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 Six people are confirmed dead and six others are injured following a plane crash at Cork Airport. The Manx2 commuter flight from Belfast, flight number NM7100, had 10 passengers and two crew on board when it crashed in heavy fog at 9.45am.
The company confirmed that the aircraft, an 18-seater Fairchild Metroliner, was carrying ten passengers and two crew members – a captain and a co-pilot.
Two of the injured were able to walk from the wreckage of the plane, while four were taken out on stretchers. The four injured passengers in Cork University Hospital are described as being in a serious condition, while the other two are stated as comfortable.
It is believed that the aircraft had made three attempts to land at the airport and the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said debris was scattered onto the runway and over a wide area.
Because the flight originated in Belfast, UK authorities will be providing the investigation team with the passenger manifest and with all details of how much fuel the plane was carrying.
It is not known at this stage if any of the passengers were from County Tipperary.
A witness at Cork Airport has stated that weather conditions were so poor that the crash could not be seen from the terminal building. Passengers in the terminal were unaware that a crash occurred because of the dense fog surrounding the building.
Aviation expert Gerry Byrne said that Cork Airport has ‘category 2 instruments’ for landing, but he was not sure if the plane would have been capable of landing using those instruments.
The Air Corps is preparing to fly an investigation team from the Department of Transport from Baldonnel to the scene of the crash at Cork airport. Troops are also on standby in Cork to assist at the scene if required.
Representatives of Manx2 are expected to arrive at Belfast City Airport shortly.
 The Pall Corporation manufacturing plant in Tipperary is set to close with the loss of 94 jobs.
Pall Manufacturing in Tipperary town has said that it is operating at a fraction of it’s available current capacity.
This decision has been described as sudden and it is understood that staff will not being offered any chance to relocate.
The health care products company began manufacturing in the Tipperary town in 1997, but suffered jobs cuts of 150 posts in March 2003, when its entire medical division was shut down. The remaining jobs were in the machinery and equipment division.
Mr David O’Driscoll, General Manager of Pall Ireland, stated: “This has not been an easy decision and Pall Ireland is committed to treating employees with dignity and respect. The company will be assisting and supporting everyone affected by today’s announcement to help make the transition as painless as possible.”
This announcement was made to the 71 permanent and 23 temporary staff this morning at a meeting held at 10.00am and the company confirm that the plant will be closed by 31 May 2011.
 Tipperary native Michael Dwyer pictured with Eduardo Rozsa A Wikileaks cable reveals that a Bolivian prosecutor believed that one of the men travelling with Tipperary native Michael Dwyer, when he travelled to Bolivia in 2009 was in regular contact with a former CIA agent.
Mr Dwyer, 24, from Ballinderry in Tipperary, a construction management graduate of the Galway-Mayo institute of Technology, was shot in most controversial circumstances in Bogota on 16 April 2009. His family have since called for an International inquiry into his death.
The family have been adamant that Mr Dwyer travelled to the US and later to Bolivia to train as a bodyguard.
This confidential memo, written by John Creamer, the chargé d’affaires at the American embassy in Bolivia, reports that Marcelo Soza, a prosecutor, investigating the case, believes one of Mr Dwyer’s travelling companions, Eduardo Rozsa, was in contact with an alleged ex-CIA employee named “Belovays“.
The evidence is understood to have come from “a review of Rozsa’s computer hard drive which uncovered evidence of email communication.”
“Although this prosecutor stopped short of accusing the CIA of backing Rozsa’s mercenary group, we can expect that Bolivia officials will make that claim, regardless of the evidence,” Mr Creamer claims.
It is believed that Mr Dwyer may have met Rozsa through two men, Tibor Révész and Elod Tóásó, whom he encountered while he worked as a security guard at the Corrib gas pipeline site in Rossport, Co Mayo.
A Bolivian autopsy said that Mr Dwyer died of six gunshot wounds inflicted during a shootout with police, but Irish state pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy later fully contradicted this report, during an Irish inquest, saying there was only one fatal shot through his heart.
The coroner later directed the jury to return an open verdict.
The Bolivian prosecutor said computer files showed Rozsa was in constant contact with Belovays and kept him informed of his group’s activities and plans.
It was claimed in 2009 that there was a half hour shoot out between an elite army unit and the so-called “mercenaries” which included Mr Dwyer. However, the proprietor of the hotel where the men stayed have denied this. The men were also accused of taking refuge in the hotel after being chased by this army unit. However, press photographs show that the dead men were in their underwear. Mr Dwyer is shown in one photograph lying beside his bed. There were no guns to be seen in the photographs taken of the corpeses, nor were there any shell casings.
Mr Dwyer’s parents Caroline and Martin and siblings Ciara, Aisling and Emmett, vehemently refute claims from the Bolivian authorities that the 24-year-old was part of a terrorist plot to assassinate President Evo Morales.
This new claim appears to fully justify the families claim that Mr Dwyer may have been murdered because of association, rather than by implication, in the supposed plot to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales.
 Myspace The social networking hub known as Myspace, previously MySpace, used by many in Tipperary to promote the entertainment industry, have recently announced it will cut possibly half of its global workforce, as part of it’s restructuring efforts.
Up to six hundred Myspace employees worldwide will soon be looking for work, as the site continues to redefine itself from a social network site to an entertainment content site with added social networking features. Myspace’s recently announced layoffs already follow two previous rounds of job cuts which it implimented in 2009, reducing it’s then workforce by 30%.
Myspace, which sought to partially retreat from it’s once mighty social network to an entertainment content site, has seen its Web traffic numbers drop dramatically in the recent past.
The parent company News Corp. and it’s division, which includes Myspace posted a $156 million loss for the quarter ending September 2010.
News Corp. may now be looking to sell this site which it purchased for $580 million in 2005, and one potential buyer, according to rumour, just may be Yahoo!, best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services..
Myspace was overtaken Internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.
Last August, Myspace launched a service that allowed you to push your Myspace activity into Facebook. This was followed by a new product called MySpace Mashup with Facebook that let you pull in your likes and interests from Facebook, to obtain personalized entertainment recommendations onto Myspace. This move incorporated Myspace into Facebook’s universal login platform, and many critics saw this move as Myspace formally bowing down to its more popular and ever increasing social networking rival.
The big question currently being debated regarding Myspace is whether it can recover or if any new potential owner can revive it’s ailing social networking hub, through into 2011.
 Holycross Abbey 1841 Legendary hurler Mr John Doyle’s body will repose at Egan’s Funeral Home, Dublin Road, Thurles, from 4.00 pm to 8.00 pm today Thursday, December 30th 2010. His body will then be removed to the historic Abbey of Holycross at 8.30 pm sharp.
A Requiem Mass will take place tomorrow morning, Friday, at 11.30 am. John’s burial will take place in the adjoining cemetery following his funeral Mass.
Note: Family flowers only, however donations to his memory, if desired, can be sent to the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.
House to remain private.
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