Body discovered in Government Minister Office

mike65

Just breaking, tomorrows front pages will tell you of a body having been found in the offices of Mary Coughlan, apparently lying there for 4 days.

Its not very political but it is kinda AH in a GUBU way.

Mike.

EamonnKeane

libel (n.): the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressively stated or implied to be factual, that may harm the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government or nation.

mike65

Mary was back in her constituency.

Mike.

aidan24326

EamonnKeane wrote: »

libel (n.): the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressively stated or implied to be factual, that may harm the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government or nation.

They've been talking about it tonight on tv, it's on the front pages of a couple of tomorrow's papers. No suggestion of any wrongdoing on the minister's part and not alot of details other than that the body of a missing man was found in a closet in her office. It's a strange one but I'm sure more will come to light tomorrow.

Tha Gopher

Im more annoyed that it appears that despite their substantial holidays a TD didnt visit her office in 4 days during the "working" period.

Odd stuff alright.

Xavi6

It was the vicar in the dining room with the candlestick.

Peyton Manning

Any idea who it is?

I just checked, its not me or any of my family, so theres 4 you can rule out.

Karoma

Xavi6 wrote: »

It was the vicar in the dining room with the candlestick.

Oh can we please stop discussing Azezil and his 'dates'?!

Hagar

The body was just "resting" in the office.

mike65

Some reckon Berties spooks staged this to distract the media for a few days.

Mike.

nlgbbbblth

EamonnKeane wrote: »

libel (n.): the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressively stated or implied to be factual, that may harm the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government or nation.

To post up a definition of libel without offering any comment of your own smacks of sanctimonious and repressed aggression.

Peyton Manning

Karoma wrote: »

Oh can we please stop discussing Azezil and his 'dates'?!

Cant be Azezil. He came out of the closet ages ago.

Gordon

Has she any more skeletons in her closet?

mike65

RTEs midnight news bulletin......completely failed to mention it.

No Charlie Bird = no story.

Mike.

TequilaMockingBird

mike65 wrote: »

Just breaking, tomorrows front pages will tell you of a body having been found in the offices of Mary Coughlan, apparently lying there for 4 days.

Its not very political but it is kinda AH in a GUBU way.

Mike.

Link or it didn't happen.

Tha Gopher

Aint on rte news online either.

You didnt dream this did you Mike?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mike65 wrote: »

RTEs midnight news bulletin......completely failed to mention it.

No Charlie Bird = no story.

Mike.

Nothing on rte.ie or breakingnews.ie either, 8 minutes past midnight. Anyone seen Pighead lately?

Gekko

source?

Maybe this thread should be locked?

Xavi6

Maybe the OP is locked

randylonghorn

Karoma wrote: »

Oh can we please stop discussing Azezil and his 'dates'?!

A+

Hagar wrote: »

The body was just "resting" in the office.

B

Archimedes wrote: »

Cant be Azezil. He came out of the closet ages ago.

A

Spyral

maybe the minister has a likes to crack open a cold one every now and again..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Still nothing official - perhaps it was an episode of CSI you were watching...?

simu

It's March, not April tbh. Wft?

Red Hand

Strange one to say the least! Definately haveto get the paper tommorrow.

pebbles21

yes its true apparently they found a rather large medal draped around his neck with the words"1963 hide and seek champion"on it!!!!!!!

miju

just goes to show you how productive civil servants are that it took 4 days to cop he was dead ..................... i'll get my coat

lostexpectation

it was on the frontpage of the sun only...

togster

Mike should be made ride mary coughlin senseless for inventing this story.

chopperbyrne

Still not on any news sites.

lostexpectation

" It says in the papers" reports that it was that of a woman worker, found in Kildare st. office last September. /jerryp

Wossack

Only thing I could find: some random blog

http://elblogador.blogspot.com/2008/03/dead-body-found-in-fianna-fil-minister.html

mike65

It was "mentioned" on the review of thr papers on Morning Ireland apparently but that appears to be the extent of it.

Mike.

Collie D

To be honest I'd be more impressed with the headline

Minister Found Alive and Well in Minister's Office

mike65

Mary Coughlan Google News

Mary Coughlan GoogleBlogs

Which is the real news?

Mike.

SimpleSam06

Theres a blogger and a thread on it in politics.ie, besides that I can't see anything about this online. The Irish Sun apparently doesn't have its own website and a search of the UK site turns up nothing...

dlofnep

I just saw it on TV for the morning papers. It's on the sun.

Sherifu

lostexpectation wrote: »

it was on the frontpage of the sun only...

dlofnep wrote: »

I just saw it on TV for the morning papers. It's on the sun.

That's me convinced then

lostexpectation

I can't even find the irish sun on any of those online pdf newspaper readers...

http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/

its in what the papers say...

transcript

irish sun claims an exclusive, a body 34 year old women found inside a cupboard in the department of agriculture office

four days after she went missing last September

queries of to the dept of how such a tragedy could happen how in a busy government office were not replied to

mike65

Pat Kenny is leading with it now.

Mike.

Hagar

lostexpectation wrote: »

" It says in the papers" reports that it was that of a woman worker, found in Kildare st. office last September. /jerryp

They probably paid her 4 days overtime while she wasn't clocked out.

mike65

Amazed this was hushed up for 6 months, so much for transparent government.

Mike.

cheridere

It could have been worse, If the body was in the Dail it could have been months before it was discovered.....

lostexpectation

well did you hear more of it, a suicide apparently, after the death of her partner too

Apparently she" took an overdose, climbed into the cupboard, wrapped herself in paper and died."

sad no more jokes

Dinter

Heard about this months ago from someone in the Dept.

It's a pretty sad story alright and shouldn't be spread all over the media.

Fcuking Sun and their gutter morals.

lostexpectation

somebody from the gov was just on

they simply decided to keep it quiet, person was reported missing on the friday, search carried out sat and sun found in unused office by police on the sun

how about you try this, a death occurs in your national parliament so you put out a press release with the necessary facts before its tabloid fodder.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

lostexpectation wrote: »

somebody from the gov was just on

they simply decided to keep it quiet, person was reported missing on the friday, search carried out sat and sun found in unused office by police on the sun

how about you try this, a death occurs in your national parliament so you put out a press release with the necessary facts before its tabloid fodder.

And the tabloids agreed not to go to press with this in order to avoid hurting people? Seriously?

Wow. There is hope.

lostexpectation

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

And the tabloids agreed not to go to press with this in order to avoid hurting people? Seriously?

Wow. There is hope.

you can't hide deaths

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

lostexpectation wrote: »

you can't hide deaths

I know, but you can limit the pain. This is genuinely a tragic case, but I would have thought that the tabloids wouldn't have cared about that and gone ahead.

nlgbbbblth

togster wrote: »

Mike should be made ride mary coughlin senseless for inventing this story.

If he doesn't want to, I'll gladly step in. MILF.

missmatty

I heard about that not long after it happened (have my sources) It's a very sad story, although I was surprised it took so long to break in the media.

Decuc500

And the jokes keep on coming even after you guys find out it was a suicide. I work in the department and this is a tragic story but lets keep up the jokes, eh?

This story shouldn't even have been reported. The body wasn't found in the ministers office but whatever sells papers...