D Monday, December 21, 2009 METRO Rare rhinos sent to safer habitat FOUR of the worlds last known eight northern white rhinos have arrived in Kenya and were transported to a game park where officials hope the endangered mammals will reproduce and save their subspecies. The two males and two females were flown from the Czech Republic to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, about 300km north of Nairobi, where the rhinos will be protected from poachers. Jingle composer is not lovin it! GERMAN musician Stephan Obinger is suing McDonalds after it used his Im lovin it! jingle in a worldwide advertising campaign and paid him just 1,500. Mr Obinger, 34, from Munich, now hopes to earn more from the jingle which he submitted days before he learned he had multiple sclerosis. The jingle has since become a hit for the fast food chain. 1.4m spent to refurbish second embassy in ItalyTHE Department of Foreign Affairs has spent 1.4million refurbishing the Irish embassy to the Holy See in Rome over the past five years, it emerged yesterday. The figures, released to a Sunday news- paper under the Freedom of Information Act, come amid calls for the Vatican em- bassy to be shut as Ireland already has an embassy to Italy in the city. In 2007, a sum of 750,000 was spent on refurbishment costs and the addition of a new chapel to Villa Spada, Irelands diplo- By Ronan McDaiD matic base in the Vatican. After the work, the 1630s villa was valued at 25million. The refurbishment was carried out de- spite calls to close the office and amalga- mate it with the other embassy in Rome. These calls were repeated earlier this month when the Murphy Report on the handling of child abuse in the diocese of Dublin documented how Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, the papal nuncio to Ire- land, declined to answer correspondence from investigators because it was not channelled through the Irish ambassador to the Holy See. But former Progressive Democrat leader Des OMalley said our ambassador to It- aly could fulfil in his spare time whatever duties pertained to the Vatican. Mr OMalley said he had suggested this to the Department of Foreign Affairs but it claimed it was unthinkable not to have an official embassy to the Vatican. Call: Des oMalley Wreaths laid for parents wREAThS were thrown into the River Liffey to remember the three mothers and 17 fathers who died by suicide over the past year because they were denied access to their children. The Unmarried and Separated Fathers/Families of Ireland (USFI) said two of its members took their lives in recent weeks as they could not face another Christmas without seeing their children. Some 70 campaigners dressed as Santas marched through Dublin to highlight the plight of separated parents and difficulties in the family law system. Santa stopped by Dublins GPo to post replies to the 125,000 letters he received from children all over ireland, and together with an Post, reminded everyone to post before Christmas Picture: Maxwells How mucH to tHe noRtH pole? index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html