Person: Pat Browne

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Immigrants bring cultural vibrancy to our shores

Thanks to Terry Prone for making a very important point in her column (Irish Examiner, July 27). The foreign people who come to make their homes among us are the most valuable import Ireland has. Many of them will, if we’re lucky, become Irish citizens.

Cyclists should be tested before going on roads

Darina Allen’s edible gifts for Christmas

We need to cop on

Pat Browne’s Almond Macaroons

Inhumane to remove Roma children without evidence

Hall and Everton seek cup upsets

Munster Senior League duo Douglas Hall and Everton will be seeking to upset Airtricity League opposition in their FAI Ford Cup second round ties tomorrow.

Sat, 26 May, 2012

Prisoner who stole €200k Debs money takes up journalism

AN events organiser who hit the headlines when he was jailed for five years for stealing more than €200,000 in deposits for Debs and graduation balls will spend his prison time doing an Open University degree in journalism.

Sat, 31 Jul, 2010

Cork man jailed for five years for stealing students' debs money

An events organiser who took €204,000 in deposits from sixth year students for their debs and graduation balls blew it all on gambling and left the young people without their end of year celebration nights, and today he was jailed for five years.

Mon, 10 May, 2010

Man pleads guilty to theft of debs money

An events organiser facing 77 charges arising out of the theft of more than €180,000 in cash paid by students for debs and graduation balls pleaded guilty to 37 sample counts this afternoon.

Mon, 08 Feb, 2010

Skybridges in the sun: welcome to Lanzarote

GEORGE Dwyer’s vivid and accurate account (Letters, January 21) of the extreme pleasure and indeed cosseting experienced by passengers through Cork and Shannon airports is in contrast to what my wife and I found on a recent trip to Lanzarote where rain and cold are very rare occurences indeed.

Sat, 30 Jan, 2010

Make the cap fit

WHO do Irish bankers think they are?

Sat, 21 Nov, 2009

Wage-earner must pay

I HAVE been bemused by the stupidity of our governing classes for some time. The were warned repeatedly that the construction boom couldn’t last. They and their allies in the banking world chose to ignore the warnings.

Wed, 22 Oct, 2008

DPP to decide on action over €200k debs debacle

GARDAÍ are confident they will be able to prosecute a self-styled events manager, who allegedly owes more than €200,000, following a debacle over organising school debs.

Fri, 15 Aug, 2008

Grateful motorist thanks men in orange jackets

WHEN work started on the junction between the Douglas shopping centres in Cork I thought an already terrible situation was going to get worse. I was proved wrong and am delighted to admit it. I think the new layout may work well.

Thu, 14 Aug, 2008

220 jobs in new Dunnes Stores outlet

Dunnes Stores creating 220 new jobs with the opening of its new store in Kilkenny today.

Thu, 08 Nov, 2007

Debs ball organiser likely to be re-interviewed

FRAUD Squad detectives are expected to re-interview, within the next two weeks, the man at the centre of the debacle over the Cork schools’ debs functions.

Fri, 24 Aug, 2007

Red carpet rolls for first debs in fraud case

THE red carpet was rolled out last night for the first of thousands of teenagers caught up in the €200,000 debs ball debacle.

Thu, 09 Aug, 2007

Debs ball organiser may owe more than €300,000 to hotels

THE man at the centre of the debs ball garda inquiry may owe in excess of €300,000, and today marks the contract deadline for him to pay €80,000 to the Silver Springs Moran Hotel.

Fri, 03 Aug, 2007

Net closing in on debs ball organiser

THE Garda Fraud squad was closing in on an events organiser last night who allegedly took almost €185,000 from thousands of students for graduation balls he failed to book.

Wed, 01 Aug, 2007

‘Our debs organiser vanished with €8,000’

MEGGAN Boyle is one of thousands of Cork students who were stung by events organiser Pat Browne.

Wed, 01 Aug, 2007

Dotty roundaboutsand hidden road signs

RECENTLY I took some time to tour around part of the country by car.

Mon, 21 May, 2007

Show appreciation of IFA officers: Walshe

IFA President Padraig Walshe has sought better appreciation by farmers of the voluntary contribution IFA officers make on their behalf.

Thu, 29 Mar, 2007

Waterford captain to miss Cup tie

WATERFORD UNITED captain John Frost will spend tonight’s FAI Carlsberg Cup second round tie against Everton in a hospital bed rather than at Turner’s Cross as doctors strive to locate a leak in his lung.

Wed, 23 Jul, 2003

Cup draw to savour as big four thrown together

AN extraordinary draw for the second round of the Carlsberg FAI Cup last night ensured that two of the top four teams in the league will exit the competition at an unusually early stage.

Tue, 08 Jul, 2003