EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know as you kick off your day.
1. #DRUGS: Cannabis plants worth an estimated quarter of a million euro have been found during a search in a house in Cavan yesterday evening. A 42-year-old man was arrested at the scene. This follows two other searches and seizures yesterday in Wexford and Limerick.
2. #NURSING HOME: An inspection report by the Health Information and Quality Authority on a nursing home in Co Leitrim has revealed that some of the residents’ files contained ‘do not resuscitate’ orders. The report said there was no evidence that the provider had ensured an assessment of the resident had been undertaken or that any communication had taken place to ensure it was their decision.
3. #QUINN: Five of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn’s children are due back in court today to answer questions about their bank accounts and assets. Yesterday Aoife Quinn told the Commercial Court that she did not know what work she was expected to do in return for a payment of €379,000 from three Russian companies as her contract was not in English, the Irish Daily Mail reports.
4. #CUTBACKS: Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said yesterday that Garda cutbacks will not affect the relationship that An Garda Siochána has with the community. Meanwhile, the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors is expected today to withdraw from Croke Park talks as they have failed to reach an agreement with government representatives on cuts to pay and allowances.
5. #HORSE MEAT: New tests results are due to be released today by the Department of Agriculture on burger samples from the Silvercrest Foods processing plant in Co Monaghan. The plant has suspended operations at its Ballybay facility in light of the controversy over large amounts of equine DNA found in previous samples tests.
6. #GALWAY: Residents of an unfinished housing estate in Galway have taken their battle online with a new video produced by three children living in the estate showing an enormous hole on the site. As the site is privately owned, residents have been told the council cannot intervene despite an engineer’s report last year deeming the site unsafe.
7. #INVESTMENT: A government investment of €60 million is to be released today to fund research projects in areas like mathematics, science and technology. The individual research projects funded, range in size and scale from approximately €200,000 to €2.7 milllion over the next 5 years and will cover a broad range of scientific topics.
8. #GREECE: Riot police in Greece stormed the Athens subway train depot this morning to enforce a government emergency order forcing striking metro workers back to work in an escalating standoff over new austerity measures. Dozens of strikers had barricaded themselves in the depot in western Athens yesterday evening.
9. #EGYPT: Police in Egypt have clashed with protesters who gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo, BBC reports. Opponents of President Mohammed Mursi gathered in the square for a rally to mark the anniversary of the fall of Hosni Mubarak who was in power from 1981 to 2011. Those taking part in the rally have accused the Islamist leader of betraying the revolution.
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