The Front Pages
The main headlines on some of today’s national broadsheets:
“Facebook site to help find missing teens†– The Irish Examiner.
“Police in Sierra Leone free kidnapped Irish businessman†– The Irish Times.
“€280 each to bail out the Greeks†– The Irish Independent.
The wonderful world of Facebook. A form of social networking, free advertising and instant chat.
Now, however, a special site has been set-up to assist the safe return of two teenagers who absconded from their homes last Sunday.
The Irish Examiner tells of the heartache of the two families who are searching for Eamon O’Riordan, 16, from Co Tipperary, who was accompanied by his girlfriend, Christine Berny, 15, from Co Laois, on a runaway mission in his father’s car.
Eamon and Christine have been spotted on various filling station CCTV footage across Munster and they are believed to have sufficient monies to last for another few days.
The Facebook site is accessible by keying in “two missing teenagers†into the search engine on the site, or for more convenience click here.
According to a report on the front page of The Irish Independent every Irish citizen will lend €280 to bailout Greece and other debt-ridden eurozone countries.
A law was passed in government last night to deliver a €1.3bn bailout package to Greece and that’s just the start of it.
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are at loggerheads over the lending sum which will hit the pocket of every person in the state. The entire eurozone rescue package from the more stable countries will be in the region of €80bn.
The Irish Times reveals how an Irish businessman was fortunate to be freed from a kidnapping incident in Sierra Leone on Monday.
The businessman, whose name cannot be released yet for safety measures, was bundled into a 4×4 from outside his hotel in Freetown, handcuffed and taken away from the scene.
A short time later, however, a police unit intervened and arrested the kidnappers and freed the Irish national.
It is believed that the businessman had been duped out of $800,000 in a bogey gold-mining venture and returned to Sierra Leone to pursue legal action.
