D Monday, January 11, 2010 News 11 Murder link to drug gang feud GARDA believe the shooting of a man found in a ditch behind Dublin Airport may be linked to a feud between rival drug gangs. John Paul Joyce, 29, a settled traveller from the Malahide Road, was found dead on Saturday. His brother Thomas, 21, who was part of a drugs gang, was shot dead last June. Shooting leaves two men dead TWO men were shot dead last night in a suspected gangland shooting. Its understood at least three shots were fired by intruders who stormed their ground-floor flat in Pearse House on Pearse Street, Dublin. The men were taken to hospital but both later died from their wounds. A Turkish Angora cat is dressed up in a rabbit costume, complete with carrot, for a carnival dress show, part of the World Zoo exhibition, in Russias Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk Picture: Reuters Warm and hoppy Neanderthals were worth it THE perception of Neanderthals as hulking, ugly, stupid beings has been turned on its head by new findings which suggest they used make-up 50,000 years ago. Professor Joao Zilhao, from the UKs Bristol University, said the discovery of sea shells containing pigment residues, which were used as make-up containers, at a Neanderthal site in south-east Spain, was the first hard evidence Neanderthals were symbolically organised ten millennia before modern humans walked in Europe. By Ross McDonagh Political wannabes share in 390,000 film censors billFORMER politicians are earning up to 40,000 a year to watch and rate films. The Irish Film Classifications Office (Ifco) paid almost 390,000 in fees and expenses in 2008 to its ten assistant classifiers, many of whom are ex-poli- ticians who failed to win seats. Elizabeth Davidson, the Green Party politician who failed to win a seat in last years Dublin South by-election, former Fianna Fil councillor PJ Sheridan and former Fianna Fil senators Olga Bennett, Tom Fitzgerald and Marian McGennis were all appointed by the Minister for Justice to the role. According to a report in The Sunday Times, the ten assistant classifiers were paid fees of 306,683 and expenses of 52,569 in 2007; 339,608 in fees and 49,898 in expenses in 2008; and 162,263 in fees and 21,401 in expenses for the first six months of last year. The group can classify DVD releases from home, but for theatrical releases they must travel to the Ifco offices in Dublin, a 700km round trip for the likes of former Kerry councillor Tom Fitzgerald, who lives in Dingle. The appointments have generated anger online. Most of those experts are failed politicians who would not recognise a good film if they saw one, wrote one film fan. Its social welfare for the con- nected, wrote another. A spokesman for Ifco said the appointments were purely at the discretion of the minister. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html