23/05 The Front Pages

The Sunday broadsheets are a mixed bag again this week, with no big story dominating the headlines.

The Sunday Tribune leads with an unfathomable story which has developed from a sex assault conviction in Kerry. When Danny Foley was convicted of sexual assault in Tralee last year dozens of his supporters showed up to shake his hand before he was taken down. Now it turns out, that the victim of the attack has been the victim of a campaign of intimidation since the conviction. She has been getting threatening phone calls saying coffins have been bought for her and her young son who she lives with, and her front door has been kicked in. Something very amiss with that whole drama.

 

The man who reckons the Pope is the anti-Christ and that us Catholics ‘breed like rats’ is to be given a life peerage in the House of Lords. That’s right, everyone’s favourate sectarian bigot, Ian Paisley Snr, is to be given a seat in the UK’s upper house thanks to his contribution to Northern Ireland politics. Yeah, cheers Ian. Couldn’t have had those 30 years of conflict without you buddy.

 

Also, the Sunday Tribune carries what is possibly the saddest story we have ever read here at JOE.ie on its page 3. Now, make sure you’re sitting down for this one – apparently, the Met Office reckons the good weather will be gone by tomorrow!

 

The Sunday Business Post has a good news story on its front page – apparently Google is to boost its workforce in Ireland by 200. The internet giant is set to invest in shared services from it’s Dublin office. The best bit is that the jobs boost is just one of four major projects the IDA is set to announce in the coming weeks. We might get out of this yet lads.

 

Another story however, which by rights should be splashed across every newspaper on the planet, also appears on the front page of the Sunday Business Post. The HSE now reckons that 200 kids have died in its care in just the last 10 years. This comes on the back of a story from last week in which the bodies of 40 children were discovered in unmarked graves at the back of a care home. Ireland – never a good place to be an orphan.