Maddie McCann

[pintsofguinness]

Mr McCann wrote on his blog to mark the six months since his daughter's disappearance: "We have no idea whether she is suffering but we have to hope and pray that she is being treated like a princess, as she deserves."

It's a pity he didn't treat her like that!

[Square Ball]

Programme on UTV tonigh at 11:05 about the McCanns.

[deiseach]

they're supposed to be a team with experience of recovering people whi have been kidnapped in south america

what happened the last family they descended upon?

Step. Away. From. The. Frederick. Forsyth. Novels . . .

[spiritof91and94]

i saw maddy mccann running about the holylands on halloween night... she was dressed up as a 20 year old student tho.

you are a very sad individual.

[deiseach]

You might note that I do not comment on much of what has happened, I just wish to fuel discussion by providing the latest info.

Is there a one-stop-shop for all these stories? If there's not, you must be scouring the internet everyday for Maddie info.

[deiseach]

Do you think they are guilty?
You must have formed an opinion by now, otherwise you would have lost interest in the case by now.

He could be an anthropologist, studying our reactions as part of a doctrinal thesis: Child Kidnapping From Cro Magnon Man to Essex Man

[gaagaa]

regardless of opinion on parents its the child we have to remember

[Turlough O Carolan]

regardless of opinion on parents its the child we have to remember

The media in England, and to a lesser extent in Ireland, have forgotten that. The media today do not appear to have the ability to report a story unless they can tell it in terms of some sort of simple conflict and in this case they've chosen to tell this story as the conflict between vacationing English couple versus bungling Portuguese cops. It might as well be a soccer game to them.

[Capt Pat]

It is just another news story to them. They do not care too much about the child. It has finally been dumped off the front page of the tabloids by a kinky sex murder in Italy of a British student. Are these the biggest most newsworthy stories worthy of a 48 page topic on GAA discussion board. I don't think they are. Why do the British tabloids give so much exposure to paedophiles? It seems to sell the papers but are there other reasons behind it?

[gaagaa]

keeping the story alive improves the chances of finding the child

[Capt Pat]

It also sells more newspapers. I think you are wrong, the child is obviously dead. Why keep this story alive for so long?

Before the McCanns the media coverage of paedophilia was bordering on the fanatical in the tabloids.

[balladmaker]

the child is obviously dead

What makes you so certain?  Without a body, anything is possible.

[gaagaa]

the child is obviously dead

What makes you so certain?  Without a body, anything is possible.

It is more than likely that she is dead, the media campaign would have made it almost impossible to keep her if she was abducted.

you dont know that - what if her hair was chopped & dyed?

[orangeman]

This story is running out of steam FAST.

[gaagaa]

Or I'm a celebrity get me out of here.

I think they already had their own version of that show, but at least it made them celebrities 

5times in gaa matters you are ususlly making lucid points but on this subject you are going too far
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