News from Ireland - news from around the 32 counties

U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Kristie Kenney, led the Freedom To Walk supporters by joining the walkers
on their first day.

“People who have been trafficked or about to be trafficked, are depending on us to speak out and do
something about their plight and prevent it from happening to others,” said Kealy.

[Source: Tipperary Star]

TYRONE

Irish man Paul Anthony Fox will be deported from Australia when he is released from custody,
after having pleaded guilty to stabbing a friend in the heart last April.

Fox (24) stabbed Robert Emmet Corrigan, from Galbally, County Tyrone on Easter Sunday
morning.

The South Australian Supreme Court heard Mr. Corrigan would have died but for medical
intervention after being rushed to hospital. He now lives with constant pain.

"I find it difficult to trust people now because this was a friend who stabbed me," Mr. Corrigan
said in a victim impact statement read out in court.
[Source: Irish Times]

WATERFORD

Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane has described the comments Wexford Senator Michael D’Arcy that
Waterford Regional Hospital is the worst performing hospital in the country as disgraceful and
inaccurate.

Senator D’Arcy made the comments in the Seanad, as Senator Cullinane, the leader of the house
Senator Maurice Cummins, and South Tipperary based Labour Senator Denis Landy all called for the
retention of services at W.R.H

[Source: Waterford News & Star]

WESTMEATH

Ericsson has announced 100 job losses at its Athlone site.

The telecommunications giant said, in a short statement that, as part of the Athlone operation was
involved in the development of legacy products,” the loss of an unspecified number of jobs was
inevitable.

It's understood the job numbers concerned are between 100 and 110.

The company insisted its presence in Athlone was secure and that the local site would continue to be a
strategic research-and-development centre for Ericsson.

[Source: Westmeath Independent]

WEXFORD

The future of music gigs in the Show Grounds during the Strawberry Festival looks to be in jeopardy
after this year’s promoters M.S.L. Concerts called a meeting of creditors, with a view to appointing a
liquidator to the company.

M.S.L., which is owned and run by Wexford natives Rob Murphy and Pierce White, was the company
behind the 2011 and 2012 Show Grounds gigs, but this year’s three-day event was effectively washed-
out by heavy rain, which resulted in small crowds attending the events.

[Source: Wexford Echo]

WICKLOW

A 77-year-old man who stole groceries valued at $45 had his case adjourned to allow for the preparation
of a probation report at a recent sitting of Gorey District Court.

John Stevenson, Remboth, Coolfancy, Coolboy, County Wicklow, was charged with theft from Dunnes
Stores in Gorey on November 18, 2011. He pleaded guilty to the charge and Inspector Pat McDonald
said Stevenson was stopped by security after taking groceries valued at $45 without paying.

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