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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. Detectives investigating the murder and disappearance of Co Antrim woman Chloe Mitchell have charged two men in connection to the case in the early hours of this morning.
2. A bus carrying wedding guests rolled over on a foggy night in Australia’s wine country, killing 10 people and injuring 25, police have said.
3. Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died aged 86.
Berlusconi had been undergoing treatment for chronic leukaemia and was admitted last week for planned medical checks for the illness.
4. Almost 1,400 international protection applicants have been forced into homelessness this year due to a lack of state accommodation, including four unaccompanied minors, the Irish Refugee Council has highlighted.
5. Freshly revealed documents have cast a light on divisions within management of the state’s defence structures as civil servants and military chiefs sought to respond to an increasing amount of military abuse allegations.
6. The HSE has launched a national and international recruitment campaign to recruit consultants for the Irish health service, urging many healthcare workers abroad to return home.
7. Two fully remote workers outline why they made the decision and what the challenges and benefits are of working from home.
“Last year, I traded a job in luxury retail in London, where I was based for seven years, for a fully remote position as a Growth Adviser, based out of Donegal, and I couldn’t be happier.”
8. Data tracking biases against women has shown no progress over the past decade, with prejudices remaining “deeply embedded” in society despite rights campaigns such as MeToo, a UN report said Monday.
9. The Government being urged to take decisive action to tackle energy poverty and break Ireland’s reliance on fossil fuel home-heating ahead of next winter.
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He didn’t take part in Eoghan Murphy no-confidence vote, despite saying he would defy his own party’s abstention line. All talk, no action. Hope people remember that on Election Day!
@nothing witty: you should look at his record relating To ex The Garda Commissioner first berfe you throw stones
@pat seery: Exactly. A very decent man by all accounts.
@Padro Touche: Disagree. Another TD who employed his own children as parliamentary assistants despite them having no qualifications for the job. Also, openly offered to pay for people objections to a mosque out of his own pocket.
Despite what views anyone has on a mosque or its proposed location, to have an elected representative trying to drum up planning objections by offering to pay the fees himself is not a good thing.
McGuinness says and does only what he thinks will get him elected – always has, always will.
@Dara O’Brien: all politicians do the same……. Keep up
Not a word from them since going in with Finegael..sure they are all the one arty now..
@Marianne: Why didn’t he vote during the last few no confidence motions? Why does he come out with it now before their month off? The whole thing is a scam. There won’t be another opportunity to have a no confidence vote between here and the election.
@Marianne: mc Guinness…the man who met the Garda Commissioner in a car park..then chaired a committee about Garda behaviour and didn’t disclose said meeting. A paragon of virtue and leading by example.
But he may not be present on the day.
https://kilkennynow.ie/revealed-number-of-days-kilkenny-tds-missed-a-vote-while-present-in-the-dail/
@sean de paore: he was in a corridor outside the chamber undertaking important constituency business and the only TD remaining in the chamber when the vote was taken ran out of time after pressing the 58th voting button.
@sean de paore: well you know Seán, that says it all.
Mmmm. Turkeys voting for Christmas springs to mind.
@Nigel Barlow: So outraged he could almost vote.
Getting well and truly fed up with these pair of a holes FF and FG now.They are in government together in all but name.Confidence and supply doesn’t work,end it now as it isn’t giving either a functioning government or functioning opposition.Im sure the people of Ireland have no interest in listening to Leo and Micheal bickering over when the election should be.All parties are ready for a GE anyway so why not just go for it and be done with it.
@Terry Cunningham: You may not have to wait too long. Late March is the favorite for an election. Could be earlier if FF decide to pull the rug out.
@Pete Gilmartin: A no confidence motion in Simon Harris is most likely as the annual health crisis will show its head again in the near future, a couple of votes from FF will mean FG throw their toys out of the pram and call a GE while blaming FF.
Won’t last till may, despite Leo’s bleating.
There must be an election coming sooner rather than later, FG and FF are attacking eachother at every chance and the shinners are starting to chirp as well considering they had a bad Westminster election and now the nurses in NI are striking and others will too
@Patrick O Connell: SF had a good UK election though
They said a vote of no confidence in Mr Murphy was a vote of no confidence in this government, so Mr McGuinness has no excuse next time.
I’m sure this manoeuvring to bring down the government has nothing to do with distracting attention away from an upcoming case against him in the High Court being brought by the former head of Rehab.
Have dealt with the man on a number of occasions. As decent as you’ll find. A man of principle. Wish he wasn’t with FF.
@Kian David Griffin: I’m sure Micheal Martin would agree with you on your latter point.
Says the man who voted confidence in Eoghan Murphy
They are all getting a conscience now there’s an election on the way.
John McGuinness the next leader of
Fianna Fáil
@Vinny O Brien: He’d be lucky to even get his own vote.
You should also vote for no confidence in your party leader as he is the weakest party leader FF have had in years. I can’t see the party doing well in a general election with him in charge.
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