METRO Wednesday, December 2, 2009 D METRODigest A TEACHER has been appointed Twitterer-in-Residence by his home town. College lecturer Mike McTimoney will be paid 150 a year to write tweets about Darlington, England, where he teaches IT. Mr McTimoney, who tweets under the name TheDarloBard, won the position after displaying a prolific ability to tweet and a passion for the market town. He said: Its great to be Britains first Twitterer-in-Residence and hope other towns will follow suit. THE largest illegal fuel plant ever uncovered in Northern Ireland, capable of producing up to 6.5million litres of illicit fuel a year, was raided yesterday. The diesel laundering plant, which had the potential to evade almost 3.2million (3.5m) of revenue every year, was dismantled in a joint operation involving customs staff and police on both sides of the border. The plant was found in a large shed in Co Armagh where around 25,000 thousand litres of illicit fuel, four large storage tanks and equipment were seized. No Huge illegal diesel plant is raided SINN Fin president Gerry Adams has postponed a live public interview at the National College of Ireland, part of the Legends in Your Lunchtime leadership talks, presented by NCI, Newstalk 106- 108fm and Metro. It was initially suspected Mr Adams (pictured) had contracted swine flu, but his party later clarified it was a dose of ordinary flu. The interview, which was to be conducted by Newstalks Eamon Keane today from 1-2pm, will be rescheduled. Adams struck down by the flu A WHEELCHAIR user with a history of self-harm was unlikely to have killed himself by colliding with a lorry, a court heard yesterday. Psychologist Dr Elizabeth Cryan said the late Alan Dempseys mood was much brighter when she last saw him and the fact he didnt tell his family he wished to die, as hed done before past suicide attempts, meant the crash was more likely a tragic accident. Mr Dempsey died after being run over in his chair by a lorry in 2006. Jason McWeeney, 34, of Tamerisk Park, Tallaght, has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Mr Dempsey. Suicide unlikely in wheelchair crash Seamus Heaney with winner John ODonnell view his poem Picture: Maxwells Rhyme time at Dart stations IT CERTAINLY beats Stevo woz ere, mates 09, Shelly luvs Paul and the various observations about your ma one normally finds written on the walls of public transport. The winners of the Dart 25 Poetry in Motion competition were announced by poet Seamus Heaney yesterday. The three winning poems are now dis- played in carriages and on platforms. They are: It is dangerous to lean out, by Cecilia McGovern, from Dublin; Climb- ing out the window, by Eamonn Bonner, from Co Donegal; and The Blue Man, by John ODonnell, from Dublin. More than 400 poems about the Dart or any railway journey were submitted, in English and Irish, as part of the Darts 25th anniversary celebrations. Competi- tion judge Eilan N Chuilleanin said: Railway transport is a wonderful subject, and it was striking, reading the entries, how many different approaches the writ- ers took, capturing the ordinary and the exotic, how the train threads itself through places and moves people together and apart. Fellow judge Moya Cannon added: The Poems on the Dart initiative is perhaps particularly appropriate because in the or- dinariness of our lives journeys there are illuminating moments when our perspec- tive, our consciousness, shifts subtly to embrace a new reality. BY ROSS McDONAGH index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html