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THE PUBLISHER OF Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper said that it is being investigated for alleged phone-hacking by former staff.
Trinity Mirror said police were examining whether its subsidiary MGN Limited, which publishes its five national newspapers, could be held criminally liable over allegations that Sunday Mirror journalists illegally accessed celebrities’ voicemail messages.
“The group does not accept wrongdoing within its business and takes these allegations seriously,” a Trinity Mirror spokesman said.
The police investigation is at a “very early stage”, he added.
With a circulation of over one million, the celebrity-heavy Sunday Mirror is the weekly sister newspaper of the left-leaning Daily Mirror tabloid.
News of the World hacking
The Sunday Mirror’s rival the News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was engulfed in 2011 by revelations that its journalists had hacked the phone of a murdered schoolgirl as well as hundreds of celebrities and public figures.
Murdoch was forced to close down the 168-year-old newspaper in July 2011 following a huge public outcry.
Dan Evans, a former journalist with both the Sunday Mirror and the News of the World, is among 16 people who have been charged over alleged phone-hacking.
Four Trinity Mirror journalists were arrested over suspected phone-hacking in March, including former Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver. All four were released on bail.
Trinity Mirror publishes more than a hundred regional titles in Britain and two Scottish newspapers as well as the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.
Arrests
More than a hundred people have been arrested under three police probes launched in the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
The scandal also sparked a judicial inquiry into the ethics of the famously raucous British press, which recommended an overhaul of the newspapers’ system of self-regulation.
- © AFP 2013.
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And fair fecks to them for standing up for what they believed in. Proud to say they wanted an end to that segregation cr*p
Too bad they will be stuck with the Labour party junketeers.
People should take the same stance and not buy any products from Israel.
Our minister for justice would never allow such a thing
People should take the same stance and not buy products from the real apartheid countries like Iran, saudi arabia
And Israel, the worst offender.
Barcodes starting with 729 means product came from Israel usually fruit, oils and olives don’t support this terrorist country.
What’s with the dislike of Israel?
Thanks for letting me know garry o barry about the Barcodes 729 so i can BUY products made in Israel
Little matter of genocide of the people of Palestine not a big deal really :)
No problem Ronan thats the beauty of freedom we can all have our own opinion be well my friend.
Shocking stuff Mary but nothing surprises me i traveled to Israel/Palestine last year you really have to see the West Bank to believe what goes on there.
@ Garry o Barry the population of people of Palestine is increasing each year hardy genocide is it
The real genocide going on now is against Christians in the middle east carried out by muslims
But the area they live in is decreasing.
They are effectively living in a walled prison.
On top of this we have land grabbing going on and the plantation of Jewish families.
Ronan have you ever been to Israel or Palestine?
Why are irish people so quick to condemn Israel yet turn a blind eye to the history of our own country? God forbid anyone would dare mention the fact that the British sat back and watched as 1 Irish million starved to death unecessarily. There are actually people in this country who defend the actions of British yet will codemn and vilify any republican action. The Palestinians are just as barbaric as the Israelis yet their use of savage acts like suicide bombings of children on school buses are defended.
Imported fruit and veg is usually repackaged at wholesalers and local barcodes applied.
Country of origin is usually human readable on the labels and not necessarily identified in the (retail, GS1-13) barcode.
A net of lemons will have the same barcode in a retail chain regardless of country of origin.
Mary manning, only 21 and the moral conviction and strength to stand up for what she believes. Fair play to her!!!
You would wonder how the government and media would react to them today
Probably enact some legislation to stop them
Thanks for that. Make it easier for me to spot and buy Israeli produce. Well done.
No never been either Gary, but hey lets hope there is a permanent peace deal between Israel and Palestine very soon
Bet you have Gary. Might explain your irrational bias.
And the anti semites hijack a tribute. Well done.
On of the few worthy strikes in ireland in the last 30 yrs.
Iran?
Paul, no doubt Mary Manning will be left out of this one too. Because of her insubordination she eventually lost her job, was blacklisted from other chains and had to move down the country for work and eventually to Australia. She has not seen the plaque dedicated to the strikers or been back to Ireland. No doubt the invitation does not extend itself to Ms. Manning because she doesn’t live here. Talk about a lack of respect.
Why are we not doing this to isreal?
Glad they are going . These workers sacrificed a lot over for standing up for their principles over 3 years. Principles– a word hardly recognised in modern Ireland. I would rather they represented Ireland than a number of our grab everything politicians .
Well said Nelly
Jesus, can any story on this site be posted without some anti politicians rant?
I never knew it was 3 years. What a brave bunch of people.
Theyre POLITICIANS … If the dont want us complaining about them they have a choice … To either do ad the public wishes … Or get out of politics … SIMPLE
Pity we dont have any trade unionists left in Ireland nowadays. Only fat cats lording it up as trade union leaders.
Government lackeys
I can’t think of anyone more fitting to represent the people of Ireland at Mandela’s funeral. These brave trade unionists showed solidarity with those fighting apartheid in South Africa. One of them was only 16 years old and this was her first job.
Brilliant! They brought the situation in South Africa to the whole nation’s attention. In fact I think they made the news in the UK and helped to change attitudes there, despite Mrs Thatcher’s support for DeClerk and his regime. They so deserve this!
Just a little History lesson for you there! De Clerk was not president at that time Botha was. De Clerk was the man that actually started the talks with the ANC and Mandela. If De Clerk didn’t start the talks, South Africa would either kept on going the way they were or a Civil war would have broken out and Mandela would more than likely still be in jail.
The abolition of Apartheid had already started in the early 1980′s.
Really people, please believing all the crap SKYNEWS feeds you!
I forgot it was Botha was President, Stanley. He was extremely hardline. There was no Sky till 1990 so most of the news up till then was from RTÉ, BBC and UTV in these islands. I’m sure there was a great deal of talking done in private before Mr Mandela was released, same as all the early talks to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland. Sure, even Thatcher’s government were in talks about the North even while she was still taking a hardline attitude in public.
No matter what TV news network was about they are all biased. I have yet to see one that is not. Talking about Northern Ireland, I have never met a nicer bunch of people. I’m in Portrush at the moment and to tell you the truth they just want to be left alone and get on with life
They are entirely welcome to do so. What have they to do with the gallant Dunnes Stores strikers?
True, Stanley. Apartheid was pretty much dead by 1985 and was just awaiting burial. The transition of power ended up being relatively smooth and peaceful, which it wouldn’t have been if a lot of international radicals had got their way and it completely vindicated Thatcher’s view that increasing isolation of the country would only entrench attitudes and make the government more extremist. As it was, sanctions only had the effect of making South Africa virtually self-sufficient.
The same people who supported them were totally against sanctions on Iraq and Iran, so make of that what you will.
That’s why Mandela was so important, he gave everybody hope that the country could really be fixed and that everybody was part of the ‘rainbow’. Without him and de Klerk, there would never have been a referendum that saw 70% of white South Africans vote their country out of existence.
It’s DeKlerk not DeClerk
Maybe Dunnes Stores Will Pay For Trip As Gesture Of Good Will And Support The workers As They Should Have In The Beginning
Margaret Heffernen? Some chance.
Three years. God, it took us a long time.
Fair play to those workers. Here’s a very good articles on the strike and the Anti Apartheid Movement of Ireland in general. No surprise that that weasel Conor Cruise O’Brien broke the Irish academic boycott of South Africa.
Interesting article Pat, thanks
Good article. The dunnes workers were really on there own for a long time. ICTU were not vocally supportive. Politicains absent in there support but present fro Mandela’ s freedom of city. A visit from special branch to two of the strikers. Shocking but not surprised.
Sean just shows you how hypocritical the main stream political parties, trade unions and media outlets are, they were totally against the actions of these workers when they first started out their actions. You look at them all today fawning over Mandela and giving the impression that they were supportive of the anti apartheid movement from the beginning when they couldn’t give a sh*t for years. Opportunistic w*nkers the lot of them!
Pat,
Thanks for that article. Irish opposition to the 1970 Springbok Rugby tour was highly significant in bringing widespread public attention to the evil of apartheid in South Africa. It influenced many people who later became influential in Irish public life. Kader Asmal’s ecumenical and broad approach to gaining and accepting support from all the major political parties, churches, trade unions and student unions was very successful. The focus on civil rights in Ireland – North and South- in Ireland in the early seventies helped Irish people to see the parallels between the situation in Ireland and the situation in South Africa. Kader Asmal was a remarkable man ably supported by his wife Louise. Trinity College Dublin became the first university in Ireland and Britain to sell its investments in companies with significant operations in South Africa largely due to Kader’s influence and the respect with which he was held within TCD. I proposed the motion as the President of the Students Representative Council in 1972/73.
R.I.P nelson fair play to you for getting rid of apartheid, oh and R.I.P to the 68,000+ south african whites murdered since the end of apartheid
Ronan, do you mean white South Africans murdered 68,000 people? Or that 68,000 white South African were murdered?
68,000 whites were murdered by blacks since the end of apartheid, I agree with what neslon wanted equal rights for blacks, whites, male and female, but not with the terrorist attacks that he and his people carried out
Lots of people have been murdered in South Africa since the end of apartheid, but racist murders make up only a small number of them. It’s fair to question Mandela’s record as an administrator, but he could never be accused of stoking racial tension. Quite the opposite.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter
He carried out no killings. And all 68000 whites killed were killed for racist reasons? Have all the murders been solved? You know every murder was committed by a black person? Or are you just assuming? What about the multiple of that figure of black people murdered? Was that racist? Or has it all to do with a huge crime problem in SA?
Ronan Martin. Qualify the assessment of blame in your last comment please. 68000 white people murdered. Every homicide committed by a black Person?
South Africa had an economy fit for the size of the Irish population, no more. It’s pure numbers really. People are desperate and turn to crime. 68 k whites murdered is a lower proportion than than just the numbers that would have been murdered by pure violence and violences’s natural attrition per se. A lack of education and excessively high birth rates will keep Sa a third world country. Pure physics, logistics, economics.
First of all the website you’ve quoted is from a stable of neoconservative US publications not known for their diversity of views. The membership of that anti genocide group would also not be from the more formidable and unbiased organisations in the world. That aside the article states that their is an incitement to black on white violence, at no stage does it attribute the 68000 whites killed to them being murdered by blacks. They through it out there to create a link in the minds of people reading the article. And like a good little fishy you bit.
68,000? that many? sounds a bit high but in some areas I know the farm murders in particular have reached some extreme numbers. That said, Mandela isn’t responsible for them. They’re racist crimes and he stood against racism.
Yeah Tim according to several web sites there have been 68,000 whites murdered including 4,000 white farmers since the end of apartheid, oh yeah I know that nelson had nothing to do with these murders, In one of my previous posts above i said ” I agree with what neslon wanted equal rights for blacks, whites, male and female, but not with the terrorist attacks that he and his people carried out”
By that I meant the terrorist attacks during the apartheid, i wasn’t saying that he was responsible for the murder of whites post apartheid
Neslon was a good man!
If I hadn’t known I would have thought that article was about Mugabe and Zimbabwe. If the dispossession and murder of so many white South African farmers had really taken place surely it would have been a huge story? The news channels and papers reported extensively on the murders of white farmers in Zimbabwe. Would the mutder of white farmers in either country not be big news? Genuine question.
It is a huge story, Mary – over there. Not anywhere else, we’re talking about a demographic that became disliked for a long time. We’re not talking about AWB thugs here, they’re mostly older farmers, men and women who undergo ritualistic tortures before being murdered, and often robbery is not the main motivation. Some of the stories are too sick to even link to here, but they are easy to find.
I don’t like to be cynical but a lot of people who were really interested in what was happening in South Africa in the 80s have mostly moved onto the next cause and aren’t really interested in what became of the country. Possibly a bigger story are the farm “redistributions” which have resulted in little success but plenty of problems including SA becoming a net importer of food for the first time in its history in 2009. It’s not quite Zimbabwe in its proportions but it could get there if the wrong people get into power.
Ronan, sorry for the misread. The deaths are horrendous and are often dismissed as revenge attacks for past injustices, even though a lot of the murderers are too young to remember Apartheid. It’s probably why I get angry with privileged Westerners who say that poverty creates violence, such words totally justify such barbarity in the minds of those who perpetrate it. The interviews with some of the criminals are really fascinating to watch.
Ronan, many websites do print these “facts”. The American Free Press? Run by people to the right of Fox News? The website of Orly Taitz – a leading proponent of Obama not being an American by birth? Before it’s news – where anyone can post anything without facts of editorial control? Sorry, but I like facts from more credible news sources
For those with an interest in more reliable information http://www.africacheck.org/reports/are-white-afrikaners-really-being-killed-like-flies/
There is no reliable information. The fact is, we don’t know what the numbers are, and the confusion arises for two reasons. First, there was an issue with the SAP not recording certain crime stats after, I think, 2008, but more importantly some of the discrepancies arise from how different crimes are recorded. In the UK, a murder is only recorded as a murder once someone is convicted, in the USA, once there’s a body found in suspicious circumstances, it’s a murder. I don’t know how SA does it but it can account for the wide disparity between the competing claims.
Anyway, all that aside, being slightly less likely to be murdered than another ethnic group in your country is not exactly comforting. But being targeted because of your skin colour is disturbing isn’t it?
Did you ever quote a real source? Do you know the difference between journalism and an advocacy site, or is all good once it’s published?
I worked for Dunnes at the time and this became a very emotional subject.
All other shop workers and all other supermarkets other than the Henry Street staff had no problem handling South African produce
The companies line was that they also had no problem in not stocking South African produce but as this was a political issue it was up to the Government to ban the produce and make it a level playing field for all
It took the Government years to do this
Meanwhile South African produce was been sold by all other supermarkets up and down the country and been eaten in most homes …
Incidentally a friend of mine who was 22yrs of age was followed home from work one night and had his face slashed open by one of the many hangers on who joined this protest
Two sides to all stories !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Martin Kehoe had his face slashed.
I clearly remember that Outspan oranges were being rejected. All they did in South African was label them as produce of Israel and the very same oranges were sold in Dunnes.
By the way all the best produce gets shipped to Europe and South Africans get 3rd grade produce.
Now where is the justice in that!!!!
You are right , he did , I had forgotten about that
Sounds like any story you tell has two sides to it. Porky and pinnochio
It’s exactly the same in any crops for cash economy. All the best produce goes abroad or is reserved for the rich and middle classes.
Did he work in Northside SC by any chance?
Yeah he did work there for years
These are the only Irish worthy to attend. Michael Higgins get home now.
Go have a shave Tristan
Wow. That is a great idea… Ben dunnes gyms and anti-apartheid movements. Being doing it for decades, you know…
I’m sure many of those people who are now praising the Dunne Stores workers thought nothing of passing their picket.
As far as I am aware even a number of trade unions were against their action at the time
Funny how things change!!!
I didn’t pass the picket and I switched from any South African goods in any other shop. If there was no fruit from another country we didn’t have it.
Many did not pass it
Jerry, your valid points (apart from the anecdote at the end) only confirms the courage and principles of the strikers.
Unless you are suggesting they should be somehow responsible for some nut-job attacking your friend?
Pay your own way to the funeral.
Dunnes we’re not doing anything illegal by selling this fruit.
The whole of Moore St was selling this fruit, as was everybody else in Ireland.
It took the Government more than 2 years to take action.
I’m not a Dunnes advocate, having worked for them for 5 years INCLUDING a stint in Henry St from 1984 to 1985. However, Dunnes were victims in this too.
So were you a scab?
Dunes and all Irish stores should have stopped selling South African products as soon as the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement called for the boycott. And the Government should have banned their importation.
Unionised ass holes. What’s that got to do with that African lad who died.
Give the phone back to your Mammy now good boy
Whis paying for this? The trade unions who let there members down so bad over the last 10 years, and claim there broke if strike is mentioned. Its cheap publicity for them
Idiots like that would do anything to go on strike. Freeloading on a trip to that lads funeral now I’d say
Are you referring to Nelson Mandela as “that lad”?
Jon, you sad b*stard. You have to refer to Nelson Mandela as ‘that lad’ because you’re unable to even type a brilliant, black man’s name.
Brilliant why?
‘Brilliant why’ what, Jon?
You only need to ask a couple of dunnes stores workers today how much they understand the world’s politics to understand that this whole thing is a farce.
Wow Jon. New depths there, my man!
Why is he so brilliant?
He advocated violence to get what he wanted.
No way should this man be spoken in the same breath as Gandhi…
Darrell, who are you talking about?
Eh…..Mandela…….
Just checking to see if you could use his name, O’Donnell. Jon Coll and Robert Zombies are unable to do so, God love them. Maybe as you progress intellectually you’ll be able to use Nelson Mandela’s full name too. Nevertheless, well done for now.
Now you’re bringing the sky wizard into this.
That’s not very inttellectually progressive is it.
If you regard this MAN as a hero then maybe Mr Arafat should be classed as one as well.
And before you say why his name is not being used. …. it’s because I don’t rate the MAN as a hero as everyone else seems to be doing.
So kevin….. you still have not explained why this MAN is brilliant. ….
It would be interesting to hear your reasoning!
Poor Darren. Still can’t type ‘Nelson Mandela’ in full, can you? A black person is probably the most highly respected person ever to live and it sickens you because it makes you wonder why you’re in such a tiny minority. Black is beautiful, Daz. More importantly, you warped numpty, black is equal.
Now you can’t even get a name right.
Btw this has nothing to do with race.
Did you even read my comment you ignorant fool.
Also you still have not explained why the MAN is brilliant.
I’m assuming it’s because you don’t have a full assessment and a full factual answer to backup your reasoning as to the so called brilliance of this person.
Ah well. …. the fools… the fools
Might I also add that MLK and Biko were more heroes than this MAN
Darrrell, with due respect, what you have said is nonsense.
Courage? Dont make me laugh. We broke the country to keepEurope happy, some courage
Dunnes should pay for the trip by the way of apology.
The Dunnes strike was one of the first cases of sanctions and it was led by the strikers, who merely followed a union mandate. In fairness to your current President, if my memory serves me right he was one of the few politicians who supported the strikers. Dunnes precipitated the action by forcing Mary Manning to handle the goods, the customer she was serving put the oranges back as she didn’t want to buy South African, but Dunnes suspended Mary Manning anyway.
Well said Kevin. In fairness to Michael D Higgins, he consistently supported the Anti-Apartheid Movement from the start as did Pat Rabbitte and Eamon Gilmore. Garrett Fitzgerald of Fine Gael and David Andrews of Fianna Fail were other strong supporters.
Where a country of courage and peace we always back the underdog and it’s something that makes me really proud to be irish:))
Oh my god! Petrol diesel and heating oil
are to be boycotted. Ah well we can depend on the ESB.
Maybe they should boycott the attending of Mandela’s funeral and thereby highlight their disdain with the corruption taking place in the ANC government, something Nelson Mandela would never align himself with.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Nkandla-DA-may-move-to-impeach-Zuma-20131204
The cost of airline tickets (currently running at €2500.00 and upwards) could be donated to worthy charities at home or South Africa … a far greater tribute to Nelson Mandela than attending his funeral will ever be.
Up Dunnes only time anyone stood up to them Dunnes only care about the money coming in
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