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# peru - Sunday 15 September, 2013
Michaella co-accused to plead guilty - reports
A guilty plea would ensure Melissa Reid a shorter sentence.
# peru - Monday 9 September, 2013
Nappy thrown at 'keeper as Peruvian Primera Division game gets dirty
There’s no place in football for filth like this.
# peru - Sunday 8 September, 2013
Peru's coca growers being encouraged to switch to... coffee plants
Not a bad idea in the fight against drugs – but low prices and coffee plant diseases getting in the way.
# peru - Tuesday 3 September, 2013
Web effort to help Irish woman arrested in Peru raises just over £700
Set up by her sister, the fund for Michaella McCollum Connolly aims to raise £20,000.
# peru - Sunday 1 September, 2013
The Peru two to consider their plea and the story of their kidnap and arrest
Michaella McCollum Connolly’s lawyer also outlined the chain of events that led to her arrest.
# peru - Wednesday 28 August, 2013
Michaella is "in good spirits, but very frightened for the future" - solicitor
Michaella will be moved to a permanent jail in the next 24 hours, her solicitor says, but prisons in Peru are rife with TB and HIV.
# peru - Friday 23 August, 2013
PICS: Michaella and Melissa arrive in jail, and their wish list revealed
Toilet roll, Pringles, Oreos and a sports bra, were among some of the items requested as well as stamps and envelopes to write letters home.
# peru - Wednesday 21 August, 2013
PICS: Michaella and Melissa refused bail and head to Peruvian jail
The pair were arrested two weeks ago at Lima’s international airport with 11 kilograms of cocaine.
Irish woman Michaella McCollum Connolly to plead 'not guilty'
Local media in Peru are reporting that the Irish and British women were recruited by a Lima-based drug trafficking ring.
# peru - Tuesday 20 August, 2013
The 5 at 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
PICS: Michaella and Melissa arrive in Peruvian court over drug trafficking charges
Connolly’s lawyer Peter Madden said the Tyrone woman would be protesting her innocence.
# peru - Monday 19 August, 2013
Michaella's brother visits her in Peruvian police custody ahead of trial
He visited his sister at the national police anti-drug headquarters where Michaella and her companion Melissa Reid are being held.
# peru - Sunday 18 August, 2013
Drones not just for spying - they spot ancient ruins too
The spy craft are not just being used in war and military surveillance – in Peru, they are studying ancient ruins.
# peru - Saturday 17 August, 2013
Straight from Machu Picchu in Peru, it's the Mayo 4 Sam girls
First Hernán Cortés conquers the place, then these ladies from Ballina show up.
The 9 at 9: Saturday
Good morning! Here are nine things you want to know as you start your day.
Irish man turned down 10k to work as a drug mule in Ibiza
“I was offered to do a trip and offered €10,000 for a flight over to Benalmadena with 1kg,” said Lee.
# peru - Friday 16 August, 2013
Irish priest in Lima: Michaella was 'conned' and prisons are 'violent'
Michaella McCollum Connolly’s solicitor has flown to Peru ahead of today’s preliminary court hearing.
# peru - Wednesday 14 August, 2013
“I don’t really want to talk to any journalist at any stage” – Michaella McCollum Connolly
In a video posted last night, Michaella says that she is not being given enough to drink.
Michaella and Melissa's court appearance delayed in Peru
The pair have been visited by the former honorary consul of Ireland in Peru and Archbishop of Lima Seán Walsh.
# peru - Tuesday 13 August, 2013
Michaella says she's innocent, optimistic about court and misses home
The 20-year-old Irish woman and her British friend Melissa Reid are due in court court tomorrow.
The 5 at 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# peru - Monday 12 August, 2013
Goalkeepers, stop trying to play football!
You know this won’t end well, right?
# peru - Sunday 11 August, 2013
Here Is What Happened Today: Sunday
Everyone’s talking about Michaella McCollum Connolly, the controversial Republican parade and the 14 people rescued at sea.
'Missing' Michaella McCollum Connolly visited by British embassy in Peru
The larger the amount of drugs the longer the sentence in Peru, and if convicted, the women could face up to 25 years in prison.
# peru - Saturday 10 August, 2013
Irish woman missing in Ibiza found and arrested in Peru over drugs find
Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, from Belfast and a companion were found at Jorge Chavez airport trying to board a flight to Madrid.
# peru - Monday 8 July, 2013
Watch as goalkeeper Penny drops clanger
Go home Diego Penny, you’re terrible.
# peru - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Disney invests in Peru to prevent deforestation
The Walt Disney Company has bought $3.5 million in carbon credits to prevent the destruction of a jungle in the country’s Amazon as part of a project that started in 2009.
# peru - Saturday 2 March, 2013
The 9 at 9: Saturday
Good morning! Here are the nine things you need to know as you begin your day.
# peru - Wednesday 2 January, 2013
27 juvenile inmates escape from Peruvian jail
The inmates, who broke out in two groups, took advantage of distractions over the New Year period to make a run for it.
# peru - Friday 24 August, 2012
Mancini: Aguero will not play for Argentina despite call up
City boss expressed surprise that his injured forward was expected to show up for international duty.
# peru - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
Here's all you need to know about tonight's international action
The Irish team’s group rivals, Germany, are in action, as they take on Argentina.
# peru - Sunday 10 June, 2012
All 14 passengers found dead after Peru helicopter crash
A Czech, a Swede, a Dutch citizen and eight South Koreans were among the victims.
# peru - Friday 8 June, 2012
Search for 14 people aboard lost helicopter in Peru
The helicopter is believed to have come down in the mountains, with three Europeans among its passengers.
# peru - Sunday 3 June, 2012
Nobel Prize winning writer to speak at free event in Dublin
Mario Vargas Llosa has been an important figure in world literature since the 1960s – and will speak to students and some lucky members of the public at Spanish institute in Dublin.
# peru - Saturday 19 May, 2012
How one man left home without a penny – and travelled 40,000km
Michael Wigge left Berlin with nothing. Eleven countries later, he was in Antarctica. Here’s how he did it.
# peru - Saturday 21 April, 2012
Mass deaths of dolphins off Peru remains a 'mystery'
Officials in Peru have not yet been able to pinpoint why hundred of dolphins and porpoises have been washing up dead on the counrty’s coastline.
# peru - Wednesday 15 February, 2012
A quarter of the world's children do not have enough to eat - report
A major survey carried out by the charity Save the Children has highlighted the problem of child malnutrition.
# peru - Wednesday 8 February, 2012
Get up, Stand up: Irish paddle surfers off to Peru for world championships
A group of six are set to compete in the very first international competition of its kind in Lima later this month.
# peru - Monday 30 January, 2012
'Parasitic twin' with eyes and hair found in toddler's stomach
Doctors discovered the medical oddity in a three-year-old boy in Chiclayo, Peru.
# peru - Tuesday 10 January, 2012
Irishman dies on adventure trip in Peru
Peter Buckley was participating in a mototaxi junket when his vehicle came off a muddy road and fell into a 500 foot abyss.
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