Algarve - (Ass Mess): A British couple accused of rampant drunkenness at a Portuguese holiday complex are demanding the Pope's help to clear their names after being accused of child neglect.
Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin collapsed unconscious outside a Villamoura tapas bar and after leaving their children, aged one to six, alone in their holiday apartment.
Their children have been taken into care.
The Maghera, Co Londonderry couple claim they were doing nothing worse than has already been set in precedent in Praia da Luz last year.
"If they try to charge us we'll go to the Vatican, just like Ben & Jerry!" the optimistic and still pretty inebriated paid said today.
Mr McGuckin's father is travelling to London later today and is demanding parity with the McCanns in a one-to-one audience with Gordon Brown.
Clarence Mitchell is 69.
