Children targeted by landmines, says McCarthy

IRELAND football manager Mick McCarthy displayed flashes of passion yesterday when he lashed the use of landmines as cruel weapons that maim and kill innocent Bosnian children.

Children targeted by landmines, says McCarthy

“Many are deliberately brightly coloured to attract and injure children as they walk home from school, as they play football in the fields, as they work on their family farms,” he told business leaders at a UNICEF charity lunch in Dublin.

However, McCarthy was repeatedly questioned about Roy Keane by journalists, but he refused to make any comment on the Manchester United footballer.

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