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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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Always find it very sad when people die alone in hotel rooms. RIP David ♡ x.
The cleaning staff of the hotel would agree with you.
DEPENDS on his PR agency???
Oh my god David’s dead.
Give it a miss the lot of you
Why don’t you give it a miss
I wish i had borrowed money from this man.
That had to be some of the best car crash tv ever when she got the David’s mixed up
Good idea to give this a miss. Trolls laughing at someones death. What s stupid place thejournal has become.
Enjoy your death giggles lads – have fun!
Only 62. So young…
“Next of kin are in the process of being informed” . . . says a statement released to the worldwide media. Something very wrong about that.
I guess if they were informed via the media, then the statement is perfectly accurate!
‘Life was pronounced extinct at the hotel’. I guess that’s one way of putting it !
Yeah thought that was a strange choice of words myself…
The person who released that statement was later announced pompous at the hotel.
That persons name was Mammoth Dodo.
Rip.Always came across as a funny and honest man
A complete eccentric and had some really interesting stories about the music and film world, very sad – and at 62 which is way to young to go
I wonder who’s gonna break the news to Tiffany from Big Brother
Seems like a nice guy
Dropping like flies this year!
Thousands of humans die daily and thousands more are born… c’est la vie.
there are people dying who have never died before..
Wow. I kinda assumed he was immortal
Wasn’t sure who this man was as I detest reality nonsense however rudeness is never an option upon hearing the death of a person RIP David
R.i.p. a funny man
His hair lives on.
Vaginica will be devastated.
So sad a lovely man RIP David
Goodnight sweet prince
Poor man, I wonder what will be tiffanys reaction be?
Who?
David Gest
False advertising on that tour in July now. .
I’d love if it was a publicly stunt and he took to the stage on the first night. It would fit the title anyway!
1 down 19 more Z List Big Brother mutants to go…
Depending which part you test you could probably get a timeframe between 30 mins to 90 years.
I know I shouldn’t laugh at this comment but that is funny
Always an interesting chap to listen to. May him and MJ be somewhere having a catch up, RIP David
Would never have Guest’d that
Another one off the smokes
Geez, I’m so broke up about this man’s demise. World peace or anything will never be the same again, will it?
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