June 16, 2003

Let the Games begin


The participants for the Special Olympics have begun to arrive in Ireland - there's an event in Galway tonight. Louis Walsh, purveyor of asinine music everywhere, put his foot in it by slagging off the games last week. Actually, he claimed that the plain people of Ireland would not be bothered to watch it on telly (which may well be true). Alas, the newspapers blew it up, and the Sunday Independent went with a front page story about how Louis had 'insulted the games'.


Ah, the irony. A few years ago, the same paper landed itself in hot water when one of its columnists, Mary Ellen Synon, criticised the games in particularly crude language (the article, and the subsequent grovelling apologies by the newspaper, can be found on Paddy Doyle's site). Where is Mary Ellen now ?

Posted by Monasette at June 16, 2003 11:03 PM
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Good old Mary Ellen Synon. The woman who was kicked off the Daily Telegraphy for being "too right wing". Any surprise that Kevin Myers of the Irish Times is her brother - in - law?

Posted by: brendan at June 19, 2003 04:08 PM

Didn't know that but am not surprised. At the time of her article, I seem to remember Myers standing up for her. Poor old Mary Ellen - her reputation as a Mary Kenny-type moraliser (and God knows, we need as many of them as we can get)at the Telegraph came to a cropper when she was revealed to be involved with a (married) financier in London. I think she blabbed the story when he gave her the heave-ho.

Posted by: John at June 19, 2003 11:20 PM