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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you kick off your day…
1. #ROADS: Five people have been seriously injured in two separate crashes in Munster overnight. Three young men sustained major injuries after a single car collision in Togher in Cork at around 11.30pm last night. Separately two men – aged 19 and 20 – were seriously injured in a crash in Holycross Village in Tipperary at around 2.30am this morning. Both are being treated in Clonmel Hospital.
2. #IRAN: At least 250 people have died and more than 2,000 people are injured after two major earthquakes hit Iran. Al Jazeera reports that rescue teams have been trying to dig survivors out of the rubble of villages which have been destroyed by the powerful earthquakes. The earthquakes struck within 11 minutes of each other and measured 6.2 and 6.0 on the Richter scale.
3. #TIA SHARP: Stuart Hazell, the 37-year-old partner of Tia Sharp’s grandmother, has been charged with murder after the body of the 12-year-old was found at her grandmother’s home on Friday. Hazell was charged late on Saturday night and will appear before court on Monday. The Metropolitan Police in London have apologised to Tia Sharp’s mother for the delay in finding her daughter’s body.
4. #HOMECOMING: A number of newspapers report this morning that there will be no official homecoming for Irish athletes returning from the London Olympics tomorrow. A dispute over who would pay for the event is believed to have led to problems in organising the event.
Separately, the Sunday Times reports that the family of John Joe Nevin, who won a silver medal in the bantamweight boxing final last night, were refused entry to watch the fight at a number of pubs in Mullingar. The family instead had to watch the fight in Multyfarnham.
5 #COSTS: The HSE is reported to have spent €185,000 on a report on HR problems in the radiology department of Waterford Regional Hospital that was never published. The Sunday Independent reports that a draft report written by the HSE has not been published following legal advice.
6. #MENTAL HEALTH: A total of 347 people in Ireland received electroshock therapy in Ireland in 2010, according to figures received by TheJournal.ie. The procedure was performed on approximately 35 patients who were either unwilling or unable to give their consent to treatment.
7. #QWITTER: Former Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews has quit the party citing his disenchantment the party’s lack of direction. A report by the Sunday Independent found that Andrews had been behind a Twitter account masquerading as a disillusioned former member of Fianna Fáil which tweeted negative comments about fellow party members. Andrews said he takes full responsibility and regrets being involved with the account.
8. #BERTIE: In more Fianna Fáil news, the Sunday Times reports that Bertie Ahern lobbied Dublin City Council to build a statue of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately in the inner city where the singer was born. However the former Taoiseach was told that statues for entertainers cannot be erected until at least 20 years after the death of the person.
9. #LONDON 2012: Well, that’s it. Today is the final day of the London Olympics, bringing to a close what has been one of the most successful Olympics ever for Irish athletes who won five medals. Irish boxer Darren O’Neill will lead Team Ireland at the closing ceremony tonight, which is expected to see performances from a number of high-profile groups. For the final time this summer, here’s your round-up of everything you need to know about what’s happening at the Olympics today. Sob. It’s been emotional…
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This has been going on for many years but I’ve yet to see any virtue signalling Facebook or The Journal profile pictures displaying the DR Congo flag.
@Dan Broderick: That might be because Ukraine is a fellow European country, that more directly affects us, we have more of an affiliation with their plight; we host 60,000 Ukrainian refugees and we see the effects of the war daily on TV news and websites. It more directly affects us, regardless which side we favour.
And I suspect if we were to look at Facebook profiles of Congolese people from the region, and other peoples of neighbouring African countries, near were this massacre happened, I wouldn’t be surprised if they lack Ukraine flags but display various indications of Tutsi and Hutu support, they might not be directory involved but have a side they support, because their neighbours got massacred this time or previously (ca. 5.4 million dead though war and famine in the last 25 years or so). What do you think?
I suppose it would be virtue signalling if Irish people started showing Hutu flags in or Hutus started showing Ukraine flag in their profiles. But that’s not what is happening.
@Dan Broderick: careful now, you’ll have your comment deleted. Seems the journal delete every comment they don’t like! Censorship deprives the public from perspective
@John White: Does it?
@Gavin Conran: there’s a big difference in deleting comments that are factual and not identifying anyone in particular vs making hurtful accusations against an individual, guilty or not it’s for the courts to decide. That’s not what I’m disputing, I have had multiple comments deleted that were PC and factual as have many others.
The UN are a complete waste of space.
@Mike Dunne: fully agree.
animals
@joe doyle: animals are far and away better than these so called human beings.
@joe doyle: Animals, financed by the biggest conglomerates in the World. The Congo was plundered by Belgium before independence only to be replaced by big business. The Congo is blessed or plagued by the minerals that’s found there. Our mobile phones work because of Cobalt which is mined in the Congo. Diamonds Gold are just a few of the resources that is fought over in proxy wars in the Congo.
The Gov in the Congo uses the Russian mercenary group, Wagner, as it’s security force and a sister company holds most of the mineral mining rights as payment. Be very careful before you jump to any conclusions about events in Congo!
@Liam Dunne: The use of mercenaries in the Congo since it’s Independence has been the norm. South Africa has been a major source for mercenaries funded by Western Big business. The last thing the conglomerates want is the Division of the Congo to unite and have a stable government. Kinshasa broke away from the rest of the Congo after Independence, It was the richest part of the Congo in minerals etc. They had no problem in using mercenaries from Europe, Rhodesia,South Africa paid for by mining companies. Nothing has changed. The mineral wealth of the Congo makes it a battle ground for proxy wars.
They are worse than animals. Savages. With no civil or human morals. There has to be something that can be done with savages like these that are slaughtering innocent villages of people just trying to live their lives. They should be massacred themselves. Them and their ilk raping children and babies as a tool of their power. Big power with their machetes and machine guns. An absolute disgrace that this is still going on and there are Supposedly UN troops designed to tackle these so call armies. Why is this still happening. There are too many movies made from actual events and record of these events throughout the years and they make for disturbing viewing and yet even though acknowledged, there is more and more still allowed to happen without proper intervention from powers that be. SADLY
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