Supermodel Naomi Campbell mugged by motorbike gang & left in a wheelchair
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been injured in a mugging in Paris. Ms Campbell (42) was attacked while she travelled through an upmarket area of the city in late November.
The supermodel was targeted by two people on a motorbike who tried to grab her handbag as she sat in her car.
She was reportedly left with a torn ligament in her leg following the attack, which took place just off the Rue de Rivoli, in the heart of the French capital.
The catwalk model was later pictured sitting in a wheelchair with her left leg in a brace and it has been reported that she may need surgery to help her injuries heal fully.
French police have confirmed that two men on a motorcycle tried to grab her handbag as she sat in a car in the trendy Marais neighbourhood on November 21.
A spokesman for Ms Campbell has declined to comment on the incident and Paris police could not give details of any injuries, saying Campbell had declined an offer to be examined by doctors at the police station.
Surgeon: A police source said: “On November 21, two people on a motorbike attempted to steal Ms Campbell’s handbag as she sat in a vehicle on Rue de Moussy. She filed a complaint with police in the 4th arrondissement but she did not agree to a medical examination.”
According to reports, her billionaire Russian boyfriend Vladimir Doronin had her flown by private jet to Colorado, where she was cared for by a leading orthopaedic surgeon.
Mr Doronin is also believed to have stepped up security around the model since the mugging attempt.
There have been no arrests in connection with the case.
It is not the first time Ms Campbell (42) has encountered trouble on the road.
In 2010 she was accused of assaulting a driver from the back seat of a luxury 4×4.
The man went to the police but later apologised to Ms Campbell saying the incident was “blown out of proportion”. He did not press charges.
Ms Campbell has been convicted herself of assaults on her staff and on police officers and was ordered by one judge to attend anger management classes.
HSE employed chef in €8.8m centre has no kitchen in Galway to work in
The HSE is employing a fulltime children’s chef who has no kitchen to cook in and is paying a local bar to provide the meals instead.
The chef was transferred from the old children’s mental health unit in Galway to a new €8.8m centre. But the kitchen in the unit was not equipped for cooking hot food.
An investigation has revealed that the HSE has continued to pay the chef his €46,000 annual salary.
At the same time, it has paid a total of €155,000 to a local bar to supply breakfast, lunches, dinners and snacks to the 20 children in the unit.
The bizarre situation has been ongoing in the child mental health unit in Merlin Park Hospital in Galway for the past two years.
The HSE denied that the chef ’s only role in the child mental health unit was to serve food.
The health agency said the chef ’s other duties included taking daily orders for food, keeping daily food safety records, maintaining three kitchenettes (small food areas) in the wards in the unit and keeping the wards tidy.
But even though local HSE managers know the solution to the problem, no action has been taken so far.
The original aim was to allow the chef to cook in the Merlin Park Hospital kitchen, which is on the same grounds as the child mental health unit.
The HSE has confirmed that the chef has “no objection” to using the hospital kitchen.
But two years on, negotiations on getting the chef into the hospital kitchen have yet to start. The two sides involved – the management of the child mental health unit, and the management of the Merlin Park Hospital – must agree on what food will be provided from the kitchen and how much it will cost.
Negotiations are due to start on moving the chef into the main hospital kitchen when a new catering manager is appointed for Merlin Park Hospital.
But the revelation of the €155,000 food bill over the past two years while a full-time chef was employed on the payroll will raise questions about why local management in the Merlin Park unit are taking so long to solve the problem.
It comes at a time when mental health services for children and teenagers are under severe pressure, with more than 2,000 of them waiting for appointments. Almost 10,000 young people were referred to the mental services last year.
The unit as in Merlin Park Hospital, which has 20 beds for children aged between 10 and 18, has “almost 100pc” occupancy at the moment.
Previously, children with mental health problems in the west were cared for at St Anne’s Children’s Centre in Taylor’s Hill in Galway city.
But this was shut down once the new purpose-built unit was opened in the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital, 8km away, at a cost of €8.8m.
Oversight: The HSE denied that having a “satellite kitchen”, which can only be used for the cold storage of foods instead of a full kitchen, was a planning oversight.
According to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the HSE put the contract for supplying meals to the children in the unit out to tender in 2010.
The contract was awarded to Bodkins Bar in the Kingvalley Hotel on the Dublin Road, which is located just one kilometre away. It cost the HSE €106,855 in 2011.
But after the HSE decided to limit the variety of food offered on the menus, the cost was reduced by more than 50pc to €48,342 last year.
The bar is required to provide healthy food, with fresh fruit every day and fish twice a week.
Irish breakfasts are only available at the weekend.
There are also detailed requirements on the contract for the food to be transported at the correct temperature from the bar to the child mental health unit.
The quality of the food provided under the contract was praised by the Inspector of Mental Health in its 2011 inspection – which was carried out without prior warning.
“There was a menu and choice of food at mealtimes. Meals were obtained from a local hotel and were of good quality,” it said.
The HSE has insisted that it has secured value for money for taxpayers by negotiating down the cost of the food contract.
It denied that the situation was complicated by the fact that the child mental health unit was in its community care section, whereas the hospital kitchen was part of its acute care (hospital) section.
Gerry Adams underwent laser surgery on prostate problem during US trip
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams underwent laser surgery to deal with a prostate problem in New York last summer.
The previously undisclosed visit emerged in documents filed by the party’s support group in the United States.
Mr Adams underwent the “surgical procedure” in early August, was kept overnight and then spent a further nine days recovering at a friend’s apartment in Manhattan.
Sinn Fein declined to give precise details of Mr Adams’s prostate problem. But it confirmed that it was “not cancer” and that the treatment he received had been a success.
The party said he had attended a medical consultation while he was in New York. It said a successful procedure followed which required him to stay in hospital overnight.
“Mr Adams was advised that the procedure he required – which involved laser treatment – was best done in New York,” it said in a statement.
Only men have a prostate gland. Around one in eight men in Ireland will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. But there are also other non-cancerous prostate problems such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, an enlargement of the prostate gland.
But it can be addressed with laser treatment.
Mr Adams had already been in the US for a number of days before the operation, arriving on July 30 ahead of a medical consultation the following day.
Details of his US trip emerged in documents filed by Friends of Sinn Fein, which raises large amounts of money in the US but is not allowed to send any back to Ireland.
Sinn Fein said that the issue of cost of the medical treatment, which is notoriously expensive in the US, was a matter for Mr Adams himself.
“Friends of Sinn Fein did not pay any costs toward this treatment nor was there any cost to the Irish taxpayer,” it said in a statement.
In the 12 months to October 31, Friends of Sinn Fein raised close to $500,000 (€383,000), from individuals, companies and unions across the US.
Mr Adams had one engagement during his time in the US, a dinner at the famous Bobby Van’s Steakhouse in Manhattan, hosted by the restaurant’s president, Joseph Smith.
He stayed at the home of Mr Smith before and after the operation and Mr Adams talked about job creation and investment at the dinner.
Donegal Old Age Pensioner gagged and punched during burglary raid
A 96-year-old woman has been taken to hospital after being gagged and punched in the ribs during a terrifying overnight burglary
A 96-year-old woman has been taken to hospital after being gagged and punched in the ribs during a terrifying overnight burglary on her home.
The elderly pensioner lives on her own in Aghilly in Buncrana, Co Donegal.
A masked man dressed in dark clothing broke into her home through a kitchen window and entered her bedroom at around 12.30am on Saturday morning, gardai said.
The attacker threatened the elderly woman, disarmed a panic alarm attached to her wrist and held a gag to her mouth while demanding money.
She was also punched in the ribs during the brutal ordeal.
The burglar, who had an accomplice waiting outside, then made off with the pensioner’s handbag, which contained cash and bank cards.
The woman managed to find her panic alarm and activated it, alerting gardai, who rushed to the scene.
She was taken to Letterkenny General Hospital for observation.
It is believed her injuries are not life-threatening.
Neighbours told gardai that two men dressed in dark clothing and with local accents were seen making off from the area in the direction of Tullydish.
U’2 leadman Bono’s eyes are deteriorating
Bono’s eye condition is deteriorating and getting worse.
The U2 frontman has revealed in the past that he wears his ever present sunglasses because his eyes are sensitive to light but his close friend Julian has confirmed that the the condition is deteriorating.
“Bono actually has a condition with his eyes. I don’t know the exact issue but the brightness of the sun hurts them and it’s a deteriorating issue.”
However, Julian Lennon admitted the sunglasses have now become an integral part of Bono’s image too.
He added: “It’s part of his image so in some senses it was lucky but nor really of course.
He added: “It’s part of his image so in some senses it was lucky but nor really of course.
“Maybe it’s part of his process now and without the image he can’t be Bono.”
Speaking about his eye condition previously, Bono, 52, admitted he has to be careful when being photographed by fans and paparazzi.
He said: “I have very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes a photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up.”
Organisers agree not to release helium balloons at Dublin Castle
The Dublin Castle launch of Ireland’s EU presidency on New Year’s Eve was altered at the last moment when an environmental group objected to the release of 40 helium-filled balloons on the basis that they could end up as “lethal marine debris”.
After Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) contacted both the Taoiseach’s office and the EU’s Blue Star education programme, it was agreed that the balloons would be secured by long string and taken home by schoolchildren involved in the launch.
FIE director Tony Lowes told the organisers: “It has been well established since a Canadian marine conference in 1989 that the release of gas-filled balloons is an environmental hazard.
“The fragments can become lethal ‘marine debris’, a hazard for sea turtles, dolphins, whales, fish and seabirds who mistake them for jellyfish or other natural prey.”
Neale Richmond, Blue Star Project Manager, said: “Following consultation with the Department of the Taoiseach, the ceremony was rearranged to include a “secure balloon release”, not a general balloon release.
“All of the 40 balloons had extra long string attached.”
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