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  • 13-05-2009 2:26pm
    #1
    Jesus1222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭


    A small issue maybe. The Irish Times says in the opening sentence of it's front page report "THE REPORT into the deaths of a family of four in Monageer, Co Wexford, in 2007 has failed to find any single, definite motive behind their deaths". The Irish Times headline for the same story is: "Definitive motive for deaths not identified". Yet the Irish Independent says of the same story: "Debt drove Monageer couple to destroy family". The sub heading is: "THE tragic Monageer couple were driven by debt and despair to destroy their family, a State inquiry found yesterday". They go on to say in their own story: "They could not identify any “single definitive motive” behind the deaths and believe several factors contributed to the decision to end their lives and that of their children, “Important factors were the death of Adrian Dunne's father on April 9, 2006, and the recent death of his brother James by hanging on March 29, 2007".

    I'm not sure if this contradiction can be resolved and if they're using that particular headline for sensationalism then that makes the Independent tabloid trash. I have thought that about the Independent for a long time.


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  • #2
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Interesting. Also, most of the coverage suggests that the *parents* decided to end their lives and their children's lives - whereas to me, amateur sleuth that I am, a man who strangles his wife isn't necessarily acting with her consent.


  • #3
    santosubito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭santosubito


    luckat wrote: »
    Interesting. Also, most of the coverage suggests that the *parents* decided to end their lives and their children's lives - whereas to me, amateur sleuth that I am, a man who strangles his wife isn't necessarily acting with her consent.

    Did you read the report?


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