View Full Version : Liam Lawlor dies in Moscow car crash
Poor Student
24/10/2005, 1:23 PM
Well I know you shouldn't ever trust the cops to tell the truth, but why would a russian cop lie to an Irish paper? He's a public figure - tough on the family, but the media isn't to blame for putting them or him in the spotlight.
Perhaps they didn't lie. Perhaps she was groggy and they put two and two together and thought she was a prostitute? The report only said they felt she was, not that they had confirmed. But this doubt did not stop the Sunday World absolutely plastering the story over the front page. I was working in a newsagents on Sunday and I can tell you any Lawlor paper sold like hot cakes. People were breaking their necks twisting to read the story when the headline made an impact as they walked by.
Its a cheap trick for the media to use headlines such as "Police say she was a hooker..." or as we had today in the tabloids "...Lawlor woman not a hooker..."
Would it be ok to have headline with say "Bertie Ahern not a paedolphile"?
I have no time for Lawlor we as a nation we are hypocrites about our political crooks. We as a nation continue to elect the likes of Lowry & Flynn but only complain about Lawlor (i'm guessing most people in Dublin knew what he up to) when the media draw attention to.
Thius country hasn't changed at all. We still continue top re-elect the Developers Party (who do FF invite to their tent at the galway races?) yet moan baoput house prices & crap quality of buildings built.
:rolleyes:
paul_oshea
24/10/2005, 2:24 PM
not being funny, but wasnt he in the front seat, she was a backseat passenger, surely he would have been sitting in the back if she were a prostitute. just something small to think about...
Peadar
24/10/2005, 2:32 PM
surely he would have been sitting in the back if she were a prostitute...
Most of us here aren't familiar with the standard practice when transporting your hooker, Paul, but you may have a point.
Two men have lost their lives in a tragic accident, can we not leave their families alone to grieve?
Whatever you say about Liam Lawlor, he didn't bribe himself. It takes two to tango and the fact that he's dead doesn't mean that the money men behind the major construction firms implicated in the planning tribunal are going clean up their act.
not being funny, but wasnt he in the front seat, she was a backseat passenger, surely he would have been sitting in the back if she were a prostitute. just something small to think about...
news report i read said he was in the back
like his life, his death is shady, no ones sure of the exact details - all very mysterious - bit like lawlor himself!
I lived in Riga and Moscow for a few years and regularly travel in Eastern Europe. Western business men are regularly targets for prostitutes in both cities. They are assumed to have much more money than locals. Go into any up market hotel and the bar will be full of them. It wouldn't be unusual for cops in Moscow to assume that a woman travelling with a western business man in a cab late at night might be a hooker. They were obvioulsy wrong in this case.
Being a translator was one of the few jobs that allowed people to travel abroad during communist times in Eastern Bloc countries and they were nearly always women. Russian was the must have language in those days no matter what country you lived in and English would have come close as a third language.
When I first went to Riga with my wife we stayed in a hotel for a few months before getting an apartment. The doormen at the hotel ( a four star hotel not a dive) used to get a cut from the hookers operating in the bar by turning a blind eye to them going up stairs with the hotel's guests. A couple of times when we were coming back after a late night out a new doorman would run after us to insist that my wife give him his cut:D . Needless to say he got an earful of expletives from herself and was lucky not to get a smack.
Peadar
24/10/2005, 3:41 PM
Its the farmers that mainly vote FF.
At least they do vote. All the Dubs do is moan about the state of the country and then say "I'm not wastin me bleedin time votin! Shur wot bleedin difrence duz it make!"
When you're old enough to vote, you can back whichever party you like, Aldini98.
says the voice of democracy who wanted to ban unions and free association last week :D
Peadar
24/10/2005, 3:56 PM
says the voice of democracy who wanted to ban unions...
There's nothing democratic about unions.
WeAreRovers
24/10/2005, 4:01 PM
There's nothing democratic about unions.
Not sure if that deserves a :rolleyes: or a :D
Probably both.
as for Lawlor.......I'm sure most of you can guess how sympathetic I am to him and his family.
KOH
Most of us here aren't familiar with the standard practice when transporting your hooker, Paul...
ROLMAO :D :D
POTM nomination :)
anto1208
24/10/2005, 4:50 PM
its great news my faith in the universe is restored ....what goes around .....
News report on radio about Sunday indo editor possibly having to resign... I can't believe they used the term "likely to be a prostitute"
sligoman
24/10/2005, 7:07 PM
ROLMAO :D :D
POTM nomination :)http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=30143
;) :p
Aldini98
25/10/2005, 10:09 AM
At least they do vote. All the Dubs do is moan about the state of the country and then say "I'm not wastin me bleedin time votin! Shur wot bleedin difrence duz it make!"
When you're old enough to vote, you can back whichever party you like, Aldini98.
I will if you will Peader ;)
Aberdonian Stu
25/10/2005, 5:28 PM
Just on a point of clairification it was the Sunday Independent and not the Irish Independent that ran the story. Same owner but entirely different staff including Editor. The ex-Herald fellow is with the daily.
Green Tribe
25/10/2005, 8:49 PM
PS and Sylvo, KT GT whatever, i suppose it is GT now, but i actually liked KT :o
sylvo
25/10/2005, 10:23 PM
PS and Sylvo, KT GT whatever, i suppose it is GT now, but i actually liked KT :o
This reminds Gt of when Prince changed his name to a symbol, you can just say you changed it for artistic reasons like he did.
But will there be another name change when the new boss comes along, I'm hoping I don't see your name as Robsons Tribe or something like that.:eek:
Green Tribe
25/10/2005, 10:31 PM
This reminds Gt of when Prince changed his name to a symbol, you can just say you changed it for artistic reasons like he did.
But will there be another name change when the new boss comes along, I'm hoping I don't see your name as Robsons Tribe or something like that.:eek:
:D NAh, I'm gonna stick with the neutral highly original :o Green Tribe GT...to hell with the new manager, they come and go, I'm here to stay!!!:D
Robson, Jesus, no chance! :eek:
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