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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. #MEATH EAST Fine Gael’s Helen McEntee is set for victory in the area’s by-election today. The first count put the daughter of the late junior minister Shane McEntee at about 38.5 per cent of the vote, a clear 5.5 per cent ahead of Fianna Fáil senator Thomas Byrne. The newly-formed Direct Democracy Ireland party polled ahead of Labour. Turnout was 38.2 per cent.
2. #ARREST A man has been arrested following the armed robbery of a Dublin off-licence in Clondalkin last night. One garda was injured when two gardaí entered the premises after seeing two men jump from a car and enter the off-licence. The second man is still being sought by gardaí.
3. #LEAVING CERT The Leaving Cert programme is to be overhauled by the Department of Education, with plans to reduce the number of degree programmes, cut grade bands and change the predictability of exams. One change looks at combining degree programmes, as Education Minister Ruairí Quinn said that over-specialisation can lead to confusion for students.
4. #GARDAÍ Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said that Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is not “silencing” gardaí who disagree with him, during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil today. He faced opposition criticism after Shatter sanctioned disciplinary action against four garda sergeants who walked out while he spoke at the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors’ annual conference.
5. #CYBER ATTACK A ‘bazooka’ cyber attack has slowed traffic on the internet, security experts have said. The attacks targeted the Geneva-based Spamhaus, which publishes spam blacklists, and may have led to cyberspace congestion. This could have affected the overall internet – so if you have experienced slower internet this week, that may be why.
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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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