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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know before you head out the door.
1. #NICOLA FURLONG A Japanese court has found American teen Richard Hinds (19) guilty of murdering Wexford woman Nicola Furlong on 24 May last year, sentencing him to up to 10 years’ detention with labour in prison. Furlong’s family said that Nicola’s life “was worth more than that” and they were “not really” satisfied with the verdict.
2. #SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Labour has published a draft law to allow same-sex civil marriage. The legislation – launched by Labour’s Seanad leader Ivana Bacik and Eoin Holmes, who is running in next week’s by-election in Meath East – proposes to change the existing law surrounding civil marriages, removing a clause which forbids same-sex couples from availing of a full civil marriage.
3. #KILKENNY A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a man in Kilkenny on 7 March this year. Anthony Barrett (43) was found dead at a house in the city’s Fatima Place.
4. #EUROPE Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the EU has reached a provisional deal with the European Parliament on setting up a new banking supervisor to work across the Eurozone. This is considered a major factor in the EU’s plan to overcome the financial crisis.
5. #INDIA A British woman in her early-30s was treated today for injuries sustained after jumping from a hotel balcony in Agra, India. Reports say she was trying to escape a man she believed was going to sexually assault her. She had asked for a 4am wake-up call but when the man called to the door he offered her a massage and reportedly refused to leave.
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Missing from the 9 at 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bMbo2Gwa6WY#! Joan Burton run out of Dundalk
Thanks for the vid John. Its a pity things have come to scenes like this. However every person in the country should be giving the government these types of “welcomes” they might then get the message!
About time…
No more pay cuts or extended working hours for the lower and middle paid public sector worker. Can’t afford it and will vote against it. Longer working hours will mean we have even less time to spend with our families, thats no existence :-(
Dermot, you sound like a government analyst where 100,000 turns into 30,000. Whether there was 20 or 120 I think the message was sent loud and clear. Are we supposed to kiss their butts??
I’m not saying the protesters are wrong just saying it was a very small group of people that sounds like more because the microphone is obviously in the middle of the group. Most people are standing around watching, it’s hardly a watershed moment that’s suddenly going to galvanise the public into action. judging by opinion polls most people’s idea of a ‘revolution’ is to vote back in Fianna Fáil , the party who ruined the country in the first place. I’m no fan of the present government by the way, far from it.
#PSNI — Grim price to pay?
Much grimmer — the overtime bill for all that police time when they did nothing but contain the oranges rather than sweep than off the streets.
The tds should be included in the extra five hours a week
how many people were actually protesting? looks like about 20 making a lot of noise hardly the start of the revolution
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