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Investigation Probes Alleged
2019 Irish Survey Finds That Snoring Is Nation’s Garda Corruption In The South
9th, Most Annoying Bed Habit C
October noring is the country’s for a good night’s sleep is a over one in 10 like a night- President & Founding
most annoying habit in
time tipple.
good mattress, comfortable
| Sbed, Ireland’s largest bedding and the correct “Meditation, a hot bath or Publisher
ever national sleep survey room temperature, accord- a warm drink are the go-to Paddy McCarthy
EXAMINER rate their partner’s snoring vey respondents. 25% of people,” Ms Hastings players in the south of the country Associate Publisher
has found.
ing to three quarters of sur-
solutions for the remaining
Editor
Three times more people
A number of gardaí and GAA
Grahame Curtis
added.
“Room temperature and
noise were the two top fac-
The large majority of
(43%) as the most annoying
have been questioned in an investiga-
IRISH habit in bed, with stealing the tors inhibiting sleep followed those surveyed – 69% – sleep tion into Garda corruption. Marc-Yves Tumin
by uncomfortable pillows
duvet the next most hated
News Editor
between six and eight hours a
The criminal investigation is
David Carter
night, with 22% of respon-
and mattresses,” said Julie
characteristic, a national
sleep survey has found. Hastings, marketing director dents getting between four examining suspected road traffic Arts & Entertainment Editor
offenses which were not prosecuted.
The Hastings Hotels of Hastings Hotels. and six hours. Phones and computer records Brad Balfour
group surveyed 8,500 people “Drinking caffeine was “We should spare a have reportedly been seized, and the Sales Director
to find out what really influ- joined by a new scourge of thought for the 1.29% among main investigation focuses on alleged John O’Rourke
ences sleeping and bedtime the active mind, night-time us who average less than four corruption and collusion.
habits. screen use, while annoying hours per night,” said Ms John Lee, Political Editor with the Classified Advertising
John O’Rourke
Other grievances include; partners were cited by 11% of Hastings. Mail on Sunday, said it centers on the
partners coming to bed late respondents.” “Some 77% of us claim to non-prosecution of fines. Art Director
(7.5%) and using screens When it comes to winding sleep on our sides, 13% on He said: “Players are being ques- Heidi Gross Kelley
(4.6%). down, one in four said that our fronts and only 10% of us tioned and administrators are being Contributors
Joe Murphy, Joe Kavanagh, C.S.
Respondents cited part- reading a book or listening to on our backs, which is news questioned and there has been a O’Brien, Mike Fitzpatrick, Seamus
ners pretending not to hear music helps them achieve a to the army of long-suffering phone taken. Kelleher, Bert Randolph Sugar, John
the children during the night, restful sleep while a little partners of snorers.” C “The allegation is that someone Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
playing videos in bed and has been involved in what is seen as a Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
waking them up to say that low-level traffic incident and gardaí Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
they were snoring as the would be gotten to in some fashion, Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
Daly, Jim McKeon
most annoying night-time and convinced not to pursue those
irritations. offenses, not to bring them to a con- Contributing Photographers
Despite all of this, 42% of viction.” C Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
Wong
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