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Extra.ie
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Extra.ie
Donal Óg Cusack taunted by Limerick fans pitchside after watching Treaty hammer Cork
Donal Óg Cusack was on the receiving end of jeers and jokes from Limerick fans after the Treaty's Munster Championship win over Cork. The Rebels came into the game as favourites having impressed in the earlier rounds but Limerick came fit and firing and had a number of prominent performers in what wound up as a 13-point win. Kyle Hayes received the man of the match award for his display from centre back, while up top Tom Morrissey had 0-05 from play, with Aaron Gillane chipping in with 1-07 primarily from dead balls. Aaron Gillane had 1-07 for Limerick in their Munster Hurling Championship Round 4 clash with Cork at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Pic: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Limerick now top the standings, level on points with Tipperary but ahead of the Premier County thanks to a score difference superior by 25 points. They will contest a seventh-straight Munster final while Cork face up to a different reality as they head into their final round-robin game against xx needing a win to progress. Cusack acknowledged Limerick were back to their very best and pondered whether history had seen a better hurling team. — The Sunday Game (@TheSundayGame) May 18, 2025 'The game is the game,' he told RTÉ. 'I don't think anybody expected that Limerick were going to beat Cork by this amount today, but from a Cork point of view the war is far from over. 'They'll just have to go back, take this beating and all the learnings. 'It has to be said…this Limerick team, have we ever seen a better team than them? What a machine they looked like today, so well engineered, resilient, strong, every part is working and up for the fight everywhere.' But despite the former Cork goalkeeper's generous appraisal, a grouping of Limerick fans who had wandered across the pitch to get a closer vantage point couldn't resist goading him as they looked on towards the TV gantry. As they jeered and joked at his expense, Cusack acknowledged them and fired a warning for the remainder of the campaign. 'As you can see, they're up for the fight, still behind us,' he said as the Limerick fans got involved. 'There's a long year yet there, folks!'
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
2 high-profile names accused of paying for sex in Mass. brothel case due in court
Two high-profile men who allegedly paid for sex are due in court Friday in connection with an interstate commercial sex ring that ran high-end brothels in two Massachusetts communities. Cambridge City Councilor Paul F. Toner and James Cusack Jr., the former director of Oncology Labs at Massachusetts General Hospital, were identified among the brothel's suspected clients during public hearings in March. Toner, former president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, allegedly communicated with the 'brothel phone' a total of 432 times and paid for sex at least 13 times over roughly a seven-month period in 2023. Toner later apologized to his fellow councilors and to the community. 'You've all heard the news concerning my personal legal matters,' Toner said at a Cambridge City Council meeting. 'First, I'm ashamed to have my name associated with this case — I would like to apologize to my fellow councilors, my supporters, and the community for taking up the time of the council and the public discourse on this matter.' Cusack allegedly paid for sex 16 times in 2023. A hospital spokesperson said that Cusack's employment ended in May 2024. The attorneys for the Boston-area 'John Does' identified in the black books of the sophisticated interstate high-end brothel network had desperately tried to keep their identities private, arguing that revealing their names violates their privacy. Han Lee, the 42-year-old leader of the interstate commercial sex ring, was sentenced earlier this year to four years in prison followed by one year of supervised release. Toner and Cusack are due in court at 9 a.m. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Irish Daily Mirror
02-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
GAA hurling great lashes poor scheduling with one SHC game on this weekend
Dónal Óg Cusack has questioned whether the GAA are trying to smother hurling as he criticised the condensed scheduling of the championship. The former Cork great is unhappy with the lop-sided nature of the hurling calendar at such a vital time of the year in terms of exposure. After a glut of fixtures over the opening three rounds of the Munster and Leinster championships, the only game taking place this weekend is the Munster clash between Waterford and Limerick at Walsh Park on Saturday evening. The game won't be broadcast live on TV but will be shown on the GAA's streaming service, GAA+. "I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, the season is too short and the schedule makes little sense," Cusack told RTÉ. "There aren't many games in the whole season, yet we had five games in each of the first two weekends and then just one game this weekend. "Play it on a Saturday and then you have to pay the GAA cash to view it on their channel. Are we trying to promote hurling or smother it? "There's no Joe McDonagh Cup action. Surely it would be a weekend to showcase this because it could do with some help. It's the eighth staging of the competition. The idea is a good one, but the teams who reach that level desperately need support from Croke Park if they're to push on. "Reaching this level should release funds and personnel for those involved. Of the six teams competing this year, Kildare are in the competition for the third time. "Everybody else has been present for five or six years, outside of Kerry, who've been a permanent fixture for all eight seasons. The Joe McDonagh is looking more like a destination than part of a journey. Hurling needs oxygen and it needs a breakout success."
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump forcing Mass. to reassess emissions mandates
BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–The House chairman of a key committee said Wednesday that policymakers are reevaluating all of Massachusetts' climate and emissions mandates, plans and goals in light of changes in federal energy policy, cracking open the door to the possibility of changes to the state's commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. President Donald Trump has moved quickly in his second term to reshape national energy and climate policy, largely rejecting the transition from fossil fuels towards clean energy sources that President Joe Biden favored and states like Massachusetts pledged themselves to. Here, state government has committed to reducing carbon emissions by at least 50% compared to 1990 baselines by 2030, by at least 75% by 2040 and by at least 85% by 2050, with tag-along policies to get the state to net-zero emissions by the middle of the century. The state also has numerous other mandates on the books, including around things like electric vehicles. Mass. lawmakers shift climate plan under Trump Those emission reduction requirements and others were the subject of debate as the House worked through budget amendments Wednesday morning. Republican Rep. Marc Lombardo of Billerica offered an amendment that would declare, 'any statewide or sector-specific greenhouse gas emissions limits, benchmarks, or reduction requirements established therein shall be considered aspirational goals and shall not have the force of law as binding mandates.' He described it as a bid to restore 'balance, flexibility and commonsense to the Massachusetts climate policy.' Rep. Mark Cusack of Braintree, the Democrat newly tapped this session to lead the Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, urged representatives to reject Lombardo's amendment and said there was already an effort underway to reconsider climate mandates. 'While we have passed major climate legislation the past few sessions, we are in the process of reviewing all of our climate and emission mandates, goals and plans. With the new administration in Washington pulling funding, and with the president's executive order preventing the development of new offshore wind, we must reevaluate and try to figure out the new reality of meeting our climate change goals without a federal partner and without our planned energy diversification,' Cusack said. He said those 'difficult problems and solutions and approaches' deserve to be discussed in public hearings and with multiple interested groups. He also said that the energy affordability legislation that Gov. Maura Healey first announced more than two months ago is expected to be filed in May. 'In order to assess our new reality and where we go from here,' Cusack said, 'everything must remain on the table.' Lombardo argued that his amendment would fit right into the effort Cusack described since it 'removes a mandate and asks for an aspirational goal that provides the very flexibility that the gentleman was speaking about.' 'Affordability has been a massive talking point in the commonwealth for the last several years. We continuously see residents leaving the commonwealth for more affordable places to live. Energy costs is a direct way that we can help our residents, maintain the flexibility, have goals to diversify, but not lock us into a way that Nana and Grampy can't pay for gas to heat their homes in the winter,' the Billerica Republican said. 'And so I ask my colleagues to join me and support this amendment so that Nana doesn't have to go cold in the winter.' The House rejected Lombardo's amendment. Twenty-one Republicans supported it, and four — Minority Leader Brad Jones, First Assistant Minority Leader Kimberly Ferguson, and Reps. Hannah Kane and Donald Wong — joined all voting Democrats and independent Rep. Susannah Whipps in opposition. The final tally was 21-134. As of 2021, the most recent year with data available, state officials reported they had reduced emissions 28% below 1990 levels. The pandemic was credited with helping Massachusetts meet its 2020 commitment, but there has been great doubt around whether the state remains on track to hit its 2030 requirement. Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rebecca Tepper said in March that the executive order Trump signed in January essentially halting all federal offshore wind actions 'pending the completion of a comprehensive federal review of federal wind leasing and permitting practices' could make it much harder to reach the 2030 checkpoint. 'There is no doubt that the Trump administration has made it more difficult to meet the requirements, specifically on the generation side,' Tepper said at the time. 'We had planned on having a significant amount of clean energy by 2030 from offshore wind. So that's going to be a big headwind if that doesn't happen.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
ITV News
25-04-2025
- Sport
- ITV News
‘Lack of transparency' concerns footballer Maddy Cusack's family, inquest hears
The family of former footballer Maddy Cusack says they're concerned about a 'lack of transparency' over the disclosure of a report by the Football Association, an inquest hearing was told. A pre-inquest review at Chesterfield Coroner's Court on Thursday (April 24th), which was attended by ex- Sheffield United coach Jonathan Morgan and some of Ms Cusack's relatives, heard that a report seen by the family from the governing body has a 'large number of redactions'. Ms Cusack's former boss, Mr Morgan, was the subject of a written complaint from her family to Sheffield United within a week of her death. She died aged 27, on September 20, 2023 at her home address in Lady Lea Road, Horsley in Derbyshire. The complaint said she had been facing issues allegedly stemming from her relationship with Mr Morgan. An FA investigation was opened in January last year, with the governing body saying at the time that its purpose was 'to understand whether or not any further action is required under our jurisdiction within football'. Ms Cusack's family were represented in the pre-inquest hearing by Maria Mulla of Maitland Chambers, which is also representing some survivors in legal action against former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed. Ms Mulla told the hearing: 'The issue of relevance and the scope of this inquest is still very much a process that's being undertaken, and the family certainly needs to consider all the disclosure before making submissions. 'They are concerned about a lack of transparency, particularly in relation to documents that are being provided to them. 'I'm being told the FA report, in particular, has missing pages and has a large number of redactions. 'I don't think it's an unreasonable request for the family or their legal team to inspect the redacted material. 'The family wants some transparency.' Stephen Walsh KC, legal counsel for the FA, said the coroner was given 'unfettered access' to all material which 'assists with determining the scope'. Assistant coroner Sophie Cartwright KC added: 'I can confirm that I have full, unfettered access to all documentation in its unredacted format. 'I have myself considered the documentation.' The court heard that some information had been redacted because it is irrelevant or for data protection reasons. The coroner told the court WhatsApp messages between Ms Cusack and Mr Morgan would form part of the disclosure bundle as well as a recording of a Microsoft Teams video call between them. Mr Morgan was sacked by Sheffield United in February last year after information came to light about a relationship he had with a player while he was in charge at Leicester, but his dismissal was not related to the FA investigation. Sheffield United's own investigation, which concluded in December 2023, found no evidence of wrongdoing. A further pre-inquest hearing was fixed for June 3 for counsel to make submissions on the scope, witnesses, redactions to the documents, whether a jury might be required, and to fix a date for the inquest. Ms Cusack's family issued a statement last September, a year on from her death, in which they said they remain 'steadfastly committed and determined to attain justice for Maddy'. They added that they 'seek accountability and that comes with truth'.
