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LAST UPDATE | 17 May 2023
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. Two senior civil servants were involved in the last update to a deal that allows RAF aircraft access to Irish airspace but there was no ministerial input, The Journal has learned.
Sources with a knowledge of the memorandum of understanding said that the last renewal of the deal was in 2016 when a senior official from the Department of Defence and another from the Irish Aviation Authority signed the document.
2. THE BODY OF a 26-year-old Irish tourist has been found in Switzerland after he was reported missing over the weekend.
Justin Flannery, from Co Sligo, was last seen on 12 May in Lauterbrunnen, a village in the Swiss Alps around 66 kilometres south of Bern.
3. The number of referrals to restorative justice services – a process that facilitates dialogue between victims and offenders – declined last year despite Government commitment to increase capacity.
New research based out of Maynooth University has found that the use of restorative justice was far lower in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019, falling from 721 referrals to 413.
4. Rory Gallagher has stepped down as the manager of the Derry senior footballers.
Domestic abuse allegations were made against Gallagher by his estranged wife, Nicola Gallagher, in a post on social media last week.
5. New research on fraudulent online activity has shown that phishing and hacking incidences are on the rise in Ireland, and occurring more often here than in most other countries.
The number of those surveyed by polling company Red C who say they have experienced phishing has risen from 43% in 2019 to 59% in 2022, the highest level seen globally.
6. A Hostel blaze that killed at least six people in New Zealand’s capital is being treated as arson, police said Wednesday as they launched a homicide investigation.
Flames and smoke engulfed the four-storey Loafers Lodge in Wellington in the early hours of Tuesday, forcing dozens of residents to flee for their lives.
7. Politicians from Co Clare are due to have a meeting with Minister for Equality and Integration Roderic O’Gorman this morning, focusing on the opposition by local people to asylum seekers being housed at a hotel in Inch.
8. A wreath-laying ceremony is taking place today to mark the 49th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings.
More than 30 people were killed by three no-warning bombs in Dublin city centre and a fourth in Monaghan town on 17 May 1974.
Elizabeth Holmes
9. Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes looks set for prison after an appeals court rejected her bid to remain free, as she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing hoax that brought her fleeting fame and fortune.
In another ruling issued late last night, US district judge Edward Davila ordered Holmes to pay $452 million in restitution to the victims of her crimes.
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“Phelan said her tumours have now reduced by 50%, due to a drug she found through her own research, after her medical team told her she had only a matter or months to live”. Unbelievable that she had to search for further treatment herself. You would think they would be up to date on what treatments or even trials that may be available. Is there no world wide database on this stuff? What if she had just accepted their prognosis?
@Fr. Fintan Stack: A lot of it is to do with what’s available on the public system vs what’s available with private cover. HSE will offer the most cost-effective treatments for the population as a whole, rather than expensive treatments that may or may not be proven to be better in the majority of cases. It sucks but unfortunately the health budget is finite.
@Tom Tom: or maybe they prefer not to inform the patient of the expensive alternatives to avoid the negative publicity,
Every doctor and consultant has to regularly verify that they are up to date with all treatments available , drugs etc
@Fr. Fintan Stack: lots of these treatments are experimental, and have huge costs for only tiny gains. Eh some of the new drugs might extend life by a couple of months, and cost over 100,000. You might not like to think that there is a cost to life. But there is.
God bless her for all she’s been through.
Immunotherapy is very promising. Long may your good results continue. Hopefully with that and your positive attitude you will live a long and fulfilled life.
Congrats Vicki on your Fellowship Award , on your positivity & on all that you have achieved for all the women of Ireland. May your health continue to improve & your work to achieve success & the recognition it deserves.
Education- Freedom.
Bravo !
That headline couldn’t be funnier.
@ThatGuy: wtf is wrong with you?
@ThatGuy: too taxing for you to understand?? Look at her speech, there’s nothing funny about it.
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