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The 9 at 9 Here’s all the news you need to know this morning.

LAST UPDATE | 24 Sep 2019

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #NOTEWORTHY: High-earning multinational executives were “shocked” at how much tax they were going to have to pay after a special tax deal available to them ended after five years.

2. #DECISION TIME: The UK Supreme Court is due to rule on the legality of Boris Johnson suspending parliament later this morning

3. #JOE BIDEN: US President Donald Trump “withheld” €360 million in military aid to Ukraine over the Biden row, reports in the US have said.

4. #QUINN INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS: A director QIH has said that he doesn’t think people were surprised by the barbaric attack on his colleague Kevin Lunney

5. #PASSPORT OFFICE: Making the Public Services Card mandatory for all passport applications would have meant “significantly” longer waiting times, according to new documents released to TheJournal.ie.

6. #LANDMARK: The Gresham Hotel plans to remove over half its car parking spaces to add more bedrooms. 

7. #TUSLA: Child and Family Agency Tusla is preparing to prosecute the Hyde and Seek chain of creches, the Irish Times reported.

8. #CTRL-LABS: Facebook has said it is set to buy a tech start-up working on mind control technology.

9. #PRESS CRACKDOWN: The New York Times turned to Irish diplomats for help after receiving a tip-off that an Irish journalist was about to be arrested in Egypt, and US officials would not step in. 

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:47 PM

    A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus?

    Typos lads. Typos.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:51 PM

    @Accord Moan Eye: not a typo, Venus orbits the sun quicker than it spins on its axis, so a day is longer than a year

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:52 PM

    @Accord Moan Eye: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:54 PM

    @Accord Moan Eye: A full rotation of Venus on its axis, a day, takes longer than it does for it to orbit the sun, a year.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:46 PM

    @Accord Moan Eye: Its not a typo.

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    Sep 17th 2020, 12:54 AM

    @Accord Moan Eye: not a typo. The planet rotates on it’s axis so slowly that it has orbited the sun before it has rotated once.

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    Sep 17th 2020, 7:51 AM

    @Accord Moan Eye: take you face and rest it on the palm of your hand

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    Sep 17th 2020, 9:30 AM

    @Accord Moan Eye: I’d say you feel like a right pleb now!

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    Sep 17th 2020, 9:58 AM

    @Accord Moan Eye: A day on Venus is indeed longer than a year. In fact, Venus rotates in a retrograde fashion – clockwise as you look ‘down’ on its north pole, as opposed to anti-clockwise for every other planet in the solar system!

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:12 PM

    They make great Razors up there, that’s all I know.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:25 PM

    @Kevin O’Brien: yes Kevin women’s razors…

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:35 PM

    A day on Venus is longer than a day on earth. Debatable.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:44 PM

    @Stephen Gaffney: Venus day is 116.75 earth days

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:50 PM

    @Greg Ward: Yeah but talking to you a day on earth would seem longer. Understand?

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:00 PM

    @Stephen Gaffney: Straight in with the insult I see. You are quite the colourful raconteur.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:05 PM

    @Greg Ward: well you kinda took the bait lol

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:13 PM

    @Greg Ward: You just backed up my claim.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:15 PM

    @Stephen Gaffney: Enjoy your night, mate.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 10:23 PM

    @Greg Ward: You too Father Stone

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    Sep 16th 2020, 11:39 PM

    @Greg Ward: it’s 243 Earth days

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    Sep 17th 2020, 12:55 AM

    @Stephen Gaffney: it actually is. It actually rotates so slowly on its axis.

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:39 PM

    The only planet I know is the one I live on

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:46 PM

    @James Fox: Do you really?

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    Sep 16th 2020, 9:33 PM

    Meh

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    Sep 16th 2020, 11:14 PM

    Does Bananarama count lol

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    Sep 17th 2020, 12:55 AM

    Anyone play Wolfenstein: The new collossus?

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    Sep 17th 2020, 1:47 AM

    @Paul Cunningham: no but the original was brilliant. Oh would it be a wolf or Hitler behind that door

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    Sep 17th 2020, 12:59 PM

    Star trek: there was a woman from venus, whose body was shaped like a …

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