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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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Posted: 18th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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October 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
strif??
October 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
BK is sooo sweet and caring and above all friendly
October 18th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
And he’ll keep mwcompany while I’m wiaitng for other friends to come along, maybe 7 of them - raspy, garfy. spomgy, pammy, totty, yammy, gander ..
October 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
evening all.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Cor, I thought I was one little anorak all alone and crying in the dark, how goes it wtf
October 18th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
There is no M in my name Montaillou. And aren’t you being a bit familiar?
October 18th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Sponge Bob-It would seem Tontaillou is.
October 18th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Whoops that was right over my head…
October 18th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
When is Amoral’s trial? Pending I think?
October 18th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Oh it’s so, so quiet
Shall we talk about global economics or the X factor?
Myself, I like the chattering
October 18th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Alas SpongeBob, we should get out more, everyone else is down the pub!
October 18th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I am sitting here slaving away over spreadsheets, how sad is that, and was hoping for some entertainment while we wait for Something To Happen.
October 18th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
It wasn’t so subtle surely-I just spelt his name wrong too! Doh………
October 18th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
BTW WTF…do you realise this forun now has to run for at least another 9 months!!!!
October 18th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Montaillou
The pub would be the business. alas, I am all alone tonight. Well not quite true, kids in bed now
October 18th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
O:)
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A little experiment.
October 18th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Watcher
not many worked
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October 18th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Montaillou Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
And he’ll keep mwcompany while I’m wiaitng for other friends to come along, maybe 7 of them - raspy, garfy. spomgy, pammy, totty, yammy, gander ..
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russell, mike, fiona, dianne, david, rachel, and tanner???
October 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Smilies are pish
Used by the functionally illiterate
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
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 9:58 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 10:01 pm
well the mother wasnt a doctor with an endless network of uni pals
October 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
brandon
its ok the doctor is here
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 10:02 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 10:03 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 10:03 pm
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October 18th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Watcher, give it up
October 18th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
:-d
