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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #SHOOTING: A man who was injured in a shooting in Clondalkin, Dublin, last night has died. Gardaí are now appealing for information about the incident which occurred at about 10.30pm yesterday at Cherrywood Drive.
2. #COWEN: Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has defended himself against criticisms over remarks he made in an interview with TG4, telling reporters that nobody is more sorry than him but that he was not responsible for everything that happened to the Irish economy, RTÉ reports.
3. #ROBBERY: Gardaí have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with a robbery at a supermarket on the Malahide Road in Dublin, last night. The man threatened staff and demanded cash but was tackled by the shop’s security guard and gardaí were called.
4. #BIG FISH: Staff at video game company Big Fish Games who were made redundant last week have written a scathing letter to the company’s president. The 79 employees described their redundancy packages as “barely above minimum legal amounts”.
5. #ALTERNATIVE BUDGET: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called for taxes on the wealthy, a €4.5 billion stimulus and no cuts to primary spending in its pre-budget submission to the Department of Finance. The union said its plans would “reach deficit targets, spur job creation and boost recovery prospects”.
6. #JOBSWATCH: The four-year long recruitment moratorium for the public sector will be loosened from today with a number of advertisements for graduate positions in the civil service to go live. The Public Appointments Service will be looking for people who have studied economics, banking and finance, law HR and tax policy.
7. #SYRIA: The US is still seeking to find an international coalition to act together against the Syrian regime after British lawmakers rejected the government’s call for military strikes yesterday. The UN has said it has collected “considerable evidence” and will brief the secretary general tomorrow.
8. #STRIKE: Fast-food workers held a nationwide day of demonstrations yesterday calling for the right to unionise without interference from employers and for pay of $15 an hour. The walkouts and protests reached about 60 cities across the US.
9. #ELECTRIC PICNIC: Today is the 10th birthday of the Electric Picnic music festival with the campsites open from 9am this morning. Some 35,000 people are expected to attend the sold-out festival at Stradbally in Co Laois over the next three days. Will you be there?
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Looking at that list-wish I stayed in bed!..:-)..
“the secretly general” shhh…it’s a secret ;)
No. 8 doesn’t refer to a country. I know it’s the US, but it’d be no harm to actually state it.
” there is no one more sorry than i am” sorry brian your wrong again, theres about 4 million people more ‘sorry’ than you are about irelands economic state. all of them irish citizens, some have lost members of their own families due to suicide , others have seen children and grandchildren leave these shores doubfull if they’ll ever return, people have lost their homes, and are STILL losing them to the greedy banks and financial institutions that YOU protected, there is little or no work for those who have lost their jobs and for those fortunate enough to be still in a job there are ‘extra’ charges and levies that see their income shrink before it hits their pockets. then there are all of those who reley on social welfare, the elderly, the disabled, the 1000′s of families who are struggling to put a decent meal on the table and are already worried sick about the forthcoming budget, fearfull of further cuts and price hikes in electricity and gas prices, fearfull of hikes in ‘carbon taxs’ (remember you introduced them along with your green party pals) pushing up the price of coal or briquettes, wondering if they will have to choose between putting on meal on the table or a fire in the grate.
but its not all doom and gloom,well not for you and your ilk anyway, you still have your very genorous ‘pension’ and you could always apply for a back to education grant, like you did a while back. its not SORRY you should be feeling brian it’s SHAME .
eric whats the story with the education grant did he actually apply and get it.
What has number 8 got to do with anything?? # strike???
I’m sure Cowen can be forgiven.
FF had policies in place that helped overheat the economy. And when people/economists shouted STOP Bertie told them to go and commit suicide. I wonder how many suicides since then have been connected to the financial crisis? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFBfkusf8R0
Suicide helpline ~ http://www.1life.ie/
And another thing, good to see democracy working in the House of Commons last night. As opposed to our crap system.
secretly general?
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