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Lunchtime Fix: 6 things you need to know

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1. TheJournal.ie has seen documents from the National Archive which show the death rate at the Tuam mother and baby home was double the rate of other similar facilities.

A letter from the 1940s also shows the attitudes to unmarried mothers at the time.

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2. IRELAND is currently appearing before the United Nations human rights committee, with much of the talk focussed on the impact austerity has had on people’s civil and political rights.

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3. ISRAEL has continued its attacks on Gaza and incredible new footage has appeared of the army’s controversial ‘knock on the roof’ warning in action.

A small missile hits the house, indicating that it has been targeted for an air-strike.

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4. NEW research has shown that more and more people are dropping out of college. The HEA says that men are more likely to leave during or after the first year.

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5. CHERYL Cole revealed late last night that she just married her boyfriend of three months on a beach in Mustique. We asked in our poll whether there was such a thing as “too soon”. The response was a quite emphatic YES.

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6. AS the rest of the world were tweeting about the World Cup Final last night, we were saying a fond farewell to Billo.

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:24 AM

    “The scale of the problem”… Brilliant

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    Jul 25th 2014, 10:04 AM

    Those shops are codding us with their labels…

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    Jul 25th 2014, 10:34 AM

    You tell em ed!

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:03 AM

    Time to lockout all Irish rail workers until they learn manners, a few months going hungry would help them reevaluate their priorities

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:45 AM

    note to Obama, a company is not a person and therefore cannot renounce their citizenship

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:51 AM

    Not what you meant, but notable http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

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    Jul 25th 2014, 11:21 AM

    A reasonable and sensible addition of information to a comment thread!? Get out of here Robert, there’s no place for your kind here.

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    Jul 25th 2014, 7:51 PM

    Note to Declan…wake up.Corporations have been people since before Obama’s presidency

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:09 AM

    mislabelling of fish in shops gets gets a mention on 9 at 9 but nothing about the poor 13 year old boy who drowned in drogheda yesterday, well done the journal.

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:10 AM

    Hi Ken, that was the top story in our News Fix last night: http://jrnl.ie/1588309

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:36 AM

    sorry nicky my mistake you can remove that comment if you wish

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    Jul 25th 2014, 10:28 AM

    The fish packaging saga, the scale of the issue is not yet know! Oh the puns they hurt!

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