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LAST UPDATE | 4 Mar 2024
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
Industrial school survivors
1. Survivors of industrial schools have expressed frustration at a range of support measures proposed by the Government, saying the plan doesn’t address many of their needs.
A number of survivors, including some who had travelled from England, met with Education Minister Norma Foley in Dublin recently to express their concerns.
Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse (SRIA) are calling for an annual pension of €15,000, access to the Health Amendment Act (HAA) medical card, and housing support.
Emergency accommodation
2. Arrangements to provide shelter to homeless men who had been sleeping in tents near to the International Protection Office in Dublin city centre during the snow last week have ended.
Over 100 men have been sleeping rough in tents near to the International Protection Office (IPO) on Mount Street in Dublin 2. They are some of the over 1,100 men who have come to Ireland seeking International Protection who have not been accommodated by Government.
Following advocacy, media reports and outcry on social media on Friday, the Department of Integration – which oversees accommodation for asylum seekers – said temporary emergency accommodation would be provided “due to the current extreme weather”.
Gaza
3. US Vice President Kamala Harris has urged an immediate six-week ceasefire in Gaza, upping the pressure on key ally Israel as heavy fighting rages in the Palestinian territory.
“Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table,” Harris said during a speech in Selma, Alabama, yesterday.
Harris’s comments, the most forceful to date by a US administration official, came as Washington led a push to lock in a truce before Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month that begins in around one week.
Funeral
4. Ten-year-old Shannon schoolboy Dylan Coady Coleman “has worked five or six miracles by giving new life and hope” to others with the donation of his organs.
That is according to Shannon co-parish priest, Fr Michael Geraghty who made his tribute to “loving child” Dylan at the end of the funeral mass at a packed Mary Immaculate Church in Shannon today to celebrate the life of the “precious member” of the local community.
Dylan died on Wednesday at the Children’s Health Ireland hospital at Temple Street in Dublin from injuries sustained in a tragic road accident in Shannon last Sunday – just one day after Dylan’s mother, Laura, gave birth to his new brother, Shane.
Local Link
5. There has been a significant increase in the number of passengers taking rural Local Link services across Ireland over the past four years, new figures show.
Figures from the Department of Transport show that the numbers taking Local Links – bus services in Ireland providing local public transport in rural areas – shot up by over 360% between 2020 and 2023.
In 2020, a total of 686,485 passengers used the service, rising to 3,200,263 in 2023.
Republican primary
6. Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, marking her first victory of the 2024 campaign.
Her victory has interrupted Donald Trump’s sweep of the Republican voting contests, although the former president is expected to pick up several hundred more delegates in more primaries happening this week on ‘Super Tuesday’.
Despite her early losses, Haley has said she would remain in the race until at least Super Tuesday, although she has declined to name any primary she felt confident she would win.
Post-mortem
7. A judge has ordered that an independent post-mortem be conducted on a man who died a number of days after he was allegedly fatally assaulted at an accommodation centre in Co Tipperary.
Judge Carol Anne Coolican granted an application calling for the independent autopsy, during a special sitting of Newcastle West District Court in Co Limerick.
Ivan Volkov (65) with an address at House 2, Holm Oak Cottages, Dundrum House Hotel, Dundrum, Co Tipperary, appeared before the court, charged in connection with the fatal assault of Shamil Nabiev, a 69-year old native of Azerbaijan.
Jailbreak
8. Haiti’s government has declared a state of emergency, imposing a night-time curfew in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence at the weekend.
During the weekend, armed gang members stormed the country’s two biggest prisons, resulting in a mass jailbreak.
The 72-hour state of emergency went into immediate effect as the government said it would set out to find the killers, kidnappers and other violent criminals that it reported escaped from the prison.
Weather warning
9. A Status Yellow alert for wind and rain has been issued in counties Cork and Kerry.
The alert will kick-in later this evening and remain in place overnight.
Met Éireann forecasts that very strong and gusty west to southwest winds and spells of heavy rain will bring the potential for falling branches, damage to temporary structures, localised flooding and difficult travelling conditions.
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That was cheap. If we had arranged and paid no doubt it would have been 2.5 million.
$7.9 million overall? Should have led with that!! Great for the Irish economy all the same – they should run another “Gathering” for politicians and Presidents!
And this is a scandal in the States? This happens on a daily basis here! We’re used to it, we’ve come to accept it as the norm!
Judging by the students reactions below her it looks like Malia is letting off some ripper of a fart.
And never have two young girls been so bored in their lives!
I wonder how many people invite guests to their house and total up what it cost to host them when they leave…
That’s 21c of toilet paper
€2.30 of electricity
€6 breakfast
80c milk and a tea bag
€1.50 for that glass you broke……
Don’t worry I don’t expect you to pay this I’m just making sure you and the whole world knows what my hospitality has cost me.
And where did all that money go seeing as Ireland is in such a ‘bad state’ ?
The culchies in the towns where he visited still have their communion money for fecks sake. No chance of that money being recirculated
Damn culchies. Stopping us all from being rich.
The book Animal Farm by George Orewell comes to my mind when I read about Obama admin and their extravagant lifestyles on US tax payers money.
During a recent trip to China the first family and their staff of about 70 stayed in the presidential suite at the Westin Chaoyang Hotel, which USA Today reports costs about $8,400 a night. Clearly the elite live by a different standard and have for a long time. Obama sure knows how to spend taxpayers money.
Yes he does, 100′s of millions on vacations, 4000 calorie state dinners, the best of everything including medical. Meanwhile the little people struggle with multiple part time jobs, poor quality high cost Obama care and young people not being able to find work after college. But he’s on their side right? What a delusion.
It won’t be too long before Obama will introduce in special powers to ban the very books that were written to demonize Soviet Russia. The tables have turned 180° and Now the United States has become the very same totalitarian Communist state.
The trip this week for our little president
To the uk prob will cost us a million
It’s a state visit, the host country pays.
The gathering or the shakedown with guilt of the diaspora as we all knew it to be.
And the book ” One flew over the cuckoos nest” comes to mind when I read some of these comments
Mike ya must be a dub
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