Monday Quiz 13 - Conmen & Drunk Lorry Drivers
September 17, 2007
On this week last year (September 17 to September 23, 2006):
- A thirty-year-old conman from Roscommon, who was wanted on both sides of the Irish border for various crimes including car theft by impersonating a police officer, was in the news for what reason?
- Who anounced that he would not be inviting his friends Bill Clinton or Nelson Mandela to his wedding in Fermoy, County Cork?
- What Irish personality was accused in Court of ‘ranting and raving’ at a drunk lorry driver that he had ‘made shit’ of his driveway with a waste skip?
- The OECD ranked eighteen mostly European countries on how good they were at giving parental leave to workers. Where did Ireland rank?
- A report showed that, unsurprisingly, Irish people are more overweight now than in 1948. But how many calories per day did we consume in 1948 and 2006?
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Answers
- Frank Shanley rang up RTE’s Liveline show to tell Joe Duffy that he wanted to give himself up. As another of his cons, he pretended to be a film producer and hired a camera crew to film him enjoying himself in nightclubs.
- Michael Flatley.
- Michael McDowell, then Minister for Justice. The lorry driver was fined €800 and banned from driving for a year.
- Ireland was last. Sweden was first.
- We consumed just over 3,000 calories a day in 1948, and just over 2,000 calories a day in 2006. However, in 1948, we did more manual work, and we got more calories from carbohydrates and less from fats and proteins.
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m.c | April 24, 2008 at 9:53 pm
frankie shanley was a great friend of mine up until last year.we were mates 4 about 3 to 4years and just now im finding out all about him.i have to say im totally and utterly shocked.i typed in his name too see cud i contact him too see how he was keeping and i cant believe what appeared on the screen.wow
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micheal carr | May 28, 2008 at 10:11 am
i have to say frankie worked for us djing for a while and he was a nice guy,its obvious he needs help,this crap about him is being blown out of proportion,its crazy,
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john mahon | June 24, 2008 at 12:52 pm
frankie shanley? fair play to him,its hilarious what he done and not really criminal as its been made out to be,there’s a book in the making here…..
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gerry carroll | July 21, 2008 at 7:26 pm
i know that m.c guy and that comment was a scam!!! ignore it,sad bastard putting up a comment like that,and well done to frankie!!!!
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Tara kiely | August 16, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Frankie shanley is one of the best djs around and nicest guys who went through a bad patch 2 years ago because of a wanker called joe duffy,every car he was accused of taking he returned days later but the papers were not saying that,and that m.c who left a comment is pathetic enough to jump on the bandwagon and leave no contact details for himself! Sad!! Frankie will be djing for me tonite in my club and will continue to do so! We love him over here!
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