Irishman dies in Venezuela after condom full of cocaine bursts in his stomach
Drug mule’s companions face drug trafficking charges
An Irish drugs mule has died in Venezuela – after a stash of cocaine stored in condoms burst open in his stomach, Martin ‘Butch’ Beirne was found dead in a hotel room by local police on Wednesday.
Two Galway men travelling with him have been arrested and are awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges.
Beirne, in his early 30s and originally from Athlone, was believed to be working for a family gang who control the cocaine trade in Sligo.
He was known to police in Ireland and became involved with the Sligo based crime family during a stretch in prison.
“This is a big step up for these boys,” an Irish police source told the media.
“We thought they were buying from others in Dublin and not importing drugs themselves.”
Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to the man’s family and an embassy official in Mexico has travelled to Venezuela
Noonan confident of progress on promissory note deal soon
Minister Michael Noonan has said he is confident of a deal over the weekend regarding talks with the ECB. The Finance Minister said the government has a lot of friends in Europe
He said this morning that talks were going well with the European Central Bank regarding the payment of €3.06bn to the former Anglo Irish Bank at the end of this month.
The Finance Minister said the government has a lot of friends in Europe and they are anxious to help and assist.
Mr Noonan also said there are some technical difficulties which need to be worked out but that he is hopeful of a result.
He added that talks are at a delicate stage but that he is confident the government will get a result but that at present, the result would not be got by going public on every detail.
When asked when he thought the talks would finish the Minister replied that they would continue over the weekend and that it is not medium term, it is something that must be done fairly quickly.
He also said the deferral of the payment at the end of March is really only one element, the bigger picture and the bigger event is to try and get an easier way of paying the promissory note, something that would be less onerous on the taxpayer and that that serious piece of negotiations would happen in the second part of the year and that is progressing in parallel.
Three to stand trial over death of Leitrim biomedical student (20)
Andrew Dolan from Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, who died on January 1st after an assualt in Pearse St. Mullingar (above right)
THREE young people were yesterday sent forward for trial for the manslaughter of Andrew Dolan (pictured) on New Year’s Day.
The 20-year-old biomedical science student from Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, died on January 1 at Beaumount Hospital following an assault at Pearse Street, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, on December 23 last.
The accused who were before Mullingar District Court yesterday were Jessica Hughes (19) of Greenfield Heights, Rathwire, Killucan, Co Westmeath; Patrick Farrell (20) of Cornamuckla, Broadford, Co Kildare; and Patrick Daly (22) of Mulphedder, Clonard, Co Meath.
They were remanded on bail to appear before Mullingar Circuit Court sitting in Tullamore on May 8.
Are Irish women really thinking about sex more often than men?
Do Irish women think about sex more? Irish Tatler reports on their survey.
Irish women are mad for a bit of sex, or at least that is what we are led to believe by the results of the latest sex survey. The survey questioned women in Ireland between the ages of 25 and 40 about their sexual desires and habits.
According to the research conducted by Irish Tatler Magazine, modern Irish women have evolved from their ancestors to be a lot more sexually liberated.
Statistics reveal that a massive 73 per cent of Irish women have had sex in the wild outdoors and some 68 percent admitted to using a vibrator.
Over 50 percent have fantasized about a threesome and 55 percent admitted to having dirty thoughts about a colleague. Also half of Irish women have considered having sex with another female.
“Sex is an important part of everyone’s lives but still an area that has its taboos in this country,” said Jessie Collins, the editor of Irish Tatler.
“We wanted to see if attitudes have shifted at all in recent years and to find out how satisfied our readers are in the bedroom,” she added.
According to the survey, more than half of Irish women are having sex at least twice a week. Great to hear all the Irish men are keeping you satisfied!
We are a faithful race it seems with 88 percent of women saying they have never strayed from their partners and over 60 percent reporting the sex has gotten better over the years.
The results are definitely unexpected and maybe an article your Granny would be appalled to read.
When I was in school in the late 1990s we didn’t do sex education. On our first day of biology class in high school our teacher made us turn to the chapter that dealt with human reproduction and told us to take a long hard look at the pictures because we would be not be covering the topic until before exam time, two years later.
Thankfully, gone are the days it seems of the great condom train of May 1971, when women brought condoms (which were banned in Ireland) down from Belfast on the train and blew them up in Connolly station!
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