Sunday World boss gets a kicking

longrunsthefox · November 25, 2009, 09:41:48 PM

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Sunday World editor beaten up
The Northern editor of the Sunday World newspaper has been beaten up in the centre of Belfast.
Jim McDowell, 60, was kicked and punched by four men just yards from City Hall on Wednesday evening.
He was badly hurt, and was injured in the head, arms, and legs.
Mr McDowell had been visiting Belfast's Christmas market in the grounds of City Hall when he was knocked to the ground.
Earlier he attended a special reception for James Kelly, a columnist with the Irish News newspaper.
He has been threatened several times before by loyalists and republicans and has blamed drugs dealers for the attack.
"What does it say about the freedom of expression and the freedom of the Press?" Jim McDowell asked.

He deserved a slap on the bake for the suicide pics alrite but this could be for any number of articles in the rag. Anyway, that's the news...

DownFanatic · November 25, 2009, 09:53:43 PM

Ulster's ParaMafia strike again...

Lets prepare for about 8 pages of pure drivel on Sunday as to how the Sunday World will not be intimidated by the seedy criminal underworld of the Belfast crime circuit.

pintsofguinness · November 25, 2009, 09:56:42 PM

Quote"What does it say about the freedom of expression and the freedom of the Press?" Jim McDowell asked.

He wasnt that badly hurt then if he's able to go on with that shite.

muppet · November 25, 2009, 09:58:24 PM

Quote from: pintsofguinness on November 25, 2009, 09:56:42 PM
Quote"What does it say about the freedom of expression and the freedom of the Press?" Jim McDowell asked.
He wasnt that badly hurt then if he's able to go on with that shite.

What was done to him was 'freedom of expression', that's the problem.

ardmhachaabu · November 25, 2009, 10:10:26 PM

So McDowell got a few slaps, it's hardly news

longrunsthefox · November 25, 2009, 10:17:57 PM

He got a right trimming. Pic is on UTV news but I don't know how to copy to here.

muppet · November 25, 2009, 10:20:10 PM

What are you on about, 5 minutes with my 1 year old and you'll look like that.

Square Ball · November 25, 2009, 10:20:27 PM

there you go?

Hurler on the Bitch · November 25, 2009, 10:28:36 PM

Sorry - goes round, comes ..... etc

saffron sam2 · November 25, 2009, 10:31:15 PM

Quote from: longrunsthefox on November 25, 2009, 09:41:48 PM
FOXNEWS Latest...

Sunday World editor beaten up
The Northern editor of the Sunday World newspaper has been beaten up in the centre of Belfast.
Jim McDowell, 60, was kicked and punched by four men just yards from City Hall on Wednesday evening.
He was badly hurt, and was injured in the head, arms, and legs.
Mr McDowell had been visiting Belfast's Christmas market in the grounds of City Hall when he was knocked to the ground.
Earlier he attended a special reception for James Kelly, a columnist with the Irish News newspaper.
He has been threatened several times before by loyalists and republicans and has blamed drugs dealers for the attack.
"What does it say about the freedom of expression and the freedom of the Press?" Jim McDowell asked.

He deserved a slap on the bake for the suicide pics alrite but this could be for any number of articles in the rag. Anyway, that's the news...

No he didn't.

haranguerer · November 25, 2009, 10:35:28 PM

Wtf are you all on?

He may edit a red top, but this shouldnt happen to anyone, and particularly him. His paper does some good in exposing thugs, and if they are let get away with this then the implicatons are worrying: journalists afraid to report anything for fear of reprisals. Yet some here seem to support what happened?

ardmhachaabu · November 25, 2009, 10:37:18 PM

Quote from: hardstation on November 25, 2009, 10:24:44 PM
60 year old gets jumped by scumbags perhaps.

Yip for sure, just can't feel too much sympathy for him

muppet · November 25, 2009, 10:38:43 PM

Quote from: haranguerer on November 25, 2009, 10:35:28 PM
Wtf are you all on?

He may edit a red top, but this shouldnt happen to anyone, and particularly him. His paper does some good in exposing thugs, and if they are let get away with this then the implicatons are worrying: journalists afraid to report anything for fear of reprisals. Yet some here seem to support what happened?

Rightly or wrongly it is hard to have sympathy for a man who published pictures of a suicide to make a profit.

Hurler on the Bitch · November 25, 2009, 10:41:05 PM

Quote from: hardstation on November 25, 2009, 10:24:44 PM
60 year old gets jumped by scumbags perhaps.

sc**bag gets jumped by Thugs - that might be the headline?

pintsofguinness · November 25, 2009, 10:52:10 PM

Quote from: haranguerer on November 25, 2009, 10:35:28 PM
Wtf are you all on?

He may edit a red top, but this shouldnt happen to anyone, and particularly him. His paper does some good in exposing thugs, and if they are let get away with this then the implicatons are worrying: journalists afraid to report anything for fear of reprisals. Yet some here seem to support what happened?

what are you on? His paper prints bullshit.