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LAST UPDATE | 3 May 2019
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the headlines you need to know as you start your day.
1. #TUAM The religious order at the centre of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home burial controversy has told the government it has no “legal liability” arising from the home.
2. #COURTS The High Court will today rule on a case being taken by Ruth Morrissey, who took a case over the alleged misreading of her cervical smears and the subsequent failure to tell her about it.
3. #RIP Peter Mayhew, the actor best known for playing the Wookiee warrior Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies, has died at the age of 74.
4. #SOS Three fishermen have been rescued off the coast of Co Wicklow after their trawler caught fire and sank yesterday evening.
5. #LOCAL ELECTIONS Small parties appear to have made gains in England’s local elections, as a Brexit backlash has seen the Conservative and Labour parties lose seats in the country’s councils.
6. #STUDY New research has found that so-called ART treatment prevented the transmission of the HIV virus between nearly 1,000 male couples, a finding which could potentially lead to the eradication of the AIDS virus.
7. #RECRUITMENT BAN Opposition TDS have called on the HSE to end its recruitment freeze, saying the move is “short sighted” and “disgraceful”.
8. #BLACKLISTED Facebook has banned the Infowars founder Alex Jones as part of its latest attempt to crack down on hate content on the social network.
9. #WEATHER It will be dry and bright today, with some sunshine at times, but there will also be cloudy periods and showers in parts of Ulster and in eastern coastal counties. Highest temperatures will be between 9 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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So the police investigate this allegation from 2004 and they decide to take no further action?, cue the guilty verdict by social media 15 years later then.
@Uncle Montys oaf: welcome to the Real World. You should have chosen the red pill
Come to think of it, he is fond of boxes…
Shazam! You’re pregnant
FFS another one
@DavidOReilly: no great loss
I wouldn’t worry.. He won’t be long making them disappear
Least his Not one of the few famous people who are dead and unable to fight for their good name and reputation to be restored after sexual assault allegations
@liam ward60: ya, poor Jimmy Saville getting his name dragged through the dirt. Disgrace!
@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: i think he means more like wako jako, nobody defending Sicko Savile!!!
@Brian Kelleher: i know. Takin the pish. Although…id actually be in the aul anti wacko camp tbh. Sick puppy!
@Brian Kelleher: are you seriously defending Jackson? You think the abusers are lying? If they are they deserve an Oscar. And look at culkin, he turned out great
@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: you’re in the whacko camp? You realise you’ve other yourself I presume?
@andyearley: *outted… damn
@5hbeZh0I: there is a story breaking that the director of Leaving Neverland agrees that one of the victims’ alleged assaults couldn’t have happened as the place where it happened hadn’t been built until 2 years after he claimed the abuse stopped.
@Jackie Carvill Caruana: yeah, it sounds like he got the year of when the abuse stopped wrong. He was 10 years old, easy mistake to make
I’ll only believe it if he perpetrated these assaults while tied up, wrapped in transparent plastic, and suspended from a crane.
@Gerry Quinn: it’s not abuse if you’re submerged in ice cold water in a straight jacket and have an anvil tied to your laces?
I came for the comments
@David Malone: dirty fecker
Get out of that one
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