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■ Voters w a n t a n ew political p arty Poll: FG gets MICHAEL McDOWELL, Page 24 ■ Public demands more powers for PAC SHANE ROSS, Page 24 it in the neck; ■ Ireland wants Universal Health Insurance -but doesn'tbelieve the Governmentcan deliver BRENDAN O'CONNOR, Page 25

■ We are deeply suspicious SF rampant; of thecharity sector MAEVE SHEEHAN, Page 25

■ Royal family are welcome to 1916 celebrations EILISH O'HANLON, Page 25 new partycall LOVE IS IN THE AIR: TV presenter Grainne Seoige and former ■ ie s s a Childers is rugbycoach turned businessman Leon Jordaan celebrating iittn of the capital their engagement yesterday. Grainne's dress is from Havana EOGHAN HARRIS, Page 19 in Donnybrookr Dublin 4. Photo: Gerry Mooney. Hayesfaces defeat in Dublin; Nessa to top Full Story, Page 5 & Living, Page 2 poll; SF set to take seat in each constituency da n ie l Mc Connell former minister Eamon Ryan and JOHN DRENNAN (11 per cent). MillwardBrown Our poll also asked for peo­ FINE Gael Junior Minister ple’s second preference in Brian Hayes is facing a humil­ FULL POLL DETAILS AND ANALYSIS: ‘ terms of candidate. Of even iating defeat in next month’s PAGES 4,22,23,24,25 & 34 greater concern for Mr Hayes European elections as Sinn is the fact that he is not Fein and Independents look four voters, 77 per cent, areEnda in Kenny’s heartland, Mid- as transfer-friendly as Ms set to capitalise on a wave of favour of increasing thelands-North-West. pow- Costello, Mr Ryan or even Ms anti-government sentiment, ers of the Dail’s Public It also shows that the Fine Fitzpatrick. A new Sunday Indepen- Accounts Committee (PAC). Gael junior finance minister On this basis, Mr Hayes is dent/Millward Brown poll of On the evidence of today’sBrian Hayes, the perceived facing an uphill battle to take the make-or-break Dublin poll, Sinn Fein is emergingearly as favourite to take the firstone of the three Dublin seats. constituency — the first com- the new kingpin of Irish poli-seat in Dublin, is laggingAny failure by Fine Gael to prehensive poll of its kind in tics. Independent candidatesbehind Sinn Fein’s Lynn Boy-win a seat in Dublin would this election — reveals that a are also polling strongly,lan with (20 per cent) and Inde­ have serious ramifications for decisive backlash against both Nessa Childers set to take the pendent MEP Nessa Childers Mr Kenny within a party that Fine Gael and Labour is crys- first seat in Dublin, (19 per cent). is furious about the mishan­ tallising, with less than five For the first time in a Mill- Mr Hayes, on 15 per cent, isdling of the Shatter crisis. weeks to polling day. ward Brown poll, the elec-in a dogfight for the last seat Nationally, taking both yes­ The poll also shows a torate is turning against withFine Fianna Fail’s Mary Fitz­ terday’sIrish Independent poll majority — 54 per cent —Tn Gael as well as Labour. Thepatrick (13 per cent), Labour’sand today’s poll together, Sinn favour of a new political party, party is trailing behindEmer Inde­ Costello (12 per cent) while over three out of every pendents and Fianna Failand in Green Party leader and Continued on Page 4 McGuinness to Martin: I want your job, I wanna be the leader

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LIMERICK LADIES: Dolores O'Riordan with her mother Eileen by the Morning Star River in Bruffr Co Limerick. Photo: Kyran O'Brien RONALD QUINLAN The PAC chairman madethe CPP (Committee on Proce­ Special Correspondent it clear, however, that weredure and Privileges) for com­ such a private meeting to takepellability. The aim of com­ THE chairman of the Publicplace, it wouldn’t remove thepellability was that the CPP Accounts Committee (PAC), requirement for Mr Flannerywould have protocols in place 'You get to the point where youJohn McGuinness, last nightto appear before the commit­arising from the 2013 legisla­ said he was willing to meet tee in a subsequent publiction. They’re in place now and with former Rehab CEO Frankhearing. they’ve been legally tested. Flannery privately to discuss That piece of work is almost concerns he has about giving completed, so they’ll be ready want to die just to get peace'evidence to the committee. ANALYSISPAGE 25 to make a decision once they With jusjt four days to go receive our application,” he before the members of the He added: “We will hear a said. Dolores O’Riordan has music business that you Dolores says she is lookingLewis low scores on the PAC apply to the Dail’s Com­witness in any way that we While Ms Kerins appeared didn’t want to work any forward to the grand final shows for reasons other mittee on Procedure and Priv­can so that when they comebefore the PAC last February, put the dark days of the more,” Eileen continues. of The Voice of Ireland than artistic, Dolores says : ileges (CPP) to compel Mr before the committee they’reshe was unable to attend at the “You just wanted to hide intonight on RTE One at 6.30 “I think Jamelia was Flannery and his successor asprepared for everything thatcommittee three weeks ago pressure endured in her a corner.” and hopes that her act grading her low because Rehab CEO, Angela Kerins, to might be asked of them.due to ill health. early career behind her, “You get to the point Kellie Lewis wins. Kellie is very pretty and sheappear before them as wit­Whether we meet with Frank Mr Flannery, for his part, where you want to die,” Dolores says she got on knew she was good. She nesses, Mr McGuinness has Flannery privately or not, itexplained his reluctance to she tells Barry Egan — Dolores says, “because youbest with “the boys” on thewas intimidated by her insisted he remains open towill not take away from theappear at a public hearing of think that you’ll get peace show, meaning other beauty. So she was giving discussions. fact that the public hearingthe is PAC in an interview with esterday box room. He was telling when you’re dead and youmentors Kian Egan and her bad grades to try and The PAC chairman was necessary because that’s howthe Sunday Independent two afternoon, if you’d her you just have to do thiscan’t get any worse than Bressie. The implication influence the public.” responding to suggestionswe do our business. So it’s notweeks ago, saying that as a been in Bruff, Co tour. you are. being that she perhaps All will be decided from informed sources thatthat one meeting substitutesprivate citizen with no control Limerick, you’d “So I got so angry and I “We built a house in mightn’t have got on withtonight, of course. DoloresMr Flannery is willing to meet for another. We won’t do that.over the spending of public haveY been treated to a scene said: T have fed her all my Dingle that we never lived her fellow mentor on the says she will be surprised ifwith him or any member ofThere’s never an ‘either or’,money, he had a right to know straight out Maryof life and I can feed her now! [in]. It was around the time show, Jamelia. her suffragette Kellie the PAC privately to assistwe conduct all our business inwhat the committee’s agenda Poppins. She has. her own little room.of the third Cranberries’ “It wasn’t that I didn’t doesn’t win. Eileen says that them in as much as it is possi­public, and we will conductwas before he agreed to co­ Dolores O’Riordan That’s all she wants.’ album To The Faithful get on with Jjamelia,’’ she while Dolores is hatching ble for him to do so, with theirour business with him in pub­operate with it. walked along the banks of “I got really mad. I was Departed. All the songs says. “We get on grand, like, Kellie sing on the Voice inquiries into Rehab. lic. th ere’s no exception to Responding to the criti­ the Morning Star River withgoing to hit him. I said to were depressing and I was diplomatically but there is tonight she’ll be singing in “As chairman of the PAC,that.” cisms levelled against him by her mother Eileen. The 42-him, Tf anything happensvery to depressed and I was no chemistry between us at the choir in Ballybricken and I can also say this for the Mr McGuinness said that certain members of the PAC year-old was followed by a her, I will kill you.’ I lookedextremely anorexic on thatall. There is no spark Church for 7pm mass. clerk of the PAC, we’ve alwaysthe PAC would meet this com­over his refusal to appear flock of fairly lively ducks —in his eyes. And I meant record and as it came out I between us. We are When Dolores goes out made ourselves available toing Thursday to finalise itsbefore them, he added: “We who didn’t so much waddleevery word of it.” got progressively worse. completely polar opposites.to her car with Eileen, a people who would be potentialapplication to the CPP to com­can not and should not be as dance along beside the “They just saw me as a “I’m a feminist and she’s group of local young girlswitnesses to explain the rulespel Mr Flannery and Ms blackguarded, bullied or rock star from The commodity, as a cash cow,” not,” Dolores claims. rush up to the star on theof the game and the rules ofKerins to appear before them.demeaned. Cranberries. Dolores says now. “I was Tt wasn't that “Someone who uses their main street in Bruff and ask the exchange in the hearings, “We meet next Thursday “I am not being unreason­ Years ago it was personal very, very lonely.” sexuality to be heard or toher for autographs and toso that they’re prepared.to go for compellability. We’veable or recalcitrant. I am hot demons, restless in their Eileen adds: “I remember I didn't get on be seen or to get attention get her photograph takenThat’s done with witnessesalready made the decision thattrying to bully anybody. I am malevolence, that followed my own mother — who was — I don’t think you need towith them. She hugs them.when they request informa­if we don’t hear from eitherjust trying to stand up for my Dolores inside her head 92 when she died in 1997 — with Jamelia, do that. This time tomorrow Dolorestion or guidelines on a hear­one of them [Frank Flannerydecision as a citizen of the wherever she went. She feltsaying to Dolores one “I think women should will be on a flight home tping,” Mr McGuinness told the and Angela Kerins], that we Irish Republic and my rights helpless and wanted to be morning: ‘You’d have been we get on be equal,” she says referringher own kids in Canada. Sunday Independent. will submit an application tounder our Constitution.” dead. better off if you’d kept your to misogynistic elements in Thankfully that dark little job in Cassidys in grand... but the pop industry pain for Dolores has long Limerick.’” internationally as well as since passed, but the “I worked there part- I'm a feminist sexual inequality in Ireland. memory, like her most time when 1 was in fifth and she's not' “I think that is an area famous song, lingers. The and sixth year,” Dolores where Ireland needs to get multi-millionaire singer and recalls with a laugh. “Looking back now I with the programme, to now mentor on RTE’sThe Eileen also remembers never thought that I’d be have more equality sexually. A current Voice of Ireland seems like Dolores’ fast unravelling here with two boys and twoI think Ireland is behind she’s about to cry. sanity when she visited hergirls — a beautiful 22-year- North America definitely — Sitting on a bench by thein Dingle in 1993. “Dolores old, a beautiful 16-year-old, and that is one of the river next to her famous came to the door. She was a beautiful 13-year-old, and reasons I bring up my girls daughter, Eileen recalls a in tears. She said, ‘Will you a beautiful nine-year-old,” over there.* I think it is account with troubling incident, many help me, mammy?’ Dolores says, referring to more equally sexually for years ago now: a prominent “I said, ‘What’s wrong her children Mollie, Dakota,girls. In fact, I don’t think music business executive with you?’ She said nothing,Taylor and Donnie. — I know it.” came to the O’Riordan then said: ‘Nobody can help “I realise now that life In terms of her own act, Ijist one call? family home — just up theme now.’ I didn’t know what isn’t about money, fame. Dolores says that “Kellie is

road from where we’re she meant and I was very Actually, all that crap. It’s a kind of a suffragette kind ; m m $ $ / f/j / talking now — to see worried about her. She wassimply love that’s of a woman. She is a Dolores “who was very sick”,unable to tell me or explainimportant,” she says. feminist. She doesn’t have Eileen says, meaning or communicate very well. Mammy and daughter her boobs hanging out. I I anorexia. It was a long drive home O’Riordan take me across love her for that. She has “He told Dolores that sheand I thought about it all the road to The Bake Houseself-esteem and respect. would lose everything and the way home. That was aBistro for a delish bite of That is good for women.” that she couldn’t break herturning point for Dolores. lunch. Lorrying into her Asked whether she feels contract. She came home to “You told me that you prawn and salmon salad that Jamelia, as has been me and she was in the little felt so pressured with the with a healthy abandon, alleged, has given Kellie Great-grandson traces history €to! t» today to fjit four m m m m tnumber over toe of Great War brothers-in-arms phone, then drop Into any ANNA C00GAN It was at this time that bveneh with ideniieaion Brian’s great-grandfather THE remarkable story of eight Michael was traced to the to ocUveto four acceunft. Sligo brothers who fought in battlefront and returned home the First World War has final­ to his family — in keeping ly been recorded for posterity with military custom of the by one of the soldiers’ great- time, not unlike the story told 'jin 'Sointui, yn c n m o ry . grandsons. •WSUJ.AM ''MCRAE L HUDSON by Steven Spielberg in the film who vias s m r m n m m y . ■> A u m W 'I M ip m t AIM ca. lourn Brian Scanlon, a caretaker vVKAW,:. Saving Private Ryan. at Sligo Cemetery, grew up WfflmCAAms0N VjtfHMlfSHASL C Yet the reprieve given to hearing the stories of how his Michael, the eldest in his fam­ great-grandfather Michael WILLIAM HU0SOS, HVM. ily, didn’t put a halt to the Conlon, along with his seven losses. James, 30, died of bat­ brothers, had followed the tle wounds on April 15,1916, urging of the Catholic Church near Basra in Iraq. Alex, 31, to take up arms on behalf ofLEGACY: Brian Scanlon at the graves of Michael Conlon anddied in action in Baghdad on “Catholic Belgium which hadMichael's grandson Bill Hudson. Phpto: James Connolly October 28, 1917, and was been invaded by Protestant buried in the military ceme­ Germany”. children and 97 grandchildrenresearching his family’s story.tery there. John Conlon “I grew up with my grand­— one of whom was my moth­He’s particularly pleasedarrived home after the war father Jack as my dad was er,” Brian said. “I was 10 and about the part he has playedand in died of trench fever in away working in the Merchantmy grandfather Jack was in the decision to add the names1922 aged 32. Andrew, never Navy and my mum worked ashis 60s when he would tellof the 546 Sligo men who diedrecovered from the torment of an orderly in St John’s Hospi­me all these stories, but afterin the First World War to athe trenches and died in Sligo tal, and all the time he wouldhe died I heard nothing morewall in Sligo Cathedral, whichmental hospital in 1941. The be telling me stories about about the brothers. They werewill be unveiled in August. eighth brother, Joseph, what had happened to thenever spoken about again. “It has taken 100 years for returned and fought in the Conlon brothers,” Brian said. “I used to wonder if it was the Catholic Church to com­War of Independence and Yet with no official recordbecause, as a result of thememorate the men, thoughjoined it the Free State side dur­ of his family’s contribution traumato of the war, one of theurged them to go to war,”ing the Civil War. the war, Brian decided to dobrothers ended up in SligoBrian said. Michael Conlon went on some research into the sacri­mental hospital, and it was Thomas Conlon, 27, wasto become a Labour Party fices made by the soldiers. thought better not to mentionthe first to die on May 13,1915 mayor of Sligo. He was the “My great-grandfather the war at all.” at Ypres in Belgium. He hadchair of Sligo Rovers and in Michael Conlon was one of Brian became determined fought in Gallipoli twice. Next1939 signed the legendary the two brothers who madeto it, reclaim his relatives, andto die was Patrick, 34, killed in Dixie Dean to help in their and he went on to have 13has spent the past 20 yearsaction on August 29,1915. bid for the FAI Cup that year.