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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door.

1. #EUROPEAN UNION The International Peace Bureau has claimed the awarding of the Nobel Peace prize to the European Union is “unlawful” because the bloc is not a “champion of peace” as defined by the will of prize founder Alfred Nobel. The IPB wrote an open letter to Sweden’s Nobel Foundation, asking for the prize to be withheld. However, the committee who chose the recipient rejected the claim and demand.

2. #AOIFE PHELAN Hundreds of people turned out to search for missing Laois woman Aoife Phelan in Ballyroan yesterday, including some of Aoife’s family members and friends. Aoife was last seen on 25 October when she left a friend’s house in Colliers View in Portlaoise.

3. #SEAN QUINN Motorists reported today that they had been verbally abused while driving through the town of Derrylin in Co Fermanagh, where a protest in support of Seán Quinn took place. Quinn was jailed for nine weeks last Friday. His Quinn company created thousands of jobs in Fermanagh during the boom.

4. #BULLYING The Children’s Ombudsman has recommended schools take more affirmative action on cyber-bullying. Emily Logan made the recommendation in her Bullying Report, for which she consulted with pupils. The report comes after two Irish teenagers who were bullied online took their own lives.

5. #SWAN STEALING Two men are reported to have been seen attempting to steal swans at the Claddagh in Galway city last night. The treasurer of the Galway and Claddagh Swan Rescue organisation said that the attempted theft may have been for their meat, as there is a market for swan meat in some countries. Swans are a protected species in Ireland.

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    Mute Monkey Boy
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    Sep 19th 2013, 6:34 PM

    If a pre school is short 1 plaster in a box of 10,thats an automatic fail in 1st aid compliance on the report,the current report will just say 1st aid fail,it does say its because its short of a plaster. Thats hardly fair,i hope the new reports actuly report the proper issues discovered in pre schools that are not up to proper standards. Will the new laws assist the low paid staff with proper working hours,pay and entitlements ??

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    Mute Poppy
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    Sep 19th 2013, 7:20 PM

    Couldn’t agree more. I personally know of a case where the preschool inspector complained there were too many varieties of plasters & dressings. All the new regulations will not prevent nasty people who don’t like children been mean to them like we saw on the Prime Time programme.

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    Mute chalk8down
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    Sep 19th 2013, 6:40 PM

    New legislation is all well & good. Maintaining appropriate carer:child ratios, training staff properly & paying them a credible wage is more paramount, imo…

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    Mute CAM
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    Sep 19th 2013, 6:45 PM

    Perhaps some regulation for childminders too, who look after children in their own home. I have come across many wonderful childminders who treat the children they look after impeccably, however they are not all the same. This is a largely unregulated area and I feel there should be some sort of inspections/reports similar to the UK.

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    Mute David Taylor
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    Sep 19th 2013, 7:40 PM

    No one cares for a
    Child better that his or her parent but unfortunately during the credit tiger we lost the run of ourselves and required 2
    Parents working to support ridiculous mortgages and the introduction of the chain crèche with high running costs etc
    The whole country needs an overhaul not just childcare and plenty of crèche’s who pay staff fairly and treat children well they are just harder to find because the pull of the larger crèche with the so called reputation is a greater pull ….inspectors need to inspect what’s really important not tick a flip board actually sit in the crèche for few days to observe properly

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    Mute Sheelagh Reid
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    Sep 19th 2013, 7:55 PM

    Creche or preschool?

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