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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #CASTRO: Ariel Castro, the man sentenced to life in prison for holding three young women captive and raping them for a decade, has been found dead in his prison cell. It is believed that he took his own life.
2. #DOCTORS: Representatives for the Irish Medical Organisation are to meet with the HSE today after it was announced that junior doctors plan to strike in a few weeks. The IMO said that the purpose of the meeting is to discuss issues around contingency plans in the case of strikes.
3. #CLASS SIZES: Nearly a quarter of primary school children were in classes of 30 or more pupils during the last school year. New data from the Department of Education shows that the average class size was just under 25 pupils in 2012/2013.
4. #GOLAN HEIGHTS: The first Irish troops are being deployed to the Golan Heights in Syria today to join the United Nations Disengagement Observer Forces mission. Ireland is sending 12 officers and 103 soldiers to participate in the mission and cater for reinforcement, escort and other operations.
5. #POLITICIANS’ PAY: Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty has claimed in an interview with TheJournal.ie that most TDs, ministers, junior ministers and ‘position-holders’ in the Dáil use money that he and other deputies from his party do not take home to “buy a new car, go on holiday, put it in the bank” or buy shares in that bank.
6. #BOSTON: The lawyer for Irish nanny Aisling Brady in Boston, accused of beating the infant in her care to death, has asked that the case against the woman should be dropped. Melinda Thompson said that the prosecution has presented false evidence to the grand jury in order to obtain an indictment, the Boston Globe reports.
7. #SYRIA: Russian President Vladamir Putin has warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said that he doesn’t exclude” supporting a UN resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used chemical weapons on its own people.
8. #PORN: Official records from the British Houses of Parliament for the last year show that more than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites at computers there, the Huffington Post UK reports. It is unclear whether MPs, Peers of other staff are responsible.
9. #TALL DARK AND HANDSOME: Researchers in England and Australia have confirmed that the average height of European men increased by 11 centimetres between the mid 1800s and 1980. Their study also revealed that – surprisingly – the average height of men also accelerated during the period spanning the two World Wards and the Great Depression.
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I just don’t understand how the government can justify not providing service for 300 young people with disabilities! It’s completely unacceptable,what do they expect people to do? Not only will families have to give up working to look after them etc, it denies the young people the right to attend a service which supports their needs and helps them develop as adults…it’s madness!
# disability: good to see the government “protecting the vulnerable” in our society again !!!!…. while the finance minister doesn’t have “enough information” on what the rich earn….. that’s his bloody job to know and find out !!!! jaysus wept its no wonder Labour are less popular than cowens govt (their role in this govt was to STOP the excesses of the looney right in FG ) ….. if labour want to know what the future holds for them …. they should just go ask the greens !!!!
RIP to that young boy,condolences to his family,very sad.
Noonan can’t implement a wealth tax? Because he hasn’t the means to find out who earns crazy money!
He only needs to look to leinster house and the state owned businesses!
One rule for the rich,while the poor get screwed!
13 eggs doesn’t work.
Ah Conor, don’t be that guy.
Looks like a good ‘g’ to me though…
I tried it upside down.
It’s still 13 eggs.
Whats wrong with 13 eggs?
Very baker’s dozen-ish, I can only think of food now ….
#DRUGS ~ I highlighted a flaw in the medical card scheme and a loophole. About 2 years ago. It went to the relevant bodies, including Minister for Health’s department. Nothing was done about it.
The HSE obviously don’t care about wasting money in certain areas while cutting services from the vulnerable ie young adults with intellectual disabilities ~ http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/school-leavers-with-intellectual-disabilities-face-crisis-due-to-funding-cuts-1.1504125
I sincerely hope that all countries including our own take in as many refugees from Syria as possible before that strike which seems imminent at this stage!
Is there actually ppl who are saying that innocent ppl including women and children should be left in the middle of a war? I worry for humanity if that’s the attitude of ppl!
Do you seriously come back periodically to check how many thumbs you’re getting?
No flies on conor this morning
Any link for the bid rigging story?
Sorry Rory, it’s not online, only in the paper today.
Thanks for the reply Michelle
No 3. Can’t work back from tax? Oh silly me, that’s what tax avoidance is for!
:)
So Mr Noonan has difficulty taxing the wealthiest in the country but has no problem being part of a government which cuts funding to intellectually disabled children the minute they leave school.
Think our problems pale into significance when you see the heart breaking pictures coming in from Syria , hope the leader,s of the free world get their finger out and do something , the world was shocked at what hitler did and said it would never be allowed to happen again ..
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