The Sunday World and Star Sunday have both gone big with a picture of drug baron, Christy ‘the dapper don’ Kinahan being hauled before a Spanish court on various criminal charges. ‘BUSTED’, shouts the Star on its main page, while the Sunday World laud themselves for laying bare Kinahan’s rap sheet for the world to see.
They claim that four Kinahans were involved in a €650 million drug cartel, that Kinahan had a Brazilian property empire worth €500 million and that the Dapper Don held sex and drug parties for South American criminals.
There’s more standard fare inside the red tops today, including news in Star Sunday of Meath man Eamonn O’Donoghue, who as you might have heard, was thrown in jail in Chesterfield, England last week for drinking eight pints and driving home.
Fair enough you’d think, but when you hear that the man in question was on a mobility scooter which he relies on for getting around and was making the 200 yard journey from the local pub to his house, then it all seems a tad ridiculous.
O’Donoghue was slapped with a three year driving ban for his troubles, but he has branded the sentence ‘utterly ridiculous’, because as he doesn’t even own a car and the ban doesn’t affect his mobility scooter, he is free to continue getting around exactly the way he used to.
“Who ever heard of anything as ridiculous so ridiculous as a disabled old age pensioner being arrested, finger-printed and photographed like a murderer or a terrorist over a few beers and a jaunt home on a mobility scooterâ€, the bould Eamonn told the paper.
“I really don’t know what the world is coming to,†he continued. Here, here.
