Madeleine McCann: Brian Kennedy Is Talking Balls With Mark Souster
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THE TIMES: “Brian Kennedy’s quest to find Madeleine”
Madeleine has turned up in the rugby pages. Mark Souster investigates…
There is no doubt that Brian Kennedy is a driven man. He has built a business empire with a turnover of more than £400million, as owner he has transformed Sale Sharks into one of the leading rugby clubs in Britain, who face Munster tomorrow in the second round of the Heineken Cup, and fathered five children.
But what’s he really famous for?
He is ultra-competitive. Only last weekend he raced Kingsley Jones, the club’s coach and former Wales captain, uphill and beat him even though there is more than ten years between them.
Eat yer heart out, Sisyphus. But what is Brian Kennedy all about..?
Family - he married at 19 - sport and the commercial world are his life blood. But over the past year he has also been consumed by another cause.
Here it comes…
Kennedy has been heavily involved in supporting Gerry and Kate McCann in the search for Madeleine, their missing daughter.
Indeed. What of it?
Kennedy 48, is reluctant to talk about his role or the reasons why he chose to put a chunk of his fortune, estimated at more than £250million, at their disposal.
But it’s headline-making stuff in the Times. It defines the man…
He has said before that he simply felt compelled to step in. “I have chosen to keep a low profile on this,” Kennedy said yesterday. “It is not about me. It is about Madeleine. I don’t want to comment personally on this except to say there is a big job still to do and we are focusing on getting it done.”
OK. Fair enough. The Times respects the man’s wishes. Back to the match…
Seventeen months after her disappearance in Portugal, Kennedy remains as committed as ever to discovering what happened to Madeleine and helping the family to end their torment.
Game on…
Kennedy has become friends with the McCanns and Gerry has been his guest at Sale. “He is a keen rugby man and really likes his sport”…
It’s a game of two halves. And their daughter…
There are a lot of people helping by putting in a lot of time. But as I have said, it is not about me, them, Kate or Gerry. It is about a poor little kid who might be out there needing to be found. So therefore we need to move mountains to find her.”
Indeed. OK. Let’s move on…
The discussion switches to rugby…
So, Brian, is this for Maddie..?
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October 18th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
your pants are square for that reason
October 18th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
A secret that half the 3As knows and leaking all over the M blogs.
OO, if only I could go there and expose my PC to the world!
October 18th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
nipplegate
October 18th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
tick-tock tick-tock. Not even a good wind-up.
October 18th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
oooo, the intrigue is the point of it all. Ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Wait! there is is a Secret!!
October 18th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
tick tock……………
October 18th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Again I am intrigued - Is the s**t really going to hit the proverbial ‘FAN’.
October 18th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Heard it before. and before that, etc.
Will be waiting..
October 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
yes i got the email
showtime !!!!
October 18th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Brandon
Did you not get it last night?
October 18th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
It is a sign of the veritable weakness of the manky mobs disturbing theories, that they have no answer to or comprehension of the forensics findings, or rather lack of findings. Malicious and vindictive gossip mongers each and every one.
October 18th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
:bollox: :upyours: :biteme: :suckittome:
October 18th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Raspy
All of these guides are just that.
The tables would turn sharpish if it was one of their own with their cocks on the block due to a dog’s nose
Puns welcome
October 18th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
October 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
October 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
The forensics did not back up the dogs alertings, end of. That is the fact irrespective of how the manky mob spin and sqirm.
October 18th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
anaheim flash
Hohoho
October 18th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
October 18th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Spongebob - Thats perfect - Get yourself off to the pub - Kids in bed - no problem..
Its normal practice in this country
October 18th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
:-d
October 18th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Watcher, give it up
October 18th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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October 18th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
So can anyone confirm or deny, as was initially reported, but then died… that Amoral has donated the profits from his book to charity?
October 18th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
“I don’t know whether our jurists and other experts, who oppose canine faith and defend the archiving of processes waiting for better evidence”
OK Brandon, would you advocate conviction of the basis of dogs?
October 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Daily Mail:
£250,000 lost in translation by NHS for providing interpreters
By Daniel Martin
Last updated at 2:01 AM on 18th October 2008
Comments (6) Add to My Stories
The NHS spends £255,000 a year translating its services into 160 languages (picture posed by model)
It’s great news for the nation’s Cherokee speakers. Or it would be if there were any here.
The Health Service spends £255,000 a year translating its services into 160 languages, including the Native American tongue.
But, like many of the others such as Akan and Cebuano, Cherokee does not have a single registered speaker here.
The telephone helpline NHS Direct even provides advice in the invented language Esperanto - even though it is highly unlikely that any of its 1,000 speakers worldwide would not be able to speak a more common language.
The cost of interpreting and translating for the benefit of UK residents who do not speak English was revealed by the Conservatives after a parliamentary question.
- I wonder if they dabble in Portuguese translation for employees of the NHS?
October 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
brandon
its ok the doctor is here
October 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
well the mother wasnt a doctor with an endless network of uni pals
October 18th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
SpongeBob
Watcher - don’t know why these things don’t always work. Sam told me how to find out how to import the whole range but I’ve never got round to doing it. Spongy is a spoilsport if he doesn’t like smilies.
October 18th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
OMG I haven’t been following that one, didn’t know about the cadaver smell and hair in the car, spooky. Wonder how much money was raised, less than a certain other case I guess.
October 18th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Thanks to http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/
Correio da Manhã
October 18, 2008
Spot the differences
by: Gonçalo Amaral
A three-year-old little girl is missing. The police started an investigation. It collected traces in the boot of the mother’s car that point towards the child’s death. In the car boot, the dogs marked human cadaver odour, and hair that is similar to that of the missing girl was found. The mother was charged with homicide, abuse, neglect and perjury.
It’s difficult to escape comparisons with recent cases that happened in our country. While it’s certain that every case is different, even more so because this little girl’s name was Caylee, she was a brunette and lived in the USA, there was also the creation of a fund and of an internet site, posters were distributed and bracelets were sold. It seems that in the United States justice is working, not allowing for processes to be archived awaiting better evidence, valuing indicia that results from inconsistencies or contradictions in witness statements and/or biological residues that are found in a car boot.
I don’t know whether our jurists and other experts, who oppose canine faith and defend the archiving of processes waiting for better evidence, may have something to learn from North-American magistrates and investigators, or if it’s only an issue of nationality of the dogs. Wise words were spoken by someone over the evidence of Caylee’s death: “Speaking as a father, a day doesn’t pass where I wish the evidence that we have gathered didn’t add up to the painfully obvious. Sadly, I cannot change the facts surrounding the investigation.”
source: Correio da Manhã, 18.10.2008