A LEADING VATICAN cardinal said yesterday that Pope Benedict was nearing “the final levels of Medal of Honour” the latest prelate to express alarm over the pontiff’s newly found addiction to first-person shoot em up’s. The remarks by Italian Cardinal Luigi Minestrone came as Ben’s closest aide sought to minimise concern over the his early… Read more »
A new indigenous Baldwin tribe has been discovered in the south west corner of Chile earlier this week. This is the second known tribe of the Baldwin race to be discovered in the last fifty years, Survival International said today. John Clementine, the director of the group, which lends support to thousands of tribes across… Read more »
TALIBAN leaders were slammed today for “stooping to a very low level indeed” after the organisation of evil Islamic fundamentalist killers published a saucy 2010 Taliban calendar. The new look colour calendar, made in Pakistan, has caused outrage in both east and west communities. Islamic and western leaders alike have all voiced a similar opinion… Read more »
A WIDOWER was left to die a very long, cold, agonising and monotonous death for 78 years by her own family members, an inquest has found today. Margarette Palmer, 78, was discovered at her her home in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in May 2010. An inquest found that Mrs Palmer died from a life time of… Read more »
YOUNG residents of Glenville Park housing estate, Ardkeen, where vandalism and anti-social behaviour is the lowest in the city, told today how adult gangs continue to overrun the area. One youth said members of the local Neighbourhood Watch group, an organized group of citizens devoted to crime and vandalism prevention, carried digital cameras and mobile… Read more »
LARGE NOTICES have been put up on the outer railings of the towns only children’s playground saying: ‘Socks must not be worn with sandals at this playground. Especially white ones. Its very creepy and wrong.’ Local town councillor Maxine Keoghan said Tramore does not have a strict dress code but it did not want creepy… Read more »
A 10-year-old boy who met a 57-year-old priest through the facebook networking website, before suggesting to the priest perform some kind of sex act on him in a car, walked free from court yesterday with a suspended juvenile jail term. Benjamin Mackey, of Portlaw, Co Waterford, pleaded guilty at Waterford District Court to a charge… Read more »
A man being questioned over the violent death of a 74 year old Kilkenny man has been released by murder squad detectives after successfully answering 35 TV soap murder questions correctly. The man, in his early twenties, was arrested in connection with the killing of Paddy Burke in Waterford city. Gardai stated that the man… Read more »
