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FIONA PENDER’S BROTHER has spoken out about the impact his sister’s disappearance has had on his family.
Fiona, then 25, left her apartment in Tullamore, Co Offaly on 23 August 1996 and was never seen again. She was seven months pregnant at the time.
Her brother John was just 15 when she went missing.
Speaking to The Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 today, John said Fiona wasn’t in a good place when she disappeared and had been struggling with the loss of their brother Mark, who had died a year before in a motorbike accident.
“She was seven and a half months pregnant, she was quite immobile … and it slowly dawned on us that something wrong happened,” John recalled.
He said he doesn’t believe Fiona is alive and the family are looking for her body.
“The nation wants answers, I think people in general want to see us with a body to mourn,” he said.
Loss of both parents
In 2000, their father Sean died by suicide. “He couldn’t deal with the loss of his kids,” John said.
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John also spoke about his mother Josephine, who died in September 2017, saying she had “great faith”.
He said a number of psychics contacted the family after Fiona’s disappearance, with some looking for pieces of her clothing
“When you put something in the public eye that much, people are going to get attracted to it, it’s going to attract all sorts,” John said.
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Why not deduct the tabs from their salary?? They are doing it to us
Yup, all they’d have to do is provide their PPS number. I’m sure that wouldn’t be an issue.
A tactic often used by governments when introducing new charges or taxes is to tell us how the same charges are already the norm in a selection of other countries. The intention being to highlight the fact that we are ‘behind’ these other countries.
I’d like to know now, how many other countries have a pub in their parliament?
Bad news for you there, a lot of parliaments have bars. There are several in Westminster, and I saw one on the roof level of the Reichstag building on a trip to Berlin.
But I somehow doubt you’ll be allowed run up a tab, or create a lapgate, anywhere else.
There should be no “tabs” in the Dail bar and those with Tabs should be charged interest at the same rate the revenue demands from the people living in this country.
There should be no pub in the Dáil, never mind ‘tabs’.
In fairness, they’re all on high salaries so it’s safe for the bar to give credit on the basis that “They’re good for it”.
These piss heads are so out of touch with ordinary joe soap…
And the ‘ordinary Joe soap’ won’t don’t a thing about it.
@ Jason: Hear, hear.
What a bunch of absolute pigs.
Amen
Ale sucking degenerate pigs
“Attention fellow TD’s”
“An important piece of legislation has to be passed”
“Lets have a €7,000 allnighter p1ss up”
“Yehaw”
Writing off people’s debts will certainly help that.
Bunch of round dodgers
7k bill during a night of discussion and related work…..so….drunk at work :They get a tab…. We get fired….yeap that’s fair…
Why don’t they just name those that didn’t pay their bill?
Should be drug and alcohol testing before these bofoons make huge decisions affecting the whole country.
Why are they allowed drink at work? Anybody else pissed at work gets fired.
Pity they don’t stay in the bar all day. Results would be better without them and at least they would have an excuse for the crap answers the give in the dail
Fall in tabs,is that a vote after
‘LAPGATE’!
Who cares?
Lots of people care. How come they aren’t as enthusiastic about fines and interest as they are if one of us plebs owes a bit of tax?
Tab
They get it all back in expenses then!
I wonder will claims for the months the Dail wasn’t sitting be the same as the months it does?
That reminds me, I must drop in to Lidl next time I’m passing and pay for that two-litre bottle of Woodgate Cider from last month.
That picture deserves an award.
#politicalreform
Tax almost rhymes with fax, maybe they could fax tax back whilst sitting in the jacks.?! Hmmm possible resolution in the making..!
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