Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Phoebe Prince

This is a story which has got no attention in the Irish press, although it concerns an Irish girl who recently moved to Massachusetts (South Hadley) from County Clare, went to school in South Hadley, and then killed herself as a result of bullying there.

Speaking as someone who moved from Ireland to Massachusetts also, the whole "US High School" thing is very confusing and I can only imagine what it would be like to move from a small village in Clare into a US high school.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/03/30/standing_up_for_phoebe

1 comment:

clairemichelle said...

Are you kidding? I'm from Ireland and live in Limerick and this has been all over the news. Please research before you make sweeping statements Here is a few exerts from Irish websites covering the news.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/bullied-to-death-2098808.html

(FRONT PAGE NEWS ARTICLE)

http://www.clareherald.com/local-news/abroad/813-new-revelations-in-phoebe-prince-case.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0331/1224267398847.html

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/massachusetts-da-hits-back-in-phoebe-prince-investigation-452249.html

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/bullies-mimicked-phoebes-suicide-at-party-says-dr-phil-2133126.html

http://journalist.ie/2010/04/the-extraordinarily-shocking-and-shockingly-ordinary-death-of-phoebe-prince/



If you would like i could also send you the links to the 6 o clock news on RTE, RTE2, TV3 and TG4 which all lead with the story around the time of the convictions