Richard Mooney

Below is a selection of different articles I have written demonstrating my different news writing styles showcasing some of the major events I have covered as a journalist. (NB: I am still updating this section, please be patient).

Snooker legend John Higgins

Higgins’ agent adamant Wishaw Wizard will be found not guilty (Wishaw Press, September 2010)

JOHN Higgins will today (Wednesday, September 8 2010) find out the verdict of a tribunal looking at match-fixing allegations brought against him earlier this year.

Doubts cast over Higgins video (Wishaw Press, July 2010)

A JOURNALIST investigating the News of the World video sting on Wishaw Wizard John Higgins has said the national newspaper “cut and pasted” sections of the film which “misrepresented events.”

Wishaw Wizard Higgins saves the day at boys’ club presentation

WISHAW Wizard John Higgins stepped in at the last minute to save 20 youngsters from disappointment at a boys’ football club annual awards presentation.

Britain’s Got Talent star Janey Cutler

All eyes on Janey Cutler (Wishaw Press, May 2010)

THIS weekend a Wishaw pub singer became an overnight sensation – and is now being dubbed this year’s Susan Boyle.

Wishaw’s Janey Cutler sets the world on fire (Wishaw Press, May 2010)

WISHAW’S very own Janey Cutler set the world on fire with her stunning voice this week.

2009 Expenses Scandal

I covered this story extensively while I was working at Trinity Mirror’s regional Scottish title, the Wishaw Press. I investigated the expenses of the Wishaw Press’s two local MPs, Frank Roy and John Reid. The following is a series of articles from the coverage I produced.

MP John Reid claimed for bar tip, tobacco and £9k in home refurbishments – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, June 2009

AIRDRIE and Shotts MP John Reid claimed nearly £9000 for home refurbishments in his Parliamentary expenses and also submitted bills for a £600 LCD television, a bar tip and even a 48p toilet cleaner.

MP Roy claimed for Kleenex tissues - Wishaw Press, June 2009

A £795 LCD television set, a £479.99 laptop, over £200 for a digital camera and £1574 for tax return preparations are some of the claims Frank Roy has made in the past five years as an MP for Motherwell and Wishaw.

MPs’ expenses are condemned – Wishaw Press, July 2009

LAST week the Wishaw Press published reports explaining what your MP had been spending taxpayers’ money on through their own expenses.

Crime

Wishaw mother’s fury as son’s killer allowed to gran’s funeral (Wishaw Press, June 2010)

“WHAT compassion did he show my son when he stabbed him to death?”  Those are the words of distraught Wishaw mother Mary Caven, who this week told of her “disgust” at how her son’s murderer was let out of prison on compassionate grounds to visit his dying gran.

54 alcohol and drug offences a week in Motherwell and Wishaw (Wishaw Press, June 2009)

ACCORDING to police statistics there’s an average of over 50 crimes a week relating to alcohol and drugs in Wishaw and Motherwell.

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