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Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know a little before 9am.
1. #GAZA STRIP The UN Security Council has called for an “immediate truce” in Gaza, which was echoed by US President Barack Obama. The Palestinian death toll has exceeded 500, with yesterday being the bloodiest day of fighting in Gaza in years.
2. #MH17 Australia has hit out at the “shambolic” situation at the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine, as bodies continue to be recovered. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council is expected to demand that pro-Russian separatists grant unrestricted access to the crash site.
3. #SUN BAN A ban on the use of sunbeds by the under-18s comes into effect today, along with a ban on offering sunbeds to be used for free. The HSE will also have to carry out inspections on sunbed operators. It’s all part of a bid to curb skin cancer rates in Ireland.
4. #MISSING The search is continuing for an Irish man (19) missing in the sea off Byron Bay in Australia, after the efforts were suspended overnight. He was surfing with friends when he went missing. Two others were rescued from the site.
5. #LOUGH DERG A woman in her sixties died after falling into Lough Derg at around 12.30am on Sunday. She was returning to a boat with a man when she entered the water – her companion was unable to save her and contacted the emergency services.
6. #THE FORCE New Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said there should be urgent and fundamental change in the “structure and culture” of the Garda Síochána, in an interview with the Irish Independent today. She also said she was determined to reform the force.
7. #FARM SAFETY The first National Farm Safety Awareness Day is taking place today. Families are being asked to review safety on their farm to reduce risks. So far this year, 14 people have died as a result of farm accidents in Ireland.
8. #HORRIFIC A four-year-old boy was trapped by his seatbelt during a car hijacking in South Africa, and was dragged along the road to his death. Local newspapers said that the boy’s mother was loading him and his sister into their car when three hijackers held guns to her head.
9. #PERSONAL Fears about identity theft led to the Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes getting the database of civil registration records removed from the government site irishgenealogy.ie. The Irish Times said Hawkes described the issue as “shocking”.
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Consummate waffler full of his own self importance. The amount of hot air emanating from him is an environmental hazard.
@Paul Shepherd: couldn’t have put it better myself Paul
Bricking it now so they are
@Shaun Gallagher: If he’d said nothing to the Chinese you’d probably have whinged then too. What a nothing comment. Why bother?
@honey badger: Ahhhhhh
This lad is some chancer.
@ggg: can’t imagine what he’s doing over there anyway? It’s not like the Chinese are big st Patrick day celebrants anyway are they. It’s not like they dye the Xhangxi river green or anything. If I said what I think of Ryan I’d be banned from the journal for life. But let’s say it rhymes with canker!!!he was useless when he was minister for communications in 2002 and 20years later he’s still as useful as a chocolate dildo!!!
Any chance of Eamon going missing over there ? You hearing me Xi, ya know.
He would want to start looking after his own people before he tells others what to do
@Pauline Cahill: Exactly. The Uighurs have no complaints at all. They are part of government in fact. BUT the Chines do believe that having a house or home and access to good health service is a human right!!
Himself and Leo stealing a living from the Irish taxpayer
@ggg: they were elected. You didn’t stand. If you want change, join a party like SF and try make a difference.
Cap in hand to a dictatorship, embarrassing.
That’ll really scare the Chinese! What scares me is that he’s coming back!!
Ryan should be happy, “there are 9 million bicycles in Peking” (so the song tells us).
Dzzzzope!!!!!!!!
What about the human rights of Irish people. If he had his way they would freeze to death
They’re well fed up of him at this stage I’d say..
Who paid for this journalist to go to China. I very much doubt that anything that Eamon Ryan would say, could justify the cost of the Journal covering this expense.
If this clown is voted back in the people to blame are the voters who voted for him remember that
I heard the Chinese Minister responded by saying Ryan looked shattered and needed a lie down.
Knob
For all the greens out there …..your leader eamon Ryan used up enough aviation fuel going to China that 1200 cars would use on average in 1 year. He wants people to go vegan when much of the protein in these foods like soya and coconut oil come from areas if cut down rainforest that are supposed to pump out oxygen into the atmosphere. Seriously mix up party
Much of the polysilicon supply for the world’s solar panels is processed in China’s Xinjiang region, where companies are accused of using forced labour.
He is a hypocrite.
‘the cost to the Journal’
He’s some chancier, what about the basic right of ever man, woman and child here in Ireland to a place to call home. Him and his buddy’s are helping the wealthy landlord to evict thousands on to the streets of Ireland with no place to go. ????
As if they will listen
I can imagine the attention that the Chinaman paid to The Bicycle mechanic from Dublin .he was over there to buy Bicycles .
Dies he think people take him seriously
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