DMEEIR DMEEIR 6 IRISH DAILY MIRROR SATURDAY 02.12.2017 irishmirror.ie SATURDAY 02.12.2017 IRISH DAILY MIRROR 7 MIRRORMAN REVEALS HELL AT hands of sex predatorator By PAT FLANAGAN DEATH and taxes are supposedly the only certainties in life but young boys who EXCITED Brian O’Donovan visited Dr Michael Shine’s surgery knew You can’t get lower there was a good chance he was going O’Donovan is to put his hands down their pants. It didn’t matter if you had a cut head or a busted finger, he would begin to new RTE man feel under your arms and then put his hand down your trousers to massage in the States your testicles. than molesting ill By trevor quinn I’m still trying to take it in that this creep has actually gone to jail for RTE has appointed Brian assaulting two teenage patients. O’Donovan as its new Fair play to Judge Cormac Quinn, I Washington corre- know it’s only 20 months, but it’s the spondent. principle, he escaped justice for 50 He replaces Caitriona years, but we got the bastard in the end. children but such Perry, who is moving to Not allowing this slimy pervert become the co-host of another week’s freedom to “put his RTE’s Six One news affairs in order” was a nice touch, bulletin alongside Keelin thanks Judge. Shanley. He had denied eight charges of He worked with TV3 as indecently assaulting six patients at the sent a news reporter for 10 Lourdes Hospital and at his private was the deference years as well as finance clinic, both in Drogheda, Co Louth, down correspondent and Michael Shine documentary maker. between 1964 and 1991. abused boys These dates are important because for decades Mr O’Donovan said he during those 27 years every young boy was “absolutely delighted” or teenager who attended one of with his new role. Shine’s clinics was in danger of being He added: “For me, this indecently assaulted by this predator. to people like Shine, is the dream job. His examination table held the same “I have very big shoes to horrors for boys and teenagers in the fill following on from my North East as the casting couch did for colleague Caitriona Perry young women in Hollywood. and I am really looking While the latter were pursuing a forward to starting in career in the film industry, the former Washington in the new he was able to get year.” were only looking for medical attention. To put it another way, Michael Shine was a very strange man, in a very I risked strange hospital at a very strange time. Shine, who was struck off the medical tetanus register in 2008, denied his guilt right rather than up until his conviction and so did a good away with it... treatment many of those who should have exposed him years ago. for a dog That fact he evaded justice since examined and within a matter of the hole in my leg. And there you have He was so notorious that boys rather then seek treatment for a dog vocabulary to bite to free medical attention. even more difficult for the brave men who Court in 2003. But great credit to those 1964, the year my father died, until now minutes Shine had his hand down my it, Shine had an unlimited supply of thought to be feigning injury on a bite to my left hamstring reckoning that properly describe “Accuse Mr Shine of doing such came forward. While I never made a who persevered for they have ensured tells you all you need to know about pants feeling my testicles. boys and teens to molest and he knew football field in the Drogheda area if he groped you for a finger injury what what had taken my leg terrible things? You should be damn formal complaint I did make my feelings justice was done for all the others. Irish society in the decades since. Like any other boy who had the there was absolutely nothing anyone would expect taunts such as, “Get up or would he do if you had to take your place. Even if I did grateful you had the expertise of a known to a young nurse as I left Shine’s Giving evidence during his recent trial, a bit rich Big jackpot win It’s not that it was not known that misfortune to be treated by this fiend I could do to stop him. we’ll send you up to Dr Shine”. pants down. who would listen great surgeon like Michael Shine” surgery on my last visit. She just shrugged he said that he would never do anything Shine was a danger to children. knew what to expect, because it You can’t get any lower than Whatever medical good he might I would say he molested me on at to a young fatherless boy whose mother would have been ringing in my mother’s her shoulders – as if to say, “That’s Shine, that would embarrass or upset a patient. Lotto winner He was so notorious that boys and happened before. molesting sick and injured children but have done during his long career it least four occasions over the years and was out working struggling to feed five ears had she gone to the local Garda what do you expect?” You’re a liar, you put your hands down young men would go without treatment You might ask why I’d go back but such was the deference to professionals pales into insignificance compared to apart from tell my mother, brothers and children? station. It has been a long struggle to bring this little boys pants. rather than volunteer themselves to be when you can see your shin bone like Shine, he got away with it. the damage he has caused. friends I did little about it. It was also a class thing, Shine was the When the complaints against Shine pervert to justice for although he was first If he is fearful of going to jail in disgrace lifts cheque sexually assaulted. through a gash it was a matter of It’s not that this abuse wasn’t known I wonder if any children suffered I did feel a burning anger because I hero surgeon working in the Lourdes went from a trickle to a flood the investigated by gardai in the 1990s he was at the end of his life hopefully he On one occasion I went to the priorities and while my mother was a about, it was common knowledge, but infections or may have even died knew there was absolutely nothing I International Missionary Training Hospital authorities at the Lourdes and some staff acquitted of indecent assault when he will think of the children he for €5.8m Lourdes to have my injured fingers skilled seamstress she couldn’t stitch up no one wanted to do anything about it. because of Shine. I risked tetanus could do about it. I didn’t even have the and we were the lower orders getting wrote letters of support for him to make it went on trial at Dundalk Circuit Criminal terrorised at the start of theirs. By trevor quinn A Lotto winner said hitting the €5.8million jackpot was like an “out-of- body experience”. Speaking as they collected the cheque at Lotto headquarters in Dublin, the punter added the feeling is “still inde- scribable”. The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: “It’s fantastic – and to happen just before Christmas. “The whole family will By Declan Brennan Lady of Lourdes Hospital and at his private places where the victims, who South Dublin, groped them during because he was “just a young boy”. The victim would escalate and wanted it to end. He told be getting slightly more Perv docclinic, both in Drogheda,caged Co Louth, between were children, were entitled to formedical examinations. 20 saidmonths the assault had a profoundly negative A RETIRED surgeon was jailed for 20 the court that for years he struggled with guilt, extravagant Christmas Vile retired surgeon months yesterday for sexual attacks on 1964 and 1991. feel they were in a place that was safe. One survivor attended at the effect on his life and he suffered insomnia and embarrassment and shame. presents than originally two teenage boys. He was acquitted on the remainder of the He imposed consecutive sentences of 10 hospital with an ingrowing depression after the attack. The witness told the court: “That is the insid- planned. charges. months for the indecent assault on each of the toenail. The second survivor testified that during two Michael Shine, 85, had denied the charges of ious nature of sexual assault. It leaves you “Retirement is the last Judge Cormac Quinn said the severe breach victims. He told the trial that Shine tied him follow-up examinations for undescended testes thing on my mind at the indecently assaulting the two 15-year-old believing somehow you were at fault.” guilty of assaulting of trust by a senior doctor at the pinnacle of his The judge rejected an application from to a bed with rubber restraints and a at Shine’s private clinic in Drogheda, the moment but with this He said Shine’s denials during the trial patients in a hospital in the mid-70s. profession was one of the most aggravating Shine’s lawyers to give Shine a week to put his blanket and then slipped his hand under pervert massaged his penis. magnificent windfall, I am The predator had pleaded not guilty at factors. He added Shine had abused the trust affairs in order and to marshal his medication. and massaged his testicles. On the second occasion, the verified for him for the first time that what definitely going to take it a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to eight charges of patients and the trust of the hospital. The court heard both victims were aged 15 He said he knew it was weird but notorious Michael Shine at victim forced himself to ejaculate Shine did was wrong. few years early. I am two 15-yr-old boys Dublin Circuit Court yesterday [email protected] of indecently assaulting six patients at Our Judge Quinn said the abuse occurred in when Shine, of Wellington Road, Ballsbridge, thought “who was I” to speak out because he was afraid the attack delighted.” DMEEIR irishmirror.ie FRIDAY 04.05.2018 IRISH DAILY MIRROR 15

IF YOU HAVE A COMMENT TEXT PAT ON 0872953395 FOLLOW HIM ON @patflanagan1 PAT FLANAGAN email [email protected] Roof falls in on homeless figures scam It’s sorry State of affairs THE Government, and useless Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy in particular, are desperate to stop the number of homeless people breaking the 10,000 mark. in this so-called Republic They are so unnerved at hitting this landmark figure but rather NY lingering doubts that this new ones which break with increasing to be ignored? So how did we arrive at role. Leo Varadkar turned a whiter than find homes for the homeless State has an innate hatred of regularity. the situation where women given the shade of pale in the Dail when he was they have now resorted to women were well and truly dis- The dreadful irony is that from the all-clear are now worried the results asked about a fundraiser organised for doctoring the numbers. Apelled this week. outside this country looks like an effi- were wrong and they might be devel- him by the chairman of the firm the A leaked memo from Louth On the other hand if you were looking cient, well-run state but unfortunately oping cancer? HSE chief has joined. County Council has blown away for more proof this so-called republic is beneath the surface is a mountain of Probably for the same reason the An almost speechless Taoiseach the Government’s lies and totally rotten to the core you didn’t need a corruption which is only occasionally State gave blood to thousands of confirmed that was the case. contradicts Mr Murphy’s claims microscope to observe it. exposed at very low tide. women knowing it to be contaminated After the latest scandal many people that these people are not At least 17 women are dead and thou- Such a low tide occurred in the High killing at least 260 of them in what are asking what the HSE is actually homeless. sands more could have had their health Court last week when Vicky Phelan became known as hepatitis C scandal. there for apart from looking after the It states: “It is important to destroyed or even lose their lives as a lifted the lid on what could be the worst Now the truth is out the rats are health of those in charge who pocket note that the Council still result of the smear test scandal. health scandal in the State’s history. running for cover and making promises Lotto plus jackpot-sized payoffs. consider these individuals as The latest scandal concerns cervical The mother of two didn’t find out they hope they will never have to keep There have also been questions raised homeless.” cancer but has exposed a diseased State there was a mistake made with the and everyone is questioning the lack of as to why there is a need for expensive This is just the latest effort by with a health service which exists for results of her 2011 smear until 2017 and accountability in public affairs. inquiries and investigations when there the minister to hide the shocking the welfare of those who run it rather a review of her test was carried out in is a police force that could do the job. truth as he usually publishes the than for the health of the citizens who 2014, the year she was diagnosed with history Probably because there are over 20 bad news late on a Friday night to pay for it. cervical cancer. In a tweet Vicky Phelan yesterday separate investigations and inquiries avoid the figures making the When it comes to secretive organisa- Now there could be hundreds, if not said she wants to see a Commission of ongoing into the Garda for such matters papers and being scrutinised by tions which operate largely outside thousands, of other women affected or Investigation that is urgent, prompt and as money laundering and fraud. the likes of Morning Ireland. government control, Britain has MI5, in the same situation. public. If past history is anything to go Republic of Opportunity? More like That’s transparency America has the CIA and Russia a new Had it not been for the courage of this by the opposite will be the case. the State of Scandal. style. version of the KGB. Ireland has the HSE. terminally ill mother other women Meanwhile, over at Dublin Castle the Now there is to be another statutory would be living and dying in ignorance Disclosures Tribunal lawyers are investigation on the way, to join the of the grave wrong done to them by the dealing with smears of another kind, dozens of other tribunals and inquiries, State. Were these tests not meant to that of whistleblower Sgt Maurice Are we past into a scandal which could eclipse the detect anomalies which might indicate McCabe. hep C one. that the patient had a chance of devel- Like the case of Vicky Phelan, we Surely it’s now time for an actual oping cervical cancer in the future? wouldn’t know anything had the coura- caring about Minister for Scandals to deal with the What was the point if they were going geous copper not blown the whistle and used his tape recorder. Vicky is also to be thanked for our heritage? MAYDAY, Mayday, Mayday, McDonald’s and burning the scooters of ysocialism is lost and needs the workers flipping the burgers inside revealing in a roundabout way the head of the HSE Tony O’Brien was also on the President Higgins was right to rescuing from the yobs who ran riot in furthering revolution? hit out at the fact that history is As our friends in the North will tell board of an American drug company. Paris this week. reported he joined no longer a core subject for The scenes on Mayday were an insult you, this is what’s known as recreational Junior Cert students. rioting and those involved have as the board of US contraceptive firm to the French students and workers who Evofem Biosciences earlier this Michael D, below, said he took to the streets in 1968 and who much interest in workers’ rights as shares shared “deep and football hooligans have in the clubs they year and was in line to didn’t need balaclavas to hide their receive fees totalling profound concern” of historians faces. How is smashing the windows of supposedly follow. at this development and so do a €45,000 a year for the lot of others. He pointed out that understanding THIS FAILS TO the past is Ed to the bank as imperative to how we shape MAKE CENTS the future and CRIME really is rampant in the country as RTE guitar icon folds without this viewers will have witnessed last week. future Shocking video on Crimecall showed AROUND 405,000 people that the entire generations run two older men stealing coins from a church here are due to attend Ed population of the risk of being candle collection box and in other clips a Sheeran’s Irish concerts, the Southern “permanently woman was seen leaving a store without which apparently is capital is burdened with a paying for toys. a record. going to his lack of Unfortunately there was no footage of the The promoter three gigs. perspective, €1billion plus robbed from up to 50,000 bank also claims This week empathy and wisdom”. customers during the great tracker mortgage that this legendary Better that the young be robbery but it still happened. glorified pub guitar maker trained as corporate drones to Also, when detectives do manage to solve singer is “the Gibson, left, work for the likes of Apple the great collection box heist they might have best rockstar filed for without questioning why they pay a look at the findings of a certain tribunal there is in the bankruptcy while half their wages in tax while their which has been gathering dust for over seven world”. Ed laughs all the way employer pays almost none. years. Up to 120,000 of the to the bank. Kind of sums plucky Without knowing the history of Hopefully then our modern-day Sherlock tickets are for the singer’s up the state of rock ‘n’ roll guy Ed workers’ struggles for their rights Holmes will finally investigate Moriarty? Cork shows which means at the moment. Sheeran that will be the case. DMEEIR irishmirror.ie FRIDAY 22.06.2018 IRISH DAILY MIRROR 15

IF YOU HAVE A COMMENT TEXT PAT ON 0872953395 FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER @patflanagan1 PAT FLANAGAN email [email protected] Donegal is in top tip condition Irish seek to give asylum.. THE people up in Donegal have complained for years about being dumped on but it would appear they’re pretty useful at dumping on themselves. just not in our own country After the RTE Investigates programme the county is not just HERE’S a country that wants Trump’s “zero tolerance” approach to Boyne. It’s all fine and dandy that our by the Reception and Integration at the tip top of Ireland, it’s the to deport a 14-year-old boy to a migrants on the Mexico border has sailors are saving lives in the Med and Agency to house 115 asylum seekers country’s top tip. land he left when he was a baby been somewhat muted. bringing the migrants to Italy or Spain in a local hotel. It is now clear Donegal County and where he has no friends The Donald and his executive but I’ve no doubt the Naval Service And 55 men seeking international Council has been turning a blind T and doesn’t even speak the language. order, Charlie and his deportation could be pulled off the protection were greeted by eye to what can only be described No, it’s not Donald Trump’s Fourth orders – it’s a bit like the pot and the rescue mission if there was protesters who wanted as an environmental disaster. Reich where children are separated kettle scenario. an EU decision made to them gone when the first of On the one hand the county from their parents and kept in cages, fly the migrants to the them arrived in Killarney, wants to attract tourists, and on The Government might be a little it’s our own lovely little island. cagey about pulling up Trump on his country from which Co Kerry, last December. the other, it is as good as giving The appalling treatment of migrant the ship originates. the green light to certain kiddy “jails” when they have 5,000 On the other hand, Irish children in the US has put the spotlight That might well be the individuals to despoil the asylum seekers, with at least 2,000 people are the best in the on this country’s treatment of asylum case as the new Italian landscape and pollute waterways. children, living in what amounts to world when it comes to seekers. Government has refused RTE Investigates was public open prisons. looking after outsiders The disclosure that the to take more migrants and service broadcasting at its best Those incarcerated in the when they get to know State wants to send a young Spain, which took in more because if it was left to the local Donald and 31 Direct Provision centres them. teenage boy who has spent than 600 people recently, council in Donegal the illegal Charlie are like around the country are not More than 22,000 people almost his entire life in is growing reluctant to dumpers would go unchallenged. the pot and allowed to look for work or tyrant Donald Trump have signed a petition to Ireland to Nigeria puts us even cook food for their accept any more. keep Nonso and his family right up there with Trump. kettle scenario children. Italy has been criticised in the country in a move RRYANAIR is seeking to Justice Minister Charlie They are expected to live for this decision but the which his piled pressure on restrict alcohol sales Flanagan has signed a on an allowance of €21.60 a week in reality is many of the other Minister Flanagan, who at airports after a string deportation order against Nonso rooms with their entire family. EU states would make now says he will look again of drink-related incidents Moujeke and his family and their only But all is not lost. There was a protest similar ones if they were at the deportation order. on board its flights. hope of staying in the country is the in Dublin last night and another one in in that predicament. Similarly public and Michael O’Leary’s airline Supreme Court. Galway tomorrow in solidarity with, yes Indeed the entire international pressure has wants an early-morning The child’s friends in Tullamore, you’ve guessed it, what is happening to situation has become forced the monster that is booze ban at airports and a Co Offaly, have mounted an intense children in the US. preposterous where the Trump to sign an executive two-drink limit before they fly. campaign to prevent him, his deal appears to be that the order preventing the Naturally enough Ryanair We are great ones for championing 18-year-old brother Victor and their causes at a safe distance where they people traffickers take the separation of migrant will be putting its money mother Chidi being sent to Nigeria. migrants’ cash in exchange children from their families. where its mouth is and can’t cause us any bother but are Ms Moujeke fled her home country reluctant to get involved in ones closer for leaving them out at sea law Charlie Flanagan As for the cruel Direct imposing similar restrictions because of domestic abuse but she in rickety boats for the on its planes – won’t they? to home. Provision system, I have no was denied asylum here. In recent times the Irish Naval Service Naval Service to find. doubt if Trump hears about it Leo Not a chance. Indeed the Is it fair to send a child back to a sky’s the limit for extra has received much praise here for They then take them anywhere Varadkar will be getting a call praising country where he has no friends, doesn’t saving thousands of migrants trying to except Ireland as there might be an him for a like-minded approach to profits as thirsty passengers speak the native language and whose will have no option but to cross the Mediterranean, and rightly so. outcry if thousands of migrants started migrants and refugees. very life may be in danger? It might be a different matter if the to land here. He’d probably go as far as saying refuel at Mickey’s Mile High This is probably one of the reasons bar. naval vessels were bringing their human In a recent poll taken in March in Leo was a man after his own heart, why the Government’s criticism of cargo up the Liffey, the Lee or the Lisdoonvarna, 93% voted to reject plans if he had one. BENT banker David Drumm Bgot off lightly as he will spend not much more than four years in Declan poops Pope’s jail for actions which destroyed Eamon talking thousands of lives. The great and the good are request to perform forever promoting the notion of balls is TV goals FAIR play to singer Declan much suffering in this country. restorative justice and suggesting IT’s been a great World Cup so far and it’s made all O’Rourke for taking a stand by It’s a pity he wasn’t allowed violent offenders should atone for the better by Eamon Dunphy, Liam Brady and the turning down an invitation to perform his hit Galileo which their crime by meeting their victims. rest of the RTE pundits. perform for the Pope during his might not have gone down Drumm should be made to share While we mightn’t have a team in Russia, visit to Dublin. too well with the pontiff. a cell with a prisoner from a family Dunphy, pictured, and his side are wiping The singer felt he couldn’t Didn’t one of his who lost their home because of the floor with the opposition when it sing for Francis because of the predecessors persecute the his and other banks. comes to analysis and general banter. numerous abuse scandals Italian astronomer for He should also be forced to I’ve been looking back over some of and because the Catholic suggesting the earth went accept prison visits from the the spats between Eamo, Gilsie, Church has caused so around and not the relatives of suicide victims forced Brady and the late Bill O’Herlihy and other way around and only to take their own lives from the they’re priceless. escaped being burned at the stress caused by the collapse. I remember ringing him around 9pm stake by recanting The authorities must also on the day he was taken off air during a on his discovery? ensure every cent he stole from lunchtime match during the 2002 World Cup and Thankfully the Church the taxpayer is returned – including when asked for the reason for his disappearance no longer has problems his home. replied “tired and emotional darling, tired and holy smoke  emotional”. Declan O’Rourke, with the sun, except if the If tens of thousands of families and, inset, Pope son is gay. have lost their home why shouldn’t Stay with us Eamon, you’re a national treasure. Francis the man responsible lose his?