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THE HUSBAND OF an Irish woman killed in a terrorist attack in Tunisia says the holiday resort became “a war zone” on the day his wife was shot.
Declan Carty went looking for his wife after a gunman went on a killing spree that claimed 38 lives. Three Irish people were killed in the attack, Carty’s wife Lorna (54) and Laurence (56) and Martina Hayes (55) from Athlone, Co Westmeath.
Carty told Ryan Tubridy on last night’s Late Late Show about that day.
“There was seven or eight of us by the lift and next thing there was a crash of glass and bullets ricocheting around the place.”
He said he knew something was wrong following the attack when his wife wasn’t anywhere to be found following the attack.
“I knew if Lorna could have been there at all she would have been there because she would have been worried about me with the heart condition I have. I knew if she was mobile at all, she would have come looking for me. I waited maybe ten minutes or so and said “I’m going” and headed to the beach.
“On the way out I crossed bodies, but someone had covered them with a towel.
“The blood was running around – it had gone from a holiday resort to a warzone.”
After reaching the beach, Declan said that he found Martina Hayes’ body under a towel. He and his wife had met the Hayes family while on holiday.
“I thought, ‘what am I going to do here? Am I going to lift the cover off all these people?’ and then I thought – the towel.
“I knew she was down on the beach and I looked down and saw the towel – it was a blue striped towel. I saw her body on the sunbed. My worst fears were at that stage.
“I lifted the towel and it was Lorna and she had been shot in the chest, so she was just lying in the sun – oblivious to it all.”
Declan said that the presence of people taking photos meant that he couldn’t grieve in peace. He said he lay down next to his wife and grieved.
Later in the interview, Declan read “That Day”, a poem by Ray Hegarty who was also present when the attack happened.
A Dublin Coroner’s Court jury this week returned verdicts of unlawful killing for all three deaths and recommended that a link to a Department of Foreign Affairs smartphone App alerting tourists to risks associated with travel abroad be permanently displayed on all travel websites and form an integral part of all travel bookings from now on.
In a statement after the inquest, the Carty and Hayes families said no words could express their pain.
They should be hung drawn and quartered for making me use that pesky messenger app!
Did you read the terms for having that messenger app.
Aw, you ok hun?
@Alan, after checking out your link I feel great having always declined facebook’s incessant offer of the messenger app. That is some scary schizz. I certainly would have blindly accepted the terms and conditions
Thx for posting that
How is it even legal what they are
Doing..deleted.
The way I see it, if people want me they can text me or call and I can pick up my Facebook message on the laptop
If you read t+c’s of the journal the app can view and delete contents on your sd card. Why?
Thanks for that link Alan, have just deleted it from my phone!
After looking at Alans’s link I thought what a load of old nonsense.
The author is clearly pretty clueless about app permissions on android.
Why don’t you check the permissions of any other messaging app you have on android, they all have pretty much the same.
This is just the standard android permissions written to be as scary as possible.
Check out google hangouts now standard on android, not only does it have all these permissions but it can access your location at any time and read and edit your calendar at any time Gasp!
Just more ant-facebook ain’t I cool hipster nonsense.
If you are worried about Facebook and your privacy
Do not be on Facebook
sticking your ass in the air
like you just don’t care
You fine sir,deserve a medal
Like
Facebook is worth about $200 billion all thanks to the data you give them. they profit from data on users.
Are people “liking” this as a joke?
watch “terms and conditions apply” on Netflix. It will open your eyes.
seen it, recommend everyone sees it, though it confirmed what i’ve always known. planned obsolescence docu is another interesting one.
In those T&Cs posted by the Huffington post, what is meant by a malicious app may do this without your permission? Is it talking about the messenger app or what?
No it’s not talking about the facebook app.
They are standard permissions that any app can ask for.
If you install some dodgy app from somewhere and it asks for those permissions it can do dodgy things and record audio and video all the time.
The facebook app asks to record audio and take pictures so it can support its voice message and picture and video sending abilities.
Also, android users check this out….. Open google (assuming your signed in) click account > account history > places you’ve been.
You can select each date and it will show you exactly where you were etc. Why….? well each time you enable location for maps apps etc…. in the settings menu > Location > On… you will see the message below flash up. Agree or disagree….. always disagree.
Location Consent !
Allow googles location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running.
these people are delusional if they think they’re gonna get any $ of that sociopath Zuckerberg
You’d think Facebook would have registered fbclaim.com along with 20,000 intelligible variations for just such an occasion.
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