-crashed
the Cannes Film Festival,
partying with the stars and
dancing on French TV.
The real singer of
YouTube hit ‘Gangnam
Style’ took to Twitter to
expose the imposter after
spotting a picture of him
posing with Justin Bieber’s
manager, Scooter Braun.
Psy tweeted: “Seems
like there’s another ME at
Cannes... say hi to him
#PSYinSINGAPORE.”
The fake Psy managed
to blag his way into a
series of VIP events at the
glamorous festival and was
lavished with gifts of free
jewellery and champagne.
Swim documentary makes a splash
by Fiachra Ó Cionnaith
A documentary on Steve
Redmond’s attempts to became the first person to
swim some of the world’s
most treacherous waters has
wowed audiences at a major
film festival.
The 25-minute film Defeating Oceans Seven was
shown to critical acclaim last
night at the Corona Fastnet
Short Film Festival.
Directed by Wolfgang
Merkel and produced by
Red Bull Media, the documentary is based on live
footage of the Corkman as
he overcame the Oceans
Seven challenge — the
swimming world’s equivalent of the Seven Peaks
mountaineering challenge.
The film comprises eyecatching footage of the Ballydehob native as he battled
dangerous waters to become
the first person in history to
achieve the target.
The
Oceans
Seven
challenge sees swimmers
attempt
energy-sapping
long-distance journeys in
waters off Japan, Hawaii,
New Zealand, the Straits of
Gibraltar, Los Angeles, England, and Scotland.
Despite competition from
Steve Redmond attempts the Tsugaru Strait.
other rivals who were also
aiming to seal their place in
the record books, Mr Redmond — a 48-year-old father of two — completed
the quest last summer.
The documentary, which
has also been shown on the
Discovery Channel in the
US, follows the Corkman
on the last leg of the journey through the Tsugaru
Strait in Japan last July.
Underlining the stress his
body was under, the film’s
makers said capturing the
footage required a team of
five cameramen “hanging
on for their lives in rough
seas” on a nearby boat as
Mr Redmond swam.
Since becoming the first
person to accomplish the
feat, Mr Redmond has remained typically modest
about his achievements.
After being named World
Open Water Swimming
Association man of the year
in a global online poll in
January, he simply said:
“I really think its Cork’s
award and Ireland’s award.
It’s been a great year. To get
the three channels done and
finish it out and beat the rest
of the great swimmers
around the world it’s just
been an amazing trip for me
and my team.”
Of the documentary, he
said: “It brings every second
of the insanity and the madness that we went through
out there, back vividly to
the present day.
“They have made a marvellous job of it and I’m
eternally grateful to see this.
I can’t wait for everyone else
to see it.”
● Defeating Oceans Seven is
available
for
download
throughout the length of the
Corona Fastnet Short Film
Festival, which ends tomorrow.
Further details are at
fastnetshortfilmfestival.com.
‘No IMO-type situtation’ at Law Society, says report
by Gordon Deegan
The president of the Law
Society has advised its
14,000 members there is no
Irish Medical Organisation
(IMO)-type situation at the
society.
James McCourt reassured
the society’s members over
its finances following the
publication of a high-level
external review into pay
levels to the director general
Ken Murphy and senior
executive staff.
The report by international consultants Towers
Watson found “the current
governance structure and
processes for managing
reward in the Law Society
are working well”.
The report states: “There
are good processes in place
for determining basic salary
increases for executives
and for the director general
and also for determining
base salary levels for new
entrants.”
The report was commissioned by the society’s
finance committee before
a controversy, relating to
former chief executive
of the IMO George McNeice and his €9.7m retirement package plunged
the medical body into
turmoil.
Mr McCourt said the
Law Society’s council can
advise its members “no
IMO-type situation pertains
in the society”.
The council made the
declaration after confirming
the society’s pension fund is
95% funded and verified by
the society’s actuaries.
In 2011, the Law Society’s
122 staff shared €8m in
salaries — or an average of
€66,000 each that year —
against revenues, that year,
of €22.5m.
The Towers Watson senior
management remuneration
review at the Law Society
was extremely cautious at
not giving any hint to the
salaries of Mr Murphy and
his managerial colleagues.
In his report, Mr McCourt said that the society
has never published details
of remuneration of individual members of staff.
The report noted Mr
Murphy’s entitlements, outside his salary, were market
competitive.
The report stated there
had been a pay freeze in the
society since 2008.
“When compared against
the market, the total pay
levels paid to the senior staff
in the society are slightly
above the middle of the
market. This is not unusual,
given factors such as length
of service, absence of bonus
and the specific skill sets
required. The specialist
nature of some of the key
posts in the society would
generally attract a premium
in the market.
“The benefits package for
the director general is
broadly in line with market.
Apart from pension, the
benefits provided to the
senior management team
and other executive roles
reviewed are either behind
the market or market competitive.”
The Psy impersonator with
actress Naomie Harris.
Stars, including
American actor Adrien
Brody and Skyfall actress
Naomie Harris, flocked
to meet the fake Psy —
later revealed to be a
34-year-old look-a-like
Frenchman called Denis
Carre — and posted
pictures on Twitter.
The prank echoes tricks
which hit Manchester
United, international
cricket, Wimbledon’s
tennis tournament, and
the Irish soccer team.
Englishman Karl Power
got into a Manchester
United photo before a
Champions League tie in
2001.
Irish football fan Conor
Cunningham, from
Ballincollig in Co Cork,
took part in an audacious
trick of his own in order
to get into the first leg of
the European
Championship playoff
against Estonia in Tallinn
in Nov 2011. The
ticket-less fan bluffed his
way into the sold-out
game by pretending to be
part of Estonia’s backroom
team, before taking a seat
beside the home side’s
boss, Tarmo Ruutli.
Two Irish property tycoons
have been accused of
cynically trying to abuse
Britain’s bankruptcy regime
by hiding property and
transferring funds to their
families and associates.
An examiner with the
British Insolvency Service,
Allan Mitchell, warned that
Britain should not be seen
as a quick-fix bankruptcy
service which can be
abused.
The Irish developers
received restrictions totalling
16 years for trying to put
property and money beyond
the reach of their creditors,
with one of them clearing
over £1m (€1.17m) out of
his bank account in less
than two weeks in the
months before he declared
bankruptcy.
A string of high-profile
Irish moguls have become
bankruptcy
tourists
in
Britain in recent years because they are discharged
with a clean sheet after just
one year. However, Mr
Mitchell said the service will
vigorously pursue anyone
attempting to abuse their
system.
“The Insolvency Service
will vigorously pursue those
attempting to abuse the UK
insolvency
regime
and
deprive their creditors.”
The service revealed yesterday that the bankruptcy
restrictions against the developers followed investigations by its Stockton and
Leeds offices.
Patrick Gerard Byrne
and Martin Doran have
signed undertakings accepting nine and seven years
of bankruptcy restrictions,
respectively.
Mr Byrne, aged 44,
was declared bankrupt in
Britain in Nov 2011 after he
had moved to Spennymoor,
Co Durham, from Newbridge, Co Kildare. He
had debts of close to
€100m.
A subsequent investigation
by the official receiver found
that in the months prior
to his bankruptcy he made
several transfers from his
personal account at the
National Irish Bank to
relatives or associates in
informal and unwritten
arrangements which were
impossible to prove.
On Apr 28, 2011, the
balance of Mr Byrne’s
account was €1.2m, but
in just less than two
weeks on May 9, 2011, the
balance was just under
€2,000
The service revealed that
he transferred €500,000 to
his
estranged
ex-wife,
claiming this was a settlement to release him from
any financial obligations to
the marital home, which
was in negative equity following the collapse of the
Irish property market.
He
also
transferred
€500,000 to the niece of a
business associate, claiming
this was as repayment of a
loan
and
transferred
€114,000 to his sister and
€82,800 to a solicitor.
Martin Doran, aged 57,
from Duncormick, Co
Wexford, was declared
bankrupt in Britain in Dec
2011. He had debts of close
to €145m. In the months
prior to his bankruptcy, he
sold land at Ballyfrory in Co
Wexford and deposited the
€164,092 proceeds in his
wife’s account.
The service said that after
petitioning for his bankruptcy but before the order had
been passed, he received a
€195,055 tax refund into
the joint account he held
with his wife, €100,000 of
which she then transferred
into her sole account.
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Irish Examiner
Saturday 25.05.2013
WOOLWICH TERROR ATTACK
Bridge collapsed.
Probe into
bridge collapse
❚ A truck crashed into a
four-lane freeway bridge in
Washington state on
Thursday evening and may
have caused it to collapse,
sending vehicles and drivers
tumbling into a frigid river,
officials said.
A US National
Transportation Safety Board
investigation into what led
part of the Interstate 5
bridge to fall into the Skagit
River, 75km north of Seattle,
continued yesterday.
Three people were
rescued from the river and
no one died, officials said.
The freeway is a principal
corridor for vehicles between
Seattle and Vancouver,
Canada.
Turkey to curb
drink sales
❚ Turkey’s parliament has
passed a law to ban all
advertising of alcohol and
tighten restrictions on sales
in the mainly Muslim but
secular country.
The legislation bans the
sale of alcoholic drinks
between 10pm and 6am. It
also prohibits alcohol sales
anywhere close to mosques
and educational centres.
The government says the
law is to protect Turkey’s
youth from the harm caused
by alcohol but opponents
accuse the ruling party of
imposing an Islamic agenda.
Syrian parties
in unity move
❚ Syria’s fractious
opposition scrambled to
agree a new leadership
yesterday in a bid to present
a coherent front at peace
talks which the United States
and Russia are convening to
seek an end to more than
two years of civil war.
A major assault by
President Bashar al-Assad’s
forces on a rebel-held town
is shaping into a pivotal
battle. It has drawn in
fighters from Assad’s
Lebanese allies Hezbollah,
justifying worry that a war
that has killed 80,000 people
would cross borders.
Five missing
❚ Five climbers, including
two Hungarians and a South
Korean, are missing on the
world’s third-highest
mountain and feared dead,
a mountaineering official
said yesterday.
The five disappeared on
Monday on Mount
Kanchenjunga, and bad
weather was preventing a
rescue helicopter from
reaching their base camp.
Dipendra Poudel said the
climbers were descending
from the summit when they
were believed to have
slipped or fallen at an
altitude of about 25,900ft.
Suicide jumper
falls on girl
❚ A suicidal man jumping
to his death killed a
five-year-old girl by falling
on her as she walked with
her parents outside the
apartment building,
South Korean police say.
A police official said the
39-year-old man died
immediately after he jumped
on Wednesday from the 11th
floor of the building in the
southeastern port city of
Busan. The girl died later
from brain damage and
broken bones.
South Korea has the
developed world’s highest
suicide rate.
Russia hit by
powerful quake
❚ A powerful earthquake has
hit Russia’s Far East with
tremors felt as far away as
Moscow, about 7,000km
west of the epicentre.
The quake registered 8.0
on the Richter scale, said
Marina Kolomiyets, a
seismic station
spokeswoman. The
epicentre was in the Sea of
Okhotsk, east of the Russian
coast and north of Japan.
The US Geological Survey
reported a magnitude of 8.2.
A tsunami warning was
issued for Sakhalin and the
Kuril islands, but it was lifted
soon afterwards.
Our hearts have been ripped apart, say soldier’s family
by Pat Hurst
The tearful family of
murdered soldier Lee Rigby
said yesterday “our hearts
have been ripped apart”.
His wife Rebecca, 30,
mother of his son Jack,
aged two, and stepfather Ian
Rigby, 54, fought back tears
as they spoke on behalf of
the 25-year-old’s whole
family at a press conference
at the Regimental HQ of
his unit, the Royal
HERO HAILED
Regiment of Fusiliers in
Bury, Greater Manchester.
The soldier’s mother Lyn
Rigby, 46, sat red-eyed,
unable to speak through
tears, clutching a teddy her
son had bought his child.
Sobbing, Rebecca Rigby
said: “I love Lee and always
will. I am proud to be his
wife and he was due to
come up this weekend so
we could continue our
future together as a family.
“He was a devoted father
to our son Jack and we will
both miss him terribly.”
Asked about the shock of
the attack being on British
soil, she added: “You don’t
expect it to happen when
he’s in the UK. You think
they’re safe.
“His proudest moments
were serving in London on
the ceremonials with the
drum corps.”
The drummer, from
Langley, in Middleton,
Greater Manchester, of the
2nd Battalion, had served in
Afghanistan and was
attached to the regimental
recruiting team when he
was hacked to death on
Wednesday in Woolwich,
south east London.
Two suspects, shot at the
scene, remain in custody.
Mr Rigby’s stepfather Ian
said: “What can we say
about Lee, our hero, we
are so so proud of Lee.
When Lee was born the
family adored him, he was a
precious gift given to us.
He added: “Lee’s dream
growing up was always to
join the army, which he
succeeded in doing. He was
dedicated and loved his job.
“Lee adored and cared a
lot for his family, he was
very much a family man,
looking out for his wife,
young son Jack, younger
sisters, whom in turn
looked up to him. He
always had a banter with
them but would never, ever
let any harm come to
them.”
At times swallowing hard
and breathing in to contain
his emotions, he continued:
“Courtney and Amy his
younger sisters wrote this
for Lee: ‘Rest in peace,
Lee, we loved you so much,
you didn’t deserve this, you
fought for your country and
did it well. You will always
Security
services
face probe
over death
by Peter Griffiths
London
The British parliament is to
investigate if security services could have done more
to prevent the murder of a
soldier hacked to death in a
London street after it
emerged that his suspected
killers were known to intelligence officers.
Michael Adebolajo, 28,
and Michael Adebowale, 22,
are under guard in hospital
after being shot and arrested
by police after the murder
of 25-year-old Afghan war
veteran Lee Rigby on
Wednesday. They have not
yet been charged.
Adebolajo, filmed justifying the killing as he stood
near the body holding a
knife and meat cleaver, was
born in Britain to a Nigerian family. Adebowale is a
naturalised British citizen
born in Nigeria.
Two women arrested on
suspicion of conspiracy to
murder Rigby have been released without charge.
Detectives are continuing
to question a 29-year-old
man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
A stream of wellwishers
continued to lay flowers
near the scene of the murder, with bouquets numbering in their thousands.
Cleric praise
INVESTIGATION
British prime minister
David Cameron said a
parliamentary
committee
would investigate the role
of the security services. The
MI5 domestic spy agency
had been aware of the men,
but neither was considered a
threat, a government source
told Reuters.
The attack will increase
attention on radical organisations such as Al Muhajiroun, which organises
provocative demonstrations
against British troops and
was banned in 2010.
Adebolajo, who converted
to Islam and took the name
“Mujahid” — warrior —
attended lectures by radical
Islamist Omar Bakri, who
was banished from Britain in
2005. In Lebanon, Bakri
praised the attack.
“I used to know him. A
quiet man, very shy, asking
lots of questions about
Islam. It’s incredible. When
I saw that, honestly I was
very surprised — standing
firm, courageous, brave.
Not running away.”
Sources have said no sign
has emerged of direct links
between the attack and an
Islamist
insurgency
in
Nigeria.
— Reuters
be our hero. We are just
upset you left us so early.
Love you Lee, goodnight’.
“The last text he sent to
his mum read: ‘Goodnight
mum, I hope you had a
fantastic day today because
you are the most fantastic
and one in a million mum
that anyone could ever wish
for. Thank you for supporting me all these years,
you’re not just my mum
you’re my best friend. So
goodnight, love you loads’.”
The family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, left to right, mother Lyn, stepfather Ian, and wife Rebecca, address the
Picture: Dave Thompson
media. Rigby was slain on a street in London by two men believed to be radical Islamists.
Arson attack at mosque
■ A burning bottle was
hurled at a mosque while
members were inside at
evening prayers.
Thames Valley Police
said a bottle containing
flammable liquid was set
alight and thrown on to
the roof of the Zainabia
Islamic Centre, commonly
known as the Granby
Mosque, in Bletchley at
about 11.30pm on Thursday.
The attack comes in the
wake of the brutal murder
of soldier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks in
south-east London.
Members of the mosque
quickly extinguished the
fire.
There was no significant
damage caused to the
mosque during the arson
attack, police said.
Police appealed for witnesses.
The ad hoc shrine at the site of the killing where Lee
Rigby was hacked to death.
Picture: PA
Man charged over offensive Facebook comments
by Rod Minchin
A 22-year-old man has been
charged on suspicion of
making malicious comments
on Facebook following the
murder of British soldier
Lee Rigby.
Benjamin Flatters, of
RACIST REMARKS
Lincoln, was arrested after
complaints were made to
Lincolnshire Police about
comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly
of a racist or anti-religious
nature. He was charged with
an offence of malicious
communications yesterday
afternoon in relation to the
comments, a Lincolnshire
Police spokesman said.
A second man was visited
by officers and warned
about his activity on social
media,
the
spokesman
added.
The charge comes after
two men were earlier
released on bail following
their arrest for making
alleged offensive comments
on Twitter about the murder.
■ A Syrian-born Islamist
cleric who taught one of
the attackers accused of
hacking to death an
off-duty British soldier on
a London street praised
the attack for its
“courage” and said
Muslims would see it
as a strike on a military
target.
In an interview in
Tripoli, northern
Lebanon, where he has
lived since being
banished from Britain
in 2005, Omar Bakri,
founder of banned
British Islamist group Al
Muhajiroun, told Reuters
he knew suspect
Michael Abebolajo from
a decade ago.
“When I saw the
footage I recognised the
face immediately,” Bakri
told Reuters. “I used to
know him. A quiet man,
very shy, asking lots of
questions about Islam.”
“What surprised me
(is) the quiet man, the
man who is very shy,
decided to carry out an
attack against a British
soldier in the middle of
the day in the middle of
a street in the UK. In
east London. It’s
incredible.
“When I saw that,
honestly I was very surprised — standing firm,
courageous, brave. Not
running away. Rather, he
said why he carried (it
out) and he wanted the
whole world to hear it.”
The attack has been
vociferously condemned
by Muslim organisations
across Britain.
Adebolajo, 28, a
British-born convert from
a Christian Nigerian
immigrant family, went
by the nickname Mujahid
— warrior — after taking
up Islam as a teenager
in a suburb on the northeast outskirts of London.
— Reuters
Two held after RAF jet escorts plane into UK
by Peter Woodman
Two men were yesterday
being questioned by police
after a passenger plane was
diverted from Manchester
to Stansted Airport.
They were held on
suspicion of endangerment
of an aircraft after an RAF
Typhoon jet was scrambled
to escort the plane which
was travelling to the UK
from Pakistan.
Officers boarded Pakistan International Airlines
flight PK709 and removed
two men aged 30 and 41
from the plane. Early
indications were that there
was a fight on board and
the incident was not terrorism-related.
A police spokesman said
yesterday: “Essex Police
have boarded a passenger
plane diverted to Stansted
Airport and two men have
been arrested on suspicion
of endangerment of an
aircraft. They have been
removed
from
the
plane.”
The jet was scrambled
following an incident
about 10 minutes before
the plane, which departed
Lahore, was due to land in
Manchester at 2pm.
According to one of the
passengers, the aircraft’s
cabin crew said two men
Speaker’s wife
settles tweet libel
with McAlpine
by Jan Colley
Commons Speaker’s wife
Sally Bercow has settled a
libel action brought by Lord
McAlpine after the High
Court found a tweet posted
by her was highly defamatory of the Tory peer.
After the ruling by Mr
Justice Tugendhat in Lord
McAlpine’s favour, Ms
Bercow said: “I have accepted an earlier offer his
lawyers made to settle the
matter.”
The amount of damages
was not disclosed.
Her posting appeared two
days after a Newsnight report
last November wrongly implicated the former Conservative Party treasurer in allegations of sex abuse at Bryn
Estyn children’s home in the
1970s and 1980s.
Ms Bercow denied that
the tweet — “Why is
Lord McAlpine trending?
*Innocent face*” — was
defamatory,
but
Lord
McAlpine, who has already
received six-figure payouts
from the BBC and ITV, said
it pointed “the finger of
blame” during a media
frenzy.
Yesterday the judge agreed
and said it meant Lord
McAlpine was a paedophile
who was guilty of sexually
abusing boys living in care.
Ms Bercow said later
she did not tweet “with
malice”.
“I did not intend to libel
Lord McAlpine. I was being
conversational and mischievous, as was so often my
style on Twitter.”
Speaking
for
Lord
McAlpine, solicitor Andrew
Reid said he was pleased
with the judge’s finding that
the tweet was defamatory.
“Mr Justice Tugendhat’s
judgement is one of great
public interest and provides
had repeatedly tried to
get into the cockpit.
Umari Nauman told Sky
News: “The cabin crew
informed us that basically
they tried to come into the
cockpit a few times and
because they had been
asked not to do that,
they got into a bit of
an argument with the
crew and made a few
threats.”
She said passengers were
ordered to leave their
possessions
on
board
before leaving the plane.
The plane remained on
the north side of Stansted
with flights carrying on as
normal.
An airport spokesman
said the passengers were to
be taken to a reception
centre in Stansted for
possible police interviews,
before being transported
to Manchester.
Passengers disembark a plane at Stansted after it was
diverted following a fight onboard.
Picture: Chris Radburn/PA
Swedish police stretched to limit as riots continue
by Ilze Filks and
Mia Shanley
Stockholm
Sally Bercow: A warning to
all social media users.
both a warning to, and
guidance for, people who
use social media. It highlights how established legal
principles apply to social
media.”
The judge said Ms
Bercow’s
followers
on
Twitter — who numbered
56,000 — were probably
largely made up of people
who shared her interest in
politics and current affairs
and knew, by the time of
her post, the elements of the
story told on Newsnight.
“In my judgment, the reasonable reader would understand the words ’innocent
face’ as being insincere and
ironical.”
Police in Stockholm called
in reinforcements yesterday
after youths set cars and a
school ablaze in a fifth night
of rioting, the worst to hit
Sweden for years.
Pupils at a primary school
in Kista — an IT hub that
is home to the likes of
telecoms equipment maker
Ericsson and the Swedish
office of Microsoft —
arrived to find the inside of
the small red wooden building had been burnt out.
While Thursday was
slightly calmer than the four
nights before, about 30 cars
were torched and eight
people, mostly in their early
20s, were detained, police
said.
In a country with a
reputation for openness, tolerance and a model welfare
state, the rioting has
exposed a fault-line between
a well-off majority and a
minority — often young
people with immigrant
backgrounds — who are
poorly educated, cannot
find work and feel pushed to
the edge of society.
“Now it’s Friday, the
weekend, and we usually
have more to do. We think
there’s going to be a lot of
work and many have
worked hard these last few
days, so we are calling in
extra police,” spokesman
Anders Jonsson said, without giving numbers.
The spree of destruction
has seen masked youths
vandalise schools, libraries
and police stations, setting
cars alight and hurling
stones at police and firefighters.
It was sparked by the fatal
police shooting earlier this
month of a 69-year man,
reported by local media to
be a Portuguese immigrant
and suspected of wielding a
large knife, in a Stockholm
suburb called Husby.
— Reuters
Four footballers cleared of hotel room sex attack
by Shenai Raif
Four
footballers
were
cleared yesterday of sexually
assaulting a 19-year-old
woman in a hotel room.
Jurors at the Old Bailey
also found them not guilty
of voyeurism at a retrial.
Brighton
and
Hove
Albion
players
Anton
Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk,
21, and George Barker, 21,
and former team-mate Steve
Cook, 22, who now plays
for Bournemouth, had
maintained their innocence.
They were given bail
throughout the trial and
their families, including
Rodgers’ father — Liverpool manager Brendan
Rodgers — watched the
proceedings.
The prosecution said the
players were celebrating
victory in a local cup in Jul
2011, when they came
across the drunken woman
at a club.
She woke up at the Jury’s
Inn hotel to find her strap-
less dress pulled down and
said she saw explicit pictures
on Rodgers’ mobile phone.
Richard Barton, prosecuting, said these were taken as
a “permanent record of
their conquest”.
But despite forensic tests
on all the players’ phones,
only one photograph was
found on Barker’s phone.
Anton
and
Brendan
Rodgers left court without
commenting, but solicitor
Mark Haslam said they were
delighted with the verdict.
Anton Rodgers, right, with
his father, Brendan.
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THE BIG READ
Top of the world
As the 60th anniversary of the
first Everest climb approaches,
Conall Ó Fátharta looks back on
the achievement of Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
“Well, George, we
knocked the bastard off”
W
ITH those immortal words
to his friend
George Lowe,
the self-described “average bloke”
Edmund Hillary issued perhaps
the greatest understatement in the
history of mountaineering.
Just days before, on May 29,
1953, at 11.30am, both he and
Tenzing Norgay (pictured far
right) became the first people to
stand on the summit of Mount
Everest, the highest point on
Earth.
Since then, thousands of people
have trodden in their first steps to
stand, albeit briefly, at the top of
the world.
On the 60th anniversary of this
monumental achievement, the
epic story of the first ascent has
lost none of its allure.
There are other perilously high
mountains, but few have captured
the imagination like Everest. To
the Nepalese, she is known as
Sagarmatha and to the Tibetans
Chomolungma — ‘Goddess Mother of the Earth’.
At 8,848m (29,029 ft), Everest is
the signature peak of the vast
Himalaya range, which stretches for over 1,500 miles from
Kashmir to Assam.
Triangulated as Peak XV in
1856, foreigners first set their
eyes on the great mountain in
1849. Seventy years later, the expedition that included Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay was
the ninth attempt on the mountain. Up until the end of 2011, an
estimated 3,450 climbers had
successfully climbed Everest,
with over 200 having died.
Despite all the heroic success
and tragic failure, the mountain
still captures the imagination of
the world.
Remarkably, with all of the
modern advances in technology,
the annual death rate has
changed very little since people
began trying to reach its summit in 1921, with one death occurring for every 10 ascents.
The majority of deaths occur on
the descent.
It’s not surprising given the
sheer mammoth size of the
mountain. An expedition to
Everest usually takes over two
months, in order to give the
body time to adjust to operating
in such high altitude.
At its summit, there is 66%
less oxygen in the normal air
you breathe, making even the
most basic tasks very difficult
to complete. Your thought processes and decision-making
abilities become dangerously
impaired. At such high altitudes, that can mean death.
In fact, once you reach 8,000m
(26,000ft), the body is operating
in what mountaineers call the
‘Death Zone’.
At this height, it is impossible
for the human body to acclimatise as there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life. As a
result, the body starts to produce additional red blood cells
and the heart beats faster.
Non-essential body function
such as the digestive system
shut down or slow dramatically
so everything can be directed towards one goal — keeping the
brain alive.
To this day, few people attempt to climb the mountain
without carrying oxygen. In
1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first to
climb Mount Everest without
supplemental oxygen. It was a
feat many doctors, scientists
and mountaineers had previously thought impossible.
Since it was first conquered
in 1953, people as young as
13 years old and as old as 76
have made it to the top of
Everest. Apa Sherpa has
climbed it 21 times.
However, as legendary
British mountaineer Chris
Bonington has said, this
should not take away
from the enormity of
what Hillary and Tenzing
achieved. “With the passage of time, it would be
a mistake to underestimate the achievement
of the 1953, and the fact
that so many have now
climbed there shouldn’t
cloud the enormity of
this feat. We should not
forget the difference between following in
someone’s footsteps and
blazing a trail,” he said.
There were 13 men, not
including Sherpas, on the
1953 expedition which first
conquered Everest.
Led by John Hunt, there
were 10 climbers and three
people with specific duties
— a doctor, a physiologist
and a cameraman. The essential goal of the expedition
was a simple one — to put
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The assault on the great mountain began in earnest in early
April. It would be well over a
month before Hillary and Tenzing
stood on top.
The real work began with
Hillary, George Lowe, George
Band and Mike Westmacott taking
on the Western Cwm (the so-called
‘valley of silence’). The group,
working in relays from Base
Camp, began to establish a series
of camps with supply depots up
the perilous Khumbu Icefall and
into the Cwm. They then came
back down to rest and recuperate
while another party made higher
treks using oxygen.
On May 2, Hillary arranged a
test of the oxygen equipment to
see how well it worked at the lower altitudes. Along with Tenzing,
they climbed to Camp IV — Advance Base camp and returned
that afternoon. Although tired,
Hillary proclaimed the oxygen set
as “bloody marvellous”.
What really stood out about this
run, however, was just how strong
both Hillary and Tenzing were. It
was a clear indication that the
pair could be the strongest to take
on the summit.
The leader of the expedition,
John Hunt, had always wanted, if
possible, for a Sherpa to be in the
pair that went for the top. It
would be the perfect statement of
East and West co-operating for a
common goal of being the first
people to stand on the roof of the
world.
Once Camp V had been established, the next major challenge of
the ascent was to overcome the
great Lhotse Face. To get to the
South Col, all climbers must scale
the 1,125m (3,700ft) mammoth wall
of glacial blue ice. With pitches of
40 and 50 degrees, and even 80 degrees in places, it remains a
formidable climb to this day.
The team had adjudged this to
be an easy climb but realised that
the summit teams would have
been exhausted trying to lead the
route up the face on their own. As
a result, George Lowe, Mike Westmacott and George Band were
charged with the task of making a
route up the ice without oxygen.
With altitude taking its toll on
the team, Lowe was left to lead
the face on his own. In his book;
The Conquest of Everest: Original
Photographs from the Legendary
First Ascent, Lowe called this ascent “some of the steepest climbing I had ever experienced”. Lowe
and Sherpa Ang Nyima fixed
ropes and cut steps for much of
the way up to 25,000ft without oxygen in, as Lowe put it, a “heavy,
soul-sapping effort … This was
the front end of the attempt of
Everest and it felt like it”.
Lowe toiled for around 10 days
before, exhausted, others came up
to support him. It was a phenomenal show of strength and endurance and has been recognised
in the years since as a playing a pivotal role in
getting Hillary
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Tenzing to the top. Yet, he himself felt he had “failed in a way”
as he had not made it to the
South Col as he had promised
he would.
By May 26, Tom Bourdillon
and Charles Evans were set to
make an attempt on the South
Peak and the summit, if possible, using oxygen. Both men
were seen go over the top of the
South Summit (28,720ft) and
heading towards the summit. At
this point, they had gone higher
than any human beings had ever been before and looked strong
enough to reach the top.
In the hours that followed, the
weather closed in over the summit obscuring the view. This
raised fears for Bourdillon and
Evans who, by now, disappeared
from view from those waiting at
Camp VIII.
Later that afternoon, the pair
were seen emerge from the
mists to make a descent of the
couloir Lowe described as
“frightening to watch”. Both
men exhausted, they slid and
fell as they anchored and belayed each other back to camp.
Frightening as it may have
been, Bourdillon later described
it as “quite fun!”.
As it turned out, the pair
didn’t make it much further
past the South Summit. They
had reached the highest point
ever attained on the mountain.
Crucially, Evans and Bourdillon had left two oxygen bottles
below the South Summit as they
had enough to return to the
South Col. These two bottles
would prove crucial for getting
Hillary and Tenzing to the top
just a few days later.
On May 29, the pair were
ready to make history. They set
off from the final Camp XI at the
ridiculously high 27,900ft — well
inside the Death Zone.
At 8am, Hillary and Tenzing
were seen from below going
strongly but slowly up the final
slopes of the South Summit. At
9am, they had disappeared over
the South Peak. That was the
last anyone would see of them
until 1pm but George Lowe says
he felt sure they would reach
the summit.
At 1pm, excitement grew as
the pair were seen descending.
At this point, nobody knew if indeed Hillary and Tenzing had
reached the top. They stopped at
Camp IX at 2pm for an hour before descending again.
Hillary’s great friend Lowe
packed a thermos and camera
and just before 4pm to set out to
meet the pair. His words describe the poignant but typically
modest moment when Hillary
confirmed that the
summit of
Mount Everest had
“NOBODY CLIMBS
MOUNTAINS FOR
SCIENTIFIC REASONS.
SCIENCE IS USED TO
RAISE MONEY FOR
THE EXPEDITIONS,
BUT YOU REALLY
CLIMB FOR THE
HELL OF IT”
— Edmund Hillary
finally been conquered. “I
dragged up again and met Ed
and Tenzing at the foot of the
couloir — perhaps 500ft above
the Col. They were moving fairly rapidly — the only tiredness
showed in their slightly
stiff-legged walking as they
cramponed the last bit of the
couloir. I crouched, back against
the wind, and poured out the
Thermos contents as they came
up. Ed unclipped his mask and
grinned a tired greeting, sat on
the ice and said in his matter-of-fact way — ‘Well, George,
we knocked the bastard off !’.”
Hillary’s own description of
those final steps to stand on the
summit are similarly modest.
“It was too late to take risks
now. I asked Tenzing to belay
me strongly, and I started cutting a cautious line of steps up
the ridge. Peering from side to
side and thrusting with my ice
axe, I tried to discover a possible cornice, but everything seemed solid
and firm. I waved
Tenzing up to me.
A few more
whacks of the ice-axe, a few
very weary steps and we were
on the summit of Everest … I
turned and looked at Tenzing.
Even beneath his oxygen mask
and the icicles hanging from his
hair, I could see his infectious
grin of sheer delight. I held out
my hand, and in silence we
shook in good Anglo-Saxon
fashion. But this was not
enough for Tenzing, and impulsively he threw his arm around
my shoulders and we thumped
each other on the back in
mutual congratulations.”
They stood on the top of the
world for just 15 minutes.
Hillary then took the famous
photo of Tenzing standing on
the summit. His own ascent was
not recorded as Tenzing had
never used a camera before and
as Hillary put it “the summit of
Everest was hardly the place to
show him how”.
People might not know it
but Irish involvement in
epic Everest attempts has
been clear from the very
start. As Lorna Siggins
points out in her newly republished
book, Everest
Calling: The Irish Journey, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Howard
Bury made it to just under
1,000m below the summit in
1921. No mean feat when you
consider that the mountain was
not climbed until a full 32 years
later.
Born in Offaly to Anglo-Irish
stock, Bury’s life could have
been plucked straight out of the
pages of an adventure novel. A
botanist, spy, soldier and unwilling climber, he roamed all
over India, Tibet and China,
leaving wonderfully detailed diaries telling tales of adventure
which boys to this day would
dream about.
His job in 1921 was to take
make a thorough reconnaissance of the mountain, its approaches and a possible route to
the top. English mountaineer
George Mallory, who famously
disappeared with Sandy Irvine
on the summit ridge of Everest
in 1924, was also on the expedition. He loathed the Irish man.
However, Howard Bury’s contribution to staking a route to
the top was not forgotten and in
1953, when Hillary and Tenzing
became the first people to summit the mountain, he was one of
only two people told of the news
in advance of the coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II.
There Irish involvement
with Everest largely end-
ed until 1991, when eyes turned to
an all-island effort to get an Irishman to the top of the world. This
expedition, led by Belfast man
Dawson Stelfox, took a more difficult route to the top than Hillary.
Going from the north-eastern side,
they took the route of Mallory and
Irvine. Beset by bad weather, it
was gruelling effort.
Just two days shy of being exactly 40 years to the day since
Hillary and Tenzing first climbed
the great mountain, Dermot
Somers’s radio at Base Camp
crackled into life with the news
everyone wanted to here.
“Everest calling Rongbuk. Come
in please, over . . . Dermot. The altimeter is reading 8,848 metres
and I’m sitting on the summit of
the world.”
The voice speaking was Stelfox
— now the first Irish man to
climb Everest.
In the 20 years since, a number
of Irish climbers have made it to
the top of Everest. Noel Hanna
from Galway has climbed it a remarkable five times, Cork man
Pat Falvey has scaled it twice and
Clare O’Leary from Bandon has
become the first Irishwoman to
make it to the top. That’s to name
but a few.
As the years have passed, the
commercialisation of the mountain has become more and more
prevalent, with those with enough
money now being dragged up the
mountain by the hundreds.
This has led to accusa-
A woman of mettle: how Iron Lady rose to power
H
OW soon can you
speak ill of the dead?
That question flooded
social media sites on the announcement of the death of Margaret Thatcher, but never occurred to Charles Moore.
It is not hard to see why the former Daily Telegraph editor was
anointed, in 1997, by Baroness
Thatcher to be her posthumous biographer — his adoration of her
drips from the pages, but, while a
devotee, he is capable of casting a
critical eye across her motives,
tactics and outcomes.
Unparalleled access to her private papers, confidantes, and state
archives give freshness to the
well-known story of how the
daughter of a provincial grocer
became a global political
icon/hate figure.
We are used to defining the fabled ‘Iron Lady’ in ‘black and
white’ terms — a cross between
Elizabeth I and Henry V, her
shrieking battle cry for England
and St George forever ringing in
ours ears. On European integration: “No! No! No!” On the reasons
for refusing political status to the
Provisional IRA hunger strikers
in the Maze: “Crime is crime is
crime”. On early victories in the
Falklands War: “Just rejoice at
that news and congratulate our
forces and the marines. Rejoice.”
So, it is unusual, perhaps unsettling, when the ‘black and white’
First volume of
Margaret Thatcher’s
authorised
biography is
predictably
flattering, but not a
hagiography, says
Shaun Connolly
is interspersed with colour —
even turquoise. Writing to her
sister, Muriel, the young and
stylish Margaret Roberts gushes: “I decided to buy a really
nice undie-set to go under my
turquoise chiffon blouse.”
Blimey! Maggie in her undies
— pass the smelling salts, Denis.
Always more comfortable in
the company of men, Margaret
‘left’ her mother behind early: “I
loved her dearly, but after I was
15, we had nothing more to say
to each other.”
After being dumped by a dashing military man at Oxford,
Margaret mastered the art of
gaining the upperhand with the
opposite sex.
A later relationship was ended
with the post-war austerity air
of waste-not-want-not: dreading
the thought of becoming a
farmer’s wife, Margaret passed
the chap onto Muriel, who then
enjoyed a long marriage with
him.
Lucky with the men politics
threw her way (until Michael
‘Tarzan’ Heseltine committed
regicide in 1990 and toppled the
true blue Tory Queen), she met
Denis when he gave her a lift
home from a failed pitch to become the local Conservative
candidate.
She was not impressed; this
was no love match to begin
with, but it developed into a
deep bond, and his constant support would be essential for her
rise to power. That rise nearly
failed on launch, when Denis
had a nervous breakdown in
1964, partly due to an inability
to deal with the amount of time
his wife devoted to her first
ministerial job.
He left and went to South
Africa for an indefinite break,
and both realised that he might
not return. Interesting he chose
South Africa: a racist, white-minority-ruled Apartheid police
state was more relaxing for him
than staying home with his
wife.
Luckily for her, he returned,
because it was unthinkable a di-
vorced woman could have become Tory leader in 1975.
The misogyny of the time was
obstacle enough for Thatcher,
but men underestimated her
and believed they could use her
as a stalking-horse pawn to oust
Ted Heath, and end his chaotic
rule over the party, as none of
the old-boy, gentlemen patrician
grandees were prepared to get
their hands dirty by triggering
an election.
But the stalking horse could
not be tamed and Thatcher’s
momentum made her unstoppable. Then Labour prime minister, Jim Callaghan, patronised
Thatcher, and if he had called
an expected election in autumn
1978, he would have likely won
and Thatcher would have been
dumped as a novelty experiment.
But Callaghan’s caution got
the better of him, and a winter
of strikes overwhelmed his exhausted government and
Thatcher swept to power in
May, 1979.
Thatcher was, by 1982, the
most unpopular PM since
polling began, and drunk Argentine military junta ruler, Leopoldo Galtieri, then invaded the
Falklands and tested the mettle
of the lady who claimed to be
made of iron.
Even here, in her pomp, as
she dispatched the Task Force to
retake the far-away islands, the
other great hurdle to her Tory
leadership emerged again —
class.
When loyalist Alan Clark insisted Thatcher would “think
imperially” and use the force
she had let set sail, grandee
Nick Budgen haughtily warned:
“Don’t bet on that, she is governed only by what the Americans want. At heart, she is just
a vulgar, middle-class Reaganite.”
In the end, Budgen had little
to fear, especially when Thatcher electrified a meeting by silencing defeatist talk that
Britain could do little in response to the invasion, by
declaring: “We could bomb
Buenos Aires, if nothing else.”
Luckily, the Argentine capital
remained untouched, but nearly
1,000 men died in the battle for
the Falklands, and it is in that
conflict’s immediate aftermath
that Moore closes his first volume, with Thatcher at her
zenith.
Though, tellingly, he notes
victory may herald trouble for
volume two: “In her mind, it
helped to create the dangerous
idea that she acted best when
she acted alone.”
As one would expect from
Moore’s political leanings, his
attitude to Thatcher’s economic
slash-and-burn policies is glow-
ing, but he can surprise, as with
his analysis of the key first-term
Tory flagship policy of letting
council tenants buy their homes,
which he acknowledges led to disastrous property bubbles and a
housing shortage that still plagues
Britain today.
Moore gets Thatcher right on
Ireland: she had no historical
grasp, and only saw a British security situation that needed to be
contained to stop her being embarrassed abroad.
Despite Thatcher’s public insistence she would never talk to terrorists, she opened back channels
to the Provisional IRA during the
hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981 (as
she would, again, just before be-
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tions that some people are trying
to climb the mountain that have
no business being there. It has also led to claims of a “summit at
all costs” mentality.
Edmund Hillary himself waded
into one particular controversy in
2006 when he criticised fellow
New Zealander Mark Inglis —
who had just become the first double amputee to reach the top of
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Inglis admitted that his party
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found him close to death. More
than 40 climbers passed Sharp
that day without offering assistance. Some even reported seeing
him struggle with his oxygen apparatus. He eventually died of
oxygen deficiency having made
the summit.
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ing toppled in 1990).
As she faced down the whirlwind of worldwide condemnation
triggered by the hunger strikes,
Thatcher even remarked: “You
have to hand it to some of these
IRA boys,” whom she believed
were prepared to die on the orders
of their leaders.
Willing to use her feminine
charm to get ahead in a man’s
world — in the context of the
times, that was normal — Thatcher was no feminist role model, but
did rail against being labelled, always preferring to be called
Britain’s first scientist prime minister, rather than its first female
one.
An up-and-coming Thatcher dis-
scribed Inglis’s behaviour during
the incident as “pathetic”.
“I think the whole attitude toward climbing Mount Everest has
become rather horrifying,” said
Hillary. “The people just want to
get to the top … It was wrong if
there was a man suffering altitude
problems and was huddled under
a rock, just to lift your hat, say
‘Good morning’ and pass on by.”
Hillary pointed out that his expedition in 1953 “would never for
a moment have left one of the
members or a group of members
just lie there and die while we
plugged on towards the top”.
As with death on Mount Everest, its commercialisation was,
sadly, something of an inevitability. What was the preserve of elite
climbers is now within the grasp
of somebody with the financial
means and the drive to get to the
top. What drove Hillary was not
fame, fortune or ego. He wanted to
blaze a trail for the thrill of
adventure.
“Nobody climbs mountains for
scientific reasons. Science is used
to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the
hell of it.”
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missed a newspaper invitation,
in the late 1960s, to write a piece
on women in politics, observing
waspishly: “They’ve been
around since Eve, you know.”
Adam and Eve saw us banished from Eden, and Thatcher,
along with her soul mate,
Ronald Reagan (though many
might dispute whether either
had a soul), ripped apart the
post-war consensus that social
inclusion, and Keynesian interventionist economics, went
hand in hand to create a greater
good.
The pair remade the world in
their own image, to such an extent that when ‘New’ versions of
the US Democrats and British
Labour, under Bill Clinton and
Tony Blair, took over in the
1990s, they lacked the will or
conviction to unleash a counter
revolution, and deregulated and
deindustrialised along
Thacherite lines, leading to the
financial collapse of 2008.
To that extent, we all remain
Thatcher’s ungrateful children.
Given her misunderstanding
of Ireland, and the way she and
the Republican movement fed
off their mutual loathing of each
other to energise and activate
their core supporters, it is
deeply ironic that the second
volume of Moore’s biography
will echo Sinn Féin’s ethos,
as it rejoices in the title:
Herself Alone.
■ Margaret Thatcher,
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For Turning by Charles
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CLASS CRUSH: About 1,000 Annapolis Naval Academy freshmen, Class of 2016, climb the Herndon Monument at the US Naval
Academy on Monday in Annapolis, Maryland. Each year the freshman class, known as “plebes”, climb the lard-covered monument at
the US Naval Academy to retrieve the Plebe dixie cup hat and replace it with an upperclassmen’s hat. The annual tradition is one step
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WEEKEND
COMMENT & LETTERS
FROM OUR ARCHIVE
Established 1841
Everything must be
done to avert strikes
A winter of discontent is looming over the
country’s secondary schools as teachers and
Government continue on a head-on collision
course that could prove disastrous for thousands
of pupils.
With the education system facing one of the most
challenging periods in its history, and the economy
deeply mired in trouble, it is clear that a prolonged
strike would put the future of Ireland’s young
people at even greater risk than it now is.
Hopefully, with critical Junior and Leaving Cert
as well as third-level exams looming, there will be
no disruption of the system through industrial
action before schools and institutes of technology
break up for the summer holidays.
Barring a major blunder by one side or the other
in the bitter war of words currently being waged,
there seems no reason for a strike at this stage.
Battle lines will not be drawn until pay cuts are
actually imposed. However, given the likelihood
of skirmishes in this highly volatile situation,
nothing can be guaranteed.
The stark reality is that both sides continue to
paint themselves into corners which will be
difficult to escape from without losing face.
The Government has now shown its hand by
delivering something of an industrial relations
broadside in the form of a gauntlet thrown down
by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.
Leaving no room for doubt, he announced
yesterday that legislation will be introduced in the
Dáil next week to give effect to public sector pay
cuts for those who have not signed up to revised
pay agreements.
Despite this move, two out of the three teacher
unions, ASTI and the TUI, remain every bit as
opposed to the so-called Haddington Road deal as
they were to the ill-fated Croke Park II agreement,
which a majority of the public service workforce
rejected.
Since its revision, the stance of ASTI and TUI
has not wavered. They claim nothing of any
significance has changed. The new deal has,
however, been endorsed by the INTO, representing
national school teachers.
Not alone have the secondary school leaders
refused to sign the new-look deal, they will not
even put it to a vote of their members.
Showing how little wriggle-room is left, the two
unions have backed a mandate for strikes if the
Government moves to impose pay and other cuts.
Ironically, while not giving ground in any
tangible way, Mr Quinn made what seems like a
conciliatory gesture by emphasising that it was
the teachers’ right in a democracy not to accept
the revised agreement on public sector pay.
Perhaps less an olive branch than a mailed fist
in a kid glove, he stressed the Government would
move forward next week and warned that the
legislation would be passed.
Against this uncertain backdrop for both
students and their parents, it seems likely that
when pupils return for the 2013-14 educational year,
the grim prospect facing them is for a school term
that has all the signs of being hit by a rash of
strikes and other forms of industrial action in a
campaign already being planned by teachers.
Every possibility should be explored to avert such
a crisis.
In the meantime, a cynical observer might be
tempted to suggest that nothing will happen which
could in any way disrupt the summer-long holidays
that teachers continue to enjoy.
Above all else, that is a major perk of a relatively
well-paid job which really sticks in the public
craw.
UCC plans laudable
Any Irish university that becomes largely
self-funding deserves to be applauded. According to
plans outlined by UCC president Michael Murphy,
the college will achieve that ambitious aim within
five years.
Though Ireland’s economic collapse has seen
young graduates leave the country in droves, that
does not negate the importance of investing in the
academic world. Looking towards better times
ahead, the fundamental objective of the strategic
plan should result in saving the beleaguered
taxpayer millions of euro a year.
The future campus will boast an innovative
business school as well as a ‘student hub’ to
enhance the employment prospects of its
graduates. The elusive goal of becoming largely
self-financing is the kind of thinking this country
urgently needs in its present predicament.
The UCC project speaks for itself and ought to be
generously supported.
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Memorial park
for JFK opens
May 1968
Nation’s Tribute to
JF Kennedy
The President John F Kennedy
Memorial Park, at Slieve
Coilte, in Co Wexford — Ireland’s tribute to the late US
statesman — was opened yesterday by President Éamon de
Valera, in the presence of
thousands of people, including
members of the Kennedy family.
The gift, which was jointly
paid for by the State and by
Irish-American organisations,
was acknowledged by Mrs Eunice Shriver, the sister of President Kennedy, when she said:
“When he left Shannon Airport five years ago, President
Kennedy said ‘I’ll be back in
the springtime’.
Eunice Shriver, sister of the late
President John F Kennedy, planting a
tree at the John F Kennedy Memorial
Park at Sliabh Coilte, Co Wexford,
shortly after the official opening by
President de Valera on May 29, 1968
(Ref 63/004)
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Church has no power over us
It is with great disappointment that I
learned recently of the veiled threat of
the potential excommunication of
politicians voting in favour of the proposed abortion legislation. While the
Church wishes to deny the termination of pregnancy in all circumstances, we all know there will be exceptional circumstances where the
right to choose should not be denied.
I must say that I find this stance extraordinary coming from a church
that has not excommunicated one
member of the clergy convicted of
rape and sexual assaults of young children worldwide: A church which told
their members not too long ago not to
report sexual abuse claims to the
guards but report directly to Rome, a
church which, when 3000 cases were
reported within a short time period,
head office in Rome dictated that they
should be investigated by each diocese
as they were unable to cope.
The Church needs to wake up to the
fact that they no longer have dictatorial powers over the majority of their
flock, long lost to them by the depraved acts of some and subsequent
wholesale betrayal of numerous innocent children.
I will continue to practise my faith
in my own way and am well capable of
making my own decisions regarding
the welfare of all children, both the
living and unborn.
C O’Herlihy
Blackrock
Cork
Famine study has no bite
“You have made it possible for
him to come back on his birthday, a man whose spirit and
ideas, Irish-laden, were high,
Irish-strong, were firm.”
President de Valera extended a
warm welcome to all attending the opening ceremony, and
especially to the members of
the Kennedy family, and to the
many Irish-Americans who
had travelled 3,000 miles to be
there.
In the short time that President Kennedy had been in Ireland, he had endeared himself
to everyone and it was with
feelings of personal and individual mourning that the Irish
people had received the news
of his tragic death.
President de Valera said that
he was convinced that if President Kennedy had a choice of
the type of memorial he would
like, he would select the
memorial park they were
opening.
The park would serve significant educational purposes
and would also be an important scientific centre.
In a warm personal tribute to
President Kennedy, President
de Valera said: “His death was
a great loss to his own country, to Ireland and, in my opinion, to the entire world”.
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West Cork needs a civic voice
We should shine a spotlight
on decades of dishonesty
On my recent visit to my hometown of Clonakilty I was so delighted to
find a truly delightful Irish country town; the colourful facades; the
clean streets; the pedestrian friendly squares; the multiplicity of eating
places have made it into a vibrant West Cork town. In spite of two devastating floods the people of the town, the Tidy Towns group, in particular, have pulled up their sleeves and with the encouragement of the
town council and its councillors raised the morale of the populace by
restoring it to a vibrant active community. Notwithstanding all the
economic gloom, Clonakilty exudes a sense of hope.
On the other hand, I was truly shocked and horrified to hear that the
Town council and its elected councillors are about to be abolished. This
is a seriously bad decision, a backward step for local democracy.
Who will represent the local community? Are decisions about the
town to be made far away in Cork city by people who know little of, or
understand even less, the needs of the town? Is this democratic? Far
from it. A democratic deficiency looms over West Cork.
Here in the UK (where I live) there exists a very active and thriving
civic movement. Hundreds of towns and villages throughout the country have what is known as a civic society. Cities have multiple groups
representing individual suburbs, or as is the case of London, boroughs.
These societies are run by a committed group of local people with a
strong sense of civic pride; a strong sense of place. They are not aligned
to any political party and are run on a voluntary basis. Each society
has a written constitution which embodies their aims and objectives.
Their remit is wide and covers both the built and the surrounding natural environment. Those objectives are to promote high standards of
planning and architecture and to promote a sense of civic awareness.
Some societies will undertake small local projects such as producing
a town map identifying key elements of the town, or compiling a photographic history of the town. Others will undertake much larger and
long-term projects, such as the restoration of an historic building providing units for small businesses or art studios. Still others will undertake enormous long-term projects such as the restoration of a canal or
a river system. The list of what the civic movement has achieved over
the past 70 years is endless. But they all started from small beginnings.
Many of them run their own heritage centres which greatly add to
the tourist industry in the area. Most run an educational programme
for the local people, heightening their awareness of all aspects of the locality. All have a membership drawn from the local community and
publish a regular newsletter keeping local people informed. Needless to
say, politicians and councils listen to them.
There already exists in Clonakilty (and I’m sure in other towns also)
a core group of committed townspeople, ready to form the Clonakilty
Society in preparation for and before the demise of their town council
and its councillors. Now is the time to get it off the ground.
West Cork needs a civic voice.
Many of the greatest spongers in the
world (politicians) are now trumpeting
“the good of the State” as their reason
for clamping down on tax-avoidance.
Firstly, it has been known for
decades that wealthy people and corporations use offshore companies and
trusts to avoid — not evade — paying
tax.
It is legal, because laws were made
by previous politicians to allow their
cronies to do that.
Secondly, the State is merely a name
that is used when they want something.
Every decent taxpayer in private industry — garages, shoe shops, journalists, supermarkets, book shops, hairdressers, etc — owns the country, because without them to generate tax
money, the politicians would have
nothing.
A government’s duty used to be, and
should still be, to make sure that it
creates the best country for honest
workers.
Unfortunately for us, all that the
politicians want now, desperately, is
money to prop up their ludicrously extravagant lifestyles and pay the hundreds of thousands of largely useless
bureaucrats that they dishonestly created.
The energy from this facade of honesty should be used to shine a spotlight on those decades of dishonesty.
Deirdre Clenet (Hurley)
London
England
Jerry Buttimer reckons the abortion
legislation might not make the Government’s deadline of being ready
before the summer.
The free GP care for the long-term
ill is pushed back again, the children’s
hospital now on a longer finger,
reform of the Dáil, Séanad and local
government moving at a snail’s pace,
jobs strategies that are barely moving
despite huge emigration and “intern”
work.
Then they’ll all hit off on a huge
summer break, still claiming expenses, while families struggle with less
and less, the retail sector keeps going
despite less money in families’ pockets
and rising rates.
It proves the point that politics is
the conspiracy of the unproductive,
but organised against the productive
but unorganised.
Regarding your article ‘Detected
blight strain linked to Great Famine’, I
ask ‘what we are to do with this information’? Gasp in awe at modern science and petition our public representatives for more funding for such dedicated researchers? They might benefit
from primary research, namely harvesting the subject of their passion
(the common spud) on a cold and wet
October night. Sir Walter Raleigh, a
leading agricultural scientist of his
day, introduced the potato to this
country, with devastating, inadvertent
consequences.
Even if the scientists are incapable
of learning from their failings, we
should. What does knowing which
strand of blight caused the famine do
for Irish agriculture? Or, is this the
published findings of the tribunal set
up shortly after the famine? Who is
paying for this research? I am more
interested in knowing what this ‘insight’ has cost, and what these people
are earning.
While Dáil Eireann spends time arguing about TDs and their penalty
points, perhaps your readers may reflect on our mental health services
and the increasing social deprivation
of the marginalised groups within our
own communities.
There are certain hot potatoes in political ovens which few appear ready
to grasp, let alone debate and act upon
at Oireachtas level.
It is disgraceful that the bill supposedly designed to protect women in pregnancy has no protection from rapists.
If fact, the Medical Council of Ireland
has also ruled this out completely. It
could be argued that those who do not
see rape as justifiable reason for a termination are in fact condoning the act
of rape. If rape cannot be seen as
wrong, then it cannot be denied that
anti-abortionists are fundamentalists
that will stop at nothing to bolster
their own mania.
John Quinn
Newmarket-on-Fergus
Co Clare
John Good
Killenard
Co Laois
Maurice Fitzgerald
Shanbally
Co Cork
Political hot potatoes no
one wants to touch
Failing to protect women
Dick Barton
Tinahely
Co Wicklow
Politicians get ready to jet
off as we struggle at home
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Gardaí are not always a ‘force’ for good
T
O make a
hames of one
smear was unfortunate, to
make a hames
of two was careless. Twice in the
last nine days, unofficial, and potentially damaging, information
from the gardaí was inaccurate.
In both cases, the information
was used as a political tool.
Wielding the power, pulling the
political strings, were members
of An Garda Síochána. That is
not healthy for any society that
values democratic norms.
There are three bodies in the
State that have access to the details of the lives of citizens. The
Revenue Commissioners have
sight of people’s tax affairs, and,
with it, much detail on the finances of the bulk of the populace.
By and large, Revenue is
guarded in its duties to citizens.
It is rare for information about
an individual to leak out. Quite
obviously, a culture exists in
Revenue in which their duties,
in this regard, are taken extremely seriously.
The Department of Social Protection is in possession of copious amounts of personal detail of
citizens. The department, and its
employees, have access to detail
on any citizen drawing State
benefit, including child benefit.
The record of the department,
in properly guarding the information, is not great. Just last
week, the Data Protection Commissioner referenced concern
over details leaking from the department.
About seven years ago, in researching a case on how private
investigators obtain information,
I was stunned at the volume and
detail of information they could
glean from the department’s
files.
There have been cases where
employees have accepted money
for information, but there has also been casual access, on the basis of a request from a friend or
acquaintance, or just for pruri-
ence. Employees have been
nabbed for disseminating information, so while there is
not a culture of total respect,
there is some deterrent to
abusing access.
It’s all a different ball-game
in the gardaí. That agency possesses highly sensitive information, which, as seen in recent days, can be used as a
tool. This applies to the manner in which the information
is released, the spin put on it,
and the timing.
a greenhorn. He had to know
he was being handed a political tool, to use as he saw fit.
And so he did, on RTÉ’s
Prime Time, where he also got
his facts wrong. Wallace wasn’t
stopped, as Shatter had inferred, and there was no question of a caution being issued.
Neither was there any written
record of the affair.
So where did the wires get
crossed? What exact detail, of
an encounter between a member of the force and a private
Shatter’s account, he didn’t
refuse to give a sample, but
was unable to do so because of
his asthma.
The timing of the issuing of
McGrath’s allegations (framed
as questions) is also interesting.
The incident dates from four
years ago. Unless Mattie was
sitting on it all that time,
somebody passed it onto him
in recent days, to cause the
maximum damage to Shatter.
And, again, the details were in-
‘’
Twice in the last nine days, unofficial information from the gardaí was
inaccurate. The information was used as a political tool. Wielding the
power, pulling the political strings, were members of An Garda Síochána.
That is not healthy for any society that values democratic norms.
The information about Mick
Wallace’s encounter with gardaí, over a mobile phone, was
particularly instructive. A casual encounter, across the open
windows of two vehicles more
than a year ago, found its way,
first, to the ear of the Garda
Commissioner, Martin Callinan.
Callinan, according to Justice Minister Alan Shatter,
passed a version of the encounter onto him in the course
of a briefing about the penalty-points controversy. Shatter’s
contention that this was discussed in the context of garda
discretion lacks all credibility.
Shatter is a solicitor of 30-plus
years. He knows, as do most
adults, that gardaí regularly
exercise discretion in the interests of natural justice.
Shatter didn’t need to be
shown an example, as if he was
citizen, passed between commissioner and minister?
Is their regard for the privacy of citizens so casual that
both had their facts wrong? Or
did somebody in the chain spin
the facts to cast Wallace in as
poor a light as possible?
Shatter’s encounter with
members of the force, as relayed by Mattie McGrath in
the Dáil last Thursday, also
raises questions.
Again, the facts of the encounter, details of which must
have originated in the gardaí,
appear to be wrong. The date
was definitely wrong, with
Mattie suggesting it was after
the last general election, but
before Shatter’s formal appointment as minister for justice, a timing that would have
given the incident far greater
significance. It was, in fact, at
least two years earlier. By
accurate, by accident or design, portraying the incident
as far worse than it was.
Just as elements of the force
are peeved with Wallace for his
role in highlighting the penalty-points issue, so, too, are
some at Shatter for his obnoxious demeanour in a time of
austerity.
Clare Daly is another who
has had a prominent role in
the penalty-points revelations.
Her arrest, last February,
over suspected drink-driving,
and her delivery to the local
garda station in handcuffs,
found its way into the public
domain in a matter of hours.
While it was always likely
that the encounter would receive publicity, the swiftness
of the leak ensured that a garda version got out before Daly
could issue a statement. In the
world of spin, you strike first,
because that blow tends to
have the most lasting impact.
As it was to turn out, Daly was
not over the drink-driving limit, and she lodged a complaint
to the garda ombudsman commission.
On Thursday, it emerged
that while members of the
force were quick to release information about the Daly incident to the media, others have
been highly reluctant to act
with the same speed in co-operating with the ombudsman’s
investigation of same.
The Irish Examiner reported
yesterday that a request for information on the incident was
resisted on the basis that it
“wasn’t relevant”, and was only supplied after a long delay.
The Daly case is just one of
many that the ombudsman has
cited as examples of a slow,
and reluctant, flow of information from the force to the commission in the course of investigations.
Is it that the force just
freezes when it’s not in control
of the flow and detail of information? Does this also account
for the appalling treatment,
from on high, of the whistle-
blowers who brought the
penalty-points issue into the
public domain?
Personally, I have encountered officers who have been
extremely helpful and generous with their time and information, while careful not to reveal details about any individuals. Culturally, however, right
to the top, the gardaí’s collective attitude to information appears to retain all the instincts
of a colonial force.
Secrecy, control of flow, and
use for political advantage are
all arrows in the quiver of
such a force, and we’re long
past the point, in this country,
where this is either desirable
or appropriate. But
that’s the way it
remains, largely
because many in
the body politic
have no will to
see it change.
MICHAEL
CLIFFORD
We can breathe easy with Howlin and Shatter in charge
S
O, Irish body politics has
been diagnosed with severe
asthma.
From the Greek for ‘panting’,
asthma is described as a “common,
chronic inflammatory disease of the
airways”.
The national airwaves have been
clogged up with all kinds of unpleasantness emanating from politicians in recent days.
Public Expenditure Reform Minister, Brendan Howlin, tried to wave
goodbye to Croke Park/Choke
Park/Broke Park* (*emphasise
name according to prejudice) and
delivered us the snappily tilted
“Haddington Road Agreement”, instead.
However, Dublin cartography enthusiasts will know this city-centre
location as Beggars Bush — and
Beggars Banquet would be a more
fitting name for the scrappy deal.
After abandoning so many of the
Government’s red lines, Mr Howlin
announced he had achieved workplace “peace”.
It was an eerie phrase, not quite
reminiscent of Britain’s appeasement prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, returning from the Munich
conference of 1938 to declare “peace
in our time”, but if the Beggars-Can’t-Be-Choosers-Bandage-Bundle holds together, it will
have been bought by driving a
coach and horses through the Coalition’s claims it can reform the public service.
Given the concessions, Mr Howlin
would have been more accurate to
declare he had returned from the
Haddington Road haggle with:
“Peace in our double time”.
He called it this Government’s
“last ask” on public-sector workers,
but Mr Howlin knew a wave of
strikes and unrest, following on
from the rejection of the previous
offer, could have been the last gasp
for the Coalition.
Hence, the abandonment of the
harder line and the delusional declaration he could still achieve
€300m in savings, this year, from
the public payroll bill.
Who did the maths for Mr Howlin
on that one — James Reilly?
SHAUN
CONNOLLY
The cumbersomely
titled ‘Haddington
Road Agreement’
was a last-gasp
attempt to prevent
nationwide strikes,
while the blowhard
Justice Minister
learned the dangers
of smear politics
done by 2017, or maybe 2018-ish.
Oh OK, 2020 any good to you?
2021?”
Reilly on universal healthcare:
“It’s a programme for government
commitment — defo by the end of
this parliament. Or, maybe the end
of the next parliament, but certainly half way through the parliament
after that — tops.”
It is extraordinary that no-one
in Irish public life bats an eyelid
that Reilly has been exposed as a
debtor who has not complied with
a High Court ruling, yet sits in a
Cabinet about to seize money
from the wages and dole cheques
of the ‘little people’ who run up
property tax debts.
Just look how Dr Reilly has let
political ‘asthma’ surge out of control around the Cabinet table.
We have dear old Minister for
Injustice Alan Shatter to thank for
bringing the disease to such public attention, as, despite previously stating asthma did not affect
him, he now informs us it stopped
him completing a breathalyser
test, when asked to do so by the
gardaí.
Why is there such a
discrepancy in the
rates of suicide
between men and
women? From a young
age, boys are taught
not to cry. Such shows
of emotion as fear,
timidity or sadness are
frowned upon. Boys
learn, both consciously
and unconsciously,
to suppress their
emotions.
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In another contribution to the
tarnishing of politics in the public
mind, he also delighted us with a
new phrase — the Shatapology.
This is a curious linguistic device by which the erroneous party
sort of says ‘sorry’ to the injured
party, but is only sorry that the
latter did not recognise the brilliance of the former during the exchange that prompted the Shatapology.
Almost as grimly amusing to
watch was the idea of Willie O’Dea
taking the moral high ground over
the issue of whether Mr Shatter
should have publicly shafted Mick
Wallace by revealing he had roadside penalty points waived by gardaí.
This would be the same Mr
O’Dea who was forced to resign as
defence minister after it emerged
he had given a false affidavit, to
the High Court, that had smeared
a political opponent.
With Mr Shatter also occupying
the role of military man in Government, at least there is some
consistency in having such overly
defensive defence ministers.
Justice Minister Alan Shatter
speaking to the media about
his claims that Independent
TD Mick Wallace was warned
for using a mobile phone
while driving.
Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins
Reilly is, of course, the numbers
genius of this Government. He allowed the health overspend to spiral out of control to such an extent
he has been placed under acute observation by the IMF, who now
track his every penny.
But, then, giving an €18bn
health budget to a fellow
well-known for his forecasting abilities might have been a tad ambitious. Reilly on the National Children’s Hospital: “Sure, we’ll get it
And it might be well for Mr Shatter to remember, as he faces into a
no-confidence vote, that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then
as farce.
His car-crash approach to the
penalty points scandal has left him
seeing events swerve dangerously
out of his control.
And it is also interesting to remember that Mr O’Dea initially survived the vote of no-confidence in
him, once the false affidavit came to
light.
It was his appallingly arrogant behaviour during the debate, and its aftermath, that did for him and forced
him from office.
That sorry spectacle should now
sound some alarm bells for Mr Shatter, as the unusual affair of his
non-breath test threatens to drive on
into a second week.
Mr Shatter is in danger of finding
out that those who live by the political smear can also die by the political smear.
So many questions remain unanswered over his date with destiny —
but by not blowing into a breathalyser, on Pembroke Street all
those years ago, this saga could yet
surge into a number of different directions.
If the garda report on the incident
emerges, and there is no Pembroke
Street Agreement between the two
accounts, Mr Shatter may be back
writing raunchy sex novels sooner
than we thought.
While his loss from high office
would hardly be literature’s gain, it
could well ease the symptoms of political asthma that have left the
Coalition wheezing.
Strangely, after Mr Shatter was
unable to complete his breath test,
he was not asked to go to a garda
station to give a sample of urine.
But, then, this should hardly surprise us, as Mr Shatter has always
been better at taking the urine than
giving it.
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on Twitter at @shaunconnolly01
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literary feast
The Enigma of Return
Dany Laferriere
(translated by David Homel)
MacLehose, £12.99
Kindle: £8.51
Review: Billy O’Callaghan
In 1947, Martiniquan poet and politician Aimé
Césaire’s epic surrealist work, Notebook of a
Return to the Native Land, considered the
cultural identity of black Africans in a colonial
setting. Thirty years later, Trinidad’s Nobel
Prize-winning author, VS Naipaul, penned a
masterful book, part-novel, part-autobiography,
entitled, The Enigma of Arrival, musing on the
shift in perception and slow-growing familiarity
for the place of an exile’s landing as well as how
our new surround influences and changes us.
Both of these works cast strong shadows across
Dany Laferrière’s latest novel. Césaire is
frequently referenced throughout the book;
Naipaul passes without mention but his
influence would seem a justifiable assumption,
even beyond the appropriated and cleverly
inverted title.
The plot here is a simple one: For more than
30 years, the novel’s narrator, Windsor Laferrière
(which happens to be the author’s birth name)
has lived in Montreal, having fled Haiti to escape
the brutal regime of Baby Doc Duvalier. Now,
while suffering from writer’s block, he receives a
phone call informing him that his father, who’d
long been absent from his life, has died in a
hospital in New York. He attends the funeral
service, then travels to his homeland in order to
break the sad news to his mother. The
reconnections happen slowly: with place, with
people that he has known, and finally, with
family. It is a voyage of discovery.
The story is heavily autobiographical,
mimicking the author’s own life, but you read
this book less for its plot than for the peculiarly
alluring style, which flits between free verse and
slabs of prose, and for the breathtaking quality of
its observations. The magic is in the language,
the unfurling of memory delivered in some 60
titled line-broken prose/poem pieces, the
enlightenment and compassion afforded by
exile’s distance and its scars. Slowly, evocatively,
Haiti is brought to life in all its beauty and
horror. History looms large for eyes still attuned
to old expectations. Everything changes, and
nothing does.
Born in Port-au-Prince in 1953, Dany
Laferrière moved to Canada in the mid ’70s.
Writing in French, he had, within a decade,
penned his sensational debut, How to Make Love
to a Negro Without Getting Tired.
Since then, he has enjoyed a prolific and
highly acclaimed career as both a novelist and
poet. The Enigma of Return, his 11th novel, is the
eighth of his books to enjoy an English
translation and is likely to be the one that breaks
him to a larger audience. Already lauded with
the Prix Medicis, one of France’s most esteemed
honours, it is a thoughtful piece of work from an
idiosyncratic and audacious writer.
BEGINNER’S PLUCK
BETHANY DAWSON
Bethany has always written. As a young child
she’d invent adventure stories for her two
younger sisters.
“After university, I wrote a
novel set in Zimbabwe. I spent
five months there writing it. It
was never published. Then I
worked in a cafe for a while,
then took my Masters.”
She taught English as a foreign
language in Dublin, then
married and moved back to
Northern Ireland. She planned
to take a PGCE in teaching at Cambridge or
Queens.
“I was accepted, but decided to write another
novel instead.”
WHO ISBETHANY DAWSON?
Date/place of birth: Aug 24, 1983/Newtownards.
Education: Girls College in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
University of Ulster, English, then Trinity College Dublin,
Master of Philosophy in Creative writing.
Home: Belfast Family: Married to Sam, a doctor, with a
son, Finlay, 14 months. Another baby due in October.
The Day Job: “I work for a Zimbabwean newspaper, by
correspondence.”
Interests: “I enjoy travelling. We lived in South Africa
for two years. Sam was working in a hospital there, and
I wrote. Then we travelled around Africa having
amazing adventures. Now I love walking with my son.”
Favourite Writers: Lucy Caldwell, Claire Kilroy, Colm
Tóibín.
Second Novel: “I’ve made a start.”
Top Writing Tip: “Don’t give up, if you feel writing is
what you should do.”
Web: www.storiesbybethany.blogspot.com
twitter: @storiesbybeth
THE DEBUT
My Father’s House, Liberties Press,
€13.99; Kindle, €4.24
A Dublin-based journalist, husband and
father, Robbie Hanright has life sussed. But
when he’s called back to County Down
where his father is dying, his troubled
childhood resurfaces. His once downtrodden mother is
happy with a younger man, but his sisters have their
own demons. Can they all resolve past issues? “I’m
drawn to writing from a man’s point of view. I’m
fascinated by men, and why they do the things they do.
There’s more intrigue, so I enjoy writing them.”
The Verdict: A literary debut filled with intriguing
characters. Bethany Dawson is a name to watch.
— Interviewed by Sue Leonard
Following the money
to a bloody outcome
Mark O’Sullivan is the latest crime writer to produce an accomplished piece set
against the background of the property market implosion. He spoke to Liam Heylin
A
Crocodile Tears
Mark O’Sullivan
Transworld Ireland, Random House,
€14.99; ebook, €10.99
PROPERTY developer lies dead in a pool
of blood at his luxury home, in Dublin,
at the beginning of
Crocodile Tears.
Mark O’Sullivan’s book taps into the
zeitgeist of post-boom Ireland and
there is, early in the narrative, an expectation that a shadowy auctioneer
may be next to get his comeuppance,
and, who knows, a cast of dubious
bankers may also meet a gory end.
Without spoiling this carefully plotted novel, which is peopled with credible characters, it does not play out
schematically as some righteous dude’s
revenge on everyone who made big
bucks in those heady times. But O’Sullivan is not above playing with the
base expectations, if not the outright
bloodlust, of Irish readers in these disgruntled times.
“There is a desire, out there, to see
people punished for what has happened. In those Celtic Tiger years,
most people, but not everyone, accepts
that the moral balance was lost. It applied in government, and in society
across the board, to an extent. When
the moral balance is disturbed, there is
a moral vacuum created, where anger,
and all of those kinds of negative emotions, are going to come to the surface.
That is very much what happens in
any crime novel, in particular.
“I’ve picked an iconic period that
represents the fall of the Celtic Tiger
period, that week in November, 2010,
the arrival of the IMF in Dublin and,
also, the very cold snap, one of the
coldest we had for many years in Ireland. I place the mystery in a very pertinent social period.
“I think, what I have done with that,
is not to preach, but to overturn expectations. I’ve always tried to deliver
something that was not quite expected. That applies, not just to stories,
but also to characters.”
On that standard, O’Sullivan succeeds. The first surprise on reading
Crocodile Tears is that this is the debut crime novel of the writer, who
lives in his hometown of Thurles, Co
Tipperary.
Set in Dublin, this police procedural has a cast of policemen and policewomen, and a more interesting
cast of characters representing Ireland’s property story: developers,
builders, auctioneers, and a couple
‘’
When you write a
detective novel ... the first
thing is to make the story
compelling and to conceal
the mystery. No matter
what I read and no matter
what I write I am
interested in keeping the
language as alive as
possible
caught in negative equity in a house
built on a flood plain.
O’Sullivan has plenty to say about
Ireland, but the book is far from
preachy.
He lets the stories do the talking,
without forcing himself on to the
page as a moral commentator on
events.
Occasionally, he lets his characters
comment, like when Inspector Leo
Woods arrives at the scene of a JCB
crashed into the front of a house in a
ghost estate, with someone presumed
dead inside: “The JCB held its bucket
up towards the heavens, like it was
pleading with the gods to accept this
human sacrifice. How many more
silent sacrifices would be laid at that
altar in the coming months and
years?
“Jobless mortgage defaulters driven to madness or suicide. Broken
marriages, homes and hearts. A lost
generation paying for the sins of the
rich.”
Inspector Leo Woods has a disfigurement on one side of his face,
caused by Bell’s Palsy. O’Sullivan
has based the disfigurement on three
friends who have this condition, in
particular one who dealt with it with
a self-deprecating black humour.
This also ties in with a more
self-conscious indulgence of the cen-
tral character, namely his interest in a
collection of ritual and ornamental
masks.
Woods also indulges in cocaine. This
kind of moral ambivalence makes him
more interesting. Again, there is a
calmness and some elegance to the
writing, which doesn’t squeeze every
narrative possibility out of every scenario.
“A work will survive if it is written
well and the characters are interesting.
In a commercial world, where the
shelf-life of books of any kind seems to
grow shorter all the time, AC Grayling
wrote recently about writing as well as
you possibly can, not to write lazily, or
jump for the headlines,” O’Sullivan
Boys’ own adventure: the wandering
mind of great travel writer Fermor
If Artemis Cooper’s book was a novel,
not a biography, you would not believe
the story. Born in London, in 1915,
Patrick Leigh Fermor — Paddy — was
one of the best travel writers in the
English language in the 20th century.
Insatiably curious about other cultures,
his ornate, elegant writing reflected his
fascination with languages, and their
etymology.
Fluent in eight languages, Fermor was
a cultural magpie, delighting in the
shiny and the rare.
But Fermor was no donnish wordsmith. He was a decorated war hero: he
orchestrated the abduction of a German
general, from Crete, in 1944. He took part
in the last cavalry charge in Europe. A
ladies’ man, he had an affair with a Hungarian countess, and yet, craving solitude, often holed up in remote monasteries.
Fermor also wrote a novel, was the
subject of a blood-feud vendetta on Crete,
swam the Bosphorus in his 60s as a
homage to Lord Byron, and lived the life
of the renaissance man.
When he died, in 2011, Fermor was
mourned in England and Greece, although common reaction to the news of
his death was, ‘Has he finished the third
volume?’
Born into a middle-class family, Fermor was expected to become an engineer, lawyer or doctor. Instead, the boy
was expelled from a number of schools,
his fizzing imagination and irrepressible
spirit refusing to conform. A magnet for
trouble, he was a sponge for poetry and
literature, for history, geography and
philosophy.
At the age of 18, living a dissolute
‘miniature Rake’s Progress’ in London
as he waited to join the army at Sandhurst, he had a fantastic notion: he
would walk Europe, from England to his
beloved Greece.
Setting out in December, 1933, Fermor
tramped across the Continent against a
backdrop of rising fascism, walking
through Holland and Germany, Hungary
and Romania, and through the Balkans
to Constantinople.
In the first book of his travels, A Time
of Gifts (1977), Fermor told of how he
would sleep in a hayrick one night, a
castle the next, as he marched from Holland to Hungary.
Patrick Leigh
Fermor: An
Adventure
Artemis Cooper
John Murray, hb
€34.99 / ebook
€16.99
Review: Declan
Burke
In the second instalment, Between
the Woods and the Water (1986), Fermor walks deep into the Balkans, and
the third instalment — well, we wait
still.
Long before A Time of Gifts was
published, Fermor had established
himself as the pre-eminent travel
writer of his generation, with his debut, The Traveller’s Tree, (1950) an insightful account of Caribbean cultures, and the twinned Mani (1958)
and Roumeli (1966), both fabulous accounts of life in the Greek Peloponnese.
Fermor’s feeling for the Greek
character was honed by his wartime
experiences as an SOE operative,
when he parachuted onto Crete and
spent years behind German lines, liaising with the local resistance
groups, or andartes, an experience
that culminated in the storied account of how Paddy led the abduction
of General Kreipe, in 1944, at the time
a propaganda coup for the Allies.
Dirk Bogarde played Fermor in the
film about the abduction, Ill Met By
Moonlight (1957).
Cooper is a family friend of Fermor’s, and she was a young girl when
she met Fermor. If the book reads as
a breathless Boy’s Own adventure
tale — it is subtitled ‘An Adventure’
— she can hardly be faulted, given
that Fermor spent his life in search
of the next challenge, the next curiosity.
The book is more biography than
hagiography. The fabled story of Fermor’s participation in the last cavalry charge on European soil is here
presented as a precocious teenager
taking advantage of his gracious
host, in Hungary, and stealing a
horse so that he could gallop along at
the ragtag end of the charge.
Fermor’s womanising is not
glossed over, and neither are the consequences, particularly how it impacted on his long-suffering partner,
the Honourable Joan Rayner (there’s
‘’
Fermor wasn’t universally
revered among the
Cretans ... on a return
visit he would be
received with great
celebration in a village,
while those who
maintained the blood
vendetta waited beyond
the village borders, guns
cocked
also an extensive quote from a funny,
but revolting, letter from Fermor about
the latest invasion of pubic lice).
Cooper digs into the legend of Fermor’s time on Crete, raising questions
about the practicality of the famous abduction of General Kreipe, especially
given the German penchant for ruthless reprisals against the Cretans. She
also details how Fermor wasn’t universally revered among the Cretans, because he had accidentally shot and
killed one of the andartes during the
war.
On a return visit long after the war,
she writes, Fermor would be received
with great celebration in a village,
while those who maintained the blood
vendetta waited beyond the village borders, guns cocked.
The man who emerges from the
pages of Cooper’s biography is fascinating, a flawed, brilliant throwback to
the warrior poets of yore, a man of letters and a man of action.
It’s a page-turning story to the end,
although it’s arguable that Fermor is
such a ripe figure for biography, his
life so dense with incident and adventure, with contrast and contradiction,
that listing the bewildering number of
his accomplishments soaks up all
Cooper’s time and effort.
Beautifully researched, particularly
how Cooper points up the discrepancies between Fermor’s experiences and
his poetic rendering of his memories,
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure is
a solid addition to the canon of work
on Fermor.
It may not provide many startling
new revelations for Fermor fans, but
it’s an outstanding introduction to the
man’s life and writing for those who
have yet to make his acquaintance.
■ Declan Burke is a journalist and
award-winning writer. His latest novel is
Slaughter’s Hound.
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FIRST THOUGHTS
NO PREVIOUS: Crocodile Tears is Mark
O’Sullivan’s first crime novel; he wrote six novels
for teenagers when his two daughters were that
age.
Picture: Denis Scannell
Ten
Andrej Longo
Harvill Secker, €18.75;
ebook, £10.01
Review: Darren Heath
says. O’Sullivan wrote six novels for
teenagers when his two daughters
were that age.
“I had a context for writing that type
of fiction, I was speaking to my kids.
When they got a bit older and went to
college (UCC), I felt I didn’t have a context for writing those kind of books
anymore, and I moved on to a literary
novel (Enright) that was published in
2005.
“I have been a reader of crime all my
life. One influence would be Michael
Dibdin and the Aurelia Zen novels set
in Italy.
“They were very well-written — good
prose, which I love. I also like, very
much, Kate Atkinson books, which,
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again, lean more towards the literary
than the detective. I was kind of looking for a territory somewhat like
that myself.
“Another big influence would be
the American noir writer, David
Goodis, who wrote terrific novels, including Dark Passage, that was made
into a film with Humphrey Bogart
and Lauren Bacall. He had a lovely
little ability to do something quirky
with the language and also in the
characters.”
O’Sullivan’s own credits include
winning two Reading Association of
Ireland biennial awards, the Eilis
Dillon/Bisto Book of the Year Award,
and three Bisto Merit awards.
His novels have been translated into six languages and he has received
the Prix des Loisirs 1999, as well as a
White Raven Book (European Libraries) Award.
His first love was poetry — publishing poems in Poetry Ireland, Poetry Australia, Poetry Wales, Fortnight
and various other periodicals. Conscious of who was interviewing him,
O’Sullivan said his first publishing
break was in the 1970s, when he had
poems published in what was then
The Cork Examiner, through Tom
Mullins, who edited a poetry section
for the newspaper.
“Poetry was always my real passion. When you write a detective
novel, like this one, the first thing is to
make the story as compelling as possible and to conceal the mystery as much
as possible.
“No matter what I read, and no matter what I write, I am interested in
keeping the language as alive as possible.
“I think, having an interest in poetry
you have an interest in writing right
down to the word and line, and, I think,
you also learn from writing poetry,
even if you are not very successful at
it, you learn a sense of rhythm and
flow.
“I think, that can translate quite well
into prose, into how a sentence can
work and how a paragraph can work,
and with the general flow of the piece.
“I did a lot of my writing for the
young-adult market. You learn instincts, you learn about the shape of a
work, the structure of work, those are
not vague, artistic things. The reader,
or viewer, will know immediately, because without them the book won’t
work.
“The middle third of a book is where
a book can fail. To maintain that middle third, you are taking your storylines and sending them in as many different directions as you can, so as to
baffle the reader in the sense of ‘maybe
it’s this or maybe it’s that’.”
As for the Detective Inspector, he certainly is a conflicted man, a man with a
past, and while Crocodile Tears is a
very satisfying crime read, there is a
sense that there’s plenty more road for
Leo Woods.
“I think, he quite courageously deals
with his disfigurement and also courageously deals with how he is alone. The
reader will only learn very slowly
about him, it is over a period of time.
Obviously, I hope this character will
survive for at least a few more books,”
O’Sullivan says.
First published in 2007, and the winner
of the 2008 Bagutta Prize in Italy, Ten is
part-time pizza maker and writer
Andrej Longo’s first translation into
English.
Written in somewhat sparse simple
prose, which is nonetheless poetic and
multi-layered in meaning, the author
inflicts his vision of modern-day Naples
on us through 10 interlinking short
stories based on the Ten
Commandments.
Each story acts as a vignette of the
city, vistas of ordinary people trying to
live out their lives within a backdrop of
decadence and violence.
Here, Longo skilfully paints a picture
of a community overrun by crime,
lorded over by gangsters, and populated
by lascivious thugs and young girls.
The compassion he feels for all of
these players is deeply felt and the
result is a searing indictment of a
bereft society where spiritual matters
have all but been forgotten.
The Last Hangman
Shashi Warrier
Atlantic Books, £12.99;
ebook, €9.21
Review: Victoria Burt
Economist and software specialist
turned author Shashi Warrier’s The
Last Hangman is set in south India,
where he grew up. It is the story of a
retired hangman visited by a writer
interested in producing his biography.
To help the writer, he suggests the
hangman put pen to paper to describe
his life. Through his diary entries, the
reader learns about every aspect of the
hangman’s work, from how the gallows
operate to the religious rituals
connected with a hanging, and how
society shuns him for the job he does.
The hangman explains how, in the
beginning, he believed he was working
for the king of his homeland. The king
was believed to be a representative of
God on Earth, so the hangman saw
himself as doing his duty. But after
learning that the king was a mere
mortal too, the hangman began to
question what he did.
For many years he has pushed his
feelings to one side, but now, with his
memories coming to the fore, he must
confront his past and come to terms
with how he has spent his life.
Interesting, thought-provoking read.
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A return to Europe for
Brown and a return to form
It’s been almost four years since
Professor Robert Langdon, the
renowned Harvard symbologist, last
embarked on a mystery. In 2009, Dan
Brown’s The Lost Symbol, which was
set in Washington, was met with a
lukewarm reception. Perhaps the
winning formula he’d struck upon in
the best-selling Da Vinci Code and its
sequel Angels And Demons had
started to seem tired — the novelty
had worn off.
With Inferno, Brown wisely
returns the action to Europe, the
setting for his first two books, but
the formula is the same: Langdon
meets a very attractive, intelligent
young woman (think Da Vinci Code’s
Sophie Neveu) called Dr Sienna
Brooks and together the pair try to
unravel a mystery with its roots in
ancient literature to save the world
from a deadly plague, while escaping
from some evil types who are trying
to kill them.
Brown cleverly adopts a new
device here though — we first find
Langdon coming round in a hospital
bed, attended by Dr Brooks, with
what seems to be retrograde
amnesia. He can’t remember a single
thing about the past 48 hours — and
doesn’t know why he’s suddenly in
Inferno
Dan Brown
Transworld, Random
House, €14.99, ebook
€10.99
Review: Kate Whiting
Florence. A spiky-haired female
assassin, who has already tried to
shoot him in the head with the bullet
just grazing his scalp, tracks him
down but Langdon and Dr Brooks
escape.
In the safety of her apartment,
Langdon discovers a mysterious
object sewn into his trusty Harris
tweed jacket (his Mickey Mouse
watch is missing), which conceals a
pointing device that, when shaken,
projects an image of Botticelli’s
Inferno di Dante painting, which
depicts the first part of the Italian
poet’s Divine Comedy. But the image
has been subtly altered to provide a
clue, leading Langdon and Dr Brooks
on a race against time across
Florence and Venice to Istanbul to
find a hidden deadly virus, which is
set to wipe out masses.
Langdon has eerie hallucinations of
dead bodies washing downstream and a
mysterious silver-haired woman who is
urging him to “seek” and “find”. It
transpires she’s the current head of the
World Health Organisation who is
aware of a plot by famous geneticist
Bertrand Zobrist to rebalance the
world’s population before it grows so
big it implodes. But she’s being held by
a dark organisation known as ‘The
Consortium’.
Brown is tackling provocative
territory here, as he sets out the case
for population control (neo-eugenics)
through the eyes of his mad scientist
and the consequences of doing nothing,
while raising the spectre of a biological
weapon of mass destruction.
While the mix of action and
Langdon’s explanations of art and
literature is evenly balanced, there are
stretches, such as when he and Dr
Brooks hide out in the Boboli Gardens,
that seem overly drawn-out.
Brown is famously not the most
literary of writers (what would Dante
himself have thought?) but he is a
master of intrigue and clever plotting
— right until the close, he’s throwing
twists at his readers — and with
Inferno he has returned to his Da Vinci
Code best.
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I’m Feeling Angry, by Lisa Regan,
illustrated by Christiane Engel (A&C
Black; 8.80 HB). When a child is taunted
by older siblings; has toys commandeered
by other children; the swings in the park
are full, or Mum isn’t
listening — anger becomes
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If You Meet A Dinosaur,
by Paul Bright and
Hannah George (Little
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When Mummisaurus lays
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finding a safe place for it to hatch.
Not easy, as she has to pass
dinosaurs with enormous feet, who
boisterously stomp and shake their
tails. Laugh-aloud fun for age four
and upward.
Off By Heart —
Poems For You To
Remember, by
Roger Stevens
(Bloomsbury;
€7.55), is a bumper
collection of fun rhymes by
writers past and present. A
short flavour, a verse from
Robert Louis Stevenson’s
‘The Moon’: The squalling
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There are also tips on how to
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Adam’s Starling, by Gillian Perdue
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Adam cheers his Alzheimer-inflicted
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all-time low, how will he cope? All the
elements in this story blend perfectly in a
carefully measured way that make it a
compulsive read. For age nine and upwards.
Leftovers
Stella Newman
Avon, €10;
ebook, €7.98
Review: Emily Pawson
Next week
Neil Robinson
reviews Ben
Judah’s Fragile
Empire, How
Russia Fell In And
Out Of Love With
Vladimir Putin
and concludes
that, in the end,
and despite his
power, Putin’s
place in history
may not be too
different to
Yeltsin’s. He has
turned into one
more Russian
leader who
promised more
than he could
deliver.
The Spy Who
Came In From the
Cold was
published 50
years ago and
redefined a
genre. Declan
Burke on the
genius of John le
Carré.
Stella Newman’s latest novel is the
happy-ending type that makes you sigh
as you close the final page.
According to a magazine quiz, Susie
Rosen is a ’leftover’. A modern day
Bridget Jones, 30-something and stuck
in a career she hates, she is still
recovering from her last failed
relationship. Her habit of drinking too
much alcohol on a week night makes
her job even more painful with a
hangover.
But what happens when you find
yourself ready to jump off that treadmill
and start doing something you enjoy —
like setting up a blog about the best
pasta to eat in any given circumstance?
It’s daunting, but Susie is adamant it
will happen — just as soon as she pulls
off her latest advertising campaign (Fat
Bird pizzas for dieting women —
genius) and gets that promotion.
This read is funny, feisty and fresh.
How Animals Grieve
Barbara J King
University of Chicago
Press, £17.50; ebook,
£7.72
Review: Shereen Low
A book focusing on how animals mourn
for their fellow creatures was never
going to be light or easy reading, but
Barbara J King has to be given credit
for what she has done here.
A professor of anthropology at the
College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Virginia, King uses
real-life anecdotes to emphasise the
scientific data that exists on animals’
grieving processes — from her friends’
cat Willa, who wailed and yowled for
her dead sister Carson, to Hachiko, the
devoted dog who has been immortalised
in statue form in Tokyo for his endless
loyalty to his owner.
In this book, King argues that most
animals, including wild creatures such
as dolphins, elephants and baboons,
possess the ability to feel loss. Among
those who do not mourn for their fellow
creatures, are chimpanzees and ants.
The book is touching at times.
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10.00 Graham Norton. 1.00 Pick of the Pops. 3.00
Steve Lamacq. 6.00 Liza Tarbuck. Music and chat. 8.00
Paul Gambaccini with America’s Greatest Hits. Tracks
from the past six decades. 10.00 Dave Pearce: Dance
Years. The DJ explores dance down the decades. 12.00
Bob Harris Sunday. 3.00 Richard Allinson.
RADIO 3: 7.00 Breakfast. 9.00 News. 9.03 CD Review.
12.15 The Rite of Spring. 1.00 News. 1.02 The Early
Music Show. 2.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. 3.00
Saturday Classics. 5.00 Jazz Record Requests. 6.00
Opera on 3. Berg’s Lulu, conducted by Lothar Koenigs.
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10.00 Hear and Now. Highlights of Glasgow’s Tectonics
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Night.
RADIO 4: 5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer for the Day.
5.45 iPM. 6.00 Weather. 6.07 Ramblings. 6.30 Farming
Today This Week. 6.57 Weather. 7.00 Today. 9.00
Saturday Live. 10.30 Choristers of the Coronation.
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in Westminster. 11.30 (FM) From Our Own
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Weekend Woman’s Hour. 5.00 (FM) Saturday PM. 5.30
(FM) iPM. 5.54 Weather. 5.57 Weather. 6.00 (FM) Six
O’Clock News. 6.15 (FM) Loose Ends. Maria Friedman,
Tricky and Blue Rose Code. 6.30 (LW) Loose Ends.
Maria Friedman, Tricky and Blue Rose Code. 7.00 From
Fact to Fiction. Sebastian Baczkiewicz provides a
fictional response to the week’s news. 7.15 Saturday
Review. Presented by Tom Sutcliffe. 8.00 Archive on 4:
Profumo Confidential. Tom Mangold revisits the scandal
that rocked the British establishment. 9.00 Classic
Serial: The Mask of Dimitrios. Part one of two. Crime
drama, by Eric Ambler. 10.00 Weather. 10.15 Unreliable
Evidence. The law’s treatment of couples depending on
their marital status. 11.00 Counterpoint. 11.30 Poetry
Please. 12.00 Weather. 12.30 Junior Science. 12.48
Weather. 1.00 World Service. 5.20 Weather.
RADIO 5 LIVE: 5.00 Morning Reports. 6.00 Weekend
Breakfast. 9.00 The Danny Baker Show. 11.00 Fighting
Talk. 12.00 5 Live Sport. 3.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live
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Live Sport. Mark Pougatch presents a preview of the
Champions League final. 7.45 5 Live Sport: Champions
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Munich (Kick-off 7.45pm). 10.00 5 Live News. With
Chris Warburton. 11.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Boxing.
Carl Froch v Mikkel Kessler. 12.30 5 Live News. 1.00
Up All Night.
TODAY FM: 7.00 Declan Meehan. 9.00 Championship
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Anton Savage. 1.00 Classic Gold Sunday. 4.00 Philip
Cawley. 7.00 Colm O’Sullivan. 10.00 Dave Couse.
12.00 Chill. 1.00 Overnight Music.
RAIDIO NA GAELTACHTA: 8.00 Béal Maidine. 10.00
Cartlann Bhóthar na Léinsí. 10.30 Blas. 11.00 Aifreann
an Domhnaigh. 11.45 Togha agus Rogha. 1.00 Nuacht
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Nuacht a Sé. 6.30 Ar an gCoigríoch. 7.00 Spórt an
Domhnaigh. 8.00 Cruinneog. Stories from around the
world. 9.00 Tequila Tíre. 12.00 Scoth na Seachtaine.
CORK’S 96FM: 6.00 Wayne Hilton. 8.00 The Arts
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Sunday Forum. 7.00 An Scriocht. 8.00 Tim Coughlan.
10.00 Overnight.
CUH FM 102.8: 7.00 Breakfast Show. 8.30 Mass. 9.15
Sunday Service. 10.00 Mass. 10.30 World of Opera
and Song. 12.00 Rock, Blues and Ceili. 1.00 Irish Music
Show. 2.00 Mick O’Sullivan Show. 4.00 Gerry Newman.
6.00 Sunday Mix. 7.00 Documentary. 8.00 Jack Harris.
RADIO KERRY: 7.00 Classical Delights. 9.00 Horizons.
10.00 Seven Days. 11.00 All Irish Music Show. 2.00
Weekend Sport. 6.10 Solid Gold Sunday. 8.00 Caint
Chiarrai. 9.00 Kerrywide. 10.00 Irish Favourites. 1.00
Music Through the Night.
CLARE FM: 8.00 Sunday Morning. 10.00 Country
Corner. 1.00 Hindsight. 2.00 The Big Weekend. 6.00
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TIPPERARY FM: 7.00 Fran Curry. 9.00 Just Class.
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Overnight.
LIVE 95: 8.00 Arts and Classical. 10.00 Greatest Hits
and Best of Irish. 2.00 Paul Prenderville. 5.30 Sport.
6.00 Country. 8.00 Sounds Easy. 12.00 Limerick Today.
3.00 Overnight Music.
NEWSTALK 106-108 FM: 5.00 The Best of Newstalk.
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to Business. 11.00 The Sunday Show. 1.00 Newstalk
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Picture Show. Film news and reviews, presented by
Phillip Molloy. 7.00 Talking History. With Patrick
Geoghegan. 9.00 Surf’s Up with Tom Dunne. Music
show, featuring the latest releases. 11.00 Down to
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Music.
RADIO 1: 5.00 Seani B. 7.00 Adele Roberts. 10.00
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in Derry. 10.00 Radio 1’s Big Weekend: Phil Taggart &
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2.00 Monki. 4.00 Adele Roberts.
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with Good Morning Sunday. 9.00 Steve Wright’s
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Sounds of the 70s. 5.00 Paul O’Grady. 7.00 Sunday
Night with Michael Ball. A selection of music from
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songwriting. 10.00 Clare Teal. 11.00 The David Jacobs
Collection. 12.00 Janice Long. 3.00 Alex Lester.
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Morning with Rob Cowan. 12.00 Private Passions. 1.00
News. 1.02 The Early Music Show. 2.00 Liszt-Wagner.
2.45 Wagner 200: Opera on 3. 7.45 A Cultural History
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past seven days. 6.30 (LW) Pick of the Week. Highlights
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Analysis of business stories. 9.00 Men’s Hour. Tim
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QUIZ WITH NOEL WELCH
▼
1 Gareth Bale was named the Professional Football
Association’s ‘player’ and ‘young player of the year’ for
2012-13, becoming only the third person to clinch the
double accolade in the same season. Who were the other
two players?
2 What nationality was painter and etcher, Rembrandt?
3 Who plays the police commissioner in Blue Bloods?
4 Which group had hits with ‘Hotel California’ and ‘Take It
Easy’?
5 Who will captain the British and Irish Lions tour to
Australia this summer?
6 Moate is a town in which county?
7 What is the start of a river called?
8 What is the capital of Germany?
9 What are the GAA inter-county colours of Cavan?
10 Name the countries of the world that begin with the
letter ‘F’?
11 Who played the role of Johnny Cash in the film Walk The
Line?
12 What name can link a great racehorse and a famous
Russian ballet dancer?
13 In London slang, the ‘Old Bill’ refers to what?
14 Who is president of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de
Football Association)?
15 How many cyclists ride a tandem?
16 Who, last month, became the first new Dutch monarch in
33 years?
17 Which is the tallest’ and heaviest’ of all living penguin
species?
18 ‘Circle of Life’ and ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’ are
from which musical?
19 Who won this season’s The Voice of Ireland on RTÉ?
20 Who is this?
ANSWERS
CHESS WITH JIM OLNEY
The National Club Championships, in Dublin, were won by Adare for
the third, consecutive year. The Co Limerick side won all four
matches, to total eight points and qualify for the upcoming European
Club Cup, in Rhodes, in October. Gonzaga pipped Galway on
tie-break for the second Euro qualifying spot, after both clubs finished
on five points. Dublin, Bray/Greystones and Phibsboro each scored
four points, while Rathmines brought up the rear on two points.
Adare defeated Galway 4-2, Rathmines 6-0, Gonzaga 3.5-2.5 and
Phibsboro 5.5-0.5. Scorers for the top seeds were: Valentine Kalinins
3.5/4, Cristian Daianu 3.5/4, Anthony Fox 3.5/4, GM Vasilie Sanduleac
3/4, Orison Carlile 2/2, IM Tibor Karolyi 2/4 and Jan Heinrich 1.5/2.
■ 4NCL: Kilkenny FM Ryan Rhys Griffiths achieved an IM norm as he,
and Dublin IM Sam Collins, helped Barbican secure third place in the
Four Nations Chess League. Griffiths played in all 11 rounds, scoring
seven points. He secured draws against grandmasters, James Plaskett
and Nicholas Pert, and defeated IMs Daniel Fernandez and Andrew
Greet. His only loss was to former British champion, GM Matthew
Sadler. Collins scored 4/7, and finished in style by claiming a
grandmaster scalp in the final round (see game below).
Guildford won the title with 13 points, from holders, Wood Green
Hilsmark, on 12 points. Barbican scored eight points, ahead of
Cheddleton seven, Jutes of Kent seven, White Rose five, Barbican II
two, and Cambridge University 0.
IM Collins — GM Wells (Barbican v White Rose, 4NCL, 2013)
1 e4 c5, 2 c3 Nf6, 3 e5 Nd5, 4 Nf3 Nc6, 5 Bc4 Nb6, 6 Bb3 c4, 7 Bc2
Qc7, 8 Qe2 g5, 9 Na3 g4, 10 Nb5 Qb8, 11 Nh4 Nxe5, 12 0-0 d6, 13 b3
Bg7, 14 bxc4 Be6, 15 Nf5 Bf6, 16 Ne3 h5, 17 Bb3 a6, 18 Nd4 Bd7, 19
a4 e6, 20 a5 Nc8, 21 f4 Nc6, 22 Ndc2 N8e7, 23 f5 e5, 24 c5 dxc5, 25
Qc4 Nd8, 26 Qxc5 Qc8, 27 Qd6 Qc6, 28 Qa3 Qc7, 29 Nb4 Bc6, 30 Nc4
0-0, 31 d3 e4, 32 Bf4 Qd7 1-0.
POSITION NO
2,468
This week’s position
features Churm v
Hebden from the
Cambridge-Guildford
match played
in round eight of
the 2013 4NCL.
White to play and
win. Solution next
week.
Solution to No
2,467: 1 d7 e2, 2
d8=Q e1=Q+, 3
Kd6+ and any king
move is met by
Rh8+ 1-0.
Double Crossword
No.15,638
CRYPTIC CLUES
Down
Across
Solutions to
previous puzzle:
CRYPTIC
Across: 1 Kidnapping; 7 Rails;
8 Trained; 10 Fastness; 11
Bess; 13 Relate; 15 Lean-to; 17
Etch; 18 Recorded; 21 Tonsure;
22 Drawn; 23 Repentance.
Down: 1 Knits; 2 Disunity;
3 Artist; 4 Plan; 5 Nankeen;
6 Preferment; 9 Discordant;
12 Beholden; 14 License; 16
Reject; 19 Drape; 20 Cure.
QUICK
Across: 1 Deficiency; 7 Aroma;
8 Applaud; 10 Theology; 11
Plus; 13 Depose; 15 Victor; 17
Open; 18 Compress; 21 Stimuli; 22 Raise; 23 Feebleness.
Down: 1 Drove; 2 Fearless; 3
Change; 4 Espy; 5 Chaplet;
6 Fastidious; 9 Distressed;
12 Disperse; 14 Preside; 16
Docile; 19 Evils; 20 Curb.
Quick Crossword answers
also fit the large grid
6 How a hospital may be
organised internally (7)
7 Half a pair of kneebreeches missing? (5)
9 Places where leopards
are found? (5)
10 Must be a player - he
won’t work! (7)
12 The anger of people
who are excavating?
(11)
14 Fear felt in play only?
(5-6)
18 Drink heavily and the
profit on the vehicle
will be nothing! (7)
19 There’s nothing in
the jealousy of the
ambassador (5)
21 Paradoxically those on
a sit-in strike make it
(5)
22 More than 500 take
poetry and find it
varied (7)
QUICK CLUES
Down
Across
6
7
9
10
12
14
18
19
21
22
Omen (7)
Cut (5)
Distant (5)
Bent (7)
Surrender (11)
Unprotected
(11)
Continue (7)
Principal (5)
Spoils (5)
Take from (7)
1
2
3
4
5
8
11
13
15
16
17
20
Merry (5)
Caress (6)
Writing fluid (3)
Haunt (6)
Evolve (7)
Argue (7)
Ewer (7)
Censure (7)
Energise (6)
Globe (6)
Quit (5)
Ocean (3)
1 Speaks irritably about
photographs? (5)
2 Box adds a lot of
weight to vehicle (6)
3 Poem in good English
(3)
4 Does it make for
economy in the
garden? (6)
5 Liberty could mean
more fed (7)
8 Clients provide an aid
to duplicating (7)
11 Feuds, if dispersed,
become widespread
(7)
13 The last form of
secrecy (7)
15 Pulverised earth (6)
16 Hamper those further
back? (6)
17 Plant seen in spring or
September (5)
20 This rubbish-dump is
the very end! (3)
1. Andy Gray and Cristiano
Ronaldo; 2. Dutch; 3. Tom
Shelleck; 4. The Eagles; 5. Sam
Warburton; 6. Westmeath; 7. Its
source; 8. Berlin; 9. Blue and
white; 10. Fiji, Finland and
France; 11. Joaquin Phoenix; 12.
Nijinsky; 13. The police; 14.
Sepp Blatter; 15. Two; 16. King
Willem-Alexander; 17. Emperor
penguin; 18. The Lion King; 19.
Keith Hanley; 20. Singer Alesha
Dixon.
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OUT&about
PEOPLE 19
Irish Examiner
Saturday 25.05.2013
reviews
Classical
Majella
Cullagh/Eleanor
Malone
CRAWFORD ART GALLERY
★★★★✩
The second of this 50th series of
Summer Lunchtime Concerts at the
gallery featured Majella Cullagh, the
third of Cork’s “Three Sopranos”, in a
programme she called ‘The Art of Bel
Canto’. Accompanied by Eleanor
Malone, she performed arias from the
works of Bellini, Donizetti, and
Rossini. It was easy to understand,
having heard her sing music from this
particular repertoire, why she has
made such a spectacularly successful
international career. She did not simply sing the nine arias on her programme: she inhabited the roles of
Norma, Anne Boleyn, and Queen
Semiramide.
The care with which she underlined
certain words of the texts strongly
suggested that Italian is more than just
one of the languages in which she
sings, such was the wonderful clarity
of her diction. Eleanor Malone
seemed to anticipate her every nuance, not simply supporting her voice,
but adding weight to what she was
singing. The phrase ‘a safe pair of
hands’ takes on a new meaning when
those hands belong to Eleanor Malone.
The splendidly devised programme
comprised three arias from each of the
above named operas plus ‘Scenes that
are Brightest’ from Wallace’s Maritana
— just because, she said, ‘It’s my
recital, I love it, and I want to sing it’.
It was a very wise choice as it gave her
an opportunity of gauging the acoustic of the venue and thus her big
operatic voice did not overpower the
audience in the following items. She
took care, also, to lead her audience
from the lesser-known to the better-known arias from each opera so
that Norma’s ‘Casta Diva’, Anna’s ‘Al
dolce guidami’ and Semiramide’s ‘Bel
raggio lusinghier’ — each revealed a
different facet of her artistry.
I particularly liked the musicality and
sense of line in ‘Casta diva’, the
sincerity of ‘un giorno solo’ as well as
the brilliant trills in Anna Bolena’s
aria, and, especially, the contrast between the drama of ‘geme, tremor,
langui’ and the brilliant ‘gioia’ of the
final ‘Bel raggio’.
This, her debut in the Crawford
Lunchtime Concerts, was well worth
waiting for.
— Declan Townsend
PREMIERE STYLE AND A CANNES-DO ATTITUDE
Shirley John, left, and Ceile Corbett at the Irish Junk Kouture party at the
Cannes Film Festival.
Pictures: Brian McEvoy
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Leanne Moore at the Savoy
Cinema for ‘The Hangover 3’.
Boxer Bernard Dunne and wife
Pamela at ‘The Hangover 3’.
Fair City Actress Aoibhinn Garrihy at the Irish premiere of ‘The Hangover 3’
at the Savoy Cinema, Dublin.
Pictures: Brian McEvoy
PRIME ESTABLISHMENT
Aoife O’Hagan, Scoil Mhuire, Buncrana, Co Donegal models
Junk Kouture at The Cannes Film Festival. The competition,
which is famed for transforming everyday waste and junk into
pieces of high fashion art, has gone from strength to strength
since launching in 2010.
Picture: Brian McEvoy
LUX-URIOUS LAUNCH
Cormac Murphy, Ballincollig
Christín Murphy, Ballinlough, at the
Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa graduation
performance in the Firkin Crane.
Picture: David Keane
Dance
CSN Dance
Graduation
Performance
FIRKIN CRANE, CORK
At the launch of the bdLuxed designer clothing label at Club Brasserie,
Lapps Quay, Cork, were sisters Michelle (left) and Olivia Lynch, Bartlemy.
Pictures: Denis Minihane.
At the launch of the Holy Cow pub in Hanover Street, Cork, were, from left, Judy Hopkins, from Glanmire, Co Cork,
and Ben Kelly, Dublin; Katie Mythen and Johnny Lyons; Niamh Sullivan and Clair Collins.
Pictures: Donagh Glavin
FASHION AND FILM
Catherine Richardson and
daughters Julie (left) and Fiona
at the launch.
Nora Irwin, Glanmire, (left) and
Helga Cleary, Ballincollig at the
bdLuxed launch.
JEREMY SHOWS THE WAY
Above: Tina Mahony, Clair Hazeldine, Steph
Arundel, and Hilary McCarthy at the opening
of the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival in
Schull. Below: Former BBC director general
Greg Dyke and musician Maurice Seezer at
the festival.
Picture: John Dalton
Joanne Hynes, Brendan Courtney, Rachel Browne and Bríd
McDonald at the graduate fashion show on the opening night
of the annual Griffith College Creative Week.
Picture: Leon
Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Jeremy Irons, Slí Eile patron, with his wife Sinéad Cusack and founder
Joan Hamilton, at the official opening of the new Slí Eile project, a
community farm, which provides a supportive living environment for
those with mental health difficulties, at Burton Park, Churchtown, North
Cork.
Picture: Denis Scannell
★★★★✩
Graduation 2013 was a striking example of just what demands are
made on young dancers today, and
how amazingly they can respond to
the challenge. Time was when an
end-of-term performance meant a
ho-hum sort of evening, predictable
and safe, with well-known classics
hauled out yet again to showcase
nervous emerging talent. By heaven,
that isn’t what we got from the graduates of the Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa
Diploma in Dance. A non-stop firework display would be nearer the
mark, one spectacular creative work
following another, leaving the audience literally breathless.
The programme blended new
pieces by the course teachers with
solo sections by the students themselves. The latter, teamed with lively
modern soundtracks, vividly encapsulated the range of emotions experienced by young people today, from
anger and love to frustration and loss,
while the former demonstrated the
movement, control and discipline
which must be perfected by any
dancer hoping for success. Clearly
they drive them hard at CSN, but
they get results. Two pieces have to
be singled out from an altogether excellent evening. ‘Swan Lake (With a
Twist)’ gave us the beautiful pas de
deux from Act II which is suddenly
invaded by a group of hip-hop
teenagers. The performers in both
genres maintained their integrity
flawlessly — only to happily swap
sides in the finale, demonstrating the
incredible flexibility of these young
graduates. And the graceful,
slow-moving elegance of ‘Fields of
Gold’, performed lyrically by swaying girls, brought tears to the eyes.
It’s not surprising that they get
hundreds of applications for barely a
dozen places on the Diploma in
Dance course each year. After this
graduation show, that number is
likely to rise even more.
—Jo Kerrigan
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Market ends week on a high
The Iseq managed to end the week in positive territory
having spent much of the previous few days in the red. The
index closed slightly ahead by 5.14 at 4,045.91.
Banking stocks were relatively flat with AIB and Permanent
TSB holding firm at 6.6c and 3.5c. Bank of Ireland was the
only riser adding 0.1c to 18.9c. Meanwhile, insurer FBD
gained 5c to €13.50. In related news RSA has continued its
rapid expansion into the motor insurance market after
announcing it has purchased the Irish operations of
aonisure.ie for an undisclosed sum.
The construction sector saw gains in Kingspan and Grafton
Group. The former jumped 15c to €9.40 while the latter
advanced 11c to €5.65. CRH was the only laggard, losing
14.5c to €16.26.
ISEQ
Company
Abbey
Aer Lingus
AIB
American Intl
Grp
Aminex
Aryzta AG
Bank of Ire
C&C
Conroy Diam &
Gold
Contl Farmers
Grp
CPL Res'ces
CRH
Datalex
Diageo
Donegal C.
Dragon Oil
Elan
Falcon Oil &
Gas
Fastnet Oil &
Gas
FBD
First Derivatives
Fyffes
Glanbia
Grafton
Great West
Mining
IFG
Independent
Ir Life &
Perm't
Irish Contin'l
ISEQ 20 ETF
Karelian Diam
Res
Kenmare
Kerry
Kingspan
Merrion Pharm
Origin Enterprises
Ormonde
Ovoca Gold
Paddy Power
Petroceltic Intl
Petroneft
Prime Active
Cap
Providence
Ryanair
Smurfit Kappa
Grp
Tesco
Total Produce
Tullow
TVC
UTV Media
Zamano
Close Change
12 mth 12 mth P/E
High
Low
Ratio
Dividend Market Volume
Yield Cap (m)
(000s)
7.90
1.55 -0.01
0.07
-
7.90
1.60
0.09
-
5.85
0.91
0.05
-
16.49
13.53
-
1.03
2.50
-
170
828
34,098
-
171.6
498.5
-
0.04
46.55 -0.48
0.19
4.76 0.06
0.06
-
0.07
48.69
0.19
5.19
0.07
0.03
35.10
0.08
3.17
0.03
12.63
14.94
-
1.84
-
33
4,098
5,695
1,622
17
11.1
53,268
2,613.6
-
0.42
0.26
-
0.42
-
5.30 0.05
16.26 -0.14
0.90
14.42
4.80 -0.11
7.47 -0.05
9.53 0.05
0.16 0.01
5.35
17.86
0.93
14.42
4.91
7.74
11.80
0.18
2.70 15.42
12.99 22.05
0.53 23.39
14.42
3.20
2.01
6.00
7.28
7.04 3495.53
0.15
-
-
69
1.40
3.68
3.48
3.10
-
162
11,860
64
36,129
49
3,656
4,857
132
50.4
2,056.2
2
121.1
670.7
60
Legislation that would force
every company with more
than 500 workers to declare
how much it earns in each
country, and how much tax
it pays, could have a major
effect on Ireland.
The European Commission vowed to have the draft
law ready next month and
hopes it would take affect
quickly, with the support
of the European Parliament
and the member states.
Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said it
NTMA
to release
schedule
of bond
issues
0.02
0.38
0.14
-
-
79
4
0.05
-
13.50
7.20
7.75
5.70
8.69
18.35
3.16
-
452
120
26.6
-
Icon
Intel
IBM
Johnson & Johnson
Johnston Press
Boston Sc.
Lundin Mining
Medtronic
USD 33.57
USD 23.71
USD 205.72
USD 86.84
GBp 17.25
USD 9.12
CAD 4.38
USD 51.45
0.14
-0.35
-0.34
-0.35
-0.50
-0.03
0.01
0.03
Pepsico
USD 82.64
Coca-Cola
USD 42.22
Merck & Co.
USD 46.85
Bristol-Myers Squibb USD 46.65
General Electric
USD 23.53
First Derivatives
GBp 555.00
Vmware
USD 71.06
0.57
0.32
-0.49
-0.30
-0.12
0.00
-1.20
■ Goodbody Stockbrokers, trading as Goodbody, is
regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland and is a member
of the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock
Exchange. Goodbody Corporate Finance is regulated by
the Central Bank of Ireland. Goodbody is a member of the
FEXCO group of companies.
However, now the European Commission is taking
the initiative, the proposal
could find support among
EU leaders at their summit
next month. German chancellor Angela Merkel has
already signalled support for
such an idea.
She repeatedly told journalists following the summit
there has to be a relationship
between the country where
a company makes its profits
and where it pays its taxes.
Trinity College Dublin
finance professor Jim Stewart said such a change could
have dramatic implications
for where businesses locate
their companies. “Google,
for example, claims most of
its revenue from UK customers is due to their Irish
operations, so that on a sales
basis Google UK is not that
important, but on a revenue-earning basis — where
customers are located — it is
important,” said Dr Stewart.
It would be an important
change for companies where
sales and profits can be
identified. However, it
would be more difficult for
new economy business, such
as internet-based firms
PayPal, Facebook, LinkedIn,
and Google and those selling online, he said.
The regulations would be
based on the CRD4, which
has just been passed by the
European Parliament and
applies to all financial institutions in the EU, forcing
them to disclose what profits
and tax they pay in each
country and what subsidies
they receive.
A similar rule has been
agreed that will see extractive industries publishing
their accounts on a countryby-country basis so what
they pay governments outside the EU will be known
in an effort to tackle corruption.
Mr Barnier said the legis-
FOCUS ON INVESTMENT
Rossa White: Investor
confidence is restored.
lation would cover all large
listed and unlisted companies registered in the EU.
“Big US companies like
Apple or Google generally
operate through subsidiaries
in the EU for the EU market, which would normally
mean that their EU operations could be scoped in.
Under CRD4, subsidiaries
from third countries based
in the EU have to comply
with the disclosure requirements,” said Mr Barnier.
More than 70 of the US
top 100 companies have
subsidiaries in Ireland, and
most of them have several
subsidiaries registered.
IRISH
ACCOUNT
Aer Lingus urged
to boost pensions
by John Walsh
Business
Correspondent
The NTMA will release a
schedule of bond issues
later this year as part of the
country’s efforts to make a
full return to the markets
prior to the exit from
0.67 0.01
0.71
0.40
7.79
3.09
199
145.6
the
EU/IMF
bailout
10.80
11.10
5.13 19.46
0.84 3,183
1,269.8
programme in November,
5.65 0.11
5.65
2.45 22.55
1.53 1,311
970.2
according to the agency’s
0.11
0.11
0.11
7
chief economist Rossa
White.
1.40
1.60
1.28 13.23
3.30
145
13.2
The NTMA made its
0.04
0.28
0.02
0.41
21
333.7
return to the markets last
0.04
0.05
0.02
0.04
1,278
51.2
July for the first time since
before the bailout in Nov
21.76 0.36 21.76 14.58 16.49
4.61
399
15.4
2010.
7.86 -0.01
7.94
5.00
24
5
It made a series of three0.01
0.02
0.01
1
month treasury bill issues
0.37
0.59
0.31 15.92
926
10.7
before a syndicated tap in
44.99 0.20 46.49 32.70 17.49
0.80 7,904
451.2
August. Since then it has
9.40 0.15
9.77
6.26 19.37
1.28 1,584
231.5
issued a number of longer
0.59 -0.04
0.63
0.17
11
104
dated bonds, including a
4.84 -0.06
5.30
3.15
9.88
671
11.8
10-year bond in March.
Bond yields are now
0.05
0.10
0.05
22
100
trading at pre-crisis levels,
0.13
0.23
0.12
11
24.5
although the NTMA has
64.90 1.10 70.65 50.95 22.78
1.86 3,188
839.5
so far not released a calen0.08
0.12
0.04 13.25
342
48
dar of issuances.
0.04
0.14
0.04 20.50
26
300
Mr White was speaking
0.05
0.12
0.03
1
at the Bank of Ireland
Business Conference in
6.06 0.06
8.85
5.82 106.10
391
24
Dublin yesterday.
6.74 -0.01
6.87
3.83 15.60
9,802
2,114.7
The key to regaining
12.89 0.27 12.90
4.77
9.38
1.61 2,924
882
market confidence was the
stress tests of the banking
4.14
4.14
4.14
31,758
system in Mar 2011, Mr
0.65
0.72
0.38
8.00
3.09
214
6,813.5
White told the confer12.79 0.69 18.75 11.41
11,611
4
ence.
0.98
1.00
0.76 250.00
99
140
The tests were indepen1.90
1.90
1.60 10.10
4.33
182
dently
conducted
by
0.10 0.01
0.12
0.02
9
232.2
the
consultancy
firm
Blackrock International.
The three banks were
ordered to come up with
ISEQ INDICES
€24bn in extra capital to
ISEQ Overall
ISEQ Financial
ISEQ General ISEQ Small Cap.
ISEQ ESM
absorb mortgage and other
Index Value
4,045.91
261.69
5,483.88
2,202.92
1,732.19
loan losses.
Change
5.14
1.27
5.70
21.21
-0.49
The stress tests gained
Change %
0.13%
0.49%
0.10%
0.97%
-0.03%
credibility among investors
Index High
4,080.65
272.38
5,540.92
2,260.45
1,878.71
and removed the uncer(12 Months To Date)
22/05/2013
22/05/2013
20/05/2013
14/05/2013
25/03/2013
tainty of potential losses
Index Low
2,960.95
124.88
4,090.13
1,846.60
1,412.24
lurking in the banking
(12 Months To Date)
06/06/2012
29/08/2012
06/06/2012
14/06/2012
22/06/2012
system.
Market Cap. (m) 102,374.34 41,668.61 60,705.73 36,743.91 37,977.78
The NTMA began the
ISEQ Return
8,011.30
635.71
9,096.13
2,960.78
1,851.95
process of re-engaging
Turnover (m)
191.34
10.45
180.89
0.68
5.31
with investors over the
course of 2011, said Mr
White. The strategy was
to under promise and over
IRISH INTEREST INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
Company
Price Chng Company
Price Chng deliver on meeting targets
agreed with the troika.
The reduction on the
Abbott Labs
USD 37.72
0.24 Microsoft
USD 34.21
0.07
interest rate on Ireland’s
Alcatel-Lucent
USD 1.56
0.05 Minco
GBp 2.88
0.00
bailout loans in the sumAllergan
USD 98.24
0.31 Molex
USD 29.44
-0.19
mer of 2011 was one of
American Intl
USD 43.93
-0.56 Novartis
CHF 71.25
-0.20
the key factors in convincAmgen
USD 105.42
-0.17 Oracle
USD 33.79
-0.41
ing investors the national
Analog Devices
USD 45.10
-0.37 Petrel Res
GBp 17.25
-0.38
debt was heading towards
Apple
USD 444.43
2.59 Petroceltic Intl
GBp 6.45
-0.25
sustainable levels, he said.
B of I
USD 9.85
0.07 Pfizer
USD 28.97
-0.15
There has also been a
Ceva
USD 16.28
-0.11 Ryanair
USD 47.57
0.55
significant improvement in
Colgate-Palmolive USD 61.19
0.26 Google -Cl A
USD 873.13
-9.16
the economy’s competiDell
USD 13.38
0.03 State Street
USD 64.23
-0.31
tiveness over the past three
Elan
USD 12.43
0.06 Standard Life
GBp 408.40
-3.80
years, he noted.
Eli Lilly &
USD 54.29
-0.43 Stryker
USD 67.11
-0.10
Unit labour costs have
EMC
USD 23.51
-0.14 Time Warner
USD 59.70
-0.43
come down, the exchange
Ericsson
SEK 77.50
-0.75 Trend Micro
JPY 3190.00
135.00
rate on a trade weighted
Ebay
USD 54.48
0.10 Trinity Bio.
USD 17.10
0.25
basis is down, and the cost
First Derivatives
GBp 555.00
0.00 Tyco Intl
USD 34.18
0.13
base, which was once 25%
Greencore
GBp 132.00
0.50 United Drug
GBp 326.80
1.80
above the EU average, is
Great-West Lifeco
CAD 29.01
0.01 Vodafone
GBp 194.55
1.00
now just under 10% above
Heineken
EUR 55.60
-0.20 Kedco
GBp 0.83
0.00
the average.
HP
USD 24.34
-0.54 Danone
EUR 58.02
-0.28
0.29
13.50
6.75
would mean large companies such as Apple or
Google could not operate as
they do now, shifting profits
to jurisdictions where they
pay no tax.
Tax became a major issue
earlier this week when a US
Senate report showed Apple
has two companies incorporated in Ireland but deemed
non-resident for tax purposes, and so avoiding paying
tax anywhere.
However
senior
EU
sources in the council
denied that the EU leaders
agreed to introduce new
wide reporting requirements
for companies.
Minister Simon Coveney examines models of Gallium and Hafnium, components of wafer production, at the Intel
Campus in Leixlip, where Intel announced a €1.16m research investment in Cork’s Tyndall Institute. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan
Investments help firms create more
than 100 jobs in Dublin and Galway
by Geoff Percival
Cubic Telecom, the Dublinbased communications firm,
has attracted $5.2m (€4m)
in external investment and is
to create more than 70 jobs
over the next three years.
The firm’s announcement
led news yesterday, of more
than 100 new jobs being
created over the course of
the next few years.
Cubic’s investment is
coming from Enterprise
Ireland; US semi-conductor
giant, Qualcomm; ACT
Venture Capital, and TPS
Investments and will go
towards helping the Dublin
firm to further expand
internationally and invest in
its software platform and
mobile network.
The company has been
selected by a number of the
top Fortune 100 tablet and
notebook companies as their
key provider of global
mobile connectivity.
“This investment demonstrates confidence in Cubic’s
ability to deliver on our
smart connectivity strategy,”
said Cubic’s chief executive,
Barry Napier.
Elsewhere,
customer
service telecommunications
technology firm VoiceSage
is creating 10 jobs in the
next two years on the back
of a €1m investment.
In Galway, meanwhile,
medical device firm, Advant
Medical is investing €2.4m
into a major development
programme and will create
34 jobs at its main facility, in
Parkmore Industrial Estate,
within the next three years.
The Government and Enterprise Ireland-supported
investment will see the firm
expand its production capabilities and move to higher
value products and services
in order to meet increasing
demand for its products. It
will also see Advant expand
further, internationally.
Richard Bruton, the jobs
and innovation minister,
said: “A key part of the
Government’s plans for jobs
and growth is supporting
Irish companies in gaining a
greater share of the €80bn
spent by multinationals here
on goods and services every
year. In 2013, we have targeted an additional €500m
in contracts for Irish companies out of that.
“[The]
announcement
that Advant Medical, a supplier to a range of leading
companies, is expanding and
creating 34 jobs is a sign of
what is possible for Irish
companies in this area.”
Flaws found in payments system review
by Vincent Ryan
An external review into the risk
management of the Irish electronic
payments system following the
failure of Ulster Bank last year has
found that reviews weren’t carried
out often enough.
The review, ordered by the Central
Bank and carried out by an external
consultancy company, BH Consulting, found there was too long a gap
between the reviews of policy for the
vital Irish payment service.
The practice had been to review
the operation of the risks to the payments services every two years. The
report found that this was flawed.
“Many members felt that this was
too big a gap between assessments
and it should be conducted on a
more regular basis.
“The two-year gap results in a lack
of familiarity with the process which
then has to be relearned.
“In some cases this gap also results
in staff no longer being involved in
the process and new staff having to
be trained and made familiar with
the process,” the review found.
“Making the process occur more
regularly would help ensure the
assessment is in line with the latest
threats and risks,” the report said.
The external consultants also recommended that there should be a
standardised framework adopted
across the sector that would be certified by auditors across the board.
CEO of Irish Payment Services
Organisation, Pat McLoughlin, said
that the body would implement the
recommended changes by the end of
the year.
“All of the actions that are recommended are accepted by the board
and are factored in by the end of the
year,” he said.
IPSO is recruiting an external firm
to assist in driving the project implementation plan.
Stimulus package ‘vital for exports’
by Geoff Percival
The main representative
body for the country’s
13,000 manufacturing export companies has called
for a major growth stimulus
package to safeguard Ireland’s export industry and
economic growth prospects.
Speaking at the launch of
the 2013 European Payment
Index, by leading international credit management
services company, Intrum
Justitia, Irish Exporters’
Association chief, John
Whelan, said the Government must act immediately
to avoid permanent damage
to the long-term growth
prospects of the manufacturing sector.
“Manufacturing industry
plays a critical role in the
Irish economy, as a driver of
export growth and offering
significant spin-off effects
for shipping, haulage and a
wide range of sub-suppliers,
but it has been under severe
pressure for the past five
years, with the volume of
exports contracting by 10%
since 2008 and job losses of
60,000 in the period,” he
said.
The situation had become
more critical over the past
six months, he said.
On the IEA’s wishlist for
Government activity is a
return to capital investment
grant structures to enable
increased productivity and
export competitiveness; a
revision of the Employment
and Investment Incentive
Scheme to encourage more
private sector investment in
the manufacturing industry;
an increase in the availability
of low-cost working capital
to assist companies’ international expansion and the
creation of a low-cost insurance/guarantee scheme to
underwrite and encourage
manufacturers to enter fast
growing, but more risky
markets.
Increased
government
action was also high on the
agenda at the annual conference of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in
Ireland yesterday. Institute
president Joe Aherne called
for the establishment of a
business transformation programme to help internationalise Irish SMEs, adding
that increased supports are
needed to help Irish entrepreneurs to maximise
their export potential.
Dublin: The labour court
made a non-binding
recommendation yesterday
that Aer Lingus should pay
€110m to help make up a
shortfall in a pension fund
that covers some workers.
The pension scheme,
which also covers workers at
the Dublin Airport Authority,
had a deficit of over €750m
at the end of 2011 and
the threat of a large payout
has weighed on the Aer
Lingus share price in recent
years.
A group of pension
experts mandated by the
labour court said Aer Lingus
would need to contribute
€110m in capital to ensure a
minimal level of pension for
the scheme’s members.
Aer Lingus said its board
of directors will consider the
recommendation.
Aer Lingus shareholders
and pension scheme
members would also need
to approve the deal for it to
go through.
While Aer Lingus is not
legally obliged to contribute,
it risks industrial action if it
ruled out any payment.
Windfarm project
to get under way
Dublin: Construction is
set to begin next month
on Kedco’s Pluckanes
windfarm project in
Donoughmore, Co Cork.
The timeline envisages the
800kw project will be
hooked up to the national
grid and generating
electricity by the end of
September.
Pluckanes has also signed
and accepted an offer letter
for €1.15m of senior-term
loans with AIB to facilitate
the building of the project.
Gerry Madden, Kedco
CEO, said: “The board is
delighted with progress on
the Pluckanes wind project
and looks forward to
construction works starting
in the coming weeks.
Fall in number of
firms winding up
Dublin: The High Court has
heard petitions to have 45
companies wound up this
year — a fall of almost 38%
on the same period in 2012.
The courts have
liquidated 24 (53%) of the 45
companies that had petitions
against them and a further
four have subsequently
been liquidated.
In the same period in
2012, petitions to have 72
Irish companies were heard
by the courts, which went
on to liquidate 38 (53%)
of them, with a further 18
going into liquidation.
Warning over
investment firm
Dublin: The Central Bank
yesterday published the
name of an unauthorised
investment firm, Nelson
Capital Advisors.
It is a criminal offence for
an investment firm to
operate in Ireland unless it
has an authorisation from
the Central Bank.
New appointments
at Eircom Group
Dublin: Eircom Group has
appointed Carolan Lennon
as managing director of
Eircom Wholesale.
Geoff Shakespeare has
been named managing
director of technology
evolution and development
in a newly created role.
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Saturday 25.05.2013
London (FTSE 100)
Tokyo (Nikkei 225)
Paris (CAC 40)
Frankfurt (Dax)
-42.45 6,654.34
+128.47 14,612.45
-10.36 3,956.79
-46.66 8,305.32
New York (Dow Jones) New York (Nasdaq) Hong Kong (Hang Seng)
+8.99 15,303.49
-0.43 2,991.02
-51.01 22,618.67
Gold
Platinum
Brent Crude
+0.01 1,388.08
-1.60 1,456.15
+0.14 102.58
Ireland ‘could cope’ with euro break-up WORLD
ACCOUNT
by John Walsh
Business
Correspondent
There is less than a 10%
probability that the euro will
break up, but if it did corporate Ireland would be able to
cope with the fallout, says
Tiarnan O’Mahoney, head
of Moneycorp in Ireland.
Moneycorp is a foreign
exchange specialist that has
been around since 1979. It is
a fully-owned subsidiary of
Royal Bank of Scotland and
is headquartered in London.
Mr O’Mahoney set up the
Dublin office earlier this
year along with another
former Anglo executive,
Bryan McSharry.
Mr O’Mahoney was
tipped to take over from
Sean Fitzpatrick as CEO
of Anglo Irish Bank, but
instead stepped down in
2005.
The Irish foreign exchange market is worth
roughly €200bn annually
and the pair would like to
have cornered 1% of this by
the end of 2015. As it
stands, they have bagged just
under 100 clients.
“Our clients come from
the entire cross section.
There is a plc, an importer
with a turnover of €1m
each year and another company that does €800m of
foreign exchange every
year.”
The plan is to give clients
a choice when it comes to
the foreign exchange market. “A lot of companies
want a second supplier.
Most of then will have an
established relationship with
their bank, but there is a gap
in the market for a second
supplier as Anglo Irish Bank
and Bank of Scotland are no
longer there. And we are a
foreign exchange specialist.
“We have got a disproportionate amount of business
from Cork. Maybe it is
because of we have two
members of staff from there
— Eoin Walsh is from
Blackrock and Andy Daly is
from Bishopstown.”
He points out that when
companies
use
foreign
exchange facilities at their
bank, they can often use up
credit lines extended by the
same bank. Consequently, it
makes more sense to use a
second supplier, he says.
All Moneycorp back
office functions are done
out of the London office
and “the economies of scale
that offers”, he explains.
All the front office and
trading activities are done
out of Dublin. Clients have
access to research supplied
by the firm. Moreover, all
clients have access to the
firm’s online trading platform, which includes the
ability to make direct payments to third-party clients.
An unprecedented level
of action by the ECB has
brought some calm to the
eurozone debt crisis. But
concerns still linger that the
single currency will once
again come under pressure
unless further reform measures are taken. However, it
is highly unlikely that the
euro will unravel.
Mr O’Mahoney was behind the investment vehicle,
ISTC,
which
was
a
high-profile victim of the
early days of the credit
crunch in 2008.
Glanbia MD designate Siobhan Talbot will be the first female head of an Irish plc with a turnover in excess of €2bn and
given John Moloney’s impressive record, the Kilkenny woman has a tough act to follow, writes Kyran FitzGerald
Big shoes
to fill as
Talbot
takes reins
I
n Kilkenny this week
it was announced that
Siobhan Talbot is to
succeed the highly regarded
John Moloney as managing
director of food group
Glanbia.
The earlier than expected
departure of Mr Moloney
may have unsettled the
markets slightly, but the
welcome for Talbot, a
survivor of breast cancer, is
genuine. This native of
south Kilkenny becomes
the first female head of a
plc with a turnover in excess of €2bn.
Alongside Maeve Carton,
finance director of mighty
CRH, she will rank as the
most prominent female at
the top of an Irish quoted
company. Also worthy of
mention is Ann Heraty
who founded and still runs
the recruitment firm CPL
plc. This, however, is much
smaller in scale.
The MD designate has
been with Glanbia since its
foundation in 1997, having
joined Waterford Foods in
1992. She started her career
as a chartered accountant
with the leading firm,
PriceWaterHouse Cooper,
moving with her garda
husband, Billy, to the firm’s
Sydney office for some
time. The pair returned
to Ireland around 1990,
eventually building a house
in south Kilkenny.
In an interview with the
Kilkenny People, last year,
Siobhan paid tribute to her
mother Maura, a national
teacher, who was widowed
when Siobhan was 15 and
her youngest brother two.
The family later suffered a
big loss when her brother
died in an accident. Maura’s
resilience in the face of adversity has served to inspire
her high-flying daughter.
Talbot has worked closely
alongside her predecessor,
serving as deputy group
finance director from 2005,
joining the board in 2009.
As chairperson of the
Investment Committee, she
has played a central part in
Glanbia’s growth strategy.
John Moloney will be a
particularly hard act to
follow, however.
The group’s share price
has increased 25-fold since
he took over back in 2001
when Glanbia’s very
survival was in doubt. This
success has brought wealth
to many farmer shareholders in the south east enabling them to embark on
an ambitious venture aimed
at capitalising on the
abolition of EU milk quotas
in a couple of years.
Following its recent
restructuring, Glanbia Plc
revenues in 2012 amounted
to €2.22bn. These are expected to reach €2.4bn in
2014 on an organic growth
basis. However, pretax
profits are expected to jump
from just under €150m to
almost €190m in 2014.
The group has benefited,
in particular, from its transformation into a major
player in the fast growing,
relatively high margin international nutritional foods
market.
Last year, John Mullane of
Dolmen Securities (now
Cantor Fitzgerald) predicted
that the group’s global
nutritionals division would
make up just over 70% of
earnings by 2016.
The restructuring and
effective hiving off of the
domestic dairy ingredients
business has smoothed the
path to international expansion for the revamped plc.
Moloney has radically reshaped Glanbia since 2001
when it was regarded as a
basket case, an organisation
split between internal factions.
The merger between
Waterford Foods and Avonmore appeared to be hitting
the sands, with the merged
entity heavily dependent on
low margin business.
“The strategy of going after commodity dairy in the
UK and US simply wasn’t
working,” says Liam Igoe,
agribusiness analyst with
Goodbody Stockbrokers.
Glanbia produced whey, a
byproduct of cheese. The
group decided to slowly
build up this part of the
London: HSBC chairman
Douglas Flint has called for
an acceleration in the speed
of reform within the industry
as the bank was criticised by
shareholders for compliance
failings and accusations it
aided tax avoidance.
Mr Flint told around 400
shareholders at the bank’s
annual meeting that the
fallout from recent scandals
had created a
“once-in-a-generation”
opportunity to reform
banking and the broader
financial industry.
“As a first priority, we need
to speed up the reform
process. Otherwise, investor
confidence in the sector will
continue to be undermined,”
he said.
Mr Flint also apologised to
shareholders for the bank’s
failings after it was handed
fines of $1.9bn (€1.46bn) in
December, the largest ever
imposed on a bank,
following a US investigation
into its Mexican and US
operations.
Co-op Bank halts
business lending
Siobhan Talbot: ‘We have addressed the economic challenges, Irish and global, and we will continue to execute the Glanbia strategy which is to
become the leading global nutritional solutions and cheese group.’
Picture: Dylan Vaughan
business while simultaneously selling off businesses,
particularly in the UK, in
liquid milk and cheese.
Glanbia simply cut its
losses.
I
t was a long hard
slog. The whey
operation grew out of
a cheese plant in Idaho, US.
The group looked for
additional end uses. This
brought it into the gym
user, muscle builder market
— a long way from the
supply of cartons of milk
and soup with which
Glanbia and its predecessors
was associated.
In the mid Noughties,
Glanbia acquired Optimal
Nutrition. This was a big
move into performance
nutrition.
By then, it had built up
expertise in business to
business ingredients supply.
Today, over 40% of sales
are generated in the US
where many of the group’s
activities are based and
almost three quarters of
earnings are generated by
the global ingredients and
performance nutritionals
businesses, built up over the
past decade. Performance
nutrition accounts for
$600m in revenues alone.
The emphasis is on global
expansion, with Asia seen as
offering particular scope.
According to Davy
Stockbrokers, “performance
nutrition is replicating its
US success in new regions,
with 30% of sales coming
outside the US”. It believes
that with Glanbia’s vertically
integrated structure, it is
well placed to capitalise on
the growth in nutri foods
worldwide. This year, the
focus is on organic expansion, with €130m in capital
expenditure planned.
The incoming MD will
Getting to know: Siobhan Talbot
■ Born: Co Kilkenny.
■ Education: Mercy
Convent, Carrick on Suir.
UCD. B-Comm. Qualified
as chartered accountant.
■ Career: 1985: Joined
Price Waterhouse.
Moved to work in
Sydney.
1992: Joined Waterford
Foods to take up
finance role.
1997: Merger of
Waterford Foods &
Avonmore Foods to form
Glanbia. 2005-9: Deputy
finance director.
2009-13: Group finance
director.
Siobhan Talbot worked in Sydney in the 1980s.
2009 to date:
Board member.
2013: Managing
director designate, takes
over in November.
■ Family: Married to Billy
Talbot a retired garda.
Two children.
well understand the dilemma that one David Moyes is
faced with, one summed up
by the exhortation “Match
that!”
In Liam Igoe’s view, managing growth can be pretty
challenging, particularly
when you are heading up a
group with four businesses
that are hungry for capital
and keen on global expansion. At least, the balance
sheet is in good shape with
debt to EBITDA (earnings
before interest tax and depreciation) at just under
two times, slated to fall to
1.4 times by 2014, barring
acquisitions.
He believes that Talbot
will take time out to
consider the options.
The MD designate has
been involved in all the
major acquisitions of recent
years so she is hardly coming cold to the task at hand.
In an interview conducted by email, Talbot points
to the current economic
environment, global and
Irish, as posing the greatest
challenge to the group.
“Glanbia has addressed
this. We have very strong
brands. We are very aligned
with how trends are emerging. We will continue to
execute the Glanbia strategy
which is to become the
leading global nutritional
solutions and cheese group,”
she says.
The group has no plans
to change its dual Dublin
and London listing. “We
are comfortable with the
joint venture model and
have a number of very successful joint ventures, such
as SW Cheese in the US
and Nutracima in Nigeria.
In Ireland we have become
a shareholder in GIIL
(Glanbia Ingredients Ireland
Ltd) in partnership with
Glanbia Society (the
co-op),” Talbot says.
When asked to cite role
models, she name checks
her predecessor. “John
Moloney is fantastic. He has
been my mentor for the
past decade.”
A farmer’s daughter, she
expresses confidence in the
ability of the sector to
archive ambitious goals set
by Government for 2020.
“While very conscious of
the recent challenges, we
fundamentally believe in the
long term opportunities for
the sector and that farmers
will be ready for these.
Ireland has some of the best
dairy farmers in the world
along with a strong competitive advantage that will
serve us well.”
Hopefully, she can help to
bridge the traditional gap
between producer and
processor so apparent in the
debate over milk prices.
As for personal consumption, she opts for the
Optimium Nutrition Opti
Women range while her
children are keen imbibers
of Avonmore super milk.
Headlines about Apple’s ‘tax haven’ has little impact on Irish bonds
by Dara Doyle
Michael Noonan: ‘Magician
wasn’t resident down in Cork.’
Speed up reform,
says HSBC chief
As the country’s leaders try to
limit the fallout from the tax
crossfire between Apple and US
politicians, bond markets suggest they don’t have to worry.
Speaking to lawmakers in
Dublin two days ago, Finance
Minister
Michael
Noonan
insisted the country is no tax
haven, a day after a congressional hearing in Washington
focused attention on Apple’s
manoeuvres to minimise its tax
bill through its operations in
Cork.
“Maybe there was a magician,” said Mr Noonan, adding
that Ireland didn’t “want to be
a whipping boy for misunderstandings” over Apple’s tax
liabilities. “But the magician
wasn’t resident down in Cork.”
At stake is Ireland’s model of
attracting overseas companies
with the lowest company tax
rate in western Europe to drag
the economy out of its worst
recession on record. So far,
investors are unmoved. Yields
on two-year Irish securities are
close to a record low, while
those on 10-year bonds are near
their lowest relative to benchmark German bunds in three
years.
“It’s lots of bluster so far, with
no actual suggestion as to what
the US is going do,” said Owen
Callan, an analyst at Danske
Bank in Dublin, a primary
dealer in Irish government
debt. “Bad headlines, but nothing behind it.”
After Apple chief executive
Tim Cook appeared at a
congressional hearing on May
21, the yield on two-year Irish
notes was little changed at
0.78%, the least since 2003.
The yield on Ireland’s 10-year
bonds fell one basis point this
month to 3.54% today. That
narrowed the premium the
nation pays to borrow compared with Germany to 2.08
percentage points from 11.5
percentage points in Jul 2011.
In part, the decline in borrowing costs has been driven by
ECB president Mario Draghi’s
pledge last year to do whatever
it takes to defend the euro.
It also reflects Ireland’s strategy of protecting its 12.5% corporate tax rate, which had
come under threat from European leaders following the
country’s Nov 2010 bailout.
To an extent, it’s paying off,
as companies making goods to
ship abroad help propel the
economy back to growth. In
a country of 4.4m people,
115,000 work for US companies.
Yet, the Government’s focus
on wooing overseas companies
has put them in the sights of US
politicians.
Apple negotiated a tax rate of
less than 2% with Irish authorities, a Senate report said this
week, citing the company. Mr
Cook told lawmakers Apple
had done nothing wrong.
“When Irish politicians get
into the realms of having to
defend the country against
these accusations, much damage has already been done,” said
Dermot O’Leary, an economist
at Goodbody Stockbrokers.
Apple reduced its tax bill by
setting up a unit in Cork, which
didn’t declare tax residency
in Ireland because it’s neither
managed nor controlled in the
country, according to the hear-
ing. As the unit is incorporated
in Ireland, it’s not a US tax
resident either.
The phenomenon of “stateless companies” may not survive, said Feargal O’Rourke,
tax and legal services leader at
PricewaterhouseCoopers. Even
that probably won’t hamper the
Government’s ability to attract
investment, he said.
Ireland’s tax rate compares
with 35% in the US, 33% in
France and 23% currently in the
UK. Companies are able to
reduce their taxable income in
Ireland by subtracting large
royalty payments, said Seamus
Coffey, an economics lecturer
at UCC.
“There’s merit in some of the
complaints, but most of it is
political posturing,” said Mr
Coffey.
— Bloomberg
London: The Co-operative
Bank has stopped offering
loans to new business
customers; part of measures
designed to quell growing
concerns over its capital
position.
The bank’s parent, the
Co-operative Group, said
yesterday that it was
undertaking an extensive
review of the bank,
examining its capital and
lending position and its
commercial strategy.
Credit ratings agency
Moody’s downgraded Co-op
Bank’s debt ratings earlier in
May and warned it could
need taxpayers’ money to
plug a capital shortfall,
which some analysts have
said could be as high as
£1.8bn (€2.1bn).
In its statement, the Co-op
said it took a decision in
March that it would not look
for new corporate lending
business and would
concentrate instead on
serving individual retail
customers.
“This decision is part of
our commercial strategy to
play to the traditional
strengths of the bank. It
will enable us to focus our
energies and capital on both
supporting our existing
corporate customers and on
growing our presence in the
retail banking market,” said
new chief executive Euan
Sutherland.
Fears Italian bank
crisis will spread
Bagnaia: The crisis that has
hit Italy’s third-largest lender,
Banca Monte dei Paschi di
Siena, might not be an
isolated case, the bank’s
chairman Alessandro
Profumo said yesterday.
Monte Paschi had to ask
for state loans worth €4bn
to fill a capital gap stemming
from its exposure to Italian
government bonds as well
as from risky derivatives
trades. Prosecutors are
investigating whether the
bank’s former management
misled regulators about a
costly 2008 acquisition and
the true nature of the
derivatives trades.
Rupert Murdoch to
get 15% pay rise
New York: Rupert Murdoch
is to receive a 15% rise in
total potential pay as he
prepares to split his News
Corp media empire into two
divisions. The increase will
take the total amount he
could take home from both
companies to $28.3m
(€21.9m).
News Corp said in a
regulatory filing that
Mr Murdoch’s base pay at
the two companies would
remain unchanged at
$8.1m for the financial year
2014.
However, the target payout
from his long-term incentive
plan across both companies
would rise from $4m in 2013
to $7.7m with other bonuses
targeted to pay out a total of
$12.5m.
In June, News Corp will be
split into two companies,
with the group’s TV and film
properties being spun off
into 21st Century Fox and a
‘New News Corp’, to include
the group’s newspapers,
publishing and Australian
assets.
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Saturday 25.05.2013
Prosperity spreads but political change doesn’t
by David Rohde
In Moscow, they are “nonSoviet Russians.” In New
Delhi, they are a “political
Goliath” that may soon
awake.
In Beijing and Sao Paolo,
they are lawyers and other
professionals who complain
about glacial government
bureaucracies and endemic
graft. Prosperity is spreading
in many emerging market
nations, but political change
is not.
Economic
liberalisation
has sparked vast economic
changes in China, India,
Russia, and Brazil. A
middle class that was once
made up of government
servants is now dominated
by private-sector employees.
At the same time,
government institutions that
once provided the basics
— education, healthcare,
and employment — are
crumbling. The frustrated
middle class are demanding
change,
but
traditional
power holders, from Russia’s
Vladimir Putin to India’s
political parties, remain
entrenched.
For middle-class Russians,
economic power has not
brought political power.
“They want modernisation,”
FARMING WORLD
a Russian analyst who asked
not to be named, said.
“They want to be respected
by the outside world.”
The dynamic in each
country is different, but
Moscow’s middle class is
one example. Employed by
private firms and financially
self-sufficient,
they
are
the winners of economic
globalisation. Disappointed
with state-provided healthcare and education, they
are launching their own
organisations to fill the gap.
Maria Lipman, a scholar
in residence at the Carnegie
Centre Moscow, described
the group as “achievers”
who “believe in charity, just
like their counterparts in
Europe”.
“I like to describe them as
non-Soviet Russians,” she
said. “They do not share the
traditional Russian mentality of state paternalism.”
Last
year,
tens
of
thousands of members of
Moscow’s middle class took
to the streets to protest
Putin’s disputed reelection.
The protesters themselves
were surprised by the size of
the turnout, according to
Lipman and the Russian
analyst. “Suddenly, they
woke up to politics,” she
said.
But a crucial dynamic
limited their effectiveness.
The middle-class protesters
in Moscow viewed engaging
in traditional politics as
debasing. Choosing leaders,
compromising with other
groups and slowly building
an opposition movement
were seen as corrupting.
“Politics, by definition,
is long-term,” said Lipman.
“You
have
to
make
coalitions with people who
you might detest. To this
crowd, this was absolutely
not acceptable.”
The movement’s divisions
and a crackdown by Putin
diluted its strength.
Last year, hundreds of
thousands of members of
India’s burgeoning middle
class ended a decade of
apathy and protested corruption for the first time.
So far they appear to have
largely failed to break the
hold of the dominant political parties, which primarily
serve India’s ultra-rich and
rural poor. Elections scheduled for 2014 will show if
India’s middle class can gain
more political clout.
In
Brazil,
explosive
growth in the urban middle
class has largely failed to
break the hold of entrenched political parties
Teagasc is predicting a
50% shortage in silage
made for next winter in wet
land areas, based on
consultations with advisers
in each of its 51 advisory
offices across the country.
Teagasc’s Fodder Update
found that almost 40% of all
livestock farmers were
severely affected by the
forage crisis. This varies
from 10%-15% in the east to
20%-25% in the south and
up to 80% in the west and
north-west. Continuing
heavy rain has seen the
situation in the north-west
deteriorate significantly.
“From mid-April supplies
of forage from the south and
west have dried up, and in
recent times farmers have
been getting supplies from
the east of the country and
from imports by co-ops,
etc,” said Dermot McCarthy,
head of Teagasc Advisory.
“Teagasc identified the need
for such imports at an early
stage.
“Teagasc has also
contributed silage from
Moorepark and Clonakilty
College to farmers in need.
We have been working
closely with farm
organisations and with the
industry and the Department
of Agriculture in these
efforts.”
Teagasc has held more
than 100 clinics, 35
seminars and 66 farm walks
to help farmers evaluate
their options. The issues
were also addressed at over
800 discussion groups
involving 14,000 farmers
attending spring meetings.
Teagasc estimates one
third of its 40,000 clients
have some or all stock
indoors due to poor grazing
conditions or lack of grass.
Almost 40% of clients have
purchased fodder to deal
with poor grass growth and
poor grazing. When
surveyed, one quarter of
Teagasc’s clients had no
ground closed for silage.
Teagasc set up forage
exchange data bases in
each region. Farmers trying
to source fodder
outnumbered those
supplying fodder by three to
one, with around 500
farmers supplying significant
amounts of fodder and
1,500 looking for fodder.
However, though farmer
groups have welcomed the
Department of Agriculture’s
amendments this week to
the nitrates regulations to
support fodder production,
they are also seeking for the
fodder import transport
subsidy, which is officially
closed since this morning, to
be extended to next week.
The subsidy will apply to
bales already purchased,
but which can’t be
transported until next week.
ICSA president Gabriel
Gilmartin said the import
subsidy, has made a “huge
difference” to the cost of the
imported bales, which have
been a lifeline for so many
farmers over the past
number of weeks.
Mr Gilmartin said: “The
demand for bales hasn’t let
up, particularly in the north
west and the border
counties, so the likelihood is
that more hay will need to
be bought next week — but
these won’t be covered by
the scheme. I would urge
the minister to extend the
scheme in full until at least
Jun 1, or until this crisis
comes to an end.”
■ Meanwhile, applications
for the new Teagasc
professional diploma in dairy
farm management must be
submitted by the closing
date of next Friday.
Application forms and
details are available on the
Teagasc website at
www.teagasc.ie. Completed
applications should be
submitted to Teagasc
Kildalton College, Piltown,
Co Kilkenny.
Dee’s Wholefoods to supply vegan
sausage range to Tesco stores
by Joe Dermody
Vegetarian food producer
Dee’s Wholefoods has
launched a range of vegan,
gluten-free, and GMO-free
sausages in Tesco stores.
Developed following an
Enterprise Ireland-supported
feasibility study and two
years of intensive R&D, the
sausages are based on
pea protein sourced from
suppliers in the North of
France. The peas are grown
using environmentallyfriendly and sustainable
methods.
The recipe also contains
black and navy beans and
Dulse seaweed, which
contains a whole range of
micro-nutrients such as
calcium and iron that are
often missing from meat-free
diets.
“We worked with the BIM
Seafood Development
Centre in Clonakilty in
Co Cork who helped us to
incorporate the unique
properties of Dulse seaweed
into our recipes,” said
Deirdre Collins, founder of
Dee’s Wholefoods in Cork.
“The Dulse seaweed we
use in the sausages is
harvested from the crystal
clear waters of the Atlantic
Ocean.”
Dee’s Wholefoods is
participating in the Tesco
export programme. Assisted
by Bord Bia, the programme
will feature 17 new Irish food
companies covering
confectionery, ice cream,
seafood, bakery, and health
categories. The programme
will equip participants with
the skills required to secure,
grow, and maintain business
with Tesco.
“We are delighted to be
part of the Tesco export
programme and to have
access to the vast wealth of
retail experience at Tesco,”
said Ms Collins. “It is an
excellent opportunity to
grow our business with one
of the world’s most
successful retail chains and
reach a much wider market.”
Deirdre Collins, of Dee’s Wholefood, which is participating
in the Tesco export programme, assisted by Bord Bia.
by Gordon Deegan
Thomas and Lauren Coughlan, from Passage West, enjoy the annual Tesco HB Hazelbrook Farm Ice Cream Funday party
in Douglas, Cork, in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland.
Picture: Gerard McCarthy
Petroceltic falls 4% after well plugged
by Geoff Percival
Shares in Irish exploration
firm Petroceltic International fell nearly 4% yesterday on the back of the
company abandoning an
exploration well in one of
the territories into which
it expanded last year.
The Dublin-based firm
— traditionally focused on
northern Africa and the
Mediterranean — significantly upped its geographical presence last year, with
its takeover of Scottish explorer Melrose Resources
taking it into the Black Sea
and extending its presence
to other parts of northern
Africa and Middle East.
Petroceltic last month
reported an operating
profit of $4m, an 18% cutting of pre-tax losses, and
strong revenue growth for
2012, all on the back of
the Melrose deal, and said
the coming year and a half
would see it embark on an
ambitious exploration programme, covering a minimum of nine wells across
most of its geographical
base, including two high
impact wells in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
However,
Petroceltic
yesterday said initial results
from the Kamchia-1 exploration well in the Black
Sea, in the Galata exploration concession, showed
the well did not contain
commercial gas volumes.
Despite being drilled to
a depth of 2,887ft, 56ft
of carbonate sands with
sub-commercial gas saturations were encountered.
The well has been plugged
and
abandoned,
with
Petroceltic saying it will
analyse well data before
deciding whether to enter
into the final two-year extension of the Galata exploration licence.
Chief executive Brian
O’Cathain said the rig
used at Kamchia-1 will
now move to complete a
development well on the
Kaliakra gas discovery, also
in Bulgaria.
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“It will then drill the
company’s first exploration
wells offshore Romania
this summer to test two
high potential, proven
exploration plays in Est
Cobalcescu and Muridava,” said Mr O’Cathain.
Petroceltic’s share price
was down by 3.7%, at 8c,
yesterday, but analyst reaction was not bad. Davy
Stockbrokers said the
result proved that exploration is “an uncertain activity”, but that the value
implications to the stock
should be limited.
On Thursday, another
Irish explorer, Tullow Oil,
announced the abandonment of a well in Norway.
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members of China’s middle
class expressed frustration
over spiralling house prices,
inequality, and corruption.
Last week in Pakistan’s
elections, anger at corruption and poor government
services brought 40m new
voters to the polls.
Protest movements are
electrifying,
but
until
members of the new China,
India, Russia, and Brazil
middle classes embrace the
ugly, but necessary, world of
politics, Putin and the other
entrenched elites will have
little to fear.
David Rohde is a
columnist for Reuters
Nama cuts
rent by €14m
to ‘help firms’
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Teagasc predicts 50% shortage of
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that are widely regarded as
corrupt. Many middle-class
Brazilians applaud the efforts
of President Dilma Rousseff
to reform the government
but still question whether
she can succeed.
Denis Dias, a lawyer for
an energy company and the
first person in his family to
go to college, said Brazilians
pay tax rates that rival those
of Western Europe but do
not receive commensurate
services. “People are getting
really disappointed,” he said,
“because it doesn’t achieve
results.”
At an IKEA store in
Beijing 18 months ago,
Change
Company
Imperial Tobacco
Intesa Sanpaolo
Prudential
Inditex
Linde
Koninklijke Philips
Ap Moeller-Maersk
A/S-B
Lvmh Moet Hennessy
Muenchener R
National Grid
Nestle Sa-Reg
Novartis
Nordea Bank Ab
Novo Nordisk A/S-B
L'Oreal
Reckitt Benckiser
Royal Bnk of Sctlnd
Rio Tinto
Hermes Intl
Roche Ag-gen.
Royal Dutch Shell -A
Shs
Royal Dutch Shell
-B Shs
Pernod-Ricard
Rolls-Royce
Rwe
Sabmiller
Banco Santander
Standard Chartered
Comp. S.Gobain
France Telecom
Siemens
Swiss Re
Statoil Asa
Telefonica
Telenor Asa
Schneider Electric
Tenaris
Syngenta
Teliasonera Ab
E.On Se
Tesco
Ubs
SwatchAg/The-Br
Unicredit
Credit Suisse
SwatchAg/The-Reg
Unilever
Vodafone
Volvo
Unilever Nv-Cva
Vivendi
Volkswagen
Volkswagen Ag-Pref
SZ
GE
NE
GB
BE
21.42
117.10
62.70
1556.50
73.86
0.01
-0.50
0.48
-13.50
0.41
GB
DE
60.08
39420.00
-0.54
-240.00
LX
FR
SW
9.94
39.48
177.00
-0.03
0.12
-1.90
FR
SW
GE
FR
GB
GB
GB
GB
SP
GB
FR
FR
GE
GB
GB
GE
FR
SZ
143.50
157.70
84.46
84.51
3428.00
317.00
3706.00
1923.00
7.11
1194.00
58.02
44.22
73.45
476.40
307.70
58.68
96.95
88.60
1.20
-1.90
0.55
-0.30
1.50
-4.45
-9.00
-19.50
-0.07
-22.50
-0.28
-0.56
-0.81
-1.10
-6.40
-1.96
0.81
0.45
GB
GE
FR
GE
389.70
70.88
14.76
34.95
-1.80
-0.60
0.05
-0.24
FR
GE
37.50
47.41
0.24
-0.65
IT
GB
GE
FR
FR
IT
GE
2.86
2019.50
9.26
42.53
17.59
17.75
53.09
0.01
6.50
0.01
0.51
-0.03
-0.26
-0.51
SW
GB
SZ
FR
NE
GE
GE
77.50
1749.50
331.85
16.26
55.60
64.27
76.60
-0.75
7.50
-5.05
-0.03
-0.20
-0.12
-0.59
SW
GB
NE
SP
234.30
726.00
7.00
4.19
-0.60
-15.80
0.03
0.01
Country
GB
IT
GB
SP
GE
NE
DE
Price
2407.00
1.38
1144.00
97.75
152.05
22.53
41320.00
Change
Company
29.00
-0.02
-14.00
-1.30
1.45
0.09
-280.00
Anglo American
Associated British Foods
Admiral
Aberdeen Asset Mgmt
Aggreko
Amec
Antofagasta
Arm
Aviva
Astrazeneca
BAE Systems
Babcock Intl
Barclays
Brit Amer. Tobacco
BG
British Land Co
BHP Billiton
Bunzl
BP
Burberry
BSkyB Gro
BT
Carnival
Centrica
Compass
Capita
Croda Intl
CRH
Diageo
Eurasian Natural Res
Evraz
Experian
Easyjet
Fresnillo
G4S
GKN
Glencore Xstrata
Glaxosmithkline
Hargreaves Lansdown
Hammerson
HSBC
Intl Consolidated Airline-Di
Intercont. Hotels Grou
Imi
Imperial Tobacco
Intertek
Itv
Johnson Matthey
Kingfisher
Land Securities
Legal & General
Lloyds Banking
London Stock Exchange
Meggitt
Marks & Spencer
Melrose Industries
Wm Morrison Supermkts
National Grid
FR
137.50
0.10
GE
GB
SZ
SZ
SW
DE
FR
GB
GB
GB
FR
SZ
NE
143.35
836.00
65.70
71.25
81.00
967.50
132.95
4850.00
327.00
2867.00
275.00
253.10
2216.50
-1.15
6.50
-0.05
-0.20
-0.25
-1.50
-0.80
-19.00
-10.20
-46.00
0.60
2.40
-22.50
NE
2287.00
-25.50
FR
GB
GE
GB
SP
GB
FR
FR
GE
SZ
NO
SP
NO
FR
LX
SZ
SW
GE
GB
SZ
SZ
IT
SZ
SZ
GB
GB
SW
NE
FR
GE
GE
95.11
1190.00
27.24
3432.50
5.31
1537.50
32.41
8.10
82.45
70.35
132.30
10.73
127.50
60.58
16.41
387.20
45.14
13.15
380.00
17.19
572.50
4.09
27.93
99.25
2862.00
194.55
96.15
32.60
15.17
164.00
166.60
1.11
0.00
-0.25
-29.50
-0.08
-1.50
0.24
0.00
1.16
0.00
1.80
-0.14
1.80
-0.28
0.06
5.40
-0.18
-0.08
-3.30
-0.13
-2.50
-0.07
-0.17
-0.70
-4.00
1.00
-0.65
0.13
0.07
0.25
-1.40
Minister for Justice Alan
Shatter has confirmed that
Nama has agreed annual
rent reductions totalling
€14m from businesses “in
order to help businesses
survive”.
In a written Dáil response,
he confirmed that the
agency has granted 222 applications for rent reductions
and a further 52 are under
review.
He said: “Of the 284
eligible applications received
only 10 have been refused,
representing a 96% approval
rate by Nama.
Mr Shatter said: “The
practice of Nama in this area
is one which I would commend to landlords in the
commercial property market
and in the retail sector in
particular.”
In replies to questions by
TDs Pearse Doherty (SF),
Michael Healy Rae (Ind)
and Alan Farrell (FG),
Mr Shatter said “Nama is
playing a role in dealing
with problems caused by
upward-only rent reviews
applying to Nama properties”.
However, he said there are
no plans to revisit the 2011
government decision not to
proceed with legislation to
abolish upward-only rent
review clauses in commercial leases which were
entered into prior to Feb
28, 2010.
Mr Shatter said that the
Government considerations
“involved
a
substantial
concern that any legislative
scheme involving interfer-
CLOSING PRICE: 6,654.34
Price
Change
1556.50
1932.00
1298.00
479.10
1731.00
1051.00
961.00
985.50
328.90
3428.00
414.10
1166.00
317.00
3706.00
1194.00
631.50
1923.00
1308.00
476.40
1518.00
780.50
307.70
2237.00
389.70
887.00
995.00
2529.00
1390.00
2019.50
254.80
146.30
1254.00
1250.00
1078.00
246.60
296.40
331.85
1749.50
989.00
521.00
726.00
273.00
-13.50
-8.00
12.00
4.10
-27.00
-5.00
3.00
-9.50
-0.60
1.50
-1.10
12.00
-4.45
-9.00
-22.50
-0.50
-19.50
-1.00
-1.10
-4.00
-11.00
-6.40
4.00
-1.80
-6.00
-12.00
-9.00
-9.00
6.50
-10.70
-2.60
-14.00
-16.00
-2.00
1.20
-2.80
-5.05
7.50
-9.50
-0.50
-15.80
-5.50
1912.00
1309.00
2407.00
3169.00
130.10
2596.00
327.00
961.00
180.00
60.08
1381.00
523.50
475.00
255.20
280.00
836.00
-6.00
-16.00
29.00
-47.00
-2.30
-41.00
-0.40
-6.00
-2.60
-0.54
-17.00
1.50
2.90
-1.50
-1.30
6.50
Company
Next
Old Mutual
Petrofac
Polymetal Intl
Prudential
Pearson
Reckitt Benckiser
Royal Bnk of Sctlnd
Royal Dutch Shell -A Shs
Royal Dutch Shell -B Shs
Reed Elsevier
Rexam
Rio Tinto
Rolls-Royce
Randgold Res
Rsa Insurance
Resolution
Sabmiller
Sainsbury (J)
Schroders
Sage/The
Shire
Standard Life
Smiths
Smith & Nephew
Serco
Sse
Standard Chartered
Severn Trent
Tate & Lyle
Tullow Oil
Tesco
Tui Travel
Unilever
United Utilities
Vedanta Res
Vodafone
Weir/The
Wood(John)
William Hill
Wolseley
WPP
Whitbread
ence in the contractual
relationships of private parties would find it extremely
difficult to survive a constitutional challenge”.
He also pointed out: “In
addition, the Government
was advised that any model
proposed would require the
payment of compensation to
landlords whose rights were
infringed in order to ensure
that the proposal would
be compatible with the
Constitution and with the
European Convention on
Human Rights.”
Businessman and restaurateur, Jay Bourke, who has
been vocal on the need to
abolish upward-only rent
reviews, said yesterday: “A
rent reduction of €14m by
Nama in the context of its
overall property portfolio
doesn’t sound like a lot.
“The real question to
answer is what has been the
scale of the Nama rent reductions? Have the rents
been reduced to market
value?”
Mr Bourke said that “it is
an absolute disgrace that the
Government didn’t proceed
with abolishing upward-only rent reviews. I was really
convinced that they would
as the upward-only rent
clauses have resulted in
monumental jobs loss.”
Mr Bourke said he doesn’t
accept Mr Shatter’s legal
advice.
The minister did confirm
that work is under way to
ensure that a commercial
leases database by the
Property Services Regulatory Authority will be operational shortly.
CURRENCIES
Price
Change
$1
4580.00
214.00
1340.00
648.50
1144.00
1223.00
4850.00
327.00
2216.50
2287.00
751.00
523.50
2867.00
1190.00
4988.00
113.40
290.20
3432.50
378.00
2432.00
362.20
2168.00
408.40
1355.00
782.50
630.00
1606.00
1537.50
2071.00
875.50
1025.00
380.00
358.50
2862.00
787.00
1281.00
194.55
2295.00
828.00
440.50
3329.00
1146.00
2835.00
-111.00
-0.90
-10.00
-16.50
-14.00
6.00
-19.00
-10.20
-22.50
-25.50
-8.50
-2.50
-46.00
0.00
-42.00
-0.80
-1.40
-29.50
-4.30
-17.00
-2.00
34.00
-3.80
20.00
-2.50
2.50
-18.00
-1.50
29.00
4.50
-13.00
-3.30
-4.10
-4.00
-0.50
-5.00
1.00
-25.00
-10.00
-4.80
-17.00
-16.00
-20.00
Euro
0.77
1.00
1.17
US Dollar
1.00
1.29
1.51
UK Pound
0.66
0.85
1.00
Australian Dollar 1.03
1.34
1.56
Canadian Dollar 1.03
1.33
1.56
China Renminbi 6.13
7.92
9.27
Czech Koruna 20.06 25.92
30.34
Danish Krone
5.77
7.45
8.73
HK Dollar
7.76 10.03
11.74
Hungary Forint 223.93 289.34 338.72
Indian Rupee
55.76 72.04
84.34
Japanese Yen 101.00 130.50 152.77
Korean Won 1127.03 1456.24 1704.75
Mexican Peso
12.53 16.19
18.96
Morocco Dirham 8.60 11.11
13.00
NZ Dollar
1.23
1.60
1.87
Norwegian Krone 5.83
7.54
8.82
Philippine Peso 41.68 53.85
63.04
Polish Zloty
3.25
4.20
4.91
Saudi Riyal
3.75
4.85
5.67
Singapore Dollar 1.26
1.63
1.91
S. African Rand 9.58 12.38
14.50
Swedish Krona 6.65
8.59
10.05
Swiss Franc
0.96
1.24
1.46
Taiwan Dollar 29.93 38.67
45.27
Thai Baht
29.97 38.72
45.33
Tunisian Dinar
1.66
2.14
2.51
€1
£1
GENERAL FINANCIAL
ECB Benchmark rate
Consumer Price Index
(Dec 2012)
Workforce
(Q3 2012)
Employed
(Q3 2012)
Unemployment
(Q3 2012)
Live Register (season adj.)
(Dec 2012)
Unemployment Rate (SUR)
(Jan 2013)
National Minimum Wage p/h
0.75%
+1.2%
2,165,800
1,841,300
324,500
430,900
14.6%
€8.65
Markets slip on fears Fed will end stimulus
Global equity markets slipped
yesterday on worries that the US
Federal Reserve may curtail its
stimulus measures.
The dollar recovered against
the euro to trade almost flat after
better-than-expected US durable
goods data for April.
European shares fell, marking
their first weekly decline in five
weeks, while US stocks were
poised to do the same after
testimony by Fed chairman Ben
Bernanke sparked speculation
the US central bank will begin to
trim its support for the economy.
The
Fed’s
purchase
of
treasuries and mortgage-backed
securities, being conducted at a
monthly pace of $85bn (65bn),
has been a boon to equities
markets and other riskier assets.
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For Menus & Details:
www.crawfordgallerycafe.com
Tel: 021-4274415
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'10 A6 Le Mans
Save €3,400
TDi, Cruise, Leather,
Was €29,500 Now €26,500
Luceys Charleville 063 89222
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'10 Focus TDCi
Save €2,250
Zetec, €200 Tax, alloys
Was €15,500 Now €13,250
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'12 Hyundai 130
Save €2,000
crdi €180 Tax, Diesel, Alloys
Was€19,950Now€17,950
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'12 Mazda 2
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No mileage, Alloys, A/C,
Was €17,450 Now €13,950
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03 AVENSIS D4D, old shape
170k, NCT 04/14, taxed
08/13
e 2,250
086-6015119
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03 PASSAT TDi, 100 bhp,
NCT. 086-3862978
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GREAT Island Car Rentals
Ph. 021-4811609 24 hrs
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2011 Hiace LWB 2010 partner LWB. Tel 087-2537043
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ENTERPRISING
person
required for practical
challenging
work
in
expanding business. Please
reply to box no POS
6281208 this office
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Diesel Cars
‘09 Peugeot 308 est, 1.6
‘07 Ford C-Max, 1.6
‘07 Ren Laguna 1.5 new model
‘07 Ford Mondeo 2L
‘06 Mazda 3, 1.6
‘05 Peugeot 407 1.6
‘05 Mazda 6, 2L
‘04 Ren Megane 1.5, 3dr
‘04 Volvo V40 estate, 1.9
‘03 Ford Mondeo AUTO
Trade Taken. 0214886571B
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WORKER
wanted
for
in
work
construction
Poland, €150 per day,
accommodation included.
Tel: 0048 539718250 /
0048 880493743.
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Hons. Irish J.C. 2014, 4 day
Prep Course. 087-6383984
Principal
Teacher required Aghabullogue Primary School, Co
Cork. See
www.educationposts.ie
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Lynes & Lynes
June Auction we collect.
021-4389998
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02 Micra, low milage, NCT
04/14, mint. 087-2492313
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Car Boot Sale
Bandon Rugby Club, Clonakilty Road, Bandon. Indoor
space . Sun May 26, 10- 3.
06 C200 Mercedes, diesel,
taxed and tested, E 7500.
086 8190401.
'12 Yeti tdi
Save €2,000
TDi, Tax Band B, 28K kms
Was €22,950 Now €20,450.
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drivers wanted for company
taxis, all shifts, s.ps.v licence
essential. Independent taxi
operators also wanted. Call
Tom 087- 2249071
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Was €28,925 Now €22,925
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Rathcormac, Co. Cork, this
Sunday, May 26th
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LORRY loads of Turf delivered 086 2664605
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BUSY Established East Cork
nail & beauty business for
sale. Please reply to box no
POS 6275712 this office
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MATURE Forestry wanted,
(Connifers) 086-2606475
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Wanted Land
Suitable for
Planting
Please call 087 2514789
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12 acres to let for grazing
for 3 months in Cashloura,
Macroom. 026 41526.
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1-2 acre site wanted with old
cottage, farmhouse or p/p
in Crosshaven, Myrtleville,
Fountainstown, Carrigaline
East, or Currabinny.
Private buyer. 021-4832718
A 4 bedroom house wantednear Fermoy or Mallow,
finance organised, strict
confidence. Please reply to
box no POS 6281652 this
office
WANTED 40 acres with site
or house, within 30mins
drive
of
Cork
city.
087-6864789
YARD and Shed wanted to
rent in East Cork area. Tel
086-2673388.
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WANTED land to rent Ballyvourney, Clondrohid Macroom area. Cash paid.
O’Mahony Walsh Auctioneers. 087-2448177
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APPROX 1/2 acre site
wanted between Midleton
and Glanmire that will likely
get planning permission.
Ph: 086 8054692
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FARRAN, Castlelyons, Co
Cork- 12 acres for silage.
Contact Dick Barry & Son,
Fermoy 025 31577.
TO let C 15 acres, (with
maps) for grazing, all
enquires to Frank Crowley
Auctioneer, Strand St. Kanturk.
087-2315115
029-50392
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SELLING or buying a 7 Day
Liquor Licence.0404 42832
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COSTA DEL SOL, NERJA well
known Irish Anchor Bar
Free hold premises in
Parador area, operating 33
years. Present owners 11
year twice reduced e 150k
Phone 051-385402
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1995 Ford 7740 for sale
with Rossmore loader, suitable for export, priced to
sell. 086 4468718.
5 X 10 gallons aluminium
milk churns. 1 calving jack.
1 cow lifting harness. 1
motorised dome style camera for cow supervision for
sale. Apply 087 4131064.
Carrignavar.
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2006 TM 140 RC , supplied
new from shortens , 3300
genuine hours, front axle
and cab suspension, 85%
Mitchelan 650 , new 540 ,
fully serviced, beautiful
genuine tractor, €39,000
plus vat. 086-8190095
FOR sale 855 Massey Combine, 022-47315
P.T.O.’s, Pumps, Motors,
Diverter Valves, Check Valves
Directional Control Valves,
Joystick Controllers,
Coolers, Filters, Hose & Fittings at Hi-Power Ltd., Dublin Hill, Cork. 021 4301742.
Also Unit 3B, Red Cow Bus
Park, Ballymount Road, D22.
Tel. 01 4640255
DeLaval
Tom Harte
Milking machines, sales,
service, spare parts, cow
mats, auto yard scrappers.
021-4302471/ 087-2532824.
For Hire
New 40ft Kuhn tedder available for immediate hire.
The ultimate in silage making. Roland rear discharge
muck spreader available, 6
silage trailers also 2 large
slurry
tankers
Tel
087-2947478
FOR sale, silage trailer, 14ft
x 8ft, auto door, mint condition. 087-2546876
JD mower Klass 430 single
roter rake in very good
condition 087-2947478
JOHN Deere 1365 conditioner mower in good condition tel 087-7580602
JOHN Deere 530 mower
with grouper. New Bed.
086-8507206
JOHN Deere 6910 forage
harvester 1996 ready for
grass tel 087-2540271
SCRAP Cars, vans, farm
machinery wanted. Cash on
collection 087-7988001
Silage Outfit
self propelled available for
immediate hire also trailed
silage outfit available &
McHale fusion round baler
also tedding & raking available
if
required
087-2947478
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WANTED all makes & model
tractors & diggers
for
export, breaking & re-sale.
Top prices. 086 - 1966987
WANTED Ford & MF tractors; 93 - ‘06 JCB rubber
tyre diggers; 10-20 Ton
excavators; 086 - 8190095
WANTED Ford tractors any
condition
also
Ford
Engines. Tel. 087-6491756
WANTED Post Driver. Ph.
086-8239333
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WANTED track machine for
hire for drainage and site
clearance. 086 4468718.
ZETOR Crystal 8011, good
condition. 087-2993609.
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ALL Concrete Works &
Tanks. Tom 087-2409130
Dooling Steel
Farm Buildings, A roof +
lean-too + round roof, supply only or erected. Also
repairs carried out, old
roofs, gutters etc. Gates +
door, welding service. Ph:
William
058-53151
or
087-6883528
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6 X 3 1 1/2 Italian Sq. bales
of hay/soft hay. Delivered or
collected. 087-9365551
CERTIFIED Kerrs Pink and
Golden Wonder seed potatoes for sale. Buttimer,
Fermoy 087 2338330.
CERTIFIED Seed potatoes
for sale, cheap. Ph:
087-2605633.
ROUND bales of hay. Tel
087-7762877
ROUND bales of silage
Macroom (087) 831 0448
SILAGE ground
026-46278
available.
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Shake it Out!
Increase the quality of your
silage. 30 ft tedder for hire.
Ph. 086-8047186
WANTED Growing silage
Inniscarra/Ballincollig/Blar
ney area. 087-6685513
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All types of fencing supplied
and erected. Contact Casey
Fencing 086-8187765
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10 feb fr bull calves for sale.
Tel 087-7647242
10 Freshly calved pedigree
reg’d Friesian cows for sale
by OJI, RUU, BYJ. EBI’s to
179, milk recorded herd.
087-6217446
10 Strong Autumn 2012 FR.
Bull calves 087-6685513
11 Pedigree Registered Friesian Heifer calves, born in
early March. John Murphy,
Dripsey, 086-2795828.
13 Friesian-Friesian X Jersey
maiden heifers for sale
225-275kgs, surplus to
requirement. 086 4677688
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1 outstanding 20 month old
Limousin bull, very stylish
and growthy, Sire Muc,
Dam Un-dit. 086-8548048
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ANGUS bulls for sale.
087-1142863/ 0217330017
A selection of
PBR
Limousin bulls, heifers,
cows.
Burke
Ballynoe,
086-1676655/058 - 59156
Ballypore Herd
Offer
2 PBR Fr. Bulls, av. EBI 240,
sires IRP/SOK, dams BEI/UYC
052-7467335 087-6216520
BB PBR bull for sale. 25
months old. blue + white
Ph. 086 - 1713500.
BLARNEY Herd offers selection of ped Friesian bulls
by top AI sires and from
very high milk and protein
dams. Tel 087-2866044
BRITISH Fr bulls for sale,
PBR, 14 to 24 mths, AI
sires, recorded herd, Millstreet 087-8378467.
BRITISH Friesian and AA
Bull
calves,
3-4mths,
weaned on meal at grass.
086 8130354.
BRITISH friesian ped bulls
for sale recorded dams AI
sires. Tim Twomey, Banteer. 087-2335055
BUCKET fed calves, AA and
WH Bulls/Heifers, 3-8wks,
tested. 086-3842858
Bull Fertility
Testing
1st Choice Toystory Holstein
bulls
herd
average
1,965gls, 3.65F, 3.26P,
Macroom. 086 2333867
Nationwide call out service.
Competitive rates. Kieran
Kingston. 087-7390162
20 strong PBR Maiden
Heifers from milk recorded
herd high F & P avg EBi
122. 087 9087942
BULLS a choice Pedigree
Friesian high EBi, good
solids, grass based closed
herd. 086 8117303
3 Friesian heifer calves for
sale. Tel. 086-2606047.
BULLS for sale, 14 to 20
months old, protein upto
3.93%. 086-8381327
5 FR bulls by AI sires, some
suitable for heifers, Skehanagh Herd 087 6738745
A.A. Bull for sale 20 months
Mallow. Tel 087-2336639
AA Bulls BVD test O’Riordan
Macroom 087-7647423
AA bulls for sale tested Free
of BVD & IBR O’ Hanlon
Liscarroll 087-2368826
AA PB bull, BVD tested. J
Buckley 086-3190909
AA ped bulls, 17 mths/
13mths, BVD tested. 086
3524406.
AA pedigree bulls, easy
calving, BVD tested, suit
heifers. 087-9309191
AA x cow with heifer calf at
foot. 087-9694835
AI Bred young friesian cows,
high EBI from recorded
herd.
Millstreet.
086
3848268
ANGUS and Hereford pedigree bulls for sale, BVD
tested. Cronin, Mourneabbey. 086-8033443
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BULLS for sale PBRLimousin
029/69096, 083/1090892.
BULLS for sale, ped registered, British Friesian, 1 2
year old bull, 4 yearling
bulls, EBI upto €186. Ph:
087-7443416
BULLS PBR, limousin, charolais, simmental, angus,
hereford, and Friesian. BVD
and
fertility
tested.
Delivered. 086-8481402
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ENTIRE Dairy Herd of 65
Milch Cows for sale.
Genuine reason for sale.
Well managed spring calving
herd. 2012 Milk Recording
5500 litres at 3.46% protein and 4.08% fat.
Contact
John
Crowley
Consulting Bandon
023 – 8849854.
FOR sale calved cows AI
bred,
recorded.
087-1485459
FOR sale freshly calved cows
high ebi low cell count.
086-3824278
FOR sale Limousin bull, PBR
by Mas Du Clo, 16 mths
old.
025-36436
or
086-3561704
FOR sale Milking cows &
heifers,
after
calving
087-1257214 023-8848465
FOR sale or lease 2 yr old BF
bull. 029 68108.
FOR sale PB Charolais bull
21⁄2yrs old, genuine reason
for selling. 087-2798644
FOR Sale PBR 2 yr old Friesian Bull, quiet and fruitful.
Kanturk. 087 7975897.
FOR Sale Pedigree Registered 100% British Friesian
bulls with protein to 3.95
by AI Sires. Fertility tested
John Kelly 086 - 3951978
FRESH calved young fr cows
for sale 087-7647242
FRIESIAN Bull Calves, Jan,
Home bred. K O'Sullivan,
Mallow 087 9065646
FRIESIAN Bullock Weanlings, Home bred. K
O'Sullivan, Mallow 087
9065646
FRIESIAN heifer calves for
sale, Feb born, AI bred, EBI
to 180, Whitechurch area.
087 2770070.
FRIESIAN pedigree maiden
heifers and heifer calves.
087-2636391
GOLDWIN 2yr old fr bull for
sale 087-7647242
GURTERAGH Hereford PBR
bulls for sale 18-24 months
BVD
tested.
Michael
O’Keeffe,
Newmarket
087-9253369
HERD of young British Friesian type for sale. (80),
herd average 1200 gallons,
butter fat 3.85 and protein
3.38, Low SCC. some cows
served again. Telephone
087-4151077
HEREFORD bulls, excellent
selection, fertility and BVD
tested. Cornelius McCarthy
028 21501, 087 2042864.
HEREFORD Bulls, pedigree
reg. for sale. McDonnell,
Macroom. 086 3653844.
HEREFORD bulls tested,
free of BVD& IBR O’Hanlon
Liscarroll 087-2368826
HEREFORD PB bulls for
sale, BVD & blood tested.
Cronin Dripsey, Cork 087
9224053 / 087 2863053
CHAROLAIS
& Angus
Pedigree bulls easy calving
087 6995507
HEREFORD PR bulls, 18-24
months, all BVD tested.
Owner bred. Tom Roycroft
087-6283681.
CHAROLAIS bulls 520kg’s
087-9556344
DEAD cattle collected, fully
licensed, prompt collection.
Ph: Jim Barrett 022-25457/
086-4013452.
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ALLIHIES
2 holiday
homes, 4 bed beside beach,
& 3 bed in village centre.
Avail June B/H & Summer
087-6812831 087-2506030
ALLIHIES Beara, s/catering
holiday homes near beach.
Walkers paradise. Excellent
rates all year. June Bank
Hol E250 Tel 086-8030413
CROOKHAVEN
Modern
spacious family friendly, 4
bed hse, sleeps 8-9. Overlooking Gallycove beach.
Avail now.Ph: 087-6524648
GARRETSTOWN / Kinsale 3
bed sleeps 8, newly
decorated with stove, on 3⁄4
acre site, walking distance
to beach, e 550 weekly
June /Aug only available.
Tel 087 0560202
GOLEEN modern cottage
overlooking sea nr safe
sandy beach. Child friendly
spacious garden Good rates
pets welcome 086-0762449
ROSSCARBERY
Luxury bungalow adjacent to
beach and village, all mod
cons. Special rates Spring/
Summer. 087-9756051
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beaches,surfing,fishing,
15min
golf
courses,
May/June e280pw, July/Aug
e300pw. 087 6314302.
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June sleeps up to 10 people
book one week in June get
Second week free. ref 285
095-41844 .cc-cottages.com
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3 & 6 Bed Houses avail. City
Centre/ 5 mins Salt Hill. All
mod cons, Parking. Comfortable/ spacious. From
€200p/w086-8425168
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BALLINSKELLIGS large 4
bed. Sleeps 9 . On seafront
1 mile beach. Own private
site, Avail July/ August ,
087-6782006.
BALLYBUNION 3 bed cottage, 2 bath, slps 6, close to
beaches, surfing, golf, leisure centre, cliff walks. Bed
linen
supplied.
Ph
087-3545500
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BALLYBUNION s/c chalets
& apartments available for
Summer. Near Beach and
Golf Course. Very reasonable. Ph. 068-27214.
TRALEE 4* 4 bed hses, all
ens. slps 8, Jun e 400pw
Jun B/h e300, Jun 3 nts
special e250 0876865551
www.coisceimvillage.com
BALLYHEIGUE beach side
mobile home. 086 8875150
TRALEE 4 bed hse, slps 8, 2
bath, large garden, sat TV,
10mins drive to beaches, 8
mins walk to centre.
066-7125607 087-1250227
BANNA 3Bed House, all
ensuite sleeps 7. 5 Mins
Beach, pool and leisure
Centre. Tel: 087-2214133
tomasdowling1@hotmail.com
BANNA Beach holiday resort
2 bedroom cottage, all mod
cons, available all year
Tel.
086-3740159
or
066-7137232
BANNA Beach Hol. Resort 3
bed house. 087-2683544
BEACH House with Spectacular Views only 2 mins
walk to Rossbeigh beach.
Ph. 087 2289712 ,
TRALEE s/c hol. homes 4
bed all ens. broadband, 20
mins walk town centre, 10
mins drive beach. June/Jul
€300-€400Aug€450-€500
Rose week e600. Ph.
087-2308734
VENTRY Dingle 3 bed cottage Ventry Harbour/beach
with view of Skellig Islands.
Dingle 3 miles. Beach 10
mins walk. (087)9351790.
www.skelligview.com
www.rossbeighbeachhouse.com
CAHERDANIEL, new house
sea view, sleeps 6, close to
beach shops and restaurants.
Good
rates.
087-2237853
CASTLEGREGORY 4 bed,
in village, 5 mins to beach,
all mod cons,
Tel:
086-8113019
CASTLEGREGORY newly
built detached 3 bed to let
in village, sleeps 7, all mod
cons. Near beaches. Good
rates. Tel. 086-8586933
DINGLE 4 bed bungalow, on
its own grounds, sleeps 8,
peaceful location, private
trout stream, near beaches
& Dingle Way . fr. E350pw.
For details ring: 063-98269
DINGLE Ballydavid in heart
of village 3 bed. Next to
beach & Pub, suit walkers.
Jun, Jul and Sept, summer
breaks 086-6072422
DINGLE comfortable 3 bed
house to let. Close to town,
Available now onwards.
066-9151707
or
087-7544654
GLENBEIGH great value all
inc prices for remaining
weeks in 2 or 3 bed beautiful 4 star cottages set on
their own private gardens.
Tel 087-2658847 after 6pm
JUNE WEEKEND SPECIAL
KENMARE
Dunkerron
Woods luxury Holiday
Homes in a Parkland Estate.
From €300. Slps 6/8
www.rentacottage.ie
info@rentacottage.ie
086-1266076
KILLARNEY NATIONAL
PARK Muckross Park Self
Catering Apartments. Adjacent to Hotel. 2 bedroom
Apts up to 5 people. From
€ 298 for 2 nights.
Tel:
064
6623400
www.muckrosspark.com
TRALEE 3* self catering
Holiday
Apt’s, ideally
located, great deals from
e300pw. Tel; 066-7193600
www.holidayapartmentstralee.com
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TRAMORE mobile homes
Short break brochure.
Fitzmaurices Caravan Park
051-381968/ 051-381466.
www.fitzmauricescaravanpark.com
Tramore modern ground &
first floor 2/3 bed apts, on
edge of beach, near town
centre. Ph 087-2315678
www.beachsideappartment.com
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KILMUCKRIDGE, Ballymac
Village luxury 4* det. hol.
houses. Special offers. Ph.
053-9130104/ 087-2414869
www.kilmuckridgeholidays.ie
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Between Carcassonne and
Toulouse Quiet country
Guesthouse Great food &
wine. Large pool B&B for
two e75 pn ; 3 nights e199
Catriona 0033 468 94 3029
www.jean-coste.com
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ALICANTE, 2 bed 2 bath
apart. Communal pool. 20
mins nearest beach. Cheap
rates long/short term let
087-0947081
BENALMADENA 2/3bed lux
apartments long/short term
Special rates Now booking
May-Sept
2013
0879393641 www.bpr.ie
COSTA BRAVA Roses Seaside Resort 3 bedroom private house with gardens &
swimming pool. Avail. for
June- Oct. 40 mins Girona
Airport. Cheap flights fr
Cork. 087-4159304
MARBELLA area beautiful
beachside hse
& apt.
Sleeps 6/7, very close to all
amenities. Special offers
Jul/Aug/Sept 021-4315818
Holiday
Rentals
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HEREFORD bulls for sale
bvd tested Neile Moylan,
Kanturk. 087-6594800
BULLS PBR, limousin, charolais, simmental, angus,
hereford, and Friesian. BVD
and fertility tested. Delivered. 086-8481402
CHAROLAIS cross bull and
heifer calves for sale, East
Cork. Tel. 087-4191421
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balcony & sea views, suit
4-6 people, e 200pw.
Long/short let. Ph Noreen
087-1661260
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HOL /FR Bulls by WDS PZI
KYC OOK LBQ Herd avg
7,142ltrs. 4.19% vat. 3.52%
protein. F+P 550kgs. SCC
97. EBI 117. J & D Finn 086
8579980 / 087 9557096
SIMMENTAL heifers PBR.
086-8920842
STRONG Angus calves ready
for
weaning.
Ph:
086-8229546.
JERSEY Bull for sale, 20
months old 086-8381327
VASECTOMISED
bull
16mths old TB and Brucellosis tested, Vaccines
given, 087-2616778
LIMOUSIN PBR Bulls. .
Dorgan Watergrasshill. Tel
086-3831002.
WANTED 2-3yr old Hereford bull. 087-6189876
LIM. PBR. bulls for sale, 26
months bulls by french sire
Omer, also Ideal 23. 16
months bulls by Samy and
Sauvignon. Super quality
animals. Phone John
086- 1713500
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WANTED strong HER bull.
086-8506073
YOUNG FR cows. high solids East Cork 087-1366457
MALLOW ROAD
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Bulls, yearling and 2 year
old. Dams VG and excellent.
AI Sires. High Protein and
EBI. Tel 087-8196266.
4 mths old Collie pups, ex
parents. Tel. 086-3046660
PB Char and Lim bulls,
16-24mths, ex quality
stock. 087-2272172
FOR Sale well breed Sheep
Dog pups. Ph: 022-47210.
PBR Friesian Bull, AI Breed,
easy calving, 14 months.
Donal Murphy 029-69984
or 086-3499813.
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with good records for sale.
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Ph. 087-2059801
2 miniature ponies for sale,
female, ages 6 and 7. Ph:
021-4778405
PED Fr Bulls. BVD Tested. D
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showjumped/riding
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PED Fr. bulls WDS, & MJI,
high EBI, high protein.
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Required dept
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collection tel 087-9418125
PEDIGREE angus bulls for
sale. 029-58228
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NEW Stallion at Stud, Vita
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087-9758830
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“MARTINVILLE”, KILBRIN, KANTURK, CO. CORK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and FIRST ANNIVERSARY
Died: 26th May 2012
DAN’s wife Tess, sons, daughters, brother and sister and
extended family wish to thank all those who attended the
Rosary, Removal, Funeral Mass and Burial. Thanks to
those who sent Mass cards, enrolments, letters of sympathy and floral tributes. A special thanks to our wonderful
neighbours, friends and relatives for all their support and
kindness. Thanks to Fr. Eamonn Barry, Fr. Michael Campbell and Fr. Frank O’Neill who concelebrated Mass, to the
sacristan Noreen, to Nora Mary and Una O’Riordan for the
hymns and to the altar servers. Sincere thanks to Dr. Cormac Lyons, Dr. Brian O’Connell, the Public Health Nurses
and his carers for their great care and attention. Thanks
also to Michael Drew (Undertaker) for all his assistance.
As it would be impossible to thank everybody individually,
please accept this acknowledgement as a token of our sincere appreciation and gratitude. The Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass has been offered for your intentions.
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BALTYDANIEL EAST, MALLOW
Died: 27th May 2012
MARGARET’s husband Joseph and family wish to
acknowledge and sincerely thank all those who
sympathised with us on our sad loss. Thanks to all who
attended the Rosary, Removal, Funeral Mass and burial
and to all those who sent Mass cards, enrolments, letters
of sympathy and floral tributes. Thanks to our wonderful
relatives, friends and neighbours and those who travelled
long distances to be with us. As it is impossible to thank
everyone individually, please accept this acknowledgment
as a token of our appreciation. Mass will be offered for all
your intentions.
Call Margaret’s name out softly, Lord,
Protect her, keep her safe.
All her life was dedicated to us, Lord.
Tell her we love her, miss her here in every place,
Remembering you is easy, we do it everyday,
But missing you is a heartache
That never goes away.
Annette Dorney
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FIRST ANNIVERSARY and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
May 28, 2012
Michael, Michelle, Lyn and Paul remember Annette with
love today and every day. We are sincerely grateful to all of
you who supported us in so many ways on our
heartbreaking loss. We thank you for the abundance of
flowers, Mass cards and perpetual enrolments that were
offered for Annette. A very special thanks to Annette's
brothers and sisters, to Canon Tadgh O Mathuna, Fr. Sean
Lynch, Fr. Oscar, Fr. John Collins and Fr. Tommy Wade,
O’Connor’s Funeral Home, Temple Hill. Many thanks to
the staff at the Bon Secours Hospital and the dedicated
team at Marymount for their care of Annette. The Holy
Sacrifice of Mass has been offered in sincere gratitude for
your intentions. Anniversary Mass of Remembrance will
take place on: Sunday, May 26, at 9am, in St. Michael’s
Church, Blackrock and Tuesday, May, 28, at 9.15am in
Holy Cross Church, Mahon.
"There are no goodbyes for us.
Wherever you are, you are always in our thoughts
and forever in our hearts."
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ADVERTISING 27
Irish Examiner
Saturday 25.05.2013
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John Keane
3, OAKVILLE, CLOUGHDUV and TEMPLEMARTIN
May 24, 2012
On this the First Anniversary of JOHN’S death, his wife
Mary, brothers and sisters thank most sincerely all those
who sympathised with them on their recent sad loss. We
extend our thanks to all who attended the Rosary,
Removal, Funeral Mass and burial and to those who sent
Mass and sympathy cards, letters of sympathy, enrolments
and floral tributes. We thank Dr. Gerard Murphy and Dr.
Sheila Creedon who cared for John. We are very grateful to
Fr. Bernard Donovan for his support and to Fr. Finbarr
Crowley who celebrated John’s Funeral Mass. Thanks also
to Gabriel and O’Donovan Undertakers for their
professionalism. We express our gratitude to the
Committee of Newcestown Parish Hall for their assistance.
A sincere word of thanks to John’s neighbours for their
wonderful support especially in his last days. To his
devoted carer Sarah Buckley a heartfelt thanks. The Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass has been offered for your intentions.
“May his gentle soul rest in peace”
David Mawe
DUNMANWAY
May 29, 2012
The family of the late DAVID MAWE wish to thank all those
who sympathised with us on our bereavement. We would
like to express our sincere thanks to all the doctors,
nurses and staff at both Bantry General Hospital and
Dunmanway Community Hospital for the care given during
his short illness. Also to Dr. Tom O’Donnell and Dr.
Katrina Geissel for their kind support, and to Fr. John
O’Donovan for his generous visits and for celebrating a
beautiful Mass for our father. Thanks to Sharon and John
for their beautiful singing at the removal reception and
Funeral Mass in Innishannon. We would like to express
our appreciation to Richard O’Neill of O’Neill’s Funeral
Home for his help and professionalism. A sincere thank
you to our relatives, neighbours and friends who attended
the services and to those who sent Mass cards, letters of
sympathy, and floral tributes. The Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass has been offered for your intentions.
O Mary!
We crown thee with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May
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16th ANNIVERSARY
FRANCES, Belgooly, who
died on May 25, 1997. On
her soul sweet Jesus and
Mary have mercy. Masses
offered.
When thoughts go back,
as they often do,
We bless the years that
we spent with you.
(Sadly and lovingly missed
by her family).
Patrick J. Bambury
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of a dear
husband,
father
and
grandfather,
late
of
Knoppogue, Mallow, Co.
Cork, who died on May
27th, 2008. Rest in Peace.
Anniversary Mass will be
offered on Monday, May
27th at 10 am in St. Mary’s
Church, Mallow.
You are more than a
memory silently kept,
You are part of our lives
we will never forget.
(Sadly missed by his wife
Margaret, Anne, James and
Jim).
John Perrott
KINSALE, CO. CORK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND FIRST ANNIVERSARY
On this the first anniversary of John's death, his family
would like to thank sincerely our friends and neighbours,
all those who attended the funeral and sent cards and letters of condolence. We wish to especially thank Frank
Godsell & Jacqui Greenwood for their caring support. Also,
to Ewan Tubridy for her beautiful singing tribute and Rev.
David Williams for his warn uplifting funeral service.
We hope this acknowledgement adequately conveys our
appreciation and gratitude to you all.
Christopher Waters
HETTYFIELD, DOUGLAS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and FIRST ANNIVERSARY
May 25, 2012
Kathryn and Stephen together with Christopher's brothers
and sisters wish to acknowledge all those who sympathized
with us on the loss of Christopher. Our sincere thanks to
all who attended his Removal, Funeral Mass and Burial, to
those who sent Mass cards and letters of sympathy and to
those who made donations to the C.F. Unit at C.U.H. The
care and support given by neighbours and friends is deeply
appreciated. Special thanks to the S.M.A. Fathers, Blackrock Road for their beautiful Funeral Mass. The Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered for your intentions.
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Acknowledgement):
The family of the late JOHN
COSGROVE,
Bathview
Mallow, would like to thank
those who attended the
Funeral and sent Mass
cards. Also thanks to
O’Keeffe’s Undertakers and
Fr. O’Donovan for their
professionalism. The Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass will be
offered for your intentions.
SELLARS,
BILL
(Dun
Laoghaire). Mary and
family wish to thank most
sincerely all those who
sympathised with them on
Bill's passing in November,
to all those who sent Mass
cards, letters, and messages of sympathy. We
would like to thank
especially Fr. Ollie who
travelled from Tanzania.
We wish to thank all relatives,
neighbours
and
friends who attended Mass
celebrated by Fr. Ollie for
Bill in Midleton. As it is
impossible to thank everyone individually we hope
that this acknowledgement
will be accepted by all as a
token of our appreciation
and gratitude.
Collins
FIRST ANNIVERSARY
Cherished memories of
our dear mother, NELLIE
(ELLEN), late of
Ballygroman, Ovens
and Ballincollig, who died
May 28, 2012.
May she rest in peace.
(Lovingly remembered
by her family)
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Dan Kenneally
GLENLARA, NEWMARKET
SECOND ANNIVERSARY
(Loved and missed so
much Mam, Dad, Michael
and Kate)
Cremin
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of
our dear mother, KATIE,
Carrigduff, Mallow, who
died on May 31st, 2008.
Softly in the evening
You heard a gentle call,
You took the Hand of
Jesus,
And quietly left us all.
(Always remembered by
her loving family)
Masses offered
Trevor Larkin
KILLAVULLEN
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
No one knows the
heartache of what
your parting cost.
But God in all his glory,
has gained the son we
lost.
(Loved and missed so
much by Mam, Dad,
Rebecca, Brian, Helena,
Fergal and Grainne).
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Jim Neville
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of
JAMES (JIM), O’Brien’s
Place,
Dripsey,
who
passed away on May 25,
2009. Rest in Peace.
Masses offered.
I think of you in silence,
I always speak your
name,
But all I have are memories,
And your picture in a
frame.
Your resting place I visit,
And put flowers there
with care,
But no one knows the
heartache,
As I turn and leave you
there.
your loving wife Mary)
Anniversary Mass on Saturday, 25th May in Cloghroe Church at 7.30pm.
Mass on Sunday in St.
Mary’s Church, Berrrings
at 8.30am
Barry
15TH ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of
PAULINE (nee McCarthy),
late of Barry’s Place,
Newmarket, whose Anniversary occurs today.
Time slips by and life
goes on,
But from our hearts you
are never gone.
It isn’t what we write,
Or even what we say,
It’s how we feel inside,
As we think of you each
day.
(Lovingly
remembered
today and always by Mam,
your sisters and brothers
and their families)
SECOND ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of
DANIEL (DANNY), late of
Douglas and Derbyshire.
Remembering you
Is easy
We do it every day
But missing you
Is a heartache
That never goes away
(So sadly missed and
dearly loved by his wife
Diane, children Sophie,
Katie, Lauren, Kieran and
all his loving family)
Heffernan
33rd ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of
HARRY
HEFFERNAN,
“Kantara”,
Belvedere
Lawn, Douglas, Cork, who
died on May 26, 1980.
RIP.
his wife Marjorie, Jean,
Aidan, Rose, Margaret and
family).
Kelleher
Gemma Cadogan
CORK AND CAVAN
SIXTH ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of
GEMMA CADOGAN who
We hold you close
within our hearts,
And there you shall
remain,
To walk with us
throughout our lives,
Until we meet again.
(Lovingly remembered by
her
husband
Paddy,
daughter Thérèse, sons
David, Oliver and Seán,
daughters-in-law Claire,
Monica, Georgina, and
granddaughters Gemma
Maria, Anastasia Nathalia
and Isobel Aoife).
Mass in the Church of the
Real Presence, Curraheen on Sunday May 26,
at 11.30am.
BARRY (15th Anniversary)
In loving memory of
PAULINE, late of Barry’s
Place, Newmarket, whose
anniversary occurs at this
time. R.I.P.
You always had a smile to
share
A laugh, a joke, time to
care
A wonderful nature, warm
and true
Wonderful memories we
have of you,
your husband Con and
family).
BARRY 15TH Anniversary
PAULINE, late of 20 Barry’s
Place, Newmarket,
My words are few, my
feelings deep
My memories of you
Pauline will always keep
(Ellen and Haulie).
Quiet thoughts, a silent
prayer
For someone special in
Gods care
(Kitty)
Your name is often mentioned
Our thoughts are with you
still
You have never been forgotten
And by us you never will.
(Always remembered by Julie
and Pat).
BUCKLEY Remembering
with
love
JAMES
(MONTANA)
BUCKLEY
who's second anniversary
occurs today.
(Siobhan, David, Aidan)
Edward McCarthy
In
loving
memory
of EDWARD (EDDIE),
Glenny, Riverstick, who
No morning dawns
no evening falls without
a prayer for you
(Sadly missed by his wife
Sheila and family).
In loving memory of
WILLIAM (BILLY), Nursetown and Hammond Place,
Dromahane whose First
Anniversary occurred on
May 22nd.
Will those who think of
Billy today,
A little prayer to Jesus
say.
(Remembered by the Kelly
family, Carrigcleena).
BEASLEY
(née
Tighe)
FINOLA MARY January 8,
1927 - June 2, 2011,
formerly of Castlerea,
Co. Roscommon and Kinsale,
Co. Cork. To be laid to rest
on Saturday June 1, 2013 at
12 midday in St. Joseph's
Cemetery,
Castlerea,
followed by mass in St.
Patrick's Church, Castlerea.
All family & friends warmly
welcome. Enquiries to
McDonagh Funeral Directors 094-962 0216
CARVER (12th Anniversary)
In loving memory of
CATHERINE
CARVER,
Rathcoola, Donoughmore,
who died on May 25, 2001.
On her soul sweet Jesus
have mercy.
Masses will be offered.
(Always remembered by her
loving family)
CROWLEY 11th Anniversary
CHRISTOPHER, late of
Carrigdarrery, Lissarda, a
dear husband and father.
(Mary, James and Sheila).
DOODY JIMMY.
(4th Anniversary)
Treasured memories of a
dear husband, dad &
granddad.
We’ll treasure forever,
The friendship & love we
shared,
The things you did,
The way you cared,
Someone to turn to,
So kind & true,
One in a million,
We’ll never forget you.
(Love and miss you always
your loving wife Helen,
children & grandkids).
FEEHAN: In loving memory
of JOHN M. FEEHAN, who
died on 25 May, 1991 and
MARY P. FEEHAN who died
on 15 February 1971
(Always remembered by their
loving family and friends)
HEALY: Treasured memories of TIM, late of College
Road whose 23rd Anniversary occurs at this time.
May he rest in peace.
The hands of time keep
turning
The years have passed
away
But memories of you will
never fade away.
(Nora and family).
Willie Murphy
BALLYMAKEERA
SECOND ANNIVERSARY
Died: 26th May 2011
Deep are the memories,
Precious they stay,
No passing of time,
Can take them away.
Joan and family)
Murphy
THIRD ANNIVERSARY
In loving memory of Eileen
Murphy, late of Pallas
Lombardstown, who died
on May 25th, 2010
Your needs in life were
simple,
Your love for us was
true,
As long as we were
happy,
You were happy too.
(Sadly missed by your
loving husband Paddy).
Memories are something
no one can steal,
Death leaves a heartache
no one can heal,
Deep in our hearts your
memories are kept,
To love and cherish and
never forget.
Missing you every day.
(Elaine & John, Marguerite
& Ger, David & Emma and
your Much loved grandsons Aaron and Jack. xxx)
HEALY
(Seventh
Anniversary):
MAURICE,
late of Graigue, Glenville.
(Remembered by Timmy,
friends and neighbours)
HORGAN (30th Anniversary): Fond memories of
CORNELIUS, Dromineen,
Lombardstown.
Though time and years slip
quietly by
Memories of you will
never die
(Never forgotten by his
family)
KELLEHER (Knockrour,
Aghabullogue)
(13th
Anniversary) In loving
memory
of
PATRICK
KELLEHER,
Knockrour,
Aghabullogue who died on
May 31, 2000.
(Always remembered by his
loving family, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren)
May he rest in peace
(Inserted by his loving son
Jerry)
LARKIN: In loving memory
of my Grandson TREVOR
who died on May 24, 2008.
It does not take a special
day for me to think of
you.
Nana Goggin).
��
BROWNE JOAN (nee Collins,
of Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry
and formerly of Ballymacquin, Ardfert): On May 24,
2013, peacefully, at her
home, in the presence of
her loving family, dearly
beloved wife of Jimmy,
wonderful mother of Sara,
Dorren and Kate and sister
of Doreen and Jim. Sadly
missed by her loving family,
grandchildren
Seamus,
Hannah, Mai, Ellen, Zoe,
Jane and Tadhg, sonsin-law Eamonn, Niall and
Derek, nieces and nephews,
relatives and friends. May
she rest in peace. Reposing
at her family home, The
Rectory, Ballyheigue, on
tomorrow (Sunday) from
3pm to 7pm, followed by
removal to St. Mary’s
Church, Ballyheigue. Requiem Mass on Monday at 12
noon. Interment afterwards
in St. Mary’s New Cemetery,
Chapel Road, Ballyheigue.
Donations, if desired, to the
Kerry Hospice Foundation.
��
Noonan
In loving memory of
MICHAEL, Rathnadarrahy,
Castletownroche
whose
second anniversary occurs
May 28.
(Sadly missed by his
brothers, nephews and
nieces)
Daniel Galvin
Daniel Murphy
BALLYGIBBON, BLARNEY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND FIRST ANNIVERSARY
DIED 28TH MAY 2012.
On this the First Anniversary of DAN’S death, his wife Jane
and family offer our sincere thanks to all those who
attended his funeral. To those who sent Mass cards,
enrolments and letters of sympathy. A very special word of
appreciation to Fr. Birmingham and Fr. Coakley who celebrated his Funeral Mass. Thanks to all those who cared
for Dan during his illness. The professionalism of
O’Connor’s Bros., North Gate Bridge was deeply appreciated. Thanks to all those who sympathised with us on our
loss. Please accept this Acknowledgement as a token of
our appreciation. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has been
offered for your intentions. Anniversary Mass on Sunday
May 26th at 9.30am in Waterloo Church.
��
Cliodhna
Ronayne
DUNLAVIN HOUSE,
LAVALLY,
MALLOW, CO CORK
THIRD ANNIVERSARY
MAY 27, 2010
Cliodhna is loved, missed
and remembered every
day.
'May her gentle soul rest
in peace'
(Sadly missed by Dad,
Mum, Aislinn, Áine and
James,
grandmothers,
extended
family
and
friends xx).
Maimie O’Leary
THE GARAGE, LISSARDA
SECOND ANNIVERSARY
Cherished memories today
and always of MAIMIE a
wonderful mother and
grandmother remembered
with love,
As we look upon her
picture, sweet memories we do recall,
Of a face so full of
sunshine and a smile
for one and all,
Sweet Jesus take this
message to our dear
mother up above,
Tell her how much we
miss her and give her
all our love,
(Forever in our thoughts
and prayers, Jim Pat John
Teddy Ellen and families)
O’Sullivan
MEELIN
In memory of our parents
MARY and JIM; aunt
HANNAH and our sister
SHEILA.
Eternal rest give to them
O Lord.
Let perpetual light shine
on them.
May they rest in peace.
LARKIN: Treasured memories of TREVOR, late of Killavullen, whose Fifth Anniversary occurs.
Wonderful
memories,
silently kept,
Of a special nephew, I will
never forget.
(Always missed by Auntie
Kathleen)
of our nephew and cousin
TREVOR whose Fifth Anniversary occurs at this time.
The hands of time keep
turning,
Five years have passed
away,
But the memories we have
of you Trev,
No one can take away.
(Always in our thoughts your
aunts, uncle, families and
all your cousins).
of TREVOR, late of Killavullen, whose Fifth Anniversary occurs.
Memories are here always,
They don’t fade away,
We think of your always,
Not just today.
(Sadly missed and always
remembered
by
Don,
Caroline and Oisín)
LEWIS (Avondale Park and
Cobh): In loving memory of
ANGELA who died on May
29th, 2006.
Please remember Angela
and her beloved NAT in
your prayers.
(Sadly missed by Bill, Maeve
and family).
MURPHY: In loving memory
of our parents DANIEL
PATRICK and CHRISTINA,
late of St Finbarrs Park,
Glasheen Road, whose
anniversaries occur around
this time. Masses offered.
(Mary, Barry and Donal)
Jack Tierney
LAVALLY, MALLOW
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY
26th MAY
Remembered with love
every day.
(Una, Colm, Eoin, Julie,
and all the family).
MURPHY (Pallas, Lombardstown). Treasured memories of my dear sister
EILEEN, who passed away
May 25, 2010
Your life was a blessing
Your memory a treasure
You are loved beyond
words and missed beyond
measure
(Remembered with love by
Phil and family)
MURPHY (Third Anniversary). In loving memory of
EILEEN, late of Pallas, Lombardstown, Mallow.
Memories are precious,
They don’t fade away,
I think of you always,
Not just today.
Bridget)
NEVILLE
(Dripsey)
Treasured memories of our
dear Uncle JIM who died on
May 25, 2009. RIP
Our Lady pray for him.
(Remembered by his nieces
and npehews Bawnmore)
NOONAN MARK (Second
Anniversary).
Lovingly
remembered and so sadly
missed by family and
friends. Anniversary Mass
10.30am
tomorrow,
Blarney.
O'MAHONY:
In loving
memory of our parents,
VERA and JOHN, late of 22
Ballincurrig Park, Douglas,
Cork, whose anniversaries
occur. Rest in peace.
(Lovingly remembered by
their family)
WISEMAN:
In
loving
memory of my dear parents, JOHN (May 21, 1979)
and EILY (May 30, 1978)
Behina, R.I.P. Mass offered
in Ballinamorrive.
Mary, Macroom).
��
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KIELY (Cork): Months Mind
Mass will be offered for the
late TIM, late of Whites
Cross on Saturday June 1 at
6pm in St. Joseph’s Church,
Springhill, Glanmire. All
welcome.
��
CONNOLLY (nee Sugrue)
(Newtown East, Bantry): On
May 23, 2013, peacefully,
at Cork University Hospital,
CARMEL, beloved wife of
the late Paddy, loving
mother of Mary, John,
Martina, Carmel, Jessie and
the late Michael, dear sister
of Betty and Michael. Sadly
sons-in-law, daughter-inlaw, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, nephews,
nieces,
relatives
and
friends. May she rest in
peace. Requiem Mass on
today
(Saturday)
at
2.00pm, in St. Finbarr’s
Church, Bantry. Funeral
afterwards to the Abbey
Cemetery.
FITZGERALD (nee Hickey)
(Farrahy, Kildorrery, formerly of Rathcormac): On
May 24, 2013, peacefully, at
her home, INA, beloved
wife of the late Leo and
mother of the late Michael,
much loved mother of John,
Denis, Pat, Breid (Rice)
and Goretti. Sadly missed
by her sons, daughters,
brother Joe, sisters Betty
(Coffey)
and
Chris
(McQuaid),
son-in-law
Denis,
daughters-in-law
Catherine,
Geraldine,
Deirdre and Adrienne,
grandchildren, nephews,
nieces, relatives, neighbours and friends. Lying in
repose at Hannon’s Funeral
Home, Kildorrery on this
(Saturday) evening from
7pm, with removal at
9pm to St. Bartholomew’s
Church, Kildorrery. Requiem Mass on tomorrow
(Sunday) at 11am. Burial
afterwards
in
Farrahy
Cemetery.
FLANAGAN
(Cork and
Clare): On May 22, 2013,
after a short illness, at the
Cork University Hospital,
PATRICK (PADDY), Douglas, dearly loved husband of
Sheila (née Smyth), loving
father of Maria and Patricia
(Trish). Sadly missed by
his loving wife, daughters,
son-in-law Hugh, sisterin-law, nephews, nieces,
grandnephews,
grandnieces,
relatives
and
friends. Reception Prayers
at 7.00pm on Monday
evening in Church of
Our Lady of Lourdes,
Ballinlough. Requiem Mass
at 11.00am on Tuesday.
Funeral afterwards to St.
Michael’s Cemetery, Blackrock. Donations in lieu, of
flowers, to Brú Columbanus.
House private please.
LITTREAN (Tramore Lawn,
Douglas and Trinidad and
Tobago): On May 24,
peacefully,
at
Cork
University Hospital, DR
JOSEPH
EMMANUEL
(BRUNO), beloved husband of Phil (nee Rea) and
dear father of Deirdre
(Butler), Eamonn, Fionna,
Aidan and Declan and
brother of the late Cyril.
Sadly missed by his loving
wife and family, grandchildren Aisling, Rachel, Sarah,
Kurt, Megan, Aimee-Jo,
Andrew and Zachary, greatgranddaughter
Alexis,
brothers Peter, Robert and
Danny,
sisters
Janet,
Theresa and Ann, aunt
Hetty, brother-in-law Eddie
Rea and his very close
friends
Kay,
Josienne,
Mathilda and Eva, his
classmates at UCC (1960),
extended family, relatives
and friends. Reposing at
Sullivans Funeral Home,
Turners Cross. Removal on
this (Saturday) evening at
4.30pm to St. Columba’s
Church, Douglas. Requiem
Mass on Monday at 11am,
followed by cremation at
The Island Crematorium,
Ringaskiddy. Donations, in
lieu
of
flowers,
to
Marymount Hospice.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh
a anam dilís.
MURPHY
(Reenagoshel,
Newmarket and Glenryan
Road, Cork): On May 23,
2013, in the presence of
her family, at Marymount
Hospice,
MARIE
(nee
Barrett), beloved wife of
Michael and daughter of the
late Kevin. Deeply regretted
by her husband, mother
Mary,
mother-in-law
Margaret, brothers, sisters,
brothers-in-law,
sistersin-law, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, neighbours
and friends. R.I.P. Reposing in the Church of the
Ascension, Gurranabraher,
from 5pm on today (Saturday, followed by Mass at
7pm. Requiem Mass on
Monday
at
12.30pm,
the Island Crematorium. No
flowers please. Donations
to Marymount Hospice.
MURPHY
(Ringabella,
Minane Bridge and late of
Castle Street): On May 24,
2013, peacefully, at the
Mercy University Hospital,
EDWARD (NED), beloved
husband of Margaret (nee
Foley) and loving father
of John, Majella, Marie,
Michael, Martin, Bernadine,
Sandra, Jason and Lorraine.
family, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren, sisters
Nan and Mary, relatives and
friends. May he rest in
peace. Reposing at Forde’s
Funeral Home, Old Waterpark, Carrigaline. Removal
on today (Saturday) at 5pm
to Sacred Heart Church,
Minane Bridge. Requiem
Mass on Monday at 2pm,
The Island Crematorium,
Ringaskiddy. Family flowers only please. Donations,
in lieu, to Mercy University
Hospital Foundation.
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O’BRIEN (Clohane, Bandon): On May 24, 2013, at
Cork University Hospital,
AUSTIN, husband of the late
Marjorie and dear father of
Fiona, Rory, Orla and Colm.
family, son-in-law Richard,
grandchildren Daragh and
Aoife, aunt Kathleen, neighbours, relatives and friends.
Lying in repose at Gabriel
and O’Donovan’s Funeral
Home, Bandon. Funeral
arrangements
later.
Enquiries to 023-8841587.
O’DONOGHUE
(“Mount
Prospect”, Curraglass, Co.
Cork): On May 24, 2013,
unexpectedly, but peacefully, at his home, LIAM,
beloved son of May (nee
Quirke) and dear brother
of Joe and Clare (Walsh).
To the inexpressible grief of
his mother, brother, sister,
girlfriend Daphne, sisterin-law Margaret, brotherin-law Liam, nephew John,
uncles, extended family,
relatives, kind neighbours
and many friends. Requiescat in pace. Reposing at
Ronayne’s Funeral Home,
Lower
Patrick
Street,
Fermoy, on tomorrow
(Sunday) from 5.30pm
to 7.30pm, followed by
removal to St. Catherine’s
Church, Conna. Requiem
Mass on Monday at 2pm.
Funeral
afterwards
to
Conna Cemetery.
O’FLYNN SEÁN ‘JOHN/JACK’
(Ballyhea & Bayville, New
York), son of Sheila and the
late Donal ‘Dan’ O’Flynn,
brother of the late Tadhg
O’Flynn; died suddenly in
New York. On January 26,
2013, aged 55. Sorely
missed by his mother
Sheila, his sisters Réidín,
Katsy, Gráinne, Deirdre, his
brothers Donal, Diarmuid,
Con and Paddy; missed also
by his own ‘kids’, his many
nieces,
nephews
and
grandnephews, and by his
in-laws. Mourned also by
his old friends in Ballyhea
and by the many great
friends he made in his new
home in the Bayville/North
Shore area of Long Island.
Requiem Mass on tomorrow (Sunday) in St. Mary’s
Church, Ballyhea at 11am.
Jack’s ashes will be interred
afterwards in the adjacent
cemetery with his father,
Dan.
O’LEARY
(Bantry
and
formerly of Ballyandreen,
Ballycotton): On May 21,
2013, peacefully, at his
home, in Bantry, VAUGHAN,
beloved son of Molly and
the late Eric and dear
brother of Sue. Sadly
missed by his mother Molly,
Barbara, Sue, Zoe, Tristram
and Paloma and his many
friends.
Reposing
at
O’Farrell’s Funeral Home,
Riverside Way, Midleton.
Civil Service on Tuesday,
May 28, at 2pm in the
Funeral Home, followed by
burial in Cloyne Cemetery.
Fresh flowers only please or
donations to a charity of
your choice.
O’SULLIVAN
(Droumgarriffe, Whitechurch): On
in her 93rd year, at the
Mercy University Hospital,
CATHERINE (KITTY) (nee
McNamara), beloved wife
of the late Laurence and
loving mother of Rosarie
(McSweeney),
Carol,
Brendan and Denis. Sadly
sister Maura, son-in-law
Billy,
daughters-in-law
Martina
and
Edel,
grandchildren
Aileen
(Koopman), Lisa, Lynn
(Hogan), Clara, Bryan, Paul
and Tara, great-grandsons
Billy and Charlie, relatives
and friends. Lying in repose
at the Coburg Street Funeral
Home of Jerh O’Connor Ltd.
Removal at 5pm on today
(Saturday) to St Patrick’s
Church,
Whitechurch.
Requiem Mass at 11am on
Monday next. Funeral
afterwards to St Lachteen’s
Cemetery, Grenagh.
��
PHILLIPS
(Blackrock,
Cork): On May 24, 2013,
peacefully, EILEEN (nee
Walshe), dearly loved wife
of Richard (Dick) and
much loved mother of
Audrey (Champ), Elaine
(Bradish),
Bryan
and
Sandra (Rumley). Sadly
missed by all her family,
grandchildren, sons-in-law,
brother Arthur, sistersin-law,
brother-in-law,
relatives and good friends
Sheila and Doris. Reception into St Michael’s
Church, Church Road,
Blackrock, on tomorrow
(Sunday)
evening
at
7.30pm. Funeral Service
on Monday at 2.30pm, followed by burial in St Luke’s
Churchyard, Douglas.
The Lord is my Shepherd.
www.oconnorfuneralcork.ie
TOBIN (LUCY) (known
as LOU) (Ballinalacken,
Ballylanders, Co. Limerick)
(nee Fahy, Fermoy, Co.
Cork): On May 23, 2013,
peacefully, in the presence
and loving care of the family, nurses and staff of St.
Michael’s Nursing Home,
Caherconlish.
Deeply
regretted by her loving husband John, sons John and
Dave, brothers Tony and
Raymond, daughters-in-law
Gina and Larisa, grandchildren Shane, Steven
and Alan, brothers-in-law,
sisters-in-law, relatives and
friends. Reposing at Ryan’s
Funeral
Home,
Ballylanders
on
today
(Saturday), May 25, from
6pm to 8pm, followed by
removal to St Patrick’s
Church,
Glenbrohane.
Requiem Mass tomorrow
(Sunday), May 26, at 10am,
followed by burial in
Ballylanders Cemetery.
TOOHER (Youghal): On
in the presence of her
loving family, at Cork
University Hospital, MARIE
(nee Jones), wife of the
late Edward Murray and
Joseph Tooher. Deeply
regretted by her daughter
Aileen (O’Driscoll), sons
John, Eddie and David, sister Agnes, brother Bobby,
daughters-in-law Ruth and
Helen, son-in-law Seán,
grandchildren,
greatgrandchildren, nephews,
nieces, relatives, neighbours and friends. RIP.
Reposing at Egan’s Funeral
Home,
Greencloyne,
Youghal, from 5.15pm on
tomorrow (Sunday). Rosary
at 6.45pm, followed by
removal to St. Mary’s
Parish Church. Requiem
Mass on Monday at 2pm,
followed by burial in the
North Abbey Cemetery,
Youghal. Family flowers
only please. Donations, in
lieu of flowers, if desired, to
Irish Cancer Society.
WALKER
(Holyvalley,
Blessington, Co. Wicklow
and formerly of D.I.T.,
Bolton Street and An Foras
Forbartha): On May 23,
2013,
suddenly
and
peacefully,
at
home,
GERRY, beloved husband of
Eileen and loving father of
Áine, Mark and the late
Maria. Sadly missed by his
family, brother Brian, sister Rosaleen, sisters-in-law,
brothers-in-law, relatives
and friends. May he rest in
peace. Reposing at Clarke’s
Funeral Home, Lower Main
Street, Blessington on today
(Saturday) from 11.00am,
to removal at 7.10pm to
the Church of Our Lady of
Mercy, Crosschapel, arriving
at 7.30pm. Funeral Mass on
tomorrow (Sunday) at
12.00 noon, followed by
burial in Burgage Cemetery.
Forever in our hearts,
always in our thoughts.
WILLIAMS (Lower Effin,
Kilmallock): On May 23,
2013, in the tender and
loving care of the matron
and staff of Marie Goretti
Nursing, Kilmallock, PEG,
beloved wife of the late
Harry and dear mother of
Harry, James, Pat, Sheila,
Carmel, Maria, Eugene,
Caroline and Dolores.
Deeply regretted by her
loving sons, daughters,
brothers
Michael
and
Paddy, sisters Mary and
Kathleen, brothers-in-law,
sister-in-law, sons-in-law.
daughters-in-law,
grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nephews, nieces,
relatives and friends. May
she rest in peace. Reposing
at Hawe’s Funeral Home,
Charleville on tomorrow
(Sunday) from 6pm, with
removal at 8pm to St
Patrick’s Church, Garrienderk. Requiem Mass on
Monday at 12 noon.
Funeral afterwards to Effin
Cemetery.
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User:karenfunnellDate:24/05/2013Time:19:16:59Edition:25/05/2013ExaminerLiveXX2505Page:28Color:
XX1 - V1
28 NEWS
Irish Examiner
Saturday 25.05.2013
Bank
ignored
Joyce
coin
warnings
■ Copyright and design problems
flagged by Department of Finance
worth, as well as Swift.
The submission added
that the department was instead recommending “James
Joyce as the first option with
William Butler Yeats as the
second option in the event
that difficulties are encountered with the Joyce estate”.
Kieran McNamee of the
department’s
financial
services division subsequently wrote to the head of
the currency issue department of the Central Bank,
Daragh Cronin, to say that
Mr Noonan had agreed in
principle that the bank
should consider James Joyce
as the first choice for the
2013 Europa silver coin,
with William Butler Yeats as
a second option “in the
event that difficulties are
encountered with the Joyce
estate in terms of the coin
design”.
The copyright on Joyce’s
works expired on Jan 1,
2012, on the 70th anniversary of his death.
The error on the coin
made headlines around the
world and forced the Central Bank to compose a note
of clarification for insertion
in the coin’s commemorative case on the day it went
on sale.
On that day, head of the
bank’s currency issue division Lucy O’Donoghue said
sales were very high, with
70% of the 10,000 coins
minted already sold.
She added that the bank
was “researching” the artist’s
source and that the artist
“appears to think it may be
an error”.
Aside from the textual
error, the image of James
Joyce on the front of the
coin also displeased Stephen,
who manages the author’s
estate.
He described the image as
“the most unlikely likeness
of Joyce ever produced“.
by Catherine Shanahan
The Central Bank was
warned of potential design
and copyright problems
before issuing a flawed James
Joyce commemorative coin
last month — but went
ahead regardless.
Documents obtained by
RTÉ News under freedom
of information legislation
show that Department of
Finance officials flagged
the possibility of difficulties
with the Joyce estate on a
least two occasions.
The coin was issued anyway on Apr 11 and sold out,
despite an error in text taken from Joyce’s most famous
work, Ulysses. The coin,
which also bore an image of
the author, was described by
Joyce’s grandson, Stephen
Joyce, as “one of the greatest
insults to the Joyce family
that has ever been perpetrated in Ireland”.
Documents released to
RTÉ News show the Central Bank Numismatic Advisory Committee originally
wanted to mint a collectors’
coin
commemorating
Jonathan Swift, the author
of Gulliver’s Travels, as part of
a Europa series on prominent European writers.
However, the department
urged that Joyce might be a
more suitable choice, with
more international appeal. It
also noted that “there may
be problems with copyright
in the case of a Joyce coin”,
according to the minutes of
a meeting between officials
from the department and
the bank last May.
An internal submission to
Finance Minister Michael
Noonan a month later noted the bank had suggested a
number of other prominent
Irish writers as options,
including William Butler
Yeats, Seán O’Casey, Bram
Stoker, and Maria Edge-
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by David Raleigh
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Probation Service in Co
Kerry is failing to provide
probation
reports
on
accused persons before the
courts as requested by
judges, a court was told
yesterday.
Terry Boyle, the service’s
Munster regional manager,
told Judge Eugene O’Kelly
at Limerick District Court
that the service’s office in
Tralee had recently lost
two staff members, which
had
exacerbated
the
problem.
He had been summoned
to the court by Judge
O’Kelly to explain why a
probation report had not
been furnished on an accused man, three months
after it was first requested.
He told Judge O’Kelly
staff cutbacks had “greatly
reduced our capacity” to
produce probationary reports.
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judges to order probation
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order suitability reports on
accused people to see if
the accused is suitable for a
non-custodial sentence.
The picture Mr Boyle
painted of pressures on the
probation service fly in the
face of recent comments
by Alan Shatter, the justice
minister.
The minister has urged
the courts to give more
convicted people community service rather than
sending them to jail to
ease prison overcrowding.
The case in question
was listed in the court
last Wednesday, but could
not go ahead after Judge
O’Kelly was told that
it was not possible for
the probation service to
produce a report on the
accused man.
The report on the
accused, who is an asylum
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Tralee told the court they
Alan Shatter, left, has urged community service rather
than jail time, while Terry Boyle apologised to the court.
had no report on the man,
and had no hope of
providing the court with
one.
Mr Boyle apologised to
the court yesterday and acknowledged the situation
was “inadequate”.
“The Probation Service
is organised on a county by
county basis, which may
not coincide with district
court districts.” he told
Judge O’Kelly.
Cockroaches ditch
sweet tooth to survive
US: Cockroaches have been
losing their sweet tooth to
survive, scientists have found.
US researchers discovered
that some cockroaches underwent a genetic mutation to
develop a dislike for the sugary
corn syrup used to disguise
bait. In as little as five years,
the sugar-rejecting trait had
become so widespread that the
bait had been rendered useless.
The findings. reported in
the journal Science, illustrate
the evolutionary prowess that
has helped make cockroaches
so hard to stamp out that it is
jokingly suggested they could
survive nuclear war. The
research focused on the small
German cockroach.
PHILIPPINES: Dan Brown’s
description of Manila as “the
gates of hell” in the American
novelist’s latest book has not
gone down well with officials
in the Philippine capital.
The book Inferno, which is
being sold in the Philippines,
describes a visitor to the city
who is taken aback by poverty,
crime and prostitution.
The chairman of metropolitan Manila, Francis Tolentino,
wrote an open letter to
Brown, saying that while the
book is fiction, “we are greatly
disappointed by your
inaccurate portrayal of our
beloved metropolis.”
Tolentino objected to the
“gates of hell” description, and
to Manila being defined by
what he calls terrible descriptions of poverty and pollution.
He said that the novel fails to
acknowledge Filipinos’ good
character and compassion.
“Truly, our place is an entry
to heaven,” Tolentino said.
“We hope that this letter enlightens you and may it guide
you the next time you cite
Manila in any of your works.”
Brown’s publisher, Doubleday, declined comment.
ENGLAND: A stray snake
found by a man while he was
drinking his morning tea
could have been living in his
wall for 18 months.
The man was shocked to
discover the corn snake in his
flat on Main Roads, Beith,
North Ayrshire, and took it to
a local vet, who contacted the
SSPCA.
The snake has been named
Rab after the man who found
him and is being cared for at
the charity’s Glasgow rehoming centre. Neighbours in the
block of flats lost a snake 18
months ago but have since
moved out.
USA: Three members of a
Michigan city council have
abstained from voting on a
measure that would have
prevented them from
abstaining on future votes.
AnnArbor.com reports that
Ypsilanti City Council member Pete Murdock proposed a
resolution on Tuesday that
would have required council
members to only vote “yes” or
“no” on each issue unless they
had a financial or professional
conflict.
Mayor Paul Schreiber and
council members Susan
Moeller and Brian Robb
abstained to show their disapproval of the resolution.
The resolution failed, with
Murdock and another city
council member voting “yes”
while two others voted “no.”
ENGLAND: A police horse
punched by a football thug
will be back on duty in the
city where he was attacked as
part of a major operation to
keep the peace between
EDL supporters and their
opponents.
A 45-year-old was arrested
after Bud, who belongs to
West Yorkshire Police, was hit
by a right hook following
Newcastle United’s 3-0 defeat
to arch-rivals Sunderland last
month.
USA: A clueless suspect fled
from police in Clayton,
Missouri — straight into
county police headquarters.
Officers could only laugh as
the man ran around before
hitting a dead end at the holding cells and surrendered.
“It looked like he was
cutting out the middleman
and going straight to the jail,”
an officer said.
The man was fleeing a
routine police traffic stop.
“The service is based on
demand and its resources
shift
from
probation
service office to office to
reflect the demand,” Mr
Boyle added.
He said that statutory
probation
reports
are
“prioritised” but it was
“not always possible” to
provide non-statutory reports, or reports that are
requested but not ordered
by the courts.
Judge O’Kelly said he
had only requested a
probation report because
he was anxious to see if it
was appropriate not to impose an immediate prison
sentence in the case in
question.
Mr Boyle said staff at the
Kerry Probation Service
had been reduced and the
service was trying to
prioritise its work.
He said they had a
limited capacity and would
do the report in question if
the court still wanted it.
If a judge “orders”
instead of “requests” a
probation report to influence his/her sentencing
decision, the Probation
Service
is
statutorily
obliged to provide one,
said Mr Boyle.
Judge O’Kelly said: “It
was out of concern that he
[the accused] would not
obtain a custodial sentence, that I requested the
report.”
Mr Boyle said the
accused initially had a
Limerick
address
and
would have come under
the auspices of the Limerick Probation Service
office, but had moved to
Kerry, and was about to
move to Waterford in the
next few days.
“Should the court require a report in this case, I
will ensure it happens,” Mr
Boyle later told the judge.
“I wouldn’t have asked
for it if I didn’t want it,”
the judge said.
The matter was adjourned for a probation
report to be furnished to
the court on Jul 3.

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