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...deal with life in a wheelchair, senators pontificate on war and the constitutional implications of granting greater executive power to the President. Unsurprisingly, the film doesn’t just adopt a self-righteous tone but positively revels in it. The exchanges between Young’s anti-war mother and pro-war father could hardly be more simplistic, with the loyalties of the film clearly placed well on the maternal side. At Young’s wedding, his new mother-in-law tells him, “I’m only just getting to know you, but thank...
...competitive sport; it is its own world, one they are delighted to be a part of. The students are no new-comers to Irish step-dancing, though their careers did have different origins. O’Brien’s exposure to step-dancing began at home; her mother was a dancer. At first a spectator at dance performances, she is now entering her sixth year stepping. Fallon’s parents do not dance; he was first exposed to it at Irish festivals and began taking lessons at the age of five. “I thought...
...Wednesday, Shannon's mother, Karen Matthews, appeared in court accused by police of child neglect and concealing information about the whereabouts of her daughter. She is joined in custody by Shannon's 39-year-old step-uncle, Michael Donovan, 39, who was charged on March 17 with abducting the schoolgirl and falsely imprisoning her at his home...
...Several other members of Shannon's families have also run up against the law since her disappearance and return. Shannon's stepfather Craig Meehan, 22, was remanded in custody earlier this month on charges of possessing indecent images of children. His mother, Alice Meehan, 49, and his sisters Amanda Hyett, 25, who lives next door to Shannon's family, and Caroline Meehan, 29, have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice...
...Shannon's mother, initially held up as a paragon of noble stoicism, appeared to incorrectly state how many children she had in media interviews (she said six; in reality she has seven children from five fathers). Then came the connection to the television show, Shameless, a satire on residents of council estates, and their harebrained schemes to claw themselves out. As anger turned on the Matthews family this week, police boarded up the house Shannon and her family had inhabited and distributed leaflets to local residents instructing them "not to jump to conclusions about people who may be involved...