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Thursday 30 March 2023 Dublin: 15°C

# Boston Globe

All time
# strider wolf
Heartbreaking photo essay of boy who was almost beaten to death aged two wins Pulitzer Prize
Six-year-old Strider Wolf was beaten so badly by his mother’s boyfriend when he was two that he has been left with permanent scars, both visual and unseen.
# Aisling Brady McCarthy
Parents of dead baby to sue Irish nanny for 'wrongful death'
Aisling Brady McCarthy spent 27 months in prison.
# Child Abuse
Spotlight movie shines light on Catholic Church abuses that are all too familiar
The new Hollywood movie focuses on the Pulitzer Prize winning investigation carried out by The Boston Globe into the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child-molesting priests.
# investifarted
This unfortunate typo has everyone morto for the Boston Globe
Yikes.
# chocolate butt plugs
Newspaper tweets image of 'chocolate butt plugs' and the internet goes crazy
Oh dear.
# Aisling Brady McCarthy
Cavan nanny's lawyer says evidence is tainted and wants case dropped
Aisling Brady McCarthy’s lawyer said prosecutors “knowingly presented false and deceptive evidence to the grand jury”.
# Media
Sold: Washington Post, Boston Globe, Newsweek
The sale of the Washington Post cost $250 million in cash – and the new owner is the founder of Amazon.com.
# Boston
'Whitey' Bulger's former protégé offers grisly testimony at mobster's trial
Kevin Weeks – who rose through the ranks of Bulger’s organisation – has detailed three killings he says the crime boss carried out personally in the 1980s.
# Boston
Trial begins of infamous mobster (and FBI informant) 'Whitey' Bulger
The 83-year-old faces 19 murder charges, as well as federal rackeeteering charges, over a decades-long career.
# whitey bulger
Gangster 'Whitey' Bulger brought down... by former Miss Iceland
Ex-beauty queen Anna Bjornsdottir has pocketed a $2million reward for tipping off the FBI – after getting to know the mobster thanks to a stray cat.
# Cuffed
Rory feels the long arm of the law – and Skypes Boston cop’s sister back in Dublin
One Dublin resident took an unexpected video call from a certain US Open-winning someone on Monday.
# Unholy Thursday
The chaos in cabinet: What the rest of the world thinks
What did the rest of the world make of Unholy Thursday?