A glance at the week that was
Ultimate price
The millionaire owner of the Segway company has died after falling from cliffs while riding a Segway motorised scooter. Jimi Heselden (62) crashed into the River Wharfe while riding the vehicle round his estate at Thorp Arch, in West Yorkshire, on Sunday and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The electric two-wheeled self-balancing scooters, invented in 2001, were acquired by Heselden’s company in 2009.
A former miner who left school at 15, Heselden owned a military and flood-protection equipment company that made him one of the top 400 richest people in the UK, and he was known for big charity donations.
Price to pay
Katie Price, aka Jordan, has been found guilty of not being in proper control while driving her pink horsebox on the A23 in Bolney, England, in February. Price, who veered into another lane while texting, was fined £1,000 and £650 costs. Price said the horsebox had drifted because she was a “woman driver”. “I’m just not used to a lorry that big. I was probably a bit scared because it was on a motorway. I don’t remember veering, but it is quite difficult.”
We now know
There's some kind of half-price sale on in Dublin's most expensive street, Shrewsbury Road, where financier Derek Quinlan has put a house up for sale at €7.5 million. That's nearly 50 per cent less than a house owned by Black Tie's Niall O'Farrell, on sale down the road.
Trained monkeyswill be among the security guards at the opening of the Commonwealth Games. The Hanuman langurs will protect the crowd from smaller wild monkeys.
Eighty households a day have their electricity cut off. Michael Tutty, commissioner for energy regulation, told an Oireachtas committee that this acted as an incentive for people to pay bills.
The numbers
29 per cent
Proportion of sandwiches stored at unsafe temperatures, according to the Food Safety Authority
49 per cent
The satisfaction rating of Labour leader Eamon Gilmore in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll
€1 million
The amount given to the Wicklow Hospice Foundation by a mystery donor
"You voted for it - why are you clapping?"
Former British foreign secretary David Miliband rebukes fellow MP Harriet Harman as his younger brother and new Labour leader, Ed Miliband, criticises the Iraq war in his victory speech
