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LAST UPDATE | 8 Jan
GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.
A Status Orange low temperature and ice warning is in place for 22 counties this morning after temperatures fell as low as minus five degrees in some areas last night.
Met Éireann has said it will remain extremely cold with widespread severe frost, ice and lying snow, with the potential impacts including dangerous travel conditions, travel disruption and animal welfare issues.
Weather stations in Dublin, Mullingar and Cavan recorded temperatures of minus five degrees overnight, with many other areas reaching as low as minus four and minus three.
The price of a second-hand home in Dublin rose by €50,000 in 2024, with further increases predicted for 2025.
That’s according to figures by property advisors DNG, who say house price hikes aren’t slowing down, after a 9.6% rise in the capital last year.
At a national level (excluding Dublin) there was an 8.4% increase in the average price of a second-hand home – almost double the rate of growth witnessed in 2023 (+4.3%).
The Social Democrats are on the verge of pulling out of government formation talks due to a belief that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are only willing to implement to “small tweaks” rather than “transformative change” to areas such as housing.
Gardaí have arrested a man in connection with the suspected murder of Paula Canty in Co Cork.
There have been at least seven serious traffic collisions where the driver failed to remain at the scene on Irish roads in the last two months.
Five people died across four of these incidents. In a number of cases, people have since been charged and appeared before the courts. However, the drivers in other incidents are yet to come forward.
Donald Trump has unveiled some of his foreign policy plans for when he returns to the White House next month, threatening a number of countries in the process.
The incoming US president announced he was planning to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and refused to rule out using military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal.
A state of emergency has been declared in Los Angeles due to wildfires whipped up by extreme winds.
The fire forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, some of whom abandoned their cars and fled on foot to safety with roads blocked.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald paid tribute to lifelong Irish republican Ted Howell as a “patriot” during his funeral in west Belfast.
Students from across Ireland are arriving in Dublin’s RDS this morning to take part in the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition, which is being held over the next four days.
$50 more for an iPod just because it says U2 on it. What a rip off.
Bono was good friends with Jobs. That’s how the U2 iPod came to be
It was also one of the first (RED) products for an Aids charity if i remember correctly?
I’d rather donate directly to a HIV/AIDS charity than pay over the odds for sweatshop made “luxury” goods so a small percentage of the profits can be donated.
Well done, do that so. I only stated its origins.
Good job !
I think the iPhone is a flop as well. Hate it.
Bajillions would disagree.
A flop? :D each and every launch is more successful than the last, no matter how much you hate it.
Flops floppers floppy flop flop
Dave,
I’ve had my iPhone 4S for 2 years this month and I absolutely love it. I’d happily have it as my phone forever. It’s a fantastic piece of technology that I simply cannot get enough of.
Flop? No sir.
I concur… When I think back to the days of the Nokia 3310 and phones of the like; and other small phones with shit screens to access the web… Give me strength..
Long live the iPhone; the Nokia 3310 of smart phones :)
You understand what a flop means right, nothing to do with your opinion.
Or yours..
He didn’t say it was Hawkins. He’s talking about sales. iPhones sell through the roof, therefore are not flops. They are the precise opposite of a flop.
I think David is right. iPhones are terrible.
Sent from my iPhone.
I’ve had my iPhone 4 for 4 years now.
This article is a flop and waste of man hours !
Lazy “sponsored” article
More Business Insider shite. Seriously, TheJournal, if I wanted to read Business Insider’s appalling click air “articles” I’d go directly to their site.
Oh, and as the byline is at the end of the article, I couldn’t tell before I opened it, although I had an inkling two or three paragraphs in. There was a waft of dumb that set my senses tingling.
In fairness, Apple are not the type of company that tries to promote its flopped products.
Though the Newton was not considered a flop
U2 iPod may have not sold numbers – but Apples association with U2 helped brand positioning of iTunes & iPod. absolute win for apple gaining instant street credibility opening up marketing streams to likes of Simpson’s, Vertigo tour (largest stadium tour ever) & access to global record labels, who didnt just take a call but wanted their music on itunes. complete and utter success for all parties
Vertigo tour largest tour ever? Think that might be wrong.
when Vertigo tour ended in 2006 it was the biggest stadium tour ever in terms of gross & numbers. superseeded by the Rolling Stones a year later. U2′s 360 beat them all few years later.
The U2 iPod was hardly a flop ,I had to trade in the mother in law to get one after many failed attempts at securing one.
For that gaudy, awful, designer bullshit?
Can you not align the article correctly? All the titles & pictures are misaligned.
Who proof read this article? It’s all OVER the place! Someone slaughtered the left over tray of beer and realised they had an article due.
I have a U2 iPod also, didn’t pay any more than the standard one for it. It was a replacement for a faulty white one. Maybe worth a few bob some day ?
I am no techno whiz but apple ipod touch and i phone 4s battery life is fab towards my own samsung galaxy 2.. My husband bought apple tv today.. He is a happy man.. I however missed all my programmes this evening.. At least he is happy.. Hope he wakes for work in morn!!
Ha. They call a tablet produced pre- Tim Berners Lee’s interwebs a failure!!! Greatest bloody failure of our time.
Like all of the apple products mentioned above, the battery life sucks on apple products, except for the mac book air. But I phones and I touch’s battery is the worse, really fustrates me.
The battery on an ipad sucks, does it?
I have one. But the hard drice stopped working in it. For sale now. For those interested :P
Ah memories…. don’t remember why but I needed to bring an Apple portable from Galway to Dublin on the train. Played Solitaire but battery died in Athenry!
Taxi each end – too heavy!
Just for the record. No apple professional desktop machines come with monitors. So the fact that the G4 came without one is negligent. The price was the only barrier. Sure the latest Mac Pro references it’s design and proportion. And selling at $3k is proof that professional users see the value.
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