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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.
1. #LITTER Over 80 per cent of Ireland’s towns are as clean or cleaner than the European average, according to the 2012 litter survey from Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL). Only seven towns are below the average, among them Dublin’s North inner city.
2. #NEW DELHI Five men will appear before court today charged with the brutal gang-rape and murder of a student in New Delhi. Police said they have forensic evidence to link the five to the attack on December 16. A sixth accused (17) will be tried in a separate court for juveniles.
3. #FLAGS A man (38) is due to appear in court in Belfast after being arrested as part of disturbances in the city on Saturday night. Seventy people have been arrested by the PSNI in connection with rioting over the decision to cut the days that the union flag can fly at Belfast’s City Hall. Last night saw a fourth night of violence over the issue.
4. #FUNERAL The funeral of Jason McGovern, who died after being assaulted twice on a night out in Omagh, is to take place today, RTÉ reports. Five men have been charged in connection with the death of the 19 year old.
5. #SANDY US President Barack Obama has signed a $9.7bn aid bill for victims of superstorm Sandy. The law will make funds available to pay the flood insurance claims of thousands of victims of the devastating October storm.
6. #CREDIT UNIONS Credit Unions have pursued loan defaulters to the tune of €37 million over the past two years, the Irish Examiner says today. In total, 2,120 members had legal actions taken against them.
7. #RESCUED Five people were rescued in Co Wicklow yesterday afternoon in two separate incidents. One involved a man who tripped and fell while out walking with his family, and was rescued by helicopter. The second was a group of four walkers who had gotten lost while descending Lugnaquilla.
8. #PHARMACIES The Irish Pharmacy Union has expressed concern over the centralisation of the taking of photos for driving licenses, saying that it “will have a devastating and unfair impact on hundreds of companies”, including community pharmacists.
9. #MENTAL HEALTH A new short documentary looks at the stigma attached to mental health in Ireland, and takes in the opinions of experts and experiences of people from around the country on the issue. What Stigma? can be viewed below:
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It’s a stain on humanity that we don’t have a UN that’s fit for purpose .
How’s it not fit for purpose
@Gavin Lynam: he doesn’t really know, I suspect.
“Helping hand for Sudanese in Ireland”
We must open our homes. There will be millions displaced from this war.
Open Ireland up
@shuttleJohn: very bad trolling seriously
This war appears to be a proxy war (not like the Ukraine war) as the Wagner group is involved. Euronews says “According to a number of international investigations, the Wagner Group’s goal in Sudan is to provide Moscow access to resources, which, Russia then uses to finance the war in Ukraine. One of its main objectives is acquiring gold, as Sudan is the third largest producer of the mineral in Africa”
@Paul Furey: Maybe the west/left/powers that be are annoyed that it’s not the CIA or or some other pro west agency are not installed there. African countries do not have to select one of ‘ours’ just because we think we’re better. If it was a western funded group in Sudan instead of Wagner, they would no doubt also plunder and pillage as we’ve always done. Indeed, the ‘west’ have not done well by Africa in broad terms. Oh and to your point, the war in Ukraine is a proxy war from the west to the east all under the guise of ‘we care’.
@Chris Thaunton: Egypt is backing the military…Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are backing the paramilitaries. German companies have being supplying arms to the military side. Yes it is a proxy war…Just another conflict in Africa.. All because what lays under the ground that the people walk on.
The dark, scùmmy hand of the Kremlin all over this conflict. A stain on humanity.
800,000 fleeing, in a country of over 40 million and the two opposing sides have less than half a million soldiers between them. The millions that are surely on the side of democracy should get organised.
Peacefully headed our way, peacefully.
Fair enough! But some posters write too much and it gets in the way Imo.
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