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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you begin your day.
1. #TARGET EXPRESS: Staff of the collapsed haulage firm Target Express – which is now set for liquidation – are to meet with the company’s interim liquidators this morning to discuss the prospect of receiving their arrears wages. Sit-ins are continuing at some of the company’s depots as staff look to get hold of their redundancy entitlements and any unpaid wages.
2. #STABBING: A man is due in court this morning over the fatal stabbing of Gerard Burnett in Mulhuddart last week. The 20-year-old was charged by Gardaí last night. A second man, aged 18, remains in custody.
3. #DRUGS: Two men have been arrested after Gardaí seized cocaine worth an estimated €140,000 from a car in Lucan. A follow-up search saw a large quantity of cash seized from a house.
4. #ROUND TWO: The second round of CAO offers has been distributed this morning, with 3,422 students receiving offers for college places – with just over 1,500 of those being offered places in degree courses. There were few dramatic drops in points entry requirements for various courses this morning, with some colleges only offering places in a handful of courses.
5. #COLD CASE: The PSNI has said it is now treating disappearance of a 19-year-old – who was last seen in 1989 – as murder. Officers said they have a number of new lines of inquiry into the disappearance of Caroline Graham, who was originally from Newry but went missing from Portadown in 1989.
6. #WATERFORD IT: A report into spending at the office of the former president of Waterford Institute of Technology has outlined lavish spending at the office – including €290,000 on hospitality expenses over eight years. The report also outlines one instance where the office chartered an aircraft to bring a visitor from Waterford directly back to Dublin, at a cost of €4,200 to the college.
7. #US 2012: As the Republican National Convention continues, vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan has delivered a stinging attack on President Barack Obama’s economic record, accusing his Democratic opponents of saddling the public with four years of failed policies. Romney himself will address delegates this evening. Obama has been keeping busy, meanwhile – taking to social news site Reddit to field public questions.
8. #PARALYMPICS: Let the games begin – again! The London 2012 Paralympic games kick off this morning after last night’s Opening Ceremony. Here’s TheScore.ie’s guide to the Irish in action today.
9. #STROKE: Finally, good news for cocoa-loving men this morning: new research has suggested that increasing a man’s chocolate intake can reduce his risk of stroke. The Swedish study of over 37,000 men found that those who ate the most chocolate were the least likely to have a stroke. Researchers have insisted, however, that the finding is not an excuse to over-eat the brown stuff. Sorry…
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Why is he seeking legal advice..he got elected..move on, there are more pressing issues that he should be concerned about.
Pure rubbish story…. Happens regularly on Youtube….. This shows Heydon is a publicity hoor thats all
A video made by gombeens for gombeens, it won’t be missed.
“TD’s blatant copyright infringement forces removal of YouTube video.” That would be the headline had this been a Sinn Fein candidate. Hugh, you really are so wonderfully predictable..
What a wonderful victim you are #rosaforceisstronnginthisreturd..
Arrogant mullah pig thinking copyright laws don’t apply to him
The hubris, they think they’re in FF.
It was terrible anyway.
It was a complete rip off. Nothing slick about it either.
I think the slick was from the oil leaking out of the sump.
It should be blocked everywhere!..but its like the old kit kat ad..you cant sing, you cant dance, you cant act…you’re hired.
Is there such thing as a wildly popular election video?
Only in North Korea.
Fine gael get their policies from the past maby the need to look to the future
Good, the video does a diservice to the movie
Lighten up folks …….. the gaiety of the nation was mildly enhanced for a little while …….. where’s the harm.in that !?! Shure ain’t the Healy Raes ripping off at least two councillor characters from ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ and providing the closest thing to a Darby O’Gilll remake as we’ll ever see !?!
Embarrassed it cost €345 and for the people of south Kildare to be represented by this idiocy
Does anyone care? Show’s his value elected thanks to copying a film from the 80′s?
Absolutely shocking Bullshit!!!!
So many keyboard warriors criticising a quirky fun video. What have they done for Kildare?
I called it back when the video first came out. I’m surprised it took this long for Universal to get it pulled.
Someone from Universal should hold him down and take a dump in his mouth. He’d soon change his attitude to copyright then.
A miĺlion or so refugees or 70 odd million turks and europe chooses 70 million turks with visa free travel
It’s a bit of fun, I enjoyed it. A lot of people seem very concerned with copyright all of a sudden, I assume all of you above have never downloaded music or bought a dodgy dvd.
Perhaps some people have downloaded or bought dodgy stuff but not as a means to get them a € 92,000 + a year job. It was awful and unlawful. Thankfully it has been taken down so the tourism industry can breath a sigh of relief.
It didn’t cost €345 to make…he didn’t do his sums… He forgot to include prep time, personnel time, equipment, prop hire, insurance, rights – music, location, props, video platform costs, post production etc etc etc as well as the €60k pr… Tut tut …
As we’ve found out. Fine Gael arent very good with sums…. Anything over national school mathematics is beyond even their brightest seemingly… Michael Noonan
The video was as bad as Hayden is ,A two face party hack that topped the pole in Kildare South by doing nothing ,saying nothing and keeping the seat safe .The well off and of course the farmers came out to vote for their own while 45% of the electorate never voted ,Irish people get what the deserve , when the poorer and working class whinge and moan but would not bother their arse to vote ,
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