Madeleine McCann: The McGuckins, Middle-Class Drinks And
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DAILY MIRROR: “Portugal booze parents’ court fear”
It’s Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin.
Bank manager Eamon, 35, passed out in the hotel reception while Antoinette, 36, vomited before falling unconscious.
A source close to the family said last night: “They are very ashamed. They want to go to court. They want to say to the judge that the children are safe with them.”
Significant:
Vilamoura is 45 miles from Praia da Luz, where four-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing while her parents were out with friends a year ago.
DAILY MAIL: “Shamed: The middle class parents who got so drunk on holiday their three children were taken into care”
Middle-class drinkers. Who knew of such a thing?
Mr McGuckin used to be manager of the Magherafelt branch of the Ulster Bank, a spokesman said. He left 18 months ago and is understood to now work for a mortgage company. His wife is a full-time mother.
British parents:
The incident has caused outrage in Portugal, where the year-long investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has already raised questions over standards of British parenting.
BELFAST NEWSLETTER: “Couple ‘will face NI social services’”
THE parents of three children taken into care because they apparently got so drunk on holiday they both passed out are likely to face a grilling by social services when they get home from Portugal.With the parallels to the tragic Madeleine McCann case already drawn, the case comes after Portuguese police faced great criticism over their handling of the missing four-year-old English girl.
The parents were said to have been lucky it wasn’t a case of “one Maddie but three Maddies”.
THE INDEPENDENT: “Holiday parents to appear before judge”
Mrs McGuckin has said she drank only three beers and has requested details of hospital blood tests because she was “very surprised” at her reaction, the source said.
The source added: “They were tired, they woke up at around 4am (to travel to Portugal), then there was the flight.
“Then it was too hot - they are very red, they got a lot of sun. All this together could be the reason.”
The incident happened just 45 miles from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s holiday apartment while her parents dined nearby.
THE SUN: “’Quiz kid killer on Maddie’”
Relatives of five-year-old Mari Luz Cortes claim convicted paedophile Santiago del Valle has committed other crimes. Her grandfather Juan Cortes said: “The authorities should investigate him fully because that way they may be able to discover what happened to Madeleine. We are sure he is hiding other secrets from the police.”
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS: “Man with a special Power”
It’s Joe Power.
If a medium is claiming knowledge of such a case, there is only one logical conclusion about Madeleine’s fate, I venture. But no, Power says his information does come from beyond the grave but ‘from relatives, from Madeleine’s family and people who work closely with me in the spirit world, spirit guides, that type of thing’.
He believes five people were connected with the disappearance of Madeleine. He says he passed his information on to police in Portugal early in the investigation.
How do you work Madeleine McCann into a news story?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:17 am
ooohhhhhhhhhhhh
May 6th, 2008 at 11:17 am
yyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss
May 6th, 2008 at 11:18 am
When’s everyone else coming?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Give us time…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:22 am
We could start a discussion on the relative merits of meercats and springer spaniels…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Cuddle cats and stray sheep?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I thought we might start a ‘Save the Whale’ campaign?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Chenier
You said what I meant to say in a very concise way. Self pity is the key word. Parents should always pity their children before themselves, when they come to harm, especially if they, the parents, put the children in harm’s way!
May 6th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Save the Gay Whale broadens the target market.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:29 am
A Save the Whale Campaign?
We’d have to throw him in the Thames first…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Saloman
Better - more like it
This new bad parents on holiday case, must be embarrassing for them.
I wish it came out last week before the interviews, I would like to have seen them try to dissassociate themselves and deny similarities live on tv.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
What does gaunty say about it?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
You do of course know, that Ribeiro is strongly tipped for the bullet, that is if he has not already received it.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
1st?????? ohhh damnation!! allo all
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no chance - fastest finger first!
-meercat
May 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Brandon you think more like the Matthews family on holiday than the Mccans?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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Marie Nicholas Says:
May 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Chenier
You said what I meant to say in a very concise way. Self pity is the key word. Parents should always pity their children before themselves, when they come to harm, especially if they, the parents, put the children in harm’s way!
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That’s the elephant in the room that the McCanns have spent a year ignoring.
I would imagine that they hope they can continue to ignore it…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am
meercat - ok ok, lol, one day I shall be first and do my speech
May 6th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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Gandolf Says:
May 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
You do of course know, that Ribeiro is strongly tipped for the bullet, that is if he has not already received it.
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I do not; pray tell me more…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:38 am
well, isnt it a bundle of laughs here today…….bbl
May 6th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Does this mean Whale won’t have the opportunity to defend the McGuckins?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
It is of course important to stress that the McGuckin two are Ulster Irish, not English .
It is quite wrong to associate Irish behaviour in particular, or the behaviour of our Celtic friends in general, to that that may be expected of the Englishman abroad, whether in the colonies or on the continent what what hey hey.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
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Scarlett
He could now take over from Clarrie!
May 6th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Well, the beaching of the Whale has made it to the Grauniad…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Well, they’ve both got the shirt opened over white chest hair bit mastered; difficult to see what other qualifications are required…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
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chenier Says:
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Apologies; forgot to say that I was responding to SteveT…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:49 am
85th!
May 6th, 2008 at 11:50 am
For Jo
What do you think of this recent statement from Mari luz’s grandfather, is it bull?????????
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article1128525.ece
May 6th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Typical,isnt it?
I have seen so many english tourists,BURNT to the bone and drunk out of this world…poor people! they wont learn,will they?
Journey + excitement+alcohol + sun + struck them hard.
They simply had a “cocktail” : lethal or almost
May 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am
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JuneJohnson Says:
May 6th, 2008 at 11:49 am
85th!
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JJ, are you sure you haven’t spent too much time in the sun?
Tired from a long flight, perhaps?
Why don’t you just let me take that buggy while you have bit of a lie down…
M and A
Just making sure, it had filled up so fast.
Dog lead not buggy!
No long flights, just working and catching up from yesterday
Oh I don’t ‘do’ the sun am very fair skinned and frazzle
May 6th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Chenny all yours honey…… http://aeiou.expresso.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=ex.stories/313234