A nurse at a Cork hospital was seriously injured in an assault by a female patient. The nurse sustained a neck injury and will be off work for several months. In China, a man went on a stabbing spree in a shopping center, killing two people and injuring 14 others. In Saudi Arabia, a businesswoman was sentenced to a month in prison and 50 lashes for insulting the religious police. The article also profiles Irish businessman Bill Cullen and his path to success in the car sales industry despite facing challenges.

1. 22 THE IRISH DAILY STAR, Monday August 18 2014
Serious
assault
on nurse
Two die
in knife
assault
Woman’s
‘morality
cop’ rap
A NURSE at a Cork
hospital will have to take
several months off work
after incurring a neck
injury during an assault
in the emergency
department.
The nurse was on duty
at the Mercy University
Hospital at the end of
July when a young
woman was brought in to
the emergency
department.
The woman was being
taken to the toilet when
she attacked the nurse.
The nurse sustained a
serious neck injury and
was treated by
colleagues in the
emergency department.
It is understood gardai
had to be called in to
calm the situation.
A MAN wielding a knife
went on a slashing spree
in a northeastern
Chinese city, killing two
people and injuring 14
others, according to
China’s state
broadcaster.
China Central
Television, or CCTV, said
the attack at a shopping
centre in the city of Yanji
yesterday was carried
out by a local Chinese
man.
One victim died at the
site while another died
later in hospital.
CCTV said that police
apprehended the suspect,
who was identified only
by his surname Cui.
A SAUDI Arabian judge
has upheld a sentence of
a month in prison and 50
lashes for a business-
woman convicted of
insulting members of the
morality police.
The morality police
monitor public behaviour
in the conservative
Muslim kingdom, which
follows the strict Wahabi
school of Sunni Islam.
The woman had been
convicted in a Jeddah
court of cursing at them
and calling them liars
after they entered her
cafe to check there were
no breaches of morality.
That has to
sting a little
OFFICIALS in Dubai
banned the world
record-holder for most
piercings from appearing
at a nightclub event.
Rolf Bucholz was
denied entry to the city
for security reasons.
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VETERAN car salesman Bill
Cullen has revealed that he
could have fought for the
British army instead of
building what became a multi-
million euro business empire.
In an exclusive interview with The
Star, businessman Bill (72) said his
fate was changed by his ability to do
the army entrance exam in record time.
He said the recruiting officer advised
him to forget a career in the army and
to get into business and become a mil-
lionaire — which he did.
The former Renault Ireland
boss and TV Apprentice
star said he was 17
when he went to
Belfast to join the
British army in
1959.
He said: “They
had ads in the
paper, saying, ‘See
the world, get paid
for it’, and all that
excitement, so I went
up and they gave us an
exam.
“You got 100 questions on
four pages and you had to put
up your hand when finished.
“They said: ‘If you can’t do it
in a half an hour you are no use to us.’
“So I put my hand up after five min-
utes. The soldier came down and said,
‘There are four pages.’ I said, ‘And they
are all done sir.’
BILL STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS
lionaire — which he did.
The former Renault Ireland
boss and TV Apprentice
star said he was 17
when he went to
Belfast to join the
for it’, and all that
excitement, so I went
up and they gave us an
“You got 100 questions on
four pages and you had to put
up your hand when finished.
I wanted to be
British soldier
but army told
me to be a
millionaire
instead
FIT IN:
Bill and
(inset)
doing the
‘plank’
exercise
for Star’s
Kevin
CULLEN REVEALS HIS PATH TO SUCCESS
I Kevin JENKINSON
“He said, ‘What? Follow me.’
Cullen said he was marched to the
recruiter, and he recalls: “He said: ‘Do
you know that’s the first time I have
seen that done... take my advice and
get out of here. Go home and get into
business and become a millionaire.”
Bill, who was one of 14 children from
Summerhill in inner-city Dublin, said
two of his brothers had no trouble join-
ing and that they both took part in
conflicts.
He said it is also pos-
sible that he might
not have become
the country’s
most success-
ful car
salesman,
b u i l d i n g
up a
R e n a u l t
e m p i r e
worth €100
million, if
he was not
expelled from
school aged 14
for playing soccer.
He said: “I was
playing soccer for
Home Farm on the sly under my Irish
name... the picture appeared in the
newspaper one day of us winning the
schoolboy soccer championship.
“I was told I was a traitor to my
country and my school for playing the
British game.”
Bill got a job at the Walden Motor
Company on Parnell Street, and
became its managing director at 22 —
before leaving 10 years later to become
a massive success with franchises with
Ford and then Renault.
He remains extremely positive,
despite a receiver
being appointed to
his Glencullen
Holdings company in
2012, which operated
his two Dublin
Renault dealerships.
Then Bill and his
partner of 35 years,
Jackie Lavin, lost a
High Court bid to
continue running
their five-star
Muckross Park Hotel
in Killarney.
They are still in the courts “fighting
banks” over an €11.5m debt, but in the
meantime they have re-entered the
motor business with a new SsangYong
dealership on the Naas Road in Dublin,
which also sells second-hand cars.
Bill said he has always been head
strong, and that he tries to fight off
stress with his daily early morning
exercise regime, including walking,
Pilates and “the plank,” which he dem-
onstrated for The Star.
He described how his late younger
brother Aidan, who ran his dealership
in Airside, Swords, died from a heart
attack aged 54, which he attributes to
the stress of receivers being called in to
the business.
His sister Rita, who was living in the
US, also passed away within weeks of
the receiver moving in.
Bill said: “Stress affects everything if
you let it.”
Bill thanks his mother
Mary Darcy for his men-
tal strength and said he
learned much about how
to be a businessman from
helping her sell fruit at
her Dublin city street
stall.
Space
He revealed: “She used
to say, ‘Don’t worry
about money son, you
came into the world
without it and you will go out of the
world without it. It’s what you do in
between that counts.’”
Bill is also excited about possibly
becoming the first Irish person in space
next year, after buying a €149,000 tick-
et for the first Virgin Galactic flight.
He said: “I was the first person on this
planet to sit down and sign the contract
on January 16, 2005, to go up in the
space flight.”
He said he will use the historic occa-
sion to raise money for Temple Street
Children’s Hospital.
He remains extremely positive,
despite a receiver
being appointed to
his Glencullen
Holdings company in
2012, which operated
his two Dublin
Then Bill and his
partner of 35 years,
Jackie Lavin, lost a
High Court bid to
continue running
their five-star
Muckross Park Hotel
Bill said: “Stress affects everything if
you let it.”
Mary Darcy for his men-
tal strength and said he
learned much about how
to be a businessman from
helping her sell fruit at
her Dublin city street
stall.
to say, ‘Don’t worry
about money son, you
came into the world
‘Stress
affects
everything
if you
let it’
four pages and you had to put
STILL GOT IT: Bill with his
partner Jackie Lavin at his
Naas Road car dealership