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Sunday World
13-05-2025
- Sunday World
Fears of major unrest as Dundon's hated rival gets prison move after he's caught with shiv
'There was a lot of surprise that O'Neill would be sent down here when we are holding Dessie Dundon' Vile gang rapist Thomas O'Neill has been moved from the Midlands to Cork prison — just doors away from hated rival Dessie Dundon — after the predator was caught with a 'shiv' in his cell. Heroin dealer O'Neill — who is serving a two-year-sentence for drug offences — was moved 'on punishment' to the Challenging Behaviour Unit (CBU) in Cork prison late last month. His new cell is one landing beneath and six cells down from infamous gangster Dessie. Dessie is currently 21 years into a life sentence for the murder of rival crime boss Kieran Keane and the attempted murder of Keane's nephew, Owen Treacy, in Limerick in January 2003. Now, sources say there are major fears in the Munster prison that the proximity of the two could lead to unrest in the prison. O'Neill's wife April Collins was a State witness 'There was a lot of surprise that O'Neill would be sent down here when we are already holding Dessie,' the source said. 'Anyone who is in any way familiar with what happened in Limerick would know these two have no reason to have any fondness for each other. 'Hopefully it's a very short-term arrangement as he's only down on punishment after he was caught with a shiv in his cell in the other place. 'Nobody wants to see what would happen if they somehow came face to face.' O'Neill, notorious in his own right for his involvement in the Cratloe Woods gang rape, came to the attention of the Dundon gang in 2017 when he married State witness April Collins. Collins is the former partner of Dessie's brother Ger. Her evidence in the Shane Geoghegan murder trial saw Dessie's brother John jailed for life. She also gave evidence against another brother, Wayne, who was subsequently jailed for life for the murder of innocent businessman Roy Collins. Dessie Dundon is serving life for the murder of Kieran Keane Similarly to the Dundons, O'Neill is heavily involved in drugs in Limerick. In November 2024, he admitted six counts under the Misuse of Drugs Act and was jailed for two years for having cocaine and heroin for sale or supply in Limerick city. O'Neill's sentencing hearing, held before Limerick Circuit Criminal Court, heard that an armed Garda unit saw the mobster allegedly drug-dealing while leaning into the rear of a Hyundai Tucson car, outside a house at Hyde Avenue. When the armed gardaí approached O'Neill, he became aggressive in an effort to distract the officers who observed drugs deals on the rear seat of the vehicle, it was heard. Gardaí seized the car and found 23 heroin deals and 18 deals of cocaine bagged up on the rear seat. Gardai also obtained CCTV evidence showing O'Neill and two others engaging in drug dealing. Gardai searched O'Neill's home and found seven more heroin deals, drug paraphernalia, as well as a set of keys to and registration certificate for the Hyundai Tucson. Prison shiv After his arrest, O'Neill told gardaí the drugs were for his own use, that he smoked ten bags of heroin a day, and that the deal bags were for 'bird seed and seeds for flowers'. Prosecuting barrister, John O'Sullivan, said while the total amount of drugs seized from O'Neill (€616) might have been regarded as a low amount by some, it demonstrated the thug was actively dealing cocaine and heroin. Mr O'Sullivan described O'Neill as a 'veteran of the criminal justice system since he was a juvenile', and he highlighted O'Neill's conviction and nine-year sentence in 2004 for his leading role in 'a gang rape that achieved considerable notoriety'. O'Neill was one of four youths and an adult man who raped a woman at Cratloe Woods, Co Clare, on January 23, 2004. Thomas O'Neill and Dessie Dundon News in 90 Seconds - May 13th O'Neill, Dean Barry and Darragh Ryan, were all aged 16 at the time and their accomplice Jason Ring was 14. The four were armed with a golf club, a screwdriver, a shovel and a wheel brace, and threatened the woman and a male who had travelled to the woods in the early hours of the morning. O'Neill and his accomplices ordered the pair out of their car and struck the woman with a golf club after she refused to give one of the gang a kiss. The man was ordered into the boot of the vehicle while the four youths took turns raping the woman in the car. The gang threatened to burn the car with the man inside it, and assaulted him a number of times with the golf club. O'Neill and the others pleaded guilty to rape, false imprisonment and assault causing harm, and were jailed for a total of 31 years. April Collins and Ger Dundon O'Neill was described by then sentencing judge Paul Carney, now deceased, as the 'ringleader' and the 'director of operations' of the gang. He was jailed for ten years with the final 12 months suspended. Mr O'Sullivan told O'Neill's sentencing hearing for drug dealing that O'Neill had previous convictions for violent disorder, assault with intent to cause bodily harm, false imprisonment, intimidating a witness, robbery, having a mobile phone in jail, affray, possessing drugs for sale or supply, and road traffic offences. O'Neill's' barrister, Liam Carroll BL, told the drugs sentencing hearing that O'Neill was struggling with heroin addiction at the time and that he is currently on a drugs treatment programme in prison and engaging in education and cookery classes inside.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ye Slammed By Jewish Human Rights Organization For ‘Despicable' ‘Heil Hitler' Song
Ye (formerly Kanye West) continues to be in hot water after attempting to release his highly controversial song 'Heil Hitler.' After being yanked down by streaming services and DSPs on Thursday (May 8), CEO of Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jim Berk, shared a statement to Billboard, voicing his dismay and disappointment in the mercurial MC. 'Kanye West's release of a song entitled 'Heil Hitler' on VE Day, the anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi regime, is hate speech, pure and simple—totally in line with the despicable messages we now expect from West,' said Berk. More from Billboard The ADL Slams Ye's 'Vile' Antisemitism & Sale of Swastika T-Shirts: 'There's No Excuse' PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' Berk's frustration didn't stop there, as he directed his attention to Elon Musk's social media platform X, for enabling such vitriol to be spewed by Ye and others. 'But his partner in spreading dangerous vitriol against Jews is X, which is allowing flagrant violation of its own rules reading, 'You may not directly attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.'' He continued: 'We call on X to remove West from its platform and for other platforms and distributors to refuse to host or monetize this song. There must be a clear line when it comes to glorification of genocidal regimes, particularly to millions of young people.' After experiencing failed attempts on DSPs, West uploaded the song to SoundCloud, where it was later pulled down as well. This prompted Ye to share his thoughts on X. 'Heil Hitler by Ye has been banned by all digital streaming platforms,' Ye wrote. 'While Rednecks by Randy Newman remains streamable They're literally keeping the n—-s down.' Previously teased by Ye, 'Heil Hitler' had terse subject matter ranging from the rapper's nitrous usage to custody issues over his four children with ex-wife Kim Kardashian. Billboard reached out to Ye's camp for comment. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Sydney Morning Herald
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
This Netflix hit sold us a likeable serial killer. Now it's pointing the finger at you.
What is it about murderers like Joe that keep luring us in? Well, like Dexter, he's a layered character sprinkled with some redeeming traits. He's chivalrous (however misguided), and kind towards young people. He's also intelligent, made painfully obvious by his constant reference to classic writers. A man who can accurately quote Emily Dickinson on request surely can't be that terrible, right? Loading Add that to the fact that the show is filmed like a romcom, and it's clear how we became ensnared in this man's web. You is a collection of romantic slow-motion shots, scenes lit with an amber glow, and boppy pop songs. The actual murder scenes are grittier, but everyone looks better in the radiant light of day – even a serial killer. Importantly, Joe is also at the centre of this story. He narrates every season, manipulating the audience as much as the women he lures into his creepy underground cage. His objectively atrocious crimes are overlaid with his non-stop rationalising – 'I'm killing for love, I'm killing to protect her, blah blah'. When he isn't rationalising, he's expressing regret. After moving back to New York, Joe repeatedly hints at his 'changed ways', attempting to convince himself that he is redeemable. It's difficult not to sympathise with someone who expresses a desire to improve. After all, we've seen enough romance movies to believe it's possible to 'fix them'. Joe, however, is far beyond fixing. By the mid-point of season five, this becomes apparent. His narration is less apologetic, instead embracing and justifying his violent tendencies. But even when Joe is running around the woods half naked and growling, tracking Bronte down to murder her, he's somehow still just as enthralling. Loading This is because we constantly romanticise, even fetishise, violence. Sexualised killers like Basic Instinct 's Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) have long titillated us, along with some real-life killers such as Ted Bundy. When Zac Efron played Bundy in the 2019 film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Netflix had to remind viewers to stop lusting after a character who was in reality a convicted serial killer. Casting someone like Penn Badgley – known as Dan Humphrey, the romantic lead from Gossip Girl – as a man who kills 'for love' was bound to excite. And excite it did. The lustful response to Joe reached such a fever pitch at points that Badgley himself took to social media to remind viewers that Joe is a murderer. 'You're supposed to see past my face to the crazy shit,' he wrote on X in 2019. Romanticising a serial killer is ethically dubious at best. But that has always been the point of You. It's not endorsing murder, but forcing us to question why we're so easily convinced to ignore it. This is hinted at through the final series, especially when Joe is accused of multiple crimes on social media. He's able to escape the allegations relatively unscathed largely due to his diehard supporters, those still referring to him online as their 'Prince Charming' and thirsting over his good looks. The show may as well have been showing snapshots of real tweets and TikToks. To really drive the point home, creators Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo then fully lifted the curtain. By shifting some of the narration to 'final girl' Bronte, the show finally presented Joe as the full-throttle maniac he has always been. And the shot to the crotch left him stripped of his power, deprived of the thing that drove his every sick decision. By the final scene, we're forced, once and for all, to question why we've been so transfixed by this man for five seasons. Joe, locked away in a prison cell, tells us what we've been avoiding all along: 'Maybe the problem isn't me. Maybe it's you. '
The Age
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
This Netflix hit sold us a likeable serial killer. Now it's pointing the finger at you.
What is it about murderers like Joe that keep luring us in? Well, like Dexter, he's a layered character sprinkled with some redeeming traits. He's chivalrous (however misguided), and kind towards young people. He's also intelligent, made painfully obvious by his constant reference to classic writers. A man who can accurately quote Emily Dickinson on request surely can't be that terrible, right? Loading Add that to the fact that the show is filmed like a romcom, and it's clear how we became ensnared in this man's web. You is a collection of romantic slow-motion shots, scenes lit with an amber glow, and boppy pop songs. The actual murder scenes are grittier, but everyone looks better in the radiant light of day – even a serial killer. Importantly, Joe is also at the centre of this story. He narrates every season, manipulating the audience as much as the women he lures into his creepy underground cage. His objectively atrocious crimes are overlaid with his non-stop rationalising – 'I'm killing for love, I'm killing to protect her, blah blah'. When he isn't rationalising, he's expressing regret. After moving back to New York, Joe repeatedly hints at his 'changed ways', attempting to convince himself that he is redeemable. It's difficult not to sympathise with someone who expresses a desire to improve. After all, we've seen enough romance movies to believe it's possible to 'fix them'. Joe, however, is far beyond fixing. By the mid-point of season five, this becomes apparent. His narration is less apologetic, instead embracing and justifying his violent tendencies. But even when Joe is running around the woods half naked and growling, tracking Bronte down to murder her, he's somehow still just as enthralling. Loading This is because we constantly romanticise, even fetishise, violence. Sexualised killers like Basic Instinct 's Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) have long titillated us, along with some real-life killers such as Ted Bundy. When Zac Efron played Bundy in the 2019 film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Netflix had to remind viewers to stop lusting after a character who was in reality a convicted serial killer. Casting someone like Penn Badgley – known as Dan Humphrey, the romantic lead from Gossip Girl – as a man who kills 'for love' was bound to excite. And excite it did. The lustful response to Joe reached such a fever pitch at points that Badgley himself took to social media to remind viewers that Joe is a murderer. 'You're supposed to see past my face to the crazy shit,' he wrote on X in 2019. Romanticising a serial killer is ethically dubious at best. But that has always been the point of You. It's not endorsing murder, but forcing us to question why we're so easily convinced to ignore it. This is hinted at through the final series, especially when Joe is accused of multiple crimes on social media. He's able to escape the allegations relatively unscathed largely due to his diehard supporters, those still referring to him online as their 'Prince Charming' and thirsting over his good looks. The show may as well have been showing snapshots of real tweets and TikToks. To really drive the point home, creators Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo then fully lifted the curtain. By shifting some of the narration to 'final girl' Bronte, the show finally presented Joe as the full-throttle maniac he has always been. And the shot to the crotch left him stripped of his power, deprived of the thing that drove his every sick decision. By the final scene, we're forced, once and for all, to question why we've been so transfixed by this man for five seasons. Joe, locked away in a prison cell, tells us what we've been avoiding all along: 'Maybe the problem isn't me. Maybe it's you. '
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CUNY rewrites 'Palestinian Studies' job listing after Gov. Hochul's removal order
The City University of New York (CUNY) reposted modified "Palestinian Studies" positions for Hunter College after it was previously ordered to remove a similar job listing by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul. The New York Post reported last month that the original job posting was taken down after Hochul's order and she expressed concerns that the position could promote antisemitism in the classroom. "We seek a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality," part of the listing read. CUNY's Chancellor Felix Matos and Board of Trustees Chairperson William Thompson shared a joint statement at the time in response to the governor's order, stating they "strongly agree" with Hochul's decision, noting that they "find this [posting's] language divisive, polarizing and inappropriate." Gov. Kathy Hochul Demands Cuny Take Down 'Palestinian Studies' Job Posting Over Antisemitism Concerns "CUNY will continue working with the Governor and other stakeholders to tackle antisemitism on our campuses and combat hate in all of its forms," they added. Read On The Fox News App In March, the university announced that it would be reworking and resubmitting the job position because of concerns with the original post's language. Last week, a new posting was added for two professor positions for Palestinian Studies with a new description that did not include references to "genocide" or "settler colonialism." "We are open to diverse theoretical and methodological approaches and seek historically grounded candidates who take a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine, who are interested in public-facing work, and who exhibit a commitment to being part of the life of the college, a diverse and dynamic public and majority-minority undergraduate serving institution," the new posting says. The professors are expected to start in the fall and will be placed in the Social Sciences and Humanities divisions. The salary ranges, depending on experience and professor rank, start from $82,928 and go up to $141,858. A spokesperson for Hunter College confirmed to Fox News Digital that the positions were reposted last week to "fill longstanding gaps in the college's curriculum and faculty expertise." Fox News Digital also reached out to CUNY and the governor's office for comment. Jewish Groups, Allies Demand Cuny Law Lose Funding After Student's 'Vile' Anti-israel Commencement Speech CUNY schools have come under fire for how they have handled campus protests in response to the Israel-Hamas war, leading Hochul to launch an independent review of the university's policies shortly after the Oct. 7 attack in 2023. The results of the review were published in September and found the current policies on antisemitism "need to be significantly overhauled and updated in order to handle the levels of antisemitism and discrimination that exist on CUNY's campuses today." Even prior to the Oct. 7 attack, CUNY schools had been accused of promoting antisemitic beliefs, such as voting in favor of a resolution supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in article source: CUNY rewrites 'Palestinian Studies' job listing after Gov. Hochul's removal order
