LAST UPDATE | 20 Sep
EVERY MORNING, The Journal brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. Less than two weeks away from Budget day and while we might have a modest understanding of what will be included, some measures have yet to be hammered out before 1 October.
2. Two people from Taiwanese companies were questioned as part of a probe into pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, investigators said, as top officials insisted the devices were not from the island.
3. A prominent anti-immigration activist who a court heard accused a creche owner of promoting paedophilia and child molestation for placing children’s drawings of a rainbow flag in a window has been acquitted of committing a breach of the peace over the incident.
4. NATO ships and an Irish Naval vessel are to conduct an exercise off the coast this weekend, the Department of Defence has confirmed.
5. An Indian man has been charged with allegedly attempting to abduct a young boy from an apartment block in Dublin last Saturday and a court order that initially prevented the media from reporting his identity created controversy, particularly online.
6. The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage told a hearing today that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive.
7. People Before Profit have introduced a motion calling for “immediate emergency action on disability and special needs provision”.
8. The Vatican has said it recognised the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, without commenting on the Virgin Mary’s “alleged messages” to the faithful, who have gathered there in the millions for more than 40 years.
9. An RTE documentary about anti-immigration protests has revealed drones were used to monitor asylum seekers staying at a site in Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow.
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