LAST UPDATE | 10 Aug
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. In our main story this morning, Eoghan Dalton reports that locals in Dundrum, Co Tipperary have been encouraged to carry out dubious “citizen’s arrests” on migrant people who are due to be accommodated in a local hotel and on the bus drivers who transport them to their accommodation.
At a meeting held in the locality last week, up to 40 residents of the west Tipperary town met to discuss tactics to halt the housing of asylum seekers at the Dundrum House Hotel in the coming weeks.
2. Between 90 to 100 people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school in Gaza City.
A spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence agency said three rockets hit the school that was housing displaced Palestinians.
3. Dublin City Council is set to trial recycling trays on public bins to “reduce and discourage people going through bins in search of plastic bottles and aluminium cans”.
Green Party and Dublin City councillor Michael Pidgeon said the council is set to roll out 60 as a trial across the city centre.
4. Minister for Enterprise, Peter Burke has proposed a €750 tax credit for people under the age of 25 in this year’s Budget in a bid to stop them emigrating.
Burke revealed his plans in an interview with the Irish Independent, telling the paper that he does not expect to get it across the line this year but nonetheless wants to make it a core policy aim of Fine Gael.
5. An Irish woman leading 3,000 UN-backed humanitarian workers in Bangladesh has spoken of the emotional moment she watched the country free itself in a revolution to depose its dictator.
Gwyn Lewis, from Dublin, who has a lifetime working in conflict zones spoke to The Journal‘s Niall O’Connor about her past two years working on aid projects in Bangladesh.
6. Paul O’Donoghue writes this morning about how plans to make Ireland the ‘Saudi Arabia of offshore wind’ are in trouble.
It is now certain, O’Donoghue writes, that the target to have 5GW of offshore wind installed by 2030 will be missed.
7. Rhasidat Adeleke has confirmed she will run in the Olympic final of the 4x400m women’s relay tonight.
8. The funeral of acclaimed Irish novelist Edna O’Brien will take place in her native Co Clare this morning.
The author died peacefully on 27 July at the age of 93 after a long illness.
9. Who were Patrick and Eamon Butterly, the father and son behind the Stardust disco?
In a new book, The Last Disco, Sean Murray, Christine Bohan (The Journal’s Deputy Editor), and Nicky Ryan (The Journal’s Senior Media Producer) explore the tragedy of the Stardust nightclub fire that left 48 young people dead.
You can read an abridged extract detailing the rise of the Butterly family’s business empire, who would go on to open the Stardust nightclub, here.
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