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User:rorynoonanDate:07/05/2013Time:08:18:32Edition:07/05/2013Tuetuesecho070513Page:1Color:
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EDITION NO. 34,905TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013 RRP: e1.50
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Pages 22/23
Slashwelfareand jailbankersDragons’ Den star: Too manydepending on Government
WELFARE is much toogenerous in Ireland andneeds slashing, accordingto Dragons’ Den star SeánO’Sullivan.
The Kinsale-based technologymillionaire, who grew up inpoverty in New York, said toomany people had become depend-ent on the Government to sur-vive.In a wide ranging interview
with the Evening Echo, he saidthat while a safety net was re-quired for the most vulnerablepeople in society, the Govern-ment provided too many pro-grammes that were causing an“unhealthy” reliance on theState.He also backed Irish citizens
protesting on the streets aboutausterity and the fact thatnobody had been held respons-ible for the financial crash thathad obliterated the economy.He called for “politicians,
bankers and financial regulat-ors” to face jail for “egregiouscrimes and violations that hadleft the Irish people indebted for
By PADRAIG HOARE
a generation.” He said that manyon Wall Street had been jailed fortheir parts in the global financialcrisis of 2008.“In the USA, financial crimin-
als have faced the wrath of thecourts yet in Ireland, nobody hasgone to jail.“It’s not a slap on the wrist
these people need, it’s hand-cuffs.”● See pages 10 and 11.
Seán O’Sullivan: In the USA,financial criminals face thewrath of courts.
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Three womenfound 10 yearsafter beingabductedTHREE women who were abducted andheld captive just miles from their homesin Ohio for 10 years were re-united withtheir families today.Three brothers aged 50, 52 and 54,including one who lived at the housewhere they were held and was a schoolbus driver, have been arrested.One of the women, Amanda Berry whowas just 16-years-old when shedisappeared, has a six-year-old childborn during her captivity.● See page three.
Amanda Berry, centre, who was held captive in a house in the USfor 10 years, is reunited with her sister, left, and (right) hersix-year-old child.
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