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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you start your day.
1. #FIANNA FÁIL Fianna Fail is to begin its Ard Fheis today, where it is to debate its pro-life stance as well as a number of other motions. It will hear four proposals which call for the party’s pro-life stance to be maintained, with one motion calling for a referendum to be held on the issue.
2. #JOBS Three companies have announced they will be creating 100 new jobs in Ireland. Storm Technology has announced 20 new jobs, OpenSky has announced 30 new jobs and FINEOS has announced 50 new jobs. Meanwhile, the fifth progress report on the government’s action plan for jobs will be launched today by the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
3. #EARNINGS Three National Treasury Management Agency staff members earning more than €200,000 won’t take a pay cut this year – even though Finance Minister Michael Noonan had asked them and 10 others to continue voluntary pay cuts. Other senior figures agreed to continue with the cuts, but three rejected it.
4. #FLATS An investigation carried out by Dublin City Council found that more than 90 per cent of flats it inspected were ‘unfit for habitation’. The Irish Times reports that the council’s crackdown saw them visiting almost 1,500 flats, and they found that almost 1,400 didn’t meet minimum legal standards for private rented accommodation due to unsafe electrics, damp, mould, no private bathrooms and other reasons.
5. #RUSSIA A fire broke out early this morning at a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow region, killing 38 people. The majority of the people were patients in the hospital, who were trapped behind barred windows. The fire broke out on the roof of the hospital and spread rapidly throughout the buildings.
6. #HOLY CROSS A loyalist protest was held outside the Holy Cross Primary School yesterday, almost 12 years after protests were held there. The Irish News reports that up to 50 people took part in the picket, and that staff were inside the Ardoyne Road building when the protest broke out at around 4pm yesterday. Kerbstones outside the school were painted on Monday.
7. #BANGLADESH Police are reported to have fired tear gas at a demo held over this week’s building collapse. The death toll in the collapse has reached almost 300, and protestors attacked factories and smashed vehicles during a mass rally over the tragic event. Bangladeshi police fired tear gas and rubber bullets after protestors blockaded roads and forced factories at Gazipur to close.
8. #COURT A man in his late 30s will appear in court today after being arrested in connection with the discovery of a cannabis growhouse in the Ballycoolin Industrial Estate in west Dublin. The man was one of two people arrested by gardaí when cannabis plants and leaf worth an estimated €125,000 were found in the growhouse.
9. #NORTH KOREA North Korea has ignored a deadline imposed by South Korea to take part in talks on the Kaesong factory complex. Pyongyang barred South Korean managers and cargo from entering the complex earlier this month. Yesterday, Seoul promised unspecified ‘grave measures’ if Pyongyang didn’t respond to its demand for talks by a specific time.
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