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Gerry and Kate Mcann promoting Book on Late Late next week

  • 06-05-2011 9:03pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭


    I see a Gerry and kate mcann have a new book out, and are appearing on the late late show to plug it next week. A good place for them to appear as they are probablly aware that Ryan Tubridy is a soft touch interviewer lacking the guile and skill to ask and pursue tough questions where they are merited . This is a couple who will do anything to court the media and muster public support to thier own gain. A couple who pass the blame on to everyone but themselves for the "abduction"(an abduction in which Columbo could not have solved because there is zero evidence of an abduction), not the fact that they left their children unattended while they wined and dined with friends, and now they have been given a prime time slot on RTE to plug their book and gain the love of the nation
    MADELEINE McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry are to appear on the Late Late Show for their first major Irish interview, the Herald can reveal.

    Host Ryan Tubridy will be talking to the McCanns on Friday week as they continue their efforts to locate their missing daughter.

    It is believed the interview is being timed to coincide with the publication of 43-year-old Kate’s book, entitled Madeleine, which hits the shelves next week.

    The 384-page work is being released on May 12, Madeleine’s eighth birthday.

    Kate and Gerry marked the fourth anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance with family and friends this week.

    The book is their account of how the youngster vanished while on a family holiday in Portugal.

    Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing in Praia da Luz, Algarve, in May 2007.

    The McCanns hope the publication of the book will prompt people holding vital information about what happened to come forward.

    It was originally due out last week but publishers Transworld postponed the release to avoid a clash with the Royal Wedding.

    The official Portuguese inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance formally ceased in July 2008. However, private detectives employed by the McCanns have continued the search for the missing child.

    Liverpool-born Kate’s mother Susan Healy said of the book: “Kate has to tell her story, even though it’s been the most terribly painful process over the last nine months.

    “We just hope that something will come from the book. It’s something that may just force someone to come forward. It’s also an account for Madeleine and for the twins [six-year-old Sean and Amelie].”

    Proceeds from the sales will also help boost their dwindling fund to search for their daughter.

    The book, which Kate wrote without the aid of a ghost writer, has a recommended retail price of around €22 and is expected to become a best-seller.

    Extracts will be serialised by newspapers from this weekend before the book is published.

    A family friend described how Kate wrote through the day, while the couple’s twins were at school, and then returned to her study to write late into the evening after the children had gone to bed.

    The McCanns hope sales of the book will raise more than £1m (€1.1m) for Madeleine’s fund.

    The book’s launch will be accompanied by several television interviews, including the Late Late appearance.
    http://mccannexposure.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/friday-13th-may-mccanns-scheduled-to-appear-on-late-late-show/


    The Portugese and British investigators didn't believe the Mcanns Story,Their conclusion was that the abduction scenario was impossible and that Madeline died by cause of accident in the appartment.

    I have a couple of other questions Which Ryan could ask them?

    Why Did the specially trained cadaver sniffer dogs, flown in from the Uk detect the presence of a dead body in your appartment , and in your rental car? Were those dogs lying?Were they incompetent fools like you made the portugese police out to be?

    Why do you imply that the "Madeline Fund" is a charity, It is a private limited company? How much do you spend on your legal expenses ,
    , lawsuits against people trying to tarnish your brand name, and on your own personal expenses?

    Why didn't you answer the 48 police questions asked you by the police, they seemed like pretty reasonable and straight forward questions ?I can;t spot any trick questions

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/48-Questions-Kate-McCann-Faced-from-Portugese-Police/Article/200808115070874




    Some more questions

    http://mccannexposure.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/the-madeleine-foundations-50-facts-leaflet/





    This is most dangerous and predictable question(s) that the DLB will ask them, which will be pre rehearsed and executed with aplomb by team mcann



    "What do you say to those people that say you might have something to do..../know what happened to Madeline...."

    Cue emotion from Kate Mcann , and RTE camera zooming in our Gerrys hand squeezing hers , and so on

    And Tubridy ending the interview with deep sorrow etched on his face, wishing them well and every success in the future, and how he can't imagine what they are going through etc





    http://www.mysmiley.net/freesmiley.php?smiley=sick/sick0006.gif




    If they were not a well off couple and had not of whipped this into a media frenzy, this couple would have been rightfully behind bars to this day.


    Do you think they should be given the platform to rally the compassion of the public, by being given an easy ride by Tubridy and prime time slot by RTE ,to plug their book and themselves and put forward a view which is contrary to Every police force involved in the case, man, woman and canine and I think that majority of people as well. :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Is this like that OJ book where he wrote about how he would have done it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    In the likely event that the McCanns had nothing to do with their child's disappearance, I can't even imagine by how much their grief and pain must have been compounded by accusations of amateur sleuths and conspiracy theorists on the internet, safely ensconced in their own homes whilst casting the most vile slurs against a grieving couple.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    i must let her out of the dungeon so we can watch it together so


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭ilovelamp2000


    I thought the donations already received would have covered their mortgage by now ... ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    Why isn't there a "sticking fingers down throat" smiley?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭BengaLover


    Ryan will be briefed beforehand on what NOT to ask, so he wont ask the diffucult questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Einhard wrote: »
    In the likely event that the McCanns had nothing to do with their child's disappearance, I can't even imagine by how much their grief and pain must have been compounded by accusations of amateur sleuths and conspiracy theorists on the internet, safely ensconced in thie rown homes whilst casting the mst vile slurs against agrieving couple.
    I'm sure the money they'll make from their tell-all book will ease the pain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    well, she is the new hide and seek champion, since osama was found


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    I hope they get a babysitter this time...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    22 yoyos? That's hardly a steal.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭jive


    Ugh still this ****. Talk about flogging a dead horse, or more aptly a dead child. There are a lot more important people who could go on the late late show i.e. people who have lost their child recently and not YEARS ago.

    If the book was on bad parenting then I'd consider buying it if they wrote it themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Some Puerto Rican guy stole our daughter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    phasers wrote: »
    I'm sure the money they'll make from their tell-all book will ease the pain.

    Don't be so bloody crass. We're talking about a couple who have lost their child in tragic circumstances. It never ceases to amaze me how all sensitivity and empathy are lost as soon as some people sit in front of their computer screen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭end a eknny


    even if they arent responsible for her death. they where definetly negligent to leave 2 children alone in an appartment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Why would anyone believe what this couple have to say? The story stinks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Einhard wrote: »
    Don't be so bloody crass. We're talking about a couple who have lost their child in tragic circumstances. It never ceases to amaze me how all sensitivity and empathy are lost as soon as some people sit in front of their computer screen.
    I'd say the same if I were standing in front of them. What they're doing is disgusting, they exploited their daughter's disappearance from day 1.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭m.j.w


    Einhard wrote: »
    In the likely event that the McCanns had nothing to do with their child's disappearance, I can't even imagine by how much their grief and pain must have been compounded by accusations of amateur sleuths and conspiracy theorists on the internet, safely ensconced in their own homes whilst casting the most vile slurs against a grieving couple.

    no matter what happened to maddie the mcCanns had something to do with her disappearance when they left a child alone while they went for dinner


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Einhard wrote: »
    Don't be so bloody crass. We're talking about a couple who have lost their child in tragic circumstances. It never ceases to amaze me how all sensitivity and empathy are lost as soon as some people sit in front of their computer screen.

    They didn't lose her, they left her on her own.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    tutbq4.jpg

    this book?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Einhard wrote: »
    Don't be so bloody crass. We're talking about a couple who have lost their child in tragic circumstances. It never ceases to amaze me how all sensitivity and empathy are lost as soon as some people sit in front of their computer screen.

    keyboard warriors


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Title:

    'How to turn bad parenting into a multimillion pound franchise'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    I see RTE are also planning on having Derek Acorah on the same night as a guest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭yosemite_sam


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Some Puerto Rican man stole our daughter.

    No, it's called how to save on babysitters fee's


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I see RTE are also planning on having Derek Acorah on the same night as a guest.

    Him gibbering 'Maddie loves Dick' won't go down too well I'd imagine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    everyone who's good at poker watch the interview and try spot the tells.. report back here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭PinkFly


    I see RTE are also planning on having Derek Acorah on the same night as a guest.


    oh good lord....

    another lying gobshíte


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Dan133269


    sxt wrote: »
    Why Did the specially trained cadaver sniffer dogs, flown in from the Uk detect the presence of a dead body in your appartment , and in your rental car?

    Is this true? Source?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    phasers wrote: »
    I'd say the same if I were standing in front of them. What they're doing is disgusting, they exploited their daughter's disappearance from day 1.

    Do you have evidence that they have profited financially from her death? If so, I'll retract my words and join you in staying it to their face.

    Otherwise, what we have is two parents seeking to raise as much money as possible in order to further the search for their midding child. The problem, it seems, is that they're not behaving as people expect them to behave, and adapting to the grieving parents stereotype. And, as is so often the case, guilt is implied when people fail to conform to expectations. Again, if you can show me that they have gained financially from her disappearance, I'll eat my words.
    m.j.w wrote: »
    no matter what happened to maddie the mcCanns had something to do with her disappearance when they left a child alone while they went for dinner
    TheZohan wrote: »
    They didn't lose her, they left her on her own.

    Yeah, that's true. They were irresponsible in leaving their children alone. But how many of our parents had moments of irresponsibility in raising us? Just the other day, a thread was started in AH concerning a mother who left her child alone in the car as she popped into a shop. It happens all the time, to the best of parents, and it's entirely unfair to base an entire hudgement of character on one act.
    rarnes1 wrote: »
    keyboard warriors

    Stupid phrase. What does it it even mean in this context?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    I see RTE are also planning on having Derek Acorah on the same night as a guest.
    LOL. I like Derek. Good entertainment.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Einhard wrote: »
    Yeah, that's true. They were irresponsible in leaving their children alone. But how many of our parents had moments of irresponsibility in raising us? Just the other day, a thread was started in AH concerning a mother who left her child alone in the car as she popped into a shop. It happens all the time, to the best of parents, and it's entirely unfair to base an entire hudgement of character on one act.

    No, it doesn't.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Einhard wrote: »
    Do you have evidence that they have profited financially from her death? If so, I'll retract my words and join you in staying it to their face.

    libel cases alone made them millionaires.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭ilovelamp2000


    Einhard wrote: »
    Do you have evidence that they have profited financially from her death? If so, I'll retract my words and join you in staying it to their face.

    Otherwise, what we have is two parents seeking to raise as much money as possible in order to further the search for their midding child. The problem, it seems, is that they're not behaving as people expect them to behave, and adapting to the grieving parents stereotype. And, as is so often the case, guilt is implied when people fail to conform to expectations. Again, if you can show me that they have gained financially from her disappearance, I'll eat my words.

    They admitted to using donations made to help find their daughter on their mortgage. They got a nice libel award as well somewhere along the line too (as did others)

    And now there is the book. They're well in profit already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Einhard wrote: »

    Yeah, that's true. They were irresponsible in leaving their children alone. But how many of our parents had moments of irresponsibility in raising us? Just the other day, a thread was started in AH concerning a mother who left her child alone in the car as she popped into a shop. It happens all the time, to the best of parents, and it's entirely unfair to base an entire hudgement of character on one act.


    It happens all the time, yet how many of those kids go missing?...It's not a regular occurrence yet on the one night they did it somebody took the risk of breaking into their apartment that they didn't know was free of adults and disappeared with her...I call shenanigans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    TheZohan wrote: »
    No, it doesn't.

    Yes it does. Good parents make idiotic decisions sometimes.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Einhard wrote: »
    Yes it does. Good parents make idiotic decisions sometimes.

    Not that idiotic.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Einhard wrote: »
    Yes it does. Good parents make idiotic decisions sometimes.

    Yeah, the interview with Sky, they should have held out for Fox!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭PinkFly


    no matter what the circumstancesi would never leave my son alone to go out for something to eat.....at home....abroad... ever

    i know ppl dont behave the way we expect them to...

    but it does seem odd that they never admitted they were a little bit in the wrong..... ever :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    ^ The 'find Maddie' fund was used to pay off their mortgage in the UK, and paid for a private villa in Portugal. It also pays for a private creche for their other children since they can't be bothered to look after them themselves. I read this in the paper a couple of years back so I can't provide links, sorry. This book she has written isn't being given away for free, it costs £22. Which goes in their pockets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Einhard wrote: »
    Yeah, that's true. They were irresponsible in leaving their children alone. But how many of our parents had moments of irresponsibility in raising us? Just the other day, a thread was started in AH concerning a mother who left her child alone in the car as she popped into a shop. It happens all the time, to the best of parents, and it's entirely unfair to base an entire hudgement of character on one act.


    They didn't leave her in the car while they popped into a shop for 5 minutes, they left 3 children alone in an apartment while they went for a meal. I don't know about you, but I've never been out for a meal that finished in under an hour.

    Leaving children alone like that isn't justifiable at all, it's complete negligence. They should have been prosecuted just for that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Not that idiotic.

    There have been a few instances in Ireland recently where parents left children in the car as they popped into the shop, only to have someone hop into the car and drive off with the kids. Absolutely idiotic of the parents, and potentially as tragic as anything that has befallen Maddie McCann, but I wouldn't condemn those involved as woeful parents because of one such act.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    well, she is the new hide and seek champion, since osama was found


    No LORD Lucan still and Shergar are ahead


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Einhard wrote: »

    Yeah, that's true. They were irresponsible in leaving their children alone. But how many of our parents had moments of irresponsibility in raising us? Just the other day, a thread was started in AH concerning a mother who left her child alone in the car as she popped into a shop. It happens all the time, to the best of parents, and it's entirely unfair to base an entire hudgement of character on one act.


    They went for a meal and drinks and left their small children alone unsupervised. These are educated responsible adults. If they were from a poor estate in the UK they would have been charged with neglect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    I might have some respect for Mr. & Mrs. McCann if they donated at least part of the fee from the book to help a Missing Children's charity. Try to help other parents who are going through what they ostensibly went through.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    phasers wrote: »
    ^ The 'find Maddie' fund was used to pay off their mortgage in the UK, and paid for a private villa in Portugal. It also pays for a private creche for their other children since they can't be bothered to look after them themselves. I read this in the paper a couple of years back so I can't provide links, sorry. This book she has written isn't being given away for free, it costs £22. Which goes in their pockets.
    There's a story here about the mortgage:

    Kate and Gerry McCann have used the £1million Find Madeleine fund to pay their mortgage, it was revealed yesterday.

    Fund organisers refused to say how much had been spent but confirmed that money donated by the public was made available for the family's living expenses.


    Payments: The McCanns have used part of the Find Madeleine fund to pay their mortgage

    Neither has worked since Madeleine vanished on May 3, although Mr McCann is due to return to his £75,000-a-year post as a hospital consultant this week.

    Mortgage repayments on the couple's £500,000 detached home in Rothley, Leicestershire, are believed to be £2,000 a month.

    The Find Madeleine fund, which has received more than £1.09million in donations from all over the world, was set up primarily to fund a publicity campaign after the little girl vanished on May 3.

    It also met legal fees involved in setting up the not-for-profit business, which does not have charitable status.

    But the fund's directors - who include colleagues, friends and relatives of the McCanns - ruled that they cannot use it to pay the legal team defending them against Portuguese allegations that they were involved in Madeleine's disappearance.

    Family home: The mortage repayments on the house in Rothley are believed to be around £2,000 a month

    That has been met by a separate fund, using donations from wealthy benefactors including Sir Richard Branson.

    The salary of the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell is paid by another millionaire, double-glazing tycoon Brian Kennedy.

    But the Find Madeleine fund has paid for other staff, including former campaign manager Justine McGuinness,

    In the weeks after Madeleine's disappearance it paid for her parents' campaign trips to Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington DC and the Moroccan capital, Rabat.

    It was revealed last month that about £300,000 had been spent, and a further £80,000 was paid out this month for a new publicity campaign in Portugal, Spain and Morocco.

    Donations have slowed dramatically, however, since the McCanns, both 39, were made official suspects in the case.

    Fund: The campaign to find Madeleine has raised more than £1million

    Exact details of where the money has gone will not be disclosed until the end of the financial year when the accounts are made public.

    Fund officials said an administrator has been appointed to ensure "the highest standards of transparency and accountability".

    Mr Mitchell said last night: "The fund exists to support Kate and Gerry where their living costs would become difficult.

    "Gerry is going back to work this week and they hope they will not have to rely on it for their living costs for much longer."

    The McCanns have said any surplus money from the fund would be given to charities to help families of other missing children.

    Friends of the McCanns have said they are anxious to keep the fund's money for the campaign to find Madeleine.

    They denied Mr McCann was returning to work for financial reasons, insisting he wanted to regain a "sense of normality".

    He has been on unpaid leave and his wife, a part-time GP, has not been paid while she has been off work.

    It is understood that Mr McCann will initially work three half-days a week at Leicester's Glenfields Hospital and will not have any direct contact with patients until his employers believe he is ready.

    His return has been approved by the General Medical Council, which regulates the medical profession, but a senior heart specialist warned last night that it could put patients' lives at risk.

    The consultant, who did not wish to be named, asked: "How will he be able to concentrate on his work with his daughter missing? It is a high-pressure job and you have to make difficult decisions.

    "I can tell you from personal experience that if your mind is not totally on it, it is hard.

    "If he is going to be doing procedures where you have to totally focus, the only way you can do it is compartmentalise and if you can't do it, it could be very difficult. He could break down and make a mistake."

    The group Patient Concern said Mr McCann should be monitored for at least three months and the public should be able to choose not to be treated by him.

    Director Roger Goss said: "It's a good idea he is allowed back, but he should be monitored to ensure he is all right.

    "Patients should be allowed the option of not being treated by him while the case has such a high profile. I know it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭yosemite_sam


    Einhard wrote: »
    Yes it does. Good parents make idiotic decisions sometimes.
    Tubridy is worse giving them the time of day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    No LORD Lucan still and Shergar are ahead

    No, I think Shergar lost it by a Whiskas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,838 ✭✭✭theboss80


    A little disturbed at alot of the comments im reading tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    The only person i feel sorry for is Madeline herself. These two imposters are a disgrace and should face jail time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    Einhard wrote: »
    There have been a few instances in Ireland recently where parents left children in the car as they popped into the shop, only to have someone hop into the car and drive off with the kids. Absolutely idiotic of the parents, and potentially as tragic as anything that has befallen Maddie McCann, but I wouldn't condemn those involved as woeful parents because of one such act.

    Did it not already come out that they had left the kids alone for nearly every night of the holidays while they had hours long dinner with friends??:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭RussellTuring


    I see RTE are also planning on having Derek Acorah on the same night as a guest.

    I wonder how likely it is that Tubridy will turn to Acorah at some stage and say: "So, Derek, have you spoken to Maddie lately?".


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