e-metroherald.ie 31.08.2010 Electric Picnic tickets P12 Out of more than 400 entrants, Danielle Boylan, 23, from Clondalkin in Dublin has won the 2010 Change Your Life Education Fund worth 35,000 from National College of Ireland (NCI), Metro Herald and Ireland AM P10 NEWS 35,000 win for lucky Danielle Up to 50 Irish campaigners are expected to join a coalition of pro- Palestinian supporters on a second aid flotilla to Gaza, scheduled for the late autumn. A flotilla in May was boarded by Israeli commandos, leaving nine people dead P5 NEWS Irish activists to join Gaza flotilla Giovanni Trapattoni believes he is well covered to deal with the absence of key midfielders Damien Duff and Keith Andrews ahead of Fridays opening Euro 2012 clash with Armenia in Yerevan P24 SPORT Trap: Duff injury is covered Googles YouTube video-sharing website is in talks with Hollywood movie studios over a global pay-as- you-go video service that could be launched by the end of the year, it was yesterday reported P17 BUSINESS Deal to bring films to PCs Hellraisers Guns N Roses recovered from their drama-filled British return by bingeing on cheese on toast and partying at a gay nightclub. They arrived an hour late at the Reading Festival and organisers later switched their amps off P8 GUILTY PLEASURES Axls gay night out Our worst fear losing a child so full of lifeBy Ed Carty Tragic: Michaela started at a new school last week THE parents of 12-year-old Michaela Davis, whose body was found in undergrowth near her home, said last night it was their worst fear to lose a child so full of life. Brendan and Deirdre Davis said they were des- perately trying to get their heads around the kill- ing of their daughter. Michaelas body was found by a man walking along the Royal Canal in west Dublin on Satur- day evening. The couple said their daughters death was a needless, awful tragedy and insisted the family was always there for one another. This is a heart-wrenching situation, they said. A young 12-year-old girl who was full of life has been lost. She was very close to her mum, dad and [teenage] brother Brendan. They were al- ways there for one another. An 18-year-old appeared in court in Dublin yesterday charged with her murder. Jonathan Byrne, from Lohunda Downs in Clonsilla, west Dublin a few streets from where Michaela lived is accused of the killing near the Porterstown Road. She was last seen after midnight on Friday when she told her parents she was going out for a few minutes to meet a friend. Michaela was reported missing at about 2.30am and a major search was launched. She had enjoyed her first day of secondary school at Luttrellstown Community College the previous Thursday and her family revealed she had been given her first homework, due to be handed in today. All Michaelas friends are heartbroken at the moment and cannot get their heads around this tragedy, no more than the rest of the extended family and friends, Michaelas family said. The needless loss of a young child, the awful tragedy of a girl barely beginning life. This situa- tion is not and never will be about the crime or the perpetrator its about Michaela, and the re- alisation of a parents worst fear to lose a child so full of life. Michaela was said to have been hanging around with older teenagers and some young adults out- side of school. She was also said to have looked several years older than she was. Meanwhile, counsellors and psychologists were on hand at the Luttrellstown school to help pupils and teachers come to terms with Michaelas death. As teen charged with Michaelas murder, her parents speak out WIN! index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html