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1. #ARREST: A man is being detained in Lucan Garda Station following the death of a pensioner in Dublin on Friday.

2. #MIDDLE EAST: Israel unleashed its biggest air strikes on the Gaza Strip since 2014 as Israel and Hamas traded fire and two Palestinians were killed. (BBC News)

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4. #EDUCATION: School secretaries are preparing a national campaign next year to address precarious employment issues and pay discrepancies.

5. #HAT IN THE RING: Dragon’s Den star Gavin Duffy will seek to contest the presidential election, reports The Sunday Times.

6. #CLOSURE: Discount retailer Dealz faces the potential shuttering of a store in Wexford after losing a planning battle over the unauthorised outlet.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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