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Johnno was on the money about Donegal back in 2011
Michael Murphy's fourth All-Ireland SFC semi-final, 14 years after his first, saw him make way with 25 minutes left, the job done. In his first appearance at that stage in 2011 (which, amazingly, was Murphy's fifth season on the Donegal squad), he operated a long way from goal in the infamous 0-8 to 0-6 defeat to Dublin. 'I was very surprised,' noted Irish Times columnist John O'Keeffe the next day, 'we didn't see Michael Murphy as a target man at any stage ... That told me they had no idea how to win the game.' O'Keeffe's analysis of Donegal has aged very well in general. In the hysteria surrounding that uber-defensive performance, the Kerry icon called it astutely. 'As for Donegal, we shouldn't be too hard on them. Jimmy McGuinness will take a lot of flak after this but we have to remember that this is year one of what he's trying to achieve up there. He's going to find an awful lot of people who don't agree with what he sent his team out to do yesterday but, as a starting point, this is exactly the kind of year he would have sought,' he wrote. READ MORE 'They will learn from this ... But the reality is they're going to need a better attacking strategy if they're going to win an All-Ireland title.' A year later, Murphy was devastating at full forward in the final and Sam was for the hills. Kilmainhamwood's Chappell Roan unleashes a hit It had to happen – the first viral GAA-themed song of the summer hit the airwaves during the week and it's a classic of the genre. The track, Hot For Meath (with apologies to Chappell Roan's Hot To Go) was written and performed by Kilmainhamwood GFC chairman, and player, Richard Corbally. A video of Corbally singing the chorus in a bar after the quarter-final win over Galway was shared by the local We Are Meath podcast and took off; Corbally roped in producer Donal Bowens and recorded it professionally, also filming a video. 🟢 𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 🟡 In 2025 the Royals are back! What a production from Donal Bowens starring Kilmainhamwood Chairperson Richard Corbally. — We Are Meath (@wearemeath) The synth-pop belter is an infuriatingly catchy earworm which leans into the cheesiness; social media reviews have been mixed (when are they ever not?) but at the time of writing, it has amassed close to half a million views online. 'Meath are winning games with Robbie Brennan/First thing that he did was bring back Menton,' begins Corbally, with the chorus continuing in the same vein: 'M-A-T-T Costello/Jordan Morris scoring goals/Duke and Hickey on the wing/Donal Keogan still the king.' Unfortunately for Richard, as one tweeter rather unkindly pointed out, Meath were hot to go – out of the championship. Ouch. Kerry's David Clifford celebrates scoring the first goal of Saturday's semi-final against Tyrone. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho David's stats are Goliath-like David Clifford is unsurprisingly the betting favourite to be crowned Footballer of the Year for the third time in four years, having struck 4-23 in the knock-out stages of this year's All-Ireland SFC alone. His stats are eye-watering and approaching prime Tiger Woods levels now in terms of sheer outlandishness. Both were prodigies (in his last two minor matches for the Kingdom, Clifford scored a combined 5-15) and both managed the difficult feat of actually surpassing the hype at the top level. Clifford's average score per game at senior is 5.73 points; his 2025 average is 8.29. Within that, he has landed 12 two-pointers but even adjusted for that his average this year is 7.43 points per game. In 90 senior matches, he has scored 41-393, 35-293 coming from open play. Woods had won eight Majors by the time he was 26; Clifford has just one to date. Century not out for McGuinness – sort of Sunday marked Jim McGuinness's 100th senior match in charge of Donegal – sort of. After the county won the All-Ireland in 2012, they decamped to Dubai for a team holiday, with then under-21 manager Maxie Curran given charge of the team for the McKenna Cup, which threw in on January 9th that year. McGuinness had returned in time for that match (against Fermanagh) and the two which followed in the competition against Monaghan and St Mary's College but sat in the stand for all three and had no involvement in the team on match day. So, while there have technically been 103 senior matches during his two terms as manager, McGuinness has managed the team himself on exactly 100 occasions. Not a bad way to mark the century, to be fair. Quote 'There's a massive smell of Meath '96 about this.' – Former Meath star Paul Shankey , who has recently stepped down as Waterford senior football manager, was bullish on RTÉ about the Royals' chances. Number: 135 Senior appearances for Kildare stalwart Mick O'Grady, who got his hands on some long-awaited silverware as the Lilywhites claimed the Tailteann Cup.
Fox News
10-06-2025
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John O'Keefe did not die where prosecutors claim in Karen Read trial, doctor testifies
John O'Keefe did not hit the back of his head and suffer fatal injuries on the lawn where Karen Read found him the morning after prosecutors allege she clipped him with her Lexus SUV and left him to die in a blizzard, according to a defense expert. "If you fall back on a flat surface, you get, many times the tear you get in the scalp can be more like a star because you just hit one part, and then the tears go and kind of a star pattern," testified Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, pointing to an evidence photo not shown on the courthouse video stream. "And also, because you would not have those vertical, discrete vertical scraping of the skin, you, you would tend to if you fell back on grass, you would tend to see, you might see grass in the wound, or you would tend to see an irregular kind of crisscross pattern of the flattened grass. And that's not what we have here on Mr. O'Keefe." She said he must've hit his head on an uneven surface. "But that ridge also, it wasn't smooth," she testified. "It had some little grainy, grainy things sticking up on it." While she agreed that blunt force trauma to the head killed O'Keefe, she also said she did not see signs of hypothermia, contradicting the second cause of death in his official autopsy. Laposata's testimony contradicts the testimony of Dr. Aizik Wolf, a brain surgeon who took the stand for the prosecution earlier in the trial. "The only way he could get this kind of an injury was to fall backwards, hit the back of his head, and then the resulting energy forces going into his brain, into the base of his skull," said Wolf, who testified that he'd seen numerous injuries, often fatal, from backward falls in icy Minnesota weather early in his career. "This is what happens when soft tissue hits a solid ground," he testified. Read's defense scored a minor victory before jurors arrived in court Tuesday for the 30th day of her murder trial in the death of O'Keefe, her former boyfriend and a Boston police officer. Attorney Alan Jackson asked Judge Beverly Cannone to reconsider and order yesterday blocking defense witness Laposata from testifying about dog bites. After a contentious back and forth with Brennan, which saw the two talking over one another and raising their voices, Cannone denied the request but also offered a compromise. "In her experience, Mr. Jackson, you have to lay a foundation in her experience saying animal bites," Cannone said. "This is consistent with what she has seen in an animal bite." GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB Laposata is a forensic pathologist and professor at Brown University's medical school, whom Jackson described as "absolutely peerless," although she resigned from her prior role as Rhode Island's chief medical examiner amid an audit that found her office let hundreds of incomplete autopsies languish under her watch, according to local reports from the time. She returned to the stand once jurors arrived, and she explained the internal injuries to O'Keefe's brain and said pressure on the brain stem from internal swelling and bleeding as a result of the fracture is what killed him. The cut over his right eye, however, was caused by a different impact. She said it did not appear to have been inflicted by the spoiler on the back of Read's SUV.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
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Mother of slain Boston police officer sends wordless message to Karen Read in courtroom showdown
John O'Keefe's mother sent a solemn message to Karen Read, his suspected killer, in court last week during her trial on murder and other charges, according to a body language expert. Read, 45, is accused of slamming into O'Keefe with her 2021 Lexus SUV and leaving him to die on the ground in a blizzard on Jan. 29, 2022. Her attorneys deny that a collision happened and assert that something else killed O'Keefe, a 46-year-old Boston police officer. Expert Witness In Karen Read Murder Trial Caught With 'Errors' Inflating His Credentials Throughout the bitter court battle of her second trial, the sides have been called to sidebar repeatedly as lawyers on both sides object to one another's questioning. As Read walked to the bench with her legal team, Peggy O'Keefe, seated every day front and center, gave the defendant a grim look, video shows. Read On The Fox News App WATCH: The prosecution team in Karen Read's trial shares 2024 TV interview "It was so overt that she didn't even hide it, because the mom shows every expression on her face throughout this trial," Susan Constantine, the expert, told Fox News Digital. "There's no love lost there. She does not like Karen Read, doesn't trust her, doesn't believe her, thinks she's killed her son." WATCH: Peggy O'Keefe glares at Karen Read during murder trial She called the look "stalker eyes" – like a lioness – and was a way of speaking to Read without saying a word, she said. "She was following her as if she was sending the message, 'I'm watching you, I see you, I'm following you,'" Constantine said. "She's doing what she normally would do as a protective mother." Karen Read Defense Grills Crash Expert Over $400K Price Tag And Experimentation Methods O'Keefe could not immediately be reached for comment. She was back in the front row, observing the proceedings, the next day. "She's the mother," Constantine said. "She has every right to believe what she believes." Who To Watch As Karen Read's Defense Steps Up To Plate – And It's Not Slugger Alan Jackson The relationship between O'Keefe and Read had been deteriorating in the weeks before his death, his niece, a juvenile, testified earlier. Texts between Read and a potential romantic rival, Brian Higgins, showed she complained about having to deal with O'Keefe's adopted children. He was caring for his young niece and nephew after their mother and father died within months of each other. Karen Read's Suv Reached '74% Throttle' Moments Before John O'keefe's Final Movements, Crash Expert Testifies Similar to O'Keefe, Karen Read's father, William Read, has been in court every day as both parents look to cement a sense of solidarity with their children. "The jury misses nothing about family and friend activity in the audience area," retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge and Boston College law professor Jack Lu told Fox News Digital. But in a stark contrast, Read's father has been mingling with her fans and chatting with the press in an apparent bid to win public sentiment over to his daughter. On Friday, he was seen shaking hands and posing for photos with her supporters shortly before arriving for the first day of the defense team's testimony. "I'm always the oldest one in these shots," he told the group as he smiled for the camera. "I guess it's better than the alternative, huh?" WATCH: Karen Read's father greets supporters outside daughter's trial Read's father's demeanor directly conflicts with the behavior of O'Keefe, with experts pointing to key differences between the parents. "He's very cordial," Constantine told Fox News Digital. "There's a stark contrast from the opposing side and [O'Keefe's] mom. [She] is distressed, angry and disgusted. The sneering and all that, we don't see in Karen Read's father at all. I mean he is certainly a trooper, standing in the gap for his daughter and he's standing strong." Follow The Fox True Crime Team On X William Read has frequently stopped to speak to reporters on the steps of the courthouse as his daughter's entourage is leaving for the day, and previously said he would like to be called as a witness in her trial. "What this state is doing is a persecution of Karen Read," her father said on the courthouse steps earlier this month. "And this collection of actors [and] witnesses is disgraceful." Constantine points to his confidence as another indicator of how the family feels about Read's case. "I think that he feels that he's got a great case," Constantine said. "They've obviously had great counsel, and you could tell that he feels very confident having his daughter being represented by this team. I think he feels that she's fairly represented." Hours after her father made his appearance with supporters outside the courthouse, Read spent Friday's lunch recess shaking hands and thanking those who came to show solidarity – a move that mirrors her own father. "You can see a lot of Karen in her father," Constantine said. "You could see that they were waving at everybody. I saw a picture of Karen [and] she's waving at everybody as the car's pulling up. It reminded me of Michael Jackson – he did the same thing in his case. But [William Read] was resting his arm out, and he's waving at everybody as if they're a celebrity. I don't think he is doing it in a showy way or in a narcissistic way at all. I see him as being very, very supportive and cordial with everyone, trying to connect with other people out there and Karen's supporters, and I think he's very appreciative of it."Original article source: Mother of slain Boston police officer sends wordless message to Karen Read in courtroom showdown
Fox News
31-05-2025
- General
- Fox News
Mother of slain Boston police officer sends wordless message to Karen Read in courtroom showdown
John O'Keefe's mother sent a solemn message to Karen Read, his suspected killer, in court last week during her trial on murder and other charges, according to a body language expert. Read, 45, is accused of slamming into O'Keefe with her 2021 Lexus SUV and leaving him to die on the ground in a blizzard on Jan. 29, 2022. Her attorneys deny that a collision happened and assert that something else killed O'Keefe, a 46-year-old Boston police officer. Throughout the bitter court battle of her second trial, the sides have been called to sidebar repeatedly as lawyers on both sides object to one another's questioning. As Read walked to the bench with her legal team, Peggy O'Keefe, seated every day front and center, gave the defendant a grim look, video shows. WATCH: The prosecution team in Karen Read's trial shares 2024 TV interview "It was so overt that she didn't even hide it, because the mom shows every expression on her face throughout this trial," Susan Constantine, the expert, told Fox News Digital. "There's no love lost there. She does not like Karen Read, doesn't trust her, doesn't believe her, thinks she's killed her son." WATCH: Peggy O'Keefe glares at Karen Read during murder trial She called the look "stalker eyes" – like a lioness – and was a way of speaking to Read without saying a word, she said. "She was following her as if she was sending the message, 'I'm watching you, I see you, I'm following you,'" Constantine said. "She's doing what she normally would do as a protective mother." O'Keefe could not immediately be reached for comment. She was back in the front row, observing the proceedings, the next day. "She's the mother," Constantine said. "She has every right to believe what she believes." The relationship between O'Keefe and Read had been deteriorating in the weeks before his death, his niece, a juvenile, testified earlier. Texts between Read and a potential romantic rival, Brian Higgins, showed she complained about having to deal with O'Keefe's adopted children. He was caring for his young niece and nephew after their mother and father died within months of each other. Similar to O'Keefe, Karen Read's father, William Read, has been in court every day as both parents look to cement a sense of solidarity with their children. "The jury misses nothing about family and friend activity in the audience area," retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge and Boston College law professor Jack Lu told Fox News Digital. But in a stark contrast, Read's father has been mingling with her fans and chatting with the press in an apparent bid to win public sentiment over to his daughter. On Friday, he was seen shaking hands and posing for photos with her supporters shortly before arriving for the first day of the defense team's testimony. "I'm always the oldest one in these shots," he told the group as he smiled for the camera. "I guess it's better than the alternative, huh?" WATCH: Karen Read's father greets supporters outside daughter's trial Read's father's demeanor directly conflicts with the behavior of O'Keefe, with experts pointing to key differences between the parents. "He's very cordial," Constantine told Fox News Digital. "There's a stark contrast from the opposing side and [O'Keefe's] mom. [She] is distressed, angry and disgusted. The sneering and all that, we don't see in Karen Read's father at all. I mean he is certainly a trooper, standing in the gap for his daughter and he's standing strong." William Read has frequently stopped to speak to reporters on the steps of the courthouse as his daughter's entourage is leaving for the day, and previously said he would like to be called as a witness in her trial. "What this state is doing is a persecution of Karen Read," her father said on the courthouse steps earlier this month. "And this collection of actors [and] witnesses is disgraceful." Constantine points to his confidence as another indicator of how the family feels about Read's case. "I think that he feels that he's got a great case," Constantine said. "They've obviously had great counsel, and you could tell that he feels very confident having his daughter being represented by this team. I think he feels that she's fairly represented." Hours after her father made his appearance with supporters outside the courthouse, Read spent Friday's lunch recess shaking hands and thanking those who came to show solidarity – a move that mirrors her own father. "You can see a lot of Karen in her father," Constantine said. "You could see that they were waving at everybody. I saw a picture of Karen [and] she's waving at everybody as the car's pulling up. It reminded me of Michael Jackson – he did the same thing in his case. But [William Read] was resting his arm out, and he's waving at everybody as if they're a celebrity. I don't think he is doing it in a showy way or in a narcissistic way at all. I see him as being very, very supportive and cordial with everyone, trying to connect with other people out there and Karen's supporters, and I think he's very appreciative of it."
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Yahoo
Brain surgeon testifies John O'Keefe died from fall on frozen ground in Karen Read trial
John O'Keefe died from falling backwards and hitting his head on frozen ground, according to a Yale-educated brain surgeon who testified Wednesday in the murder trial of Karen Read. Read, 45, is accused of killing her then-boyfriend, the 46-year-old O'Keefe, by hitting him with her 2021 Lexus SUV on Jan. 29, 2022, then leaving him to die on the ground in a blizzard in Canton, Massachusetts, about 20 miles south of Boston. The head trauma and skull fractures he sustained, coupled with hypothermia from the cold, would not have killed him immediately, according to Dr. Aizik Wolf, who testified he treated many similar injuries in his career working in Minneapolis. "The only way he could get this kind of an injury was to fall backwards, hit the back of his head, and then the resulting energy forces going into his brain, into the base of his skull," he told the jury during questioning from special prosecutor Hank Brennan. Karen Read Trial Witness Faces Brutal Cross-examination Over Vehicle Data O'Keefe suffered "a classic blunt-trauma injury," Wolf said. Read On The Fox News App O'Keefe fell backwards and hit his head, Wolf said, and the force of the impact fractured his skull and later resulted in "raccoon eyes," which look like black eyes. "This is what happens when soft tissue hits a solid ground," he testified. Swelling in the victim's brain would have killed him under normal circumstances, usually within 24 to 48 hours, according to Wolf. Some victims have died in as little as one to three. In the January nor'easter, O'Keefe's body temperature also tanked. When paramedics found him at 6 a.m., his temperature was just 80 degrees, below the threshold for what medical professionals call "severe hypothermia." Wolf said he treated many patients with similar injuries early in his career, when he worked in a Minneapolis trauma center. The city can be brutally cold during winter. Many of the wounds were fatal. Some were inflicted on drunken patients who slipped on the ice. Others involved people who fell over after suffering a heart attack. "This testimony from Dr. Wolf sets up the commonwealth's argument for count 2, the involuntary manslaughter charge," said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts defense attorney who is following the case. "The commonwealth will argue to the jury that if they cannot find that Karen Read caused John O'Keefe's death intentionally, counts 1 and 3, then her driving or sideswipe of him and then leaving him injured was the wanton and reckless act, which contributed to his death, then they should find Karen Read guilty of count 2." Expert Witness In Karen Read Murder Trial Caught With 'Errors' Inflating His Credentials According to Wolf's bio at the Miami Neuroscience Center, he is a world-leading authority in his field and the clinic's director. A short cross-examination by defense attorney Robert Alessi discussed separate injuries that O'Keefe sustained, which were not connected to the head trauma that killed him. State Trooper Points To Possible Weapon In John O'keefe Death – And It's Not Karen Read's Car "I thought Attorney Alessi did a good job redirecting Dr. Wolf from the back of the head to the front of the head and eliciting testimony that those injuries were likely not from a fall," Edwards told Fox News Digital. "This supports the defense theory that John O'Keefe was not hit by a vehicle and suggests it was something else because of the laceration to his face and the injuries to the arm, and the investigation did not pursue any other leads to determine how John O'Keefe sustained those injuries." Wolf started the day on the stand. After his testimony, Christina Hanley of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab returned to the witness stand. She is an expert on glass and plastic fragments who analyzed the broken cocktail glass found outside 34 Fairview Road and on the back bumper of Read's Lexus SUV, as well as pieces of the broken taillight. Follow The Fox True Crime Team On X Her testimony had been interrupted at the early end of the day on Tuesday. She said Wednesday afternoon that some of the plastic debris recovered from O'Keefe's clothing was "consistent" with the materials used in Read's Lexus but could have come from another source with similar characteristics. During cross-examination, she revealed that none of the broken glass on Read's bumper matched the shattered cocktail glass found in the yard near O'Keefe. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE True Crime Hub Defense attorney Alan Jackson had her explain that the only thing any of the bumper glass matched was a glass sample recovered by former Trooper Michael Proctor, who was fired in March after an internal probe into inappropriate text messages he sent during the investigation. Earlier in the trial, the defense played video showing Proctor standing near the rear of the vehicle, out of camera view, while it was at the Canton Police Department headquarters. Proctor, through his family, has maintained that his investigation was in line with the evidence and conducted with integrity. Read could face life in prison if convicted of the top charge, second-degree murder. She is also accused of drunken driving, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. Fox News' Andrew Fone contributed to this article source: Brain surgeon testifies John O'Keefe died from fall on frozen ground in Karen Read trial
