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Debbie O’Leary, girlfriend of former Irish and Munster rugbystar, Peter Stringer, poses along with work colleagues athairdressers Sobe Brown, in a Calendar girls style shoot.See page three for more. Also in tonight’s Wow! supplement,Debbie features in Street Style. Picture: Samantha Hunt

Stringer’s girl isa hair-raiser! Man stabbed

in city centre

Parents must ensure theirchildren don’t become bullies

A MAN was recovering today afterbeing stabbed four times on PatrickStreet in the early hours of thismorning.

He was involved in an altercation with an-other man at the junction of Patrick Streetand Winthrop Street, at around 1.30am.The victim, who is in his 20s, was stabbed

by the other man and was rushed to CorkUniversity Hospital.Gardaí said today that his injuries were not

life threatening.

By ANN MURPHYSecurity Correspondent

The scene on the city’s main thoroughfarewas sealed off until around 8am, and aforensics examination was carried out.However, the injured man has not yet made

a complaint to gardaí.A garda source said this morning that

gardaí are following a “certain line of en-quiry.”

PARENTS have the primary responsibility toensure their children do not become bullies,a seminar on cyber bullying heard last night.An information evening in City Hall, hostedby cloud computing company Trend Micro toencourage safe internet use, heard that theGovernment will never be able to make theinternet safe.Anthony O’Mara, a non-executive director ofTrend Micro, which has been leading acampaign for safer internet usage, said:“Parents have the responsibility to makesure their kids don’t become bullies.Whether you are on the receiving end orgiving end, it is up to parents to protect theirchildren and to put them out into society ina way that allows everyone to co-existeasily.”

By RONAN BAGNALL

Mr O’Mara said the idea of a safer internetwas just as complex as the idea of creating asafer society.He said young people do not have the samesense of privacy that the previous generationwas brought up with.“We have a generation now who want tohave a million friends.“People forget that once something is said,it’s out there forever. And you don’t have towork very hard to find it. Young people arenot really tuned into that, or maybe they justdon’t care.”● See page six for more.

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