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Philip Cairns' Murder finally confirmed?

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭Going Forward


    I saw it. Registered today and only one post, bit trollish

    It might account for the disinterest in investigating Cooke......

    Or it could be complete rubbish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    Two Tone wrote: »
    I saw that. What was the significance of it? All I saw (although it was just a fleeting glance) was a reference to another poster (whom I was not familiar with) who had been banned, and saying they shouldn't have been banned.

    Ok I didn't see that one....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    Why has it gone so quiet around here?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    LorMal wrote: »
    Why has it gone so quiet around here?

    I think posts getting deleted etc puts people off posting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,471 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    I think posts getting deleted etc puts people off posting.
    Wasn't it just one post that was deleted?

    CT forum --->

    Not your ornery onager



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭1968


    Irish Mirror, 22 June 2016
    A former colleague of paedophile DJ Eamon Cooke has claimed there could be more than one victim.

    The evil DJ, who died earlier this month, was compared to serial killer Fred West by broadcaster Don Moore who said if Cooke killed Philip Cairns then there are probably more victims.

    In an interview with the Irish Sun, Mr Moore said: “If he did kill Philip Cairns then there are others.

    “We’re talking Fred West here. I suspect there are a lot more bodies lying around he is responsible for.

    “If he killed Philip I think he killed many more.”

    Philip disappeared after leaving his home to to back to school following a lunch break in October 1986.

    Shortly before Cooke’s death gardai received new information from a woman who claimed she had seen him attack Philip.

    Mr Moore said he became friendly with Cooke when the TV repair man got interested in a pirate radio station Moore was running.

    But the pair fell out when Cooke tried to take over Radio Dublin which had been set up by Moore.

    And when Moore decided to set up a rival Radio Dublin, he said Cooke crashed into his car in a rage.

    But the DJ said he never saw any evidence of abuse although his former colleague had threatened to kill him.

    He said: “I never saw any kind of abuse. Nothing like that at all.

    “If you are asking me do I think he was capable of murder, all I can tell you is he threatened to kill me.

    “After what he did I went to confront him at his house on Sarsfield Road in Inchicore.

    “I went over and said: ‘What are you playing at? What are you doing?’ and he opened the door to me and all these kids were surrounding him.

    “I thought they were relations of his. I really didn’t think anything of it at all at the time.

    Continues at link : http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/philip-cairns-not-been-paedophile-8254666


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭1968


    Broadhsheet.ie, 22 June 2016.

    Another great piece by 'Bodger'. This time on the killing of 7 year old John Horgan in Palmerstown, Dublin 20, in 1973.
    Like the Cairns case, the Horgan case has also been characterised by unusual subsequent discoveries, and strange rumours emanating from garda officers.

    Days after the disappearance of Philip Cairns, his canvas schoolbag was discovered in a lane close to his home, claimed to have been earlier searched by Gardaí. A number of religion books were missing from the schoolbag.

    Approximately a week after the death of John Horgan, a small canvas bag was found in a rathole in the field in which he had been killed. Inside the bag were artefacts, pages from occult magazines and a list containing the names of seven local children, including that of John Horgan.

    Continues at link : http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/06/22/the-devil-is-in-the-detail/


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭Going Forward


    I think posts getting deleted etc puts people off posting.

    Someone just posted something and deleted it by themselves by the looks of things.

    Their only post on boards.
    Their choice.

    It was another theory.

    IIRC I asked them if they gaurds were aware of their theory/had they reported it.

    Their post and mine replying to it aren't here now, presumably deleted by the poster I replied to.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    ^^^^^^^^^^

    or maybe the mods? was it defamatory in any way?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,471 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Someone just posted something and deleted it by themselves by the looks of things.

    Their only post on boards.
    Their choice.

    It was another theory.

    IIRC I asked them if they gaurds were aware of their theory/had they reported it.

    Their post and mine replying to it aren't here now, presumably deleted by the poster I replied to.
    If you didn't delete your own post, it must have been deleted by a mod, presumably because you quoted the first deleted post.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 214 ✭✭edbrez


    1968 wrote: »
    Another great piece by 'Bodger'. This time on the killing of 7 year old John Horgan in Palmerstown, Dublin 20, in 1973.
    That killer had a row with a young criminal in St Patrick's who then went off and committed suicide in his cell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    I can't believe a whole article has been written about this guy saying 'there's probably more victims' he's a DJ not Sherlock Holmes.

    1968 wrote: »


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    edbrez wrote: »
    That killer had a row with a young criminal in St Patrick's who then went off and committed suicide in his cell.

    The criminal did, following the row? Why


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 214 ✭✭edbrez


    John McCarthy was his name, traveller from Limerick. Happened in 1975, lesson to know in prison - don't have a row with a satanist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    edbrez wrote: »
    John McCarthy was his name, traveller from Limerick. Happened in 1975, lesson to know in prison - don't have a row with a satanist.

    Jaysis that's freaky...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    This thread is getting really dark..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    edbrez wrote: »
    John McCarthy was his name, traveller from Limerick. Happened in 1975, lesson to know in prison - don't have a row with a satanist.

    Satanism is just another made up religion. Suggestible superstitious people are vulnerable people. The crime behind that episode isn't relevant to this thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,759 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Does anyone know why Philip Cairns took his schoolbag home with him for his lunch break?
    It seems an odd thing to do and i'm wondering what was the reason for it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    Does anyone know why Philip Cairns took his schoolbag home with him for his lunch break?
    It seems an odd thing to do and i'm wondering what was the reason for it.

    Where else would he have put it? I'm the same age as him and I took my school bag with me at lunchtime. We'd no lockers in school then? Maybe they do now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,408 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Does anyone know why Philip Cairns took his schoolbag home with him for his lunch break?
    It seems an odd thing to do and i'm wondering what was the reason for it.

    He was finishing his homework ( I think it was maths) and he might have being changing books!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,759 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Where else would he have put it? I'm the same age as him and I took my school bag with me at lunchtime. We'd no lockers in school then? Maybe they do now.

    We always left ours on or under our desks.
    Never took a bag home at lunch time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    We always left ours on or under our desks.
    Never took a bag home at lunch time.

    Jaysus it'd have been robbed in my school! Couldn't even leave coats hanging up anywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,506 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    We always left ours on or under our desks.
    Never took a bag home at lunch time.

    We took them home. Empty out the books you didn't need for the afternoon and replace them with the ones you did need. Also this was secondary school he was in so it may not have been possible to leave a bag in a room as he might have had different classrooms etc. after lunch like a science lab or whatever to go to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,759 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Strumms wrote: »
    We took them home. Empty out the books you didn't need for the afternoon and replace them with the ones you did need. Also this was secondary school he was in so it may not have been possible to leave a bag in a room as he might have had different classrooms etc. after lunch like a science lab or whatever to go to.

    Fine. It's different outside Dublin.
    I always wondered if he had something in the bag that he may have taken from someone or found and maybe it got him killed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭stinkle


    I didnt live close enough to school to go to my own house at lunch, but best friend did and would bring books from morning classes home if we had homework from those classes. She'd just leave them in the house and bring whatever was needed for afternoon if she hadn't brought it in that morning already. Some of our books were huge, there's no way you'd bring them all in the morning if you didnt have to. We had small lockers, but you couldnt fit all the books in them, let alone a bag too. And yeah, bags would definitely have been nicked or vandalised in my school if you went off without them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Stasi 2.0


    1968 wrote: »
    Irish Mirror, 22 June 2016
    A former colleague of paedophile DJ Eamon Cooke has claimed there could be more than one victim.

    The evil DJ, who died earlier this month, was compared to serial killer Fred West by broadcaster Don Moore

    Continues at link : http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/philip-cairns-not-been-paedophile-8254666

    Why the fup do the media keep referring to Cooke as a "DJ" when he was nothing of the sort ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    Strumms wrote: »
    We took them home. Empty out the books you didn't need for the afternoon and replace them with the ones you did need. Also this was secondary school he was in so it may not have been possible to leave a bag in a room as he might have had different classrooms etc. after lunch like a science lab or whatever to go to.

    Same we took our bags everywhere, the giant monstrosities of things wouldn't fit inside the tiny lockers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,506 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Fine. It's different outside Dublin.
    I always wondered if he had something in the bag that he may have taken from someone or found and maybe it got him killed.

    That's a pretty far out conspiracy. His character as reported had him down as a decent kid, even if he did take something what could it have been to motivate anyone to kill him, a 13 year old kid ?

    Whatever happens we might end up with 90% of the story but we will never know the full picture you would feel. Just have to go along with what we know from recent developments and before and see where it leads. Hopefully for his poor mother some closure and somewhere to bury her son.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,759 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Strumms wrote: »
    That's a pretty far out conspiracy. His character as reported had him down as a decent kid, even if he did take something what could it have been to motivate anyone to kill him, a 13 year old kid ?

    Whatever happens we might end up with 90% of the story but we will never know the full picture you would feel. Just have to go along with what we know from recent developments and before and see where it leads. Hopefully for his poor mother some closure and somewhere to bury her son.

    Its not a conspiracy. I was just wondering why he had the bag home with him.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    Satanism is just another made up religion. Suggestible superstitious people are vulnerable people. The crime behind that episode isn't relevant to this thread.

    Agreed
    As seen with David Koresh ,Charles Manson etc
    Some very smart yet naive and gullible people followed the Solar Temple leader to the spaceship hiding in the wake of the Halley Bop comet


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