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The 9 at 9 It’s the beginning of a new week – and here’s what you need to know as you kick off your Monday.

Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know a little before 9am.

1. #UNITED NATIONS Ireland will defend its record on human rights before the United Nation’s Human Rights Committee over the next two days. A number of groups have already made submissions – among them is Survivors of Symphisiotomy.

2. #ITALY Efforts are being made to refloat the shipwrecked Costa Concordia. The salvage master has admitted to being “a bit nervous” about the refloat, which comes two and a half years after the liner sank, leaving 32 people dead.

3. #ISRAEL Israel is keeping up its air strikes and artillery fire on the Gaza Strip despite diplomatic efforts to halt the unrest. Three training facilities of Hamas’ military wing were struck, with no casualties.

4. #HEALTH Hospitals have already overspent by €100m this year, double the deficit of last year, the Irish Examiner reports. It says that some hospitals were overspending by as much as 28% by the end of May.

5. #CHILD LABOUR South Korean electronics giant Samsung has temporarily suspended business with one of its suppliers in China after finding ‘evidence’ of possible illegal child labour at the plant. An investigation is underway.

6. #RESCUE Toddler Torben O’Shea, who survived a car crash that killed his siblings, disappeared while out with his family in a woods at the weekend. He was found after seven “terrifying” hours, a number of this morning’s papers report.

7. #EDUCATION One in six third-level students drops out after first year, a new study from the Higher Education Authority has found. That makes around 7,000 students who do not progress every year in Ireland. Females are more likely to progress than men.

8. #JOBSWATCH A skills shortage could cost software jobs in Ireland, a new report suggests. It says that thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas unless measures are taken.

9. #POOLBEG An emergency motion to protect the Poolbeg chimneys will be raised at Dublin City Council’s meeting today. Cllr Dermot Lacey has resubmitted a motion to include the chimneys on a protected structures list, amid outcry over the ESB saying it might have to demolish them.

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    Mute Fabiana Rea
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    Jan 12th 2015, 8:59 AM

    Terrible, RIP to the staff and passengers on board. Very scary.

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    Mute Philip Nicholls
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    Jan 12th 2015, 9:07 AM

    as they’ve found the first of the two recorders at least we can hope now to find out why the flight crashed and take steps to prevent a repetition.

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    Mute Joe Desbonnet
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    Jan 12th 2015, 10:33 AM

    This talk of exploding due to pressure (at sea level) seems like BS to me. If anything it may have imploded.. but I doubt the ~ 300mb cabin pressure difference between cruise alt and sea level could do that on its own.

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    Jan 12th 2015, 10:46 AM

    Just leave it at ‘ploded’ so!

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    Mute Mick Rooney
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    Jan 12th 2015, 1:21 PM

    The Indonesian Transport Ministry is already disputing the claims this official made and that the damage occured when the aircraft hit the water, not before.

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    Mute Eric Cantona
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    Jan 12th 2015, 1:26 PM

    They probably just mean the plane came apart on impact, ie it was intact when it hit the water and did not come apart in the air ruling out midair explosions etc,

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    Mute Mick Rooney
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    Jan 12th 2015, 2:57 PM

    Joe, cabin pressurisation in an aircraft doesn’t happen at the flick of switch – meaning, the cabin just doesn’t suddenly go to 10-11psi for crusing altitude the moment the aircraft leaves the ground. It’s a gradual automated process fed by the engine compressors with a safety valve at the rear of the aircraft. As an aircraft rises the air gets thinner and the pressure in the cabin gradually rises to make the air comfortable to breathe. The system works in reverse on descent. So the argument that the aircraft would still be at crusing altitude pressure (even in a rapid descent) at sea level is nonsence. It looks to me like the Director of Search & Rescue cited in the article got his information from salvage crews at the scene, not investigators. The investigation doesn’t begin until parts of the aircraft are forensically examined and the information from the black box recorders is downloaded.

    If explosive depressurisation forces occured here (and as yet we don’t know it did), then it happened at altitude, not sea level (due to violent forces acting on the aircraft or hull failure). The limited pictures of debris I’ve seen from the tail are jagged twists and tears consistent with catostrophic impact. Some of the rear windows and surrounds on the tail are still intact. That’s not consistent with massive depressure blast. Compare the tail debris recovered from QZ8501 with MH17 and you will notice the differences.

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