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THE FAMILY OF murdered teenager Marioara Rostas has spoken of their “dreadful pain” over the 18-year-old’s death.
The teenager, who had come to Ireland from Romania three weeks before her death, disappeared while begging at traffic lights in Dublin’s south inner city centre in 2008.
Her body was discovered in the Dublin mountains four years after her disappearance. Today, a 35-year-old Dublin man who was on trial for her death was found not guilty of her murder, RTÉ reported.
“My heart aches for my family, for my girl who was killed,” her mother told RTÉ Prime Time.
My heart aches when I cook and I see she is no longer here with us at the dinner table, never again in the family, and my children also cry after her and their heart aches, she was my good daughter.
Marioara Rostas’s brother Dumitru also spoke of his pain at her loss, and of the circumstances surrounding her disappearance:
[A] pain, a dreadful pain deep down in my soul for the rest of my life; my sister and I were together at the roundabout to beg and in two seconds she was no longer there and she doesn’t exist any longer… It’s very painful.
The family moved to Ireland after her father Dumitru lost his furniture factory job in Romania, and have since moved back to Romania.
He told Prime Time that that he does not condemn the Irish people for what happened to Marioara, but if he had thought his child would have come to harm, he would never have travelled here:
I do not condemn all the Irish people, because these people didn’t do me anything wrong, when I came to beg – people helped us and they gave us money, so I don’t condemn all the people in Ireland, I condemn the criminal who killed my daughter without doing anything wrong to him, she didn’t know him and I’m sorry that if I knew this was going to happen, I would have never come, I would have rather died at home than to come to Ireland if I knew that my daughter was going to be killed here in Ireland…that’s all.
A gold circle within a golden circle, given a user friendly name .
Another out of touch Politican that will be removed in the next election.
An attempt from a group of politicians, who know their days are numbered, to try and distance themselves from failings of party. Not gonna wash
They’ve been at this slightly over three years – well before the government tanked.
It is amusing the contortions people on this site will undergo in order to avoid accepting that a political opponent might genuinely disagree with them.
I wouldn’t think so.
He could quite easily go back to his job working for the UN or OPCW were he probably gets a lot less abuse. But damn him for trying to make Ireland a better place, right?
Just struct by how he comes across as just a new member to the old boys club.
Even his first comment “my brother introduced me to Enda”. He’s just another example of who you know.
The journal are really dragging the arse out of that interview , there is an “article ” from it every couple of days ..
Team Name: The U S OverCers
Anthony Lawlor in Goal, Pat Deering at the back with Brendan Griffin, Noel Harrington with Paul Connaughton covering most of the midfielder and striker roles. Sean Kyne and Sean Conlan are rotating subs while Eoghan Murphy is that lad from most teams that just runs around and gets in the way.
Fine Gael has backbenchers with an opinion? Pity they keep voting as they’re told. Well done Journal, timely journalism.
Enda had words with them when their paths crossed at a FG fundraising event at Leopardstown, “We know who you are” said Enda when one of the “5-a-side club” turned informer in the hope of a future favour. They do hold meetings as has been reported on many occasions in the printed media. Google is a good “informer” of the truth.
Murphy is all mouth and nothing else
He’ll be removed along with all the other parasites at the next election
sponsored by grecian 2000?
The dark haired Paul McShane.
Looking forward to emigrating before these tory boys get any real power
Young fg should be stuffed up the nearest sewer pipe
Always reliable with the threats of violence from Sinn Fein.
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