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LAST UPDATE | 9 Feb 2021
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #MOTHER AND BABY HOMES: Survivors have contacted the Data Protection Commissioner over the destruction of their testimony.
2. #FRONTLINE: The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) will today call for an independent investigation into healthcare worker infection and will criticise the “slow, reluctant” decision-making processes within the HSE and the government.
3. #WINTRY WEATHER: There are icy conditions on some roads this morning as a weather warning remains in place for six counties.
4. #COURT OF APPEAL: The Cabinet is set to approve a Senator’s Bill to allow child murder victims to be named.
5. #INTERNET: A new survey has found an increasing majority of children aged 8-12 use social media.
6. #IMPEACHMENT: Lawyers for former president Donald Trump have branded his impeachment trial as “political theatre”.
7. #VACCINES: More than 230,000 vaccine doses were administered in Ireland up to last Friday.
8. #DEBUNKED: A post on Instagram has claimed that SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated. This is not the case.
9. #OLDSMAR: A hacker tried to poison the water supply in a Florida city, authorities said.
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Not related to above, but has anyone else been getting ‘Journal’ pop ups on their phone, containing click bait headlines to suspect news items that are not on the main page. You’re then asked to enter password /Facebook details. All a bit strange.
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