Roof caves in on President’s trip as Dempsey curse hits

THE curse of Noel Dempsey struck yet again in China of all places at the weekend. It’s often said that the Minister for Education is accident prone and this was proved beyond doubt in the city of Shenyang when the roof of a building began to disintegrate prompting President Mary McAleese to be evacuated from the building.

Significantly the incident happened on Saturday, just half an hour after Mr Dempsey had given his backing to the set-up in the city and the local authorities’ Trojan work.

After watching a propaganda video on the benefits of doing business in the industrial city in the north-east of China, the obviously impressed minister congratulated the local government for showing leadership and describing its efforts as an example for all countries.