Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) back issues from May 2007:
Run off those extra pounds when you hit the road.(FEATURES)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: JOHN COSTELLO WHEN it comes to running a 10k, everyone can go the distance. The Women's Mini-Marathon on June 4, is just over five weeks away, and this fun run has been used by thousands as the target to get in shape for the summer. Jogging a 10k requires at ...
BARE IT ALL.(FEATURES)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: ANNA COOGAN IT'S unfair that women get more cellulite than men, and that this is the time of the year when panic hits as we realise there's only a few months left before we expose our thighs and hips on a sandy beach. Different women swear by a variety of ...
Born again God repays our faith.(ENTERTAINMENT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ronan Price CRUELLY underpromoted even though critically acclaimed, the original God of War revealed astonishing amounts of power in the bowels of the PS2, serving up an epic hack'n'slash with a monumental scale. Kratos, the murderously flawed Grecian hero, ...
Sit back and watch Roy and Alex show.(SPORT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Hyland TIMES like these brought the best out of Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane in the days when their partnership was the most formidable in the Premiership and beyond. It was only a brief span of months ago when they went street-fighting in Italy for ...
Rico: Final poorer for Cork absence.(SPORT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aidan Fitzmaurice DAMIEN RICHARDSON told his players to be more like Linfield after they knocked Cork out of the Setanta Cup last night and advanced to a final with Drogheda United in ten day's time writes Aidan Fitzmaurice. Despite the pressures of playing ...
CONTINUATION: Gangsters put contracts out on city gardai.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... told the GRA annual conference of the threats, indicating that there was evidence of contracts "worth a couple of grand" being put on individual officers. "Guards are under attack in our cities and in rural stations. ''In my own division we have had a number with ...
Six people are held by gardai over wheelie-bin fire killing.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Isabel Hurley SIX people, including two women, have been arrested for the wheelie-bin fire murder of Ann Marie O'Neill. The six adults, aged in their 20s and 30s, were detained in dawn raids. The fact that adults and not teenagers are the main ...
Leaving Cert boy selling pure rock heroin in graveyard.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cormac Looney Crime Reporter A LEAVING CERT student has been arrested for running a "heroin shop" from a south Dublin graveyard. The 17-year-old was nabbed with two other men in their 20s, following a raid on a graveyard close to New Street Gardens in the ...
Carjack killing suspects on the run.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cormac Looney Crime Reporter GARDAI are hunting two more men in connection with the carjack killing of an Estonian man close to Dublin Airport. The hunt for the third man who attacked and beat Valerii Ranert (28) is continuing today, while officers are also ...
Dead man walking Fred still doesn't know Mater wrote him off.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Conor Feehan THE Dublin man who was wrongly pronounced dead by the Mater Hospital still knows nothing of his brush with death, his family said today. Freddie Maguire, whose family had been told by hospital staff that he had died on Easter Sunday, knows ...
Teen in abortion row can leave - AG.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Alan O'Keeffe THE pregnant teenager at the centre of a legal abortion battle is not restrained from travelling outside of Ireland, the Attorney General claimed today. Lawyers for the teenager (17) were in the High Court with the goal of removing any legal ...
Marlo suspect fights for cash seized in raid.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran A MAN, whose cash and other belongings were seized by gardai investigating a double murder, has taken an application to have the items returned to him. Brian O'Reilly's house in Bettystown, Meath, was searched on February 22 by officers ...
Bluetooth demand by boys in blue.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cormac Looney in Westport RANK and file gardai are demanding that bluetooth headsets be issued to each member of the force -- and each patrol car is fitted with a car kit. Calls for the state of the art electronic equipment were made at the annual conference ...
Gay mums torn apart so soon after birth.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Alan O'Keeffe THIS is the heartbreaking picture of Barbara Gill and her newborn son, Stephen, taken just nine weeks before the 'Magic Mummy' was crushed to death on Dublin's city quays. She and her partner, Ruth O'Dwyer, celebrated the arrival of 'their' ...
Gangland hit halted by AK-47 find.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cormac Looney Crime Reporter DETECTIVES have averted a potential hit in the Crumlin drugs feud following their seizure of an AK-47 in undergrowth at Rialto. The weapon was being stored by one of the feuding Crumlin crime gangs for a planned attack on their ...
Family bid to block Nevin money.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ann O'Loughlin A legal action by the family of murdered publican Tom Nevin aimed at restraining his widow Catherine Nevin from collecting rental monies from two Dublin properties was adjourned in the High Court yesterday. Catherine Nevin (55) is serving a life ...
Air-rage duo held after Aer Lingus flight is diverted.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Lavery AN Aer Lingus flight to Latvia was forced to divert to Denmark after an air-rage incident involving two drunken passengers. When the Aer Lingus Airbus landed at Copenhagen Airport in Denmark, police were waiting and took the two passengers into ...
Abortion issue needs to besolved.(COMMENT)
May 01, 2007 ... WHEN someone is only referred to with an initial in a court, you know that Ireland's failure to clarify its abortion laws has thrown up another emotionally devastating and intractable case. Now we have the situation where a 17-year-old girl -- who can only be identified as Miss ...
MICK, YOU TWIT.(COMMENT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: AOIFE FINNERAN HE'S only five days old, but Michael St James Flatley is already attracting more headlines than the average baby, thanks mainly to the publicity-grabbing antics of his father. It wasn't enough to saddle the poor defenceless infant with the ...
Too-Green John needs hot air.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Chris Lowry WITHIN minutes of meeting John Gormley, I begin to be haunted by a single, nagging question. Why is this man in politics? The Green TD is honest to a fault and totally lacks the oily charm regarded as an indispensable part of the modern ...
Sugababe 'didn't start brawl'.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: - CONOR FEEHAN SUGABABE singer Amelle Berrabah has claimed she is the innocent party following her arrest after a pub cat-fight. The 23-year-old singer has said she is davastated over the dancefloor brawl with a dozen other revellers. "I am ...
HEADS TOLD GO SOFT ON BULLIES.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran BULLIES will no longer face suspension from school. Instead, their victims may have to meet the thugs as school inspectors think "restorative justice" is the answer to the plague. New guidelines issued by the National Educational ...
Prostitutes set to address city council forum.(NEWS)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Isabel Hurley PROSTITUTES are to be invited to address an upcoming meeting of Dublin City Council's Police Forum. Chairman of the local authority's Joint Police Forum, Cllr Christy Burke (SF), said that both prostitutes themselves and a spokesperson for ...
Are you getting the breaks you deserve?(FEATURES)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Linda Higgins MOST employees are looking forward to enjoying some time off over the first long weekend of the summer Make sure that your employer is providing you with the correct holiday entitlements. All employees are allowed paid time off for time worked. ...
Bolger seeking English double.(SPORT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ray Glennon JIM Bolger will go in search of a classic double in England at the weekend with Teofilo, in the 2,000 Guineas, and Finsceal Beo, which goes for the 1,000 Guineas and on the evidence of last year's form they are worthy favourites for the big Newmarket races. ...
League holders can have super summer.(SPORT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Frank Roche A seismic shift or a mere spring tremor? A catastrophic San Francisco quake or a mild Kent quiver? Over the past week the Allianz Leagues have been rocked to their foundations -- in a very positive way, of course. Donegal footballers ...
A little advice for Carlow...(SPORT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Frank Roche A MEMO for the good folk who run the affairs of Carlow GAA . . . there is one man who can help dig your county footballers out of a very deep hole over the next six weeks. Clearly, he isn't Sean Boylan. Nor is he some other mysterious unnamed ...
SHEV ROW HEAPS PRESSURE ON JOSE.(SPORT)
May 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aidan Fitzmaurice STAMFORD BRIDGE'S civil war has thrown Chelsea into turmoil ahead of tonight's Champions League semi-final clash with Liverpool as Blues boss Jose Mourinho had a public falling out with PS130,000-a-week stars Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack. ...
10 things I hate about you.(ENTERTAINMENT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: PETER HOWICK WHO would want to run a cinema these days? Attendances have dived of late partially due to an incredibly balmy April while the screens have not exactly been blessed with top rate product. The multiplex owners have got another beef ....
FIELDING QUESTIONS.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: FRANK ROCHE WE meet at a halfway house, although you could hardly call it neutral ground. The statue of Sean Boylan outside the reception door is an instant give-away; we're in the land of the Royal, the Dunboyne Castle Hotel to be precise, for one of the first big ...
OUT OF DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran THEY say Guinness is good for you, and now it's also less potent thanks to the new low-alcohol content brew. Dublin publicans will this week get the chance to sell pints of the black stuff with a lower alcohol level of 2.8pc, compared to 4.2pc. ...
CONTINUATION: Williams put on 24-hour guard.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... very recently. The Commissioner also wants to know how the photos were taken when the house is already supposed to receive garda protection. Now, 24-hour armed Special Branch protection has been ordered around the journalist. Williams battled with well ...
. . . And if you think that's bad, wait for the 600-truck toll protest!(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Lavery DISGRUNTLED hauliers today threatened a 600-truck protest on Dublin's M50 motorway. The city's vitally important ring road is already suffering from upgrading delays. The truckers are protesting at paying tolls on the M50 and want ...
Abortion girl's mum: I am no alcoholic and didn't punch my child.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Cormac Looney and Ann O'Loughlin THE mother of the 17-year-old girl at the centre of an abortion controversy has denied she is an alcoholic who hit her daughter. She spoke to the Evening Herald today, as it was revealed that the unborn are to be represented in ...
Stressed Dubs the fifth fastest walkers in world.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran IT'S one of the busiest cities in Europe and now Dublin people are proving their hectic pace of life by walking faster than ever before. Pedestrians in Dublin are the fifth fastest walkers in the world, according to a new experiment conducted ...
Rented house at the centre of Bertiegate and that PS30k for girlfriend.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran BERTIE Ahern received a veiled warning from Albert Reynolds about his house when he considered making a bid for the Fianna Fail leadership. New information regarding the purchase of the now controversial house in Beresford, off Griffith Avenue ...
Questions and Bertie's answers.(COMMENT)
May 02, 2007 ... Bertie Ahern can run but he can't hide. When the Mahon Tribunal decided to suspend its activities for the duration of the election, he might have hoped for a brief moment that questions about his personal finances would be suspended, too. In fact, the opposite has happened. ...
65,000 'voting virgins' join electorate.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Isabel Hurley ALMOST 65,000 people will be casting their votes for their first time. Latest official figures obtained by the Evening Herald show that well over three million people are entitled to shape the 30th Dail. The updated electoral register ...
FF's Mary is out in cold as Bertie cosies up to rival.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Cormac Looney ONE of Bertie Ahern's running mates is getting the cold shoulder as Fianna Fail battles for two seats in Dublin Central. Dublin City councillor Mary Fitzpatrick has been virtually excluded from Central News, the party propaganda leaflet ...
She's on a Lou roll - but I'd sooner be watching Liverpool.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Chris Lowry SINN Fein's Mary Lou McDonald strides towards me and greets me like an old friend. Her smile seems so genuine that I'm briefly thrown. Have we met, I ask? She looks as me with an expression that almost seems to say, of course not, I'm ...
Community mourns after young dad's death.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Conor Feehan TWO communities are trying to come to terms with their grief this week after a young father of two fell through a factory roof and was killed. John O'Dwyer (35) was working to install a broadband system at a factory when the perspex roof gave ...
Sun holidays take off with SSIAs.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran MORE and more Irish people are catching the travel bug, with foreign holidays increasing by 30pc in the last three months of 2006. When compared with the fourth quarter of 2005, there has been a massive increase in all foreign travel, both for ...
Prisoner slashed in the face at Mountjoy.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Cormac Looney Crime Reporter A PRISONER has had his face slashed following a violent confrontation at Mountjoy prison. Myles Johnson, in late 30s and from the north inner city, was slashed twice across the face in the 'A' yard of the prison. He was ...
LITTLE ANGEL: TIME RUNNING OUT FOR TOT WHO NEEDS DOUBLE TRANSPLANT.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: - IAN MALLON TV STAR Gabby Logan has highlighted the plight of a little girl who will die within weeks if she does not undergo a double organ transplant. Angel Fotheringham's family have been told time is running out for the 13-month-old, who needs a new bowel ...
War of words as UCD denies pay to park report.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Isabel Hurley A WAR of words has erupted at UCD as the country's largest college denied it had any plans to introduce paid parking in its multiple carparks. A UCD Communications Office spokesperson said today it had "no plans" to introduce paid parking in its ...
Girl gets EU19k for fall in Canaries.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Alan O'Keeffe A MOTHER spoke today of her child's agony after she broke her arm while on holidays in The Canaries. Little Sophie Courtney was awarded EU19,500 in the Dublin Circuit Civil Court after a judge heard how a dream family holiday to Lanzarote was ...
Friends gather to mourn man with no family to claim him.(NEWS)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Alan O'Keeffe AN elderly man whose body had not been claimed by relatives almost three weeks after his death has several friends to mourn him, said a friend and former workmate. Although relatives of Paddy 'Corky' Dineen had not been traced by gardai, there ...
IT DOES EVERYTHING IT SAYS ON THE TIN.(TOP GEAR)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Ian Mallon SUMMER has just arrived, but already I think we could have a Car of the Year for '07. The Nissan Qashqai is certainly worth all the hype, and all this despite my initial scepticism. Basically, I refused to believe that such a beautiful, quality ...
Bolger happy with Teofilo.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Ray Glennon THE launch of the Irish Summer Flat racing programme took place at Dublin's Four Seasons Hotel yesterday and present to discuss their prospects for the current season were Aidan O'Brien, Jim Bolger, Dermot Weld, Michael Hal-ford and Ger Lyons. Of ...
STAN MAY BE THE GAFFER, BUT THE BOY ROY IS STILL THE BOSS...(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran IT could have been oh so different. Just 16 months ago, the FAI elected Steve Staunton as manager of the Irish soccer team. Nine months later, Roy Keane was parachuted into Sunderland to save a dying team from relegation from the Championship. ...
TEAM SHEET.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Frank Roche ARMAGH: Francie Bellew appears to be losing his fitness battle to make the Ulster SFC showdown with Donegal on May 27. The teak-tough No 3 sustained a knee injury playing for Crossmaglen recently, and manager Joe Kernan has now admitted: "I don't think he's ...
O'Shaughnessy woe for Westmeath.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Frank Roche DAVID O'SHAUGHNESSY made a dramatic return for Westmeath in a weekend challenge -- but failed to finish the game, writes Frank Roche. O'Shaughnessy has been flagged as a major knee injury doubt for Westmeath's Leinster SFC clash away to midland ...
No hurling return for Dub Dotsy.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Frank Roche DUAL star David O'Callaghan will not be part of the Dublin hurling panel for this year's championship. Sky Blue boss Tommy Naughton is resigned to the fact that O'Callaghan -- who recently quit the county football panel, fuelling hopes that he ...
Givens: I won't beg Best.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Aidan Fitzmaurice REPUBLIC of Ireland U21 team boss Don Givens has promised that he won't beg Southampton's Irish prospect Leon Best to wear the green shirt again. Striker Best, (20), is showing superb form for the Saints in their push for promotion to the ...
Treacy aiming for Blackburn breakthrough.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Aidan Fitzmaurice IRISH forward Keith Treacy is on the verge of a Premiership breakthrough with European hopefuls Blackburn Rovers before the end of the season. And Ireland U19 boss Sean McCaffrey is hopeful of great things from the young Dubliner when the ...
FERGIE FIRED UP FOR ITALIAN JOB.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Hyland ALEX Ferguson will ask his players to put AC Milan to the sword in the San Siro tonight. After a dogged and bruising battle between victorious Liverpool and Champions League chumps Chelsea, Fergie wants to light up Milan's magnificent stadium with ...
MOURINHO PUTS ON BRAVEFACE.(SPORT)
May 02, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Hyland JOSE MOURINHO surveyed the ruins of a season that promised so much and tears filled his eyes at Anfield. It now looks certain he will leave Stamford Bridge in a welter of recrimination, writes Paul Hyland. Under ferocious pressure off the pitch, ...
Madmen and wailing make my holiday hell.(FEATURES)
May 03, 2007 ... Byline: Aoife Finneran I'M going on holidays, and I'm terrified. OK, so I'm not booked in for a three-week trip to Iraq, so the danger factor is low. But I'm crippled with fear that I'll end up in a hotel room next to a madman with a fetish for late-night seances or ...
Fault lies entirely with the manager.(SPORT)
May 03, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Hyland HE looked sheepish after the game and well he might have. Alex Ferguson set his team up to face a different AC Milan than the one that turned up at the San Siro and paid the price. He offered a few well chosen platitudes, hung onto the suggestion ...
Ireland's answer to Gorillas in the Mist heroine.(NEWS)
May 03, 2007 ... Byline: Alan O'Keeffe IRELAND'S answer to Gorillas in the Mist heroine Dian Fossey is returning to Africa to care for orphan chimpanzees. Lynn Clifford (39) is preparing to undertake another stint in the jungles of South Cameroon as a guardian and "mother figure" for ...
CONTINUATION: Gang boss's EU100k BMW seized.(NEWS)
May 03, 2007 ... In the latest swoop, the 5 Series BMW Sport, worth EU100,000, was seized by CAB from the girlfriend of the head of one of the feuding Crumlin drugs gangs. The gangster has ordered a number of the killings in an ongoing feud which has claimed nine lives. The young drug dealer is ...
Manifesto farce as Browne puts Bertie in the dock.(NEWS)
May 03, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Lavery TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern's carefully stage-managed Fianna Fail manifesto launch turned into a gruelling questions and answers session on his personal finances today. Mr Ahern had delivered his manifesto speech and was taking questions from the ...
WISH LIST: TAX CUTS, STAMP DUTY AND CLASS SIZES TOP LABOUR PROMISES.(NEWS)
May 03, 2007 ... Byline: - MICHAEL LAVERY THE LABOUR Party today promised to cut 2pc off the standard rate of tax. Launching its manfisto, it claimed it would: Increase by EU5,000 the level at which one-income families hit the higher rate of tax. Reform stamp ...
BORN AGAIN: FORMER BAD BOY SHANE GETS IN THE LOVE ZONE AS HE PREPARES FOR BIG DAY.(NEWS)
May 03, 2007 ... Byline: - AOIFE FINNERAN HE was once the bad boy of Boyzone, but now Shane Lynch has cleaned up his act so much he won't sell photographs of his wedding day. The reborn Christian will tie the knot with fiancee Sheena White at Kinnity Castle in Offaly this summer. And the glitzy ...
Tragic bike boy's mum in helmet appeal to children.(NEWS)
May 03, 2007 ... Byline: Alan O'Keeffe The parents of tragic schoolboy Padraig McGillivray spoke of the "loveable and happy" son who died after being struck by a bus. And they made a plea that all children wear helmets when on bicycles. Padraig was not wearing one when he was involved ...