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1. #POWER: Thousands of homes and businesses are without electricity following high winds last night.
2. #SHOOTING: Gardaí in Dublin are investigating after shots were fired at a home in Cabra last night.
3. #CRIME: An organised crime gang from Romania are wanted in Ireland over the use of stolen credit cards to buy boat parts in the west of the country, TheJournal.ie has learned.
4. #PASSPORTS: The number of complaints made against the Passport service has increased almost fivefold since 2016, new figures reveal.
5. #SUPPORT: Support for both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has fallen while Independents and Solidarity-People Before Profit have made slight gains according to a new poll from the Sunday Business Post.
6. #COMMUNION: Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy – who revealed last month that he had voted Yes in the recent referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment – was refused communion by a priest at a recent funeral Mass, The Sunday Times reports.
7. #PHILIPPINES: At least 27 people were killed when two bombs exploded outside a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island, The Guardian reports.
8. #SLIGO: Gardaí are investigating after the occupant of a house in Sligo was assaulted during an aggravated burglary earlier yesterday morning, RTÉ reports.
9. #CANADA: Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has fired its ambassador to China John McCallum after comments McCallum made about an extradition case, The BBC reports.
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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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