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The Fiona Doyle rape case against her father Patrick O Brien caused uproar when Justice Paul Carney sentenced O Brien to 12 years, suspending the last nine years and allowing him bail. Justice Carney subsequently revoked the decision and sent O Brien to prison.
There have been some developments in the case and Pat was joined by Fiona
Pat was joined from South Africa by reporters Nastasya Tay and Fiona Forde on the ongoing Oscar Pistorius murder charge.
The EU's police cooperation agency Europol is now involved in the hunt for dealers who sold horsemeat labelled as beef. .plans are also being drawn up for the large scale testing of beef products across Europe to check if they contain horse DNA.
The scandal has affected at least 12 countries and here the Irish food group Greencore has been drawn into the controversy.
Editor of the Farmers Journal Matt Dempsey joined Pat this morning.
He was a charming man, a charismatic priest, he became director of the school for the deaf because of his organizational and fluency in sign language. But behind the social skills and bon homee lay a cunning and devious paedophile. He chose his victims with care, young deaf boys whose parents could not sign so the abuse could never be heard, confided or reported.
This is the story of a group of young boys from St John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee who were abused by Fr Lawrence Murphy and fought back in adulthood. It is the backbone of a new documentary by Oscar winning documentary maker Alex Gibney. The film Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God goes beyond the story of the deaf boys in St John’s and into the heart of cover-up within the world wide Catholic Church and the Vatican itself.
Mea Maxima Culpa will get its Irish premier tonight at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and Pat was joined in studio by the director Alex Gibney. He also spoke to one of the contributors to the documentary, canon lawyer Fr. Thomas Doyle.
By Feargal Quinn
Feargal Quinn was recently voted Ireland’s most admired businessman among Small and Medium Businesses. His recent projects span from his involvement with the Local Heroes project in Drogheda to the TV series Retail Therapy which involved him travelling the length and breadth of the country to help re-invigorate small businesses.
He is also one of the country’s most well known politicians - while many of those politicians claim be creating jobs – few can match his record of actual job creation. His last book Crowning the Customer was published in 1990 and sold over 50,000 copies in Ireland alone and was translated into languages as varied as Arabic and Japanese. His new book ‘Mind your own Business’ is one based on ethics and values and is packed full of advice on how businesses can not only survive but even thrive during a recession.
Unless you and your loved one are prone to devouring entire boxes of chocolates in one sitting, it’s likely that many of you will have a little of the sweet stuff left over from yesterday’s day of romance. You can just devour it as it is over the weekend, or you can choose to do something a little more imaginative with it.
And Catherine Fulvio was here to give us a few tips.
When the Reuters journalist went to report on another address by Pope Benedict XVI on Monday of this week, she couldn’t have imagined that she would end up breaking a story that would shock the world. We now know that The Pope will officially stand down on the 28th of this month and it’s hoped that a new pope will be in place for Easter. In other news this week extracts from the draft report by the HSE into the death of Savita Halapannavar were leaked to the evening herald. On Monday some of the Magadalene survivors had a meeting with Taoiseach, Enda Kenny and Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore. And today former Taoiseach John Bruton has a warning for the government on abortion legislation .
Lots to talk about and joining Pat in studio were Breda O’Brien who is a teacher and Irish Times journalist; journalist Susan McKay; Clare O’Grady, editor of the Evening Herald and Fr. Vincent Twomey, Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology in Maynooth .
