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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013
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Raging Geldof declares we must not accept jobs crisis BOB GELDOF raged against the machine in Cork yesterday describing Ireland’s unemployment crisis as ‘tragic.’ The legendary punk musician was in the city to promote his reunion gig with the Boomtown Rats at Live at the Marquee on July 5. The band last performed together 26 years ago at Self-Aid — a concert in Dublin to raise awareness of unemployment in Ireland in the 1980s.
By MARIA ROLSTON The outspoken singer and anti-poverty campaigner told the (YHQLQJ (FKR: “The situation in Ireland is tragic. But the Irish shouldn’t accept this — stop shrugging it off. “I never thought we’d go back to the haemorrhaging of our own talent, never in a million years. It’s absolutely tragic.” ● See pages two and three.
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Guilty of seven indecent assaults FORMER Christian Brother Edward Bryan, was yesterday found guilty on six more counts of indecently assaulting boys at the North Monastery Secondary School in Cork in the 1980s. On Wednesday he was convicted of one count of indecent assault. Members of the jury spent a marathon 12 hours deliberating over three days, and a number of them cried and held hands to support
By LIAM HEYLIN
each other as the verdicts were delivered on Bryan. The victims and their families maintained a dignified silence as they watched the former brother being escorted by a prison officer down to a holding cell beneath the courtroom to be remanded in custody ahead of sentencing next Friday. Bryan, of Martinvilla, Athboy Road, Trim, Co. Meath, had denied 10 counts of indecently assaulting four boys at the North Monastery
Edward Bryan being led from court after he was found guilty of indecent assault.
on dates between September 1, 1984, and June 30, 1990. Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said yesterday that the complainants in the case had now become victims following the jury’s verdicts and that their victim impact statements would have to be prepared before the sentencing hearing. Judge Ó Donnabháin was effusive in his praise for the jury, not for the verdicts they had reached, but for the manner in which they had gone about their business. ● See page 10 for more.
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