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Poorly Edited coverage of Cork deaths on Breaking News.ie

  • 16-11-2010 4:06pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭


    Terrible situation and all I know but that is why I am posting this here we people will understand.

    This is from here:

    The part I am relating to is the reporting of where the crash happened. This article claims the crash happened three different distances from the home house. Bold below


    Two young girls were found dead in a house in East Cork this morning shortly after a man was killed in a nearby car crash.

    The two - aged six and two - were found in their home just outside the village of Ballycotton at around 10.30am. A doctor and a priest were called to the house after the alarm was raised.

    A man, believed to be the girls’ father, had died in a single-vehicle car accident several miles away on the Ballycotton to Shanagarry Road at about 9.45am.

    A Garda spokesman said the dead man was discovered in a car which was destroyed in a fire after crashing into a tree.

    The man who died was aged in his 40s and the owner of the Toyota Yaris which crashed about one mile from the family home.

    No other vehicle was involved.

    A Garda spokesman described the deaths as a tragic incident and said relatives and extended family were still being informed.

    It is understood local Garda detectives spent some time attempting to contact the children’s mother, who had gone to work in Cork city this morning.

    The two daughters were found in a room inside the house.

    The office of the state pathologist was contacted this morning by gardaí after a doctor pronounced the children dead at the scene.

    The assistant state pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster, was due at the scene to carry out preliminary examinations. It is expected the bodies will be removed to Cork University Hospital later today.

    Officers in Midleton were investigating both incidents this morning and the house remained sealed off.

    Archbishop Dermot Clifford, the Apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Cloyne in Cork, offered his sympathies to the family.

    “I am deeply shocked to learn of the tragic deaths of two children and their father in Ballycotton today,” the cleric said.

    “My heart goes out to all concerned; the children’s mother, to the extended family, relatives and friends and to the community of Ballycotton and to the people of the whole parish of Cloyne.

    “On behalf of the people and priests of the diocese, I offer my sincere and heartfelt condolences and I ask for prayers for the deceased and for those who are grieving.”

    Additional reporting courtesy of the Evening Echo.

    Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-probe-three-east-cork-deaths-482031.html#ixzz15ShOcY2m




    Poor reporting IMO


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Well if that's bad, the national media's reporting on the murders in Limerick yesterday were even worse:

    Every radio station was claming the stabbing happened in "Hazelgrove Estate in Limerick". Which got me asking where in Limerick City is that??

    The murders actually took place in Hazlegrove Estate in Newcastle West, which is 25 miles from the city!!


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