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LAST UPDATE | 14 Apr 2023
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. Irish rally driver Craig Breen has died aged 33 following an accident in Croatia yesterday.
Breen’s team Hyundai Motorsport confirmed news of the tragedy, which occurred during the pre-event test ahead of Rally Croatia later this month.
2. A leading drug addiction expert has criticised the makeup of an advisory group for the Citizens’ Assembly on drugs, expressing a concern that the Assembly may be “steered in a specific direction” due to how the panel was formed, including the presence of an anti-cannabis campaigner among its membership.
The intervention comes hours before the Assembly gets underway tomorrow, with former HSE chief executive Paul Reid set to chair the gathering.
3. Joe Biden will conclude his visit to Ireland by making a public address in the town where some of his ancestors hail from.
Biden will travel to the west of Ireland, where he will give a speech at a cathedral in Ballina, Co Mayo this evening.
4. North Korea has said it flight-tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time yesterday.
It could signal a possible breakthrough in its efforts to acquire a more powerful, harder-to-detect weapon.
5. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill banning most abortions after six weeks, hours after the White House called the measure “extreme and dangerous.”
“We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said in a statement.
6. The UN’s nuclear chief has warned that “we are living on borrowed time” following two recent landmine explosions near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly expressed fears over the safety of the plant, which is Europe’s largest atomic power station.
7. France’s top constitutional court is to rule today on whether to approve President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pensions overhaul after months of protests.
The 45-year-old centrist leader is facing a major domestic crisis over his flagship pensions reform, whose headline measure is to raise the legal retirement age to 64 from 62.
8. US authorities have arrested a suspect in the case of leaked classified documents, which has honed in on a young National Guard member as the possible source of the security breach.
The FBI made a “probable cause” arrest of a man identified by authorities as a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, ABC News has reported.
9. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a man in his 70s died after being struck by a van in Co Cork early this morning.
It happened on Main Street in Union Hall, a small village 10 kilometres from Skibbereen, at around 8.30am.
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That was cheap. If we had arranged and paid no doubt it would have been 2.5 million.
$7.9 million overall? Should have led with that!! Great for the Irish economy all the same – they should run another “Gathering” for politicians and Presidents!
And this is a scandal in the States? This happens on a daily basis here! We’re used to it, we’ve come to accept it as the norm!
Judging by the students reactions below her it looks like Malia is letting off some ripper of a fart.
And never have two young girls been so bored in their lives!
I wonder how many people invite guests to their house and total up what it cost to host them when they leave…
That’s 21c of toilet paper
€2.30 of electricity
€6 breakfast
80c milk and a tea bag
€1.50 for that glass you broke……
Don’t worry I don’t expect you to pay this I’m just making sure you and the whole world knows what my hospitality has cost me.
And where did all that money go seeing as Ireland is in such a ‘bad state’ ?
The culchies in the towns where he visited still have their communion money for fecks sake. No chance of that money being recirculated
Damn culchies. Stopping us all from being rich.
The book Animal Farm by George Orewell comes to my mind when I read about Obama admin and their extravagant lifestyles on US tax payers money.
During a recent trip to China the first family and their staff of about 70 stayed in the presidential suite at the Westin Chaoyang Hotel, which USA Today reports costs about $8,400 a night. Clearly the elite live by a different standard and have for a long time. Obama sure knows how to spend taxpayers money.
Yes he does, 100′s of millions on vacations, 4000 calorie state dinners, the best of everything including medical. Meanwhile the little people struggle with multiple part time jobs, poor quality high cost Obama care and young people not being able to find work after college. But he’s on their side right? What a delusion.
It won’t be too long before Obama will introduce in special powers to ban the very books that were written to demonize Soviet Russia. The tables have turned 180° and Now the United States has become the very same totalitarian Communist state.
The trip this week for our little president
To the uk prob will cost us a million
It’s a state visit, the host country pays.
The gathering or the shakedown with guilt of the diaspora as we all knew it to be.
And the book ” One flew over the cuckoos nest” comes to mind when I read some of these comments
Mike ya must be a dub
And the Govt will still tell you how great they are come the next election
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