11/07 Tales From The Tabs

Tales From The Tabs

The front-page story on the Irish Daily Star Sunday, beside the headline “Monster’s Ball”, promises “amazing new footage of suspected serial killer [Larry Murphy] at wedding as fear grips hometown ahead of jail release.”

The 45-year-old, a convicted rapist who has been the lead suspect in the disappearance of three women in the south Leinster area in the 1990s, is due for release next week.

Just inside the Star Sunday, there’s a two-page spread about the mud-splattered Oxegen music festival at Punchestown Racecourse in Co Kildare, including a great picture of Florence, the eponymous heroine of Florence + The Machine, being carried off stage by minders, ostensibly to keep her precious little toes clean and dry. Festival fit, indeed.

Also in the Star there’s a story about Gerry Ryan: The Movie. A housewife was secretly collaborating with the late RTE broadcaster on a film about his life. The extroverted 53-year-old had been due to see the final draft of the script days before he collapsed and died at his Dublin apartment in April.

Marilyn Kearney, from Kilnaleck, Co Cavan, is determined to press ahead and film the script, which Ryan was said to have loved.