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Irish Daily Mirror
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Irish stars step out for opening night of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Irish stars stepped out for the opening night of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. The reinvention of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece is currently showing at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin. The show premiered almost 30 years ago and has now become the most successful dance theatre production of all time, creating new audiences and inspiring generations of young dancers. Dubliner Stephen Murray also dances in the show. On Tuesday night, Dancing with the Stars judge Arthur Gourounlian, model Thalia Heffernan, who brought her mam Susan Ebrill, FM104's Zeinab Elguzouli, Andrea Gilligan and Paul Quinn of Virgin Media News; as well as Laura Nolan, David O'Reilly and Katja Mia all stepped out for the opening night. First staged at Sadler's Wells in London in 1995, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake took the dance theatre world by storm, becoming the longest running full-length dance classic in the West End and on Broadway. It has since been performed across the globe, collecting over 30 international accolades including the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and three Tony Awards for Best Director of a Musical, Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.
The Irish Sun
01-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
Richard Satchwell insisted he'd ‘never lay a finger' on wife Tina in various TV & radio interviews heard by murder trial
MURDER accused Richard Satchwell pledged to take a lie detector test to prove he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance, in a TV interview aired in court. And when directly asked by a reporter if he killed Tina, the truck driver, 58, insisted: 'I'd never lay a finger on her.' 4 Richard Satchwell spoke to journalists numerous times after Tina's disappearance Credit: Virgin Media News 4 A series of media interviews given by the accused were played to the court Credit: John Delea - The Sun Dublin 4 Asked by TV3's Paul Byrne on July 13, 2017 if he was innocent, he said: 'I am innocent, I've done nothing wrong' Credit: Virgin Media News Mr Satchwell Her decomposed remains were discovered by investigators Mr Satchwell spoke to journalists numerous times in the year after he reported that Tina And today Read more in News Asked by He added: 'My wife's going to turn back up or she's going to get in touch with the 'One way or another this will all come out and in time it will all prove that I've done nothing wrong. 'In every relationship, you know your partner. You know what you've been talking about and you feel you know what your partner would want you to do in certain circumstances. Most read in Irish News 'I went by what I thought my wife would want me to do. Whether they agree with the way I did it, that's up to them. I know my wife better than anybody, I know her better than I know myself, and I did what I genuinely thought was right. 'I've been with my wife for 28 years. In that 28 years I've never lifted a finger to her. 'I'D TAKE A LIE DETECTOR' 'I was brought up in a home, yes there were arguments between my mother and father, but never any violence. That's what I wanted for my wife, a good, loving marriage. 'I'd take a lie detector, my house has been searched without my knowledge. The Gardai found nothing untoward. We live on the Main Street, they can see the comings and goings, I don't know why people are being malicious.' Reporter Paul asked him in another interview on November 30, 2017: 'Did you kill Tina Satchwell?' Mr Satchwell replied: 'Never. I'd never lay a finger on her.' He also said: 'She's been my life since meeting her, even since before I spoke to her I knew I loved her. 'My dream came true. Since the day we got married, it's been one long honeymoon. Like that since the day I met her.' And he said of Christmas: 'If Tina's not there I'm not celebrating it. This Xmas won't be Xmas for me. 'I have never once in nearly 30 years of being together laid a finger on her. The most I've ever done is love the bones of her.' 'COULD NEVER LAY A FINGER ON MY WIFE' He was asked by Susan Keogh on Today FM, in a chat which aired on March 18, 2018, if he ever hurt Tina and he answered: 'I never would.' The presenter then asked if he killed Tina, and he replied: 'No. I could never lay a finger on my wife. No one has ever once seen a tiny bruise on her body.' Another interview played out today saw Mr Satchwell sobbing as he told RTE's Crimecall that his 'arms are open' when Tina wanted to return home. Speaking to the show, which aired on July 25, 2017, he said: 'It's been three months. Tina come home, nobody is mad at you. 'My arms are open, the pets are missing you. Even just ring the guards, everything will be alright.' Another interview with Neil Prendeville aired on Cork's Red FM on March 12, 2018 — nearly a year after Tina was reported missing. In it, Mr Satchwell said: 'She was a great woman. I've not got a bad word to say about her. 'She could have a flash temper, she could hit you, then she'd be crying apologising. The most thing I've ever done to her is hold her tight until she calmed down.' 'I HAVE STARTED PRAYING' Mr Prendeville spoke to him as Gardai were searching Mitchell's Woods, outside Castlemartyr in Cork, for any evidence which would help in their investigation. The host said he didn't believe Tina was alive and asked how he would feel if cops found a body. He said: 'I'd be an emotional wreck. Suicide, no suicide, even without suicide, I wouldn't last six months. All I can do is stay at home and wait for the phone to ring, hope. I don't go to church but I have started praying.' Asked if he was ever in jail, he replied: 'Yes, I was caught for social welfare. I was working while claiming social welfare 'I think I'd sooner be there than where I am now. I was there for a month, in Cork. 'She (Tina) didn't come up to see me, I asked her not to. It's not an environment I wanted her to be in. We spoke every night, five or ten minutes. I've never denied to anybody that I've been in prison.' Mr Satchwell also appeared on Ireland AM on TV3 on March 8, 2018, as the search in Mitchell's Wood was taking place. Asked by presenter Mark Cagney if he felt he was a suspect, he said: 'No. Now I feel I'm not. Anything the guards have asked for I'm providing. 'I THINK SHE PLANNED TO GO' 'When I visited our GP, I don't know if Tina had said anything to him, he told me I was right to give her the time before I went to the guards. I have to believe (she's still alive) because I'm not mentally strong enough to think the other. 'Mental illness is one of the things I won't talk about, within the family.' During a number of interviews for the programme, Mr Satchwell told reporter Barry Cummins: 'We were really upset after our parrot Peal died, we cried for weeks. We had an autopsy done. 'Then a parrot came up on the internet and we called it Valentine, because we bought it on Valentine's Day.' Speaking about the day Tina vanished, Mr Satchwell said he had been plastering the stairs when she came down and asked him to go to the shops in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. He told the show: 'I think she planned to go. 'I think it was playing in the back of her mind for a long time and something clicked that morning, I do.' 'I BUILT MY LIFE AROUND HER' Asked how he was feeling, he said: 'Lonely, very lonely, because I built my life around her. When that's gone, you've got nothing. 'I've never once in nearly 30 years of being together laid a finger on her. As far as I'm concerned my wife is out there somewhere and will come back. 'I truly believe that. Just get in touch. I believe there is somebody out there who does know where she is.' The 4 Mr Satchwell has pleaded not guilty to murdering Tina at their home in Cork Credit: Handout
BreakingNews.ie
01-05-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Jury watch footage of tearful Richard Satchwell appealing for wife Tina to come home
A jury have watched footage of a tearful Richard Satchwell making a televised appeal for his wife Tina to come home, telling her "Nobody is mad at you, just ring the guards, let people know you're alright", months after the State argues he murdered her and buried her in a shallow grave beneath their Cork home. The jury has now finished viewing a total of 14 video clips of the accused making media appeals and statements about his wife Tina's disappearance. Advertisement Mr Satchwell told 'TV3 News' viewers (now Virgin Media News) in July 2017 – four months after his wife disappeared – that he was "innocent of any wrongdoing", when asked whether he was an innocent man. The British truck driver also told the TV3 interviewer on that date: "One day my wife will turn back up or she will get in touch with gardaí, one way or another it will all come out and in time will prove I've done nothing wrong". The Leicester native also said on 'Cork's Red FM' in March 2018 that he had served time in prison for "what they call social welfare fraud" and that he would "sooner be in jail than where I am now". He said he asked his wife not to come to see him in Cork prison as it wasn't an environment he would like her to be in. The Central Criminal Court jury has heard that on March 24th, 2017, Mr Satchwell told gardaí that his wife had left their home four days earlier but that he had no concerns over her welfare, feeling she had left due to a deterioration in their relationship. Advertisement The accused formally reported Tina missing the following May but her body was not discovered for over six years, when gardaí found her decomposed remains in a grave that had been dug underneath the stairs of her home. In her opening address on Tuesday, Gerardine Small SC, prosecuting, told the jury that after the body was recovered, Mr Satchwell told gardai that he lost his footing and fell to the ground when his wife tried to stab him with a chisel. He told detectives that he held her weight off with a belt but that in a matter of seconds, she was dead in his arms. Mr Satchwell (58), with an address at Grattan Street, Youghal, Co Cork has pleaded not guilty to murdering his 45-year-old wife Tina Satchwell – née Dingivan – at that address between March 19th and March 20th, 2017, both dates inclusive. The first media interview played today was with Paul Byrne from TV3 News on July 14th, 2017, where Mr Satchwell said he knew his wife better than anybody, adding: "I probably know her better than myself." Advertisement In the interview, the accused said he had been with his wife for 28 years and "never lifted a finger to her" during that time. He added: "If I was asked to take a lie detector test I'd take one, my house was searched with my knowledge and gardai didn't find anything to suggest anything untoward". The next interview was a media appeal from RTÉ's Crimecall broadcast on July 25th, 2017, where Mr Satchwell can be seen crying and appealing for Tina to come home. "Nobody is mad at you, the pets are missing you, just ring the guards, let people know you're alright," he said. Another interview played to the jury was with TV3 News from November 20, 2017, where the accused said Tina had "been my life since meeting her". Advertisement Asked by interviewer Paul Byrne what he had to say to those who believed he may have harmed his wife in some way, the accused replied: "Never once in 30 years that we have been together have I laid a finger on her, most I've done is loving the bones off her". When asked if he had killed Tina, Mr Satchwell said he had "never laid a finger" on her. In footage from Prime Time Investigates broadcast on RTÉ on January 25th, 2018, Mr Satchwell showed interviewer Barry Cummins a bottle of Cava he had bought for his and Tina's 25th wedding anniversary, some months previously, which was unopened. "It's like I'm walking outside looking in on my old life, it's totally heartbreaking," remarked the accused. Advertisement Mr Satchwell can also be seen in the television interview sitting in a car with Mr Cummins and showing him where he had proposed to Tina in Youghal in October 1989. Asked whether he had any idea what had happened on the day Tina went missing in March 2017, Mr Satchwell said: "She obviously felt she needed a break, to get her thoughts together, to get her head straight". The accused was asked what it was like being in Youghal with Tina missing and Mr Satchwell described it as "very lonely because I've built my life around her and when that's gone I have nothing". He remarked that he found the press very misleading and that they "twist everything". Mr Satchwell said he did not believe Tina was dead and he "truly believed" she was out there somewhere and could be found. When asked what his message to Tina was, Mr Satchwell said: "I want you to get in touch...I believe somebody out there that does know where she is because she didn't get up and leave without some help from somebody". The accused went on to say: "If someone tried attacking her she would pick the nearest thing up and whack them with it. That the type of person she is, she wouldn't be a pushover". The next media interview played to the jury was with TV3 News on March 7th, 2018 at Mitchell's Wood in Castlemartyr, when a garda search was taking place. Asked how difficult it was to go to the woods that day, Mr Satchwell said he felt sick driving down from Youghal that morning and he was "praying and hoping" the search came to nothing. When asked about the "one thing" that was "racing through" his mind, Mr Satchwell said that his wife "could be behind them barriers". In another media interview on Ireland AM on March 8th, 2018, the accused said he didn't feel he was a suspect in his wife's disappearance and that he believed Tina was still alive. "I have to as I'm not strong enough to go down the other". Mr Satchwell said any person who had helped his wife get out of Youghal should be "ashamed" of themselves. He said he thought someone had helped Tina as he could not see any way she could have gotten away from Youghal. In another radio interview on CRY104FM in Youghal from March 10th, 2018, the accused said there was "no way" anyone would lay a finger on his wife "without walking away with some damage". He said if his wife walked in the door he would throw his arms around her and "collapse on the floor with relief". Asked about his feelings should the "worst case scenario" happen and he found out Tina "had passed", Mr Satchwell said: "I'd be no more, I'd be no good to anybody". In an interview with Neil Prendeville on Red FM in Cork on March 12th, 2018, the accused said if Tina came home his arms would go around her, there would be tears and he would make her a cup of tea, make sure she wasn't hungry, let her take a bath and then contact the gardaí and her family. Ireland Gardaí suspicious 'something untoward' happened to... Read More He said he would be an "emotional wreck" if he was told "something" turned up in Mitchell's Wood. In another interview on Prime Time on March 16th, 2018, Mr Satchwell said he believed there was "somebody out there knows where she is". Commenting on the search at Mitchell's Wood, the accused said Tina wouldn't even "go near a strange woods with me". He went on to say his arms had only ever held Tina in a loving manner. He said every special occasion that arose he bought presents and cards "and they are there to open when she comes back". The trial continues on Tuesday before Mr Justice Paul McDermott and a jury of five men and seven women.
RTÉ News
01-05-2025
- RTÉ News
Media interviews shown in court in Satchwell murder trial
The jury in the trial of Richard Satchwell, who is accused of murdering his wife Tina in Cork just over eight years ago, has been watching interviews given by Mr Satchwell to media organisations in the months after her disappearance. In the interviews, Mr Satchwell says he never laid a finger on his wife and says he believes she's still alive. Mr Satchwell has pleaded not guilty to murdering 45 year old Tina Satchwell between 19 March and 20 March in 2017. He told gardaí on 24 March 2017 that she had gone missing four days previously. Her body was discovered more than six years later buried underneath the stairs in their home in Youghal in County Cork. Mr Satchwell then told gardaí she had died as he tried to hold her off with a belt while she attacked him with a chisel. The jury watched an interview with TV3 News, now Virgin Media News, carried out in July 2017. Asked if he had killed his wife, Mr Satchwell replied: "Never. I would never lay a finger on her." He added that he had never laid a finger on her in nearly 30 years of being together. The jury also watched a Prime Time documentary by reporter Barry Cummins, broadcast on RTÉ in January 2018. In the footage, Mr Satchwell can be seen in the house with the couple's two dogs, Heidi and Ruby, and their parrot, Valentine. He also showed Mr Cummins a bottle of Cava he had bought for their 25th wedding anniversary, some months previously, which had not been opened. In the documentary, Ms Satchwell's cousin, Sarah Howard described her as a fun, outgoing woman who loved fashion, swimming and walking. She said her cousin had never gone missing before and what had happened was a "complete mystery". Mr Satchwell said his wife had been "troubled by something" in the months before she disappeared, and he felt she needed a break to get her head straight. He said he was lonely because he had built his life around his wife, but said he did not believe she was dead. He said Tina was not a pushover. If someone tried attacking her, he said "she'd pick the nearest thing up and whack them with it." He told Mr Cummins he just wanted her back. Mr Satchwell was also interviewed by TV3 News as a wooded area was searched as part of the investigation into her disappearance. He said he was "praying and hoping" the search came to nothing but he said there was a possibility "no matter how small" that his wife could be behind the barriers. In a live interview on the Ireland AM television programme on TV3, at around the same time, Mr Satchwell said everything was good between him and his wife. He said he couldn't come up with a reason as to why she would not have contacted him. He said he had felt that he was a suspect in her disappearance originally but he did not feel that any longer. He said that he was providing the gardai with everything they wanted. Asked why he had waited four days to report his wife missing, he said his GP had told him he was right to give her time before he went to gardaí. Mr Satchwell said he believed she was still alive, as he said he was not "strong enough to go down the road and say the other." He said he just wanted her to get in touch with somebody. He said he believed someone had helped her to get out of Youghal and he said that person should be ashamed of themselves. Mr Satchwell told Youghal community radio station, CRY 104FM, that his wife was a much stronger personality than he was. He agreed there had been physical "skirmishes" where she had hit him but said he would never hit her back. He said he would personally pity anyone who tried to harm her, as he said "no way anyone would lay a finger near Tina, without walking away with some physical damage." Mr Satchwell said if she walked back in, he would put his arms around her and would then collapse on the floor with relief. Asked if he felt angry, if Tina was alive, that she was letting him suffer, he said he didn't feel angry, he felt disappointed. He said he was willing to take a lie detector test when he had finished medication he was on because he had been suicidal. He also asked anyone who thought they had seen his wife to come forward. Mr Satchwell said he would leave the investigation of various sightings to gardaí as if he tried, he'd probably just muck it up. He said he prayed every day for a happy conclusion.
Extra.ie
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Richard Chambers shares hilarious chance encounter with cardinal at Pope Francis' lying in state
Virgin Media's Richard Chambers has shared the hilarious story of his chance encounter with a cardinal at Pope Francis' lying in state. The Virgin Media News correspondent was in Rome for the pontiff's lying-in-state following his passing on Easter Monday, being one of tens of thousands of people who have been lining the streets of Rome to pay their respects. While sitting down in the shade in St Peter's Square, Richard was joined by whom he initially thought was a priest, who immediately began chatting to him by joking that this was the waiting room to see the Pope. Virgin Media's Richard Chambers has shared a hilarious story of his chance encounter with a cardinal at Pope Francis' lying in state. Pic: Virgin Media Television Richard said that the 'priest' identified himself as being from Portugal — leading some to believe that he may have been chatting to Cardinal Américo Aguiar — and once Richard told him that he was Irish, the cardinal asked was he 'God Save the King Irish or St Patrick Irish.' After eliciting an awkward laugh from his Group Chat co-hosts Zara King and Gavan Reilly when the cardinal said that Richard was from 'the good Ireland,' something Richard stressed was said in jest, Richard then believed he was talking to someone in an apostolic college. 'I was like, 'How long have you been in Rome, father?'' Richard explained, before being shown a gold ring signifying that he was a cardinal, before having to leg it after his cover was nearly blown by the journalist. @virginmedianews 🇻🇦 This week on #TheGroupChat, ♬ original sound – VirginMediaNews 'I was like, 'Oh wow, you're a cardinal?' [before] he starts loudly shushing me, because cardinals have been chased up and down the street and the square here by packs of journalists,' Richard said. 'So I'd blown his cover in many ways before he very hurriedly scampered off, telling me to be a 'good lad' in the process.' Pope Francis' funeral will take place on Saturday morning in Rome, with RTÉ providing extensive coverage from Saturday morning. 10-15 days after the funeral of Pope Francis will be the Papal Conclave, which will see cardinals elect a new pope.
