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Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday

Brexit, a shooting in Dublin and the PSC had everyone talking today.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

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  • The Irish government said it will ramp up plans for a no-deal Brexit following what it sees as the “increasing risk” of such a scenario.
  • A man is 40s is in a serious condition in hospital after being shot in his car in Lucan this afternoon.
  • US Vice President Mike Pence departed Ireland after a two-day visit.
  • Personal data relating to the Public Services Card will still be processed by the government despite the Data Protection Commission finding that there is no legal basis for it to do so outside of social welfare payments, it was confirmed.
  • A man was arrested following a suspected arson attack outside a garda station in Co Louth last night. 
  • Monaghan County Councillor Hugh McElvaney lost his High Court bid aimed at preventing an ethics inquiry being conducted over comments he made while being secretly filmed by RTÉ’s Prime Time in 2015.
  • The Iveagh Markets in Dublin 8 are “unsafe and in an advanced state of dereliction”, a Dublin City Council report found. 

WORLD

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#UK: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for a general election to be held after MPs backed a bill to extend the Brexit deadline.

#HONG KONG: Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader, announced she will permanently shelve a controversial extradition bill that sparked three months of pro-democracy protests which have plunged the city into crisis.

#BAHAMAS: Hurricane Dorian claimed the lives of at least seven people after devastating parts of the Bahamas while en route to the United States. 

#US: Five people from the same family are among the more than 30 people presumed to have died in a fire aboard a scuba diving boat off the coast of California.

#GERMANY: Former Real Madrid footballer Christoph Metzelder is under investigation for allegedly sharing images of child sexual abuse, German prosecutors confirmed.

PARTING SHOT

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    Mute booby sandwiches
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    May 20th 2017, 8:07 PM

    fantastic news, the economy is booming. a shinner will be along shortly now with doom and gloom LOL

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    May 20th 2017, 10:27 PM

    @Jayo Breathneach: the property crash wasn’t caused by outside investors. It was by people taking out too big mortgages. Maybe you move in the wrong circles if you can’t afford a house

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    May 20th 2017, 9:29 PM

    the issue i have is that the SDZ rules have been thrown at the window…I live in Adamstown and I am happy to see development start again Im dissaappointed that the amenities like the parks and town centre are on hold. It worries me that they will never be built. Even the PR piece about the community centre is kind of false…what is being built is a sports hall for the secondary school which can act as a community center.
    It worries me that Adamstown will turn into another Lucan where people have to travel to do things as all that was built in Lucan was houses.

    Adamstown was supposed to be a self contained town where all amenties would be near by and within walking distance. Now Its just going to become another Housing estate

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    May 20th 2017, 9:24 PM

    No housing for 10 yrs, creates a drought! Available housing gifted to vulture funds at exchequers expense. Housing shortage creates property price bubble, banks balance sheets improves exponentially! Cheerleaders of austerity clap themselves on the back, while young people forced to rent for extended period to gather sufficient funds for a deposit! Same aul Fianna Gael, keep pretending the recovery is going! Check out the debt clock, 200 billions and counting!

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    May 20th 2017, 8:16 PM

    All the lost money is back in play .who lifted the flooring boards

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    May 20th 2017, 10:08 PM

    @Jayo Breathneach: so many people just comment for the sake of making noise. You will be preaching again shortly about the lack of available houses. There is no bubble, we are well short of peak price of the boom and if we’re to going into a bubble we would be adding another 10% to that due to population increase.
    The problem isn’t housing, we have plenty of empty houses in this country. The problem is the total failure by the government to build sustainable economies outside of Dublin. If you talk to most people who moved from different parts of the island to Dublin for work, they would love to move back home but there are no jobs in their field outside Dublin. Invest in areas outside Dublin, people can start moving into empty homes down the country and puts less pressure on rents and the price of houses in Dublin

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    May 20th 2017, 11:24 PM

    @Dark Knight: move the capital to the midlands?

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    May 21st 2017, 1:27 PM

    @kevin: They did that in Oz actually.

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    May 20th 2017, 8:05 PM

    Great to see the economy back in action !

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    May 20th 2017, 10:22 PM

    Thnks to Noonan???

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    May 21st 2017, 9:35 AM

    There is a lot of comments that would be getting red thumped today.

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