EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #BLOOD TEST Around 280 newborn babies were given “potentially incorrect” blood group results at five hospitals due to a labelling error, the Irish Independent reports. As a result, 220 new mothers were given the blood product anti-D despite the fact they may not have needed it.
2. #RYANAIR Ryanair is expected to issue legal proceedings against a pilot after he appeared on the Channel 4 programme Dispatches about concerns he had over the company’s safety and fuel policy. The company said Captain John Goss has been dismissed for “gross misconduct”.
3. #EGYPT Egypt has declared a state of emergency after security forces stormed the Cairo protest camps supporting ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. It is believed at least 343 people died during clashes. A UN Security Council meeting has been called for over the ‘massacre’.
4. #ASK FM Gardaí are to quiz eight ‘suspected internet trolls’ over the alleged cyberbullying of two teenage girls – Ciara Pugsley and Erin Gallagher – who took their own lives, the Herald reports. It says that IP addresses were given to gardaí by Ask FM.
5. #DRUGS Gardaí seized cannabis plants worth an estimated €120,000 during a planned search in Church Cross in Skibbereen, Cork, yesterday. A man in his 60s was arrested at the scene.
6. #PERU Michaella McCollum Connolly has told the Irish Daily Mail that she and Melissa Reid are “resigned” to the fact they are “not going home soon”. There are also reports that a Peruvian newspaper has linked a gang to the women. It is expected the women will appear in court tomorrow, says the Irish Times.
7. #CANNABIS New regulations likely to be introduced this year could see doctors allowed to prescribe medicinal cannabis, the Irish Times reports. It says that it will also become an offence to possess certain prescription drugs without authorisation under the new regulations.
8. #HSE A total of 51 items belonging to the HSE containing sensitive information went missing between 2009 and 2011, the Irish Examiner reports today. Out of 69 items in total that have been written off as stolen, 20 had no encryption in place. The material included laptops, USB sticks, BlackBerrys and an iPhone.
9. #WIKILEAKS Bradley Manning has apologised for leaking secret intelligence files to WikiLeaks, saying that his actions “have hurt people and hurt the United States”. He made the comments at a sentencing hearing at Fort Meade. He faces up to 90 years in prison for offences including espionage and computer fraud.
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