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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #WICKLOW: Garda crime units have received information that a row between two drug gangs in the North Wicklow area has escalated, leading to calls for extra resources.
2. #MIGRATION: US first lady said that she “hates” to see families separated at the US border and hopes “both sides of the aisle” can reform the nation’s immigration laws.
3. #OSAKA: At least three people have been killed and dozens injured following a strong earthquake around metropolitan Osaka in western Japan.
4. #REFERENDUM: Up to and including polling day on the 25 May, Dublin City Council received 279 complaints regarding posters for the Eighth Amendment referendum.
5. #FINES: The government is set to increase the on-the-spot litter fine from €150 to €250, under plans being considered by Minister for Communications Denis Naughten.
6. #COLOMBIA: Conservative Ivan Duque won Colombia’s presidential election yesterday after a campaign that turned into a referendum on a landmark 2016 peace deal with FARC rebels that he pledged to overhaul.
7. #WEATHER: The week is set to be mostly cloudy with some spells of rain, but there’s a good chance of warm weather for next weekend.
8. #RYANAIR: Budget airline Ryanair has called for a pre-10am booze ban at airports after a group of Irish-based holiday-makers forced an Ibiza-bound Ryanair flight from Dublin to divert to Paris Saturday morning.
9. #CLARE: A man has been killed and two other people injured in a road crash in Co Clare.
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Due to overgrazing our lands can not tolerate any heavy rain anymore. The soil is compressed and soil biology is badly damaged. The bogs and marshes which used to be huge rainfall sponges are drained for animal grazing or building. Rainfall that was no problem 30 years ago is now a national warning.
@Ranty McCrank: Plenty of floods 30 years ago.There has been exceptionally high rainfall this year and still we don’t have many floods.
@tom McCormack: So not that many floods over the last year or two? Which country are you living in?
@Ranty McCrank: cause blame man-made make millions Factory’s,planes,vehicles and boats too much emission around earth change routine Damage to climate change
@tom McCormack: I spend a lot of time in Mayo. There is no grass growth, the long duration of water logging in even reasonably well trained land is truly exceptional, there has been no drying out, river levels are very high, streams are swollen and cattle will have to stay in longer than in previous years.
@Brian Flavin: in English, please
@Brian Flavin:
Are you drunk?
@Brian Flavin: you lucid bro?
@Ranty McCrank: lovely copy and paste job
@Do the Bort man: Well to be fair he didn’t mention building last time round Bort man, obviously doesnt realise that an inch of rain dumps 17,333,000 gallons (us) of water per square mile of ground.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus:
You’d miss the rain.
A few dry days and they’ll be issuing drought warnings and hose pipe bans
Hopefully this will be the last throw of winter 17/18. Good riddance. Sick of it.
Wet and wild, just how I like it.
I am beginning to think the actions of humans is affecting our weather
@pierre roncuzzi: don’t be daft. Baby Jesus controls the weather.
hard to believe , when you look outside
@Elvis King: “Hard to believe”? We’ve had rain nearly everyday for months.
@Elvis King:
Stop looking outside and get back to work
@Gary:
You must be living under a waterfall
@courageous: You must be living in a cave.
@Gary:
Ouch
@courageous: Work , with our welfare system , i,m off to the park
@Elvis King:
Make sure you bring your umbrella in case in rains
@courageous: lol, only joking i have the hardest job in the world
@Elvis King:
Looking out Windows all day long can be very hard alright
@courageous So true: LOL
@Elvis King: Work on that grammar while you’re in that park.
@Jack O’neill: MINOMINOT
Met Noah this morning he was saying he was looking to move his family to somewhere less wet.
Christ, these ‘heatwaves’ are worse than the winters.
Except when it is raining, it should be dry.
ground hog day
@the druid: No thanks i,m Straight
Wet, wet, wet.
@Michael Lang: A heatwave with a yellow warning for wind and rain #onlyinireland
@Michael Lang: I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my bones..,
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