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THE conviction of champions saw Wexford win this All-Ireland senior camogie final in Croke Park yesterday, the trepidation of perennial challengers cost Galway.
Twice in the previous four years Wexford had been to Croke Park on this, camogie’s biggest day, and won (2007, 10). Twice in the same period Galway had been there and lost (2008, 2010).
In last year’s final Galway had left their challenge until too late and lost by two points. This time, and despite the concession of an early penalty goal (the dangerous Kate Kelly brought down by Therese Manton after a surging run into the red-zone, blasted home by Una Leacy), they dominated possession for practically the whole game, on top on both their own puckouts and on Wexford’s.
And still they lost, the same bitter margin of defeat. Can they complain? No.
Ultimately, game on the line, it was Wexford’s conviction that saw them through, it was Galway’s own distinct lack of same that cost them, and cost them dearly, a fact generously if ruefully acknowledged by Galway manager Noel Finn.
“We were three points up but couldn’t push on, missed a few scores to put us four or five points in front and that was probably the difference,” he said.
Wexford had a tonic start, a penalty goal drilled home by Leacy in the fourth minute after the flying Kelly had been brought down, but thereafter it was Galway winning most of the individual battles.
Their half-back line of Ann Marie Hayes, Therese Maher (brilliant all through) and Heather Cooney was well in control, midfielders Niamh Kilkenny and Ann-Marie Starr were also going well, with the result that the half-time score of 1-2 to 0-3, with Wexford ahead, looked decidedly flattering for the champions.
The change of ends also saw a quick change of fortunes.
Two points inside two minutes, one each from Noreen Coen and the flying Tara Ruttledge, tied the game and when Ruttledge goaled with a screamer off the ground in the 38th minute, Galway looked to be headed for that long-awaited second title. This, however, was one of the times alluded to by Finn.
Though still winning good possession, Galway weren’t able to capitalise, and Wexford points from midfielder Josie Dwyer and corner-forward Lenny Holohan soon had the deficit back to just one point, 1-5 to 1-4.
Again Galway pushed out to a three-point lead, Niamh Kilkenny and Aislinn Connolly with the points, but again they failed to push on, balls dropped short, one bad wide.
In the next few minutes the sides exchanged points, an Ursula Jacob free for Wexford, sub Orla Kilkenny with the reply for Galway.
Then, in rapid succession, a couple of game-changing moments.
In the 52nd minute a shot from the outstanding Ruttledge came back off an upright but Galway had no one alert to the break and the ball was safely cleared. Within seconds, down at the other end, a throw-in ball on the left sideline, won by the Dwyer, centred to Ursula Jacob at full-forward, who leaped, grabbed, turned and buried an unstoppable shot past the magnificent Susan Earner.
On such margins do big games turn. In the final minutes Jacob and Wexford tacked on two points — game won, game lost. All so sweet for Wexford, all so bitter for Galway.
Scorers for Wexford: U Jacob 1-5 (4f); U Leacy 1-0; L Holohan, J Dwyer 0-1 each.
Scorers for Galway: T Ruttledge 1-1; A Connolly 0-2 (1f); N Kilkenny (45), N Coen, M Conroy, V Curtin, O Kilkenny 0-1 each.
WEXFORD: M D’Arcy; C O’Connor, C O’Loughlin, K Atkinson; N Lambert, M Leacy, A O’Connor; D Codd, J Dwyer; K Kelly, U Leacy, M O’Leary; L Holohan, U Jacob (capt), K Parrock.
Subs: F Kavanagh for Codd (54), E Quigley for Holohan (56), C Storey for Atkinson (62).
GALWAY: S Earner; T Manton, S Cahalan, L Ryan; AM Hayes, T Maher, H Cooney; AM Starr, N Kilkenny; A Connolly, M Conroy, N Coen; T Ruttledge, B Hanney (capt), V Curtin.
Subs: O Kilkenny for Curtin (38).
For two years, former Lake County Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd has been a driving force behind the push to win Melissa Calusinski a new trial on charges she murdered a 16-month-old boy she was watching at a Lincolnshire day care center.
It was Rudd who publicly questioned autopsy findings linking the Carpentersville woman to Benjamin Kingan's 2009 death. It was Rudd who went on national television and declared, "I feel she's 100 percent innocent." And it was Rudd who in 2015 officially changed the cause of Benjamin's death from "homicide" to "undetermined."
So what does the former coroner's stunning indictment Wednesday on perjury charges stemming from his failed re-election effort mean for Calusinski?
Calusinski attorney Kathleen Zellner would not comment and Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim said through a spokeswoman that with the case now before the Illinois Second District Appellate Court, it'll be up to an appellate prosecutor to decide what to make of Rudd's indictment.
But Bill Bligh, a McHenry County attorney who has practiced as both a prosecutor and defense lawyer, said the charges could be damaging if Rudd is called to testify on Calusinski's behalf.
Former Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd was indicted this week on five counts of perjury.
"Having a perjury indictment certainly undermines your ability to be an advocate for any position," Bligh said.
Calusinski, 30, is serving a 31-year prison term. A Lake County judge rejected her request for a new trial in September, a decision her attorneys are now appealing.
With gang violence increasingly moving from Chicago's side streets onto expressways, Gov. Bruce Rauner is calling for the funding of two Illinois State Police cadet classes to add as many as 200 new troopers to the agency's ranks.
"Those officers will allow us to send more patrols to the Chicago-area expressways to counter the violence that has spilled over onto the highways," Rauner said in his budget address Wednesday.
According to a recent Reuters report, there were nine shootings on Chicago-area expressways in both 2011 and 2012. The number rose to 14 in 2013 and 19 in 2014, then soared to 37 in 2015 and 47 last year. Three of last year's shootings were fatal, Reuters reports.
In 2008, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran served a seven-day stint in the county jail to learn what it's like to live as an inmate.
This week, he tried things out on the other side of the locked doors, working five days as a jail guard.
"I felt it was important to do this," said Curran, who spent five weeks training in preparation. "My discernment is always to do whatever I can do to learn about the job and the functions of the sheriff's office."
Curran said he's come away from the experience with a renewed respect for his correctional officers and the challenges they face. He noted that officers watch over 60-inmate pods filled with people "a judge decided were not fit to be on the street."
"You've got to be good at looking out for trouble," he said. "In the regular world, you may give people the benefit of the doubt. For a correctional officer, it's just the opposite."
The IRS is releasing, bit by bit, its annual "Dirty Dozen" list of things that cause trouble.
Among ways to avoid fines and stay out of the pokey: Don't falsify your income to claim tax credits. Don't believe frivolous arguments (such as that you can refuse to pay taxes on religious grounds by invoking the First Amendment). Don't pad your deductions.
Failing to file a return is a misdemeanor. Filing a fraudulent one is a felony. Don't be like movie star Wesley Snipes, who spent more than two years in federal prison for misdemeanor tax evasion.
If you have questions, an IRS supervisory special agent is going to be at a "Coffee With the Chief" at 6 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Crystal Lake Police Department. Call (815) 356-3731 to reserve a spot.
The local police blotters will soon have report after report of people who filed returns and expect refunds, only to be told by the IRS that they have filed a return already. Thieves might have gotten your info, including Social Security number and income, by "phishing" for it with false emails to your employer or worming it out of you with clever phone calls.
That's just one of numerous common tax scams.
Here's one to remember: If the IRS has a problem with you, it does not call you on the telephone to threaten to have you arrested.
So if you get such a call, don't ever agree to fork over money or prepaid cards to settle your "case."
Last year, a Streamwood man lost $2,500 that way. The fake agent told him he could settle his so-called debt by buying iTunes cards, then giving the agent the access codes.
You learn something every day on this beat: If you carry rolls of coins into the Kane County courthouse, security officers will ask you to break them open before you can enter, we found out firsthand.
Because, as some of us were taught in our youth, holding a roll of coins makes for a heavier, more-solid fist when you are going to punch somebody, according to a Kane County sheriff's department spokesman.
• Got a tip? Have a question? Please email Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas at copsandcrime@dailyherald.com, or call our tip line at (847) 427-4483.
TRENTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he'll let a tax hike on businesses take effect if the federal government doesn't help the state replenish the unemployment fund.
Employers could see an increase of up to $1,000 per employee in their unemployment tax starting July 1 unless the fund is infused with state or federal money.
Patti Sapone/The Star Ledger N.J. Gov. Chris Christie says he'll let a $1,000-per-employeee tax hike on businesses take effect if the federal government doesn't help the state replenish the unemployment fund. Christie speaks during a press conference during his first day of work in Trenton last week.
The fund helps pay unemployment benefits.
The increase is triggered by a growing shortfall in the Unemployment Insurance Fund. Business taxes are increased by law when the fund's balance dips below a certain level as measured every March. Christie says the fund will be $1.6 billion in debt by March.
"That's not my choice, what I would like to have happen," Christie said today. "But on the other hand, we can't continue to run that kind of debt."
The newly sworn-in Republican governor said his administration will ask the federal government to forgive the debt, but he said the state can't afford to pump money into the fund to stop the tax increase. New Jersey faces a deficit of more than $9 billion for the 2011 budget year, which begins in July.
Total employment in New Jersey fell to 3,910,400 in December, with losses in both the public and private sectors.
Manufacturing, construction and financial activities recorded the largest over-the-month private sector job losses and public sector employment was down by 1,200 over the month before.
Christie said that over $3.6 billion has been raided from the fund over the past decade.
David Socolow, the Labor Commissioner under Corzine, also recommended allowing the fund to replenish before he left his office this month.
Democratic Assemblyman Lou Greenwald said an unemployment tax increase would hurt businesses already battered by the tough economy.
"That will only dampen the spirit of economic recovery we've been trying to foster," said Greenwald, of Camden County.
"We threw in over $400 million at the end of last year to offset a UI tax increase," he said. "I think we should avoid a tax increase at all costs."
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to preserve thousands of earmarks in a $410 billion spending bill, brushing aside Sen. John McCain’s claim that President Barack Obama and Congress are merely conducting business as usual in a time of economic hardship.
McCain’s attempt to strip out an estimated 8,500 earmarks failed on a vote of 63-32. The Arizona senator’s proposal also would have cut roughly $32 billion from the measure and would have kept spending at last year’s levels in several federal agencies.
Last year’s Republican presidential candidate said both he and Obama said during the campaign to “stop business as usual in Washington,” and he quoted the president as having pledged to go line by line to make sure money was spent wisely.
The White House has said that Obama intends to sign the legislation, casting it as leftover business from 2008. Spokesman Robert Gibbs pledged on Monday the White House will issue new guidelines covering earmarks for future bills.
McCain’s proposal drew the support of 32 Republicans and two Democrats, and the outcome reflected the enduring value of earmarks to lawmakers. While polls routinely show these pet projects to be unpopular, local governments and constituents often covet them for desired projects.
The maneuvering came on legislation to assure continued funding for several federal agencies past March 6. At $410 billion, the bill represents an 8 percent increase over last year’s spending levels, more than double the rate of inflation.
Sen. Dan Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said McCain’s call to hold spending level with a year ago “doesn’t account for inflation.” As an example, he said some programs would have to be cut if federal workers were to receive a pay raise.
The House passed the legislation last week, and Democratic leaders are working to clear it without changes so the president can sign it by Friday.
While Republican opposition in the House focused more on the bill’s overall spending, McCain and allies turned the Senate spotlight squarely on earmarks.
Taxpayers for Common Sense estimates the legislation contains 8,570 disclosed earmarks worth $7.7 billion. House Democrats declined to provide an estimate of the number of pet projects in the bill, and put their cost at $3.8 billion.
Democrats also say the value of earmarks is 5 percent lower than the last time Congress approved spending bills for an entire year.
It turns out that the most interesting policy story about Kaspersky software isn’t why the administration banned its products from government use; it’s why the last administration didn’t. Shane Harris is our guest for the podcast, delving into the law and politics of the Kaspersky ban. Along the way, I ask why the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which allows suits against foreign governments for some torts committed in the United States, shouldn’t allow suits against foreign governments that hack computers located in the United States.
In the news, the House comfortably adopts a bill to reauthorized 702 surveillance; the Senate is expected to act today as well. While the House bill makes some changes to the law, it endorses the most moderate of the reform proposals.
In case you haven’t heard, Apple is handing off its iCloud operations to a local cloud storage company—with none of the histrionic civil liberties posturing the company displays in the United States. Whose data is being transferred to the tender mercies of Chinese authorities? Who knows? Not Apple, which can’t even send out notices to its customers without getting confused about who’s covered by the new policy.
It’s a “three-peat” for state authority to make online companies collect sales tax from their customers. The Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider a dormant commerce clause doctrine that it has already affirmed twice.
Sheila Jackson-Lee gets an admiring mention for winning House passage of a cyber vulnerability disclosure bill that is probably nuanced enough to be adopted by the Senate as well.
And Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein makes a short pitch for “responsible” encryption that actually manages to move the debate forward a step.
Talk about 21st century warfare. Russia is claiming it fought off swarms of drones with cyberweapons. As Nick Weaver points out, that’s just the beginning.
Brian assesses the state of CFIUS reform legislation and the claim that Sen. Cornyn’s bill would result in CFIUS’s regulation of technology transfers that would be better addressed through export controls.
Finally, having already critiqued Apple and Uber, I feel obliged to offer equal time to Twitter, which remarkably can’t even identify advertisements that invite users to log on to fake Twitter sites and steal their credentials. If you want to understand the worst of Silicon Valley, I argue, you shouldn’t look to the big rich companies; it’s the struggling would-be unicorns who show what the Valley really cares about. And security ain’t it. Speaking of which, where is that Ad Transparency Center that Twitter promised any day now back in the fall of 2017?
Usher is officially off the block. Sources say the R&B icon is engaged to his longtime girlfriend and stylist Tameka Foster. “It’s 100 percent official,” said an insider. The couple began dating more than a year ago, but tried to keep it quiet – going so far as denying their relationship – but they recently became more open with their love. “She is wearing a beautiful ring,” said a friend of Usher, “and he’s been introducing her as his fianc?e.” A rep for Usher declined comment.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake Central's Kendall Lownds returns the ball during Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central won, 25-22, 25-21.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake Central's Madelyn Blake (center) and Kenna Kessler celebrates with the volleyball team after they won Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central won, 25-22, 25-21.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake Central's Paige Hulata hits the ball over the net during Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central is headed to state after winning 25-22, 25-21.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake Central's Camryn Hausler block a ball during Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central is headed to state after winning 25-22, 25-21.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake Central's Madelyn Blake hits the ball over during Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central is headed to state after winning 25-22, 25-21.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake Central's Emily Kelly hist the ball over during Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central is headed to state after winning 25-22, 25-21.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake Central's Kendall Lownds (left) celebrates with the volleyball team after they won Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central won, 25-22, 25-21.
Crystal Lake Central's Madelyn Blake hits the ball over during Friday's Class 4A volleyball supersectional against New Trier Nov. 3, 2017 in Lake Zurich. Crystal Lake Central is headed to state after winning 25-22, 25-21.
This is one NASA job opening we can't afford to leave open for long.
August 3, 2017, 8:49 a.m.
Most earthlings would jump at the chance to meet aliens, but when entertaining aliens here on Earth, there might be some awkwardness, too. A few things might go unsaid — like, "Alien, you need a shower" or "Would you mind if we checked your spaceship for harmful bacteria?"
It’s an especially sensitive question considering aliens might already be trying to decide whether they should annihilate our civilization. But some hard truths need to be addressed. In fact, NASA is looking for someone to take it on as a full-time job.
The official job title is, "Planetary Protection Officer." Duties may read like rocket science because, well, NASA is into that sort of thing.
They include warding off "organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration."
The successful planetary defender will be responsible not just for our little blue pearl, but the rest of the solar system. We don’t want to infect other planets with our own superhardy variants on cooties.