The crack we had the night we died for Ireland:
He was found dead at the foot of the Wolfe Tone monument at St Stephen's Green in Dublin. A bottle found at the scene was removed for forensic examination.09:00
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And eejits:
The Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy has said that alcohol continues to be the primary cause of violent crime.10:10
The average human brain weighs 1.4 kg and uses 20% of the body's oxygen.
13:12
I doubt if that's all he had:
He had a shotgun wound to the head. In a statement, the IRA said it was not involved.(RTE.ie)
13:42
What they're hiding from us on RTE (to BBC):
He told the Irish Parliament that the victim's right hand had been "practically severed at the wrist".(bbc.co.uk)
13:43
Irish police found his body after a tip-off from a local resident. Shotgun cartridges were found at the scene and Ireland's justice minister, Michael McDowell, said: "He was shot in the head and there was mutilation done to his body. We can conclude it was a murder.(Guardian.co.uk)
13:50
What they're not bragging about on the Beeb or the Guardian (to CNN.com):
Donaldson, a former Sinn Fein legislative chief admitted last December that he had been on the payroll of the British secret service for two decades. He was found fatally shot and with his right arm nearly severed in his isolated home in rural Ireland on Tuesday.13:53
What they're not telling us anywhere in the West (alJazeera.net) :
A former Sinn Fein official recently exposed as a British spy was found fatally shot after apparently being tortured, police said - an act certain to send shock waves through Northern Ireland's peace process at a critical moment.19:08
No shit, Sherlock. What's next? Arrest the whole village?:
Denis Donaldson's killers were most likely republicans who carefully planned their operation and more than one person was involved, according to Garda sources in Donegal.22:11
Hallmarks. Are you prepared to speculate as to who done in the tout? Informants don't do open coffins. Any hardware tools found out?
- Looking for the nailbar now.
22:18
Mick the Brick the millionaire builder with the mad hair of head on him and his 'Life's short, my hair's long, let's be nice' slogan on his tipper trucks and vans is nervous on Pat Telly. In fairness to him, he looks like he's done his bit for concrete. To summarise, he thinks we're all due to be unboomed shortly and the housing stock being erected is utter crap. Claustrophobic flats, lacking facilities, nothing for kids. Light gone, small rooms. In my opinion, he says, the leading political party of Fianna Fail have been too close to property developers.
22:21
Licence in trust agreement. Someone sells land for housing. Leaves title and don't take ownership of it. There's a licence to build. He sells on the houses through the owner's name. Avoids stamp duty. Yet ordinary home buyers pay stamp duty. The hand-in-glove-rnment were asked in 2000 to stamp out stamp duty avoidees, said they're 'looking into it'. Still saying it. It's like a hole in the road. It doesn't disappear if you looking into it.
22:24
Builds the best footpaths in Dublin, does Mick the Brick.
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