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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door.
1. #GARDAÍ The Association of Garda Sergeants has defended the actions of four of its members who are to face disciplinary action after walking out of their annual conference during a speech by the Minister for Justice. “The Carlow-Kilkenny branch were mandated by their members and executed their right to protest by withdrawing from conference,” the association’s general secretary John Redmond said.
2. #FUEL ALLOWANCE The winter fuel allowance is to be extended following the cold snap, the government said today. The flat-rate €20 a week payment will be extended for one more week, Social Protection Minister Joan Burton said today, at a cost of €8.2 million.
3. #TAOISEACH Taoiseach Enda Kenny said today that the new personal insolvency guidelines “will not impose conditions on anyone, woman or man, to give up employment”. He made the comments in the wake of Transport Minister Leo Varadkar’s comments last night that childcare costs would have to be taken into consideration in insolvency arrangements if couples cannot meet mortgage repayments.
4. #JOB OFFER A FÁS job offer in Malta for €250 a week has been described as “outrageous” by Sinn Féin deputy Pearse Doherty. He told the Dáil that the 60-year-old unemployed man was offered a job with a Maltese company and asked, “Is the government now actively encouraging emigration?”. The Department of Social Protection said the offer was made as a result of the European Employment Service (EURES) initiative.
5. #PRISONERS A report from the Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality has called for the government to reduce prison population numbers by one-third over a 10-year period. It said it was concerned about the increase over recent years and that a ‘decarceration’ programme for non-violent prisoners would help reduce the prison population.
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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.
Less sectarianism, more marxism, eh Karl?
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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