STUDENT JOURNALISM AND NEWS LITERACY PROGRAMME 2020-2021 PRESS

PASSelcome to Press Pass 2020 - the eighth year of the NewsBrands Ireland Newspapers in Education (NiE) Winitiative. How does Press Pass work? Press Pass is a complete student journalism and news literacy programme. This workbook is used in conjunction with digital copies of newspapers which are available on www.presspass.ie. By reading the newspapers and using this workbook, students will gain an understanding of how news is produced, how to write like a journalist, and discover the important role newspapers play in our society and the necessity for a free press in a healthy democracy.

Teacher’s Lesson Plan A Teacher’s Lesson Plan to accompany this workbook can be downloaded from www.presspass.ie. Designed to equip teachers with practical guidelines and tips for teaching the Press Pass module, the Lesson Plan has options to run the course as a 6 week or 12 week module – entirely dependent on your class group’s interest and ability.

What is the aim of Press Pass? The main aim is to encourage students to read and write more. Using newspapers as part of the daily curriculum, teachers and students will get a better understanding of news and current affairs and be exposed to a range of views and analysis - sometimes radical, sometimes infuriating, but always engaging and entertaining - to help them form opinions of their own.

What is the Press Pass workbook for? This workbook is to be used in class in conjunction with the newspapers and lesson plan. It looks in detail at the main writing styles and range of skills that make up your daily newspaper: - What is news and how to write a news story - The difference between news and features - The skills required to write commentary - What makes a good photograph - The secrets behind good sports journalism. It also gives some practical hints and tips to students who plan to enter our search for the Student Journalist of the Year.

What about the competition? We are always on the lookout for new talent and the next generation of budding writers and journalists. Students can enter the competition in any one of six categories – School Newspaper, News Writing, Opinion, Sport, Features, and Photojournalism categories. Details of how to enter, the rules, guidelines, tips and instructions are explained in the different sections throughout this guidebook. If you’re looking for some inspiration, check out the winning entries in this year’s NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards – journalismawards.ie

How to enter The closing date for entries is February 5th 2021. There is a maximum of five entries per school for each category. Schools must submit all entries using the entry system in the competition section of the Press Pass website. Our panel of judges will choose the winning entry from each of the six categories, plus two runners-up from each section. An overall winner will also be selected by the judges and all winners will be announced in March 2021.

The winners Our panel of judges will choose the winning entry from each of the five categories, plus two runners-up from each section. An overall winner will also be selected by the judges and all winners will be announced at a national awards ceremony in March 2021.

2 Good luck – and enjoy the process!

NewsBrands Ireland Contents

Why journalism matters and media ethics Pages 4-5

What is news and how to write it Pages 6-7

News tutorial Pages 8-9

Writing styles Pages 10-11

How to conduct an interview Pages 12-13

Digital Journalism and Social Media Pages 14-15

Features Pages 16-19

Comment Pages 20-23

Sport Pages 24-27

Photojournalism Pages 28-31

Navigating the News Pages 32-34

The competition Pages 35-36

School newspaper competition Page 37-38

With contributions on p4&5 from Professor Michael Foley, Chairman of the Press Pass Judging Panel and page 10&11 from Tim Vaughan, former Irish Examiner Editor.

Photographs courtesy of Press 3 Photographers Association of Ireland. Prof. Michael Foley

Injecting disinfectant will give immunity to the public, have the necessary information to more people before publishing? Have I got Covid-19; Covid-19 is caused by proximity participate in debates that impact on our lives this right? Is this exactly what the captain to G5 phone networks; Covid-19 is a plot and have the information that makes us safe. said about the opposing team? Is this what devised by Bill Gates who wants to vaccinate the witness said in the court case? Is it right the whole world; that the virus escaped from If we are to keep safe, journalism must that this should be published, or am I being a Chinese laboratory; that Covid-19 was continue to shines a light on those in power, sensationalist? Should this picture of this created as a biological weapon, by the USA whether in politics or other areas of public child be published? if you are Chinese or China, if American, or life, such as the health system. To do that, Covid-19 does not actually exist and is part it must be trustworthy, it must be honest, To guide the journalist, codes of conduct of a plot by a global elite who wants to take and as far as possible accurate. It must also have been developed. The National Union away our freedoms. The above are just a small be willing to admit mistakes if it gets things of Journalists, to which most Irish journalists example of the misinformation that has been wrong, in other words, journalism must be belong, has one of the world’s oldest, travelling via the internet and social media ethical. formulated in 1936. But all those involved across the world, mutating as it goes, just in newspaper publishing, both national and like a virus. So alarmed is the World Health Professional journalists should adhere to a local, as well as magazines, have agree to Organisation it actually has a word for the code of ethics, and do their best to keep their abide by the code of the Press Council of phenomena: an ‘infodemic’. promise to be trustful and accurate when Ireland, and accept its rulings if they stray reporting the news. They do this because outside the code. As this fl ood of misinformation spreads, news is important and readers, viewers and leaving confusion, panic and anxiety in its listeners needs to know that what they are With your teachers you can examine the wake, it’s important that we have the know- reading, listening to or watching is truthful diff erent codes, those voluntary codes how to distinguish the real from the fake. and accurate. It is important for all of us relating to the printed press and its online to know there are sources of information equivalents, or the legal codes that govern During the months of the pandemic that are in the public interest and not broadcasting. You might discuss why codes journalists here and abroad have been necessarily in the interest of vested interests. are necessary and if they do any good. You working hard to bring verifi ed and well This is important so true in normal times might consider what is the public interest sourced information and news so as to but becomes crucial during a worldwide and how that relates to you, or you might counter the conspiracy theories that have pandemic. look at other codes from around the world. shadowed the spread of the virus. The reason, You might explore whether there are limits. of course, is because at its best journalism Journalist in their daily lives grabble with Should all sources be protected, for instance? works in the public interest, making sure we, many ethical issues. Do I need to talk to Your class might formulate a new code… 4 “Injecting disinfectant wi give iunity to Covid-19; Covid-19 is caused by proximity to G5 phone networks; Covid-19 is a plot devised by Bi Gates who wants to va inate the whole world...”

A guarantee to adhere to a code of conduct Covering a pandemic has not been speak out and report about Covid-19, is what marks out the difference between a necessarily easy for journalists. In many even when that coverage is critical of the real journalist and those who might be doing countries those in authority have used government, and that has not been the case something that looks likes journalism. Real the pandemic as an excuse to cut down everywhere. journalism should come with a guarantee on press freedom and harass journalists. to operate in your interest. That is why It is important that journalists as well as - Michael Foley, Professor Emeritus, School journalism matters. healthcare professionals and experts can of Media, TU Dublin

5 News “What you s is news, what you know is background, NEWS what you f l is opinion” - Lester Markel, American journalist, 1894-1977

What is the job of a Do Don’t journalist? Do: Make your story interesting and Don’t: Start your news articles with a relevant. question. Stick to the basic introduction Even in the age of 24-hour news cycles, digital formula and you can’t go wrong. platforms and social media, the key function of a journalist remains the same - gather the Do: Always check your facts. Credibility is Don’t: Editorialise - news stories are fact not information and present it fairly and accurately. the most valuable asset to a reporter. opinion. It is not your job to argue a point The key for any journalist is to give an accurate of view, or sum up with your opinion. Just and balanced report of whatever they are present the facts and let the reader draw working on and whatever platform they are Do: Be balanced - always give both sides of his/her own conclusions. reporting on - print or digital. the story. If a criminal is gunned down in broad daylight, Don’t: Get fl owery - keep your sentences it’s the job of the journalist to tell the reader and paragraphs short. what happened, who it happened to, how Do: Use lots of quotes. People love reading it happened, why it happened and when it what other people say. Don’t: Use lots of heavily descriptive happened. language. When you’ve fi nished, go through If you answer those fi ve key questions, then 99 the entire story and try to remove any times out of 100, you’ve done your job properly. words that aren’t completely necessary. Remember, news is supposed to be fair, accurate and balanced – it’s not your view on what’s happened, not what you think might or should have happened. It’s what actually happened – the facts of which you have checked, and double checked.

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6 Drug abuse to be taken off the streets and into Dublin’s new injection facility WINNER

By Ella Kennedy Mount Sackville, Dublin Learn from last year’s winner

decision made by An Bord Pleanála the users of the site will also be engaged with policing plans that are to be implemented on Christmas Eve of 2019 could see treatment options to help them recover from with the opening of the MSIF’s door; “there is AIreland’s very fi rst Medically Supervised their addiction. According to research done by little mention of regulation and/or legislation Injection Facility (MSIF) opening in Dublin’s MQI, there was a 30% increase in the uptake of regarding the sale and distribution of illegal inner-city area of the Liberties. Merchant’s Quay treatment services associated with the use of drugs in the immediate vicinity of a childcare Ireland (MQI), a homelessness and addiction MSIF’s around the world. He described the MSIF setting. The Gardaí are unable to address the charity that was given charitable status in 2011, as a “clean, clinical and compassionate site.” issues arising; the policing challenges and the fi rst put forward plans to An Bord Pleanála in One of the local stakeholders that objected ‘area of tolerance’ within a certain radius of 2017 to build such a facility in the basement heavily to the charity’s plans is the Board of Merchant’s Quay.” She questions the protocol of the charity’s Riverbank Centre, where Management at St. Audoen’s primary school when it comes to prosecuting those found with they already off er emergency shelter and on Cook Street. Eilish Meagher is the principal drugs while travelling to the MSIF. The principal rehabilitation services for those sleeping rough of St. Audoen’s, which is located a mere three even went as far as to claim that this facility in Dublin. hundred meters from MQI’s proposed site for would jeopardize the “children’s chances of a MSIF’s were fi rst made legal in Ireland in 2017, the facility. Ms. Meagher’s main concern is happy and safe childhood.” as part of the government’s promise to tackle the proposed location of the site. She, as an Another complaint raised by Fáilte Ireland the country’s substance abuse issues. The educator, believes that having such a service was that the tourism industry of inner-city planning department of Dublin City Council so close to a childcare setting could pose a Dublin would take a hit due to the proximity (DCC) fi rst rejected MQI’s request for planning threat to the safety of children in the care of the proposed site to many revenue permission in July of last year due to over of the school. When speaking on behalf of producing attractions such as the Dublinia ninety-nine objections by local people and the whole school community regarding this and Christchurch, which leads to a huge businesses, concerned that the injection facility issue, Ms. Meagher was sure to stress that; amount of tourist spending in the area. MQI would negatively impact trade in the area. MQI “We are objecting to this proposed location, makes the argument that with the medical appealed the decision just two months later not arguing government health policy.” She waste bins and the safe setting of the injection and, after providing detailed plans of the daily argues that “it is the responsibility of our booths, less drug abuse on the streets will governance of the site, planning permission government and the HSE to develop an lead to less discarded needles and less visible was granted on December 24th, 2019. integrated and well managed response to our signs of substance abuse in the city, therefore This decision by DCC has sparked nationwide national drug problem without continuously benefi ting the area. debate on the issue, many people unsure of the over saturating and marginalising specifi c areas There is no set date as of yet for the opening implications on life in the city, where instances and communities.” This school representative, of the MSIF. Time will tell if Merchant’s Quay of drug abuse can be seen around nearly every as well as many local business owners are will address the concerns of local stakeholders corner. Derek Parker, the day service manager at concerned that there will be an increase in and how the eighteen-month pilot facility will MQI highlighted the impact the clinic will have antisocial and illegal behaviour due to huge impact its direct vicinity and the city as a whole. on drug users themselves; “This facility aims to quantity of addiction services already located reduce risk of death by overdose and increase in the Dublin 8 area. Many such stakeholders uptake in healthcare and treatment services.” believe that this facility would be of more As well as the obvious safety benefi ts of clean benefi t, less serviced part of the city. needles and trained medical staff at hand, Ms. Meagher also called into question the

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Gael, 22.3% for Sinn Fein and 2.8% Kevin “Boxer” Moran, Seán IRELAND DECIDES 22.2% for Fianna Fail. The Green Aontu Canney, and Katherine Zappone — Party secured 7.9%, according to if she holds her vulnerable seat 1.8% ÷ level with Fianna Fáil the exit poll. The Labour Party will Independents in Dublin South-West — have all Martin promises be disappointed with its result of POLL VAULTS publicly or privately signalled their IN THE just 4.6%, suggesting about three 12.7% availability to serve in a new rain- HOW PARTIES STUMBLED STARTS NOW’ Margin of error 1.3%. Source: Ipsos MRBI exit poll seats, while independents and bow coalition led by Fianna Fail. TO THE FINISH, PAGES 8-9 MAGAZINE others secured 12.7%. The Social encies right across the country, But Martin will also want to talk to ‘no settling in time’ Democrats could win about five leaving up to 80,000 surplus votes former MEP Marian Harkin, who is ble to serve under Martin if the as Fine Gael plummets Shane Horgan: seats with their return of 3.4%. from their victorious candidates to expected to win a seat in Sligo- arithmetic allowed him to become Andy Farrell has a Adrian Kavanagh, a lecturer and be transferred among the other Leitrim; Michael McNamara, a taoiseach. researcher in political geography parties and deciding the fate of former Labour deputy running as Other Dail sources said Grealish G Latest Business Post/Red C poll likely to cause panic in ranks of Fine Gael tough act to follow at NUI Maynooth, said the poll fig- the final seat in dozens of an independent in Clare; Michael could be interested in agreeing ÷ Helen McEntee and ures suggest a return of about 47 constituencies. This could benefit Healy-Rae and his brother Danny, a more formal arrangement to G SF surge due to voters feeling it’s ‘time for change’ and an end to the status quo seats for Fianna Fail, 43 seats for smaller left-leaning parties more if elected in Kerry; and Michael support a government in the 33rd Fine Gael, and 35 seats for Sinn than Fianna Fail and, in particular, Collins in Cork South-West. Dail than he did in the last. How- Insane Fein because of the distribution of Fine Gael. Party sources would not specu- ever, controversy surrounding his party candidates and their relative Norma Foley in Cabinet BY MICHAEL BRENNAN only ever ahead of Fine Gael ty leader Micheál Martin is low in a Red C poll was back The result, if confirmed in late as to whether Fianna Fail opposition to a proposed direct strengths in urban and rural today’s nationwide election count, once before. planning to keep promising in November 2014, in the would seek to contact Noel Greal- provision centre in Oughterard constituencies. This would leave marks another big electoral Sinn Féin is ahead of Fine Gael ­e surge in support for to tackle the problems in middle of the water charges ish of Galway West, Michael Lowry last year could make Fianna Fail Micheál Martin of Fianna Fail mar- advance for Sinn Fein, which could and level with Fianna Fáil in Sinn Féin has continued as housing and health, which controversy. of Tipperary, or Denis Naughten, a reluctant to deal with him directly. ginally better placed to attempt to increase its 22 seats before the former Fine Gael TD — all of whom the latest Business Post/Red C the election campaign enters he believes are the two key ­ere is still an opportunity Collins said yesterday that he form the next government. election to as many as 35 in the regularly backed the outgoing Fine expected there could be up to 14 ÷Heavy criticism of poll. its final week. ­e party is up issues for the electorate. for all parties and Indepen- BY NEIL LESLIE, CIARA Kavanagh said Sinn Fein candi- 33rd Dail. Fianna Fail’s result is dis- Gael-led government but had no members of a new Rural Inde- andTREVOR QUINN ­e poll results are likely by five points to 24 per cent, “We will be sticking to that dents to win support from dates could top the poll in constitu- appointing in Dublin, where the formal agreement with it. With pendents Group in the Dail and he PHELAN to cause panic in Fine Gael, attracting new voters who say until polling day,” one party voters before polling day on party registered just 14%, while Fianna Fail in third place in last wanted it to work as a bloc in any which could be in danger of that it is “time for change” and source said. Saturday, given that 8 per cent Continued on page 2 night’s exit poll, though. the chan- negotiations for government for- THIS is the heartbreaking no ‘minister for west’ large seat losses and a return that they do not want the Fine Fine Gael, which has been of those contacted by Red C → ces of it being able to put together a mation. trail of destruction left by to opposition after nine years Gael-Fianna Fáil status quo to trying to shift the election said they were still undecided. Got one vote: Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald makes her choice at a Dublin school yesterday minority government are reduced. Dara Calleary, Fianna Fail’s in power. It is the first time continue. agenda onto Brexit and the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are A source close to the former deputy leader, and Michael Covid-19 – victims whose ever that Sinn Féin has been Fianna Fáil’s support has public finances, is down by both going to intensify their N25 NEW ROSS BYPASS PPP Coronavirus worse than ebola, says expert Independent Alliance grouping McGrath, the finance spokesman, deaths have torn families ÷ on the highest vote share in dropped by two points to 24 two points to 21 per cent. ­e warnings about the “risk” of in the last government said that are expected to lead a four-person apart across Ireland. Internal rancour from a Red C poll. ­e party was per cent. It comes as par- last time the party was this to page 2 Moran, a former Fianna Fail mem- team to negotiate with independ- INCORPORATING THE ROSE KENNEDY FITZGERALDAndrew Gregory Health Editor ber in Athlone, had signalled to ents and smaller parties. Other The human cost of the virus The coronavirus is likely to including a boy aged nine, in the the party that he would be availa- potential independent deputies in BRIDGE, THE LONGEST EXTRADOSED BRIDGE OF become a pandemic, according to ski resort of Contamines-Montjoie the 33rd Dail could include is rising. Another 41 people rejected FF hopefuls ITS TYPE IN THE WORLD the microbiologist who co-discov- in the French Alps, bringing the whelm health systems, said Piot, a Continued on page 2 were reported to have died More travel ered ebola and the presence of total of cases involving UK citizens former under-secretary-general of → yesterday – a grim record – SHANE WOWRY . . . Irish Life seeks to Aids in Africa. to seven. The global death toll the UN who led the fight against some so-called “super-spreaders” Tributes to RTE anchor Shanley the Offaly lad delivered restrictions Professor Peter Piot, director of climbed to 725. No one in Ireland Aids. The outbreak is unlikely to wreaking havoc. One patient with 11,479 now infected. the London School of Hygiene & has yet tested positive. peak until the end of this month or infected at least 10 health workers the goods at Portrush GROUP POLITICAL EDITOR Justine McCarthy Behind each of these pictures By John Lee likely as Tropical Medicine, said he was The virus poses more danger in March, he said, and a vaccine is and four other patients. The World Byin JASON JOHNSON the “increasingly alarmed” by the rapid than ebola, Piot said: “It’s a greater also “unlikely” before the out- Health Organisation (WHO) con- Keelin Shanley, the co-anchor of respected. “The saddest of news,” reassure spooked fund is a story of intense but silent SHANE LOWRY conquered taking the reins of power yesterday, coronavirus spread of the virus and the “huge” threat because of the mode of break ends. There is no cure. siders the crisis to be an epidemic. RTE Television’s tweeted Rachael English, a AFTER volume of cases emerging daily. transmission. The potential for His warning came as it emerged If it declares the outbreak as a pan- gramme, died yesterdaySix One newsfollowing pro- ing Ireland radio presenter. grief as families cannot say a rain-lashed Portrush to Morn- Taoiseach Micheál Martin vowed that his fears mount Almost 35,000 people in at least spread is much, much higher.” He that China has snubbed offers of demic, meaning a new disease that a long illness. “Keelin was a wonderful jour- INDEX proper goodbye to loved ones. win The Open in front of Covid Coalition would get a national recov- investors on liquidity 28 countries have been infected, said that even with a low death help from America and others. is spreading globally, it would be The award-winning journalist, nalist but also a fantastic, gener- Kelly Reilly’s dad Paddy, 57, thousands of adoring with 3,500 new cases yesterday. rate, “if the number of people who Privately, Chinese doctors say they the first in more than a decade. aged 51, is survived by her hus- ous, funny colleague. She’ll be Lottery supporters yesterday. ery under way with ‘urgency and ambition’. Among them were five Britons, get infected is huge, then that will are growing desperate for outside Ireland may not escape infec- band, Conor Ferguson, whom she missed so much.” Weather News lost his battle for life in an BY SUSAN MITCHELL BY IAN GUIDER days, has moved to alleviate decisions to move to a sell- also kill a number of people”. expertise. 2 His pledge came after a war Cabinet from the tion. Piot said: “In today’s world, married in 2000, and their two “Our beautiful friend and col- Letters News intensive care unit in Kilkenny The 32-year-old Offaly concerns about the long-term ing basis could have knock A rise in cases could also over- A disturbing report on 138 no epidemic remains just a local children, Lucy and Ben. The league Keelin Shanley has died,” 19 three new parties in power was announced – with Sudoku News man pocketed a cheque for More countries are ex- Irish Life has moved to assure prospects for the property on consequences. patients in Wuhan, the centre of affair. What happens thousands broadcaster from Monkstown, Co tweeted Audrey Carville, another 14 on Easter Monday. €1.7million after claiming a number of surprise appointees and omissions. pected to follow the US, investors that it has a good market, citing a strong per- “­at will cause worries Review the virus, revealed turmoil with and thousands of miles away in Dublin, had recovered from breast Morning Ireland presenter. “She 18 She said: “I told him I loved his first Major by six shots. Helen McEntee’s elevation to the Justice minis- Russia and Australia in level of cash and liquidity formance in recent years. and any adviser will look to China has the potential of causing a cancer nine years ago, but it was so smart and funny and bril- An emotional Lowry thanked try was the big shock of the day, while new Fianna imposing travel restric- in its property funds, as the “Typically, moratoria are where they can take money major outbreak here.” recurred. liant at everything she did.” GOD BLESShim so much, that I’ll never his family and caddie for help- Fáil TD Norma Foley was among a number of tions on people who have insurance industry attempts introduced to protect the li- out of other funds,” said one She had worked for RTE for 25 Katie Hannon, who presents forget him and I thanked him ing him to his greatest triumph. visited China, due to the to shore up confidence fol- quidity of the fund whereas senior markets source. years and was widely liked and Late Debate on RTE Radio 1, which Munster-based deputies who received Cabinet➤➤ The And the Clara champ roared: Turn to Page 4 “escalating threat” of the lowing a sudden increase in the pricing basis is used to en- ­e decision by the var- Keelin previously presented, said for being a great father.” “All the fans, thank you so SALUTE: Micheál coronavirus. withdrawals of cash. sure an equitable sharing of ious insurers to move from Continued on page 2 A total of 406 people have much, this one’s for you!” Restrictions are ex- ­e multibillion-euro funds costs between policyholders. acquisition pricing to a dis- → y(7HA9F6*LNSQRQ( |||+z!. Martin pictured pected to be put in place industry has been rocked by With very good cash levels in posal basis pricing impacts the now lost their lives in the yesterday emerging tonight, but doctors have a decision by Aviva and its the fund, there are currently value of the properties held Republic and 134 in the North. after his election as warned against false re- subsidiary Friends First to no material concerns with in the fund, even if there are SEE PAGES 2,3,4,5,6,7,8&9 Taoiseach ports about the virus, as introduce a moratorium on regard to liquidity,” it said. no current plans to sell them. well as anti-Chinese sen- customers making redemp- On Friday, Aviva said that Market sources believe that timent on social media. tions, and by Irish Life and both its fund and the Friends if the level of redemptions Most experts agree Zurich to reduce the value of First fund would close for up across the industry contin- that the virus, which first their commercial property to six months for all outgoing ues, it may prompt some asset rain emerged in the Chinese fund assets. transactions, including sur- sales, the cost of which would 8 PAGES OF UNRIVALLED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Another vital piece of infrastructure for the State successfully delivered by BAM THEMFamilies reveal their heartache ALL..as 41 more lives lost and grim toll hits 406

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He died yesterday, at The show wasalways Irish life” and a“morassof as Mother Bernadette Mary. challenged Irish society, and critical partofthe country’s ha. IfearIshocked him ingwhose talk show “broke the ageof85, at his homein morethan just atalk show. It contradictions” thatmade He held right-wing views but shone alight notonlyonthe story in the 20th and early somewhatwithmyreply, but the endless silences in Irish Dublin and is survived by tackled some of the country’s him perfectly placed “to de- appeared middle-class and bright but also the dark sides 21st century”. he couldn’t not havebeen life” but to an Ireland now wife Kathleen, aharpist and mostdivisiveissuesand bunk the unsavoury aspects conservative. He taught of Irish life,” he said. “In Stephen Fry, whose inter- more delightful,charming mourning his passing, he author, and theirdaughters often unspoken taboos, of Irish life”. many Irishpeopleevery- doingso, he becameone of view with Byrne in 2015led and —Ithink — tolerantly wassimply ‘Uncle Gaybo’. Crona and Suzy and their challenging the Catholic “He somehow mirrored thing theyneeded to know the most familiar and dis- to ablasphemy probe, sent a amused by my wickedness. on, and regretting being married. But Beyoncé made Born in Dublin in 1934, Ga- families. Church, and opening up dis- and shaped whatwewere. aboutsex but were afraid to tinctivevoices of ourtimes, tribute to RTÉtothe man he So here’s to Himself. Who more of the key details. briel Mary ‘Gay’ Byrne grew When he became the pres- cussions on taboos suchas Byrne becamethe first un- ask.” helping shape our con- wasinformed by Irish people knows?Maybe he will wake up in Rialtoinafamilyof enter of The Late Late Show contraception, homosexual- disputed king of the invisible PresidentMicheal DHig- science, our self-image, and wassimply known as ‘Him- up in acertain place and be four boysand onegirl. He in 1962, it wasintended to ity, and divorce. empireofIreland’s first gins led the tributes to an ouridea of who we might be. self’. able to pass on my regards.” would go on to leaveanindel- last forjust one summer sea- Finola Doyle O’Neill, a television station,” she said. icon of broadcasting,saying Beyondcompassion, which “Tohaveearnedthe sou- es ible marknot just on Irish son. He went on to present broadcast historian and the “He interviewedlesbian that, through his work, he had in abundance, he had briquet Himself says some- Eiria broadcasting history but on the show until 1999, and it author of The Gaybo Revol- nuns, discussed condoms Byrne “challenged Irish asense of whatwas just.” thing, Ireckon,”Fry wrote. nasis clear in the fi nal tracks of the album and in music videos He was shot shortly after 1pm, by a lone gunman, Familyslams‘narrowing’of Jastine Valdez’ parents ‘long to hug her’ Inside Louise Roseingrave Courtinto the death of their strangulation. Arts only child. Hennessy, aged 40, was The circle of life looms featuring Jay Z that she had decided to stay in the “Wewill neverknow why Teresita Valdez said she shot and killed by agarda in terms of inquiry into death this happened. We will last saw her daughter alive the CherrywoodIndustrial large around the new neverunderstand how such on the morning of Saturday Estate near Bray on May 20. Script album. Page 14 Michael Clifford draftinghis terms of refer- on bail at the time of the of- evil can exist in the world. May 19, 2018 before she and Thejury returned aver- Special Correspondent ence. fence. He also had broken Our griefwill neverpass, Jastine’s father went to dict of unlawful killing. However, following con- bail conditionsanumber of Shane O’Farrell, who died in a the loss of our beautiful Jas- work. Coroner MyraCullinane The family of Shane O’Far- sultation with the Attorney times without anysanction hit-and-run incident in 2011. tine will neverfade, we will She and Jastine ex- described Jastine’s death as as he walked down Grafton Street in front of rell has criticised what they General, Judge Haughton’s over the previous year and neverhavepeace.” changed messagesthrough- ‘thoroughly shocking’ and say is the narrowing of the terms were narrowedbythe had been sentenced to a allow the inquiry to ascer- The parents of 24-year-old outthe day andshe last commended the parents’ relationship. termsofreference of aState department, excluding what prison term whichhenever tain the full and relevant Jastine Valdez, abducted heard from her daughter at dignity in their loss. inquiry into his death in the family consider to be cru- served. facts pertaining to Shane’s and killed in May 2018, said 4.20pm. She waswalking “The imageofthatbeauti- 2011. cial elements in the case. “The family has the ut- case and appear to be an at- theylong to hug her and talk homewhen shewas ab- ful young woman remains Their concerns arise after Mr O’Farrell died while most respect forJudge tempttocurtail the scope of to her. ducted by Mark Hennessy at with us,” she said. “It is in- the Department of Justice cycling near his home in Haughton,” said astatement the inquiry and further “Jastine wasour life and 6.20pm. conceivable how her parents “rejected” terms proposed by Carrigmacross, Co Monag- from the O’Farrells. “How- delay matters.” when she wastaken away, She wasmurdered shortly can bear the loss of their Sport the judgeconducting the in- han, in ahit-and-run inci- ever, the family believesthat Members of the O’Farrell our worldended. We tryto afterwards and her body only child. We’vehad a quiry. dent on August 2, 2011. the terms of reference now family arescheduled to meet smile, but in our hearts we wasfound twodays later glimpse of the person that World Cup champion The couple has never addressed the rumours publicly. hundreds of shoppers. The family met with Judge The driver, Zigimantas proposed by the department anumber of politicians today are still crying,” Danilo and near Puck’s Castle Lane in Jastine wasand it is tragic Damian de Allende signs Gerard Haughton and was Gridziuska, had alongrec- do not reflect the spirit of the in Leinster House to express Teresita Valdez said in a Rathmichael, Co Dublin. thatshe’s been so cruelly for Munster. Pages 10-11 satisfied he had taken on ord of criminality over the Dáil and Seanad resolutions. their concerns. statement following an in- The causeofdeath was taken in this way.” board their concernsin previous twoyears and was “Theseterms will not es quest at DublinCoroner’s asphyxia due to manual es Email

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SaturdayandSunday, April20and21,2019 ¤3.20(incl. VAT) Journalist, 29, killed in Derry £2.10NorthernIreland. A news story should, fi rst and foremost, be ‘terrorist’ shooting incident THEIRISH TIMESAnew-look Ticket written clearly and get straight to the point, named as Lyra McKee WEEKEND giving the reader all the most important TheIrish The woman who was shot dead in Derry CHAMPIONS CUPRUGBY facts available at that time. It’s not the place chocolate SEMI-FINALS on Thursday night has been named as makers SPECIAL for literary fl ourishes or embroidery. It Sports 29-year-old Lyra McKee. Magazine Weekend should instead concentrate on ticking the 5 The freelance journalist had recently W boxes and one H: in your six-section moved to Derry from Belfast with her ‘Lyra’sdeathmustnotbeinvain’ Weekend edition partner. Trouble  ared in the Creggan Freya What (happened) part of the city as the PSNI came under McClements inDerry Political leaders attack from crowds. unite to condemn When (did it take place) shooting of journalist Lyra was rushed to hospital in a police during riots in city Journalist Lyra McKee was full Who (was involved) of hope – about her new home in Derry, about her love for her partner, Sara, and about the Land Rover but was later pronounced future. Sports “Here’s to better times Weekend Home ahead and saying goodbye to Review &Design Weekend bombs and bullets once and for Where (did it take place) dead. all,” she wrote on her Twitter feed in recent months. On Thursday night, one of those bullets killed her. The 29-year-old journalist was shot during rioting in the Creggan Police said a number of shots were area of the city; she died shortly Why (did it happen) and afterwards. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has begun a murder inquiry, and I Sara Canning (second red. Authorities believe the shooting said it is being treated as a be with her partner, Ms “It doesn’t matter whether from left) holds a rainbow terrorist incident. planning attacks in this city and Canning. An editor with you’re a Catholic or a Her partner, Sara Canning, we were looking for munitions Protestant, or whether you flag at a vigil on Fanad Drive in California-based news site the Creggan area of Derry, Still Sisters How (did it happen)? choked back tears as she told a and firearms that we believe identify as Irish or British, Patrick Mediagazer, she was named rally in Creggan that Lyra’s may be about to be used across when people come out with near where her partner, Freyne renovating Leona one of Forbes magazine’s 30 Lyra McKee (inset), was death “must not be in vain”. the Easter weekend,” he said. under 30 in media in 2016. She guns to shoot people from their afterall andLisa was carried out by a “violent dissident “We were in Creggan killed on Thursday night. meetssome “Our hopes and dreams, her had signed a publishing deal own community then we have theseyears: Maguire amazing potential was snuffed carrying out a search operation to say enough is enough.” Beside her are Mary Lou peoplein with Faber & Faber and her McDonald, president of Sinn talk out by a single barbaric act,” and a public order situation book The Lost Boys was due for Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou constant Ahome she said. “This cannot stand. developed in Fanad Drive. McDonald addressed those Féin; the Rt Rev Ken Good, carvedout golfto publication in 2020. Bishop of Derry and Raphoe; worry Her legacy will live on in the “This public order situation Here’s to She tweeted a picture of the present while holding a ofaformer Malachy republican”. The PSNI are treating the saw over 50 petrol bombs rainbow flag “for Lyra”. and Arlene Foster, leader aboutthe light that she’s left behind.” better times disturbances shortly before she of the DUP. PHOTOGRAPH: Clerkin Police cordons were lifted thrown at police, two cars was killed, with the caption: “I say to those who rentalcrisis farmyard ahead and saying MARGARET MCLAUGHLIN late yesterday, and people left hijacked and set on fire and “Derry tonight. Absolute perpetrated this gross act of flowers at the scene. then, unfortunately, at 11 goodbye to bombs madness.” violence against the people of Coverage of Lyra McKee’s murder during Assistant Chief Constable o’clock last night a gunman and‘‘ bullets once Last night several thousand Derry and the people of Ireland shooting as a terrorist incident and have Mark Hamilton said the main appeared and fired a number of – Lyra people gathered at rallies in – and I say this as a republican line of investigation is that the shots towards police.” Ms McK- and for all Creggan and in the centre of who will proudly stand on dissident republican grouping eewasstandingnearapolice ve- McKee on Twitter Derry to show their solidarity Easter Sunday and celebrate the New IRA was responsible. hicle and was fatally wounded. with Ms McKee and her friends our tradition – I say to those Ms McKee was taken to Alt- people that your time is over, riots in Derry on the night of April 18 last Thesame group wasblamed for firing a number of shots and and family. nagelvin hospital and died that your time is up.” launched a murder enquiry. thecarbombthatexplodedout- another man picking up bullet Among them was the DUP shortly afterwards. The PSNI side the courthouse in January. casings from the ground. leader Arlene Foster, who was said she was not working as a applauded when she told the News and reaction, journalist when she was shot. A 30-year-old man has been page 2 Searchoperation charged with offences includ- crowd this was her first visit to He said police had mounted a The shots were fired with a Creggan.“Icametoday tostand Susan McKay,page 3 follows a familiar pattern: moving from handgun and police did not re- ing disorderly behaviour and page 13 search operation in Derry in solidarity with all of the peo- Denis Bradley, Assistant Chief Constable for District turn fire. Closed-circuit televi- throwing a firework. before the murder on Thursday ple who are here today. I want Editorial comment, sion footage shows what Ms McKee, who was from page 15 night. “We believed that violent Belfast, had moved to Derry to to say, your pain is my pain. short breaking-news reports to follow- Policing Mark Hamilton said: “Lyra McKee dissident republicans were appears to be a masked man up news stories with diff erent angles, to was murdered during orchestrated Newcancerdrugs‘couldcostStateupto¤500m’ t Cork vatepatientsinsuredbyVHI be- Power, an oncolo gist a earlier-stage cancer patients at The VHI wrote last week to University Hospital, asked. PAULCULLEN oncologists saying it would give ing treated in public hospitals. HealthEditor ¤100 million. Minister for Health Simon Laya Healthcare and Irish Now, however, he says the wider access to drugs including Life Health, two other health editorial commentary, news analysis, and Pembrolizumab, for stage- Harrishasdescribeditasacom- number of indications covered insurers in the market, say they violence in Creggan last night. It could cost the State up to three melanoma, and Pertu- mercial decision. He was not by the VHI initiative is 13, and have no plans to follow VHI. ¤500 million to provide public zumab for patients with early- told in advance that the State- patients with wider access to not three, as appeared the case owned health insurer intended Before drugs are approved whennewsofthecompany’sde- stage breast cancer. This is for public patients they must be innovative cancer therapies in seen as disrupting the to provide wider access for its the same way health insurer cision emerged last weekend. subscribers to some cancer assessed by the NCPE. While feature/colour writing aimed at capturing Consequently, the cost to the traditional equality of access VHI has for private patients. drugs that can not be availed of assessments are completed “A single gunman red shots in a State of replicating the move for public and private patients. Prof Michael Barry, who is by public patients. “How could within months, the process of could be as high as ¤500 mil- Prof Barry says the change approving new drugs, or new charged with assessing the raises questions of equity. the Minister not have known cost-effectiveness of medicines lion over five years, estimates this letter was coming when the applications for existing drugs, Prof Barry, clinical director of However, the wider access will is often subject to long delays for the State, originally apply only to VHI patients in Government is the main the poignancy and emotion of the young estimated the cost of wider the National Centre for within the HSE. stakeholder in VHI?” Dr Derek residential area of the city and as a result Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE). privatehospitals,andnot topri- access to the drugs for journalist’s death. wounded Ms McKee. O cers quickly Weather Home World Business Sports Most areas warm, dry and Today Weekend sunny after early mist clears. 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Our thoughts are very much with Creggan area of the city amid unrest on the family and friends of Ms McKee who was a 10 Thursday evening”. journalist based in Belfast.” 14 IRISH DAILY STAR Monday April 22 2019 PARTIES HAVE THE POWER 6 NEWS S 1 Sunday Independent Republicans 21 April 2019 OUR VIEW the stage march HATRED Back Backstop BE BRAVE: Mary Lou McDonald (left) and Arlene Foster with Naomi Long and Gregory after murder Campbell at vigil for Lyra in BEHIND Derry’s Creggan estate on Friday 150 Saoradh members parade outside GPO

Maeve Sheehan HORROR THE political republican group that issued a statement IT’S an image that captures the absolving the “IRA volun- teer” who shot Lyra McKee horror and hate that at times seems marched on the streets of to have overwhelmed the world Dublin within 48 hours of her this weekend. murder. A blood-splattered statue of Jesus Christ Up to 150 men and wom- stands in a church amid the carnage of Sri en in military fatigues, their Lanka’s Bloody Easter Sunday. faces covered by berets and Religious extremists chose the most sunglasses, paraded outside sacred places on the most sacred day to the GPO. Saoradh, which denies it is massacre Christians and tourists in their a mouthpiece for the New IRA, RAID: The scene of an ATM robbery in Kells hundreds. issued a self-serving statement It followed a weekend when Ireland was within 12 hours of Ms McKee’s also plunged back into the darkness of a murder, blaming it on “Crown THE ATM CRIME SPREE THAT LINKS violent past. Forces”. BACK TO LYRA’S SUSPECTED KILLERS Religious and sectarian hatred were at Yesterday the group’s chair- the heart of much of the horror we have man and spokesperson, Brian THE dissident republican witnessed from Derry to Sri Lanka. Kenna, hit out at the “irre- movement that harboured suspected of being behind sponsible PSNI who went into the suspected murderers of ATM thefts in Co Cavan and Bloodshed a nationalist area on Thursday Lyra McKee is profiting from Co Monaghan. While it can seem impossible to nd hope night and provoked a young and facilitating the recent Around the same time among the bloodshed and the madness, we community”. spate of ATM robberies, as the Kells robberies, ATM have to seek to go on and nd a pathway Fine Gael senator Neale gardai believe. machines in Craigavon, Co back to peace and understanding — if only Richmond said Saoradh had Three main criminal Armagh, and Crumlin, Co to honour those whose lives were so brutally “no place on the streets of the gangs operating on both Antrim, were also hit, but taken on Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday. capital”. sides of the Border are gardai believe these were That means talking and trying to Last night police in Belfast suspected of being behind carried out by a different understand what fuels the hate. were continuing to question the bulk of the elaborate gang. The ATM crime spree The North’s politicians can make a start two suspected teenage mem- cashpoint raids, according to has raised alarm among by simply going back to the job they are bers of the New IRA about a senior security source. The banks and retailers, with one paid to do at Stormont. the murder of the 29-year-old gangs are small and tight, petrol station owner in Co journalist in Derry. with no more than three to Louth taking the ATM out of It would be the best tribute they could pay service to avoid being hit. to murdered journalist Lyra McKee. And it The men, aged 18 and 19, five members. were arrested in Derry under They are either Dissidents are not would offer a glimmer of resurrection after anti-terrorism legislation and sympathisers or criminal suspected of carrying out a bleak and hate- lled Easter. were brought to a police sta- opportunists, willing to pay the raids directly. The PSNI tion in Belfast, the PSNI said. the cut demanded by local told Northern politicians Detective Superintendent dissident republican factions. earlier this month they w er Take your seats Jason Murphy, who is leading The suspects for the not involved in orchestrating e WEED IN WOODS the inquiry, said he believed robbery of two ATMs in Co attacks on ATMs there. GARDAI are on alert for tunnels of canna- both men were involved in the Meath last Thursday include Security services are bis plants dug into forests after rumbling shooting. “Clearly my consid- the leader of the crime gang increasingly concerned eration is whether those two involved in the murder of about how much of this one in Co Monaghan. Drug dealers be stolen cash is being diverted warned: Spliff you go down to the woods individuals acted in isolation Garda Adrian Donohoe. or in collusion with other The gang is known to to dissident republicans. The today, you may be in for a big surprise. TWO STEPS D.U.P. AND S.F. MUST TAKE individuals, and I am keen gardai for having close links primary dissident agitator THE top cop investigating unprecedented, the Barnier: Killing shows North’s peace is fragile [email protected] earth-shattering. for the community to come to dissident republicans, is the New IRA, which is Lyra McKee’s murder has TERRY It can choose between not con- forward and help me answer which can involve sharing suspected for shooting dead detected a “sea change” that question,” he added. resources, intelligence and young journalist Lyra McKee Wayne O’Connor testing the next Westminster in Derry last Thursday. the North. “We must all work in people’s reaction. elections — or contesting them Ms McKee was killed in the the proceeds of crime. Out of control Creggan estate in Derry after In the overnight heist in “They are a serious THE EU’s chief Brexit negoti- to preserve the achievements dolence at the 19th-century And he’s hoping that some will and taking their seats. she was shot in the head by Co Meath, machines were concern, if not the most ator, Michel Barnier, has said of the Good Friday Agree- Guildhall in Derry city centre scene by her partner, Sara now come forward and help No more this one-leg-in-one- a gunman who fired toward ripped from two banks in serious concern. They are the killing of journalist Lyra ment,” Mr Barnier said. yesterday morning. Canning, read: “My beautiful decades of conflict when vi- solve this outrageous crime. leg-out horn-pipe that’s just a police as Kells. The raiders fled in fundraising on both sides McKee demonstrates work is “The tragic murder of Lyra She wrote: “A tragic loss, Lyra, our time together was olent deaths were common- rioting r aged. Mo- place. hospital costs Let’s hope he’s right — but hypocritical mockery of parlia- bile phone and CCTV images separate cars and left spikes of the Border. They are needed to preserve Northern McKee is a reminder of how such promise, such energy, so too short, and your light was c snuffed out too soon. “I am revolted by the whole history’s against him. m geehan mentary politics. captured chilling footage of a outside a local garda station agitating. They are working Ireland’s “fragile” peace. fragile peace still is in North- much potential. We can only There’ve been many times in If Sinn Fein’s going to com- masked man pointing a hand- to hamper their response. on divisions caused by Brexit His comments yesterday ern Ireland.” imagine what you would have “I love you forever, your thing. It is a retrograde step. Sara xxx.” Derry is one of the most won- the past when we thought that destined to never witness the No-Surrender-Not-an-Inch, promise its principles in the gun in the direction of police, The same gang is also for their own ends,” said a came as tributes poured in for The UK government’s achieved.” are staggering surely, things will change now, rst place by contesting British close to where Ms McKee was source. the 29-year-old amid anxiety Northern Ireland Secretary, Ms McKee was shot during Local resident John derful cities in the world,” Mr horrors of war but to reap the mind-numbing mantra that gets Karen Bradley, was among rioting in Derry last Thursday McGonagle signed the Guild- McGonagle said. following yet another horren- spoils of peace. The spoils just us nowhere apart from round mainstream elections, then it standing among a crowd of about escalating tensions in dous loss of innocent life. bystanders. for me is a very worrying the first to sign a book of con- night. hall book of condolence. “It does not need it or NEW leaked documents reveal the never seemed to reach us.” and round in ever-vicious may as well go the full hog and deserve it and Lyra did not We thought that surely the stop this half-way house farce. Her partner, Sara Canning, situation.” community. Lyra’s killers have A floral tribute left at the He had been a city-centre spiralling cost of the National But if the DUP and circles. led tributes to the investi- He said Ms McKee’s mur- succeeded in only one thing, had no knowledge about the business owner during the deserve to die. It is as simple men and women of violence Sinn Fein really Instead embrace the Republicans have surprised as that.” Children’s Hospital is set to smash would call a halt following the the world before. gative journalist, published der had created “a sea change” and that is in uniting the shooting. He said the informa- € want to try now to backstop which will author and LGBTQIA activist, in the community and asked entire community in condem- tion was “passed” to Saoradh. the 2 billion barrier. Claudy bombing in 1972 or the deliver the likely never be nation,” he said. “We would act responsibly in deaths of the Maguire children Weapons saying her “amazing potential people to have confidence For a project that was budgeted to cost spoils, following needed simply was snuffed out by this single to come forward with infor- A statement on Saoradh’s passing on information from Gunshots send echoes through under half a billion it is a truly stagger- in 1976 which started the Peace It was no small decision for SF Lyra’s murder, because the to take their seats in the Dail or barbaric act”. mation. website last Friday said a “re- republican sources,” he said, ing gure. People or the massacre at the there’s one DUP have Det-Supt Murphy added: He added that the individ- publican volunteer attempted while adding that he had “no Now the outgoing manager of the cenotaph in Enniskillen in 1987 to explore paths to peace at the information” to pass to gardai. thing that accepted it and height of the Troubles or to take “People saw the gunman and uals responsible for her mur- to defend people” from the hospital has expressed fears that no one or the slaughter in Omagh in each party voted for the people saw those who goaded der continued to “hide in the PSNI and the RUC and that Saoradh secretary Ger De- thevoidof adividedcommunity part in the Good Friday will want to oversee the project for fear of 1998. can do to withdrawal young people out on to the shadows” but his officers had “tragically a young journalist, vereux said he did not see the being hauled in front of a Dail committee Agreement talks or to back streets, people know who identified “palpable” change Lyra McKee, was killed acci- statement before it went out. Outrage isolate the agreement. decommissioning of IRA weap- and ripped to shreds for being linked to But the killing continued. godfathers This one they are. in support of the police. dentally”. “I don’t necessarily agree with the controversial building. ons. This too can be done. “What we are seeing is a “This will be Lyra’s legacy. Despite releasing a state- it,” he said. “But I can state Outrage alone does not change and really change by the And this too can have enor- The murder of Lyra McKee But surely the reverse could also be those hell-bent on ramming show they’re DUP will signal new breed of terrorist coming Lyra’s murder was not just ment, Saoradh chairman quite categorically to you that mous far-reaching positive an attack on Lyra, it was an Mr Kenna, who is a former we had no involvement in that has united politicians, but People in these areas still true? Would someone not want to be the serious about that a new, genu- through the ranks and that their idealism down other’s peo- consequences for Brexit while attack on the fabric of this employee of the HSE, told [shooting].” live in segregated housing through the eyes of its 18-year- person to take credit for bringing this ple’s throats — even if it chokes change. ine consensus more conciliation is needed estates and attend segregated old protagonist ‘‘Middle Sis- runaway train back under control? also rendering redundant the the Sunday Independent Both men said they were them. The DUP can MURDERED: politics has now bitter men and women of he shocked by the shooting. in North’s fractured society, schools. Peace walls still divide ter’’ the toxic and myopic What really works is making stop playing sectari- Lyra McKee been adopted — and violence. many working-class districts nature of life growing up in l This publication supports politics work for people. an politics with Brexit gone is the old stubborn, Lyra McKee did not live long writesEdward McCann of Belfast. a society twisted by divided the work of the Press And that’s yet to happen in the and drop its opposition to the blinkered, partisan politics. The murder of Lyra has loyalties and sectarian vio- enough to see the spoils of lence. She is a girl who doesn’t Council of Ireland and our North following the Good backstop that guarantees It would be a seismic altera- peace. But the DUP and Sinn probably resonated more be- staff operate within the Friday Agreement. We have the there’ll be no hard border. tion for unionism and it would HEY were shots that cause she was a journalist and conform in a closed commu- Fein can now help to ensure — but only through happen- also seemed to represent an nity and has the odd habit of Code of Practice for peace but not the prosperity. In the name of Lyra, just stop utterly transform the entire that others do. It’s time for echoed around the coun- journalists in Ireland. You Or as Lyra McKee so eloquent- it. Stop the grandstanding, the Brexit scenario for the better. Ttry — plunging Northern stance. Alternative Ulster. She was reading while walking. This can obtain a copy of the Arlene and Mary Lou to brave Ireland once more into tortured Former senior policeman also an unintended target — leads the character to ask a ly put it: “We were the Good gallery-waving, the same old And Sinn Fein can do the up. code at www.presscouncil.ie Friday Agreement generation, sad knee-jerk reaction, the unthinkable, the impossible, the self-analysis after tragically Alan McQuillan perceptively though the gunman clearly friend questioning her about and pointlessly taking the life warned at the time to ex- had little regard for where he her habit: “Are you saying it’s of a talented young journalist. pect more of the same around was shooting. OK for him to go around with Politicians from across the major historic anniversaries. She was gay and had made Semtex but not okay for me That bombing had occurred a short film about the difficul- to read spectrum, north and south, Jane Eyre in public?” united to condemn the dissi- just ahead of the 100th an- ties she had faced coming out Burns read extracts from dent republicans responsible niversary of the meeting of in Northern Ireland, where the book at the Lyric, including for Lyra McKee’s murder dur- the first Dail Eireann. Lyra’s same-sex marriage is still not this line, in her surprisingly ing rioting in Derry. murder happened as police legal. mellifluous Belfast accent (she It was heartening to see attempted to disrupt dissident She also didn’t want to be left the city in 1985 and moved DUP leader Arlene Foster and activity ahead of Easter Rising pigeon-holed as Protestant or to England). Sinn Fein president Mary Lou commemorations. Catholic. And, of course, she The extract got a great McDonald attend a peace vigil The lingering toxicity of died following her inquisitive laugh. It is a funny line but also in Creggan. Foster was accom- paramilitarism continues to instincts as a journalist. hints at a twisted psychology panied by Gregory Campbell, hold sway in small areas of Earlier last week, I went where black can be white and the party’s hardline MP for Northern Ireland, both loyalist white black. Londonderry East. It was also and republican. In January, Sitting in the audience in heartening to hear Foster say: Ian Ogle, a 45-year-old com- ‘The North is this upmarket venue, it was “I want to say your pain is my munity worker, was stabbed to easy to think that this was all pain. It doesn’t matter whether death on the street just yards rudderless as in the past — something par- you are Catholic or a Protes- from his home in east Belfast it faces the ticular to Belfast in the 1970s Comment by people connected to the and 1980s. tant, whether you identify as Irish or British.” Ulster Volunteer Force. uncertainty The reality, however, is that This kind of conciliato- Just like gangland crime dissident republicans are just ry and generous language is in Dublin, residual paramili- of Brexit’ one sometimes deadly aspect something that has been sorely tarism has very little impact of what is still a fractured so- lacking in Northern politics on most people who would to a talk at the Lyric Theatre ciety. They are feeding on the since the power-sharing Ex- have no reason to visit the in Belfast where author Anne void that has seen Northern 2 ecutive collapsed in acrimony deprived areas where it has Enright interviewed fellow Ireland rudderless at a time more than two years ago. its strongholds. Booker Prize winner Anna when it is facing the uncer- There have been growing Although the Good Fri- Burns, who was returning to tainty of Brexit. signs ever since that dissident day Agreement has had a her home city officially for the The same politicians who republican groups have been transformative effect on the first time since winning the stood u nited to condemn the feeding off the resultant polit- quality of life and infrastruc- accolade last autumn. murder of Lyra McKee are also Comment can take the form of a ical vacuum. ture of Belfast in particular, Burns shared the same the same politicians who are In January this year, the the benefits have seemingly publisher as Lyra and spoke hopelessly divided. Divided to New IRA exploded a car bomb not trickled down to some movingly about her at a rally such an extent that they can’t outside a Derry courthouse. areas. in Belfast on Friday, recalling agree on any aspect of Brexit, CCTV footage had caught a Lyra herself had written how her “wee heart was always the Irish Language Act, pros- group of young people walk about this, particularly the open”. ecutions in relation to killings past the car minutes earlier. high rate of suicide among Burns’s book, during the Troubles... and so newspaper editorial or it can be the Milkman, Carnage had been avoided young people growing up in is easily, in my view, the best on and on. the aftermath of the Troubles. novel to come out of Northern Maybe that will change Ireland. It cleverly dissects now — but I wouldn’t hold personal opinion of a journalist or my breath. contributor.

Here is The Irish Daily Star’s editorial comment on Lyra’s murder. Analysis Her killers are cowards, purporting to act 3 .com irishtimes in the name of some warped ideology. Newspaper analysis goes beyond the SaturdayandSunday, April20and21,2019 ¤3.20(incl. VAT) £2.10NorthernIreland. They are the enemies of peace, who immediate facts of a news story and THEIRISH TIMESAnew-look Ticket o er nothing but evil in a society badly places them in a broader and deeper WEEKEND in need of good. Lyra’s death makes context, assessing and evaluating their TheIrish CHAMPIONS the squabbling over Stormont and the wider meaning and impact beyond the CUPRUGBY chocolate SEMI-FINALS SPECIAL stubbornness and disagreements which immediacy of a speci c event. makers Sports Magazine Weekend have kept it closed seem insigni cant. It was good to see the party leaders This Sunday Independent analysis looked in your six-section ‘Lyra’sdeathmustnotbeinvain’ Weekend edition together at last, rightly condemning the at the context and political background gunmen yesterday. But there’s a bitter to the killing, under the headline and Feature/Colour Freya 4 McClements taste that it took the death of a ne young stand-fi rst: inDerry Political leaders A colour piece strives to capture an unite to condemn journalist to bring them side by side….. shooting of journalist during riots in city And the last words of her nal tweet seem Gunshots send echoes through the void of event in words in a way that brings Journalist Lyra McKee was full of hope – about her new home in Derry, about her love for her it alive for the reader. Where a news partner, Sara, and about the future. Sports a tting way to describe the manner of her a divided society. “Here’s to better times Weekend Home ahead and saying goodbye to Review &Design Weekend bombs and bullets once and for story is hard fact-driven, colour paints all,” she wrote on her Twitter feed in recent months. passing. Absolute madness. On Thursday night, one of those bullets killed her. The 29-year-old journalist was shot vivid pictures. during rioting in the Creggan area of the city; she died shortly The murder of Lyra McKee has united afterwards. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has begun a murder inquiry, and I Sara Canning (second said it is being treated as a “It doesn’t matter whether be with her partner, Ms from left) holds a rainbow Note the diff erent writing style in this politicians, but more conciliation is needed terrorist incident. planning attacks in this city and you’re a Catholic or a Canning. An editor with flag at a vigil on Fanad Drive in Her partner, Sara Canning, we were looking for munitions California-based news site Protestant, or whether you Sisters choked back tears as she told a and firearms that we believe identify as Irish or British, the Creggan area of Derry, Patrick Still Mediagazer, she was named near where her partner, Leona rally in Creggan that Lyra’s may be about to be used across one of Forbes magazine’s 30 when people come out with Freyne renovating Here’s an excerpt from an Irish Examiner Lyra McKee (inset), was death “must not be in vain”. the Easter weekend,” he said. under 30 in media in 2016. She guns to shoot people from their meetssome afterall andLisa “We were in Creggan own community then we have killed on Thursday night. Irish Times’ editorial comment following in North’s fractured society. “Our hopes and dreams, her had signed a publishing deal Beside her are Mary Lou peoplein theseyears: Maguire amazing potential was snuffed carrying out a search operation with Faber & Faber and her to say enough is enough.” out by a single barbaric act,” and a public order situation Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn constant Ahome talk book The Lost Boys was due for Féin; the Rt Rev Ken Good, she said. “This cannot stand. developed in Fanad Drive. publication in 2020. McDonald addressed those worry carvedout golfto front page feature in the days after Lyra’s Her legacy will live on in the “This public order situation Here’s to present while holding a Bishop of Derry and Raphoe; She tweeted a picture of the and Arlene Foster, leader aboutthe ofaformer Malachy light that she’s left behind.” saw over 50 petrol bombs rainbow flag “for Lyra”. Lyra’s funeral: better times disturbances shortly before she of the DUP. PHOTOGRAPH: Clerkin Police cordons were lifted thrown at police, two cars was killed, with the caption: “I say to those who rentalcrisis farmyard ahead and saying MARGARET MCLAUGHLIN late yesterday, and people left hijacked and set on fire and “Derry tonight. Absolute perpetrated this gross act of flowers at the scene. then, unfortunately, at 11 goodbye to bombs madness.” violence against the people of o’clock last night a gunman death. Assistant Chief Constable and‘‘ bullets once Last night several thousand Derry and the people of Ireland Mark Hamilton said the main appeared and fired a number of – Lyra people gathered at rallies in – and I say this as a republican Delivering the homily at the ecumenical The reality, however, is that dissident line of investigation is that the shots towards police.” Ms McK- and for all Creggan and in the centre of who will proudly stand on dissident republican grouping eewasstandingnearapolice ve- McKee on Twitter Derry to show their solidarity Easter Sunday and celebrate the New IRA was responsible. hicle and was fatally wounded. with Ms McKee and her friends our tradition – I say to those Ms McKee was taken to Alt- people that your time is over, Lyra and I, in our late 20s, are what she Thesame group wasblamed for and family. nagelvin hospital and died firing a number of shots and that your time is up.” thecarbombthatexplodedout- another man picking up bullet Among them was the DUP funeral service for Lyra McKee, Fr Martin republicans are just one sometimes deadly shortly afterwards. The PSNI side the courthouse in January. casings from the ground. leader Arlene Foster, who was said she was not working as a applauded when she told the News and reaction, journalist when she was shot. A 30-year-old man has been page 2 Searchoperation charged with offences includ- crowd this was her first visit to He said police had mounted a The shots were fired with a Creggan.“Icametoday tostand Susan McKay,page 3 called ‘cease re babies’. ing disorderly behaviour and search operation in Derry handgun and police did not re- in solidarity with all of the peo- Denis Bradley,page 13 turn fire. Closed-circuit televi- throwing a firework. Editorial comment, Magill captured the public mood with aspect of what is still a fractured society. before the murder on Thursday ple who are here today. I want sion footage shows what Ms McKee, who was from page 15 night. “We believed that violent Belfast, had moved to Derry to to say, your pain is my pain. dissident republicans were appears to be a masked man pinpoint accuracy when he expressed the I started my life where Lyra’s ended. My Newcancerdrugs‘couldcostStateupto¤500m’ hope that her death will not have been They are feeding on the void that has seen mammy was born in a house not 200 yards t Cork vatepatientsinsuredbyVHI be- Power, an oncolo gist a earlier-stage cancer patients at The VHI wrote last week to University Hospital, asked. PAULCULLEN oncologists saying it would give ing treated in public hospitals. HealthEditor ¤100 million. Minister for Health Simon Laya Healthcare and Irish Now, however, he says the wider access to drugs including Life Health, two other health from where Lyra was killed. Harrishasdescribeditasacom- number of indications covered Pembrolizumab, for stage- insurers in the market, say they It could cost the State up to three melanoma, and Pertu- mercial decision. He was not in vain and could even contribute to the Northern Ireland rudderless at a time when by the VHI initiative is 13, and have no plans to follow VHI. ¤500 million to provide public zumab for patients with early- told in advance that the State- patients with wider access to not three, as appeared the case owned health insurer intended Before drugs are approved whennewsofthecompany’sde- stage breast cancer. This is for public patients they must be innovative cancer therapies in seen as disrupting the to provide wider access for its the same way health insurer cision emerged last weekend. subscribers to some cancer assessed by the NCPE. While I went to my rst disco, and subsequently traditional equality of access VHI has for private patients. Consequently, the cost to the drugs that can not be availed of assessments are completed State of replicating the move for public and private patients. building of peace. within months, the process of it is facing the uncertainty of Brexit. Prof Michael Barry, who is by public patients. “How could could be as high as ¤500 mil- Prof Barry says the change approving new drugs, or new charged with assessing the raises questions of equity. the Minister not have known cost-effectiveness of medicines lion over five years, estimates this letter was coming when the applications for existing drugs, Prof Barry, clinical director of However, the wider access will is often subject to long delays for the State, originally apply only to VHI patients in Government is the main saw my rst riot, on the streets where those estimated the cost of wider the National Centre for stakeholder in VHI?” Dr Derek within the HSE. Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE). privatehospitals,andnot topri- But his message was at its most searing access to the drugs for scattered shots rang out on Thursday. Weather Home World Business Sports when he commended the North’s political The same politicians who stood united to Most areas warm, dry and Today Weekend sunny after early mist clears. News News After the Easter holidays, children will walk Highs of up to 22 degrees in Cycling:SamBennett light, variable winds. 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15 3 February 2019 Sunday Independent

8 NEWS Features

WITNESS: MARY LOWRY

VICTIM: BOBBY RYAN

ACCUSED: PATRICK QUIRKE The widow, her two lovers and a his response was: “Hah”. in the vicinity, listening to The next day, she returned what everyone was saying, Ms from the school run and her Lowry said. morning errands to find the One day, when in the vil- Quirkes and gardai on the lage of Bansha, she sat in the farm. She knew it was a crime murder inthat Mr Quirke a murdered Tipperary Mr townlandcar of a woman from Trace scene because of the tape. Ryan so he could rekindle an Ireland and told her about her The superintendent told her affair with her. affair with Pat Quirke. “She a body had been found in a The Central Criminal Court She had “bared her soul”, was the first person I told,” she run-off tank that she told the Features has heard gripping evidence her “absolute soul”, she said said. After that, she had to tell court she didn’t know existed at one point during her cross the gardai, and then her own until then. She would have to in the trial of a farmer accused examination. “I have told family and friends. “I was very leave the house to facilitate everything in my whole life… upset and ashamed,” she said. the investigation. She never of a love triangle killing, Some of it I am not too happy “It was a very difficult time.” returned to the house again. writes Maeve Sheehan with and ashamed of, but I Ms Lowry accused Mr The prosecution claims that have put everything in to try Quirke of “crawling back into Mr Quirke staged the discovery to eight minutes”. solve this case.” her life” and “pretending” to of Mr Ryan’s body because the ARY Lowry Those mundane, domestic Ms Lowry began her ev- be her friend after Mr Ryan’s lease was coming to an end lay in bed as moments on that Friday morn- idence by telling the court disappearance. and he would have to move off her boyfriend ing, June 3, 2011, were the about her husband, Martin, He tried to rekindle their the land. Over two-and-a-half got dressed. last she would spend with Mr and how they married and affair. “He pestered me and days of cross examination, de- Bobby Ryan Ryan, the man who had come moved on to the family farm pestered me and pestered me,” fence counsel Bernard Condon into her life like “a breath of left to him by his father. They she said. She said she agreed highlighted what he called the Mhad left his clothes on the floor “inconsistencies” and “lies” in built an extension on to the the night before, as he always fresh air”. to go away with Mr Quirke for original family home. Mar- Ms Lowry’s Garda statements. did. He was slow pulling on He left her house that a night. “I was so pestered I tin’s mother, Rita, lived in He questioned “curiosities” Tutorial his navy tracksuit with the morning and disappeared. said I would go,” she said. one side and the Lowrys and She got the train from Lim- in her accounts, her memory white stripe, his white runners His body was found almost their three boys in the other. lapses and the different times and a heavy navy jumper. She two years later, naked and erick Junction and went to Mr Quirke, a farmer in Brean- she gave for incidents such remembered saying to him bruised, in a disused run-off Fitzpatrick’s hotel in Killiney shamore, was married to Mar- as the delay in Mr Ryan’s car about the jumper: “What are tank on Ms Lowry’s farm in in south Dublin, where she tin’s sister, Imelda, the court leaving her driveway, or the you doing with that?” as it had the townland of Fawnagown, had stayed before with her heard. Ms Lowry said the two length of time it took him to been “a very warm few days”. between the village of Bansha husband. “I can’t remember men were “acquaintances”,but leave the house. “He said, ‘it’s the easiest way and Tipperary town. a whole lot. I had a lot to the court heard there would be He suggested she made up to carry it’,” she recalled in Last Tuesday, Ms Lowry drink. I felt pressure. I didn’t evidence that they were “the lies to “trash” Mr Quirke. In her evidence at the Central took the stand as the first want to be there,” she said. best of friends”. her evidence, she had ques- Criminal Court over the past witness in the trial of Patrick Later, when cross examined Quirke (50) for the murder of When Martin died of can- about that trip, she couldn’t tioned what he was doing on two weeks. the farm at 8.30 on the morn- They had made love that Robert ‘Bobby’ Ryan (52) on cer in 2007, Ms Lowry was remember going to a show inThe bereft and completely lost, ing that Mr Ryan disappeared. morning. He left at about a date between June 3, 2011 the Olympia that night, she said. Their three boys were Mr Condon quoted from one 6.30am, before her boys woke and April 2013. Mr Quirke has Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke aged three to 10, and she had of her garda statements: ‘“Pat up. A truck driver at Killough pleaded not guilty to murder. Down. “It mustn’t have been no interest in the farm. Mr was going away with his fam- Quarry, near Thurles, he had Over four days in the very good,” she said. Quirke stepped in to help. She could not remember ily that morning, so he was an early start anyway. She witness box at the Central He offered to look after her probably trying to get some waited for the sound of his Criminal Court, Ms Lowry’s in February, 2011 having a second night away husband’s investments and Sunday Independent jobs done’. van crossing the grid on her relationships with both men with Mr Quirke, on September advised her on the farm. He “So why did you lie to the driveway. That morning, she came under scrutiny, as did A letter to Patricia Redlich appeared in the 11, 2008, when it was put to leased 63 acres from her — jury and say you didn’t know said, she waited longer than the prosecution’s contention her that she and Mr Quirke for €12,600 to be paid twice a he was going away?” asked Mr usual to hear it, “maybe seven to enjoy the sun. had stayed at the Cliff House year, the court heard. Hotel in Ardmore, Co Water- Condon. She denied it was a events as a couple, she said. She said it was between The friendship developed ford. The defence produced lie and said it was her memory. “We were having a very good 10.30 and 11.30am when Mr into an affair in January 2008 relationship?” she asked. a print-out of the booking Mr Condon suggested she time. I loved him to bits,” Ryan’s daughter, Michelle, and it continued over two Pat Quirke didn’t take it showing a payment of €400 was “taking every possible she said. On May 27, 2011, rang. She wanted to know years; they would meet on well. She returned one morn- and her email address. She opportunity” to present her- What is a they went to Bundoran for whether Ms Lowry had seen Mondays and Fridays in the ing to find her front door open could not explain that but self in the best possible light a weekend of dancing. They her father — she thought they morning at her home. She said and him “hiding behind the said Mr Quirke had a key while presenting Mr Quirke in both loved dancing, she said, might have gone to the beach she felt ashamed and tried to inside door of the house”. He to her house. She dismissed the worst. He quoted a state- and it was an opportunity as it was such a nice day. end it, but she was vulnerable, told her she had left the door Michelle was “distraught”, the suggestion that she had ment from Mary Glasheen, open, but she didn’t believe for them to get to know each a friend of Mr Ryan, about a she said. He was “controlling” she said, and was reporting rekindled her affair with him him, she said. other better because when “bitchy comment” Ms Lowry and “manipulative” and con- her father missing at the Gar- after Mr Ryan disappeared as On Valentine’s Day in 2011, they were out together there had made about her laugh. stantly asking for money. da station. Ms Lowry arranged “totally ridiculous”. Ms Lowry said he ad- Ms Lowry opened a letter were always people around. The court also heard that Ms Lowry couldn’t remember They had a great time on to meet her there. Before she vised her to make a new will from social services saying she had started a new relation- making any such comment. the first night, but on the left, Mr Ryan’s son Robert after her husband’s death. that “my children were not ship in 2012. Saturday night, they had a called, also looking for his She agreed, appointing Mr being looked after properly. Ms Lowry had installed row, she told the court. Bobby father, and she asked if they Quirke and his wife guard- I can’t tell you the shock that CCTV on her property be- ‘I hope you wasn’t feeling well, she said, had “searched the lakes”. The ians of her children in the I got,” she said. “I blamed cause the alarm kept going and didn’t want to dance and reason, she said when cross event of her death and, at Mr Pat Quirke for it”, but he de- off. One day in December 2012, won’t be she accepted a dance with an- examined, was because Bobby feature? Quirke’s suggestion, leaving nied it. when the family was away, the other man. When she got back Ryan had spoken to her before them €100,000 to extend their alarm activated. That night, stealing Mary to their table, Mr Ryan was of being depressed. home to accommodate the she asked her son to help her ‘I have bared chatting to another woman. She ended up meeting Dillon’s boys. On another occasion, she view the CCTV footage. It “I wasn’t at all pleased,” she Michelle on the road in Tip- The main diff erences between a feature and a lent him €20,000 that she did my soul in my perary town. “I said will you showed Mr Quirke walking knickers off said. “I was disappointed he not get back, she said. around the yard, standing by chose to talk to somebody else come out to my house, just to The only explanation she statement’ her washing line and looking the line’ for what seemed like hours. calm down and to see,” said could offer for what she called “I gave out to him the Ms Lowry. in the windows. “this seedy affair” was that Ms Lowry said she didn’t whole way back from Bun- “I was extremely upset and news story are style and length. she hadn’t been in a sexual On February 20, 2011, she He quoted a statement Sunday Independ- worried. It was like a bolt from want to go down the route of bought the doran,” she said. “His ears from Mr Ryan’s sister-in-law, relationship for many years. the blue,” she told the defence. making a formal complaint to ent and read the problem page must have been reddened.” Ann Stapleton. She said Ms She ended the affair in the “He had left my house that gardai. Mr Quirke had suffered written by the late Patricia By the end of the journey, Mr Lowry phoned her out of the summer of 2010. Mr Ryan morning at 6.30am. I can’t a tragedy earlier that year Redlich. Ryan suggested they “take a blue on June 5, 2011, asked came into her life in August tell you how alarmed and when his son died. Instead, “Dear Patricia, I’ve made break”. They soon made up her about fingerprints and of that year, when he got her frightened, and ‘oh my God’, she asked her solicitor to write a right mess of my life and I though and on June 2, 2011, he whether they would be able tickets for an All-Ireland final, this is unbelievable. I thought to him “as kind-hearted as need help on how to go for- arrived at Ms Lowry’s house, to tell if there was a body in and they got on “like a house my bad luck was finished. It possible” to end the lease. He ward. It all started four years his Mr Moonlight van parked a vehicle. Ms Lowry said she on fire”.He was a DJ who used now seemed to be starting agreed to leave in July 2013 ago when my best friend died. in the yard, talking on the never mentioned anything Whereas news is straight-up factual and strictly the stage name Mr Moonlight back again.” and secured a lease on a near- This man was also my wife’s phone as he came in. about a body in a car. and played in local pubs and Some time after she heard She was so alarmed that by farm belonging to a woman clubs. By early 2011, they were cousin and a close family called Mary Dillon. She had complained to the sound of Mr Ryan’s van on she “forgot” to turn into her in a relationship, she said. friend. He left a wife and a “I just wanted to be rid gardai about missing posters the grid the next morning, she driveway on the journey back “I didn’t have to hide or tell young family after him. I of this man, who was hang- going up around her property, got up and prepared the boys’ from town. Michelle “kept structured, features are longer, more analytical and lies or pretend,” she said. “He coped by throwing myself ing around my house, taking the defence said. She replied saying, ‘I think he’s in a wood, into doing all I could for my breakfasts and school lunches. that the posters were only could call during the week. He I think he’s in a wood’.” That things, upsetting me,” she friend’s wife and children… At 8.30am, she looked out of around her house and she felt may stay or he may not. There must have been why she drove said. Unfortunately this led to an the window and saw Mr they were intimidating and was never a big plan.” past her house to Kilshane On April 29, 2013, Ms Low- affair with his wife, and I fell Quirke’s jeep passing up the upsetting for her children. “It Her mother-in-law was Wood, she said. ry noticed a strange tractor in softer focussed. deeply in love,” a letter began. driveway. “delighted” for her, she told There at Kilshane Wood the farmyard. She went out was like they were trying to “I couldn’t believe what I “When I saw his jeep, I say I had something to do with the court, but Mr Ryan used was Bobby Ryan’s silver and “walked into Pat Quirke was reading,” Ms Lowry said. thought, where’s he going at this man who was missing,” to park his van away from van. They checked the van, head on”. He asked how she She was “fuming”.She contact- this hour of the morning?” she said. the house out of sensitivity. “I “screamed all over the wood” was, she said. “I just said, ‘you ed Mr Quirke and asked him if She ran into him outside. “He The trial before Ms Justice didn’t want her feeling uneasy. for him. But the search for are some c*** and I can’t wait he had written it. “He said he looked very hot and sweaty Eileen Creedon and a jury I was very conscious that her Mr Ryan went on for weeks to see the back of you. I just did. I said, did your wife see and bothered,” she said. of six men and six women son had died.” Having dropped her chil- and months, involving gardai hope you won’t be stealing Mr Ryan’s two adult chil- this? He said no,” she said. He Mary Dillon’s knickers off the resumes tomorrow. dren at school, and her moth- and Trace Ireland, an agency dren were “happy” for them, had removed the page before line.’” According to Ms Lowry, er-in-law at the doctor, she that helps to find missing Features can vary widely, from fashion to diet fads, she said. she had seen it. people. Mr Quirke was always Her own children loved Her relationship with Mr returned home at 9.30am and sat outside on the patio him, and he loved them. She Ryan was now well-known was “mad about him”. “What and they were invited to celebrity profi les to human interest stories. They more would you want from a can accompany a news story, or in most cases they have their own section in newspapers and magazines. 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THE IRISH TIMES Monday,April8,2019 How to write 4NewsAgenda ‘Mysonwasexpelledatsix.We’re in2019.Ourchildrenareinvisible’ ■ ‘The school tried its best, but they were a feature struggling and ill-equipped’: clockwise from main, Suzanne Voakes and her son Rian (6); Alison Field and her son James (5); and Nicole Duggan and her son Riley. PHOTOGRAPHS: NICK BRADSHAW

riting a feature aff ords with a funny line at the end, that there are sufficient ASD [autism spec- trum disorder] special class placements to Carl O’Brien meet existing demand nationally.” However, it added that the council was EducationEditor aware of demand for additional place- the journalist the luxury others with a knock-em-dead ments in some areas, such as parts of Dub- Hundreds of children lin. It said the council was actively engaging with autism are being with schools and parents to ensure “each to use more colourful, punchline - a ‘shock’ tactic. failed by the State’s child has a school placement appropriate to their needs for the 2019-2020 school education system year”. However, Harris says it is clear that hun- W dreds of children do not have such places descriptive language. In addition, a Rian is almost seven. He loves the Aveng- rightacrosstheState,butespeciallyinDub- ers, playing with Lego, climbing and messy lin and Cork. play. “He’s the joy of our family,” says his Home tuition, he says, is no substitute mother, Suzanne Voakes. “He’s the funni- for a child who should have a right to at- feature story doesn’t have to follow Others fi nish with a technique of est, quirkiest child. He’s a typical boy, bois- tend school. terous, loves hiding and climbing. He loves For those who do access their local learning. He’s like a shining diamond.” school,he says far more needs to be doneto Last September, two years after starting ensure children have the right supports to at his local primary school, he was ex- help them flourish. the conventional structure of a news referring back to the line at the pelled. He was six. There is no obligation, for example, to Suzanne says the school did all it could ensure that a teacher in an autism class has for him but that teaching staff simply a specific qualification in special educa- weren’t equipped to meet his needs. tion, and the only mandatory qualification story, i.e. the most important part of start and ‘tying it up nicely’. Rian has autism. He is non-verbal and for a special-needs assistant is the Junior was initially diagnosed with a mild intellec- Cert. tual disability. He can also get highly anx- “People are often mainstreamed into ious and very hyperactive. school settings, but our measure of a per- When he was diagnosed, authorities ad- son’s education in terms of assessment or the story at the top of the article. As well as off ering journalists a greater vised Suzanne that her son needed au- curriculum is often the same as before in- tism-specific education. clusive education took place … so they are While there were no places in au- square pegs being put into round holes.” tism-specific schools, she was delighted range of writing styles, feature pages when he was offered a place in an autism Lostpotential class at her local school. ForSuzanneVoakes,themostupsettingas- Rian was placed in a class of six children pect of her son’s experience in the educa- with autism, all non-verbal and with com- tion system is his lost potential. plex problems. She says Rian had made great strides With a feature, once you catch the also off er real scope to page designers. “There was a teacher and two spe- through a qualified tutor who worked with cial-needs assistants (SNAs) ... but it was him for about nine months before he went clear early on that it wasn’t going to work. to primary school. It was more of a baby-sitting service. The “He even starting to make sounds like reader’s attention from the start, school tried its best, but they were strug- ‘mama’ or ‘dada’ – it was the first time we gling and ill-equipped. It wasn’t their heard him say words.” After two years a t primary school – fault.” with more severe levels of disability. thing is left at the door of parents. The sys- Within six months, she says, he lost his They include autism classes in main- where he rarely completed a full day, she speech. His toileting skills disappeared. able to meet their needs. tem, she says, leaves you on your own. says – she says his tutor was shocked: his In some cases parents have withdrawn Adam Harris, who founded AsIAm stream schools – where there are usually you can then build to the climax, or Some of the best looking pages in Soon his anxiety levels were going through six pupils to one teacher – or special wordshad disappearedand he wasno long- their children in the absence of appropri- based on his own experiences growing up the roof, says Voakes. schools. er toiled-trained. ate supports. Some children are on partial as a young autistic person in Ireland, says “He was depressed. He’d lost all skills, There is little doubt that the State has “It was devastating,” she says. school days or have been advised to seek the scale of the problem amounts to a “na- With no school place available, she says he wasn’t sleeping and was getting out of made progress over the past decade and a control.” home tuition instead. Others have been tional scandal”. had to find a tutor herself, paid for via a the main point, and work around newspapers and magazines are often suspended or expelled from school. “The worst aspect of this is that it is hap- halfbyinvestingrecordsumsinspecialedu- When the family had him reassessed by cation. home tuition grant. These children are invisible, for the He was being excluded peningunder ournosesandthe Stateispre- health authorities, his diagnosis had Since 2011 the number of special classes With no school place available across most part, because they do not show up in tending that it isn’t,” he says. “These are worsened: he now had a moderate instead on the basis that they has jumped from 548 to 1,459 across the the capital, she ended up sourcing a place official statistics as being out of the not new issues. But we’ve chosen to ignore of mild learning disability. country. One-fifth of the State’s entire edu- in a private service for half a day recently, education system. couldn’t meet his needs them.” that with descriptions or important the features pages because the design She ended up giving up her job an an cation budget now goes on special educa- paid for with the home tuition grant. The findingsare contained in a survey by intellectual disability nurse. Last Septem- or educate him. He There is no guarantee the service – the autism charity AsIAm, which polled Constitutionalright tion. ber it all came to a head. was expelled. There Harris accepts that supports have in- which operates out of a single rented room morethan 300familieswhoareeither wait- In theory, all children have a constitutional “We realised the school couldn’t meet creased, but says they are simply not – will lastand there is also no entitlement to his needs. He was being excluded on the ing for school places or have been excluded was no other option right to a primary education. school transport. information on the topic. rule book is thrown away. from schools. The Education for Persons with Special enough to meet demand. basis that they couldn’t meet his needs or ‘‘ “We wouldn’t accept it if there weren’t “If it closes tomorrow, there’s nowhere Ofthoseexcluded orwithdrawnfromed- EducationalNeedsAct, or EpsenAct, wasa educate him. He was expelled. It was standing of autism and inadequate sup- enough school places for schoolchildren in for him. It’s just half a day, while other chil- . There ucation, more than half say their child has ground-breaking piece of legislation that something I was in agreement with ports available in schools. mainstream schools, yet it seems it is ac- dren his age are in school for longer. not been attending school from anything followed legal battles and campaigns by “I have to supply rejection letters from was no other option.” It is a cause of huge stress to families ceptable for children with autism to go from a few months to three years or more. mothers such as Kathy Sinnott and Marie schools each year in order to reapply for Only a minority of these families – about where, in many cases, parents say they without,” he says. Excludedfromsystem O’Donoghue. the home tuition grant. No other mother 15 per cent – are in receipt of home tuition. have been forced to give up their jobs. AspokesmanfortheDepartmentofEdu- Hundreds of children like Rian find It provided that children with special ed- should have to do this. Some 90 per cent say they have had no Nicole Duggan’s son Riley (5) should be cation said the National Council for Special themselves excluded from the education ucationalneeds wouldbe educatedinanin- NCSE) w as responsible for “Sometime I think of the way women or contact from Tusla, the Child and Family due to start school in September but he has Education ( system. been refused from 37 schools so far. She clusive environment. gay people were treated in the past ... I feel It is a common style for journalists The pages are meant to be colourful, Agency, which is responsible for ensuring WhiletheDepartmentofEducationpoli- planningandadvisingoneducationforchil- They are children who have been has given up her work as a beauty therapist we’ll look back in 30 or 40 years and we’ll children attend school. cy is to ensure children with special needs dren with special needs. diagnosed as requiring an appropriate to help her son. “The NCSE has informed the depart- say, ‘How did we allow this to happen?’ The main reasons families have given are placed in mainstream classes with sup- We’re in 2019. Our children are invisible.” education but cannot find a school place. Alison Field, whose son James (5) has ment that, in general, they are satisfied Many others have found that, despite for an extended absence from school in- ports, there are other options for children cludeanxiety,alackofknowledgeorunder- been turned down by 11 schools, says every- to start a feature with a very graphic, striking and controversial, fi rstly to securing a place, the system hasn’t been descriptive introduction to draw in hook the reader, and secondly to Case studies ‘Rileyhasbeenrejectedby37schools’ THE IRISH TIMES TRAVEL the reader, building the information diff erentiate the features section from tion has offered to pay for 20 home-schooled. This is not ac- CARLO’BRIEN stream school. These offer ceptable.” more specialised intervention hours of home tuition a week if she cannot find a school place. She says it would not be ac- Ballet in Budapest & When Riley was three months in a class of six students with a ceptable if neuro-typical chil- teacher, supported by spe- “This country thinks it is ac- old, his mother, Nicole Duggan, ceptable to remove our kids dren were told they did not slowly but surely, and then round other parts of the paper. the Christmas Markets began applying for school plac- cial-needs assistants. havea schoolplace.She says Ri- from a school setting and have es. He’s now 5½. She is still ley has huge potential. Swan Lake by The Royal Moscow Ballet RingingTDs them schooled at home, due to searching for a school that is ‘lack of resources’,” she says. “He understands everything willing to take him. Nicole, a single mother, has you say. He’s the funniest per- 3-nights, from €699pps spent almost two years calling “Our children, who thrive on it off nicely, letting the reader feel “This country is letting my routine, are forced to be moved son I know. He’s obsessed with child and other autistic chil- schools, special education sup- Supervalu … He loves music Departing 01 December 2019 port services and TDs in the from pillar to post and are not a dren down,” says Nicole, who priority to our Government. and singing, though he can’t lives in Glanmire, Co Cork. hope of getting a positive an- talk… He’sanabsolutewhizz on Price includes: swer. “Although his name has “The Government thinks it is Riley was diagnosed with au- acceptable to deprive our chil- computers. So, why is my child satisfi ed that they know all they need The hook for a feature is often a news • Return scheduled flight from Dublin, taxes tism at two years and nine been put down for units all over any different? Autism makes • Three nights in the four-star K+K Hotel Opera with breakfast Cork, no places are available. I dren of the social aspect of months. He is non-verbal, has school, something they so very them different, not less. My • Highlights of Budapest City tour sensoryissues andisstillnottoi- have been in contact with 37 child, and all other autistic chil- • Mulled wine and cake at the Budapest Christmas Markets units in our county who have much need. They think it is ac- let-trained. ceptable to deprive our chil- dren, have a right to an educa- • Pre-performance dinner ASD units. Out of those 37 about the subject by the last line. story - the story behind the story as it A multi-disciplinary HSE dren of being in a school set- tion. They have a right to go to units, there is not one place • Swan Lake (Cat 1 tickets) team says he needs a placement ting, making friends and find- school. They have a right to be • Performed by The Royal Moscow Ballet in the Erkel Theatre in an autism class – sometimes available for next year,” she included. Something needs to says. ing t heir own bit of independ- • Private transfers and guide according to the program called an ASD unit – which is ence, by having them change.” were. typically attached to a main- The Department of Educa- Placido Domingo in Some writers end lighter stories Cologne & the Christmas Markets ‘Afterthediagnosis,it’slikegoingtowar’ not right. He needs tobe in the There are delays getting as- 3-nights, from €899pps CARLO’BRIEN tism-specific school or an au- sessments, and waiting lists to tism class attached to a main- community, to be mixing, not isolated on his own at home.” accessearlyinterventionservic- Departing 18 December 2019 It is a legal requirement for par- stream school. After being re- es,despitethefactchildrenben- fused entry to schools right Price includes: entstostarttheirchildreninfor- Quietperson efit most with the earliest possi- across the north Dublin area, bleinput. “Itseems likea classic • Return scheduled flight from Dublin, taxes mal education by the age of six. Alison says that prior to having Yet Alison Field says she has Alison was advised that funding case of a system that lies be- • Three nights in the four-star Mercure Hitel Severinshof James, she was a quiet person. been refused a place in 11 would be made available for an tween a number of different de- Koln City with breakfast autism class in a local main- “Iwouldn’thavesaidbooto any- schools across the north Dublin one ... but now I’m a fighter. partments ... and no one seems • Two evening meals in the hotel area for her son James, who streamschool.Butwhensheap- t’s responsible for the children • Welcome dinner and pre-concert dinner proachedtheschool,shewasre- Once you get a diagnosis, i 16 turns six in September and has like going to war.” who fall through the cracks.” • Guided city tour of Cologne with visit to the famous autism. “The law of the land jected. “There was no concern, Cologne Christmas Market onlyseemstoapplytosomechil- no compassion. I was told they • Concert performance (Cat 1 tickets) dren. There’s another for chil- couldn’t do it, that teachers • Performance by Placido Domingo in the Lanxess Arena Cologne were working out of cupboards dren with autism or learning THE IRISH TIMES supports the work of • Private transfers and guide according to the programme disabilities,” she says. or corridors ... So you feel like no one cares. You’re fighting the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press James can’t talk. Alison says Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of he’s a real character. “He gig- every step of the way.” Practice of journalists in Ireland. You can obtain a copy of 01 888 7820 gles, likes to mess with you. Alison has been told that the Code, or contact the Council, at www. presscouncil.ie. For a brochure or to book, call: 208 He’s very lovable and loves hug- home tuition will be available if Lo-call 1890 280 080, or email: [email protected] ging you ... 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The Sunday Times June 23, 2019 NEWS REVIEW GRAPHIC: ADEEL IQBAL THE €50,000 BILL TO CO HELP SAVE THE PLANET 2 The government aims for 950,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030 and 500,000 retro its of existing homes. Upfront costs are high but households will make savings over time 6bn 5 tons estimated maximum CO emitted by average THE COST 2 ine for failing to meet home in 2015, almost 60% EU 2030 targets above the EU average

Solar panels €4,500 OF GOING with grant of €1,600 Eight solar panels can produce GREEN €350 of electricity per year Leo Varadkar will be hoping hard-pressed householders dig deep to back his environmental vision, says Valerie Flynn

may be replaced next year with a scrap- aunching the government’s cli- page scheme for petrol and diesel cars. mate action plan last week, Leo Will people take the government up on its Varadkar tried to keep the focus offer? on the carrot rather than the Séguin is optimistic, noting that the stick. “It’s not about coercion price differential between electric and but about making it simpler and fossil-fuel cars is shrinking rapidly and cheaper to do the right thing,” will close long before 2030. argued the taoiseach. “It hasn’t before now, because the The problem for Irish con- batteries have been getting bigger. But sumers is that the environmen- now we have reached about 300km Insulation and heat pump tally friendly option will often be more range, which seems to be a level that sat- Electric car Lexpensive in the short term. The problem isfies many people. Now batteries are for the government is that to meet going to stop getting bigger and start Ireland’s climate targets without reduc- getting cheaper,” Séguin said. €20,000 ing the national cattle herd, it needs He sees the lack of charging infrastruc- with grants of up to 50% households to spend their own money on ture as a bigger barrier to entry. “If it’s not €35,000 overhauling their homes and changing good enough now with 13,000 on the including government grant Improved insulation and a heat their cars. Families will reap financial pump will cut home heating bills road, it’s not going to be enough for 1m,” Charging a car at home benefits in the long term — but they will by as much as two-thirds he said. “Infrastructure is the key. Private costs just €1.50 per 100km require a significant outlay upfront. investors will invest in urban areas, but Even when a €5,000 government we need public investment elsewhere; subsidy is taken into account, buying a increase in the carbon tax from this companies putting in chargers for plan promises “easy payback methods, new electric family car such as a Nissan October’s budget. employees and in apartment blocks.” There are about 350,000 Celtic tiger-era for instance, through electricity bills”. “If you have a higher carbon tax, it Leaf (starting at €30,000) or Kia e-Niro So how will these electric cars be houses that could get to a B2 by spending Daly said: “We get a lot of inquiries makes everything else easier. Electric (€35,000) is more expensive than opting powered? The government’s plan aims about €15,000-20,000, Daly said. How- every day from people who want to vehicles and retrofits become more for a petrol equivalent such as a Ford for a huge increase in renewable energy, ever, he added: “If you have a house built retrofit their house. They may be envi- affordable, and the quicker the transi- Focus (€23,000). It is also significantly which should account for 70% of electric- before the 1970s you could be talking ronmentally conscious or have a nest tion, the less expensive it is to finance in more expensive than a second-hand pet- ity production in 2030, up from 30% €50,000 or €60,000. You would need egg, but you have to think of the general 2030,” he said. “The counter-argument is rol car. Whereas an older petrol model today. Consumers pay for renewable external-wall insulation and you proba- working person who may not have access that if you increase too quickly, you get has more or less the same capabilities as a subsidies through their energy bills. bly have to change your windows and to €40,000 or €50,000. blowback, but a lot of this depends on new one, older electric cars have a much However, with the costs of technologies upgrade your plumbing. It could take “That person would need a pay-as- more limited range than new models. what you do with the revenue.” such as offshore wind plummeting, the four to eight weeks.” you-save model, so when they save Curtin wants the carbon tax to be Guillaume Séguin, spokesman for the 70% target will probably not hurt con- Even with state grants of up to 50% €1,000 a year on their heating system returned directly to households. No one Irish EV Owners Association, said: sumers, according to Joseph Curtin, a available, the cost of a home retrofit will they use that to pay back the loan.” likes paying tax, but everyone likes get- “There is definitely a premium to pay, researcher at the Institute of Interna- take longer to recoup than the price of an This is probably where the stick comes but you have to look at the total cost of ting a cheque in the post. “The more tional and European Affairs. electric car, but it will eventually pay for in. The idea of taking out a loan to retrofit ownership.” salient and visible the positive impact of “Renewables have already pushed itself. A household spending €2,000 a your home may not appeal now but, as Charging a car at home will cost €1.50 the carbon tax, the easier it is to increase down the cost of electricity in Ireland. It’s Families will year on heating oil or €1,200 on gas might the price of fuel climbs because of per 100km, which means running an it,” he said. complicated, but my hunch is that this is spend only €450 on electricity to run carbon-tax increases, that loan may For Ireland, there will be a cost for Design electric car could be five times cheaper relatively cost-effective and we’re not reap financial their heat pump. begin to look more attractive. failing to take action on climate change. than a conventional petrol or diesel, said going to see massive increases in There is also a boost if the property is The average Irish home emitted more Séguin. Road tax on an electric car is €120 Curtin estimates that fines for failing to electricity bills,” he said. benefits in the sold: research by the Economic and than five tons of CO2 in 2015, almost 60% a year, whereas a new one-litre petrol meet the 2030 targets could be up to The plan sets a similarly ambitious Social Research Institute has found that a above the EU average. The government Ford Focus costs €200 and older petrol €6bn. “It would be unthinkable to blow target for the buildings sector. The gov- long term but one-point improvement on the Building has pledged to increase the carbon tax to cars substantially more. Electric car own- that kind of money on nothing,” he said. Colourful graphics ernment wants 500,000 existing homes Energy Rating Certificate scale from G to €80 by 2030. It costs the average “There would be massive reputational ers also benefit from 50% discounts on upgraded to a B2 energy rating by 2030, they will A1 leads to a 1% increase in property homeowner €100 a year today, but by damage. If Ireland, one of the richest motorway tolls. The relative simplicity of and 400,000 heat pumps — a renewable value. Grants are also available for install- 2030 it will cost €400. countries in the world, isn’t stepping up electric vehicles means maintenance is technology that replaces boilers — require a ing solar panels, with up to eight allowed The Institute of International and to the plate, what chance is there of China typically much lower. installed in existing buildings. without planning permission. European Affairs researcher Curtin and India doing so?” At the stroke of a pen, the government Declan Daly of Tipperary Energy significant As with electric cars, the government’s argues that the government should adopt @valerie_flynn and panels are has raised its target from 500,000 elec- Agency, a non-profit company carrying plan is to scale back the current approach a “shock therapy” approach, with a steep tric vehicles on the road in 2030 to out home-energy upgrades, notes that outlay upfront of individual grants. The climate action 950,000. At present, there are just the average energy rating among the 13,000 electric and plug-in hybrid vehi- 850,000 homes assessed to date is D2. cles. The current €5,000 purchase grant council. I don’t believe this very eff ective and People Before Profit TD MICHELE CATTANI/AFP/GETTY deployment is coincidental,” Richard Boyd Barrett argued said Aherne, who cited the dynamics in the centre of the Ireland traditionally entered It looks more like a fortress small number of rangers country. Ethnic rivalries, into conflict zones only when being deployed in support of than a UN base, the perimeter desertification and water peace had been declared, but being protected by soldiers his theory. The Army Ranger shortages are contributory on this occasion was “getting Wing should have a strength watching out for potential factors. behind” one side. WHY ARE IRISH suicide bombers. Minusma is of 200-250 soldiers, Minusma is not a “This is a departure for us. according to the 2015 white now considered the most traditional UN peacekeeping We are backing a state actor dangerous UN operation in paper on defence, but has a mission but a hybrid one in a multi-sided conflict. Of current strength of TROOPS BEING the world, with 195 troops authorised under Chapter VII course, we should do what approximately 100. and civilian staff killed there of the UN’s charter, which we can to stop the slaughter since 2013. Attacks by armed “The government should permits troops to use military of innocent people in Mali but be deploying at least 30 POSTED TO ONE groups are now four times force to protect civilians. it’s not clear who backs who rangers, which would make more common than in 2012, Kilroy claimed this presented in this conflict. The when Mali briefly fell under them an effective unit, but we complex issues. “The UN government in Mali has can’t afford to send that the control of insurgents. faces a dilemma when its Many political observers allegedly backed some of OF THE WORLD’S It is into this environment The UN is trying to keep the many,” said Aherne, who mandate says it must step in and retired soldiers believe those involved in the that 14 Irish Army Rangers peace in troubled Mali the reason for Ireland’s pointed out that Burkino Faso and protect civilians. There’s conflict,” said Barrett. and Chad had already sent will be sent in September to a worry when force is used, participation in the mission is “There are 16,000 troops MOST DANGEROUS join a much larger German the government’s bid to thousands of troops into Mali. but there are also risks when deployed in Mali. What Kehoe was unavailable for reconnaissance unit. The it is not used. Think of secure a non-permanent seat difference does sending 14 rangers, who will each spend on the UN security council in interview but his spokesman Rwanda,” he said. people make? The difference denied the deployment was PLACES? between four and six months “Another risk is that the UN 2021-22. They think Leo is political rather than on tour over the next two Varadkar, the taoiseach, is connected to the campaign to comes to be seen as an arm of military. I don’t trust Fine win a seat on the UN security years, will be tasked with the western military agenda hoping Ireland’s enthusiasm Gael with Ireland’s neutrality. Sending 14 Army Rangers to gathering “huminit”, or for UN peacekeeping in Mali council, calling it simply a against Islam, and it does I don’t like Irish troops display of Ireland’s information, from locals. seem to be perceived that may result in support from risking their lives for this.” war-torn Mali is being called So what makes Mali more African states, one of the commitment to UN missions. way by some in Mali.” There are Ger Aherne, a retired Will Minusma achieve its John Mooney difficult than other UN Kilroy believed UN forces biggest UN voting blocks. brigadier-general who led tokenism, finds missions? “It’s much more People Before Profit, Sinn objects with Ireland’s aid? in Mali were being targeted by 16,000 troops missions in Chad, described Kilroy said: “The role of the complex than simply a terrorists: “It’s not a case Fein and the Labour Party the deployment as jihadist insurgency,” said Walt have opposed the rangers’ UN is to create conditions and amp Castor lies in the where they were in the wrong “tokenism” but he agreed it Kilroy, an associate director in Mali. What involvement on various space for dialogue to find a inhospitable deserts place at the wrong time.” would allow Ireland’s special at Dublin City University’s grounds. Labour said military solution. You don’t impose surrounding the city of In a Dail speech last week forces to practise their skills. Institute for International difference participation represented a peace, you create the ContentGao in northeast Mali, announcing Ireland’s “Ireland is working Conflict Resolution and security-only solution to the opportunities for people to where temperatures can participation in the mission, will sending 14 overtime to maximise their negotiate that peace.” C Reconstruction. Paul Kehoe, the junior conflict; Sinn Fein claimed potential for votes to obtain a hit 30C-plus by noon. It is the Islamic groups and other Ireland’s involvement in the @JohnMooneyST headquarters of the UN force defence minister, agreed the people make? seat at the UN security actors are operating in the rangers might face associates mission eroded neutrality; known as Minusma, which is north, added Kilroy, but there Engagingtrying to keep theand peace in informativeof Isis and al-Qaeda. is a different set of conflict the west African country.

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1RM 24 ...... Tuesday, April 17, 2018 25 IRISH EXCLUSIVE: WE REVEAL IF IT’S CHEAPER TO RENT OR BUY AVG HOUSE PRICE DONEGAL MORTGAGE P/M €139,352 GONE TO €595 AVG RENT €599 €11.66 PRICED OUT Y WAGE TO BUY €11.54 OF MARKET ERT By KIERAN DINEEN PROPERTY CITY CENTRE NORTH CITY SOUTH CITY N COUNTY S COUNTY W COUNTY and KARL DEETER FIGHT IN WAGE TO RENT €306,747 €587,069 €325,671 €334,882 €404,688 €311,658 A MINIMUM wage job is all you €1,727 €1,330 €2,506 €1,309 need to purchase your very own €1,390 €1,429 home in Co Leitrim. €1,995 €1,601 €1,869 €1,709 €1,939 €1.520 But if you want to snap up a pad €76.92 €34.13 in plush South County Dublin you €36.78 €38.46 €48.08 €34.62 need a salary of €160,000 — and a

DUBLIN €44.35 €48.08 €56.73 €41.47 €58.65 combined hourly wage of €76.92, I.S. WAR €53.97 based on a 40-hour week. We today reveal the joint salary SLIGO needed to buy or rent an average €133,305 gaff in all areas, assuming a third of LEITRIMITRIM income goes on this outlay. OM €569 €1123,53423,534 MONAGHANMONAGHAN Our analysis shows that average O H L CAVANCAVAN LOUTHLOUT hourly earning of €22.66 is enough GLOOMG st €1164,188641, 88 €675 €552727 Salaryof€160ktobuyinposhest €1147,65647,656 €2210,07410,074 to purchase anywhere except €11.01 €542542 €770101 Dublin, Meath and Kildare. €663030 €889797 And when it comes to renting you m MAYO €713713 €13.70 €9.749.74 can add Louth, Cork and Wicklow partofDublin...butjustminimum €145,386 €663663 €1,0861,086 €10.5810.58 €114.384.38 to that list — highlighting the crisis €112.622.62 €19.9519.95 that has caused homelessness to g y p m €620 €114.304.30 soar across the country. wagewillgetyouapadinLeitrimg €647 €113.223.22 €26.4426.44 While South County Dublin is the homes — including 50,000 social housing costliest place to buy, renters only By KIERAN DINEEN and KARL DEETERunits by 2021. €12.57 ROSCOMMON need to be taking home €122,000 RENTERS risk shelling out But despite these promises, supply LONGFORDLONGFORD — or €58.65 an hour. ason for the high €12.98 €133,673 ATH €170,000 extra over their property owners. And in West County remains the main re €1129,49329,493 MEATHME In all the other parts of Dublin, Dublin, the average mortgage payment is rents and home prices. €571 €2251,156511, 56 you would need to be earning working lifetime by not €1,309 — €292 a month less than the Ms O’Sullivan said: “Supply is abso- €555353 between €34 and €48 an hour € €11,072,072 €1,601 rent someone would be hit with. lutely crucial and the delays in reaching 625 WESTMEATHWESTMEATH to buy. But this still beats renting snapping up a property. Similarly, there are monthly savings of targets are not being treated with the €605605 where you need to be on between €11.06 ,567 €1,17111, 71 Average rents are now higher €212 in South City Dublin, €280 in North urgency needed by Government.” €110.700.70 €1188,56788 €41 and €58. The TD said her party have been In Cork you can buy on a salary of than monthly mortgage payments City Dublin and €190 in North County €12.50 €880505 €25.9625.96 in five out of the six Dublin Dublin up for grabs. repeatedly raising the need for an €111.901.90 €42,750, or €20.55 an hour. This regions, our analysis reveals. The other places where buying costs affordable housing system — to no avail. €829829 €29.3329.33 compares to renters who need to Terrorist toast . . Kelly blew himself up in Iraq in 2016 And outside of the capital, property more each month than renting is in She added: “We absolutely need a be on €53,064 or €39.78 an hour. Wicklow (€130), Kilkenny (€54), Water- national affordable housing scheme. GALWAY €16.8316.83 In Galway, you need to be earn- holders fare better than tenants in 19 out Because if you leave it to the market — of the 25 other counties. ford (€130), Wexford (€95), Galway (€60) €193,703 €17.791779 ing €37,000, or €17.79 an hour, This points to a dysfunctional property and Kerry (€58). and everyone is trying to buy the same while in Limerick you should have a But there are savings of €100 a month houses — the prices are going up all the €827 KILDARE salary of €32,150, or €15.46 an hour market — as the opposite should be the time and go beyond affordable for most. case if it was behaving healthily. or more for renters if they snap up €256,392 to become a homeowner. Gardai ‘vigilant’ abodes in Kildare (€118), Louth (€189) “When Alan Kelly was minister before €767 OFFALY This compares to renters in Labour TD Jan O’Sullivan says the the last election there was €4billion Irish Sun’s analysis shows the housing Laois (€125) and Sligo (€106). €176,612 €1,094 Galway who need to be on €33,500 TWENTY-five people from Ireland have That means you could miss out on allocated for social housing at that time €17.79 shortage is now a “crisis”. so why are these houses not built at €754 or €16.11, plus tenants in Limerick travelled overseas since 2011 to fight Insisting the Government is not doing having an extra €56,700 over 25 years by €16.11 €1,212 who should have a salary of continuing to rent in Louth. this stage? enough to address the supply problem, “The problem is the delay and lack of €792 €26.44 €27,216 or €15.63 an hour. for and against Islamic State, the Irish their housing rep said: “We need an And there are smaller benefits in LAOIS The cheapest place to buy a Carlow (a saving of €77), Meath (€99), urgency. It is a crisis and needs to be Sun can reveal. affordable housing scheme but there is treated as a crisis.” €15.55 €165,550 €31.01 WICKLOW home is in Leitrim where you would not even an affordable housing policy.” Westmeath (€24), Offaly (€38), Limerick need to be earning just €18,980 — Five Irish citizens — including IS terror nut (€17) and Clare (€12). And Ms O’Sullivan said there needs to CLARE €16.47 €324,674 Khalid Kelly — have also lost their lives in Adding to these woes, our investigation be a push to help those who can afford €707 or €9.74 an hour. also found that many people are being You’ll also have more dosh in Tipper- €170,957 This is just slightly higher than war-torn regions across the Middle East. AND buying ary (€20 ), Monaghan (€12), Cavan (€33), to rent but are finding it tough to get on €1,386 priced out of both renting to the property ladder. €832 CARLOW the minimum wage of €9.55. So you Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan, who has met an average home. Mayo (€27), Donegal (€4), Roscommon €730 with his counterparts in She added: “There should be some €14.42 €175,523 €1,256 could easily get a home that is just The latest Daft.ie report shows house (€54), Longford (€52) and Leitrim (€15). those paying high rents shy of the average €123,534 cost. Europe over the ongoing EXCLUSIVE by STEPHEN The Government has come under fire recognition for €742 BREEN, Crime Editor prices continue to rise and went up 2.5 continuously. They are showing they have €17.79 €749 €20.55 Leitrim is also the cheapest threat posed by funda- per cent during the first three months of for not doing enough to help renters, mentalists, warned that the capacity to pay back a mortgage. €15 €32.45 place to rent at €542, or just €15 imminent threat but we 2018 to an average of €247,000 — or 7.3 with the high prices blamed for an “So that should be taken into account, €826 more than a mortgage payment. Ireland wasn’t “immune” do remain vigilant. per cent higher than a year ago. increase in homelessness that has now €15.38 from an attack. in terms of balancing against not having €15.50 “Gardai are also work- And compared to their lowest point in hit almost 10,000, including 3,755 kids. a full deposit. I would be in favour of KILKENNY In an exclusive inter- Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has TIPPERARY ing with communities in 2013, prices have risen by an average of having that considered.” € €17.79 view with the Irish Sun, order to prevent isolation 50 per cent — just over €82,500. committed to building thousands of €165,729 213,874 the Fine Gael TD told and radicalisation.” But our study shows becoming a home €913 how the level of threat “The level of threat LIMERICK €707 here was kept under con- owner still makes financial sense for from this source is kept most people due to soaring rents. €173,256 €859 stant review by the Gar- under constant and €727 dai’s Counter Terrorism Karl Deeter’s Irish Mortgage Brokers WEXFORD active review.” worked out the monthly mortgage 6We’re at point where €739 €14.42 €20.67 International Unit. Mr Flanagan said that €199,647 The deputy for Laois payment for a 90 per cent loan over 25 €18.39 while an attack is pos- years with a three per cent interest €756 €14.90 said: “There is a small sible in this country it is ages. 7 €852 number of people here rate, based on Daft.ie price aver no easy fixes are left €15.46 unlikely and there is cur- The cost of a mortgage was then € whose activities in sup- rently no specific infor- 757 port of extremism give compared to the average rents for each €15.63 mation in relation to any region, also collated by Daft.ie. €18.51 cause for concern and threat to Ireland from KARL DEETER, Irish Sun money guru the Garda authorities The biggest difference nationwide is in KERRY international terrorism. Cork where a home costs €213,228 and also come with totally unaffordable prices. €15.87 monitor their activities The minister added: IN Ireland the average hourly earnings €185,744 WATERFORD very closely and take the monthly bill comes to €910. In South County Dublin, for instance, you “The primary response is But renters in the Rebel County are were €22.66 at the end of 2017. would have to be making €160,000 a year €210,728 any appropriate opera- the operational one and That means an ‘average’ person is priced €793 tional responses. paying €1,474 — so are shelling out an to afford to buy a home. €899 the Gardai have in place extra €564 each month. out of being able to afford rent in nine But if you wanted to be a renter there it’s € “Like other open, dem- areas, including all of Dublin, Meath, 735 ocratic states, Ireland appropriate operational Becoming a homeowner means a not much better because for the rent to be €769 measures in terms of Louth, Cork, Wicklow and Kildare. €16.47 CORK cannot consider itself potential saving of €169,200 over the e priced out of fewer considered affordable you would have to intelligence, special inter- lifetime of the 25-year loan. For a buyer they ar €213,228 €20.19 immune from the be earning €122,000, which is also a crazy €15.26 threat posed by interna- vention teams and other At the other end of the scale is South places — which isn’t what you’d expect. high level of earnings. tional terrorism. support resources. County Dublin where it is still much Forinstance,inWicklowyou’dneedtobe €910 €15.75 “They are supported in This country is now at a point where “We can’t be compla- cheaper to rent than buy, highlighting a earning €32 an hour to pay rent but just there are no easy fixes left. €1,474 cent but we have no evi- this, where necessary, by possible price bubble in the region. €20.55 to pay a mortgage. the considerable skills of Our homeless numbers are bound to dence that Ireland or its Here, the average home price is now The numbers really tell the story of what hit 10,00 0 because more people are flow- €20.55 people are being targeted. the Defence Forces.” €587,069 which means a monthly is happening in the Irish property market. @SteBreen mortgage payment of €2,506. ing in — and with costs like this too few €39.78 No evidence of any Renters are all trying to live in too few will flow out. 17 But a renter in the most sought after houses and those that want to buy — who part of Ireland is paying an average of The answer isn’t rent control, longer Youwillsave€169kover can afford to — are set to pay less and be notice periods or anything that the politi- €1,995 — €511 less. better off as a result. However, it makes sense to buy in all cians are talking about. The answer is lots This is upside down from what would of low-cost housing. other parts of the capital — a fact that is be considered normal or healthy in real 25-yearmortgageperiod But while we may want that in general, ISLES’ U.N. SNUB most starkly seen in Dublin city centre. estate markets. when it comes to it being built, nobody THE Maldives have rejected a demand by a UN You can save €479 each month by Where you do see t he correct relation- human rights watchdog that former president swapping your €1,869 rent for a €325,671 wants it in their particular neighbourhood. Mohamed Nasheed be allowed to stand for office. gaff that comes with a bill of €1,390. ship of needing more to buy it tends to bybuyingapadinCork The UN Human Rights Committee said Nasheed’s Over 25 years, that is a potential sav- 13-year sentence in 2016 on terrorism charges was ing of €143,700 for those who become based on vague laws and contained serious flaws. Nasheed dodged jail by going into exile during a medical trip to Britain. He was disqualified from running in presidential elections for 16 years. Features Tutorial WINNER An Art form Worth Retaining by Méabh Ní Chonaill Coláiste Ghobnatan, Co. Cork Learn from last year’s winner

The clang of metal on the young people proud of their Irish work and if you had a song that She has used amhra n saothar blacksmith’s anvil and the tic-tac language and culture, the festival would accompany it, it would verses as a fun exercise with her of the cobbler’s hammer were hosts contests where competitors serve to keep them working young pupils, to enrich their Irish once the familiar sounds of are pitted against each other to together, to keep a rhythm, and language skills without them manual labour in Ireland. perform the most entertaining as well as that, make it more being aware of it. Now that the click-clack of amhra n saothar in front of interesting. “They’re very useful for learning computer keyboards has largely appreciative audiences. “These songs date back to the new vocabulary and sentence replaced their rhythmic beats One such performer is Danielle Ní days of manual labour being the structure,” she says. as the anthem of the modern Che illeachair, a trainee teacher norm and people would have The themes are relevant to today’s workplace, an art form steeped in from Cill na Martra, Co Cork, who used them to brighten up jobs young people too, she adds, tradition has also changed with has been taking part in these like butter-making, working in the with “mobile phones, dating the times. competitions since she was a forge, sewing, knitting and many apps, social media and even The work songs that for national school pupil herself. more occupations. immigration coming into them”. centuries accompanied weaving, “There is craic and messing in “You would have had the same With his newly-composed songs spinning, fulling cloth and other there but there is also a bit of tradition in Scotland - they had of physical toil taking topical monotonous toil not only made singing, a bit of drama,” she says ‘waulking’ songs [softening themes such as Olympic rowers the tedious tasks more bearable of the verse form, which last year cloth]. Sea shanties also come the O’Donovan brothers “pulling but mirrored the rhythms of the saw her synchronised window- from the same kind of historical like a dog”, Sea n O Muimhneacha work itself, speeding the labourers cleaning skills put to the test in an background.” in believes the future of this song towards greater productivity. amhra n saothar performed with Humour is brought into tradition lies with young Irish- Like the sea shanties of oarsmen fellow student Bobby Wolfe. performances by a diff erence speakers. or the spirituals of American chain The two performers usually have of opinion, says Sea n. These “I’m hoping that as a result of my gangs, the Irish language work “contrasting views and will express disagreements often lead to example through the years, there song, the amhra n saothar, has them in a comical fashion,” she hilarious situations contributing are many young people out there survived where the labour it once adds. “We’re kind of mocking each to a “dramatic presentation”, who have ability and that they accompanied has largely died out. other, which is all the craic with complete with “rows and ructions”, will continue to write them, to In the case of the amhra n the amhra n saothar.” he says. perform them, and to enjoy them,” saothar its longevity, and current The songs she sings are often Entertainment is not their only he says. “It’s a link with our past revival, can be largely attributed composed by her neighbour in benefi t, notes Sea n, a retired and part of our tradition and it’s to its transition into a stage the Mu scraí Gaeltacht, Sea n national school teacher. worth retaining and encouraging.” performance art. O Muimhneacha in, author of The verses can “help people who Often barbed with sardonic wit, a collection of amhra n saothar have Irish or are learning Irish to the amhra n saothar is a meeting verses and other Irish language use it in an artistic way and people of linguistic mastery with acting forms, such as the spoken actually enrich their language by and singing skills in a two-person agallamh beirte and sung lu those kind of presentations,” he battle for the upper hand in an ibí ní , entitled ‘An tAgallamh notes. argument - be it over global Muimhneach’. Danielle has already found them warming or the relative merits of Sea n says of the origins of the a useful teaching aid. Children town and country living. amhra n saothar form: “It was take to the verse form and enjoy To witness their popularity with a found useful to set the rhythm learning them with their friends, new generation, look no further because most of the work the says Danielle, a fi nal year student than the annual Oireachtas na people would do together, there at Mary Immaculate College, Samhna festival. Thronged with would be a certain rhythm to the Limerick.

14 THE IRISH DAILY STAR, Saturday April 14 2018 DMEEIR TV STAR’S HEALTH BATTLE irishmirror.ie WEDNESDAY 04.10.2017 IRISH DAILY MIRROR 19 country trails Country Sound >> 36 CHANGECHANGE Household task Assaulted, [email protected] life | | | | | | | Edited by Anne O’Donoghue MUSIC THEATRE BOOKS MOVIES TV FOOD TRAVEL DANCING DIARY I was a zombie..It The lightbulb moment: I’m a grown-up A rural revival with the Biddy BY MARARKK SOLLOMOMONS kicked out Traditionally, St Bridget’s CHANGING a lightbulb or DIAGNOSIS: Sheila doing the weekly shop are Day in the Kingdom has revealed her was celebrated with the struggle with her among the events which felt like I’d had a eating disorder make young people realise Biddy. When Kilgobnet they have grown up. National School was in Finding the fuse box without help, cooking a need, locals revived this meal from scratch and of home & custom and put it going to the dry cleaners also mark the transition, a to good use, writes survey discovered. Anne O’Donoghue The Gumtree poll of adults aged 18 to 25 also personality transplant found buying their own nless you are from Kerry, it is goods and realising how quite likely you have never expensive they are is shot at by heard of the Biddy. Those of another moment when GOGGLEBOX’S SHEILA OPENS UP ON EATING DISORDER HELL they feel they have left you who hail from the Kingdom may be lucky enough to know childhood behind. SHEILA Naughton became a And then, of course, ofU this unique, rare and wonderful there is moving out of tradition. familiar face during the first two series of Gogglebox — but she home and finding out how The simplest way of describing the expensive it is to rent or Biddy is that it is similar to the Wren has taken a step back from TV work as she recovers from an buy a house. police.. for on St Stephen’s Day, but taking place eating disorder. The website’s Hannah on 1 February, St Bridget’s Day. A Sheila (23), from Blessington, Co Wilson said: “Making the blend of pagan and Christian customs, Wicklow, took part in the fly-on-the-wall fully fledged transition into series with her dad Declan and sister adulthood is expensive.” the Biddy is thought to have roots in Alice. Imbloc (the festival celebrating the But Sheila, a graduate of Trinity College, start of spring) and also St Bridget’s is now focusing on recovery after being diagnosed with EDNOS (eating disorder Drink-driver Day. not otherwise specified) last August. HAPPY Particularly in mid-Kerry, people Sheila said it took a long time for her to in golf buggy COUPLE being gay upheld the tradition of the Biddy over realise how sick she really was, despite Marlon Jimenez weighing less than 40kg (six stone two A DRUUNNKEN guest at a and husband the years, dressing up and travelling pounds) at her lowest weight. hotel ball took a golf buggy, John Compton from house to house playing music, Speaking to The Star, she said: “I was diagnosed last August and I thought I had tied 20 balloons to it and Blogger’s life of terror in Venezuela singing, dancing and entertaining. only been sick for five months because that drove for 12 miles. At the foot of Carrantuohill lies Maryanne Leane, towards the running of the school, home and said: ‘The neighbour across straw, as any other kind is too brittle. was when I started to look dramatically Charlie Ibbetson, 23, Kilgobnet, a Biddy stronghold. The a member of while the fund from the junior Biddy is the road was on about making a Biddy, In his younger years, Mike learned different. was caught when he country and terrified Marlon didn’t to accept my sexuality through years clinic to get information for a friend and “Before that, I was not well for years. I EXCLUSIVE Kilgobnet National School Biddy, as Kilgobnet Biddy, donated to a charity of the children’s what in the name of God.’ how to make the hats out of necessity. stopped at a McDonald’s. BY SIOBHAN O’CONNOR come out to his family until he was 24. of therapy. spread rumours about me that weren’t tried every fad diet, tea, detox or Then he was kicked out of his home by “When I think back it was really true. I was living in fear that something the title would suggest, centres on the Beaufort, Co choice. “They said to me: ‘Well, won’t your While in primary school, Mike cleanses. He told police he “needed TOP Irish-based blogger Marlon his sister. serious, I was paranoid about bad would happen to me, I had to local primary school. Here, the Biddy Kerry, calling “We march into the house, sing a own nephews be going to school there used do work for a neighbouring “I was sporty and I was always at the line it to get home to bed”. Jimenez has told how he was the as to whether I was doing it for sport or Homeless and distraught, he was being recognised as gay by the seek asylum.” LVGLYLGHGLQWZRWKHoIWKDQGVL[WK to Mike McGil- song and dance a set. If the woman the year after.’ Oh sugar, said I, is that farmer who put him in touch with a He drove from Whittle- victim of sexual abuse in his native doing it for weight loss. bury Hall, Northants, to caught kissing another man in the police but at the time I didn’t A resident in Ireland for class pupils go on the junior Biddy lycuddy’s house and man of the house won’t dance a the way. So I had to ring him back any- man who would make him a hat. He “I’m still not back to full health. The cold Venezuela where he was shot at by middle of the night by cops and was realise how bad it was is in my bones. I have a really low pulse. I RECOVERY: Sheila at her Weedon along the A5. police for being gay. the last 14 years, Marlon and the senior Biddy is their adult in Shanera. The set, we’ll bring them out on a waltz. way and tell them I would be on for it. paid 10 Woodbines for the hat and was could go into cardiac arrest. Wicklow home, (inset Ibbetson, of Daventry, subjected to his first terrifying experi- because I was trying to described meeting his above) with sister Alice and Wrongly accused of being HIV- equivalent. tradition of the They make a donation to us and that I was delighted I did go because we’ve the star of the junior Biddy. “My blood pressure is always low so I am admitted drink-driving, no ence at the hands of police. live day by day. husband, former model always dizzy. dad Declan on Gogglebox positive and fearful for his life, he Biddy is one of the goes to the school,” outlines Davy. had some mighty craic.” “The old Kilgobnet Biddy came and (right) talking to Star insurance and taking a Frisked and robbed of what little “You go through ups boss John Compton, as REINVENTION oldest and most back into where we were leaving. Damage reporter Laura Colgan abandoned his homeland 14 years ago possessions they had crooked officers and downs, sometimes his salvation. vehicle. He was banned for to avoid persecution. Davy Leane is a local sheep farmer colourful customs BIDDY FESTIVAL BRÍDEOG Some fella turned around anyway and “I cut out so much dairy and soy from my a year and fined €730 by shot at the pair as they tried to flee. you don’t have time to He said: “I found love The 45-year-old said: “I lived through diet that I know have osteopenia in my Northampton magistrates. Marlon revealed all that was on his think about how bad it was. in The George pub. John and captain of the senior Biddy. Al- in Ireland, a In Kerry, the Biddy is experiencing a Calling from house to house, the cap- said: ‘Who in the name of God has that lumbar which is something that a 70 or months of hell and even several years mind was “survival”. “When I was down I knew and I have been together though the custom of the junior Biddy blend of pagan rebirth, with many local groups taking tain leads the group to the door. The oQHKDW" +HFDXJKWWKHKDWWRRNLWRII 80 year-old would see. It’s the pre- “When I said Janine, it sounded quite into the habit of getting a bit of fame, they afterwards I went through it every night cursor to osteoporosis. He said: “The fear of being murdered my troubles would give me the 13 years, civil partners five and married never faltered over the years, Davy and Christian up the reins again. Last year, for the next person carries the Biddy, which my head and put an old big, clumsy nasal and that was it. lose weight, they do a video or DVD, they in my nightmares. “I’ve done damage to myself that I Sheila said she believes media — both make money out of it. I now know that it’s Drugs risk of is always there but I was too busy trying strength to continue living.” a year.” explains that about 20 years ago the pageantry, held oUVWWLPHLQDORQJWLPHWKH%LGG\ is a doll wearing a white dress, used to thing sitting up on my shoulders. I SATURDAY “I used to wake from these nightmares didn’t realise I was doing. My skin was traditional media and social media — also a business.” to survive. The last straw came when Marlon was With qualifications in advanced senior Biddy died out. on the 1 February Festival was held in Killorglin and, symbolise St Bridget. spent the night crying over my hat. grey. I felt like a zombie.” were contributing factors to her eating Sheila, who is now doing a radio course and terrified and screaming, I often wet the “We were so deprived, I lost my job as She added: “I still can’t and didn’t go veggie mums accused of being HIV-positive, which led marketing and now a successful career “There was no senior Biddy for a each year. \ Valerie following its success, it will take place “In the olden days they used to “I said, whatever would happen, disorder. hopes to work in media, encouraged others bed at these times.” an event’s co-ordinator at a hotel. I was him to sell T-shirts on the streets so be to family celebrations. I didn’t go out F CUS “I’ve always been aware that eating who may be suffering from an eating disor- NOT eating meat in preg- Marlon escaped to Ireland to seek with CPL, working for Facebook, Marlon while, but we brought it back about O’Sullivan again next week. make the head of the Biddy with a I would get my own back on him. for meals or on nights out. disorders were a thing der to seek help. nancy raises the risk of educated but because I was gay they could afford a one-way ticket to Ireland. has turned his life around. seven years ago,” says Davy. “When At the 2017 festival, Mike Coffey, turnip but we no longer do that. If The following year, with the help of “The thoughts of being cold were With LAURA COLGAN and that famous people She said: “I’m not in a position asylum, inspired by former Presidents fired me. He added: “If you have HIV you feel enough to stop me going anywhere. I ‘I’d look at children using drink and His positive lifestyle blog Marlife has the grants were cut for the school, we a sheep farmer from Kilgobnet, was there was someone sick in the house, my grandfather, who would be crafty had them,” she said. to tell people how to get better and human rights activists Mary “Due to my sexuality I was made to ostracised and neglected in my country, couldn’t wear nice clothes because Sheila said: “The day I was being admitted “Social media was huge for but I can say I am so much drugs as they grow up. more than 61,000 views and has been needed funding and we said we would named King of the Biddies. Mike was a the people of the house might ask that enough at that kind of thing, we made to hospital, my dad asked me why I was people on Robinson and Mary McAleese. think something was deeply wrong with they make you feel there’s something 18 nothing fit. me. I’d look at people and think happier that I am in the A study found 15-year- One of 10 children he was orphaned well received as far afield as Australia, try it as a fundraiser. We went back to stalwart of the old Biddy and contin- the Biddy be taken to the bedside of a set of hats.” “I’d have to lie about why I wasn’t drink- bringing a suitcase because I wasn’t going on ‘I need to look like that’.” treatment process than I was me, I was called faggot and nancy boy wrong with you, like you are a ing. I couldn’t go out for a meal because of holiday. social media olds whose mums rarely aged 12 when his mother died. He Canada and Russia. the old gang and they came along with XHVWREHDSURPLQHQWoJXUHLQWKH the sick person as it is supposed to be The group Mike was involved in sitting and dying. ate meat while expecting and I went to the psychiatrist to walking illness. I was not the excuse I’d have to give that I couldn’t “I just turned and said, ‘I f***ing know I’m Detoxes and think I “You’re not living at all if moved in with his older sister, eradicate my sexual tendencies HIV-positive but neigh- He said: “I wanted to promote us. It is a big fundraiser for the school revitalised one. But, speaking to Irish some bit of a cure. went on to win the Biddy competition have anything on the menu. not going on holiday’. I grabbed everything She added: “I also have a huge you’re staying sick. Start the were twice as likely be describing the house as “dysfunc- a positive attitude to life from my suitcase and threw it out on the issue with reality stars promot- to men, eventually learning bours saw me going to a every year now.” Country Living, Mike explains that he “I used to do the brush dance be- the next year. It is fair to say he most “I just didn’t have the energy. It was like need to look process now because it’s a long drinkers and smokers – tional”. because there is a light at the I had a personality transplant.” floor. I was out of control. ing teas and detoxes. process and it’s hard to get the and nearly three times as The Biddy takes place across a almost did not make his triumphant fore, but the bones would be getting a GHoQLWHO\FDPHRXWRQWRSLQWKHHQG Sheila did inpatient treatment at St “It wasn’t me. I would never speak to my “I was on every one there was. He was repeatedly raped by end of the tunnel and I knew like that’ help.” likely to be using cannabis. number of nights around St Bridget’s return. biteen stiff. I leave the younger crowd Next week there will be up to 30 Patrick’s Mental Health Services twice and dad like that. I didn’t know they were laxa- You can follow Sheila’s a man close to him for 18 if I was persistent and “I didn’t want to give the eating disorder Day. Those on the Kilgobnet Biddy “One Sunday as I was coming at it now,” laughs Mike. people on the Kilgobnet senior Biddy, is now on a daycare treatment programme tive teas. recovery on Instagram at @ Dr Joseph Hibbeln, of months and described those determined I could make with a multi-disciplinary team. side of me the privilege or the courtesy of “I just thought they all suddenly got thin sheila_beats_janine. the National Institute on The fear of being murdered have a set costume; white trousers and home from mass, a neighbour of mine who will travel down bohereens and being called Sheila because it’s not me. I dark days as feeling like “Dante’s my life better... but I knew it She named the eating disorder Janine in and fit and they’re famous now and working Contact Bodywhys, a charity supporting Alcohol Abuse and was not back in Venezuela, I top with a red and green stripe, a straw said they were trying to raise funds for STRAW HATS up the sides of mountains, keeping order to help her separate herself from the decided she needed a name that was an ugly hard to do it and the teas obviously work. people with eating disorders, by phone at inferno”. is always there but I was illness. name. “It’s the whole culture now. They all get Alcoholism in Maryland, knew I had to leave.” hat and a St Bridget’s cross made Kilgobnet NS and asked would I make Mike is one of, if not the last, maker an ancient tradition alive, and all the 1890 200 444 or email at [email protected]. Homosexuality is too busy trying to survive highlighted vitamin B12 [email protected] by local school children. All of the a Biddy. I said: ‘God almighty, I have of the straw hats worn on the Biddy while keeping their locality alive too. regarded as an illness deficiency, adding it was in the South MARLON JIMENEZ ON DAILY LIFE IN HIS HOME COUNTRY TEENAGE HELL SAVIOUR money raised by the senior Biddy goes my own belly full of Biddies’. I went in Ireland. They are made using oaten CL “associated with greater American risks of adverse drug use”. Aged 18 in Venezuela With John 27 January 2018 IRISH COUNTRY LIVING 33 A feature should Of the hundreds of be entertaining, essays we trawled through across the four colourful but categories the Features winner was easily one of important the stand out entries. Press Pass Judging Panel

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Irish Daily Mail, Saturday, May 12, 2018 Irish Daily Mail, Saturday, May 12, 2018 Rent crisis: Will we ever find a home?Page 11 Before you begin

IARA Hearns copies and pastes her application letter and clicks After two months of serious searching, Ciara the ‘reserve’ button on property by Catherine and her boyfriend are taking a break from flat- in August last year and had eight website Daft, hoping to be hunting and ‘having the same conversation viewings in a weekend; we didn’t every day’. They’re getting nowhere — five manage that number of viewings in invited to an open viewing. No two months. We didn’t get very far at Festival goersreply.C Even if she manages at today get her two viewings from up to 60 applications she reck- of the letting agent who said he’d Murphy ons. She will continue to live in her family all in our search,’ she says. ‘Most put a good word in for us. It was a foot in the door of the one-bedroom home in west Dublin, he in his family home on applications are ignored. two-bed apartment and we shared Many news reporters struggle with the freedom of the apartment with a gaggle of other des- the southside, their desire to set up home ‘If you do get a viewing there’s zero with a third person to make it more perate renters, it’s over her budget. rent limit at €1,500,’ says the 26-year-old tour together denied, their relationship stuck in a notice — at 10am you get notice of a affordable.’ Every two hours, one-bed apartment operator employee. ‘But we had to re-think kind of teenage bubble. 2pm or 5pm viewing, neither of which After a year, the landlady refused of Electric Picnic. that figure, we can’t afford it. We haven’t seen Welcome to the new normal, where bog- I can make as I work nine to five. to continue the lease. ‘She said she notifications pop up on her screen: €1,400, €1,500, €1,600 and above. ‘We set our monthly a one-bed for less than €1,400. There’s no standard one-bed flats which would have Either that or viewings will be can- was refurbishing the place, that we affordability in the area we want to live in.’ struggled to rent for €800 a month five years celled at short notice because the could move out for a month and ago are now being advertised for €1,600 and flat has been let the previous day. begin a new lease afterwards. She feature article, and vice versa with feature writers who are more. Thousands of young Irish pro- ‘The standard of accommodation was clearly raising the rent either fessionals now either can’t find a is a joke. You find a one-bed in way. We had been paying €1,250 Picture: Fergal Phillips Walkinstown for €1,400 and quickly rent. A month later, I saw it adver- place to rent, find their income severely squeezed if they do or can’t realise it’s a converted granny flat tised online for €1,700.’ afford to save the deposit for their at the end of someone’s garden with Some landlords are trying to get own home as they fork out up to half a sofa, bed, cooking area and not around rent pressure zones rules their wages on rent. much more. by claiming to refurbish properties asked to report on a news story. I clicked the ‘reserve’ button myself ‘One place I saw in Donnybrook before starting new leases with online many times this week. No was so awful that I really thought rent increases that are above the replies, just a grim scenario. someone was playing a prank on me. legal 4% level. In Dun Laoghaire, a letting agency Sarah and her partner spent advertises a smart-looking one-bed much of last year looking for an apartment in a new complex that apartment but didn’t manage to looks like it’s been developed purely ‘Someone will get one. They both moved back to for letting. their family homes in Wexford but ‘Prices from €1,650, phase one fully the commute got to Sarah. reserved, register your interest in take it because ‘Last year I was spending most of phase two now,’ the ad says. An apartment so bad my time in the car, I had to do Scrap that one from the list. they’ve no choice’ something,’ she says. She decided But the rise of the €1,600 one-bed to look for a house share. ‘It was disastrous,’ she says. ‘I applied for They are two very diff erent disciplines, and isn’t restricted to upmarket areas — it’s happening right across the she thought it was 30 viewings and got three.’ city. There’s a one-bed duplex in It was like something from the 1980s Still, she considers herself lucky Dublin 7 clearly geared up for multi- in a complex that looked like an old to have eventually found a room. ‘I occupancy with single beds in the asylum. They wanted €1,400 for it share a house with other teachers bedroom and a sofa bed in the living and I thought, someone will take it a prank, cancelled and the owners are lovely laidback room — €1,595 a month rent, likely to because they’ve no other choice.’ people. My boyfriend commutes According to Ciara, pressure in the from Wexford to Dublin each day few manage to straddle both sides of the be shared by up to four tenants. It already had 2,000 online views by the market is leading to questionable but if he needs to stay over, they’re time I found it. practices. ‘Flat hunters are bluffing viewings and being fine about it — a lot of places There’s another ordinary one-bed just to get their foot in the door wouldn’t be. near the quays in Dublin 8 — small, at viewings, saying they’ll pay a ‘I’m paying €500 a month for a dark, very average. number of months rent in advance,’ box room but that’s a much better Places like this would have rented she says. pitted against other deal than other teachers I know ‘If there are two couples at a view- who are sharing. But I have to move journalism divide with equal success. for €1,100 not so long ago. Now the asking price is €1,550. ing, one will offer to pay more per out of that house as the owners Up the road in Islandbridge, a land- month to get the apartment. There’s don’t want to share next year. I’ve lord wants €1,650 a month for the a lot of haggling going on and you desperate renters already started looking so that I’ll short-term letting of an unfurnished can’t trust that the advertised rent have a place by September. I also one-bed. It was originally advertised will turn out to be the actual rent. for €1,495, the price rose by €155 in It’s a money-making racket where just four days. people are being pitted against – Ciara and her Over in the Liberties, what looks each other. ‘It just seems to like a council flat has a double bed ‘Private viewings are rare. You only and two bunks squeezed into its one get to spend a short amount of time and only bedroom; asking price with a group of other people in what boyfriend both have be one knock could become your home and there’s no personal touch from agents. after another’ ‘We come from decent homes and Think of the feature article like a short story we want to find somewhere to live full-time jobs but she ‘We didn’t get far, that we’re both happy in on a day-to- know I’ll have to pay rent during day basis. We know people who are the summer when I’m not there most applications living in nice places in Kildare for the much, just to hold on to it.’ same price as the mediocre apart- reveals the tortuous Sarah and her boyfriend work ments we’re seeing in Dublin but we near each other in Dublin and are ignored’ want to live within a 35-40 minute meet for dinner after work, then in mixed with a parable - it should be work commute. Constant search: Wexford at weekends. ‘We don’t want to pay €1,600 a Ciara Hearns feels process they face in a ‘We’ve been together five years,’ €1,695. Only a couple with young month for sub-standard accommo- frustrated by the she says. ‘The relationship is at a children and no choice or cash- dation and feel we’re not being rental market point where we’d like to take the strapped overseas students could looked after in any way by the cur- next step and live together but rent Government.’ rental market gone mad we can’t. face this scenario. Software developer Charlie Crean, entertaining, colourful but with Because, of course, it’s not only ‘We both have full-time jobs young professionals who are being 28, considers himself one of the lucky with decent wages but nothing is squeezed. Young families are facing ones. After an intense search he time. Even after I got a place I coming up that we can afford. Also, managed to find a two-bedroom sus was that after 120-200 applica- you literally need to apply the monthly rents of well over €2,000 for found myself automatically click- think was worth the money. I with- dowdy houses that haven’t seen a apartment on Dublin’s northside ing on property websites, I had got tions are received, viewings are online. It is worth chatting to second a property goes online. for €1,250. closed off.From those applications, drew my application then spent ‘My take home pay is €2,100 a lick of paint in years. Again, it’s city- so used to doing it. ages regretting it. I started off agents about other properties on wide, from Milltown to Beaumont. ‘The previous tenant was long term ‘I was lucky that my manager has 15 or 20 get invited to an open their books.’ month. If we rent a one-bedroom so because of rent pressure zone looking in the area I wanted to live important information to convey. Young couples who want to settle a young family and knows how bad viewing. Some agents read through Secondary school teacher Sarah apartment, my share of the rent rules the landlord couldn’t raise the the applications, others just invite in but the net got wider and wider will be up to €800. That’s before I down and perhaps start a family are the rental market is in Dublin so as it became clear I wouldn’t be Sherlock is dreading the end of facing a tough challenge. rent by more than 4%,’ he says. she gave me the option of working the first 20 on the list. May. She has already started look- spend anything on food, bills, The Wexford man found a home for ‘You could have the best refer- able to find anything there.’ car insurance and tax or the Average rents across the country from my family home in Wexford if Charlie believes patience and ing for a new place to rent but by rose by 11.5% in the year to March, himself and his girlfriend but not I didn’t manage to find a place. ence in the world and it doesn’t then she’ll have to commit to the credit union loan I took out for my before an intense search. Over five matter, they’re not basing their perseverance paid off. ‘Lots of €12,000 H Dip course, which has according to Daft.ie’s latest rental ‘But at times my brain switched places came up for €1,500 or €1,600,’ hard slog of dedicated searching. report for the first three months of weeks, he notched up 63 applica- to thinking, why do I need to be in decisions on that. ‘It’s the end of the school year given me a Masters but also a loan tions, 24 replies and 15 viewings. ‘I went to one viewing beside St he says. ‘But I stuck to my guns that eats a large chunk of my the year, taking them to €1,261 Dublin at all? I reckoned I could and set my saved searches at and I’m thinking, I can’t believe I monthly. The biggest increases were ‘It was pretty awful — stressful, find a house in Wexford for the James’s Hospital and as I queued have to go through this all over monthly wage. exhausting and time-consuming,’ he up the previous tenant left with his €1,200-1,300. I skipped 2pm view- ‘It just seems to be one knock in Dublin, where average rents rose same price as a one-bed flat in ings and passed over flats where again,’ she says. by 12.8% in the past year to nearly says. ‘It distracts you at work, you Dublin.’ bags. They wanted it rented out Sarah, 27, and her partner of five after another for people our age. can’t make plans for your time off immediately. the couch is in front of the sink and We’re already protesting over €1,900, 30% higher per month than Charlie viewed two to three the bed is next to the oven. years previously lived in an apart- ten years ago. because you have to be constantly places a week, sometimes four, ‘The flat was small and dingy and ment in Stepaside. teachers’ pay, should we now pro- prepared to go to last-minute view- hadn’t even been cleaned. I felt ‘In the end it was also about test over rents too? It’s exhausting ‘It has got much worse in the last queuing up with dozens of other luck,’ he says. ‘We considered ourselves lucky six months,’ says Ciara Hearns. ‘A ings. I spent entire evenings on my flat-hunters. ‘I spoke to owners awful after that viewing — the ask- when we got that,’ she says. ‘But it and you’ve got to prioritise. phone refreshing property websites. ing price was around €1,400. ‘I was on the shortlist for a place ‘We’re dying to find a place where friend of mine moved back to Dublin and agents whenever I got the but didn’t get it. The agent offered took us six months and literally I spoke about nothing else the entire chance,’ he says. ‘And the consen- ‘Early on in my search I viewed a begging to get it. we have some security, don’t have one-bed for €1,400 that I didn’t to show me another apartment in to move out after a year and can the same complex before putting it ‘I worked in a café at the time and happened to chat to the father make it our home but we’re not being given a chance.’

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MATCH Check list REPORTS By now, the writing is on the wall — or IN SPORT SECTION at least it’s on the World Cup wallchart How much space do I Always read over your N the film Invictus, the many things that the the fictional Nelson BBC knew back then, this Brexit or the election of Mandela was starting one was remarkable, this Trump. At the end of this to get absorbed in the insight of theirs that the tournament there will Rugby World Cup of result of Arsenal v Chelsea be a true winner, a sense have? article at least twice, I1995, filling in the wallchart was to be conveyed in in his office as if performing tones which were no less ‘The a solemn duty of State. grave than a statement wallchart I guess the film-makers by the Chancellor of were using the wallchart the Exchequer; and gives us a to convey the largeness Declan Lynch’s moreover that the do a spell check, and of Mandela’s personality, result of Cowdenbeath sense of which along with the great World Cup Diary v Stenhousemuir was to seriousness for which he sound just as important order, even was revered, had this playful as anything coming out side. of Highbury, or Stamford of justice. But maybe it is more mark us down as being a bit, Bridge, or Downing Street. There is What exactly do I want make sure all unusual than just an outbreak of well… unusual. A bit, shall The classified check childish enthusiasm, this we say… a bit odd. became a ritual as something desire in the human heart So we make light of it, sacrosanct as the shipping which erupts for a few just in case, we see it as an forecast, based on this deeply weeks every four years, excuse to escape back into understanding that much of to put up a World Cup our youth, just as the World satisfying to include/exclude? words, names, website our existence may be fragile wallchart and to fill it in Cup in general offers us and may be tormented with ritualistic zeal. the best excuse available to by doubt, but when this about it’ At the very least, it mankind, to drink fantastic day is over, these things gives us the feeling that we quantities of beer at strange at least are true, these that the most talented are involved in this thing times of the day. things at least are settled and the most dedicated that is much larger than But maybe there is have prevailed. There addresses, phone — Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1, ourselves, that though it is a more to it than that, maybe and Cowdenbeath drew will be some kind of gargantuan event, we own a this wallchart business is 0-0 with Stenhousemuir. truth, the kind that small part of it. something that we need And on through all the makes us feel better If we are young, it makes more than we care to divisions, all the results, all about the world. us feel a bit grown-up to acknowledge — which itself these facts which are now And like Mandela be keeping score in this in the movie, we are numbers and place may sound a bit odd until incontrovertible. way — and if we are old, it I refer you to the BBC’s It has been written. It noting each result on makes us feel young to be classified check of the has been read out on the the wallchart, we are the end, they will attach themselves openly allowing ourselves football results, and how it classified check. It is done. paying our respects every are disporting even of justice. There is triumphant — roughly the to it in their parasitical way, day to this superior way of this supposedly juvenile was done. Raise this up to a global themselves in the VIP something deeply satisfying opposite indeed, of the way they may even consider the doing things — until July indulgence. Every Saturday of the scale, and we are looking enclosures of Russia 2018 about the design and the things tend to be organised possibility of influencing 15 at least, that day which names are correct. Yes, we feel free to talk football season, about 5pm, at our wallcharts, and we What is my deadline? — but that the World Cup is lay-out, about the way that in our everyday lives. the results of games the way now seems so distant, when about the wallchart, we a man would read out all the are thinking that this world not like the world. It’s better it is all organised so that Yes, the worst of men they influence everything we will take one last look know that for this month football results of the day is full of madness and than that. the mere pretenders can with their endless appetite else that they touch — by at how the World Cup has only, we have permission to in England and Scotland, catastrophe, that it is being The wallcharts which be seen to fall away, and for corruption will try bribery and coercion. turned out, and we will take perform this exercise which in tones of the deepest laid waste by the worst represent it are giving excellence will eventually to interfere even in this But for once, they will down that wallchart, and at any other time might seriousness — of of men — some of whom us some vision of order, emerge, standing alone at ancient pursuit of greatness, not actually win. This is not face the world again.

HERE will be more straightforward — Fast forward is those who do not More the they just didn’t like one understand these T another, the players of Make notes on the things, who will also be Real Madrid which was calling for some sense merrier associated with Franco, and finally dropped of “perspective” when those of Barcelona which they hear the Spain fought Franco. Throw a few manager, Julen Lopetegui, Don’t vary from the of your Basques in there with 48 HE World Cup on TV Our support of a top, top, describing being sacked has another thing and you can see why it structure of the article top Premier League club two days before the wasn’t easy to get them all Tgoing for it, the fact is effectively a job, so it’s tournament as the “saddest on the same page, until this teams that we tend to watch the natural that the main thing day of my life since the century at least. whole game while it is we are looking for, is death of my mother”. So when football actually happening. the result. We are N Twitter, word count suggested, I wouldn’t doubt the commentators would In recent years, also sometimes man for a moment. And the eminent muse on the mystery of gastroenterologist - the main points of the Sky Plus tormented I have never doubted O why Spain, with so many Dr Anthony O’Connor put machine and with anxiety, a certain William wonderful footballers, forward the “unpopular the virtual our nerves Shakespeare of Stratford- could never get it opinion” that he thinks a destruction unable to upon-Avon and England, of the together to win a major 48-team World Cup would at least not by more, or take the whose work on the nature international tournament, be brilliant. human full 90 of tragic heroism resonates there was no real mystery I tend to agree with the story you wish to mind by minutes, at Russia 2018 just as it did — it was our old friend, the him, because on the whole the internet even in 2002, in Saipan. Spanish Civil War. if you were to offer me have led if our For allegedly failing Ah, it was simpler then... a choice between the 64 even the attention to inform Luis Rubiales, aficionados games in Russia, or the less, than 50 words. spans the head of the Spanish 80 that will be tried in the of the Premier hadn’t been Football Federation until USA, Canada and Mexico get across, and in what League to destroyed by the last minute that he was in 2026, I can’t really watch the Google. about to be announced and McCarthy. hear myself saying “ah no game at a But for as the next Real Madrid about a person who may be It is ultimately thanks, it’s fine as it is, time of their large parts of manager, Lopetegui was quite right, up to a point, ‘You might a conflict within don’t give me any more of choosing, and the World Cup sacked by Rubiales on a person who is even quite perhaps skipping also call it a ourselves. This is that stuff” — after all, you we couldn’t what you might call a admirable, up to a point, why we are torn, order. And cross them should never not watch a the boring bits. give a monkey’s point of principle — you doing terrible things. point of big we have our own football match. But I think we about the result might also call it a point And what is that point, struggles trying I would just question all understand that or the quality of of big swinging macho up to which you are swinging to figure out if the official rationale the whole point of the game, it just recklessness, for which sympathetic with that we should do behind the 48-team a World Cup game is feels like we’re on there was no need. person — but beyond which macho that most of us are the noble thing tournament, which is “an our holidays. Yes it was startlingly you are appalled ? Aye, which could off as you write them. attempt to increase global watching it at the Which is similar in its dramatic there’s the rub… recklessness’ result in chaos, interest in the World Cup”. same time, and perhaps the secret construction to the horrors Now the Spaniards are or just let it go Right. that rather than of its eternal of Saipan, with the same finding out what we have for the sake of a They’ve tried fast-forwarding charm — this maddening forces in play — known since 2002 — that quiet life. everything else and all it, if anything is not just a as Shakespeare has taught this conflict is not really Though they’ve got to show for it we want it all holiday from us, a tragedy is not just between Lopetegui and traditionally is a few hundred million to slow down life, it is a about some terrible person Rubiales, just as ours was to prolong the the troubles watching Morocco v Iran TheSunday holiday from doing terrible things, but not really between Keane of Spain were experience. football. in the afternoon. Desperate times… Business Post April 8, 2018 businesspost.ie

Life’s looking good after road rescue Deadly bread diet killing wild ducks Ian Guider Will IT was a very bitter November kitten formula that evening International asked if I had a name and with much anxious cheeping”. morning. I was just three MY PET and it was yummy. I felt when he heard Rambo he COUNTRY PLEASE: Don’t feedPost weeks old. Cold, hungry, ● Then, when a bird foundPlus Paper swoop on warm and safe. said that it was a very “odd the ducks white MONEY ● scared and lonely. Name: her,MARKETS its call-note would change Smudge When Alyssa got back to bread — give them ● name” for a female kitten. MATTERS and the others would be quick- MOTORS I had been dumped by work, word spread around ‘duck seed’ instead Smurfit Kappa?page 6 Richard changed it on the ly at her feet and then all the side of a very busy road. the office that she had Joe Kennedy Finest hour: Being spot to Smudge and I really would climb into the basket Cars were whizzing by just picked up a stray kitten that like that because of my inches from my face as I sat to be carried home! rescued morning. A lady in the same colouring. WILLIAM Allingham remem- there too scared to move. Health special There was a sad ending office heard this and asked I now live happily with bered “with tears” four ducks Then a car began to slow when the birds got older, her to describe me. She was the family’s other animals. on a pond, a grass bank be- down. A lady had spotted Likes: Climbing up became ill and died. Tests the first lady who tried to Rescued cats Dennis and yond, blues skies and white Tips to writing features: me but was unable to stop showed death was caused by people’s backs and stop. She had turned around Maya, who are brother and birds on the wing. as there were too many bone disease due to lack of cal- and had come back to sister, and my best friend, The tears of this poetic cars coming up behind meowing in their ears cium. Fr Kennedy pointed out rescue me. She thought the Oliver. He is Alyssa’s “big” snatch were no doubt prompt- her. I was devastated as that scoters in the wild feed until they feed me worst had happened when I kitten that joined our home ed by sentiment. This was she drove past. A minute on molluscs and crustaceans was not there any more and a year before me. There are before a sight of a sad sail of The bread was a high cal- passed and another young a clutch of common scoter which were vital for survival. went to work very upset. three rescued dogs, Marley, dying birds could rend his orie diet of proteins and car- ey’re the drugs that combat the rarest of lady spotted me and put Dislikes: Cold weather (Mellanitta nigra) wild duck, Scoters are sea ducks oc- She was thrilled to hear that Rocky and Dolly, as well as heart. bohydrates — but seriously on those flashing orange the eggs being hatched by a casionally seen here in some and scary fast cars I was alive and well and lots of horses and ponies. No one had heard of ‘angel low in vitamins D and E, cal- lights. She pulled up beside domestic hen. The resultant coastal waters during winter being looked In time I will be allowed to wing’ and maybe mid-19th cium and manganese, vital for me to protect me from the brown-black ducklings proved in straggling groups offshore after in Alyssa’s go outside to play with the Century bread crusts thrown ducks. Angel or slipped wing diseases. But they’re so specialised that their to be great pets — and, said Fr in sandy-bed areas where they other traffic. Her name was home. other animals. on the waters contained more is when the last wrist joint is Kennedy, “showed a dog-like dive for mussels and sand-eels. Alyssa. She picked me up The next Life certainly has taken a calcium than today’s white twisted with wing feathers affection for their mistress”. The naturalist David Cabot and put me into her lovely day Richard turn for the better for little • Look at your chosen theme • Always try to fi nd an original pan. A century later, the sight pointed out instead of against warm car. I was saved. Each morning she would reckons 12,000 birds winter took me to see old me. of bedraggled pond ducks the body. More mature birds take theprice birds in a basket tags are increasingly putting them out She took me home where here from northern Europe a vet in Kildare with tiny, sprouting wings dy- become hopeless cases as the her dad, Richard, was Alyssa O’Neill, to a local lake where they and Iceland. The last “suspi- town. His name ing from a mysterious ailment disease is incurable. waiting with warm diluted Co Kildare would rush into the water cion” of Irish breeding birds was Alexis. concentrated scientific minds Another Kennedy, the Rev milk and a blanket bed with and “gambol, dive and chase I can find is in Major Rut- He checked on something called “bilateral PG (no relation), author and oneof another”. reach. When the lady How much longer will Irish patients tledge’s Irish Birds for Mayo a hot water bottle. When me over and carefully. Consider the angle, or hook, for your If you would like your pet n valgus deformity of the distal ornithologist of the last cen- felt the ducklings had had and Fermanagh. Alyssa told him the whole declared that featured in this column please wings” and the feeding of tury, writing in an issue of enough sport, she used to hide Angel wing persists in story he decided to name I was healthy send a story of 440 words white bread in quantities was Studies Review in 1947, told in bushes and then the little some pond places where mal- me Rambo after my ordeal. and in good and a photograph to sourced as a cause of what the delightful story of a Mrs ones wouldcontinue miss her from the lard frequent so pleaseto feed miss out on such medicines? I did not like that name. Her shape, despite [email protected] clearly was to be called ‘angel wing’ Rathbone, of Castlecaldwell, bankside and scramble ashore ‘duck seed’ to the birds instead mum, Helen, brought me my ordeal. He labelled MY PET in waterfowl. Co Fermanagh, hand-rearing “running hither and tither of stale bread. questions suggested and feature. Because features attempt to answer some of allow you more freedom, Billion dollar them. you have an opportunity to be more adventurous. ORPHANS • Start with the important - get all the essential details in the opening paragraphs. • Use plenty of quotes. If they are not quotes you gathered • As with news, include all the yourself, make sure you essential details - the who, detail the source of where By Susan Mitchell what, where, when and why. they are from. here is a widespread perception Strensiq, a medication for that new drugs will only be rare soft-bone disease, is one of made available to those patients the most expensive prescription who shout the loudest. The medicines ever launched process lacks transparency. The industry’s morals are Tquestionable. As the medicines watchdog 19 predicts an avalanche of expensive orphan drugs, what does the future hold for those with a rare disease? It is almost impossible to turn on the radio or open a newspaper without In recent times, campaigners have taken to the streets to urge the state to hearing about the “miraculous” bene- fund drugs including Orkambi (to treat fits of the latest drug. New cancer ther- cystic fibrosis) and Respreeza (genetic apies, and treatments for cystic fibro- emphysema). sis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and rare developmental conditions have As an increasing number of orphan drugs become available to treat rare all come on-stream in recent years. diseases, policymakers are concerned ­e world is full of stories of sick at the budget implications. Orphan patients who have either been given drugs typically come with eye- a second chance by these new drugs, watering price tags, the justification or who are being denied access to a being that they only treat small possible life-saving treatment. to page 2 Comment

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DMEEIR 22 IRISH DAILY MIRROR SATURDAY 09.02.2019 We cannot stick our heads in the sand and pretend that Lisa Smith, the Isis bride, does not exist. If we are to have any hope of combating radicalisation, RIGHTEOUS MORAL OUTRAGE we must first understand it COMMENT BY LARISSA NOLAN

POPULAR Westlife are back f you want a picture of the future, “imagine a boot stamping on a Nadine O’Regan Westlife set human face”. I So wrote George Orwell in 1984, his terrifying novel set in an authoritarian to play two world where even thinking the wrong Instead of being thing is a crime. extra shows In 1984, it’s not enough for your speech e have a duty murders carried out by Islamic State? I don’t the jeep once to get a better picture of a lion.” BY AILBHE DALY and actions to be controlled – your to try to un- think even the most sympathetic of observers e man hadn’t considered the lion a preda- thoughts must be too. derstand Lisa could swallow that. tor because he didn’t understand he wasn’t EXTRA tickets for It’s an offence called “crimethink” and Westlife’s Croke Park Smith, the so- In a similar vein, the British 19-year-old watching a David Attenborough documentary. is punishable by persecution and torture. called ‘Isis bride Shamima Begum, radicalised over the internet He was lucky to escape with his life. shows are expected to be The knee-jerk outrage over Liam snapped up when they go Neeson’s controversial remarks on rape from Dundalk’, and currently in a refugee camp in Syria, told at might sound like a flippant comparison, on sale next week. revenge show we have now entered commended for because with- an interviewer that she led a “normal life” even but actually there are fewer steps than we The Swear It Again an era not unlike Orwell’s imagined out doing so we though she had witnessed bombing and seen might imagine between having a crap life in hitmakers will play the dystopia. can’t hope to prevent there being many more a severed head in a bin. “It didn’t faze me,” Britain or Ireland and then grabbing a flight Dublin venue on Friday, Neeson spoke out about bad feelings women like her. Begum said, switching topics. to a terrorist-controlled regime – and at least July 5 and Saturday 6. he regretted having 40 years ago – and W Smith is an Irish citizen who, as far as we For Smith’s part, she said: “We came for, some of it has to do with lacking the imagi- The first round of tickets got a boot in the face for his honesty. were snapped up when It seems now even truth itself must be know, hasn’t broken the law: much as it might like, no alcohol, no prostitution, no gays, no nation, empathy or intelligence to grasp the they went on sale last sanitised to suit the modern-day Thought stick in our craws, she should be allowed to anything. I really liked to live in the Islamic reality of terrorism. October. Police. return home to Ireland in line Overwhelming misery, a desire The band will perform We are living in a hypocritical society tackling a complex with her constitutional rights. for power and a gnawing need to new songs including Hello that has lost its reason, pretending to Otherwise, in the middle of belong: all of these can be pow- My Love, along with their stand for compassion and humanity, 14 No1 hits including when it is judgmental, intolerant, an internet revolution through erful motivators for people who World Of Our Own, unforgiving and misanthropic. which impressionable types are consider themselves a poor fit for Uptown Girl and When Where context, nuance and basic being radicalised under our noses, modern life in Ireland and Britain. You’re Looking Like That. understanding are shoved aside in the we learn nothing and thus leave We have more ‘friends’ than These latest shows will rush to be the most sanctimonious, the ourselves open to greater dangers ever before – we might have 600 be Westlife’s first in the most self-righteous of all. in the future. or more on Facebook – but we Republic since they played What Neeson said is a shocking and Croker in June 2012. appalling admission. Foolishly using socio-political issue, at’s the reluctant conclusion have fewer true friends. We have Tickets from Ticket- painful, inflammatory language, he many Irish people are coming to less of a sense of community. master go on sale on revealed how he went out on the streets right now. Smith’s story, which ere are plenty of impressionable Tuesday at 9am. with a cosh looking for a “black b*****d” surfaced over the past month, types, frantic to break out from to kill when a friend was raped. grabbed the spotlight again last their not-good-enough lives, who He told the story in an interview about his latest movie Cold Pursuit, in which Sunday with the publication of are open to being radicalised. In his character seeks revenge when his son an interview she gave to the free- her recent novel Home Fire, the is murdered by a drug gang. lance journalist Norma Costello. author Kamila Shamsie delivers It was a wicked thing to do; wrong, he was demonised Smith is believed to have left a brilliant tale of just how easily racist and violent – exactly what the Ireland in 2013 or 2014 to join her it can happen. actor said it was. He was highlighting the evils of what second husband Said Aslam, a e Irish government has not he called “primal hatred” and admitted former supply teacher, in Tunisia yet followed up on an EU directive before moving on to Syria. in 2017 to outlaw travel aboard ON TIME Cork Airport he was so shocked by his own horrible feelings that he sought help afterwards. A former private in the Irish for terrorist purposes; 22 other In doing so, he exposed a terrible truth: Defence Forces, she has denied member states moved to make Cork Airport that racial bias exists, no matter how fighting for Isis or training any- laws on the back of the directive, perfect we’ve convinced ourselves we are and shamed. How one to fight, and claims Aslam but Ireland sat on its hands. soars to top – and the only way to challenge it is to bring it out into the light. was killed in the past three Still, at least Leo Varadkar has punctuality He said: “We need to be open about months, apparently in combat. indicated that the Irish govern- these things – we all pretend we’re polit- She is detained at the al-Hawl Lisa Smith is believed to have left Ireland for Syria ve or six years ago ment will support Smith’s repa- BY MIRROR REPORTER ically correct. Sometimes you scratch the refugee camp in northern Syria, triation to Ireland with her young CORK is right on time to surface and discover racism and bigotry. It’s an uncomfortable conversation, with her two-year-old daughter. daughter, even if it is unclear how be revealed as Ireland’s In the interview, Smith delivered her version this will come about. most punctual airport. but vital for progress. Sociologists and psychologists agree, saying we are all of events, stating her desire to come back to e hope is that helping Smith will also help Global aviation analysts prejudiced on some level. is this progressive? Ireland where her daughter could be educated. us, at least in the longer term. Countries in- OAG revealed the hub topped the league for Their advice on how to challenge it is e psychology behind a story like Smith’s e fear is not only that Smith cluding Saudi Arabia, Britain and France have international airports with to admit it – confess it – and try to figure is hard to fathom, and she didn’t make it any launched initiatives in recent times to bring an on-time performance of out where it came from. will come back to Ireland, but x-soccer star John Barnes, who en- Support for Liam, 66, after global backlash easier for people in her weirdly upbeat in- about de-radicalisation – and initial reports 80.2%. dured his share of racist abuse, terview, video footage from which was was that she will come back and suggest that a dialogue-orientated, coun- Ireland’s second busiest said: “We are all unconscious rac- broadcast on multiple networks. With her head receive offers from producers to selling-led approach which seeks to unpick and best connected ists. He’s ashamed and horrified at over shocking admission in movie interview international airport, saw E covered in the traditional garb, Smith showed beliefs rather than force change is having pos- what he thought. We have people doing little evidence of the depression she had said tell her story. Will she be on TV? itive results. But, of course, there are dangers growth of 4% last year, it and keeping it quiet… but as long as serving 2.4 million passen- you don’t admit it, then everything is OK.” – admittedly awkwardly – tackling a with no chance of forgiveness. Its lesson caused her to become disillusioned with life Will she get a book deal? attached, and not only in relation to terrorism. gers. Neeson also raised an important point complex socio-political issue, he was is you must bury all emotions and fear SUPPORT in Ireland. She made light of her decision to e fear is not only that Smith will come Its managing director about empathy. demonised and shamed. revealing them in case of censure – a John Barnes move to Syria by saying she always “ran with back to Ireland, but that she will come back deeply harmful environment, more backed Niall MacCarthy said: “It is The ability to share the feelings of How is this progressive? Neeson the crowd”. and receive offers from producers to tell her important we maintain the familiar to us as the worst ideology of another is a fantastic quality and makes The message it gives is: if you think She also said that life there was “like back State because I never got to see any of this. I story. Will she be on television? Will she get key aspects of what our us caring and loving towards others, but something, it means you are a bad person religious institutions. passengers loved – ease of it is also a powerful emotion that can be – a deeply unhealthy mindset linked to You must not admit to ever thinking home”. “You get up in the morning, go shop- just had to experience a lot of bombing, and a book deal? It’s not beyond the bounds of access, customer service, dangerous when taken too far. some of the most distressing mental an immoral thought. Instead, like in ping, get your stuff, come home, cook your hearing someone died, but I never had to see possibility. minimal wait times, and of Psychologists have described it as “a health conditions and literally the Orwell’s 1984, you should engage in dinner, clean your house,” she said. “It’s just any of it.” But still: home she must come. Lisa Smith course, our punctuality. force driving bad decisions” and cautions opposite of what any good therapist will “crimestop” – immediately like my everyday life. Go visit a friend, drink Listening to the stories reminded me of a trip exists, and pretending she doesn’t, or that she purging dangerous thoughts “Topping the punctu- good moral judgment usually involves tell you. some coffee.” I made through Botswana on safari years ago, can be left to linger in Syria without conse- ality league is a testament from the mind, instead of ques- putting our empathy aside. It teaches there is no point in changing, Is it possible that a woman who served in when a guide gave our group a stern lecture quences, is the kind of thing that a small child to the extensive work by But instead of being commended for because you will be vilified regardless, tioning them, finding their the team at Cork Airport.” the Irish Defence Forces could have been so about leaving the jeep. does – not a nation or a government. I ignorant of the ethnic cleansing and mass “Another tourist,” he said, “jumped out of @nadineoregan

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Sunday Independent 24 March 2019 34 S1 ews is fact - opinion is your But the key is to say something Soapbox point of view. only if you have something to say. This is too serious for conspiracy theories Laura Brennan’s choices that what they’re saying is Laura Brennan’s “insidious untrue, they simply respond propaganda”, constantly were impeccable. Facing by chortling, “fake news”. refers to her own “multi- death, she sought ways And they continue saying awards” to enhance her that which they want to credibility. to protect others, writes believe is true. Could I point out that one The conspiracy theory of the awards dates back 19 Gene Kerrigan merchants have long had years? There is a If teachers vote to go on There is no point sitting on the a thing about vaccines — That another is a travel based on notions that have award for describing a trip AST Wednesday, involving layers of the Irish long been refuted. They to Italy? Laura Brennan died. establishment. seized on the HPV vaccine. That in 2011, she accepted She was 26. That The Catholic hierarchy’s All injections, all an award for medical day, Ireland’s most cover-up of child abuse was vaccines, can have minor writing, sponsored by drug controversial “multi a conspiracy. side effects — a sore arm, company GSK, the epitome N Laward-winning” journalist From the Libor scandal to nausea — nothing drastic, of “big pharma”? referred to Ms Brennan’s the Panama Papers, there’s certainly nothing to equal Her website currently “alleged death”. abundant evidence of real the devastation of cervical has a photo of her proudly strike, news is the account of what fence. Be provocative, stir a few One in every 300 women conspiracies. Only the very cancer. displaying the GSK award. in Ireland gets cervical naive doubt that many of Since hundreds of There are various cancer. The majority survive, those who possess wealth millions of doses of the awards for Ms O’Doherty’s after undergoing the rigours and power covertly conspire HPV vaccine have been documentary on missing of treatment. About 90 to protect their positions. injected, there’s no problem child Mary Boyle. These women die each year. No, my problem with the finding people who had the awards are not like the The disease is acquired conspiracy theorists is not vaccine and subsequently Oscars. They are online sexually, through the HPV the bit about conspiracy. It’s had headaches, who became “festivals”. virus. The HPV vaccine, the bit about theory. sick, or who died. Take the IndieFEST they did. Opinion is your view on emotions, ruffl e a few feathers. given to young people before We can have theories The same applies to any award. You put your film on they become sexually active, about anything. To believe vaccine. YouTube. And pay $60 to can prevent women from something, though, we need If you sample the same submit it to IndieFEST. getting the disease later in solid evidence. number of people who O’Doherty got an award life. did not receive a vaccine, of “merit” in November When Laura Brennan ‘I bet if there you would find a similar 2016. It was one of over difference was diagnosed, aged 24, percentage who had 100 awards of merit which the vaccination rate was was a pill to headaches, who became IndieFEST gave that only 51pc. That meant sick, or who died. November. Similar numbers their decision - good or bad. There is nothing better that a there would be many prevent breast In short: the fact that one of awards of “recognition” unnecessarily premature thing is followed by another and “excellence” were deaths. cancer, people does not mean that the first the numbers of women who I had some control over Last Wednesday, Gemma young woman, she was bestowed. There were claims thing causes the second suffered as she did. how I would live my life for O’Doherty, whose Twitter frank about the reality of the IndieFEST doled out that the vaccine caused would be thing. She was not exploited, the time I had left. People account repeatedly informs medics’ work to extend her similar numbers of such unacceptable side effects. queuing up to With vaccines, this can be she was no one’s patsy. are killed in car crashes us she’s a “multi award- short life. awards in February, May and Doctors argued these claims proven statistically. People “It is totally incredible all the time and have no winning journalist”, spoke “In 18 months, I’ve had August of 2016. were groundless, but there get it in the who devote their lives to that we can safely say there opportunity to say goodbye on her YouTube channel of 12 infusions of chemo, Laura Brennan was was genuine fear among healing have assessed the is a form of cancer which is or do the things they want Laura Brennan’s “alleged 3 internal/28 external given a patient advocacy The views expressed are your good rant, once you can back up parents. morning’ HPV vaccine and passed preventable with a vaccine. to do. So, at least this death”. radiation and much more. award by the Royal College Such beliefs fitted into it fit for use. They are not I bet if there was a pill way, while it’s not what I She claimed Laura I’ve spent hours vomiting, of Physicians. Let’s leave the world view of people There’s evidence of making this up to please available to prevent breast expected from my life, I can Brennan was “exploited” by hours in the bath trying the last word with this commonly referred to the conspiracies outlined “big pharma”. cancer, people would be make the most of the time I “big pharma” to promote to ease the aches, hours in astonishingly level-headed as conspiracy theorists. above — Ansbacher, Libor To conspiracy theorists, queuing up to get it in the have left.” “insidious propaganda”. She bed. I’ve bowel and bladder person. Theories of conspiracies etc — hard-won evidence, scientific evidence is morning.” In a short time, the warned that in days to come, damage. 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There are better ways to West where Muslims have to harass and detain women to pray in male-only rooms. an Court of Human Rights isolate women from conserv- migrated to make new homes, for showing strands of hair Now a professor in Wash- ruled in 2014 that these laws ative families who would like- feel about the teachers going on the sake of it. show support for Muslims but in majority-Islamic soci- under their headscarves or ington, she expressed dismay did not violate human rights; ly be confined to the home; eties too. for wearing heavy make-up last week at the campaign last October, the UN Human but naively embracing the than adopting perceived To wear it in response or tight clothing”. Girls as in New Zealand, saying of Rights Committee begged hijab as a symbol of free symbols of oppression, to an appalling terrorist in- young as seven have been the hijab: “It is a symbol of to differ, censuring France choice for women ignores the cident in New Zealand is caught up in the crackdown purity culture antithetical following a case taken by complex history behind these writes Eilis O’Hanlon effectively to take sides in a and forced by the morality to feminist values. We have two women who were fined religious proscriptions and debate whose nuances and police to wear hijabs. women in jail and dead, for for wearing veils. In the new the huge social pressure on N the aftermath of the mas- or intimidated just because of significance we don’t ful- The protesters, who are refusing the interpretation of intersectional world of iden- women to obey them. Many sacre of 50 worshippers by what she’s wearing, whether ly understand. Across the known as the “Girls of Revo- Islam you promote.” tity politics, everyone seems Muslim feminists would ar- Ia lone far-right gunman in that’s a bikini or a burqa. Islamic world, women are lution Street” after the road Pakistan-born Canadian hopelessly confused about gue that there’s no such thing strike, whether you think they are Christchurch, it’s only natural The movement was born resisting the imposition of where the protests against author Tarak Fatah, a propo- whether siding with feminists as a free choice when it comes fact and for people to want to do some- out of a desire to offer those a religious dress code which the compulsory wearing nent of “liberal, progressive” to the hijab; that it’s enforced thing to show Muslims that women some much-needed many reformers argue has of the hijab began, include Islam, also spoke up to decry with an underlying threat. they’re valued as a community. solidarity in a time of trauma. no basis in the Koran, where Azam Jangravi, who took off GESTURE: New Zealand Prime the hijab as a “symbol of Is- ‘In the clash of The real mistake is think- Doing nothing, saying nothing, “We want to show them we are it’s merely stated that men’s her headscarf in the centre of Minister Jacinda Ardern lamic patriarchy” and “flag of ing that those of us who aren’t would be monstrous. The them,” as one local woman put and women’s bodies alike the capital Tehran and waved mediaeval mullahism”. competing Muslims can magically make decision by huge numbers of it. It’s a basic issue of human must be covered “except that it in the air. “I was feeling a The bravery of these wom- Western feminists have rights, some things better by adopting women in New Zealand, from dignity and public safety. which is necessary”, a form very special kind of power,” en is humbling, and seeing been disgracefully quiet the hijab for the day as a Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern All the same, arguing for of words open to multiple she said afterwards. “It was those who don’t have to con- about backing these protests women are gesture to make ourselves right or wrong, the eff ects the to TV reporters to policewomen the right of Muslim women to interpretations. as if I was not the secondary tend with men with guns by Muslim women. They feel virtuous. on the streets, to wear head wear Islamic head dress is not How must they feel when gender anymore.” She was telling them how to dress fulsomely support Muslim left behind’ There are many more scarves last Friday as a mark the same as wearing it yourself seeing women in the secular arrested, fired from her job, suddenly donning hijabs in women’s right to wear the practical ways to help minori- of respect for Muslims isn’t or encouraging its wider use West suddenly adopting what and sentenced to three years an effort to demonstrate their hijab, burqa or niqab, but ties feel safe . Muslim women the right way to do it, however. as a political gesture against are widely regarded to be the in prison for “promoting supposedly progressive val- stay silent on their right not in the Muslim world might in Dublin have launched the The campaign came about Islamophobia. Muslim head- very symbols of oppression indecency”. She managed to ues must feel like a slap in to wear them if they don’t itself be anti-Muslim. Yellow Sticker Campaign, because some Muslim women gear, whether it’s the hijab (a against which Muslim wom- escape Iran before the sen- the face. That’s certainly how want to. Partly that’s because Western feminists would which displays notices in had expressed fears about square scarf that covers the en are increasingly fighting tence could be carried out. Asra Nomani sees it. they fear being tainted by never stay silent on similar shops and other public plac- going out in their usual attire head and neck, but leaves the at huge personal cost? Just two weeks ago, her Her long campaign for association with the far right abuses of women by Chris- es to reassure anyone who strike may have on you and other after the shootings, in case it face clear), burqa (a full body According to Amnesty In- lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was women’s equality has seen which has been bullish in de- tian churches. In the clash feels threatened to walk in made them a target for hatred covering with mesh over the ternational, at least 39 wom- sentenced to 33 years in pris- her compared to civil rights manding bans on Islamic face of competing identities and and take refuge. Safe spaces or bigotry, or worse, from eyes), or niqab (another full en were arrested in Iran alone on and 148 lashes on charges bus campaigner Rosa Parks, and hair coverings. In some rights, some women seem to are a serious and respectful those who sympathised with body covering, but with a slit in 2018 for removing their including “disrupting public and she famously took part in European countries, includ- have been left behind. response to the insecurity felt the gunman’s “eco fascist” for the eyes instead of a mesh), head scarves in public, under order” and “openly commit- protests at her local mosque ing France, Belgium and the There is no easy answer. by Muslim women. Wearing ideology. It’s outrageous that is a long-standing source of laws which have “allowed po- ting a sinful act by... appear- in the US state of Virginia to Netherlands, such bans have Banning religious face cov- head scarves raise far more opinion students. any woman should be afraid controversy, not only in the lice and paramilitary forces ing in public without a hijab”. demand the right of women passed into law. The Europe- erings would only further questions than it answers.

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14 IRISH DAILY STAR Monday October 8 2018 Over to you... ONE MESS AFTER ANOTHER COMMENT Housing and • Newspapers are as much about views as news. Can you A TRUE HERO OF healthcare distinguish between the two? Select some examples. MODERN TIMES scandals TODAY Ireland grieves the death of a true hero of modern times. Emma Mhic Mhathuna is a victim of this troubled nation — but she faced her fate with such bravery and dignity. As the inevitable news of her passing broke yesterday, and the tears and tributes owed, a cloud hung over the show State • Choose an opinion piece from one of the papers country. In recent weeks and months, many who never met Emma were inspired by her outspoken and honest campaigning in the TRAGIC: Mum face of such a devastating prognosis, Emma Mhic which made an impression that won’t fade. Mhathuna (inset) lost her Strength life following the supplied. What interests you? Write your own version. But beyond the strength of her cervical cancer campaigning, there are those who were scandal close to Emma — her family and friends. is letting The nation has lost such a strong, de ant voice — one we grew to recognise instantly as the cervical cancer scandal made grim headline after headline. But her family — she leaves behind ve children, Natasha, Seamus, Mario, Oisin, and Donnacha — have lost so much more. Our thoughts are with them — and we can only hope they get some solace in the fact that Emma won’t ever be forgotten. people down THIS day 50 years ago, civil rights marchers in • Look at the letters page in one of the papers supplied. GANGS ARE NOT the North were nursing WE NEED REAL CIVIL RIGHTS their injuries after being Rosie - whose real name was battered black and blue TERRY [email protected] Susie Long — had emailed the by the RUC. Joe Duffy show the previous ABOVE THE LAW January describing how she was The protesters had taken part going to die “because of hospital ONCE again there is bloodshed in in the October 5 civil rights waiting lists”. march in Derry which is gener- And she revealed how she had the capital as the scourge of ally seen now as the start of the mcgeehan to wait seven months for a colo- Choose one that you agree/disagree with? Outline why. Troubles. gangs has claimed another life. noscopy to diagnose her bowel The Gardai must be praised for the work Of course, it wasn’t. cancer — while a private patient they do in the most challenging circum- It wasn’t the march had received a colonoscopy stances with an even more challenging or the marchers conditions noth- brother and sister — for the past within three days of seeing his ght for resources. who sparked the ing short of two years. GP. But the gun killing is further evidence Troubles — it squalor. And it painted a truer picture — not that it’s needed — of how murderous was the And now of the crisis this country is now Brave thugs believe they’re above the law. Unionist 50 years facing than any set of statistics And in the light of the current They act without fear of repercussions. establish- later, the or fact sheets. cervical cancer check scandal, They kill people and don’t care who else is ment in squalor Amanda spoke of how she and the death yesterday of brave caught up in the madness. Stormont may avoided telling her school victim Emma Mhic Mhathuna, We must have faith that those responsi- and the have friends that she was homeless we have to conclude yet again ble will be brought to justice. brutality gone and because she was embarrassed that we are rapidly going back- But without the full backing of the State, of the cops the tene- and afraid that she might be wards in this country in the and every resource made available, the who at that ments are taunted or looked down on. area of health as well as Gardai will battle an impossible war. time were a thing of She spoke of how she was housing. • Compare and contrast how broadsheet and tabloid overwhelm- the past but missing out on the fun of her Tomorrow, Finance Minister ingly homelessness teenage years when she should Paschal Donohoe will unveil Protestant. PROTEST: Homelessness is now greater be able to freely mix with Budget 2019. We’re bowled over... One of the core protesters occupy property than at any time friends in each other’s homes. And it looks like it will be a IT MIGHT be dark, damp and cold — but aims of the since the 60s. And she spoke of her own men- budget of bribes and Irish people love winter according to a protesters was to tal condition. backhanders in a cynical bid to study for National Porridge Week. get decent housing for the Misery “It’s a struggle everyday get- shoo the Blueshirts back into There must be a grain of truth to it, as North’s Catholics who for Instead of progressing we are ting up and even just taking the power at the next election. people put on their c-oats — or the people decades had been the victims of regressing with hotel rooms blankets off yourself every But what we desperately need papers handle comment. Which do you prefer? Why? blatant religious discrimination. replacing tenements and chil- morning. It’s horrible,” she said. in this country, to really ensure who did the study are just stirring it. But south of the border, simi- dren growing up without a place And she cried tears of hope- that there will be no more Contact us... lar protests were taking place as they can call their home. lessness and despair. Amandas or Rosies, is a revolu- well. Last week, a fth year second- Amanda’s powerful and mov- tionary budget with the The Irish Daily Star, Level 1, Independent The Dublin Housing Action ary student called ‘Amanda’ ing interview will rank eradication of social injustice at House, 27-32 Talbot Street, Dublin 1 Committee was campaigning described in heart-breaking alongside that of Rosie who died its heart. Not a poxy cent here Phone: (01) 499 3458. Email: [email protected] for better housing in the capital terms the misery of living in a this month 11 years ago from and a poxy cent there — but real Text: star followed by your story to 50123 which at that time still had ten- hotel room with her mother, bowel cancer. civil rights. twitter: @isfearranstar web: www.buzz.ie ements housing large families in • Write a letter to the editor in not more than 400 words.

’m looking at Mother’s Day cards the rest of me. for my mother. I’m not exactly In the chemist one day, perhaps just a Inside inspired. Mothers, in the world few days into my motherhood career, the of Hallmark, are nurturing, baby was strapped to me, screaming like self-sacrificing, unthreatening. she alone had been sent to warn humanity They love bunny rabbits, laven- of the imminent apocalypse. Does she der and bouquets of flowers in have colic, an older woman wondered, COLUMNISTS The views unlikely, lurid hues. They exist sending me into atailspin of panic. Why 6 SeánMoncrieff only as areflection of their greatest was she asking me? Did Ilook like some 10 Ross creation:I and that, of course, is the person kind of expert? Clearly, Ididn’t know what O’Carroll-Kelly whose signature is scrawled across the Iwas doing –the evidence was strapped to 22 MarianKeyes inside. You were always there, they read. me, bellowing. Iwent home and googled 25 RoeMcDermott You give us so much. “colic” and cried again. Iwas crying for expressed are your “Happy Mother’s Day,” exclaims one I the child who might or might not have COVERSTORY found on the internet, “to my Greatest colic (it turned out she just didn’t like 12 Teacher, my Best Friend and my Cheapest straps), and who certainly had ahopeless- Therapist.” ly inept mother. But Iwas also crying for None of them apply to my own mother. myself, for the identity that had been She is nurturing and kind, and yes, she forcibly retired the second the kindly own. They may offers free therapy on occasion. But those midwife in the labour ward handed me a aren’t the most interesting things about cup of tea, and called me “Mammy”. 12 Anobscurebook, her. She’s also creative, strong, feminist. Here’s the good news. It gets easier. recentlystumbledon Impeccably stylish. Whip-smart. Abaker Either that, or you find away for the two byRositaBoland, of scones and ideas. She used to coax deaf parts of your life to peaceably co-exist. In describesthelavish children out of their silent worlds. She still the almost 12 years since, I’ve noticed that dinnersthrownby not be shared by has aSherlock Holmes-like ability to read some of the best, happiest mothers are the Ireland’svery human behaviour. ones who were the most resistant in the well-heeledduring JENNIFER None of them apply to me, not unless beginning, the most affronted by the the1990s there’s one out there praising mediocre cleaving of their lives in two. 8 cooking skills, unconquered laundry Time winds down, and the long days mountains and excellent bedtime stories. spool into short years. It passes in ablur of everyone, but they O’CONNELL None of them apply to any mother Iknow. hot cheeks against yours and sterilising Mother’s Day cards do one thing well: and late-night dashes to the pharmacy they reflect the way we sanitise mother- and wiping and glitter-covered Mother’s Mother’s Day hood, turning women who have children Day cards and rows over hairbrushing and 8 IsabellaRossellini into bland, one-dimensional figures, small hands on your knee. isworkingwith whose worth is measured in acurrency of Lancômeagainat65 are how you cards turn sacrifice and self-immolation. aftera22-year That is the most shocking thing about hiatus.Shetalks women with becoming amother, the violent eviscera- ageism,feminism tion of your previous identity. No one That is the most shocking andabusewith warns you about this until it happens thing about‘‘ becoming a CarolineO’Donoghue children because we’re not supposed to mind. We mother, the violent 20 feel. chose this. It’s agift, they say, the subtext into bland being that you don’t moan about agift. evisceration of your Motherhood, the same people gush, is previous identity the most important job in the universe. one-dimensional And yet there are no university degrees It passes in countless tiny triumphs only helping to ease the transition from that you notice –the first time you get through 20 Irishfashiondesigner figures life to this, no night classes, not even areal asupermarket and no one ends up lying ÚnaBurke’srising handbook. Instead there are books with on the floor. The first time you get to profileisbasedonher titles that suggest children are animals to watch amovie the whole way through. useoftraditional be subjugated and bent to our will: The first time they say “I love you” before leathercraftingto Toddler Taming, Baby Whisperer, The you say it. Then one day, you turn around, create‘everyday Contented Little Baby Book.Iread, much and the angry little baby in the carrier is armour’,writes too late, that Gina Ford never had chil- tall enough to wear your clothes and sling DeirdreMcQuillan 12 dren of her own. She had cats, apparently. an arm around your shoulder, kind COMMENT There are also well-meaning strangers enough to tell you you’re doing great, REGULARS The Sunday Times in the Spar or on the bus. Listen to your though not with bunnies and lavender. March 17, 2019 29 instinct, they say, you’re doing great. But And you believe her –she should know. ESTABLISHED 1822 then, abeat later, they’ll add: wrap that To all the mothers: to mine and to WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2019 THE HERALD Hard Brexit has gone. So what Justine McCarthy child up. Or: take that blanket off. She’ll yours; to the inept ones, the patient, now, hard Brexiteers? overheat. Or: she needs anap. In the early resistant, nurturing, or kind ones; the THE Unity is best way to

years I’d obediently do whatever they creative ones, the smart ones and the hen the British prime min- ister’s withdrawal agree- risk exchanging that for a permanent diet ease pain of the past suggested, and then they’d look at me like funny ones; the ones who love bunnies 4 Welove... of sour grapes. Years of moaning will lie 1RM Saturday, April 13, 2019 COMMENT ment was voted down the ...... 13 first time, in January, it ahead of them, blaming Mrs May’s failure I’d failed an important test. Listen to your and lavender, and the ones who would 16 InConversation established a new record, to secure the kind of Brexit they wanted, being defeated by 230 but the fault will lie with them. There will instinct, they’d repeat, but my instinct was rather have their heads hacked off, happy 20-2No4 Styl timee for votes. Last week’s rerun be ample opportunity, once the with- saw some progress — a drawal agreement has passed and Brexit defeat by “only” 149 votes — but in normal A united Ireland would be fitting tribute to innocent victims of Bloody Sunday as bewildered and sleepless and cross as Mother’s Day. 26-32 Food&Drink W has occurred, for shaping Britain’s future ministerial times any government motion twice relationship with the EU under a different 34-39 Travel defeated so heavily would by now have prime minister. been put out of its misery. even of the 14 innocent people fatally As Matthew Elliott, who was chief exec- shot by British soldiers on Bloody cases against the soldiers as a “witch-hunt” that 40-41 Onthemove This, however, is the world of Brexit, Rebecca Barker sacrifice utive of Vote Leave, writes online for us Sunday were teenagers. They went “completely turns the stomach of the British mote in our own eyes. As citizens, our mission [email protected] and things are different. When the today: “If MPs vote down the withdrawal peacefully on to the streets of Derry people”. The sensitivities of the people of statement is Bunreacht na hEireann, which THE IRISH TIMES MAGAZINE24-28Tara Street,Dublin2. Email:[email protected] DisplayAdvertising: 01-6758585. 44-62 TV&Radio agreement comes back to the House of on January 30, 1972, to object to the Northern Ireland, by implication, were agreement for a third time this week, explicitly aspires to a 32-county Ireland. This HEALTH Minister Simon Harris Commons this week for a third time, sectarian implementation of the deemed irrelevant. His is not a lone voice. Brexit probably won’t happen.” Policy aspiration is not conditional on how much is facing a motion of no confi- British government’s internment Michael Fallon, a former defence secretary, has Editor: RachelCollins. 63 Archive Theresa May will be hoping that the Exchange, an influential think tank in the dosh we have in the bank. DONALD TRUMP’S DADDY ISSUES dence tabled by Sinn Fein, de- order issued the previous August. said any decision made about the soldiers by DONALDGuide Trump has daddy to: issues. Trump was born in the Bronx, lingering in the Eighties. Clearly, the (estimated at 22 a day), of course. pressure of the clock, parliament’s clear Tory party, has commissioned three legal Every one of the 342 individuals whom The closer Brexit staggers towards us, the S the Public Prosecution Service for Northern More specifically, the American New York, while his grandfather was US president is confused by coun- ‘Facts’ are entirely malleable to Trump spite his best efforts to put the majority against a no-deal Brexit, and the soldiers had rounded up for jail without trial in more Northern Ireland seems to be receding experts, Professor Guglielmo Verdirame, Ireland (PPS) should require the approval of President has issues with where his born in Germany. tries — although those are usually of depending on the narrative of the the initial phase of internment belonged to the into its hellish past, led by the Tories and the controversy over the National threat to Brexiteer Tories that Britain will the attorney-general in London, who would daddy was born. It’s not the first time Trump has the s**thole variety. situation. Sir Stephen Laws and Professor Richard predominantly Catholic nationalist community. DUP. The latter wants to stop the six counties Trump said recently: “My father is mixed up his father’s birthplace. But here’s the thing — Trump’s As long as he is the hero of the Children’s Hospital to bed. never leave the EU will be enough to swing consider “the wider public interest”. Ekins, who conclude that the safeguards Many, if not most of them, had no connection joining the rest of the world in the 21st century German, was German. Born in a very In his 1987 book The Art of the Deal, father’s birthplace is an easily check- story, it doesn’t really matter if the it. On past form, that looks optimistic, He apologised yesterday for and assurances “do provide the UK with with the IRA. Over four days, 20 civilians were Some in London have peddled the untruth by denying citizens their cultural, social and wonderful place in Germany, so I have Trump claimed his family was from able fact so why does he keep lying? facts are objective or not. Father that, while soldiers are being investigated, a great feeling for Germany.” Sweden, presumably to sidestep any Because he faces no real penalty born in the Bronx? not answering questions on the even though it would bring relief to British killed and about 7,000 others fled or were healthcare entitlements. To borrow from Lord ample legal comfort, and considerably paramilitaries are going scot-free. In fact there Which is wunderbar — except Fred potential anti-German sentiment still for his near-constant fabrications Fake news, people. business and voters alike. It would also be forced from their homes. Of the 1,981 people Denning’s memorable justification for DAD . . . Trump cost of the hospital “more fully” more than seems to be understood by are IRA prosecutions currently before the arbitrarily imprisoned during the four years prolonging the miscarriage of justice against and insisted it was never his welcomed in Ireland and Brussels where many”. courts. Others have decried the investigation of that internment lasted, only 107 were not part the Birmingham Six, an appalling vista is politicians have spent the past few days elderly former soldiers. Those same politicians intention to mislead the Dail. Nor should Tory MPs be hanging on the of the nationalist community, which had been unfolding. Theresa May and Michael Gove have railing against the UK’s plan to impose dared not advocate clemency when Gary THE IRISH TIMES MagazineThere are| Marchstill a lot of10, ques- 2018 | 3 coat-tails of Northern Ireland’s Demo- systemically treated as a second-class citizenry talked of bringing Northern Ireland back under Glitter, a septuagenarian former pop star, was hefty tariffs on the import of certain agri- cratic Unionist Party (DUP). A better case since the foundation of Northern Ireland. direct London rule in the post-Brexit twilight. tions to be answered as the jailed for sexually abusing children. Do they MIRIAM cultural products in a no-deal scenario. When those seven teenagers joined a This is a government motivated by its urge to controversial hospital’s con- of the tail wagging the dog would be hard sincerely believe that somebody who molested peaceful march that fateful Sunday, they had set its own human rights standards and whose Brexiteers do indeed fear being caught to find. As long as the DUP believes it has a minor ought to be prosecuted regardless of LAW BID struction costs now look set to justifiable cause to protest. Who would have Northern Ireland secretary, Karen Bradley, up in a “Hotel California” exit, courtesy of the massed ranks of the Tory European the perpetrator’s age, but that age ought to be a run to a massive €1.7bn. expected them to return home in coffins? For said that killings by soldiers were “not crimes” Why women like a line in that song: “You can check out . . . get-out-of-jail card for someone who has TEST IS How this information was Research Group behind it, it can adopt the decades afterwards, the British establishment but orders obeyed with dignity. but you can never leave.” But as anybody murdered minors? communicated between the hardest of hard lines. If that were to closed ranks around the soldiers, accusing the More than four years ago, the British PIVOTAL who has ploughed through the lyrics of dead and wounded survivors of being When it comes to Ireland, Britain’s government made a commitment under the change, it is not difficult to envisage the political class never learns from its errors. IN what must surely be a various government depart- that Eagles’ number knows, and as the “hooligans” who started it all by shooting and Stormont House agreement to establish legacy DUP, too, clambering on board. Just as the executions of the Easter Rising’s first for Ireland, broad- ments – and when – needs to band’s own members have admitted, you bomb-throwing. It would be 28 years before bodies for establishing the truth about caster Miriam O’Calla- This will be another big week for Brit- leaders led to independence and as Bloody be known. the Saville inquiry found not one of the 28 historical killings. That has not happened. To COLEEN’S ghan has secured a High can make of them whatever you want. ain’s parliament and Brexit. If Mrs May’s Sunday proved a recruitment magnet for the Bezos’ ex deserve Court order requiring people shot had posed a threat that day. After the contrary, it emerged last month that Questions will keep on com- It is a bit like that with Mrs May’s IRA, the despicable utterances emanating Facebook to identify deal is voted down again, any number of Lord Saville prompted a comprehensive significant information was withheld by the RULES TO from Westminster are accelerating the those behind alleged def- ing as we learn the extent of withdrawal agreement. Brexiteers can, in possibilities open up. They will not apology in 2010 by the British prime minister PSNI about cases under examination by the amatory adverts about the cutbacks that will have to insisting on the purest form of Brexit, tie conversion to Irish reunification. A HAPPY her on the platform. include a no-deal Brexit on March 29. David Cameron, the cover-up which began police ombudsman. themselves up in ever-tighter legal knots. almost immediately after the massacre, Which brings us to the reaction in the The adverts, which be made to fund this project. There could be endless extensions of Republic, where the cappuccino chatterati While these eerily reminiscent events have went viral, wrongly sug- including the Widgery inquiry traducing the transpired, the families of 11 other Catholic WEDLOCK The money has to come from Or, as we have argued and an increasing the article 50 process, or a “Norway-plus” decry the atrocities north of the border before gested O’Callaghan had innocent dead, was no longer sustainable. civilians who were killed in the Ballymurphy left her job with RTE’s somewhere, and it is taxpayers number of pragmatic Brexit supporters hastily clarifying that unification would cost THEY say the key to a every last penny Brexit, in which Britain remains in the A police investigation commenced. Last massacre in Belfast by soldiers of the same successful marriage is Prime Time to promote a now accept, you can make of the this part of the island too much hard cash. the brains behind the Amazon who will have to pay the price. single market and, to all intents and Thursday, Northern Ireland’s prosecution Parachute Regiment that rampaged on Bloody compromise — for the MARRIAGES come empire, would he have been new skincare line. South of the border, we’re so busy If O’Callaghan’s law- agreement what you want and, while service announced that, of 17 soldiers still alive Sunday have been listening to harrowing wife, that is. able to have a loving family However, calling for some- purposes, a customs union with the EU. congratulating ourselves on our new-found But some wives refuse and go but divorce is yers do succeed in identi- sometimes through gritted teeth, support who were implicated in the massacre by the evidence at their inquest. Witnesses have and build such a successful one’s head is not going to fix There could be a second referendum, tolerance, openness, inclusiveness and to compromise and pre- forever, the late, company without the unseen fying the users behind it. One former cabinet minister who Saville inquiry, just one, Soldier F, would face recalled a woman crying out that she could not fer a more extreme the ads, the case could the problem. which may overturn the result of the 2016 embrace of human rights, we cannot see the great Nora Ephron work of his wife? I doubt it. resigned over Brexit, David Davis, voted in charges, for two murders and four attempted see, unaware that half her face had been shot approach to keeping their The fact is, we live in a have huge implications, The project cannot be vote, or a general election, a Corbyn gov- marriage on track. once quipped. society that extols the virtues especially for those who favour of Mrs May’s deal. Another, Esther murders. In Derry, the families received the off; of a soldier walking up to a wounded man Holiday-goer and mum- of motherhood without actu- are routinely defamed by derailed by controversy. Our ernment and a softer, “socialist” Brexit. news with palpable sorrow and resilient grace. lying on the ground and finishing him off with So if you’re going to McVey, has suggested she might. Others of-four Coleen Rooney is ally supporting mothers while anonymous users on The time for playing games is almost The reaction could not have been more more gunfire; of soldiers tossing the dead into divorce forever, make sure social media. children need and deserve a rumoured to have issued we punish mothers who have could be ready to move. over. Tory MPs have it in their hands to different in London. Howls of indignation that army vehicles, flinging them in by one arm wayward husband Wayne you get a good deal. to work to pay the bills with As a journalist whose top-class health facility, and with a strict set of rules to Ephron may not have added punitive childcare bills and work is carefully edited Brexiteer Tory MPs who do not shift, prevent outcomes that would be much even one soldier was to stand trial emanated and one leg. that last bit but after poor maternity leave. and legalled, I’m always whatever happens, we must not from Westminster. Gavin Williamson, the Simon Coveney, the foreign affairs minister, abide by. divorcing her husband for his instead of seizing the opportunity of what worse, for them, than accepting Mrs The pair, who have Meanwhile, we’re quick to stunned at the malicious lose sight of this. defence secretary, said his department would has called out May’s government for reneging infidelity, I’d imagine it’s a cast divorcing women who lay content people post with for some is almost a lifetime’s ambition, May’s withdrawal agreement. They been married for 11 years sentiment she would have Minister’shomenot “drive through a new package of safeguards to on its commitments to justice, after being and have four boys claim to family assets they’ve impunity online. gotten behind. helped build as gold-diggers. should face up to their responsibilities. ensure our armed forces are not unfairly pilloried for saying he hoped to see Ireland together, are trying to One woman who has It’s time to redefine But here’s how it goes Facebook as a publisher treated”. Williamson previously said he united in his lifetime. There is no doubt that mend their relationship secured herself a very tasty down. Women, and mothers A government after the footie ace divorce deal, however, is Mac- and not as a platform so it ***** intended legislating to prohibit the prosecution this island has entered the transition to unity. in particular, do most of the bears responsibility for reportedly went out booz- Kenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of unpaid, invisible labour in a of soldiers for killings perpetrated more than 10 We are now in the persuasion phase but, ing with some blonde Amazon tycoon Jeff. the content it publishes. that has proved relationship — the child-rear- Meanwhile, in the wake years earlier. A government that has proved before we try to convince reluctant unionists to barmaid before being After 25 years and four ing, the caring for elderly or Long road lies ahead for the itself an ass in recent months now intends join a brave new all-Ireland, citizens of the arrested for drink-driving. children, MacKenzie will walk sick relatives, the groceries, of the New Zealand live- Don’t coop itself an ass Fed-up Coleen is said away with a cool $30billion — the cooking and the chores. streamed massacre of 50 proving the law is one too by passing legislation Republic must acknowledge our duty to fellow to have declared Wayne a billion or so for every year Not to mention the endless people, Facebook CEO designed to put the state beyond its reach, even citizens in Northern Ireland. We cannot leave can no longer play video of her marriage. emotional labour (the worry- Mark Zuckerberg has extension of our voting rights when it comes to murdering its own citizens. now intends them in the lurch again. games, can not sit in Ex-hubby Jeff, who was ing, the list-making, the called for governments to up our kids caught having an future planning). help regulate social Before last Thursday’s prosecution As we watch the shutters coming back down another room apart from theplaceforprotest announcement, Williamson described the proving the the family, must eat with affair last year This may or may media platforms. on the border, we must acknowledge that a her and the kids and gen- with TV presenter not be on top of a It’s an unprecedented united Ireland is not a luxury we cannot afford. Lauren Sanchez, full-time job but move from a man who WHAT happened to the days The people of Ireland are poised to law is one too erally must spend time could have had to It is a debt we owe and is long overdue. with them all. either way, it’s more has previously resisted pay half under than enough. And calls for regulation. when kids ran outside for hours BELIEVE in this country. Yes, financial crash as fast as we did. change the constitution to allow citizens Academic studies suggest out-of-state [email protected] Which all sounds Washington laws delightfully sad and it’s unpaid. And while it is true we and cycled with their friends? we make mistakes, but we’re a Lots of people expected us to living outside the state to vote in Irish voters do not dramatically alter the results where the pair Women will also need more robust laws depressing, really. reside but the cou- take responsibility It is jaw-dropping to think we democracy governed by laws fall apart and they bet against us. presidential elections. Two out of three of domestic elections. In 2013, 74,000 of If you have to issue a surrounding social ple struck an for raising the media, we also need to voters polled by Behaviour & Attitudes for no-fun edict to keep your incredibly amicable children at the are so far gone from those days that most of us obey. When we VICTORIA WHITE We didn’t, though. the 1m Australians living overseas voted in man in line, he’s hardly step up as citizens. The Sunday Times said they would vote deal, with MacKen- expense of their The fact is Facebook, that some parents think their established the Republic nearly We clung to our precious rule their federal elections. The experience of worth it now, is he? zie granting Jeff all own career so the Google, Apple, Amazon yes in a referendum to extend voting Canada is often cited: 2m Canadians living Larissa Nolan her interests in husband can con- children should be in a gym to a century ago, we founded a of law and our precious democ- The Washington and YouTube are too big rights to citizens living in Northern tinue in his. to regulate. get fit. Idemocracy in which every adult racy and we’ve worked solidly for in America and overseas are entitled to Post and Blue Ori- ADMIRABLE SPLIT.SPLIT. . These days, this OPINION Ireland and further afield. The vote, origi- gin, as well as 75 Jeff and MacKenzie decision to step As our laws currently In today’s Herald, we hear got the right to vote to make this more than a decade to rebuild this vote in domestic elections, but only per cent of her away from the stand, they simply can’t nally planned for May, has been moved to keep up with the shift to the story of a mum who tried to country a better place. How dare they pretend to stand home, but mostly I was working as country for our children and their 15,600 bothered to register for the 2015 Amazon stock. workforce is framed as a per- October because of the demands on Even so, MacKenzie’s payout sonal choice but usually it’s the virtual and so need to hire a personal trainer for her That’s still the case. Every adult up for our republican values when a mammy, and it wasn’t easy. children. general election — and just 11,000 of those will make her the world’s the inevitable compromise be entirely rewritten for Oireachtas legislative time imposed by the Man up, Hollywood, and cast a ballot. However, if 1m Canadians third richest woman. women face in marriage and the digital age. 10-year-old daughter. has a vote, including the members democracy and the rule of law are I had a six-year-old, two seven- I don’t believe this proud passage of a comprehensive law to cope LIKE that annoying house guest And with $102billion still in And unfortunately, were living just across the border in who has over-stayed their welcome, motherhood. Seriously, we need to take a of Fingal Battalion Direct Action. the very basis on which they’re year-olds and a nine-year-old. country has any place for protests the bank, Jeff will remain MacKenzie not only helped policing social media is with a possible no-deal Brexit. Buffalo, New York, the uptake in the out- Julian Assange was finally given his wealthier than Bill Gates, who start Jeff’s burgeoning book- not as simple as deacti- long, hard look at ourselves if I have a message for them: in a built. One of the twins had just that involve standing outside a marching orders by the Ecuadorian is worth a measly $88.5billion Fewer than a quarter of voters — 22% — of-state franchise might be higher. No Embassy in London this week. delivery business, she birthed vating someone’s children are not playing outside democracy, you make a difference I know this from experience, been diagnosed with autism. My politician’s house and scaring his stop making boys wimps by comparison. said they would reject the proposal, and The Wikileaks co-founder, 47, looked and raised his kids — so she account — within min- fewer than 530,000 Irish passports have But what was most interest- deserves her cut. utes they will have set up any more. through the ballot box, not by being married to former minister husband was out working night wife and three-week-old baby. 14% were undecided. Some supporters of distressed and dishevelled as he was ing about their divorce was Meanwhile, both Jeff and been issued to people living in Northern arrested by UK officers before being bun- another somewhere else. how cordial it was (in public MacKenzie issued gushing Instead it is up to the Our fear of stranger danger going to politicians’ house dem- Eamon Ryan of the Green and day. I was a single The early weeks of motherhood centre-ground parties have privately Ireland since 2016, a figure that suggests dled into the waiting cop van. at least). statements about one another Although hailed by many as a hero for his individual to use their and helicopter parenting means anding “accountability”. Party. parent, though a very are uniquely challenging for all voiced fears that opening up the presiden- And in my opinion, Mac- after the deal went through. power as both a con- the number of Irish citizens there is signif- leaking of classified documents, I think he’s Kenzie deserves every penny. Jeff hailed his ex-wife as tial elections to citizens outside the an absolute fecking chancer. sumer, choosing to sup- there are some kids who have It made my blood boil to see Our four children well-well-funded one. first-time mothers. icantly higher. After helping Jeff launch “an extraordinary partner, port local businesses in Experts believe it cost the embassy nearly Amazon from their garage ally, and mother, resourceful never gone to the park and the Battalion’s stooges outside were very young How did the Caoimhe Harris may be joyful, Republic could throw up dramatically €60,000 a month to protect Assange for the favour of those mammoth Some have suggested that extending Males are weak, females are cool and powerful — that’s real fantasy, Disney (she did the accounts and and brilliant and loving” climbed a tree. Minister Simon Harris’ house at when the financial Irish people treat but she must be exhausted, different outcomes. the franchise only for presidential elec- last seven years and in return he’s alleged to helped negotiate contracts for while MacKenzie said she was online retailers, and as a have breached the embassy’s rules, disre- the first few years of the “looking forward to the next voter by forcing those in All is not lost, though. Where the weekend. crisis hit. us during this attending to her baby’s constant In the 2011 presidential election, the tions does not go far enough and, if spected staff and even smeared faeces over business), the Princeton Univ- phase as co-parents and power to uphold and late Martin McGuinness attracted almost walls in dirty protests. The scut! change the law. would we be without our GAA, There they stood, all puffed up time? With the demands and snatching sleep citizens are to be enfranchised for one he other day I praised my son for being ersity-educated MacKenzie friends” with Jeff. 250,000 votes, and came third ahead of Meanwhile, Twitter users spotted Assange’s gave up her own successful Well I guess with billions in Meanwhile, I’ll be rugby, soccer and athletics with their own importance that DISASTER utmout st decency. when she can. election, they should be given the vote in “manly”. He’d handled a situation shown in a personality assessment to be uncanny likeness to Only Fools and Horse’s watching O’Callaghan’s city career to raise their four the bank, it’s easy to have David Norris and Fine Gael’s Gay Mitchell all. Others have argued for dedicated with a maturity beyond his nine years, “weak, naive, simple, powerless”. The Uncle Albert (inset). Unfortunately for children. warm, fuzzy feelings about case with interest. clubs teaching our kids to enjoy they got from no one but them- Everybody knew They left us Both she and her husband are Hollywood is telling us there is no place in Assange, no-one was fooled in the end... with 13.7% of the poll. What would he have showing honour, courage and supposedly oppressive patriarchy, for which And while Jeff is considered your ex... Northern Ireland seats in the Seanad, but society for masculinity. What might this do to fresh air? selves. where we lived. alone. They likely to be feeling highly protec- responsibility. It seemed a fitting all boys need to apologise, is highlighted when polled if Irish citizens in Northern Ireland this is a chamber crying out for wider boys’ mental health, and self-esteem, at a time They didn’t wait for an electoral The door was al- never brought tive of their baby’s security at the compliment. Yet he looked shocked. “I an alien asks his girlfriend Wyldstyle: “So you had been entitled to vote? And is that a when we pride ourselves on such concerns? I reform than a mere tinkering of seats to don’t want to be that,” he told me. fought and built and kicked butt — and the mandate, not them. ways open as our their many trou- moment, which is nature’s way of good reason to reject the proposed exten- can’t decide which outcome is worse: that our CONTACT US accommodate our northern brethren. “That’s a bad thing.” I reminded him of hapless male was the leader?” They took matters into their children scooted bles to our door. keeping that baby safe. his school motto, right there on the crest of his boys grow up to be self-loathing male feminists, Twitter and Facebook: sion of the franchise? The electorate On the basis of the 65% support that T The villain of The Lego Movie 2 appears to be uniform: “Viriliter Age”, meaning act manly. It or react with resentment. own hands, standing outside the up and down the As they passed, Baby Harris isn’t the reason thinks not, according to the result of the toxic masculinity. Emmet loses his way when HeraldNewsDesk the proposal now enjoys to extend was sad, as a mother, to have to reassure a boy minister’s’ house and blaming him road and swung out they might have seen that protest was wrong, but her he falls in with a loner tough guy action hero What kind of sexist attitude does it Editorial: (01) 705 5720 Behaviour & Attitudes poll, though opin- presidential voting rights, it appears likely his innate being is, in fact, a good trait. 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They’re calling on groups They may have called them- had anything to say other than She has started her life by gender identity is particularly rotten in a obsessed with men and competing against Home Delivery: 1890 130 130 more years away. Ralph Breaks the Internet was such insidious supposedly progressive society. Yet it wasn’t them? Women in the movies get everything around the country to go to the selves “the junior ministers”, but “Morning!” or “Nice day!” they making a very important political dogma I nearly walked out of the theatre. Published by Independent wholly a surprise, considering the cultural their own way. That’s not equality. Ralph is a manipulative, controlling bully who doors of those they say are waging they were totally unaware of the kept it to themselves. point. brainwashing from a radical left agenda that is Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd at wants to possess the female lead Vanellope. He It has left me questioning whether it is war against the Irish working disaster that was going on with Until, that is, they got to the That’s appropriate: her name being force-fed to younger generations in the irresponsible to bring children to what should their office, 27-32 Talbot Street, turns from a needy, clingy sap into a giant Feast day is turning ghoulish form of cinema. be “family-friendly” cinema while this plague is Dublin 1. Printed at Citywest, class – “Free State politicians, the country’s finances. Just as ballot box and voted my husband is Saoirse, which is Irish for free- monster of his own “bad” feelings. At the end, It seems impossible to go to a kids’ movie infecting screens. Am I, worse, allowing it? landlords, bankers, sheriffs they should have been – they were out of office. That’s how we do dom, and in Ireland our freedom we get to point and laugh at Ralph when he’s Naas Road, Co Dublin. nowadays without being lectured on and anyone else who lines up kids. things in this country. We vote. depends on democracy and the dressed up as Snow White and kissed by a frog. Professor M Keith Booker, author of Disney, 22 St Patrick’s Day is fast becoming the Hollywood’s twin pillars of liberalism: political Pixar and the Hidden Messages of Children’s against us”. I was doing a bit of writing from That’s why we got out of our rule of law. correctness and identity politics. I just want to Films, believes it is right to be vigilant. “The springtime equivalent of Halloween: a called a shillelagh. Instead of pinning his bring them out for an afternoon of innocence complexities and responsibilities associated low-key Irish holy day that has been shamrock to his lapel, in traditional and pleasure, not ideology and propaganda. with being a parent to kids who watch movies exported, processed, repackaged, repur- fashion, Leo Varadkar copied President Instead it’s like being at mass. need to be dealt with, by all parents, whatever posed and flogged back to us by the Donald Trump this year and wore it in his Worryingly, the constant message being their political persuasion,” he says. “Films do Americans. transmitted is one of emasculation. Boys are not function in a vacuum but rather reinforce top pocket, like a little window box. inept imbeciles who require eye-rolling, risk- lessons children receive from other cultural They were the ones who pioneered the The similarities with Halloween don’t taking, can-do girls to come to their rescue. Women in the influences.” parades, bathed their public buildings in stop with the changing styles of fancy They’re to be ridiculed, chastised and Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, green light, draped themselves in enough dress, either. This year, St Patrick’s Day denigrated. Males are weak, females are cool movies get worries that our children are not being green stretch polyester to roof the rain brings the threat of a scary man, who and powerful — in every film. It was wrong educated, “they are being indoctrinated, and when Disney always portrayed princesses as there’s absolutely no excuse for it”. There’s forests, and introduced us to a blunt looks like a badly carved pumpkin after a everything instrument — unknown in these parts — helpless victims whose main talent was certainly no justification for millionaire movie week in the rain, turning up on our door- attracting princes, but it’s equally wrong to go their own bosses reprogramming children in order to steps in the near future. Trick, or treat? to the other extreme. make a fashionable political point. Take The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, in way. That’s Peterson’s advice on what to do as a parent which the protagonist Emmet Brickowski is of boys is to instil courage, and teach them to not equality rely on themselves to prevail, step forward with confidence, and shoulder the burden. In other words, act manly. WINNER Anything But Equal

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“There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the “What are you gay or something?”. I froze as all the stereotypes flashed world you live in” before my eyes along with childhood memories of adults pushing their internalized homophobia onto me as young as four years old.I quickly I was in primary school when I first heard the word “gay” being uttered. dismissed the truth and left the conversation as it slowly dawned on me Every single time, without fail, whoever in question was being called that the things that I feared to be, I had been all along. Only twelve years said word, would screech that they were anything but. Anything old and afraid of myself. else would be better than being this word, to which we didn’t even Now in secondary school, I have learned to accept myself for who I am. understand. Only four years and already afraid. I may not have all the answers but what I do have is the evidence that I was in senior infants when I learned about the word lesbian. I never homophobia is alive and well. I was mocked in school over something knew such a thing existed. Labelled “dirty” and “pornographic”, the I cannot change and would come home to see lesbians being attacked oversexualization poured out of music videos such as “I Kissed a Girl” for refusing to kiss for male hetero pleasure. The oversexualization of by Katy Perry as my 5 year old eyes watched on. Before I could even ask lesbians in the media and in real life is life threatening and damaging what was going on my parents would change the music channel off as to young queer women growing up in the twenty first century. From fast as they could to avoid the burning questions which were on the tip pornographic categories dedicated to the sexualization of women love of my tongue. Lesbian relationships deemed sexual and dirty in the eyes women relationships to the vicious attacks on LGBTQ+ members is of the world, I was only 5 years old and I was afraid of being seen like disgusting. There is no surprise that seventy percent of LGBTQ+ youth that in the eyes of the world. feel unsafe in school in Ireland. I was in second class when I was brought to the shops to find myself a I have been through hell and back due to my identity and if you aren’t communion dress. In my mind I knew it was the last thing I wanted to LGBTQ+ I would like you to try to see the world through my eyes. A wear. As my mother looked at dresses I would stare at the suits in the world where you are scared to be who you truly are in fear of being other end of the shop, too afraid to ask if I could get one instead of a attacked, and scared to hold who you truly love. I will never forget the dress. I was too afraid to ask in fear of being called that awful word I had abuse I have gotten in the past but, I would never take it back, as it heard years ago at this point. Gender stereotypes are alive and well at saved another community member from getting the abuse, instead of this age and I wanted to be me without facing the heartless mocking me. for it. I would be shushed and turned to the “girls” section and put in Hold your head up high with pride, as one day we will no longer fear the garments which in the eyes of society defines who I am, or rather who dead of night, the strangers, the classmates and even the parents that they want me to be. Only eight years old and already afraid of who I make our childhoods hell and fear who we are. We blossom from our knew I was going to grow up to be. trauma, and grow stronger as a community, so own it I was in sixth class when it all began to click in my mind. I explored and was extremely confused. Bisexual, transgender, lesbian and gay were fully added to my vocabulary when I turned twelve. I remember talking about girls to my old friends when suddenly one snapped,

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6 THE BIG INTERVIEW Come away with a story. Objectivity is THE KIERAN SHANNON INTERVIEW An hour after Declan Hannon lifted the Liam MacCarthy Cup last August, another important rule. Credit where Éamonn Cregan phoned another Adare man whose leadership wasn’t so visible. ‘Congratulations. That’s what you started.’ Shane Fitzgibbon may have been a frustrated if well-heralded player, but that would credit is due and likewise, criticise when inform him in becoming a brilliant, if unsung coach criticism is called for. Last, but by no means least, a good sports reporter is one who is prepared to start at the bottom and work Preparing the Limerick

their way up. weeks after I got back we were playing Tipp in the championship — and I was sity of Central Lancashire, working with picked to start! Do you think John Kiely rocket for moonmultiple international athletes, teamslanding and would have picked me to start?! Only I Fitzgibbon acknowledges the validity of national governing bodies. But one of her didn’t start. I pulled a hamstring and the question, especially coming from fondest collaborations remains one of her failed the fitness test. Sure I wasn’t right! I FUTURE HISTORY someone whose discipline understands first, when as a young sport psychology wasn’t fit!” the weight as well as power of history. But lecturer in UL almost a dozen years ago, On mature recollection though, it AY 2011 and Shane already he’s seeing and nurturing a player she was asked over a coffee in the Sports wasn’t just that he could have helped him- Fitzgibbon as- who views such an obstacle as just another Bar by a strikingly modest coach if she self and Limerick that bit more. With a bit sumes a seat in challenge to hurdle. could be a critical friend to him and this more wit and cunning, Limerick could Ewan MacKenna and Vincent Hogan all the lobby of a “Funny enough, adults carry baggage programme for Limerick underage hurl- have helped him as well as themselves a Limerick hotel to but kids don’t. If you’re north of 22 or 23, ing that he and a few colleagues were try- bit more. help document you might be carrying that baggage but if ing to get off the ground. Just as Mickey Harte has attributed In MacNamara’s line of work, they talk the past, but, as you’re 17 or 18, history is of no conse- much of his coaching to having been a it turns out, re- quence to you. I think by going after the about the power and value of the egoless frustrated player, or more particularly, a started somewhere and you can be sure markably fore- younger group and by improving the way talent coach. Someone who doesn’t necess- frustrated corner-forward. You were a see the future. they’re prepared, that instils (the necess- arily want to go to the moon but just wants scavenger, living off scraps from ball ary) confidence. There is a bridge to cross to prepare the rocket so that someday it A young researcher from UL called meant for the big man at the edge of the but we’ve started. And I think this gener- will head and land there. Fitzgibbon, she square, never for you. While Babs was MRegina Fitzpatrick is carrying out a GAA ation can become successful.” found, was that rare, precious coach. preaching to Tipp the importance of al- it wasn’t on the pages of this country’s Oral History Project and for its purposes “The thing that really struck me about asks one of its former county players ways having a message on any ball, there PREPARING THE ROCKET Shane and that group of guys was that they was no such direct mail or delivery intend- about his background and career. were in it for Limerick and not for them- So the subject — “Born April 1963” — ed for Fitzgibbon. Eight years on to the very week and Shane selves,” she says. “It wasn’t about Shane “When I look back on almost all the Lim- speaks about how his father before him Fitzgibbon enters the lobby of another Fitzgibbon driving the future of Limerick erick teams I played on, there was no plan. most respected national newspapers. All- played hurling for Adare too but was sus- hurling, it was about Limerick hurling. Limerick hotel for about the only sit-down As a corner-forward, I might just hope the pended for a few years during The Ban for “I talk a lot about what we call Delayed interview he’s granted or even been re- guy might mishit it so it could land in front playing a bit of soccer on top of it. How he quested since contributing to that oral his- Gratification. If you’re in the space of de- himself then was coached by a visionary of me. Any ball you got was almost hap- tory project. veloping talent, what you may be doing pened by accident. but fearsome Christian Brother called Br The face isn’t one that we instantly re- now might not reflect well in the moment “I remember in the early ’90s, Gerald Ireland fi nals and Six Nations clashes are Dwain who in the winter would coach bad- but will reflect well on Limerick hurling in cognise — “Shane?” “Kieran?” — and for minton to help develop their hurling, the McCarthy came up to coach Adare for a most people who weren’t around when he six, seven years’ time. year. I was playing with Limerick at the end result being Fitzgibbon blossoming “Myself and my partner happened to played, the name wouldn’t register either. time but he was another level up alto- into an underage international in his sec- Even in all the tributes paid to the un- bump into Shane on the way into Croke ond sport as well as the first player from gether to anything I had been exposed to. sung heroes of this Limerick revolution, Park last August and someone in our com- Every night he concentrated on the skills. covered by those with years of experience. Adare to play senior championship for pany said, ‘God, it’s such a shame no one Fitzgibbon’s name has gone untraced in We got to the county final but Patrickswell Limerick. the volumes of odes and articles last Au- Tipperary’s Paul knows the work you guys did with Shane Towards the end then, Fitzpatrick asks beat us again. We were having a few drinks gust’s nirvana inspired and spawned. He Delaney battles Dowling and all those minor and underage afterwards and I asked Gerald, ‘Now that Fitzgibbon about his own coaching and his wasn’t an identifiable head of an academy teams.’ And Shane looked at him. ‘It isn’t involvement with the recently launched for the ball with you’ve coached in Limerick for a year, like Joe McKenna; he was the guy before about that. It isn’t about us. It’s never been what have you found is the difference be- Be prepared for U10 soccer games and Lifting The Treaty strategy and its fledg- Limerick’s Shane about us. Them going up and lifting the Joe, and, as he’ll quickly point out, before tween hurling here and in Cork?’ ling development squads that he’s helping Joe brought it on and made it better. Fitzgibbon in the Liam MacCarthy, that’s what counts.” “He sat back for a while, then said, ‘In to co-ordinate. Limerick is just after its A green-and-white flag planted on the But that’s perfectly fine with him, just NHL final in Limerick, it’s 80% brawn and 20% brain. In annus horribilis when Justin McCarthy as it always was. In fact, Dr Áine 1992. moon. hed by him. Cork it’s 80% brain and 20% brawn.’ refused to coach certain players and other MacNamara will contend that was one of Picture: “That resonated with me. And it was the schools camogie fi nals. The path ahead is players then refused to be coac e hope for Limerick hurl- his greatest strengths as well as charms. THE FRUSTRATED starting point for me. That something had Does he still hav Lorraine O’Sullivan/ MacNamara is now one of the UK’s lead- Inpho CORNER-FORWARD to change here, both in my club and in my ing? ing researchers and consultants in talent History now proves Fitzgibbon’s answer county if we were going to be successful. development, operating out of the Univer- “Because if you look at the videos of is that not just of an optimist but that of a If Shane Fitzgibbon was part of the Limer- those old games, the effort Limerick would long and winding, but know that when you clairvoyant. Though his tone is soft, the ick solution, then, by his own admission, expend in the first 20 minutes would be belief is strong. he had also been part of the problem. As a “Oh, I have great hopes for hurling in phenomenal. But that effort wasn’t sus- coach and talent developer, the first thing tainable. Our hurling would break down. Limerick. I think we’re improving. I think weren’t able to execute as he’d insist upon was hard work, work Ball in hand, we e were pro- we’re doing the right things. I think there hard. As a player, he didn’t. His first year good as the Corks and Tipps. W eventually reach the summit, the view is are great people involved. I think we have on the senior panel, he blitzed Clare for 1-3 a plan. There’s a vision for the future. I ducing inter-county players but not in the national league final. For the next enough of them because there wasn’t think if we continue to work hard, we will nine years he never again had to worry or be successful, because there’s a recipe enough attention given to skill develop- even listen whether he was in the starting ment. there and there’s enough people trying to 15 or not. “It was the same with the club. We had out of this world. follow it. “I remember very early on in my career, et players who independently would try “We are playing catch-up. We are not Paddy Kelly saying to me, be‘You’re harder on to the g Kilkenny. We won’t be contesting All-Ire- their hearts out. Patrickswell had a team team now and it’s going to all on the same page trying their hearts lands every year. We’re not as big as Cork. off it than it was to get on it.’ At the time I We don’t have the playing population of out. Phil Bennis had them playing to a laughed but he was right. I never knew plan.” Tipperary. But that doesn’t mean we can’t what it was like to lose my place and fight At the end of the 1993 season, Fitzgibbon be successful. to get it back. And I would have been better finished up playing with Limerick, disil- “My expectation would be that at under- off if I had known. Instead I took it all for age we will be consistently competing for lusioned. Bennis had coached the county granted. the previous two seasons, guiding them to Munster and All-Ireland honours. We “And looking back, I didn’t always de- a fantastic league final win in ’92 over reig- won’t win them every year but we should serve to be on the team. I wasn’t always at least be seen on the winning rostrum ning All-Ireland champions Tipperary, playing well enough. I wasn’t always fit but after Ennis witnessed both an ambush once a decade. And at senior level we enough. Sure in 1991 I went for my honey- should be capable of winning an All-Ire- moon in April. For three weeks! A few land or two every decade.” But is it not an impediment that more people than not in the county have never 24 seen Limerick win the Liam MacCarthy? Tips to becoming the best Sport is news Sports writers work to some of the tightest deadlines in journalism and are still expected to uphold all the same professional, legal and ethical standards, so having that solid foundation of what it means to be a reporter is fundamental. Sports reporting could take a journalist anywhere.

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EQUALISER: All-Ireland buzz Jason McCarthy glimpse of sport WARRIORS: Pat Horgan of Cork is tackled by Seán I SAT in Croke Park’s senso- 1. Our lives would be infinitely ry wonderland last Sunday, Finn of Limerick poorer without a GAA summer. tears streaming from my Yes, there are controversies and complaints: Newbridge or Nowhere, eyes. the Liam Miller benefit game and ticket GAA talking Never have I felt so soul- distribution for today’s replay in Thurles soaringly alive. a recent high-profile sample tray. There are so many narrow, often Yet, what a treasure, what a national points... divisive definitions of what it is to monument the game of hurling is. with be Irish. Anyone who allowed the beauty of But here it was, a Eureka moment, last week’s semi-finals to wash over ROY something gorgeous and overwhelm- at its very finest them can only have felt reinvigorated, CURTIS ing that touched the core, a visceral electrified by the heavenly light shone sense of identity, a euphoric taste of on the old coliseum. players ahead of the All-Ireland final belonging, uncontainable, scream- Bill Shankly defined his mission at and has warned of the corrosive effect out-loud joy. Liverpool in simple terms: “To make of hype. But, really, while accepting his Hurling, in the divine sweet spot the people happy.” located by Limerick and Cork, Clare concern, the great green tribe should and Galway, felt like home. Last week’s enriching double header pay absolutely no heed. continued hurling’s mesmeric summer In an ever more homogenous planet, Life is short, there is a whole universe something uniquely, powerfully ours: trend. It made the people swoon. of bad stuff out there. To the point that a glorious, uplifting Celtic tattoo on 2. Can Michael Murphy escape not to mainline on the high-grade buzz the arm of summer. Tyrone’s shackles? of the next fortnight would amount to One which, in a cascade of scores Donegal fans will pray that their negligence. and saves, exhibitions of extraordi- creative mainspring can deliver Limerick have not won an All-Ireland nary nerve and touch, courage and another summer hymn. in 45 years. physical resilience, advanced to Without getting overly existential, another level of fantasy. Murphy (right), a once-in-a- generation talent, long ago played what is the point of it all if the county The two semi-finals assaulted the declines now to binge drink from the senses as profoundly as the handiwork the freight on his inter-county journey, yet Mickey Hart glass of fizzing excitement they have of the Old Masters, until, eventually, in e been seeking out for decades? the overwhelming blur of beauty, there has continually found was only one rhetorical question. ways to clip his wings. Even the players should feel The one that asked whether a sport- The chairman of the no duty to be po-faced or to hide from the madness all ing 24 hours ever blazed so brilliantly, HEAT OF BATTLE: Tir Chonaill board has scored just three around them. set off so many emotional tripwires Peter Duggan of Clare and flooded the bloodstream with points from play in his Embrace it, enjoy it, be such a riptide of adrenalin. is tackled by Aidan last six championship inspired by it. These are Nickie Quaid, Peter Duggan and Joe Harte and Adrian collisions with the days of your lives. Canning were not so much hurlers, Tuohy of Galway Donegal’s fellow Ulster last weekend, as makers of spells. 5. Was Peter Duggan’s alpha males. point the greatest Justin McMahon, Alchemy ever scored, was Nicky Cathal McCarron and, most Quaid’s ‘steal’ the moment As they worked their alchemy, there THE ALL-IRELAND HURLING recently, Padraig Hampsey have been of the summer? was that intense, acute connection successfully deployed in a velcro man- Maurice Fitzgerald’s sideline kick that that only the greatest works of art marking role to frustrate Murphy. achieve. did for Dublin in 2001 has res Donegal have argued that some the top of my all-time list for 17 years.ided at It felt timeless, fathomless, provoc- of the shadowing has crossed the ative and deeply moving, its haunting SEMI-FINALS DELIVERED After last Saturday that Semple line, though a counter-argument Stadium score detonation of genius grace burrowing ever deeper into the could be made that Murphy, a hugely audience’s psyche, until it located and has a bedfellow. physical presence, frequently blurs the Duggan’s score for Clare – bouncing made its home in the soul. boundaries of what’s permitted. These were contests that would not SPECTACLES FOR THE AGES the ball from hurl to ground and firing look out of place hanging in a gallery. DRAMA TO THE END: Still, it was significant to hear Declan a one-handed score where just Bonner call for the referee to be vigilant In any sport, you have moments – a goalkeeper Nickie Quaid makesLimerick staying standing while being pinballed Rumble in the Jungle, Seve thrusting in protecting Murphy – and the slighter from one Galway body to the next a save from Seamus Harnedy Ryan McHugh – from roughhouse like a matador into the heart of Amen of Cork in the final moments of was a feat – had a degree of sorcery Corner, Maradona ben treatment. Bonner understands that, that separates it from even the best of World Cup to his will – thatding may thecome Mexican “He had no connection to the larger their All-Ireland semi-final with Paddy McBrearty absent, a world…just a human being staying the rest. along only once in a lifetime. ROY CURTIS Shane Dowling and Shane O’Dono- towering display from his greatest Quaid’s vital nicking of the sliotar Here were two in less than 24 hours. alive from one nanosecond to the ghue, Colm Galvin and Peter Casey player is the key to securing a place in next, drawing one breath after anoth- moments of thrilling uplift, making from Seamus Harnedy’s hurl as A pair of titanic, nerve-shredding, found surreal calmness under intense the All-Ireland semi-final. Limerick stared into the abyss was epic semi-finals that yielded seven er, fully aware that each one might pressure. the people happy or tearing out can burst through any obstacle. The that pickpocketed the bullet from be his last.” For a little while – calibrating angle their hearts. rest of us will simply relish what this 3. Can Galway survive if McInerney miraculous, something that nobody goals, 123 points and an even greater OPINION who saw it will ever forget. damburst of exhilaration and torment Seamus Harnedy’s chamber just as maninred,green,saffronandmaroon There is, of course, a world of and velocity that might carry their In the defining extra-time mo- summer of stunning renewal might and Canning miss out? and heroics and immortal snapshots. the Cork gunfighter was primed to have felt with everything on the line, difference between war and elite sideline cuts to the post – Canning ments, it felt like the assault on the offer us next. Hurling’s champions are wobbling o Pure intoxicating theatre. A weekend that flooded Limerick fire the kill-shot? at the epicentre of existence, trying sport and while, if comparisons can or Tony Kelly might have been the senses was strong enough to carry As the 30 gladiators gallop into the the throne. n with a hope unknown for 45 years and Or Duggan, as the Clare forward pin- to breathe as the walls closed in on seem trite, there are, too, undeniable single occupant of the entire world. across the galaxies, to deliver a jolt Thurles arena, we can remember the Bad enough that a resurgent Clare Cork with dark introspection, which balled against a wall of Galway bod- summer? similarities. Yet neither their technique nor to any life forms that might exist on words of a wistful Sugar Ray Leon- replicated Kilkenny’s achievement in Alpha Centauri. ard, ringside at a world title fight propelled Galway and Clare back to ies, yet, even tossed in the spin-dryer, In Black Hawk Down, his masterful nerve failed. pushing Galway to the brink. Thurles this afternoon. was able to right his balance, bounce recounting of conflict in Somalia, Combatants Remember the dream sequence of sshortlyhortly after his own retirement. Worse are the authentic fitness Along with the wonder and gratitude the ball off the ground, and fire a Mark Bowden shines a light on the ex- perfect Clare team play that cli Emotional “These guys are standing at the concerns surrounding their two most came the tiniest tinge of jealousy. wondrous one-handed score? More than anything, there is the with Jason McCarthy resurrectingmaxed centre of the world. You can see hilaration M60 gunner Shawn Nelson shared sense of combatants at that ex- If Limerick’s horizons are re- influential players. How must it have felt to be Quaid, How intoxicating was it to be in the felt in that chaotic cathedral of war. the Banner in the final breath of where I am. I am in the crowd.” Forget what Galway team is named: treme pitch of awareness, understanding Saturday’s exchanges? drawn, Clare and Galway are back The old warrior’s eyes moistened when Limerick’s keeper made that arena, at the very heart of a contest thun- “Close to death he had never felt so where they started, compelled to until the game throws in with Gearoid intervention for the ages, the one the stakes and potentially enormous Or, as the consequence of a misfire as he spoke. dering along the high road to history? alive…with death breathing right in consequences of every intervention. set last weekend’s emotional tour McInerney – the supreme centre- How animated and vital must every gusted over Croke Park like a burn- We are in the crowd, too, but any his face…a state of complete mental For so many of these young hurlers, ing Gulf desert shamal, Pat Horgan de force to one side and go again. tears – in Croke Park last weekend or in back in the modern game – and the and physical awareness. blissfully cast into the crossfire, it was holding his nerve to secure extra-time For the champions, there are deep con- Thurles today – are shed not in regret. transcendent Joe Canning on the field, as if life had regained a vital edge. on Sunday? cerns about two of their cornerstones, But, rather, in wonder and grati- their supporters will fret. On and on it unspooled, so many Gearoid McInerney and Canning. tude for this miracle of summer, for Even then, there will be concerns, Clare, empowered by their finest the untouchable thrill of the ancient A CUT ABOVE: just eight days after limping out of the display since 2013, will believe they game, forfor the the spine-tingling spine-tingling sense sense Peter Duggan of drawn game, about their readiness for of coming home. Clare during the such an intense contest. semi-final draw 4. Limerick should go utterly bonkers. John Kiely wishes to cocoon his MASTERY: Gearóid McInerney

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Chocolate bars and all that,” says Harrington. “I only do every second week- end and I get it covered if I’m away training or in competition. “Sometimes it feels like I’m asking for my job back when I’ve been away for so long, but I love it.” It’s Thursday morning and What potential employers are looking for is GLORY: The boxer Harrington is trying to place Troy Parrott in her mind celebrates with her after hearing about his latest David coaches Zaur Antia wonder goal. and Dmitry Dimitru, David The young Tottenham striker COUGHLAN TOUGH: Harrington had hidden, following the comes from Buckingham Street, EXCLUSIVE a few battles on her way historic victory in evidence on a CV that you haveDavid the motivation that around the corner from Portland to gold, including with India COUGHLAN Row, where Harrington grew Karina Ibragimova of COMMENT up. [email protected] Kazakhstan in the COUGHLAN “It’s a very close community semi-final bout REPORTS [email protected] and everybody knows every- thing about everyone,” she says. [email protected] On Monday evening the com- journalism requires. munity came out to celebrate her achievement after defeating Thailand’s Sudaporn Seesondee to win her rst world title. Kids in school uniforms and boxing tracksuits waved tricol- ours as her nal round was shown on the big screen. It was like Italia ’90 in November. David Those who couldn’t brave the David cold watched from windows as Des Cahill introduced the new COUGHLAN If you’re offered work experience,David don’t just sit in 60kg champion to the stage — to EXCLUSIVE COUGHLAN her people. COMMENT Harrington is a big presence [email protected] COUGHLAN in this area. REPORTS [email protected] Her image beams down from a billboard at the corner of Sean the corner looking at the [email protected] Go to the editors McDermott Street as part of a campaign to inspire young peo- ple in one of the most working as a football coach in disadvantaged parts of the Iceland. country, a place where gang- She spends much of her time land crime has threatened to rip back at her parents’ house on the neighbourhood apart. Portland Row and they keep her and ask: What can I do? STRONG ROOTS THE KEY grounded. Limit honest with me, otherwise HERO“I heard my ma saying to some- “Anything is possible when we “The Starbucks Confession you won’t improve.” one the other day: ‘I can’t believe Box, that’s what it was.” Her relationship with it. I just can’t believe it,’” she says, push ourselves to the limit,” She has no time for reads the quote attributed to Ireland coach Zaur Antia is SUCCESS laughing. sugar-coated comments from just as close, although there are TO HARRINGTON’S “I was like: ‘Thanks very much! the 2016 world boxing silver COUGHLAN coaches either. inevitable bumps in the road. She can’t believe it! Jesus Christ! medallist. David Since moving to St Mary’s target that was rmly in sight for They’re going to have to LOCALEXCLUSIVE Her phone hasn’t stopped “The two of them are in the cor-cor “But sure I couldn’t believe it club in Tallaght she has struck Harrington as the new 60kg world COUGHLANupdate the billboard now. hopping since last Saturday’s myself to be honest with you. David ner slipping and I’m slipping in the champion. COMMENT“People forget about the good up a strong bond with trainer win, with messages from “You train for it and then when [email protected] Noel Burke, who is not afraid to ring. It’s comical.” “That’s one of the goals that I COUGHLAN stuff that happens in the friends and family, and people Since gaining a sports grant you’re hand is raised ‘the champion David want to reach, but small steps to named in her honour for the speak his mind. like Katie Taylor and President and they were like: ‘Zaur of the world’ — is this actually me? REPORTS community,” says Harrington. know him very well. We’re “After my first fight in India, in 2017, Harrington has been able get there,” Harrington says. [email protected] “We have loads of sporting next generation of young Michael D Higgins. won’t tell you to go home “It’s unbelievable.” close. boxers coming through in the he said to me: ‘I thought there She only got it reconnected to put more of her energies into She knows there will be more heroes from around here, like again!’ reaching the summit of her Finding a niche or a [email protected] can make the “It’s all about encouraging. capital. was something wrong with the three weeks before the champi- “I told him and he had lows to get to the highs again. Olivia O’Toole and Wes sport. Not just kids, but people in He also made headlines when streaming. I thought it was onships in India and after a good laugh. He’s a For now the world champ is Hoolahan. general. No matter what you slowing down’,” she says, “I’m very grateful to everyone at enjoying some home comforts “Not just in sport — actors criticising gaffe-prone Minister Antia had sent her home from great coach. want in life you can get it, you for Sport Shane Ross for not laughing. the Institute of Sport, all the after going two Lynn Rafferty, training. coaches, and to Dublin City Laurence Kinlan just have to work for it. attending the event to celebrate “He said: ‘But then the next “My bill was overdue, not Afraid weeks without and Barry “Everyone in the community the new world champion. ght came on and I realised “We both get on so Council and all the people who meat in India. because I didn’t have enough to have supported me throughout my Keoghan, they all know me, they all know “I’ll be honest with you, it that’s just Kellie!’ pay it, I just don’t have it on well, we’re not Harrington difference in a competitive world because if you what I’ve been through. How career,” she says. they’re all makes no odds to me whether “I says: ‘Nice one Noel, thanks direct debit,” she recalls. afraid to say how it has three from around hard I fought to get to where I Shane Ross says congratula- for that!’ “I just never got around to it is with each other. ‘I’m doing Chance brothers, am. Joel, Aaron here. tions or doesn’t because the real “That’s how honest he is. I with training, so they cut me “I respect that in Two years ago Harrington was “It’s not about going out there really appreciate that and I people. If I nd and “Barry people who matter to me have off and I’d been trying to get it instrumental in helping ghting at 64kg, which is not an would be my and just winning medals and already said congratulations,” know that the next competition turned on for a few days. people are Christopher coming back and saying: ‘hey this for my Harrington reach the top. Olympic category, leaving her with — the friend, I’d says Harrington. I’m in I need to start faster in “I was on the oor of the gym bullshitting me, They are even in sync no chance of competing at the can show that you are as knowledgeable as anyone look at me.’ “I’m doing what I’m doing for the rst round. one morning at ten to nine I’d say good lat- when she steps in the ring. Rio games. “It’s about coming back and my community and my country “If I have a sparring session, trying to sort it out and at nine luck. You ter saying: ‘I got a medal, this is community “Zaur is slipping every This time her Olympic dream — not for Shane Ross.” he’ll tell me straight out: ‘What o’clock Zaur says ‘come on, know?” hangs in the balance as the IOC what you can do.’ Honesty is something she the hell were you doing there Antia, punch with me in there,” let’s go’. she says. investigate the International “This is where I came from values greatly. Kellie? You stood there, you “So I legged it up to the top of along with and this is what I’ve been COUGHLAN “I have a little video clip Boxing Association over the elec- David didn’t move, you stood to trade the gym, trying to hide and Dmitry and my Dare up on my Twitter and you tion of controversial Uzbek PRIDE: through in life. punches,EXCLUSIVE what are you doing?’ nish it. Dmitruk else in your field – be it tennis, golf, Formula 1 or “If I can get through all In India, Harrington and her “I appreciate that, sometimes can see it in the corner. businessman Gafur Rakhimov as Harrington’s “Then at ve past nine I got and high “I’m slipping punches, head of the body. parents Yvonne of that crap then anyone teammates lled the evenings coaches tell a boxer, ‘ah you’re wind Zaur had sent me home! perfor- can do it, with the right in camp with games of truth or country, not but Zaur and Dmitry, the Yesterday the IOC put plans for and Christy [email protected] great.’ “So I left and did a yoga class mance boxing at Tokyo on ice — a help and the right attitude. dare down at the local coffee “They’re going around telling director GOLDEN GIRL: Kellie two coaches, it’s like syn- “If I can do it, anyone instead and just relaxed and chronised slipping. shop. everyone in the world ‘my boxer came back in the next day. Bernard Harrington after taking can do it.” “Nobody was doing any dares, is the best boxer in the world. “I got a text message off Dunne, gold last week for Shane Ross’ football – then you have more chance of getting At Monday’s reception it was all about the truth. We They’re this and they’re that’. I somebody after I won the nal have been Dublin Lord Mayor Nial were all asking all weird prefer them to be brutally PAL: Harrington is Ring announced a new fund questions,” she says. friends with actor from Dublin City Council commissioned or getting that first job. Barry Keoghan 26 WINNER MUD WRESTLE by Garry O’Neill

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The die was cast. November After the break, everything Borrisoleigh haven’t won the 3rd 2019 would be a deciding became a ‘fl ash in the pan’ for title since 1986 was the message match. Who would go through Borrisoleigh as Kiladangan’s Dan which spread across Ireland; it was to the Munster Hurling Club O’Meara fl icked the sliotar past the talking point for months. The Championship? Which team James McCormack to make it fi nal score line read: Borrisoleigh would be crowned Kings of the a 3 point game, which on the 1-15 Kiladagan 1-12. As the Mighty Tipp? strike of a ball separated the two Borrisoleigh Captain Conor Kenny One team had progressed from teams. Brendan Maher was on walked up to receive the holy grail rock bottom to becoming one sound at the half-back line as you could see in his eyes how of the Tipp giants in the past he hit 3 points; two from frees much it meant for him to have decade. The other had been which helped Borrisoleigh stay captained an extraordinary team knocking on the door for the ahead. Kiladangan were awarded all the way to a county title. When past 33 years, but that fi nal place a penalty after Sean Hayes was he lifted the cup you could nearly had always eluded them. This dragged down by the Borrisoleigh sense the team’s ancestors looking was the day that would decide defenders and the referee had no down at them from the highest which team would represent the hesitation in blowing his whistle. heavens and also shedding tears premier county in the Munster Up to take the penalty was of joy. Hurling Club Championship and goalkeeper Barry Team manager Johnny Kelly said which team would hopefully later Hogan, goalkeeper vs goalkeeper. ‘‘Every one of those players is reach the ultimate goal of being The shot was taken and James special,’’ and right he is too after crowned All-Ireland Hurling Club McCormack leaped like a salmon their performance on that very Champions. in a river and blocked the sliotar special occasion. Brendan Maher That journey started here. with his ash made hurl. praised Johnny Kelly’s saying Borrisoleigh V Kiladangan. The When the clock hit the 50 minute ‘‘When Johnny Kelly came in he fi rst game play action came 11 mark, supporters from both sides transformed the team really- he seconds into the game when were edging their teams to get a just brought something that we Kiladangan’s number 15 Billy score which would make all the hadn’t experienced before and Seymour had a crack at goal diff erence at the end. It was a do brought a diff erent element to but was superbly denied by or die situation for the players out it.’’ He also emphasised how the Borrisoleigh’s big number 1 James on the fi eld at Semple Stadium. whole community had played McCormack. Borrisoleigh were Point of the day would have to a hugely important role in the denied a golden goal that would go to Kiladangan’s number 11 historical win and concluded narrow a small gap between these Willie Connors for his outrageous ‘‘We’ll all go back to Borris-Ileigh opponents, but James Devaney sideline cut that swerved over the together and celebrate together.’’

52 EPA- made sure that he would add bar and I’ll tell you Joe Canning Now they have climbed one Sport Gaelic Games PER Wednesday, December 26, 2018 IRISH INDEPENDENT another goal to the incredible tally would have been jealous of that! mountain, there are many more Safe hands: career with a red card for a headbutt Tom Condon in the 2006 World Cup final. catches the “It’s great now to laugh about it, but sliotar in the at the time it was a bit raw,” admits last seconds he had already amassed during The last poc of the day was the to climb if they want to go all Condon. “I wondered was that how of the I was going to bow out? But I let the All-Ireland emotion take over and I shouldn’t SHC final, have.” which ended The team’s sports psychologist Limerick’s the way and make their dreams Caroline Currid had been telling the course of the County Hurling Kiladangan’s goalkeeper Barry 45-year wait them all year that if they played for the Liam with emotion they’d play in peaks MacCarthy and troughs. Remove the emotion, find the consistency. But little could prepare Condon for how it felt sitting Championship. He did this in style Hogan as Kiladangan’s eff orts to come true. They will have a whole in the stands, awaiting a call-up during the All-Ireland final. “It’s horrific, your stomach is in knots and you can’t do anything. There were times I couldn’t look at with a solo goal from the 45 metre get on top failed. maroon and white army behind the pitch, I was so wound up – you’d be nearly sick with nerves.” After 50 minutes he was told to warm up alongside Richie McCarthy when Mike Casey went down The fi nal whistle sounded, their backs as Brendan said injured, but his heart sank a little line and he buried it at the back of when McCarthy got the nod. Condon stayed active on the sideline just in case, and when corner-back Richie English got injured in the 72nd minute, he finally had his chance. the net on the 28th minute. Both Semple Stadium erupted with ‘‘together we will celebrate.’’ “Jesus, when I went on I was battered from all angles – the intensity was ferocious,” he says. “We were still up five points and you think you’re home and hosed, teams scored from all around the cheers of happiness, it was like Their triumph should inspire any we’re coasting, but those six minutes ‘It’s stuff you see in movies, above felt like 60 minutes.” He remembers Galway’s aerial attack, ball raining do wn s for all 6ft 5in of Johnny Glynn;earching he pitch far and short and from all the stand roof had been blown team across the country to never remembers stalking Conor Whelan and trying to spoil as much of his ball what we could have dreamed of’ as he could; and he remembers that final moment, that last greedy snatch at the ball, his sprint to freedom to fill give up hope and like Borrisoleigh a lifetime void. angles too and the fi rst half ended off . The cheers were so loud you CATHAL Idolised Tom Condon reveals the euphoria of how his catch finally “It was unbelievable,” he says. “I DENNEHY ran and jumped around the place. I ended Limerick’s 45-year wait for the Liam MacCarthy looked like an eejit, but what else do 1-09 to 0-07 in favour of the could have heard them as far to follow their dreams.. you do?” Little moments – there’s been so many these past few months, ERE’s what he was each a little signifier of its impact. thinking, 74 minutes unlimited heartbreak. Tom Condon Like the tears flooding the eyes into the All-Ireland final, had one thought before that final 6-19 in the semi-final, and it’s a good Borrisoleigh men. as the Slievenamon mountain. of Conor McCarthy, a member as Limerick clung to a play, clichéd and all as it thing not many others had scar tissue recalls telling them. “I’d never been seems: walk of Limerick’s backroom room, or two-point lead like a life away with no regrets. left from those days of drudge. involved with such a talented group visiting clubs around the county and belt in a raging sea: “Ah “I was thinking this ball could drop In 2010 Condon was one of many of players. There was a great buzz in understanding the true want – need Jesus, Limerick, are we short so it was going through my who refused to play under Justin the camp.” head, ‘just attack this, don’t stand McCarthy, feeling At 30 Condon was far from past it, – that had been out there. going to do it again?” he h ad no option HFour months on, Tom Condon back leaving someone else do it’. but to side with friends who had been but he’d been asked about retirement A few weeks after the final recites his thoughts with a hint of There’s plenty times you tell yourself dropped from the panel, and so he enough that he at least had to he brought the cup back to embarrassment, because for all the after games you should have gone for went off to Chicago for the summer, wonder, particularly with a full-time Knockaderry, a village of 1,500 work with sports psychologists, that ball,” he says. ticking a box on his bucket list. job at a factory in Askeaton and a two- people, who he has played club for all the compartmentalised When Galway came charging like a Limerick won Munster in 2013 but year-old son, Nicky, to look after. hurling with since the age of seven. focus he knew he needed at that Pamplona bull, he thought of ’94. Of their form went walkabout in the His girlfriend Sarah Carey, “They’ve always stood behind me, moment, three decades of hurling course he did. Everyone did. All-Ireland semi-final against Clare, daughter of Limerick hurling great no matter what, even through the red had ingrained in his subconscious a Six years old, running around his and ever since there’s been enough Ciarán, plays camogie with Limerick cards,” laughs Condon. wretched thought – when the stakes living room thinking Limerick had moments to make any Limerick man and such are the demands they can Then there were the guys he are this high, Limerick is somehow the All-Ireland in the bag, until of miserable with remorse. often be like ships passing in the idolised – Stephen McDonagh, Mike gonna be Limerick. course they didn’t, conceding 2-5 to night at home. Houlihan, Joe McKenna and the “It’s amazing what your mind can Offaly in the last five minutes. “Our family are great, always there likes – coming up to shake his hand, do to you,” he says. “Crazy thoughts Two years later his parents couldn’t ‘I ran and jumped around the to help and babysit and only for them telling him they should win a few go through your head.” get him a ticket for the final against place. I looked like an eejit, but I wouldn’t be able to maintain it,” says more in the years to come. Four minutes later, during the final Wexford, and Condon remembers Condon. “It has been difficult. Sarah “I don’t see any reason we can’t play of the game, the ball hung in the his dad and uncle cramming into a what else do you do? is training most nights and I’d be out push on and retain it. It’s a massive air for four interminable seconds, Ford Fiesta with friends and setting five or six nights a week, but it’s all ask, but we’ve beaten every team this cannonballed in by Joe Canning with off for Dublin, green and white flags worth it when you get days like that.” year and it’s the same format so why just one point between the sides – an hanging from every window. Of “We should have won one, but we For much of the summer it seemed can’t we win it again?” anxious terror rising inside every course, they lost that one as well. never quite did,” Condon says. “We unlikely he’d get any playing time in Few would bet against it, though 27 man, woman, boy and girl in green. After this year’s final Condon wasn’t had lot of regrets.” the final, especially after the Clare right now Condon has little Most finals are remembered for a surprised when guys like Nickie Key word: had. game in June – the one blot on inclination to look too far forward, specific score, a back-of-the-net blast Quaid, who was also old enough to This year he knew early on that Limerick’s perfect season. not when looking back – for once – or a pivotal point, but not this one. remember those losses, told him he things were different. The game they Condon had been given his chance offers such a pleasing vista. He think It was the grab – a desperate snatch had the same, haunting thoughts evolved under John Kiely – which in the 13th minute when Sean Finn back to that sea of green outside s of the sliotar by a 30-year-old from during those final minutes. had its origins in Donal O’Grady’s went off injured, but shortly before Colbert Station, and later in the a tiny club in Limerick with zero “It’s not a nice thing to have pop tenure – became second nature. half-time he was shown red after Gaelic Grounds, the night they made All-Ireland medals to its name. It into your head,” he says. “But the Just before Christmas, Condon met striking David Reidy with his hurl in their homecoming. was the swipe and sprint through younger lads wouldn’t even mention friends at a boxing fundraiser and an off-the-ball incident. “It’s stuff you see in TV or a wall of bodies, up and over his that or think it – they’re made of was unable to curb his enthusiasm. They lost by 11 points, and Condon movies. The supporters have been county’s countless failings, and away different stuff.” “Something is going happen with wondered if that was it for him and phenomenal, even through the bad into open space, unshackled from He joined the squad in 2009, the this team; it mightn’t be this year, Limerick, especially when team- times, and it’s brilliant to be able to year Tipp vaporised Limerick with but in the next two or three years mates jokingly started calling him give them joy,” he says. we’re going to win an All-Ireland,” he Zinedine Zidane, a nod to how the “What we got was over and above French great ended his international what we could ever dream of. It was ridiculous. It still is ridiculous.” Photojournalism

COURT MARCH by Gary Ashe, Irish Daily Star

Learn from last year’s winner WINNER STRIKE A POSE An unfolding news event, a portrait of modern Ireland, human emotion, a study of wildlife, children jumping on a trampoline, someone catching a fish – it really is a personal opinion as to what makes a good photograph. More often than not it is simply a case of being in the right place at the right time –with a camera in hand, of course. Nowadays using a camera is much more simplified. With the automated features in pocket cameras and on phones, it really is a case of point and shoot. Photographs communicate information in a powerful way and the key to analysing or reading the information a photograph communicates is simple. We use specific questions to decode, evaluate, and respond to photographic images. When looking at a photograph we need to consider not only the content of the photograph but the intent of the photographer. It is important to think consciously and critically and to pay 28 attention to all aspects of the image.

Rebecca Keane, Coláiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare. PAPAL BREEZE by Fergal Phillips

29 HARDY BOY by Garry O’Neill Photojournalism Tutorial Tips to taking a better picture • Move in closer - fi ll the frame for a better shot.

• Be quick, and always be ready to take your shot as things change in front of you.

• Photograph the same subject from diff erent angles and distances to get the best eff ect.

• Where is the light coming from? See how it aff ects your picture and think about how you can make the most of the light you have.

• Emphasise your main subject and avoid any unnecessary distractions.

SAVITA’S LEGACY by Niall Carson, Press Association • You have a maximum fi le size of 3MB for entries - you might also consider having a minimum size of 1 MB to make sure your photo is big enough.

30 DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL VISIT FAMINE MEMORIAL, by Frank McGrath, Independent News and Media CHURCH AND STATE by Steve Humphries, Independent News and Media

PRIDE by Julien Behal Navigating the News

So, by now the Press Pass programme has hopefully taught you a lot more about how news is gathered, fact-checked, and reported. You’ll have learned about the diff erence between a news report, opinion piece, and a feature, as well as the ethics behind responsible journalism.

News literacy encourages people need to think carefully about the news they consume. Sometimes stories that appear to be news reports are really advertisements or propaganda from a particular organisation that seeks to further its own agenda. Other times, news reports won’t include all the facts or all sides of a story.

To make good choices, we need reliable information. How do we know who is producing the news information that we’re consuming, and secondly, is that information reliable?

Dr. Aralynn McMane has spent more than 20 years helping news media associations create and enhance partnerships with educators around helping young people become civic-minded, media savvy citizens. She was a key advisor on NewsBrands Irelands’ Press Pass initiative and has been a key advisor on this news literacy element.

Here, she presents a straightforward, new approach for students judging news content that centres on “lateral reading” and “click restraint.”

Interrogate information instead of simply consuming it Before the Internet, accessing information was less complicated. When you wanted news, you bought a newspaper, magazine, or turned on your local radio or TV news. Now news comes to us digitally from an unending number of sources so how do we analyse the author’s qualifi cations or the trustworthiness of the site?

Lateral Reading An exciting new approach to checking content has come from Stanford University called “reading laterally,” a technique that professional journalistic fact-checkers use. Lateral readers don’t waste time on a story on a website or social media until they’ve fi rst checked out the reputation of the source by looking at what other sites and resources say about the source at which they are looking. To verify the validity of a news source, the student has three checks: ✓ Who’s behind this information? ✓ What’s the evidence? ✓ What do other sources say about the author or news site?

Another useful way of deciphering information is to exercise “click restraint” by checking past the fi rst page of Google search results rather than just picking what come up fi rst. Just because these stories come up fi rst does not mean they are the most trustworthy, in part because some companies pay for you to see their stuff fi rst.

32 In addition, The Be Media Smart campaign has been developed by Media Literacy Ireland and is supported by a range of organisations across Ireland, including NewsBrands Ireland, to help people tell the dierence between reliable and accurate information and or deliberately false or misleading information. Information is everywhere and sometimes it can be dicult to judge how accurate or reliable information is. Always try to STOP, THINK, CHECK that what you are seeing, reading or hearing is accurate and reliable.

STOP

Read more than the headline Headlines are designed to catch your eye but a headline can’t give the full story, and neither can a short social media post. If it sounds unbelievable, it probably is.

Don’t assume that a picture or photo is giving you the whole story Sometimes pictures lie. If a picture has been altered or ‘photoshopped’, or simply used out of context, then it can be easy to draw the wrong conclusions. You can search for the photo or image to verify where it came from. Tools like Google Reverse Image Search can help to fact- check images.

Just because information goes viral or is trending, doesn’t mean it’s accurate Disinformation can be designed to provoke a strong emotional reaction and prompt instant sharing or ‘liking’ in a moment of outrage, excitement, disbelief, and so on. Social media and messaging applications make it really easy to share information quickly to wide groups of people.

33 THINK Think carefully about what the information is for That means asking yourself some questions. Information is created to: • tell us something (news) • entertain us (satire, cartoon strips, funny videos) • persuade us (advertising) Look at the style, tone and source of the information to help you to judge how reliable or accurate it is. Consider your own biases Ask yourself whether the information challenges you or does it match your own views. We are more likely to believe information that supports our own views – even if it seems a bit dubious. Formulas like algorithms can track what you read, see and hear online and generate recommendations for you based on your previous choices. So the information that you get can be highly personalised and not necessarily reflect broader views or opinions. See if the information is being reported anywhere else If you can’t find the same information elsewhere, it could be because it is inaccurate, unreliable or out of date. This is especially true if the information appears to very topical or newsworthy. CHECK Look closely at the web address Sometimes disinformation is found on websites with a web address (URL) that looks very similar to a well-known news or media site. There might only be a small change in the spelling of the URL. If in doubt, go to the real site and compare the URLs. If the information comes from a website that you are not familiar with, look for an “About” section to learn more about who is behind the website and why they might have this information. Find out who the author, producer or publisher is Knowing who created the information will help you judge what their motivation is. Are they trying to sell something, a product, an idea or something else? If so, why? Is the author or publisher a supporter of a particular political idea or figure? Is the author an online “influencer” like some Youtubers? Are they likely to be paid to say this? Look at the detail to check for accuracy Do any dates mentioned make sense? Are there references to unnamed experts? Are the links to the author’s sources clearly visible? Information that comes from reliable and trustworthy sources is usually well written. So, watch out for typos and strange sounding sentences. Ask the experts Get a second opinion. For a list of fact-checking sites across the world go to the fact-checking database created by Duke University’s Reporter’s Lab. 34 Go to PressPass.ie for more information on News Literacy such as videos, podcasts, and articles. PRESS PASS The competition

HOW TO ENTER As part of the Press Pass programme, students and schools have an opportunity to enter our prestigious competition, the winners of which will be honoured at a national ceremony in Spring 2020. There are seven categories in the competition – Our new Student Newspaper competition and News Literacy challenge, as well as our annual News, Features, Sport, Comment/Opinion, and TO ENTER Photojournalism categories. • All entries must be submitted via the competition section of the website GO TO • All entries must be submitted by close of entries on January 31st 2020 presspass.ie IMPORTANT! • The work must be your own. It cannot be copied from any other source. • News, feature and sport articles must be fact and not fi ction. • Any and all quotes you use must be taken from interview(s) you have conducted.

If you do not adhere to the strict guidelines, your entry will not be considered by the judges.

CATEGORIES

NEWS FEATURES COMMENT/OPINION For your news article, you can For your feature article, you can For your comment piece, you can choose from one of the following choose from one of the options choose from one of the following: Go to presspass.ie options: below 1) write a letter to the Editor on an to read award a) Interview a local celebrity, a) Write a profi le of a person/ issue you care about (400 words politician, or local personality. group/organisation you admire max) winning journalism Write the article based on your b) Interview a well known 2) Choose an issue that aff ects you, and get tips interview personality and write a feature or something that you have an and ideas b) Identify an issue relevant to on the interview opinion about. (600-800 words) you, your school, or your area. Maximum 800 words, minimum 600 Interview people relevant to the words. SPORT subject of your choice. For your Sport article, you can c) Focus on an event in your choose from one of the following: local area. Write an article PHOTOJOURNALISM a) Attend a local sporting event giving details of what it is/has A thought-provoking, action- and write an account happened, how, why, when, and packed, shocking or beautiful image b) Write a profi le of a sports who was involved. – you decide. Remember this is a personality you admire Maximum length 800 words (ideally photojournalism and documentary c) Interview a well-known sports no less than 600 words). This can photography competition, so the personality also be submitted as a multimedia photo must have news value Maximum 800 words, minimum 600 news article with video if you wish. All entries must be submitted in words. jpeg format with a maximum image 35 size of 3MB and a minimum of 1MB. School Newspaper Competition!

This competition will allow the whole class to take part in this fun and educational project which will give students a hands-on experience of the news publishing process. TO ENTER Teachers can take the role of Editor-in-Chief and assign roles to students such as researchers, GO TO writers, photographers, videographers, presspass.ie podcasters, sub editors, reporters, and designers.

All articles must be written by the students and TO ENTER... may include for instance, local news reports, interviews and articles about school events, sport events, book/fi lm reviews, and opinion All entrants must adhere to the pieces on domestic and world aff airs. following guidelines: For helpful hints and tips about creating your school newspaper, go to our website: www.presspass.ie

• Entry is free, and is open to all schools and • Avoid including any content in your entries (e.g. classes participating in Press Pass text, images, brand names) to which you do • Entries should consist of a maximum of eight- not hold the copyright. If you do, you must be page, A3-sized, portrait-orientation interactive able to provide written permission for its use. PDF. An interactive PDF can include embedded Entries containing any unauthorised content will audio and video content. be disquali ed. You can contact the following • All entries must be created speci cally for Press organisations for more detailed information and Pass 2019 and be suitable for displaying in a resources: https://irishwriterscentre.ie/pages/ public environment. copyright-information • Software programmes such as InDesign, • All entries must be submitted online (including Illustrator, or Photoshop can be used for the uploading of your school newspaper as an design of the newspaper. Alternatively, there are interactive PDF) a number of free newspaper templates available online (please go www.presspass.ie for useful examples)

JUDGING CRITERIA Judges will select the winning work under the following criteria:

• Standard of writing, layout and design • Compelling stories, great photography/illustrations, and high editorial standards • Appropriate audience focus will also be considered 36 Prof. Michael Foley Press Pass Chair of the judging panel Kevin Doyle Independent News & Media Gillian Nellis The Sunday Business Post Judging Lauren Kelly The Irish Sun Fiachra Ó Cionnaith Irish Examiner Panel Catherine Fegan Irish Daily Mail Kevan Furbank Irish Mirror Conor Doyle Irish Daily Star Daragh Keany Sunday World Anne O’ Donoghue Irish Country Living Fiona Gartland The Irish Times Dave O’Connell Connacht Tribune Crispin Rodwell President Press Photographers Association of Ireland (Photojournalism category)

Press Pass gives students the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the media, how it works FOR FURTHER and who to trust by learning to do journalism INFORMATION: themselves. If a student knows how good journalism Lisa Buckley, is made, then they are better equipped to interrogate NewsBrands Ireland, the information that bombards them daily.’ Clyde Lodge, 15 Clyde Road, Dublin 4. (01) 6689099 [email protected] M@newsbrandsirl 37 Prof. Michael Foley, Chairman of the Judging Panel