We need your help now
Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.
You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.
If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.
Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
By continuing, you are indicating that you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.iebrings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #POPULARITY: Fianna Fáil has topped another opinion poll, reaffirming it’s new position as the most popular political party in the country. The Sunday Independent/Millward Brown poll puts the party at 27 per cent, two per cent ahead of Fine Gael with Labour on just 13 per cent and Sinn Féin on 20 per cent.
2. #PROMISSORY NOTES: The legality of halting all cases against IBRC is in doubt, The Sunday Business Post reports this morning as officials at the Department of Finance work on changes to the legislation. However KPMG liquidator Kieran Wallace told the paper that anyone who is successful in a case against the bank would be considered an unsecured creditor and probably would not be paid.
3. #ROADS: A 22-year-old man has died of injuries sustained in a serious two car collision in Thurles, Co Tipperary on Friday night. The driver of the second car, also aged 22 years, was taken to hospital with minor injuries and later discharged. Gardaí are now appealing for witnesses to the incident to come forward.
4. #CROKE PARK: Further talks are to take place today on extending the Croke Park Agreement following yesterday’s negotiations, with unions saying they hope this round of discussions will result in a deal, RTÉ reports. Bodies representing gardaí have said they will not be returning to any talks that involve negotiating pay cuts.
5. #GEORGIAN: Negotiations over the future of the ESB-owned Number 29 Georgian House Museum are underway though the company has said there are no plans to close it. The ESB told TheJournal.ie that there are some negotiations with staff in respect to reducing the costs of running the museum.
6. #COALITION: Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said that he is not ruling out the possibility of going into a coalition with either Sinn Féin or Fine Gael after the next general election. In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Martin said there is no strong parliament and that people are rightly disillusioned with the lack of any radical political reform.
7. #DEPORTATION: Britain’s Home Secretary has slammed the judiciary accusing judges of “subverting” democracy by ignoring rules aimed at deporting more foreign criminals. Writing in The Mail on Sunday newspaper, Theresa May said some judges had chosen to “ignore parliament’s wishes” by disregarding guidance making clear that convicted criminals’ rights to a family life had limits.
8. #CYPRUS: Cypriots began voting today in a crunch election to choose a new president tasked with securing a bailout deal to prevent the recession-hit country going bankrupt, AFP reports. Nicos Anastasiades, 66, of the rightwing main opposition Disy party, is tipped to win the first round in which 550,000 Cypriots are eligible to vote.
9. #MARRIAGE: Some 3,500 couples have taken part in the first mass ‘Moonie’ wedding since the death of the founder of the Unification Church, the organisers of the event. Another 24,000 people were also married via video link as part of the ceremony with all of the couples dressed identically, BBC reports.
(Image: Lee Jin-man/AP)
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
For a nation famed for holding grudges, we have a disturbing tendency to forgive FF on a regular basis.
It’s not ff that are gaining popularity, it’s that people are sick to death of austerity and the latest rounds of cuts to front line Garda, and other public service shift workers, the stupid graduate scheme etc etc.
Fine Gael only got in because of the protest vote against FF and now they’ll lose the same way
are these opinion polls taken on goldfish or something??what the hell is wring with people backing the party that presided over the ruination of ireland
Wrong not wring
Would love to see a moonie wedding on “don’t tell the bride”!
Irish relationship with Fianna Fáil is like that of a cheated lover, every time they promise it will be different this time and every time enough people fall for it.
not every time, the next time anyone from FF presents themselves at my door at election time I’m going to stab them to death there and then.Fu k them and the bullshit brigade promoting the Loyal Opposition and their merry go round!
Sunday indo poll…. Nuff said
Michelle, on point Number 1 #POPULARITY, I note that you failed to mention that Sinn Féin came in at 20% in today’s Millward Brown Opinion Poll. Not at all insignificant I’m sure you’ll agree.
I’ve added it in, just for you Paul.
Go raibh maith agat Michelle.
What is wrong with people? It’s like a merry-go-round with regard politics in this country. FF in charge,other parties tut tut their policies,we don’t agree with FF and vote different clowns in… Then FF tut tut their policies,which we don’t agree with and we all suddenly agree with FF again. What is it exactly these people being surveyed think is going to happen with a different party in charge?
How are the HSE going to cope with this nationwide outbreak of AMNESIA?????
donnybrook dublin 4 usual spin media poll….anyone on here been asked on poll
Lots of lovely bottoms at a ‘moonie’ wedding I presume.
How stupid are the Irish people if this poll is correct :-(
If that gangsters that make up the general fianna fail membership get back into a power position in the next election then this island deserves the austerity and all that goes with it… … For a supposedly ecucated country its amazing how stupid we can be…. All that inbreeding over the years produced parties like fianna fail, fine gael and labour… Well it would seem the practice has spread outside the party confines according to this poll…..
Google Direct Democracy Ireland….
KPMG liquidator Kieran Wallace told the paper that anyone who is successful in a case against the bank would be considered an unsecured creditor and probably would not be paid.
So why were unsecured Bond holders paid in full at our expense in that case? Oh yeah, because they are in both current and previous governments….
The indo does a poll that supports ff………..and so the propaganda rolls on
Michelle, any chance of the journal doing a poll on here any time one of these other polls pop up? Be interesting to see the difference.. :)
Anyone like to see a moonie wedding on “dont tell the bride”?
Some men just want to watch the world burn
It will be interesting to see what the unions actually agreed to…because the masses are not in a mood to agree with anything that the govt has put forward, and the unions have been told as much…makes for interesting times ahead.
The battered wife/husband goes back to the perpetrator of the violence, the masochistic tendencies of the Irish electorate and indeed most nations on this earth is such a cause for tears. Does anyone agree its time to try a new approach not based on Civil War party politics which is basically always ‘me fein’ with guys in suits hopping around in the Dail acting like children in a playground.
Have you all heard that moonies use the same dirty rag to clean up after every time they have sex for their entire relationship? Ha! Mank.
Either someone has the guts to create a new party otherwise we will continue to change partners every time the music stops. So enough of words if you want change you have to do it yourself. Pen or keyboards wont help, create a new political party based on irish common sense, social responsibility and business ethics, our amazing will power,resistance, the Craic for image and country marketing,and stop lamenting over the FF and FG feud. Now who has the guts to do that? The youth of Ireland maybe ?
have your say